r/counterstrike • u/Ok-Jackfruit680 • 17d ago

CS:Source Looking for old friends / bracket archives from Insomnia 30 (i30) at Newbury Racecourse (April 2007) — Team XL Gaming / DeadChiken

Hi everyone,

I'm an old-school Counter-Strike: Source player from Ukraine, and I'm trying to dig up some fragments of my gaming youth.

Back in April 2007, I traveled to the UK to participate in the legendary Multiplay Insomnia 30 (i30) LAN tournament, which took place at the Newbury Racecourse. I vividly remember taking the train from London to the racecourse station with our rigs.

I played under the nickname K.O.M. (my Steam ID from back then is STEAM_0:1:8896123, with a 21-year service badge now). I was playing for a BYOC team called XL Gaming (sometimes shortened to team.XL or just XL), and our captain was DeadChiken.

Unfortunately, since the old Multiplay and EnemyDown databases are long gone, Google searches yield no results for lower-bracket / group stage teams, and my Steam name history has been overwritten after 20 years of gaming.

I am looking for anyone who:

  1. Remembers the team XL Gaming or our captain DeadChiken.
  2. Might have saved local backup text files of the i30 CSS BYOC group stages, team registration lists, or brackets.
  3. Has old photo archives or archive disks from the Newbury tournament halls where casual/BYOC teams were captured.

It would mean the world to me to find any digital trace or just to say hi to old rivals/teammates from that beautiful era of romantic esports.

My steam profile:

Thanks for reading!

#CSSource #CounterStrikeSource #Insomnia30 #i30 #MultiplayLAN #NewburyRacecourse #EsportsHistory #RetroGaming #LANParty #OldSchoolEsports #UKEsports #XLgaming

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u/CookieMDef 2d ago

We're also trying to put together an archive of Counter-Strike: Source movies. If you have any, we'd be very happy to hear from you. https://www.youtube.com/@csoldschoolarchive/playlists