Weekend 1 · July 16–19 · Boom, Belgium
THE SQUAD
BY THE NUMBERS
8 people. 1 festival. Zero excuses. Let's go.
8
squad members
4
days of chaos
5
nationalities
4
time zones
Traveling from
Barcelona ×2
Madrid ×2
Thessaloniki ×1
São Paulo ×1
Aguascalientes ×2
Nationalities
Greece ×3
Mexico ×2
Turkey/Spain ×1
Brazil ×1
Ecuador ×1
Time zones
Max difference: 8h
Crossing TZ to Belgium: 4
Furthest back: UTC−5 (Mexico)
Furthest ahead: UTC+3 (Greece)
5
TML veterans
3
first-timers
3F · 5M
37.5% · 62.5%
5:3
veterans to newbies
Stat 01
Festival planner scale
From "what schedule?" to "I built a spreadsheet with set times and bathroom break windows"
Diego
2
"I'll figure it out when I get there"
Dimitrios
3
Vibes-led, loosely guided
Selim
3
Vibes-led, loosely guided
Marcela
3
Vibes-led, loosely guided
Antonis
3
Vibes-led, loosely guided
Ana
4
Has a plan, respects the chaos
Sissy
5
The spreadsheet
Rodrigo
5
The other spreadsheet
5 out of 8 people rated themselves a 3 or below. The other 3 are going to have a fun time keeping everyone together. That's gonna go well.
Stat 02
Festival sleep situation
Two camps. No in-between.
4
Running on 4–5hrs and pure adrenaline
Dimitrios · Sissy · Selim · Rodrigo
4
Sleep a normal amount and somehow feel great
Ana · Marcela · Antonis · Diego
A perfectly balanced squad. The gremlins will drag the normals down by day 2, and the normals will judge the gremlins in silence. This is the natural order of things.
Stat 03
Getting separated from the group
Pick your crisis management style
Send a location pin immediately
Dimitrios · Sissy · Selim · Antonis
Find a good spot and assume you'll find me
Rodrigo · Marcela · Diego
Text "where are you" 47 times
Ana
Half the group is proactively helpful. Three people are playing 4D chess, trusting the universe to reunite them. And Ana is singlehandedly keeping a mobile network alive. Ana, we see you, we're coming.
Stat 04
Dancing style
What you'll be doing at every stage. Or not seeing, as the case may be.
Eyes closed, in my own world
Dimitrios · Sissy · Ana · Selim · Diego
Arm around strangers, singing along to everything
Selim · Rodrigo
Competitive — I need space and I use it
Selim
I cry at the main stage (it happens, no judgment)
Rodrigo · Marcela
I mostly stand and nod but I love it
Antonis
5 people will have their eyes closed for most of the festival — they paid hundreds of euros to not see anything. Iconic, really. Meanwhile 2 will be actively crying, which is the correct response. And Selim — arm around strangers, competitive about personal space, eyes closed, probably crying too — is doing all three simultaneously while carving out personal space. The main stage has no idea what's coming.
Stat 05
Costume level
The most decisive vote of the entire form.
8/8
Festival look — put together but casual
Every single person. No outliers. No one going full fairy wings. No one going tracksuit.
Great, we all voted for the boring one. Now let's actually decide what fun shit we're wearing.
Stat 06
Day 2. It's noon.
Nobody slept enough.
Identify your archetype before it identifies you.
The one that needs 45 minutes and three coffees
Dimitrios · Sissy · Marcela · Diego
The one already dressed and ready before everyone else
Selim · Rodrigo
The one who somehow looks fine and won't explain how
Ana
The one who says "five more minutes" and means it
Antonis
50% of the squad needs a coffee IV drip before they're functional. Selim and Rodrigo will be annoyingly ready. Ana will look inexplicably fresh and refuse to explain it. And Antonis just needs five minutes — genuinely, actually five minutes — which makes him the most honest person here.
Stat 07
Someone wants to leave a set early. You:
The defining test of festival character.
Stay until the last drop, non-negotiable
Dimitrios · Rodrigo · Diego
Depends entirely on the DJ
Ana · Selim · Marcela · Antonis
Negotiate a 5-minute compromise and fail
Sissy
3 people will chain themselves to the barrier. 4 people are pragmatic — it depends on whether the DJ deserves it. And Sissy will negotiate a compromise, fail, stay until the end, and be fine about it. This group is not leaving early. The crowd will just have to deal.
Stat 08
Festival spirit animal
Self-assigned. Highly accurate.
x3 most popular
The diplomat
Marcela · Antonis · Diego
Keeping the peace, reading the group. The glue nobody talks about but everyone needs.
The golden retriever
Selim · Rodrigo
Happy, everywhere, loves everyone. Will make 40 new friends by noon on day 1.
The chameleon
Dimitrios
Different energy at every stage. A mystery, even to himself.
The cat
Sissy
Selective, appears when it wants, mysteriously fine. Cannot be tracked.
The DJ
Ana
Here for the music and only the music. Do not interrupt her during a drop.
Three diplomats, two golden retrievers, a chameleon, a cat, and a DJ walk into Tomorrowland. This is not a joke. This is the squad.
Stat 09
The currency of
Tomorrowland is called...
It's Pearls. It has always been Pearls. It will always be Pearls.
6/8
Answered correctly: Pearls
Dimitrios · Sissy · Ana · Rodrigo · Antonis · Diego
Hall of shame
Selim
Said: "Tokens" — planner score: 3/5
no excuse
Marcela
Said: "Gems" — planner score: 3/5
no excuse
Both offenders rated themselves 3 out of 5 on planning. Not low enough to claim innocent ignorance. Not high enough to have done the research. This is the worst of both worlds. Selim, Marcela — there will be a quiz at the gate.
Stat 10
Artists we cannot miss
Compiled from 8 wishlists. Results may vary once the stages start.
7/8 squad votes
Calvin Harris
Dimitrios · Sissy · Ana · Rodrigo · Marcela · Antonis · Diego
Fisher
Ana · Marcela · Diego
Hardwell
Ana · Selim
Alesso
Rodrigo · Antonis
Gryffin
Dimitrios · Sissy
Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike
Dimitrios · Selim
Armin van Buuren
Ana
Artbat
Sissy
Martin (Garrix?)
Selim
Lost Frequencies
Antonis
Meduza
Diego
Symphony of Unity
Rodrigo
7 out of 8 people said Calvin Harris. The 8th (Selim) either forgot to write him or is making a statement. Either way, we're all going to that set. As for the rest of the wishlist — some of these artists might not even be playing. Let Tomorrowland guide you. The magic is in showing up and letting the stages do the work.
1 / 11
Squad game 1
WHO GOT
VOTED?
Pick someone. They guess what the squad voted them for. Then we reveal.
tap a name to start their round
who got voted?
the squad voted you for...
now... what did you vote for yourself?
You voted yourself for
THAT'S THE
WHOLE SQUAD
We now know everything. No secrets. No escape.
Squad game 2
WHO
SAID IT?
Each person flips their card. A quote appears. Guess who said it.
each person has 2 rounds — tap a card to begin theirs
who said it?
THAT'S A
WRAP!
Everyone's been exposed. No quote goes unattributed.