If you've watched EU TF2 this week with Jon or me on camera, you might have noticed an increased number of airshots being caught on stream.
Now I'd like to claim that we've both gotten some gamesense, but really we're just cheating:
http://i.imgur.com/ZGCvsqF.png
This is a webpage that gets the streamer 20 seconds advance notice of certain game events. For now those are:
- Caps
- Rounds
- Medic deaths with uber drop indicator
- Kills on medics
- Kills by medics
- Sniper kills
- Spy stab kills
- Ubercharges
Here's an endorsement by some scrappy US streamer:
http://i.imgur.com/NZcFFSo.png
There's also something for the casters. To not ruin their spontaneous AIRSHAAAAWTTSS, they get a feed that's just synced up with STV, so they don't get spoiled. They also get graphs with the live kills and damage: http://i.imgur.com/sPR9jfO.png
The EU casting orgs VanillaTV, TeamFortress.TV and BlackOut have access to this tool, but I think it's time to bring it to the other side of the atlantic if there's interest for it.
On the gameserver side there's a few simple requirements:
- Plugin providing advanced logging: TFTrue, SizzlingStats (maybe not airshots?) and F2's Sourcemod plugins take care of that.
- An RCON command has to be run on the server. Either the casting orgs give the server admin an rcon line to run, or the server admin shares the rcon with the casting org so they can do it directly from the tool.
That's it really, questions, suggestions and feedback welcome.