• Wrote an update post for Reddit r/truetf2, comments welcome

Byte and Bones asked Multiplay if we could have a mini stage again.....

This is it:

http://fakkelbrigade.eu/i/wP48RYKKxI.png

• NA: Added 5 Dallas-based servers, as always, courtesy of tragicservers \o\ /o/ 19 NA servers now wooooo :)
  
• Working on a little something something for that third TF2 continent.

That won't show the Sensei's hardware accel.

• EU: Added the option to rent a private server. For 15 euros/month you can take any non-donator server and make it only reservable by yourself + you also become a donator for this period. Bit of an experiment to see if people are interested in such a thing.

http://fakkelbrigade.eu/i/dIn6wJEXXD.png

Had a few people pm me on steam that can help out with photoshopping things during the event, so we might be sorted for that :)
List of casters starting to look good too. Is it august yet? Let's go!

Sneak peek of TF2Center's serveme.tf integration :)

http://i.imgur.com/9OSWKbz.png

Getting ahead of things here...but oh well....

I'm warming to the idea of doing it on the tf.tv stream. We'll probably be shutting down both VTF2 and VTV after i52 anyway, so kinda silly to have people watch a stream that won't be back.
Now I am rather fond of the VTV assets, the HUD, the scoreboard, overlays, the bird and such, so would love to see that again for the i52 stream, especially as its swan song.

Things were looking quite grim a few weeks ago. Taking stock of what we could bring for i52, both in people and resources, we were quite sure we couldn't put on anything like the i49 show. After reaching out to tf.tv EU to see if they'd might want to run it instead, it turned it out they were in no position to do it either.

The recent preliminary meeting has me in a positive mood though. We're looking good in terms of gear, OK-ish on casters, OK-ish on number of production crew. I mean we're asking 2 Americans to fly over just so we have enough people that know how to computer, that's how desperate EU casting situation seems to be atm.

Also, it would be nice to find people for:

• Basic photoshopping for the overlay images. Nothing fancy, just changing caster photos and team names. That kind of stuff. Might not even have to be on site to do that. Anything random we might need on stream on short notice.
  
• On-screen talent. Bonus points if you know the game, can look in a camera and ask good short questions. (I <3 you byte, but look in the goddamn camera)

• EU: 14 more servers to play with. 2 UK, 12 DE. Fill all those, I dare ya.

Great idea, kinda sad I didn't built something like that myself now :D

• All: End of the month, time to send some donation money/love to the server providers.
  
• EU: 277 euros (ex fees) in total, 185% of the goal, sweeeeeet!
  
• EU: Share per server provider here
  
• NA: 215 USD (ex fees) in total, 420% of the goal, someone must have had fun with that :)
  
• NA: 50% of donations go to tragicservers. All fees (PayPal conversion fee from USD to USD is such BS!) come from my half.
  
• Some NA vs EU system stats for June:
  Unique players seen in the last 15 days NA: 9292 EU: 12844. 2423 played in NA+EU.
  Hours played NA: 3883 (277h per server) EU: 12995 (216h per server)
  NA: 584 people together made 3875 reservations EU: 1558 people together made 13837 reservations

• All: Anyone who has played in a reservation can now download the zipfile with the logs and demos from the "Reservations you played in" list.

That 20min process round....

No spoilers plx