Doughy
thanks for the feedback, I have thought about these things and even had some of it in my script but cut it in favour of a <15 min runtime and a, i dont want to say dumbed down, but dumbed down script for simplicity's sake. I think the details behind who's calling what and when to be details far less fundamental than for simply SOMEONE to be calling what and when, its pretty common knowledge that every team operates differently and i'd rather reinforce broader ideas than specifics for this reason
for finding the clips i literally just go to my demos that i have saved on my pc and its pretty much just froyo vs witness vs g6 demos since they are easily the 3 best teams NA has seen in the modern day. I went out of my way to download other Invite demos from this previous season to help me find more clips and it paid off and i found relevant footage quite quickly (dothogs vs froyo, lebron vs cat posse).
as for showing examples of snipers getting picks and stuff, with my basis for collecting footage being FROYO/G6/witness demos, its much harder to find that stuff because... these players follow the fundamentals to a tee. i'd far rather use clips that show smooth, clean, near-ideal gameplay, found in a relatively short amount of time, than to take longer and find players fucking up, or dig for lower level demos, find these examples quicker and accidentally imply "these players are BAD they are NOT following fundamentals look at them SUCK". I think it was wandum or dreamboat who said about casting, something like "its better to highlight why a team is successful than why a team is struggling" or something along those lines and i think thats a good philosophy for these videos.
^for the sake of mentioning it, "a relatively short amount of time" in the case of the last push video is something approaching 3 hours looking thru demos, analyzing if what i just witnessed is a good example for the video, and then record it/rerecord it from different POVs, different angles in freecam (if anyone out there is skeptical about how long videomaking takes, be my guest to go search for this stuff yourself). combining that with writing and revising my script, recording voiceover, and editing, the video probably took something north of 10 hours to produce in its entirety.
That all said i appreciate your compliments, I'm not trying to whine and complain about how much of my time goes into this stuff too much lol
DoughyMaybe an idea for a future vid, idk.
for the sake of putting it out there, here are some things that are already on my agenda: KOTH, Maincalling + Communication, Sac Plays and Pressure Cooking, Competitive Vocab, and even updating Marxist's precepts videos for modern day TF2 (scout, soldier, demo, medic fundamentals respectively) i can't guarantee release dates for these, but im looking to have a few more videos out by the end of the year.
if anyone out there have other video ideas, or if other top players want to reach out with knowledge for the above topics, i'm all ears and wanna make the most relevant, accurate videos possible. you can post here or hmu on steam/discord