http://puu.sh/4l2Kc/6ea6151f0c.png

Playing defense on the internet is a losing proposition...

Some say at any one point, he knows 30 different ways of killing you on Badlands spire, 25 of which aren't in the current metagame.

And that he once made an uber last 10 seconds through sheer willpower.

All we know for sure is, he's called Mangachu.

Netbooks died a pretty quick death when the iPad came out. Depending on your price range you might can get a budget full-size laptop used.

These rollouts will get some workout in UGC 6s with the QF :3

Kip for the Grand Slam of TF2 casting.

Well, shall we try this again?

Couple of ideas...

Farm System - Besides Blackout TV I don't know of any casting org that is actively recruiting anybody new casters into the fold, much less providing training. New casters are basically stuck either casting STVs to Youtube or going swimming in the deep end of the TFtv stream list.

Putting some sort of system into place where new casters /streamers can be trained in the proper procedures Enigma is looking for will at a minimum ensure a standard of quality across in-house casts, and if they end up casting for someone else hopefully they'll spread that training around. Raising the bar in general. EDIT: If it helps get things into motion I would be willing to help out with this idea.

Tape Delayed Casts - If tonight proved anything, is stupid stuff can happen live and ruin the best laid plans. Perhaps for some lower-end casts these could be recorded live, briefly edited to cut pauses out, and streamed at a later time and/or date. This can also be a step toward a more fleshed out schedule of content where TFtv is streaming most of the day.

DDoS = Distributed Denial of Service attack.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDoS#Distributed_attack

It's more akin to a Rain Delay in say NASCAR, just gotta fill the time up somehow. Talking, interviews, cut to a rebroadcast of the match yesterday, etc.

Alright, here are some really simple results to gleam from a first-look.

There were a total of 361 submissions after controlling for 3 double-posts, with a wide variety of voters coming from all skill levels. More detailed analysis of that will be performed later.

http://i.imgur.com/4x6fgYI.png

A vast majority of voters hailed from the NA region, unfortunately this might mess with the results in the other regions when correlation functions are performed.

http://i.imgur.com/bPBB6x3.png

Of all respondents, a majority voted for having one map per match.

http://i.imgur.com/ipyJUad.png

A whole lot of you wanted two halves per map.

http://i.imgur.com/NO0LWbc.png

Now a small note here, when I originally wrote the poll I had a bit of a method to the madness that was overlapping times on this. Now this being the first such survey I've ever done I made a couple of goofs here and that was my bad. Since I can't speak for any of what the respondents were really wanting in this result I'll just leave it as is, you infer your own result.

http://i.imgur.com/oPamoyh.png

Lastly as a interesting tidbit, I separated the medigun results out and counted how many votes each one got. Not surprisingly the Big Two got a huge vote of confidence while the Little Two hovered in the under fifty percent region.

Again, some really basic results. I'll need a little time to figure out how to recreate some SPSS functions in Excel, if you would like access to the raw results just leave a message here.

Thanks again for all your votes.

That's it, that's all she wrote. Thank you very much for your votes!

Might as well bring back the Assassination gamemode then, and the fat man with the umbrella.

The Emcee for a BudCast?

Opinions aside, I'll edit the OP in about 4 hours (when it says posted 1 day ago) to remove the survey link and post a very preliminary result.