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everybody knows

nobody really uses the #TFTV channel...

don't most people just hop into a stream and chat there?

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better than mustardoverlord

I think you guys are missing the point with the whole streaming / pubbers thing.

Appealing to pubbers is great, but at the end of the day we need to have content here for them to enjoy. I think it's great that you guys are suggesting different types of content that we can create (instant replays, match reruns, etc.) but someone has to do the work and actually make that stuff happen. People have to step up and create that content.

Props to guys like Crack Clan who have created an entire youtube channel dedicated to helping teach people the game. MyGamingEdge did the same thing. Props to Radium and LondonCalling for putting so much effort into those ESEA-Open predictions. And Enigma for creating this website.

You don't need a super computer or streaming capabilities to create TF2 content. It's on everyone here to step up and do it. If you don't step up and do something, I'm not so sure that you have the right to complain that nothing is happening or that the scene isn't growing.

Creating content -- in whatever way you can -- is what will bring people into this game.
If we focus on our own community and making this place great for us as players, others will come.
If we focus too much on appealing to others we may lose sight of why we are here in the first place.

All set have fun :D

Welcome to the team!

Make sure to do the following:

1. Go to Twitch.TV
2. Click your NAME at the top
3. Navigate to SETTINGS
4. Click the TEAMS tab and accept your invitation.

http://puu.sh/2ypcz

Happy Streaming!

add it to your mumble whitelist under advanced settings > overlay

Trust me on this one. Nobody cares about casting old games. The only person who has been able to do it with any amount of success is Sal. The majority of viewership comes from live shoutcasting of matches.

Also Noona before you begin drumming up support for the IM/Open players, we should begin by focusing on the Invite/Prem players. Most of the Invite matches aren't covered, and with the division expanding next season there will be more teams to watch.

Keep the scope small and move outward from there. If you try to take on the whole world at once, you'll get overwhelmed. We should start by encouraging teams to stream their scrims. Or at least stream high level PUGs. A lot of people have streaming capabilities, but like I said it's difficult to a) create a high quality stream and b) the incentives are not there to do so. There is honestly little to no incentive to stream scrims at this point in time besides love of the game and community involvement/building.

Yes, but we all know that the best casters are players who know the game inside and out. However, there is very little incentive for players to give up their Invite dreams to do full time casting when it's a lot of work and you get almost nothing out of it. All live casting is done during scrim/match hours, so as a player caster you literally have to decide between one or the other.

Last season, for example, I was teamless so I had the time to do it. TrukTruk doesn't play on a team, so he has the time. Harbleu gave up a significant portion of his weekly scrim time to come cast some of the IM playoff matches, and Blank was sandbagging IM so he could skip scrims to cast as well.

Eventually though, you have to choose between playing on a team or casting, and playing on a team always wins. Like as much fun as it is to cast, it's way more fun to play yourself, and there isn't enough incentive to cast right now.

And even though we need content, it can't just be mass produced. The other key is quality content. As we saw with eXtv, if you open it up to be used by anyone, it destroys the brand. TF2 streaming and casting needs high quality, high level, good stuff to be produced. If there were more content producers, competitive TF2 would be a lot better off.

Streaming and casting takes a lot of time and effort though to create that quality product, and there truly are no incentives right now to put all of that time into it. The only reason it happens is because we love the game, but that only goes so far.

Comp TF2 has been on a slow growth pattern since day 1 and the game is continuing to grow. It's not going to be big without the support of the developers, but at least we can keep the game alive for the people who enjoy it the most.

The area that has seen the biggest growth in TF2 is streaming. Viewership has grown a ridiculous amount over the past year, and there are more streamers popping up every day. TF2 also has incredible retention, as people who watch those streams watch for long periods of time (I think the avg was like 30 min per user).

I personally think that the best thing for the community is the TFTV/ESEA MOTW casts which give people the opportunity to come together as a community to watch high level TF2. It keeps people engaged and it unifies us as a small community. But it seems that the best casters are going away, and mediocre ones like myself are getting busier with our lives. Personally, and I'm not speaking for anyone else, I love casting as a way to give back to the community but there is not much incentive to do it. Marxist talks about how we need more cameramen but not everyone has the talent or the time and dedication that a person like TrukTruk has to put into that sort of work. He put in two back to back 12 hour+ weekends of solid TF2 streaming simply because he loves the game and the community. It's difficult to find other people who will do the same.

tl;dr Streaming and casting is our biggest growth opportunity and next season we will have less casters, camera, etc to run the shows resulting in a lack of content. IMO this is due to a lack of incentives to cast.

Do you only stream DOTA 2? We're looking for people who stream MOSTLY TF2 (i.e. at least 50%).

If a person streams less TF2 than anything else, the stream will get taken down off of the sidebar.