Tagg streams. It's pretty awesome entertainment.

I think TFTV is capable of doing so. Currently there is some discussion about the structure of donation drives and whether it's good or bad to have non-team entities running the drives on behalf of teams. I'm hoping some action is taken soon, but I won't be the one taking it. Just prodding people.

#145 It's not supposed to be public. Let me know where you found it at salamancer.tv@gmail.com and I'll get it taken care of somehow, thanks.

Weird. I'm not around with Steam until later tonight. I've sent an email so will tell you soon.

Right, 25k is the minimum for them to open the floor for a TF2 event. That doesn't include travel, lodgings or anything for any team.

I'd rather not see an all-star team specifically made for i49. Personal preference here, but it'd be nice to see teams stick together for multiple seasons.

Sounds like a good plan then.

Risk can be mitigated. If you collect the donations through a fee-less method and make sure you're getting return info, then if the donation target isn't met, you just have to sit down and return everyone's money. Granted, that would make for one huge hassle for whomever is running the finances, but it can be done.

Well shit, if the Aussies are going, we can't afford not to have at least one American team go too.

I might have time to poke enigma tonight and see if anything can be ironed out. It's already March, so the donation drive would need to start very soon. You'd want the tickets purchased by late July.

Won't be eXtv. My preference would be for the teams to host their own sponsorship drives and the casters can hype them up.

It's basically up to the teams to decide how much effort they want to put into recruiting either sponsors or community donors. I don't think the teams have a strong will to go to sponsors about i49. They would prefer to be sponsored to Dreamhack or something else with a bigger audience, and potentially bigger prize pot.

Also if gold doesn't dissolve in water then why is there a story of a groundskeeper at Versailles panning for gold in the gutters every time it rained?

Trekkie don't you science me.

I've been in Cbear's golden swimming pool. The problem is, the gold flakes off and dissolves in the water and you come out covered in gold. You wouldn't think that's a problem, but heavy metal toxicity is a terrible thing.

I got a message from someone disappointed by my lack of professionalism on YouTube and hoping I'd change. I doubt that I actually will - and I would have replied to him directly but he's done the classic "I can message you but you can't message me" contact-lock thing. Maybe by accident, who knows?

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My question is, would it be a bigger draw for me to be more professional in terms of both discussing the game and not missing the action? The former is something that's easy to change; the latter requires me to do two or more takes of each cast which is really asking a lot.