#7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59p-xso86N4

Christmas special next week, week afterwards we might not be having an episode since there will be nothing to cover

edit: links per usual
if you wanna volunteer: http://goo.gl/forms/HZFlKrpNgm
if you wanna give anonymous feedback: http://goo.gl/forms/kpEvigiYDS

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you have the wrong profile, it's this one: http://steamcommunity.com/id/mfstate/inventory/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZQ8rz4x518

i think SIN wanted to published this on Monday but from now on I'll be posted the early access asap here since somewhat promised Sunday releases and I don't want his bullshit to get in the way of that. As usual my parts are always done on Saturday nights so today's episode's delays are on him, etc.

Enjoy!

I don't have much to say this week except that it's exam season so I've been pretty busy with that. but if you have some big changes / suggestions now is a good time to make it since next week i'll be free to spend a lot of time on updating the format, graphics, whatever people want.

and here are the forms i posted last week:
if you wanna volunteer: http://goo.gl/forms/HZFlKrpNgm
if you wanna give anonymous feedback: http://goo.gl/forms/kpEvigiYDS

edit: i'm serious don't submit troll responses. i've already got 1 or 2. what's the point???

Honestly I just want to see what the tf2 purists are going to say now. "Tf2 was built as a pub game!! Comp is disgusting!!"

Do their minds just implode now?

thanks we have it fixed now :D

i talked to brooky before but he said he doesn't really watch HL casts. ideally if there's someone who thinks they have the time to basically host a backcap show and they are really knowledgable about the scene that'd help me out the most.

we could, but I personally don't know where all the HL news is and the other people in the team don't know either. And the HL situation is hard to really settle in a satisfying way. There's like 30 different opinions on what I should do with HL, for example there's people who say HL should be part of the main video, then there's those who say HL should be in a separate video. It's pretty hard to conclusively figure out which one of those opinions are more 'correct' or 'better', and considering issues like if they're just a vocal minority etc etc makes it a really really tough thing to work out.

Besides that though, is there anyone who is very integrated with the HL scene? I talked to some people before about HL but I feel it would work out better with someone who really understands the scene well.

SIN likes to publish videos together but his other video is taking forever or something so here you can all have the early access. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdWfC4YangA

this week took a little longer because of 60 FPS HYPE.

also because it's starting to become hard to get good feedback, and etc, i've made some google forms for the people of teamfortress.tv to get stuff to me.

if you wanna volunteer: http://goo.gl/forms/HZFlKrpNgm
if you wanna give anonymous feedback: http://goo.gl/forms/kpEvigiYDS

edit: also please don't troll the google forms, if you do i'm just going to stop looking at them.

for feedback: this week we'll add the plug to future events at the end, and reminding them to go to teamfortresstv.

In other news, I made this out of the extra clips we had from one of the weeks of Backcap, should I make more of these? This is the first time I've tried typography though so yeah I get that it's not that good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYJ4ub8OmnY

you mean like 'next week, we're gonna be covering day 2 of dreamhack and whatever news and drama pops up, make sure to tune in next time!' ?

PENDJI sorry I read your last post but school has been getting busier so I seriously didn't have time to work that out, but don't worry I'll get something like that in the video as soon as I can.

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Also for full disclosure, since I gave my word that SIN wouldn't be allowed to change anything, here is what I ended up allowing him to change:

He edited parts of the sound, & anything with the explosions or grunts are his. I told him he couldn't use dumb voice lines so I hope you all have bit more faith in my vision. I have to admit the work he ended up doing did made the video feel better though so it's working out well! Thumbnail was built up off my initial idea but if you liked the thumbnail then I'd say half of the credit goes to him.

Anyways it's been an exhausting weekend so as long as you guys enjoyed the video and can look past all my typos I'm happy, but of course I will improve it as it goes by each week.

Thanks everyone for all the support. And honestly the youtube comments are going to become a big clusterfuck so if you really want to tell me something, here is a good place to leave me feedback.

edit: oh also i didn't get official permission from TFTV to include their logo but i did it anyways since we'd be missing out so badly. if anyone from TFTV could tell me it's chill that'd be great.

Sorry video isn't out yet, everything from my side is done as per the usual time but SIN wants to tinker with thumbnails and video music so the hold up is just on him. Next week we'll be faster, sorry :(

i forgot to mention this but backcap is still in my complete leadership. SIN won't be allowed to make any video or design choices for the videos, he simply hosts the videos. So nothing will change for backcap.

Hello!

The next episode of backcap will move from the comp.tf YouTube channel to NISLT or SIN’s youtube channel. There are a bunch of stuff to talk about i’m going to get straight into it.

1. Is it the money? -- Not entirely. I can use this money to upgrade what i have so the process is smoother, but i don’t 100% need it. At worst i can go get a patreon set up, but to be clear, a portion of the money the video earns will be given to me, and a portion to SIN. This only applies to my own videos, so his content won’t get me anything, nor will his patreon. The question still stands right: Why should i take money from this? It’s either 100% ad revenue to SIN or a split between the both of us, which I hope to use towards motivation or reinvesting in production for backcap.

2. Why not stick with comp.tf? -- There’s nothing wrong with comptf and kaneco was understanding to the different things i wanted when i worked under his channel. I definitely do hope that i’ve left on good terms with Kaneco. Over the 2 episodes we had there we gained ~700 subs and an increased amount of activity to the comp.tf wiki, so i’m proud of what we accomplished.

but…

3. WHY SIN / NISLT? -- i’m right there with you when you say he spams annotations at the end of the video and it looks ass, or when he sold out to make pub ‘funny’ videos, or when he advertised ‘the hack i don’t want to name’. But through all the bullshit, we need to consider a few things:

A: he bothered to try reach out to me and get some competitive content on his channel.
B: there’s a pub community waiting to be exposed to competitive on his channel.
C: comp.tf exposes competitive to already competitive players. SIN’s channel can expose competitive to regular ol’ valve pubbers. And if we look at the numbers, he’s sitting at 444k subscribers at the moment and achieves ~80k views per video. that’s a MASSIVE leap in outreach compared to comptf’s 3k subs.

I hope you see where i’m going with this. i believe that I have an opportunity to grow this community with my work and i feel like that’s more important. To look at the bigger picture, I want to settle aside any beef we may have with SIN to reach out to a wider audience and grow competitive tf2 further.

Lastly don’t be in too much distress. In the worst case scenario, everyone hates us moving to SIN and we’ll move back to comptf. We will listen to your feedback. we do have nerds reading all the comments and reaping them together into a document to review every week. (this includes all the things people say this thread)

Thank you for reading, I will be more than happy to respond to any questions you may have regarding this situation, or others.

so a lot of people on reddit and yt comments are asking for highlander... besides lolhl i want to hear some people's opinion on taking it further this way.

backcap #3!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eEOlRAVIwA

i actually don't have much to say except i made 1 mistake but if someone can spot it i'll give you 1 ref FOR FREE. it's 3:55 am so i'm gonna stop tying out this post. thanks for the support boys.