Shoutout to Davidthewin for producing the entire stream, hardly ever leaving his station, soldering on and looking good while doing it
Shoutout to kermit to rocking the mixer for us and bringing the sweet voices of the crew to the masses
Shoutout to Wolf and Ash for setting us up with almost everything, it would've been impossible without you
Shoutout to Arie for being a cool roommate and keeping the games going when the servers were having a smoke break
Shoutout to Sim and Kaja for sick game sense and sicker camerawork, and not covering the observer keyboard with grease or chocolate
Shoutout to Mana for running around the entire venue getting wild nerds under control (this includes me) and amazing dance moves
Shoutout to Tagg and Uberchain for pointing cameras at the most handsome gamers in eSports and production (does not include me)
Shoutout to Dreamboat for dunking on us in FantasyTF2 and just being the hypest, coolest guy
Shoutout to Analyst Desk for banter and memes, shoutout to Caster Desk for hype
Shoutout to eXtine for absolutely wrecking the intros and interviews, glad to finally meet the man who's basically the reason I joined TFTV
Shoutout to nym and fiyah for doing incredible admin work and running the entire tournament
Shoutout to Jasmine Tea for coming over and giving us some amazing games, and a new fetish for some viewers
Shoutout to our boy Spencer for being a good friend and watching the PCs when we were gone
Shoutout to TurboTabs for not logging out and lettint us shitpost on his TFTV account
Shoutout to all the cool people I met, Casual HiGPS vani PD Twikuu Paulsen Yui Jon and probably more I forgot because I'm writing this while on a plane and I'm super tired I'M SORRY I STILL LOVE YOU I WON'T FORGET THIS LAN <3
And finally of course shoutout to Dashner for organizing everything and still coming in for setup help and advice - you're the best man, I hope I'll see you again

Fuck this is longer than I expected sorry for the nerd essay. Shoutouts to being bored during a flight

There's no rooms left in most of the hotels listed in OP, except for a few deluxe rooms or double rooms (I checked, I'm just as bad as finding hotel rooms in an acceptable time frame)

If anyone has a room for two somewhere near NEC and wants to sit in there with someone who doesn't want to sleep on Sim and Sideshows floor like last year, throw me a message - I'm currently looking at a guest house with a twin room for 130€ per person for 4 nights (Thu-Mon), one train station away from NEC, if someone's interested

Shoutout to the entire production team obviously, dashner, David, Arie, Tagg, uberchain, Airon
Shoutout to Stream 2 casters Mana, Boxshow, CX, Molesto
Shoutout to STEAM 2 TEAM SIM RYUSHI TURBOTABS STREAM 2 HYPE
Shoutout to people who signed the poster this year, all the production team I missed, the tournament organizers, players got my fingers on

We at Stream 2 are hidden right behind the big TV showing Stream 1, but we'll still cover all our game for the viewers outside i55!

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64: Yoshi
Melee: Yoshi and Marth
Sm4sh: Yoshi and Game and Watch

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VODs are still processing, but here they are. Highlight Reel: http://youtu.be/pMF2iZGMYLY

Whlie you wait for YouTube to process, you can watch the highlight reel here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqUojItFbCY

While you wait for the VODs, here's the replays again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofwlDRFUePE (fixed upload)
Didn't have the buffer running during most of the first game so only two highlights from that, sorry team

VODs have arrived.

While we're cutting the VODs and uploading them, here's the instant replay/highlight reel which was playing at the end of the game:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS_LcLs8SBY

We've been experimenting a little with OBS' replay feature (you also saw some during the RealTourney Ultiduo stream yesterday), so prepare for some instant replay technology in the upcoming seasons!

I don't think Strange ranks fit as well for ranking players. I'd prefer something more like CSGO where you can estimate the rank position just from the name, less rank names but appended with numbers (Something like Australium I, Australium II, ... Australium Master), but I tried. alliterations inc

If you want to go with the Strange ranks, you might want to replace "Totally Ordinary", unless you plan to make it a rank available only if you land exactly on one certain value.

Can't really take all of that credit you're giving me. This was only the first season I streamed, and it wouldn't have been possible without all the others in the team - Arie's sick cheat feed - TSC's and Gentleman Jon's plugins - the other cameras this season, David, Sim and dashner - Lange, bluee and mathsad doing work with NodeCG and the stream overlay - Admirable, Sideshow, all the casters, organizers, people I accidentally left out. Thank everyone in the team, not just me!

Only with friends, and only in lobby and results screen, not ingame

I don't know if I'm being insane, but I remember streams being sorted by whether they are playing TF2 or not before - as in, the streams at the top are the ones streaming TF2, and any streamers with a different game would appear below it, potentially being hidden if there's a lot of live TF2.
I would prefer a solution like that - not outright removing, but somehow representing that they are streaming a different game.