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bit silly having two orgs cover the same game innit especially when GCI v MAL is the same day and has playoff implications

I miss you Zae. An absolute legend in many ways. Glad we could honor his memory with a great event and a great fundraiser.

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the download speeds

and if so where can i donate for them to get better servers

I remember asking Paulsen who the best player he played against at LAN was and immediately he said Blaze. Called him "impressively annoying to play against. Never put a foot wrong." The man was always right place, right time, and gave everything for his team. His synergy with his flank scouts throughout time was incredibly tight and impressive as was his overall teamplay. Thanks for the memories and letting us all bear witness to one of the best roamers to ever play the game.

was there a moment where the energy for the team/in comms shifted and you all had that feeling of "we might actually do this?" what was that like?

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I'll answer these with my own anecdotal experience from doing ozfortress stuff

1) imo it's both organization pre-cast and ability to coherently spectate during a game. pre-cast stuff is a multitude of things but the things I tried to focus on leading up to a cast was:

• picking out casters ahead of time based on division, their relative skill level, perceived/known cohesion with their co-caster. Last thing you want are two low-level casters casting a high level game. Or two people who both have playbyplay styles of commentary etc
  
• knowing at the beginning of the week what game you're interested in producing ahead of time and organizing ASAP
  
• having all your backend stuff setup an hour before show: twitch titles, scoreboard and other nodecg stuff etc
  
• getting casters in ~30min ahead of the match just so you dont have to hunt them down

Being organized and ready to go well ahead of time saves you a lot of pain.
In game you really want to be following the flow of the match and adjust your camera based on what the state of the game is. My general spectator theory is that you want your camera to be on the team on the offensive during the push - so if Blu is pushing Red 2nd, get on a Blu combo player. If the tide turns and blu is retreating get on a red camera etc. Helps keep the game exciting.
As well, there's a few other things:

• Being confident with ce_autocamera tools (static 3rd person cameras)
  
• Making sure you keep track of players who have gone behind or are hiding etc
  
• not "panic hopping" between cameras and being OK with letting the scene play out as is.
  
• getting on the camera of the team that's captured last/won the game before the point is capped/game is over. Just ensures that the victory music always plays and never the boos.
  
• not overly relying on cheatfeed if you use it

There's a lot of minutiae for casting and other things I won't list for the sake of brevity.

2) Hardest part is just how random TF2 can be to spectate. sometimes on mids you'll be on one camera and the entire fight happens on someone else's and you catch nothing at all. It can be hard to know what camera to be on at all. KOTH is especially tricky. Otherwise every other issue is alleviated by proper planning and execution.

3) i produced a lot of ozfortress/fbtf games last year and earlier this year because i was so tired of grinding the game but i still wanted to be involved and saw it as a useful way of staying involved without having to do demo reviews of any sort. this stupid game still captivates me a decade on.

4) Sideshow, Bren are the most prominent examples. I don't think eXtine has had big opportunities for casting but I would imagine all the work he's put into TF2 over the years has bolstered his resume significantly and helped him get non-casting roles in esports. Wiethoofd gets paid to do EA NHL esport games. The skills you pick up from producing are immediately translatable to other aspects of esports/broadcasting as a whole, you just need to market it.

5) I think there's a big untapped market in Tiktok and Instagram for highlight reel/big play style videos. RGL has started doing something along those lines on tiktok but I think there's a lot of potential there. Generally I think the more comp TF2 content that isnt just frag videos/casts that is out there the better. If you build it etc

6) For TF2 yes, especially for smaller regions. It's understandable though, not everyone wants to invest the time it takes to learn all the small things about production, and even if you did want to, you need a beefy computer to run OBS/TF2/etc. The scene could always use more producers and could always use more commentators knowledgable about the game (or at least are good enough at playbyplay that they can get a high level analyst to fill in the gaps)