Yo guys, really sorry about it being delayed. Between spending ages replacing the screen on my sister's iphone and playing some horrible games of dota I totally lost track of the time. :P

If you are going to buy a new Socket 1155 CPU today, there is no reason not to buy a Sandy Bridge. i5 3570K is the clear winner on bang-for-buck, but if you feel like splashing out the i7 3770K is a good buy and you're definitely getting a real noticeable improvement for the extra cash.

However what I'd say is why? Like, why are you buying a new CPU now? If you have a sandybridge chip, your PC can't be that old. if the rate of improvement from Nehalem -> Sandy -> Ivy is anything to go by, you'll be kicking yourself for upgrading now when Haswell comes out. June this year is apparently the projected launch date.

Going from Sandy to Ivy definitely isn't worth the cash, but Sandy to Haswell probably will be.

I know it's not yours but fuck this graph. I've seen it posted all over the net and its a load of fucking turd. Nobody in their right mind would ever use those bitrate suggestions (14,000kbps? What the actual fuck)

Silly hamburgers.

http://skyride.org/2012/11/the-complete-guide-to-streaming-dota-2-with-obs/

Sorry i didn't phrase that well at all. I was asking what servers you NA guys use. Is there ones that are better than others? Ones to avoid? Or are they all just as good and you pick whichever is closest?

Hey,

So quick question. Twitch ingest servers are a big deal and a problem in EU. I'm looking to buy a server in the US to try something out, so it'd just be nice to know where geographically to go for. I think it's worth dropping $20 to find out of there's a simple solution to all of the problems EU streamers have been having for the last 2 years.

I didn't watch this one, but I have it on good information this was a great game!

Starting the broadcast a few minutes before, but the game should start just after 8:00EST

More information can be found here: http://teamfortress.tv/schedule/event/147-etf2l-prem-crack-clan-vs-quarantine

Check out the restream at 8pm EST!

He was just world tripping off his savings and timed it so he could go to i46 while he was at it.

:P

Hey guys,

Only going to be restreaming the 2nd map as we had some stream issues on the first, but changed streamer between maps. Stream will be going live about 15 minutes from this post.

If you're desperate to watch the first map, you can check out the VanillaTV Vod: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjuoLecHwtU

More info here: http://teamfortress.tv/schedule/event/148-etf2l-prem-dc-vs-pokeman

Every suggestion you've given here has been actively pursued as far as possible at some point over the last 12 months.

I was involved pretty closely with looking into TF2 at Dreamhack. The cost for TF2 at Dreamhack Summer 2013 is 47k Euros. We can drop that figure about 10k by making a few fairly major compromises. Valve have no interest at all in sponsoring it (although are willing to give it their blessing), and 47k isn't a whole lot less than what it costs to run Dota 2 at Dreamhack which will net any sponsor roughly 10x the viewership stats.

Bear in mind, that is DOUBLE the amount of money it cost to send both 2 NA teams to i46 and we didn't even raise enough in the end.

Viewership Stats! https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3205338/pokemanVSdc.PNG

Since this thread got bumped, I'm going to update this guy at some point in the near future. It's severely out of date. If you're looking to get set up, read the Dota 2 guide, and don't use anything other than "veryhigh" for x264 preset and don't do 1080p.

Day9 used to be like an absolute top level NA player back in SC1. He started in SC2 as probably the best caster in the scene, but as his daily shows started to become and less and less education and more and more pandering to his weird fans with horrific narcissism, he just sold out and became kind of irrelevant.

Watch the earlier (like, <300) dailies, they're fucking awesome.