Please tell your friends, join a mumble tomorrow night (message me if you need, I'll host one for the night), play together, have fun, and don't forget to give feedback!

https://www.twitch.tv/tipofthehats L I V E (starts in 25-30 mins)

TotH2016 starts in about 42 hours, staff is already at the venue, share pics/vids you found!

Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9VJY5i600rByldN6-OeGcw
Twitter account: https://twitter.com/TipoftheHats
Twitter hashtag: https://twitter.com/hashtag/TotH2016

If you want to make a command in your twitch chat: http://ldesgoui.xyz/relative_time/2016-09-16T11:00:00-05:00

Hang-out pre-stream stream (wild): https://www.periscope.tv/w/1djxXYMXmyoKZ

Packing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtvUMzkKSiA
Setup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szYu8XIZDQg

If your CPU is good enough, the server and client should be able to run on different cores. It's gonna run at a high percentage a lot of the time, though.

There's no "easy" (by this I mean not tedious) way of installing a comp. tf2 server.
You're better off following the wiki guide, then downloading configs for whichever gamemode/league.
The maps are probably in your client tf folder already, so you can just copy them.
You could go the extra mile and install TFTrue+MetaMod+SourceMod+SOAPDM+MGEMod which are mostly drag-and-drop installs.

The only negative things that I've heard about the Meltdown are mostly because of the price. I've been there twice, the service and ambiance were great. You'll probably find a bunch of people speaking English, too.

If you've seen "Meltdown" as a sponsor of french teams/players, it's the same thing.

That looks like a decoder failure, try to see if you can update video codecs, browser, hardware drivers.

I contacted the creator on twitter (https://twitter.com/twiikuu/status/771024609676234752) but I've seen no response.
I'll get working on an alternative tonight as he seems to show no more interest in TF2.
It's sad that all those years of uploads are probably down the drain, though.

What about something like Patreon? Small charges every month for a lot of users probably could bring in a lot of money, and then rush it by advertising the heck out of it a month before the event so that outsiders would bring in money as well.
I'd probably stop my twitch subs and drop 10-20 bucks per month.

We've discussed this at i58, the idea of in-game items for monetary support is excellent, but so far it's never been anything more than an idea.
When you look at DOTA 2, they add brand items, those are created by the community then accepted by Valve.
You can't ask them to do something if you don't have value to offer them.

Those items should be a community initiative. We should start a few discussions of what these items should be and hopefully people start implementing them, and present them to the community.

(Sorry if this was established before)'

EDIT: The compendium idea represents fairly well how I'd like to cover future events online (if we're talking about a polished website providing in-depth stats automatically, alongside highlights, STV demos, VOD links, etc).

I'm gonna add the missing games and cleanse the site a little bit before archiving it.
Sorry we did not bother adding every game, we mostly focused on the ones being streamed.
(And because no Windtunnels game was added, they don't show up in the teams/stats. They are on the front page tho)

My tiny involvement (hosting/updating i58.tf alongside vibhavp who dev'd it in less than three weeks) made me feel so welcome at i58 and helped me start a few conversations with the awesome people present at the event. It was an experience I did not expect and will definitely not forget.

This is why I'd also like to offer my help.

My day job is programming, mostly back-end web, natural language processing, also dabble in front-end when it's needed. I prefer using python.org, haskell.org and elm-lang.org when starting new projects, but I'm able to work with php/cpp/java/js given enough time.
I'm also knowledgeable using Linux/UNIX systems, hosting TF2/source/mumble servers, networking computers, all of it self-taught.
I used to write a lot during high school, mostly short stories but also papers although I am definitely rusty (as you can see from the i58.tf landing page's text contents).
I'd love to try to learn stream production and camerawork, but my current internet connection won't allow me to do 720p60fps.

I'd be able to dedicate a half-dozen hours of work per week, or so.

I'll definitely be working on internet coverage for the next big TF2 events either way.

Try this: http://flarepunch.tf/twitch/?streamer=teamfortresstv

Sorry, that was very stressful and I'm pretty much the one to blame, we're not used doing front-end development and it pretty much showed. I almost killed my own server with all the refreshes. Either way, the analytics on the websites show 2400 unique users, I'm very hopeful for this year's viewership.

I can't tell you, I'm not part of the TFTV staff :(
I think they're currently VERY busy with their current situation though