what if there was a giant playlist that every player in RGL could contribute one song to, what song would you contribute?
i’d personally add this song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSFKmMaQoNQ
what if there was a giant playlist that every player in RGL could contribute one song to, what song would you contribute?
i’d personally add this song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSFKmMaQoNQ
This is something I would like to talk about as someone who produced tf2 casts for tftv, fireside, etf, a couple of charity events, and 3 lans. The tool that lets us see server events in real time. Which is called cheat feed hasn’t really been a secret in the production community for years. One of the reasons we don’t discuss it in the open is because it could easily be abused since all you need to use it is a server’s rcon info. somewhere in my discord history is a message from b4nny asking for the string to link the feed because he knows giving out rcon is a one way ticket for problems.
TFTV, Fireside, RGL, CappingTV, ETF, KritzKast all have their own server running it. The original version was written years ago and it’s source code is up on github. TFTV still has a server running this version somewhere.
As a matter of fact, with the exception of a single suite of tools that was taken down for reasons I will not discuss here and some stuff in the works that I won’t discuss out of respect to a colleague, every piece of software used for tf2 production is available and open source in some version.
Most orgs use NodeCG, which in one form or another predates all current casting orgs. for overlays with the exception of the Fireside who has been creating their own software suite as of late. Or the Broadcast.gg tools. Or whenever I produce for fireside using the node package I wrote for fireside, a version of which I have published for free use.
The main thing that’s proprietary to the casting orgs are their huds which are designed to work with Casting Essentials, the plugin used to make casting a lot easier(which is open source).
The occasional fancy drone shots? HLAE running on an stv connection which is a bit difficult to set up which explains why it isn’t used that much and only a few producers use it.
But I’ve digressed, i used cheat feed, but if you rely on it too much you can easily tell which casts are using it.
Hello, I am working on a Competitive Statistics Library.
The goal is to gather the logs and stv demos from competitive matches.
Phase 1 is gathering the logs from every RGL official that has happened and every log from matches that will happen.
RGL currently does not require the submission of logs, only that they are posted to logs.tf
This project will gather all the logs and put them in their own repository separate from logs.tf along side extra tools to view the data from logs.
How to contribute:
the easiest way to contribute is to post the links of NON-COMBINED logs in a matches match comms.
Me and the current team working on the project only want the logs of the individual half’s and not combined logs
What we are currently looking for
Logs from the following events:
If you want to get more involved(Helping to catalog logs, working on tools, searching for older season logs) Feel Free to contact me on discord
This is something I would like to talk about as someone who produced tf2 casts for tftv, fireside, etf, a couple of charity events, and 3 lans. The tool that lets us see server events in real time. Which is called cheat feed hasn’t really been a secret in the production community for years. One of the reasons we don’t discuss it in the open is because it could easily be abused since all you need to use it is a server’s rcon info. somewhere in my discord history is a message from b4nny asking for the string to link the feed because he knows giving out rcon is a one way ticket for problems.
TFTV, Fireside, RGL, CappingTV, ETF, KritzKast all have their own server running it. The original version was written years ago and it’s source code is up on github. TFTV still has a server running this version somewhere.
As a matter of fact, with the exception of a single suite of tools that was taken down for reasons I will not discuss here and some stuff in the works that I won’t discuss out of respect to a colleague, every piece of software used for tf2 production is available and open source in some version.
Most orgs use NodeCG, which in one form or another predates all current casting orgs. for overlays with the exception of the Fireside who has been creating their own software suite as of late. Or the Broadcast.gg tools. Or whenever I produce for fireside using the node package I wrote for fireside, a version of which I have published for free use.
The main thing that’s proprietary to the casting orgs are their huds which are designed to work with Casting Essentials, the plugin used to make casting a lot easier(which is open source).
The occasional fancy drone shots? HLAE running on an stv connection which is a bit difficult to set up which explains why it isn’t used that much and only a few producers use it.
But I’ve digressed, i used cheat feed, but if you rely on it too much you can easily tell which casts are using it.
this is at least the 2nd time within the past month where seeds has been kept awake till around 7 in the morning
just want to see what people would think of this idea? whether or not people would be interested and their take on it. If I were to start planning and organizing it now, it would probably take months if not a year or longer to organize.
So for now, I’m just throwing the unsolicited idea out there to see what people think.
I know the chances of convincing even a single person to produce, let alone a whole team would be improbable
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what are your thoughts on the idea?
People are always complaining about there not being enough pugs or how there are never and pugs when they want to play pugs. So how about this.
24 hours, non-stop pugs, all live-streamed/casted, have it also be a charity event.
now you might be thinking?
How are you gonna find enough people to play pugs for 24 hours?
Simple, this would not be a region specific thing, this event would get players, pug runners, server managers, casters, production teams, and leagues from every region of competitive tf2. While the event would last 24 hours, not every region is playing at once.
Say the event starts at 12:00pm est, so that would mean the event starts at or around noon on the east coast of the US/Canada
every 6-8 hours a new region would become the main source of the pugs and casts.
so it could start in Europe, then transition to NA and SA, then Oceania and Australia, then Asia, then finally back to Europe and North America.
What would be the skill level of this?
There would be pugs for players of every skill level, from casual players to invite. There would be pugs for everyone.
What about formats?
they would probably 6s for the most part, but perhaps there could be some highlander, and prolander tournaments. Perhaps throw in some rocket jump and surf racing.
How would you handle the transition from one region to another?
If it’s on twitch, when one production group is done, have the channel raid the next groups channel and then host it for the rest of the event.
To ensure pugs don’t last too long, every pug will have a 25 minute time limit. That way casters and producers have the time to collect themselves before the next casted pug begins.
Players would join a pick-up queue
When a pug-runner’s lobby is ready, 12 players would be moved into it, they’ll then be sorted into teams where they get 5 minutes to decide on classes before the pug begins.
Once a player has taken part in a pug, they will be put into a sitting out queue for about 10-20 minutes to ensure that everyone gets a chance to play.
Maps would be taken from every map pool in recent comp history for the pugs format, so 6s would take from the 6s map pools, hl from the hl pool, and so on.
again, what’s your take on it.
I think while this would be hell to organize it could be fun.
what if there was a giant playlist that every player in RGL could contribute one song to, what song would you contribute?
i’d personally add this song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSFKmMaQoNQ
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Hi there, here’s a weird Idea, what if we took a common scoring system for tennis and used it in tf2.
The rules go as follows:
Pros and cons I can think of:
Pros:
Cons:
What do you all think?
will people be able to watch the active lobbies in STV servers?
Hello, I am working on a Competitive Statistics Library.
The goal is to gather the logs and stv demos from competitive matches.
Phase 1 is gathering the logs from every RGL official that has happened and every log from matches that will happen.
RGL currently does not require the submission of logs, only that they are posted to logs.tf
This project will gather all the logs and put them in their own repository separate from logs.tf along side extra tools to view the data from logs.
How to contribute:
the easiest way to contribute is to post the links of NON-COMBINED logs in a matches match comms.
Me and the current team working on the project only want the logs of the individual half’s and not combined logs
What we are currently looking for
Logs from the following events:
If you want to get more involved(Helping to catalog logs, working on tools, searching for older season logs) Feel Free to contact me on discord