It brings me great eXcitement to announce that evlTV and eXtelevision will be collaborating to bring you top notch coverage for the rest of the UGC Highlander season!

evlTV has brought in Dashner, one of the best live producers in TF2, as well as top casters Sigafoo and Grizz to finish out this season of Highlander Platinum. Last week's scheduling conflicts sparked an idea between evlTV's jeeringsole and eXtelevision's eXtine that the two should bring together the best of their resources in order to pull off one epic cast of UGC Platinum highlander. Instead of two competing channels, there will now be co-branded coverage pulling the best from both casting organizations.

This amazing cast will be broadcast live on evlTV's twitch channel, with the post-game VOD's distributed on eXtelevision's youtube channel.

This new collaboration will make its debut tomorrow for the mTs vs Muma match on twitch.tv/evltv at 9:30pm EST.

In addition to Platinum coverage, evlTV hopes to provide a second evlTV2 stream which will cover the top UGC Gold matches on a consistent basis. This second channel should be going live within the next few weeks!

Unfortunately we will be cancelling this re-broadcast. Sorry folks.

To clarify folks, we are rebroadcasting the game because it was not casted live. Since we're also bringing on Dashner for our Monday HL casts this is a technical run to make sure everything goes smooth (though we already know it will, cuz Dashner).

Also we may have some eXciting hints to share EVentuaLly.

Fixed, soz about that ;)

Actually we'll be sticking with our original plan to cast the match. We put some effort into this match already, and we're not going to change the match we're casting, and neither should eXtv.

We won't be changing our plans, we put in the extra effort to get this game setup, and I don't see a reason for us to switch it up, nor should you guys since you did the same.

While I don't agree that its completely on us for not reaching out pre-season, I don't want anyone to think there is some kind of feud between us and eXtv. On the contrary, competition is good, it keeps us all on our toes, any economics book will tell you that. eXtv definitely is doing a lot of good for TF2, and we hope we're doing the same.

We're considering cutting our losses and dropping down to gold. We're really pushing for twitch partner and are close, and typically plat has not delivered the viewers we need unless its one of the more demanded matches. While that sounds a bit selfish, another TF2 casting org having partner is good for the entire community and helps to get TF2 higher on the radar. Usually top gold matches bring in a good amount of viewers.

I would love to keep an open line of communication with you guys if at all possible so that this overlap doesn't happen. It's not fair to anyone involved by doing a double match coverage.

Fixed it!

Also, regarding the video. Mad respect for Goldfish for telling us like it is for our opener!

http://i.imgur.com/eC8OIgy.png

Hello Ladies and Mentlegen

evlTV is in need of more casting staff. We are looking to train, and support new production staff, graphic designers, schedulers, marketers, and of course casters!

These efforts to help boost our staff to help support the upcoming Summer Battle Royale which will be bigger than ever, and require more staff.

Also I want to post our new summer opener video! It's a pretty nice piece that reflects our stronger than ever hopes for TF2 as an e-sport thanks to Valve's recent matchmaking news.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YOoyLIj598

Before you signup...

• Casting is a huge time commitment. You'll need to dedicate a few hours per week, even on weeks you aren't covering any matches. If you can't do this, don't signup!
  
• We have a bootcamp program which will help new casters get started, but you must invest much of your own time and effort. We don't have a magic wand to turn you into an epic caster, you must practice!
  
• Camera / Production staff should have a strong foundation in using computers and software, and also need at least 2.3mbps of upload speed.

Signup here, you brave and worthy people.

Huge thanks to our entire evlTV team. None of them get paid, and are doing this because they love the game, and enjoy producing a show. Its not always perfect, but I've never seen a more passionate group of people before. Huge props evlTV casting team!

*actual roster

I'll chime in here on how to find out who launched a DDoS attack.
First there is a big difference between a DDoS and a DoS. DDoS is a distributed denial of service attack. Distributed because there's usually thousands of botnets sending traffic to your IP address and flooding your network pipe. Even if you had all of their IP's none of them are usually your attackers.

Most routers don't log every single packet that flows through your router either, its not feasible to store hundreds of gigs worth of logs on a little router.
So TL:DR you won't find out who attacked you, because typically its a black hat service that people pay for in bitcoins.

Now if a server gets a DDoS attack, it can be moved over to a DDoS filtering service. This can add 15-20ms of latency to everyone's connection but it does a good job of thwarting the attack.

A player who is attacked often can use a VPN to protect their IP address. VyprVPN has a service meant for eSports with DDoS protection. Unfortunately it does increase the cost of entry for playing in matches.

Although I'm biased about saloon.tf since we sponsor them, shutting them down is not the solution.

This has gotta be the best thing that happened during the entire stream! Just awesome
https://youtu.be/MnelFOmFqLI?t=72

We haven't had anyone in the division come to us about this, and would be open to it.