ohoho just you wait. we got some stuff cooking! while not the main audience of this forum, as a side quest we'll do a bit of highlander since that scene is pretty starved for some content

@ETMH Found your replacement for Pauly

Originally posted on our Updates Thread (but I'm making this thread to keep it from cluttering the thread) - https://www.teamfortress.tv/62112/fireside-casts-updates

Inspired by Thorin's reflections series. Also part of our move away from broadcasting NA matches into a form of content creation to "preserve the lore." Literally just hour-two hour long interviews about people's careers in the TF2 community

EPISODES

Episode 1 (Tcmano) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rVTC8lHal4

Episode 2 (Walrex ft. umlpst as interviewer) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm76sFLG1Vg

Episode 3 (Marxist ft. row as interviewer) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMkduOP8puc

Retrospection Chats episode 2 is out, featuring Walrex with umlpst as the interviewer!

https://youtu.be/Tm76sFLG1Vg

Timestamps pending but halfway done!
Timestamps done!

Expect a monthly or bimonthly release... always depends on people's schedules!

Timestamps:

00:00 - Introductions
01:12 - Beginnings of Walrex (getting into TF2, Jumping Community Wise)
12:30 - Beginnings of Walrex (getting into TF2, Competitive)
17:57 - Differences of RGL & ESEA
21:02 - Walrex Career Discussion (RGL History)
24:00 - Walrex Career Discussion (RGL S4 Invite, first Invite Season)
29:04 - Favorite team to play on?
30:22 - SIN K4RMA BULLIED?!?!? OR FAKE NEWS?!
31:33 - Favorite team to play on? (cont.)
34:40 - Experience playing on teams with different playstyles
38:47 - Walrex 4-33 Log, discussing the context of the match (S4 Invite UBR1 vs. Froyotech)
44:50 - Walrex's Casting Career
48:15 - Walrex's philosophy behind what defines good casting
50:25 - How to make TF2 6s more watchable (from a caster and viewer perspective)
53:25 - How do you want TF2 6s to change as a player? (discussion about gamemodes, maps, unlocks etc.)
1:01:55 - RGL Admin experiences (general criticisms)
1:05:38 - Invite Player egos (still on the topic about RGL Admin experiences)
1:08:55 - Reputation in the competitive community
1:11:35 - RGL Admin experiences (cont., the POWER STRUGGLE?! Power/decision-making structure at RGL, camp3r)
1:15:37 - What would you change about RGL if you had the power to? (Sub-topic: Why RGL lived and NaCl didn't)
1:18:25 - Discussion about the b4nny config and new Invite 6s format (RGL S12 Invite)
1:27:21 - Can TF2 grow? How? (Primarily discussing competitive, pugs, accessibility, etc.)
1:34:45 - Future of Walrex
1:37:07 - What would you change about your TF2 Career if you could go to the past?
1:39:20 - Wrapping it up, shoutouts

Quick wheres the question about 9:30 PM default match times

We are making custom stuff for some of the LAN teams... lmk...
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Holo Stickers/Pins/Embroidered Patch Drop now on our shop!

https://merch.firesidecasts.tv/pages/merchandise

Pootis Fazbear

WHERE IS POPALOFITI

Pocket Scout: MichaelPc1
Flank Scout: mak
Roamer: jayy/?
Pocket: jayy/?
Demo: Jelly
Medic: Pouncer333

subs: crit noob & kay

need soldier adv

Probably broken because it's very old, discontinued the project in 2020 (I'd assume the VSCRIPT project broke it even more)

this is epic we need more of this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsfEtYCSWvQ

newcomer moment

We've been working on some YouTube short form content and the goal is to grab one highlight from every match we cast. Thanks bethnicz for the work on doing this! Check it out here:

https://www.youtube.com/@firesidecasts/shorts

awesome first cast by throne gj!

You can also post it on TF2 Coaching Central. It's a discord server with a lot of newbies and you could put it in the self-promotion channel. People normally watch the vids there from what I've seen (also may give you interest in trying out comp 6s :) )

Some actual thoughts from watching the video:

- You might want to cut out boring bits and focus on multi-frag sequences. It seems your vids are only from actually playing the round in its entirety
- Stylizing it in a frag movie may be your best bet. Use the first bullet point and layer some music over it, mute ingame-audio in a video edtior (or at the very least, lower it to where the music is louder), and only cut to scenes with frags (or if you don't want to do cuts, just speed up portions of the video where you're not getting frags up until you get frags). People want to see frags actually happening not the time between you hitting body shots/missing before actually getting the frag. You'll lose viewer attention really quick

Also looking at your twitch stream you want to make sure your video output is taking up the entire screen. If you look back at your saved broadcasts there's some black screen space. If you need help feel free to reach out

If you're aiming to make content and grow a decent following try to follow how some other small YTers make their content for TF2. You're doing a good job to start off so find some unique video editing styles and go from there :)