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As much as I love you Pledge, I really don’t see this as a viable investment of your time and money in the long-term.

Your passion for TF2 is admirable and you’ve always told me that you’ll play TF2 until you die or lose your virginity, but still – I genuinely don’t believe that you can come up with enough interesting content for 300+ shows/days in a year.

It’ll be fun for the first month or two, but over time it will drain you physically, emotionally and financially. I don’t want to see a friend of mine suffer through that.

Now a weekly show, with your favourite d2m as a guest…. :D

I once thought about something like that.

Then I remembered that I don’t have the motivation to pull something like that off, nor can I entertain like Day9 does, nor do I understand the game. I’m not even good at talking.

The content you could do is enough. So content wise, you can do one (or a few) introductionary episodes. Then you can cover every point on every map in a seperate show, when you show a few example demos you could fill an episode. So thats 5*3=15. With gravel pit that would be 18. Then you can cover the classes (at least 9 episodes, although scout/solly/demo/medic warrant more than one episode, engie probably less :D), invite guests at the top of their classes, have a cast or 2 on kritz, then there are user submitted demos that you could analyze, etc.

If you do it weekly, you will at least have content for a year.

“I would like to close the gap between public and competitive communities”

The ETF2L community in general are already quite involved in different pub networks. I think that if you posted this question on the Steam forums or on Reddit, perhaps you’d get a more positive response there from curious pub players willing to improve.

As far as content goes, it could be a good idea to show videos of “intermediate” or “advanced” techniques that will firstly (and most /importantly/) be USEFUL to pub community players, and be relevant to 6v6 or 9v9 in some way. For example, you could have a guest such as Ironhawk or something to talk about different rocket jumping techniques that could easily help pub players have an edge over their fellow servermates. It’s REALLY important (in my opinion) to not only focus on 6v6, as some pub players just simply aren’t interested, or find that they don’t have enough time to commit to regular team play.

Another few quick ideas: “working with your Medic”, “getting to the mid-fight”, “regulating your health on the field as Soldier” and even “Sniper 101 with konr and beavern” (:D jk jk <3)

These might be stupid ideas, but yeah.

I think from a pub players perspective, 9v9 looks like a lot more promising way of getting into competitive TF2. There's plenty of detail to go into here, I would think. Players might get hooked in to comp by the idea of communicating with their friends. It's a very enjoyable advantage over regular pub play.

However you decide to approach it, it's always great to see people willing to help and create content for newer users. Maybe we'll see a Steam group in the future. Good luck!

(really sorry for tl;dr)

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It would probably be a fair amount of work in terms of video editing though.

Why? If it’s a stream, why does it need video editing? Could just play the demo live.

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I’d like to see comparison of mids between the divisions. Like show a badlands mid from Div 6, then Div 5, etc up to prem.

I’d love to see this.

some great ideas here

I would deffo watch :)

Is it possible to edit the demoui overlay? It would probably be easiest for you to have the controls oon screen at all times, but the floating box looks bad. A full-width bar along the bottom would be best.