KritzKast

Can you believe it, we’re at episode four hundred already? Why it seems like only eight years, two months and seventeen days since I was but a wee sprog thinking about the very possibility of spending every weekend between then and now recording a podcast about a game that, in all sincerity, I’m not all that good at. How time flies. But here we are, eight years, two months and seventeen days (give or take a few years) later enjoying our fireside chat. This week we are doubly lucky. Not only do we get to spend some time with the facestabbingly wonderful ArraySeven, but we also release on YouTube. Hazzah! Update – Nov. 10th 6th annual Saxxy Awards – http://www.sourcefilmmaker.com/ KritzKast on YouTube, we need your art – http://www.kritzkast.com/yourart/ ArraySeven – https://www.youtube.com/user/ArraySeven

I’m reliably informed that Lucario is a character from Pokémon. Something that you too may need to know one day so as not to be ostracised by the other people on your podcast. I speak from experience here, as Lucario and Ryan (who may also be a Pokémon for all I know) join us from Gameshock servers to talk about community TF2 and what it takes to make it in a world that Valve seem to have sewn up for themselves. It’s celebrity endorsement btw, I’m not going to clickbait it for you. Update: November 2nd 2016 Workshop of Horrors II – http://woh2.mods.tf/ Gameshock / TFcrew servers – https://play.crew.tf/tf2 Ryan | Lucario

Teaming up with Teemo and Ranch was possibly the best thing I’ve ever done. Okay, second best maybe… wait, there was that one time in Coventry. Hmm, well it was a good time at least. Two of the pleasantest people in TF2 at the moment. This is a super long show though, which can’t really be helped since even after I’d cut half of it out there were some things I figured you’d not mind me leaving in. If it helps we did player of the week in the middle and spent the rest of the time wallowing in these dude minds. Mmm, moist. Fan Scream Fortress VIII update image Updates: Oct 25th 2016 part 1 | part 2 Sigafoo Cup – Prizepool Ranch info: YouTube | Twitter | Steam | Twitch Teemo info: YouTube | Twitter | Steam | Twitch

This is the best time of the year. Especially if you live in a dwelling with the ghost of your former flatmate, haunting your every waking thought. Or if you like candy. Or both. I don’t think these activities are mutually exclusive. Speaking of exclusives, Jewlander returns to us from his hidden lair, under the stairs, firing flares, in his underwear. Not into his underwear. We’re not judging, but we’re pretty sure that would hurt and might be fatal. We should know; we’ve lost one flatmate that way already! Update October 21st Part 1 | Part 2 Santa Ana eSports Arena REWIND event

All I can think of saying is that I’m glad we don’t post pictures on the show notes anymore. Why is that anyway? I should have asked Chronos and Uberchain since they were on this show this week, but what with Vanilla.tf, SEA Jumping and Mr Slin’s Essay I clear forgot. Update – October 12 2016 Vanilla.tf SEA Jumphelp 2016 Tip of the Hats shirts mailed out State of TF2 – by MR SLIN Belated Happy Birthday Orange Box

Sleepingbear and CriticalFlaw are on this week. They give us the low down on some resin medals, find pumpkins in the TotH medals and explain the flaw in Washington State’s plan. I hear Sleepingbear is also pretty good at the trading too. You’d have to wake up pretty early in the morning to pull the wool over those eyes. Or you could just pass him a heavy sheep while he is yawning. Update i58 highlight video Comic Book update Jaunty Medals dropped “Real” medals by Yotts Washington State trying to ban Valve trading Scrap.tf Auctions

We’ve mentioned Omnibombulator and Wiethoofd many times on this show. The later has even been on; the former we could never seem to find. It turns out he was hiding in plain sight, in a small red car, wheeling around dustbowl. Who knew? Update – 27th Sept | 28th Sept Sigafoo Challenge Cup Huds.tf | Hit.tf | random.tf | league.tf | random.watch | whitelist.tf | essentials.tf | TF2Pickup.net | WietHUD

There are few casters who’ve managed to rise up the roster quite as surely and determinedly as Dreamboat, and now he’s here with us. There’s little doubt about his commitment to TF2 as an eSport though. Any Canadian who’s willing to wake up at 4am to cast a game in Australia deserves everything coming their way: fame, money, the ladies, in fact all the hallucinations one suffers from during a massive case of sleep deprivation. Update – 20th Sept | Edge servers TotH – $180K Dreamboat B4nny “announces” TF2 @ eSports Arena Cali An actual LAN in France – Galloween Ozf Season 17 Burning through space 2 – https://youtu.be/EVi00_zWaZE

Apparently I appeared to be quite energetic for the 30 seconds KritzKast was on Tip of the Hats. Maybe it was just the though that oh so soon afterwards I’d be hanging out with The Jewlander and The Biological Machine on this week’s podcast. Either that or it was the four cups of coffee I’d just knocked back. Will we ever know? Yes. Updates – 12th September 2016 and 14th Sept. Tip of the Hats TFCrew 11K accounts VAC banned on Wednesday 14th Lo-fi caption competition Hit.tf The Jewlander | Bio

Chronos and Agro finally address the jazz elephant in the room. Hello Mr. Elephant, they say, please don’t wrap your trunk around us and force us to play in your band. Their request goes unheard, because it’s an elephant – it only understands the blues. Tip of the hats – http://tipofthehats.org/ Merasmus is talking to himself – https://youtu.be/ibLQU_mJOgg Robert Atkin Downes performs “meet the medic” – http://podka.st/14c Comp 6s Global whitelist – http://whitelist.tf/6330 Feather’s pre-season blog post – http://podka.st/146 [overly]Dramatic Spy – https://youtu.be/atvzvaqYB8c Special thanks to The Biological Machine for his VO work as Scout.

What to do when you finally get invited to the party but find everyone has buggered off to PAX West? Find the one guy who’s still around and demand that he podcast with you, of course! It just so happens that I lucked out on that one and managed to snag FreddieTF2 – possibly because he was too short to ride on the plane. Though we will never really know. Update 23rd Aug 2016 – http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=23709 Update 29rd Aug 2016 – http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=23851 KritzKast & FreddieTF2 joins TFCrew – https://www.twitch.tv/team/tfcrew Freddie TF2 – Youtube | Twitter Blizzard Petition – http://podka.st/13- i58 – https://redd.it/5017j5 Mal’s Twitter – https://twitter.com/malplays 7.2hour Map making event – http://podka.st/141 Comic 6 will be 70 pages long – https://redd.it/50jntl Tip of the Hats – https://tipofthehats.org/

You know when you have a podcast and you invite someone on and they are awesome and accept and you tell you you’ll start early for them and then you fall asleep right before you start and then you’re late and you don’t get so much time with them? Just me huh. So we had Rydercycle on (for the start of) the show together with Benjamoose, who up till now I haven’t bigged up at all but he’s this really amazing VO guy who’s done tones of stuff in the community over the years. Anyway, enjoy the show. If you want us to have these guys back, let us know in the comments.. wow, that felt too YouTube. Update 14th Aug 2016 – http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=23527 Update 16th Aug 2016 – http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=23495 Comp mode blog post – http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=23496 Meet your Match : Pyro – http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=23536 Next comic book “soon” – https://twitter.com/jaypinkerton/status/764636434779090944 Red Fury 2 creator hit by Copyright ban – https://youtu.be/18PIhTdFarQ 7.2 hour mapping contest – https://tf2maps.net/threads/the-summer-2016-7-2-hour-contest.29697/ Benjamoose http://www.benjaminrudman.com/ RyderCycle https://www.youtube.com/c/rydercycle

If you’re anything like me you’ll like your podcasts how you like your maps, dimensionally challenged. Which is to say that we have a great episodes for you today, so long as you’re prepared to squint a little and look at it side on. The little Update that wasn’t – https://redd.it/4xaxwt Valve Time – https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Valve_Time Announcing the 2016 Saxxy Awards – http://www.sourcefilmmaker.com/post.php?id=23438 Isometric TF2 maps – http://podka.st/13e The (nearly) Complete list of TF2 bugs – https://redd.it/4xgca7 I58 Schedule is set for TF2 – http://www.teamfortress.tv/35466/i58-schedule-set The sandwich stacking game – http://podka.st/13f

Before we go any further I want to give a big shout out to our new 6s ESEA team. Watch out for a blog post on this and where you can follow them. Best to mention that we still don’t have Uberchain’s intro music sorted yet. In our defence it’s been less than 3 years since she joined us; what do you guys want, efficiency? Update – 3rd August – http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=23303 ESEA team KritzKast FACEIT TF2 League Opens for North America – https://discord.gg/tf2faceit “Recent” user reviews of TF2 are down to “mixed” – https://redd.it/4vf6fr TF2 Summer Jam Showcase – http://podka.st/133 Sandvich Stacking competition – http://podka.st/134

Jasmine Tea will be making their way to i58 – the biodome in the National Exhibition Center – where computers grow on treas, sponsored by Tetley eSports. It’s possible they will be joined by North American legends, Froyotech. They will also be playing pl_drawpu in the finals. Some of the facts listed here may not be real things. Update – http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=23197 Tip of the hats – http://tipofthehats.org/ ETF2L is looking for coders – http://podka.st/12u British TF2 League – http://btf2l.org Jasmine Tea coming to i58 – https://igg.me/at/jasmine-tea-i58/x PL_Drawpu – http://www.khuntza.net/