Author: John Irwin

For many people Thanksgiving means family and friends, relaxing, drinking and turkey. For one of our guests it’s all about the potatoes. Lots and lots of potatoes. This is not a reference to Admirable’s heritage, instead we welcome back UEAKCrash. Sharing the star dressing room with him is the many-time winner of Player of the Week, but first time guest host, Grizzly Berry.

Updates Nov. 21st | Nov. 23rd
Blog post Welcome to the Jungle
Banny’s Climb competition
DHW2016
TTMR destroyed their 2016 Saxxy for Best Action

Grizzly Berry Twitter | YouTube
UEAKCrash Twitter | YouTube

Bandits approach a mountain village, but their chief decides to spare it until after the harvest because they had raided it before. The plan is overheard by a podcaster. Three podcasters ask Wiethoofd, the village elder and miller, for advice. He declares they should hire Sigafoo to defend the village. Since they have no money, Wiethoofd tells them to find hungry Sigafoo.

Update – Nov. 14th Nov. 18th
6th Saxxy Awards – http://www.sourcefilmmaker.com/
KritzKast on YouTube, we need your art – http://www.kritzkast.com/yourart/
Dreamhack Winter 2016 – http://www.dreamhack.se/dhw16/
FaceIT Open Beta Cup
Sigafoo – http://sigafoo.tv/

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