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Beta — I am sure you all know your alphabet by now but for those who don’t we are here to help!

In an aid to help have some steady content on VanillaTV and to help the community arrange games, we are pleased to introduce ABC Tuesday Cast.

So what is an ABC cast?  Well, this will be a regular weekly cast featuring AcidReniX & Beta with Comedian providing the streaming.  For the Tuesday…well if you haven’t guessed already, this feature will be every Tuesday.

So how does this help the community?  We continually experience issues with games arranged late and VTV being unable to provide a cast or stream.  By scheduling your games on a Tuesday and informing VTV, we will be able to provide high level commentary and streaming to the masses.

Same old stuff?  In an effort to bring the games to the masses, we will be willing to cast and stream a wide range of division games, across multiple competitions in an aid to help kill your boredom.

So what are you waiting for?  Get scheduling now and help us help you! We are not psychics, please make sure you schedule early and inform a member of the VTV staff.

Update: VOD up!

MP3:  http://adamfindlay.co.uk/pirateradio/episode20.zip

CommanderX - We’ve been away for a few weeks but we’ve returned for the special event of Greg’s birthday. Kaidus will be joining me as usual alongside the birthday boy himself, feast your eyes on his not quite cookye like scouting in celebration of his aging. We’ll look at all the matches, cup finals etc that we have missed going all the way back to that incredible TCM vs 2strong game up to the more recent less spectacular CrackClan vs Infsued. We will also be going around the rumour mill sifting through the garbage to find the real gossip including all team transfers from fan favourites Autobots to prem giants Epsilon. Details of when and where are below, don’t miss out.

Same time as always 23:00CET

Stream - Twitch TV
Mumble - VanillaTV
IRC - #PirateRadio @ quakenet
Previous Episodes - YouTube
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CommanderX - This week something happens with some people. No one reads these anymore or even did to begin with so there will be stuff about the seedings, Angel’s cup and what ever else we feel like covering. Same place as always, cuon.

Same time as always 23:00CET

Stream - Twitch TV
Mumble - VanillaTV
IRC - #PirateRadio @ quakenet
Previous Episodes - YouTube
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Pledge — Over the past week, the European Team Fortress 2 League released their map pool for Season 12. Six maps in total, of which four were pre-decided. The other two though, which will be the focus point of today, were to be decided by a public poll. Gravel Pit, Croissant, Foundry, Turbine and Obscure (the snowy one) were the results of a nomination thread and were the options. To much surprise and criticism, Obscure and Gravel Pit won the poll with a clear margin. Today, I want to take a look at the results of the poll and answer two simple questions: “How did these results end up like they did?” and “Is a poll like this the best way to decide maps?”

MP3 Link

CommanderX – A day late due to work responsibilities but we’re on at our usual time tonight. Looking at the latest goings on mainly revolving around admin decisions this week, as well as a look at the award results and the map pool for next season and a splash of team news too. Tune in at all the normal places.

Same time as always 23:00CET

Stream - Twitch TV
Mumble - VanillaTV
IRC - #PirateRadio @ quakenet
Previous Episodes - YouTube
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Greg — Season 11 is over; the undisputed champions Epsilon have been defeated, which sees Team Infused crowned the new champions - breaking their curse of never beating Epsilon.  We now move into the off season break, however pretty much every team has had a mid-season or post-season team change, which has gone unreported except for live on PirateRadio (with CommanderX, kaidus and myself).  I am going to take you on a journey through the Season 11 team changes and look forward to the Season 12 Prem teams.

Current Premier Teams

Team Infused:
Lets start with the Champions of Season 11: Team Infused.  It has been a season of progression for them, beginning with a player change, the former dignitas scout cookye came in to replace the quad pistol and just a few days after this pickup the team lost out narrowly in the first Excello final of the season to their nemisis Epsilon eSports.  They took this in their stride and pushed forward, eventually repeating their first place in the regular season; granting them first seed into the playoffs, where they finally defeated Epsilon and secured the title “Champions of Europe” for Season 11.  However it has not been plain sailing for the English team as during the playoff period I made the decision to leave the team, the Team UK and former Team Thermaltake scout JoeyC (also known as Fisshu) replaced me.

Lineup: numlocked, dunc, flisko, mike, JoeyC, cookye

Edit: VOD & MP3

CommanderX – I return for this episode and am joined by the usual suspects. I’ve not written everything down this week so we’ll see if we’re on time. I think I remember everything though but i’m just going to listen to Katy Perry instead anyway. She has a movie coming out and it’s all about her and stuff. She is so cool and pretty and awesome, wish she was my friend. Let’s all watch the trailer and talk about this instead of this JoeyC  borefest.

Same time as always 23:00CET

Stream - Twitch TV
Mumble - VanillaTV
IRC - #PirateRadio @ quakenet
Previous Episodes - YouTube
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