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Pledge — A while ago there used to be a highlight series done by iksD videos. I actually did commentary on one of their top 5 videos. They’ve disappeared for a while, but their editor siN has taken it upon himself to restart the project. I got asked to do the commentary – I messed up loads but managed to make it work in the end – and then the first edition of the renewed iksD top 5 plays was here. I’d like to share the video with you guys, as siN himself didn’t trust in his English skills to make a proper article. Enjoy the video, submit your demos to the link provided at the end of the video and maybe you’ll be featured in the next edition of the iksD top 5 plays!

BoneS — Yaaooow! It’s a green screen ting. If you haven’t already heard on the TF2 vine, I am running a movie editing competition with some awesome prizes so check out the video below where I am making a complete spud of myself. You can get more details over on the ETF2L forums at the following link. Happy editing and good luck.

Link to the ETF2L Forum Topic.

CUBE — Just to let you guys know that the weather in England finally turned back to its usual rainy self and I was forced indoors to finish editing.

Huge thanks to the movie panel:  Skyride,  BoneS,  FreezeR and  decap for helping with the reviews.

Upvotes to help this get seen please!

CUBE —  It’s been a while since I’ve written an update regarding the VanillaTV YouTube Channel, so here’s a news post to let you know what we’ve been up to and what we’ve got planned for the coming months.

Fragmovies of the Month

For any of you that haven’t seen, a couple of days ago we released a new series called VanlliaTV Fragmovies of the Month, which rates and reviews TF2 Fragmovies from the previous month and provides links to the full movies. The idea behind this is to help editors gain more exposure for their fragmovies and also to hopefully increase the quality of the fragmovies by giving new editors an idea as to what people look for in a fragmovie.

I want to give a massive thanks to  BoneS and  Skyride for helping me review the videos and since releasing the video, I have also been approached by decap and  FreezeR who will now be joining the panel to help rate and review in future months.

We’ve had some great feedback since releasing the video and will start thinking about which movies to review for February very soon, expect to see the February video around mid-March.

More updates after the jump…

Torden — Before they folded, Torn Productions’ Decap was in the works of making them a frag movie. He didn’t get to complete it, but he rendered it out and the frags do the talking!

Torden — It’s starting to gain foothold this Ashkan‘ian monkey business. The latest installment features a new height of impressive names on the roster of invited celebrities to play 9v9 TF2, including a soldier showdown between former quakers  Notch (creator of Minecraft), and TF2′s own  Robin Walker. The game is commented by Nvc and Salamancer, with part 1 already racking up half a million views on facetube after a couple of days.

The bros at KritzKast made a dedicated site a while back, with all the details, demos and everything (including the 2 former matches). It’s at TF2mixup.com. Part 1/2: Badwater:

decap —Releasing today is the new movie from  subtitled of Torn Productions – highlights from  Experiment‘s matches during ESEA-Invite Season S9.