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Leftism — Last year, we had some very kind members of our community donate so we could cover our server expenses: in total we raised € 186,-. With € 90,- of that now spent on the box that hosts this website, all of you clever mathematics clogs can easily figure out how much we have left. For those who don’t have the gift of subtraction in their head: this means only € 96,- of the original donations is left.

Eventually – as with all money – this will deplete completely and we might be left without a webserver. At VanillaTF2/TV we’re looking to you, the kind members of our community, to donate any spare cash you can to keep us going, so we can continue to provide you with as many casts as we can.

Once again, we promise to only use the raised money for server upkeep, sending staff to LANs and for related purchases to help us expand and provide better quality coverage. We will continue to make these expenses publicly available, so you will know where your donations are being invested.

Skyride has been kind enough to implement a “Donate” button to make the donation process easier; you can find it just to the right of this post!

Once again, thanks for your continued support!

1^⁵ᵀ Epsilon eSports (140 points)
2ᴺᴰ Team Infused (127 points)
3ᴿᴰ Crack Clan (114 points)
4ᵀᴴ 1 Team Yoyotech (100 points)
5ᵀᴴ 2 Karnage eSports (68 points)
6ᵀᴴ 2 Tryharders (54 points)
7ᵀᴴ Last Man Standing (46 points)
8ᵀᴴ Equilibrium (45 points)
9ᵀᴴ Punchline (39 points)
10ᵀᴴ Quarantine (37 points)

Greg — Fifteen votes will go into each month’s rankings, ten of which are from the previous month’s top ten teams, and five of which are from our panel members, who will vote every month. The points system remains simple: a first place vote earns that team 10 points, 9 points are awarded for second place, and so on. The numbers in parentheses refer to the specific team’s ranking in the previous Month.

Continue reading to find out who the panel members are, and see their thoughts and opinions on this month’s rankings.

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…

1^⁵ᵀ    Epsilon eSports  (137 points)
2ᴺᴰ    Team Infused (130 points)
3ᴿᴰ  Crack Clan (114 points)
4ᵀᴴ  2  Broder (94 points)
5ᵀᴴ  2  Team Yoyotech (79 points)
6ᵀᴴ  3  Exotic Island (78 points)
7ᵀᴴ Karnage eSports (74 points)
8ᵀᴴ  Tryharders (43 points)
9ᵀᴴ  Team Decerto (34 points)
10ᵀᴴ    Quarantine (29 points)

Greg — Fifteen votes will go into each month’s rankings, ten of which are from the previous month’s top ten teams, and five of which are from our panel members, who will vote every month. The points system remains simple: a first place vote earns that team 10 points, 9 points are awarded for second place, and so on. The numbers in parentheses refer to the specific team’s ranking in the previous Month.

Continue reading to find out who the panel members are, and see their thoughts and opinions on this month’s rankings.

1^⁵ᵀ (1)   Epsilon eSports (140 points)
2ᴺᴰ (2) Team Infused (125 points)
3ᴿᴰ (5) Crack Clan (102 points)
4ᵀᴴ (3) Team Dignitas (97 points)
5ᵀᴴ (4) Relic (89 points)
6ᵀᴴ (8) Broder (80 points)
7ᵀᴴ (6) CKRAS Gaming (61 points)
8ᵀᴴ (7) Team Yoyotech (58 points)
9ᵀᴴ (9) Exotic Island (36 points)
10ᵀᴴ (NEW!) Quarantine (13 points)

Greg — Fifteen votes will go into each month’s rankings, ten of which are from the previous month’s top ten teams, and five of which are from our panel members, who will vote every month.  The points system remains simple: a first place vote earns that team 10 points, 9 points are awarded for second place, and so on.  The numbers in parentheses refer to the specific team’s ranking in the previous Month.

Continue reading to find out who the panel members are, and see their thoughts and opinions on this month’s rankings.

SeriousCat —With the holidays right around the corner most of the competitive scene has taken a break, with a few notable exceptions! Scheduled for tonight Dec. 26th is the Div 1 Highlander match between Comunidade Portuguesa TF2 and turbopoop eSports:

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• Monday December 26th
• 20:00 cet
• 14:00 est (na)
• 04:00 est (aus)

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• To be announced

Who will win this match?

• turbopoop eSports (79%, 15 Votes)
  
• Comunidade Portuguesa TF2 (21%, 4 Votes)
  

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At VanillaTF2 the unicorns never sleep either. We present you with a new (beta) feature: an aggregate RSS feed of all the TF2 community’s news, as well as our matchticker & matchresults. Point your RSS reader of choice to http://rss.vanillatv.org/. If you have visited us on IRC before, you will recognize it as the RSS version of our VanillaTV bot’s output.

Additionally, our VanillaTV bot is now available on the GameSurge IRC network: contact me for details.

Happy holidays!

Torden — It’s been a few slow weeks in the news. Oddly, it’s a symptom of something healthy, players are busy duking out their battles where they should: In TF2. But we can’t get complacent with bringing the word out, if we want the game to become a spectator sport, we’ve gotta fight for it, promote it, get involved!

Our site currently reaches a whopping 25 000 people unique visitors each month. Philosophically speaking, it’s a pretty fantastic idea to think about how easy it is to reach them: Log in using your steam account, click the “write an article” button, write some shit and submit.

So what’s there to write about? Here’s a list of cool things you might want to know.