Years ago,
@ImperialHal
was the first apex stream I ever came across. Apex is my first BR after decades of fps going back to quake 1. I'm old enough to be the father of everyone playing, but I'm proud to be in this awesome community and elated to be in Birmingham to watch.
With faceit now offering proper vods for
#ALGS
matches, there's really no need for me to continue with my process. I will wrap up today's EMEA/NA matches and then call it a short career. I appreciate all of the support from the community through Split 1, Playoffs and Split 2.🫶
Thank you to everyone over the course of Split 1 because we made Youtube Partner!! I will NEVER turn on ads for Vods, but there are now membership options if you wish to support. Every little bit helps cover the cost of servers and time to get these into your hands asap. 🫶
#ALGS
189 / 210 pov's recorded (21 not available due to faceit), 179 pov's processed and live, 9 pov's still processing, 1 pov split files due to faceit, 4 days.
Seeing so many creators & pro players do vod review, like
@Gnaske_Lone
,
@ImperialHal
, and
@gdolphn
put a smile on my face. It makes the effort all worth it and I cant imagine a "Post LAN" where you just had to be there. Good luck in Split 2!
@PlayApexEsports
@IamHurtReynolds
The love from this community is overwhelming. We `may` have found a path so I can continue to provide vods for the teams, players and community. Need all the good vibes right now.. 🙏 I will owe drinks or something to people next week for sure.
Self Serving "Follow Friday" post. If you're a fan, player or coach involved in
#ALGS
and haven't subbed for free to I would appreciate it. There's a cost for me to do this, so any support is appreciated. YT Memberships will come when I hit the numbers.
Excited to head out to LA tomorrow. If anyone is down for a dinner meet up tomorrow, LMK. In the meantime, check out the start times for
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LAN!! (times sourced from event email sent today)
Life Post: So my daughter graduated from college yesterday and I’m a crazy proud dad. Tomorrow we have a celebration in addition to Mother’s Day and she requested “Chicken n Dumplings” as her meal. Today I smoked some chicken that will make its way in it. It’s gonna be 🔥.
I would not normally post about something like this but seeing as I’m a “behind the scenes” veritable nobody and this blows my mind, the apex community is insane. Past 7 days new subs in the YT page. To the damn moon! Means the absolute world to me. 🫶
In case anyone is wondering when this weekends Vods will show up, I have almost 100 videos to get processed, tagged, metadata, etc. I'm working as quickly as I can over the next few days in between my IRL job. Sub for updates.
#ALGS
@PlayApexEsports
ALGS Vods Update: APAC S - Second Set is uploaded and processing now, remaining EMEA games uploaded and processing, NA top 15 plus Map VOD is uploading today! If want to keep up with all of the proleague action, go drop a sub!
Vod Update: Having to do a bit of pivoting to distribute the size of the vods before I kick off the processing. Still expect them all to be up tomorrow. Appreciate all the love and support everyone has throw my way. I love this game, I love this community.
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Thought about this the other day…. Any interest in the details about recording vods? What I built to do it? The tech behind it? Contemplating throwing up a stream to talk about it all and answer questions.
Destroyer hacks Hal and Gen and now they are teaming up?!?! Coincidence or did Destroyer hack Hal's twitter account too!! 🤯
Split 2 is going be something else......
I will be teaming with
@Zer0OCE
and
@Genburten
now moving forward .
I’ve already said a lot in the video I retweeted but I want to Thank
@TSM
and everyone that has played along side me for believing in me, I will remember these last 5 years forever.
Onto a New Chapter.
The “majority” of the NA/EMEA Vods from yesterday are now published. There’s a handful left that I need to make thumbnails for but I’m at a work conference in Orlando so I’ll get to those later today. Oh and we broke 4K subs! 🫶
#ALGS
Leading up to this week's regional finals,
@PlayApexEsports
any chance we can chat about an official partnership for POV Vods for both viewers and teams? Working through the revolving changes from faceit is a lot of work. Can I just get the direct feeds?
Today's Vod Update: Yesterday I hit my account's Youtube API limit so only the first set made it up (minus 4 videos). Since I cant upload and record at the same time without spending a ton more money, the rest of groups will probably be delayed. Recording is priority.
#ALGS
For teams in the finals tomorrow, most of your vods are up on the YT page, I’m working on the rest of Losers1 and Winners. Hit me up if I’m missing that you need, other than Losers2, faceit was down hard.
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July 4, 1998 - I made a promise to my best friend, for better or for worse. 26yrs later, we have 2 amazing kids, many pets we've loved and lost and next week I get to take everyone to Europe for their first trip out of the US. Life is good. 👫❤️🫶
While I sit and stare at growing percentages, would love to meet the casters/analysts before this event is over and just say thanks for the hard work and I hope they can make use of the vods.
@esports_DiA
@spidertiff
@OnsetMTH
@DanGaskin
@ZephyrCasts
and all the rest.
Vod Update! All of B vs D is uploaded and processing. Only 2 Vods left for A vs C and A vs B, respectively. Losers Round 1 is also processing and uploading now. Winners is now recording.
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The state of the PLQ Finals audio situation on FACEIT yesterday for NA/EMEA relative to the teams that made it into PL (plus Meat). How is this a "good" viewing experience for fans? Imagine if this were the situation for Champs? 🤦
Heading to the venue late today because I want to do some validation after the first set of games get going. If you see the old guy on his iPad, thats me, and I'm probably checking on the recordings. Say hi! See you all mid-morning!
I know I've been quiet today, on a 12hr drive back home but I've been taking advantage or some stops to kick off the recordings for EMEA/NA games today. EMEA games just need some thumbnails and they will be live. NA games will be live tomorrow morning.
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Happy Monday Apex'ers!! I'm half way through the NA Vods from yesterday but patiently waiting on the upload and processing to complete. This week I will be testing a cloud solution that I think will let me do this considerably faster. Stay tuned!
#ALGS
(55 subs to 500) 😱
Still patiently waiting to hear about “plan b” but today I built a chrome extension that cuts the time to get the info I need per pov on faceit from a little over a minute to about 5sec. Pretty pleased on this Friday before LAN. 🤞🏻 🙏
Home at 1:30am, up and at the computer for work stuff at 8:00am... I should have taken the day off.. Sooooooo tired.. but happy S21 Day!!! Thanks again for all of the support and love shown for the Vods. 🫶
To my content creator friends, would you care for me to do a stream to talk through and show all the FACEIT recording stuff so you can pull your own footage? Happy to demystify the process and as always, my dm's are open to anyone with questions.
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This will be a two tweet post:
1. For those with fiber internet, I hope it has been as life changing for you as it has been for me. I just got fiber installed yesterday and wow.
2. With fiber, I can reduce my cloud costs to basically $0.
Continued.....
3. Because I now have fiber, I have reworked my recording scripts and have decided to continue recording the ALGS pov's and posting to YT. I can now do this with my home server and it just costs me time. So for those that want to do YT and not FACEIT, you have options. 😊
@AyeJHawk
@elbengategaming
I'm on it! Getting the docker containers setup now and working on the scripting to automate as much as I can. I have the processing power and storage to make this happen!
Sorry for the delay in APAC S vods, but there's 5 more that I'm waiting on Youtube to process. Playlists are live for NA Day 6, APAC S Day 6 and APAC S Day 7. Split 1 winding down!
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5 days till Lan! Heading to Dallas for work on Monday, then off to LA on Wednesday. I'm so ready to hang out with a ton of new friends and enjoy all the action. Will be hunting for food/drinks in DTLA Wednesday night.
#ALGS
Finished processing the first few games from
#ALGS
NA Regional Finals before it was halted. Games 1 & 2 were kept, 3 and 4 were discarded. See everyone at LAN!!
@PlayApexEsports
Finally getting a chance to use the new cloud setup for recording
#ALGS
. The goal is to try and get the vods up faster and faster so no one has to wait. If you havent subscribed yet, go hit up
@ALGS_Vods
on Youtube.
NA games from today are starting to upload. Sorry there wont be any EMEA games from today with the changes FACEIT made to their platform. If only we had proper access to the feeds..... looking at you
@PlayApexEsports
Vod Update: Winners is about half complete from yesterday. Look for those later on today. As I mentioned yesterday, with faceit down for losers 2, you just had to be here. Unfortunate, but we have finals today!! I’m ready to roll and expect finals Vods up tomorrow!
#ALGS
@astr0stardust
To this day, I still feel weird and uncomfortable walking up to people I don’t know and introducing myself. I love events like ALGS and I’m a big fan of everyone, but it’s so hard for me to not just sit there. But ask me to talk tech in front of 100k people, no problem.
#weird
Vods from B vs C are starting to go live. A few more are still processing and I hit my Youtube API limit today so will pick back up with more uploads tomorrow.
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As we go into finals today, whether your team made it, they lose or win, I think we can all be happy to have a reason to come to an event like this. Production and talent have been amazing and everyone in attendance are just good people.
#ApexFamily
#ALGS
@PlayApexEsports
@VioletLex
Having been in the IT industry for longer than I'd like to admit, can be a futile exercise, but once you get interviews, just be yourself and be confident. Confidence and personality are probably my top 2 traits when I'm hiring. Capable people can be taught almost anything.
hey
@espn
you have, BY FAR, the worst
@NFL
broadcast team this season. Its so difficult to listen to these guys. I didnt think it was possible to be worse than Aikman, but kudos to you.
#NOvsCAR
As opposed to doing numerous posts today, we're working through 83 vods from yesterday, today. EMEA (Day 7) and APAC S (Day 9) are posted. APAC S (Day 8) is partially posted and in progress. NA (Day 7) is uploading/processing. YT page link in replies...
So I've mentioned this a few times now and most recently talked about it on my last stream as we went through my toolset for recording streams on faceit. Today I'm open sourcing my chrome extension that has been a life saver for this process. Link to repo in replies.
One last thing, any Orgs or media outlets looking for an extra set of hands for next LAN on a $0 contract hit me up. 😬 The iPad is doable but man do I miss my laptop.
Anyone out there apply for media access to
#ALGS
playoffs and hear back yet? Its just a few weeks away and I'm just concerned on whether I'm going to be able to do the POV recordings. I know a lot of creators, players & coaches heavily depend on it.
@IamHurtReynolds
4 NA Vods left to process and that will complete the NA games. I will start on APAC S tonight. Super Bowl day is a "big" day in the house as I love to go all out and cook for some amazing friends. With the month before the next games, I'm working on the faceit issue yesterday
Some unfortunate news for todays ALGS games. Faceit has yet again made more changes to their platform and Im unable to record todays games. Unfortunately, I dont have the time today to figure out a work around, sorry.
@PlayApexEsports
please move to something else for pov's.
The rest of A vs C and B vs C are uploading now so look for those in 3-4hrs depending on how long Youtube wants to take to process today. I'll then shift my focus on B vs D. Going to build another server to upload those.
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@ItsTheLastRonin
@ImperialHal
I would love to have a team of 40+ play in ALGS and our team name would be “Your Parents”. I can hear
@OnsetMTH
saying it now,
@TSM
eliminated by Your Parents. Makes me laugh every time.
you want to be a content creator?
here is my best tip after 6 years and some reasonable amount of success
Stream/Create what you love and show the world, do not chase what other people have or what you think people will like
Another week in Dallas. Only a few weeks away from
#ALGS
Split 1 Playoffs! Who am I seeing there? Still hoping for media access so I can get all the POV recordings.
@IamHurtReynolds
@PlayApexEsports
I'm also watching the schedule on FACEIT so I can fire up a stream and talk about the recording process, tools, etc.. I need them to be live with something so I can show the process so be on the lookout for that.
@AyeJHawk
He alluded to this in his video, but the other Australians are coming on temporary "week" visa's while Moist has been trying for some time to get a long term visa in place for them to play in NA from the US. Thats why he cut the team so they could get the "week" visas as well.
Related, if anyone is curious about the effort to make it all happen, including the fights I've had with faceit platform, I'm open to firing up a stream to talk about it. Also, for those going to LAN, see you there!
First weekend in the books trying to cap all these ALGS matches. I won't lie, it was a rough one trying to pivot to new platforms on the fly and running into random issues. I can confirm, that tonight's NA games look good AND sound good. 😀 --continued
Going to make it a late arrival again today so that I can get caught up on some uploads and start to prep for the recordings today. See everyone there!
#ALGS