Batman minithon, team tsg and wallpapers!

[TheSpeedGamers]

We’ve knocked out 2 of our minithons (Kirby and Golden Sun) and we are getting close to our 24 hour Batman event which starts at 6pm central on OCT 31. Currently we’ve raised about $2,500 for ACT Today during this minithon series and hopefully we can crack $3,000 during Batman.

During the Golden Sun event some of our streamers mentioned the “team” feature that Twitch has and they wanted me to look into it for TSG. What the team features does is allows us to create a hub for all other community members to stream and it makes it easy for other community members to watch each other and build an audience. I contacted twitch and they responded very quickly and set us up with one. Take a look: http://www.twitch.tv/team/tsg

Now I want to make a suggestion and I would like for everyone’s input. I think that we should make the live.tsg.tv page redirect to our team page. I think that by doing this our community can build their own channels up. The community can now use the team page as the place to go to find fellow members streaming and to hang out. This will also free up the main channel exclusively for marathons, minithons, and community events. Now, I want opinions on this first before we put this into action. So if its clear that this isn’t something that the streamers and the community as a whole want, then we don’t have to go this direction. I think this will have a positive impact though and it will allow for our community streamers to increase viewership on their own channels while also giving the community a place to find a variety of community personalities. Please leave your thoughts in our forums or on this blog post.

Before I sign off I wanted to share with you guys some great TSG wallpapers and high res shirt design images that were made by Rust: http://imgur.com/a/rjosg

<3 You guys, talk to ya’ll soon!

-Britt

[AlanEdgeHead]

I'm 100% behind swapping the live page. Definitely a way to give community streams more exposure. And I've always been a big fan of those.

[Kurono]

The team tsg thing sounds like a great idea!

Also, do we have a list of what Batman games are being played during the minithon?

[TheSpeedGamers]

So far Arkham Asylum, Arkham City, Batman NES and Lego Batman look like the games that will fill the 24 hours. I think me and Rob are going to take 9 hour shifts on each Arkham game and then Punkle & Gendar are going to fill the last 6 hours. <<EDITED

[Iron Punkle]

This sounds like a great idea to me! Also, as promised, I posted an update about Batman in the planning thread.

[BlckDragon]

I think this is a great idea too, it also means that when multiple community members decide to stream at the same time they are still represented by TSG.

I believe that changing the live page will indeed give more exposure to the community. I vote in favor of the swap.

[gendarmeofficer]

I'm all for having the live page redirect to the teams page.

[Baltes]

Since team members would be streaming from our own channels would we still be sticking to a schedule? What does the system do if two team members are streaming at the same time?

[AlanEdgeHead]

Teams don't use the main channel. A team is just a collection of personal streams. If more than one stream is on, it lists them by view count.

[Baltes]

i understand the teams don't use the main channel, just needed clarification on what the main channel would do if multiple people were streaming.