Snapback Saturday I

Posted by Kelso on Friday, April 8th, 2011 (11:38 PM)

snapback saturday

Hello everyone! I'm here with some exciting stuff: the announcement of our first Snapback Saturday! I know we have briefly mentioned on the stream here and there and we made an official announcement about it a couple of weeks ago on our Mixup Monday stream but we haven't had the chance to work out all the details until recently.

That being said, Snapback Saturday I will be our first official tournament, with stream! This is our initiative to do so. This also arose out of lack of much initiative from our community to host tournaments themselves. We took it upon ourselves to not only host this first one and hopefully many others to come, but also more importantly stream it!

This goes out to all of you OS'ers. We need your help. For anyone that watched us on a regular basis that is local to us, please join us on 4/16/11 for a day full of hype and entertainment, along with meeting all of us as well! For all of you that are not local, please tune in to the first Snapback Saturday stream that will be going on the day of the tournament. ...

Throwdown Thursday

Posted by Ryan Hunter on Friday, April 8th, 2011 (09:17 AM)

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Last night's stream was going great...until our LAN center completely lost internet, and it never came back. They called their provider and a technician is going over there today to figure out the problem, but unfortunately for us, that meant the stream cut out suddenly, and never came back. Thanks to anyone who saw my tweet and helped out by letting people know what was going on. They'd been having internet issues recently, but only where the internet would cut out for a minute and then come right back, so I thought we'd be back up in a few minutes. So my apologizes for anyone that stuck around waiting, but it was out of my control.

However, beyond that, the stream went well, and it was great to meet up with 8ighty 6ix and play some games in person! I'm looking forward to lots more Thursday streams. Their format will vary from week to week depending on where we stream from and how many people show up, so be prepared for that. If you tuned in a week ago Thursday, it was a much smaller session, and we had a mic by the players so it was a little different. I liked that a lot, and we'll definitely do that again in the future when less people show up.

Successful Stream, Shirts, Servbot Fiesta

Posted by Ryan Hunter on Tuesday, April 5th, 2011 (03:13 AM)

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Another great Mixup Monday. Thanks to everyone who tuned in to watch some Marvel. We didn't get to SSF4 on the stream tonight, but honestly, the night flew by and before I knew it, it was past when I wanted to leave by. However, this Thursday will be the first official Throwdown Thursday, and it is likely we'll play some SSF4 like we did last Thursday Stream.

But anyway, the real reason I'm making this news post isn't about the stream, it's about past streams. If you've been watching us for a while, you probably know what a Servbot Fiesta is. If you don't, educate yourself real quick. This got brought up on the stream again tonight, and the idea was suggested that we make a shirt of it. This will happen. In fact, Tod Seitz (@tod9000 on twitter and www.thenicestuff.com), an awesome viewer, took the initiative out of no where and sent in his concept for the shirt.



Tod: I will be in touch in the next few days. This will happen.

A new direction.

Blogged by sighrAx on Friday, April 1st, 2011 (03:54 PM)

new games, tekken 6

Hey everyone,

Ryan and I have been discussing for some time that we need to make some changes. Along with our new layout, we also realized we should change what we stream. I know MvC3 is the new hotness, but it's getting stale very quickly. Everything has already been found and gets continuously exploited. We can't support a game like that.

As for SSF4, we don't have AE. There's no real point in playing Street Fighter if we don't have the latest version. Feels like we're selling ourselves short. Maybe we'll pick it back up when AE is released for consoles.

We're switching to Arcana Heart 3. I'm playing Kira. She's so baller. Basically the Haggar of the game. Get hype!

We'll see you then guys. Thanks for watching, and your continued support.

-sighrAx

Contest Winner, Stream Tonight

Posted by Ryan Hunter on Thursday, March 31st, 2011 (06:17 PM)

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Ok, first off, thanks to everyone who took some time to help think of names for the Thursday stream. I'm glad I wasn't the only one who was having trouble coming up with names and I appreciate the effort you guys made. There were some really good suggestions like "Think Tank Thursday" and "Throw Tech Thursday." However, ultimately, I didn't feel anything was better than the original idea of "Throwdown Thursday."

However, since that was the suggestion that sparked the whole idea, it leaves me with no winner, which would not be fair to all of you that suggested ideas. So, the winner is the name I liked the most, which I heavily debated on: "Thunderdome Thursday"! In the end, I just felt that our laid back casual Thursday stream could never live up to such an epic name, and would never do it justice. However, if we start doing events or tournaments in the future on Thursdays, brace yourself. ...