Twitch had the first awesome 2015 episode of Twitch Weekly this week!
If you want to know more about the topics they discussed the super duper crazy awesome /r/Twitch user Jikkircraft (@Jikkir on Twitter) has put together a rundown of all subjects + timestamp links to each of those sections! Check it out below:
Original Post by Jikkircraft
Intro
Happy New Year!
- What are your resolutions? Tweet #TwitchWeekly for a chance to win Twitch Turbo
PAX South 2015 – 23rd – 25th (with a Twitch Town Hall!)
- Twitch Town Hall will return this Pax South!
- Twitch Weekly will host there Live!
- Guests include Cyrus Hall (Lead Software Engineer, Twitch) and Aaron Krasnov (Product Manager, Twitch)
- Come to the Town Hall for some Twitch #Swag!
Vote for Twitch in the TechCrunch 8th Annual Crunchies
- Nominated for “Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop”. Beat Kim Kardashian, for the love of God!
Twitch Movie Night
- Keep up with Twitch Movie Night!
- No really, it’s awesome watching with others!
Awesome Games Done Quick 2015 raised $600,000+ so far!
- Where’ve you been if you don’t know about this!? [Check it out!](twitch.tv/gamesdonequick
- This number doesn’t even take into account the Humble Bundle
- With the Humble Bundle, over $1,000,000 has been raised so far
- Did you see the engagement that happened? It was cute!
- Remember 100% subscriptions to #AGDQ goes directly to charity
D2L Vegas Finals at CES are over!
- Congratulations to LV Gaming!
- $50k Prize Pool
- Discussion on ESport changes from seasonal to consistent events
Smite World Championships
- $2.6 million+ prize pool – Check it out!
- 3rd largest prize pool in ESports history
- Crowd funded prize pool from an item in game
Canada Cup Master Series
- Huge fighting game names participating including Daigo, Luffy, Xian, and more!
- Pay-Per-View event – $14.95
- [CanadaCup – Check it out!](twitch.tv/CanadaCup)
- [CanadaCup2 – Check it out!](twitch.tv/CanadaCup2)
OGN is now League Championship Korea (LCK) – new season begun!
- OGN is now broadcasted similarly to LCS on the RiotGames official channel
- Still broadcasted by OGN, but directly to Riot
- Free HD now, instead of subscription fee!
- Still MonteCristo and Doa casting
- There an awesome discussion point on OGN in this segment, I’d check it out!
Beast V – Largest Euro Smash Bros. tournament in history
- This is the largest Smash Bros tournament in EU history – Tune in!
- Hosted by top player Armada
- One of the last events before APEX
- There was some smack talk here. Lolled.
GSL (Global Starcraft League) is back!
Twitch Partner Spotlight – Absnerdity!
- New program – Each week a new partner will be shouted out in Twitch weekly
- If spotlighted, they will have a significant chance of being featured on the front page
- This will be different and unique to usual front page features
- Are you’re a partner? Request and ask about this with a rep on the partnership team!
- This week’s first ever featured partner – Absnerdity, Check him out!
- VOD time of Spotlight
/r/Twitch post by Pinworms666 “50k Followers”
Ex-IGN Editors Launch “KindaFunnyGames” Twitch Channel
- Morning show Monday to Friday on Twitch – Everything Nerdy!
- 11-12.30 AM Pacific time
- Discussion on old gaming magazines
- KindaFunnyGames – Check them out!
Video Spotlight – GamrEnchantment
- This weeks video spotlight – GamrEnchantment
- It’s a little quiet – turn it up
- Submit and showcase your own video by sending a Dropbox video to twitch.tv/twitch (They’re low on submissions, so now’s your chance!)
Staff Picks: #AGDQ2015 MVPs
- GTA Vice city – Adam_ak
- Half Life 2 – Gocnak
- Ninja Gaiden Relay Race *Zelda 2 (Adventure of Link) – Pro_JN
- Honourable mention – Tetris – Kevinddr
Q&A Time
- “What are your plans this year for @TwitchESports?”
- “Are you going to implement a feature to allow people to watch multiple streams and chats simultaneously?”
- “Is specialized streaming software required, or can embedded PS4 and XboxOne software grow an audience alone?”
- “What happened to the free sub to /twitch, and what happened to the emotes?” #DiscoKappa “What is one good piece of advice you can give any streamer?”
Closing Thoughts
- Tomorrow Twitch will donate $50 for every 1k peak concurrent viewership on #AGDQ2015, so remember to tune in!
- Check out Twitch Movie Night!
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