Twitch had it’s second 2015 episode of Twitch Weekly last week, talking about topics ranging from the new Twitch Music Initiative to PAX South plans to much, much more! If you want to know more about the all of topics discussed – the super duper crazy awesome /r/Twitch user Jikkircraft (@Jikkir on Twitter) has put together a run down of all subjects + timestamp links to each of those sections! Check it out below:
Intro
- Twitch Weekly will be on at 3:30 Central Time next Friday live from PAX South!
- Confirmed handsome quota filled
- Hosts @djWHEAT, @SomaJT, @Fishstix, @Atrioc
- Special guest – Chief Strategy Officer of Twitch,@ColinCarrier coming at the end of the stream
- Shoutout to Jikkir – thanks guys! These will be coming on a weekly basis, so watch this space!
Twitch Music Library and Music Category Beta Launch!
- Check out the landing page here
- Want to contribute to the music list? There’s something in the link above!
- Shoutout to the cool music pair – SuperGuitarBros
PAX South 2015 – 23rd – 25th Ft. “PJSaltan of Stream” Competition
- Competition between 16 streamers taking place over 3 days
- How Salty can the streamers be during their defeat? This may benefit them in the competition!
- Tonnes of games and activities surrounding it, so tune in!
- Here’s the Brackets and contestants
- Don’t forget the Twitch Town Hall will be returning!
Twitch Movie Night #2
- Right after the stream, the next Twitch Movie will be “Pixel Poetry”
- If you’d like to support Devolver, use the coupon code “TWITCHLIVE” at Devolver Digital’s website for 50% off all Devolver’s films
AGDQ 2015 Recap
- ~$1.58 Million raised for charity!
- Nearly 1 billion minutes watched
- The Twitch donation (this was calculated dependant on the maximum concurrent viewers) donated $8k to this event
- Notch donated 10k like the boss he is
- Shoutout to the staff at AGDQ – awesome community effort!
- Happy belated Birthday wishes to Romscout
Smite World Championship Finals now over!
- Congratulations to Cognitive Prime taking the first ever Smite Championships!
- $1.3 Million Dollar 1st prize
- djWheat likes to dry himself off with $100 bills… Kappa
- Smite spectator mode is unbelievable comparatively to other MOBA’s – huge shout out to Hi-Rez raising the bar in quality and production value despite their size!
Paragon Orlando is the final Smash Apex 2015 Qualifier
- Super Smash Bros. Melee competitive scene starting to heat up!
- Super Smash Bros. Melee “5 Gods” being beaten by newcomer LFFN
- Fox player
- The winner of Paragon Orlando will be the final APEX qualifier
- Mango didn’t seat for APEX at Beast
- Click here to follow the stream!
Twitch AHGL Sweeps Week One in CSGO, DotA2, LoL, SC2, HS
- Twitch dominating the after hours gaming league – currently with no losses!
- CS:GO Team page!
- League of Legends Team page!
- Dota 2 Team page!
- Hearthstone Team page!
- Starcraft 2 Team Page!
- Next week matches against Microsoft and Capitol One… Possible losses…
King of the Nerds sneak preview of Season 3 on Twitch tonight
- Premiering the first 30 minutes of the show 6PM PST
Duracell’s Madden 15 “Longest Lasting Tournament”
- Professionals from the NFL, and some of the [pro Madden players facing off!](twitch.tv/twingalaxieslive)
- Patrick Willis for the San Fran 49ERS, Maurice Jones-Drew for the Oakland Raiders and Adrian Foster for the Houston Texans
- 26 hour tournament (as long as Duracell batteries last! Get it?)
- Top prizes include SuperBowl tickets, NFL gear and T-Shirts!
*Major League Hacking (MLH) Weekend College Hackathon! *
- These cool dudes make hacks out of everything! Nerf Gun/Kinect sentry gun? Yes, please!
- Throughout the weekend, they will be streaming the creation process of some people’s hacks
- On Sunday, a 3 hour stream showing the best hacks of the weekend
- University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan this weekend!
Remember to tweet questions each week with #TwitchWeekly
- Chance to win free Twitch Turbo? Yummy!
Return of the Survivor Gamez!
- For those who lived under a rock, think Hunger Games meets Day-Z competition
- Survivor Gamez went on hiatus during December 2013
- The conclusion of Survivor gamez 5 will be on February 8th, at 1PM PST. Follow the channel
- To follow the map channel, click here!
- Starting March, Survivor Gamez will have a qualifier free for all to decide the wild card team for the next main Survivor Gamez
H1Z1 Early Access launched yesterday!
- @djWHEAT is a psychic – knew in advance about H1Z1’s server issues!
- Lirik held ~100k viewers just waiting to log into the servers – H1Z1 fans are clearly hyped!
Evolve Beta has begun – partnered with Operation Supply Drop * XboxOne Open Beta released until January 19th * Check out the official Evolve Twitch channel!
Twitch Partner Spotlight – LegendofLorie
- Last week’s featured partner – Absnerdity Jumped in viewers significantly from 100 to 1000-3000 viewers
- Each week a new partner shouted out in Twitch weekly!
- Spotlighted partners have a significant chance of being featured on the front page
- Are you a partner? Request and ask about this with a rep on the partnership team!
- This week’s featured partner – LegendofLorie, Check her out!
- VOD time of Spotlight – the chat jumps in to surprise her!
Video Spotlight – TwinGalaxiesLive
- This weeks video spotlight – TwinGalaxiesLive
- Here’s the Spotlight video VOD
- Submit and showcase your own video by sending a dropbox video to twitch.tv/twitch as an inbox!
Staff Picks: Jimmy Wisenhunt – “Esports on a whole new level”
- Jimmy streams a lot on Twitch – check him out. He’s a pretty cool designer on H1Z1. Check him out!
Q&A Time
- As always, I always recommend checking out the VOD for the Q&A’s – they rock! Questions will be below for a tease!
- What in the Mason jars on the livestream desk?
- What are some of the events this year that you guys are excited about?
- How big is the Twitch staffing?
Twitch Music discussion with @ColinCarrier
- As always, I’d highly recommend watching the Q&A all the way through. There’s some awesome information in this one, and so much that even this summary will miss out a lot of it!
- If you haven’t already, check out the landing page!
- Colin mainly looks at the new endeavors that Twitch can do, or are just starting to look into
- His CS: GO rank is Gold Nova 4 star… LAME!
- Opened the platform to allow musicians to interact with their community and fans, as well as gain further publicity. It’s a very win-win program for the broadcasters and musicians!
- Twitch music library offers music cleared of copyright ID for both live events and VOD’s
- The goal is to have a library which caters to everyone’s interests – Electronic is far easier to clear rights for on a global basis, so there is currently a much larger selection of that genre in the library
- Music contribution to the library currently requires a following of fans to ensure quality of the playlist
- Content will be added to the library extremely frequently – hopefully weekly
- Twitch will actively be attempting to incite larger artists to add music to the library and playlists
- There’s a lot of Darude Sandstorm hints in here… Take it as you will… DUDUDUDUDU
- A lot of comment about Colin’s general attractiveness
- If a song is removed from the playlist, all previous VOD’s will be safe from Audio removal
- Got feedback? Contact feedback@twitch.tv!
Closing Thoughts
- Don’t forget – next week Twitch will be live at Pax South at the time of 3:30PM Central Time on Friday!
