Here is the 4th episode of Twitch Weekly for 2015, talking about Twitch Plays Pokémon Returns, Twitch App Challenge, Survivor GameZ Recap, and much more. Thanks to /r/Twitch user Jikkircraft (@Jikkir on Twitter) who has put down all the subjects with timestamp links! Check it out below:
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Hey guys, here’s the TL;DW for Twitch Weekly 02/13/2015. As always, VOD’s and links are next to each section. Hope it helps!
Intro
- Hosts @djWHEAT, @SomaJT, @Fishstix, @Atrioc
- There may or may not be a bit of silence at the start because of microphone oopsies – don’t worry! The VOD links past that! 😀
- Soma is a God at Heroes of the Storm, or something…
Twitch Plays Pokémon Returns!
- This marks the 1 year anniversary of Twitch Plays Pokémon… Darn it’s come by so quick!
- For those that lived under the internet rock, TPP is a chat interactive gaming experience for all! Type your commands in the chat to help play along a nostalgia favourite
- Pokemon Red is the game we’re all playing together
- Abby 2.0 is our starter Pokémon! Charmander is love. Charmander is life.
- Praise Helix Fossil! – The “PraiseIt” Emoticon is now global as a celebration of this awesome anniversary.
- TPP Praise Helix shirts are now available – limited edition
AGDQ Info Graphics
- Awesome Games Done Quick stats for you all; I’d highly recommend checking out the infographic!
- Some notable statistics and achievements include:
- $1.58M raised
- 382,783 Kappas (~10% of all chat messages… WHAT)
- 9.4 Million Unique Viewers
Twitch App Challenge by Overwolf – Vote for your favourite Apps!
- We need you guys to start voting on some of your favourite App ideas and give some ideas yourself, here!
- You may have heard about the Twitch App Challenge from the previous Twitch Weekly streams, but for those who haven’t heard, check some of the bullet points below!
- Overwolf app competition going on up until April 30th
- The goal? Improve the life of Twitch users – both broadcasters and viewers with your own PC-based app!
- Check out the link in the title for rules, dates and to enter the competition!
Twitch Movie Night!
- “World 1-1”
- Takes a look at the origins and history of gaming
- Check out Devolver!
Survivor GameZ Recap!
- Hit a whopping 192k viewers – WOAH!
- Lirik may or may not have died in the first 5 minutes… RIP
- Congratulations to psiSyndicate and Kattnft on first place!
- Main events every other month!
- Qualifiers every month, starting next month
Dota Asian [Championships](http://twitch.tv/beyondthesummit
- Prize pool nearly hit $3M
- EG comes first place against Vici Gaming – a $1.2M grand prize!
- 3 – 0 Sweep
Pokémon Regionals
- Check out the tournament details here!
- Trading card games, 2v2 battles.. Trust me, these guys rule!
CS:GO Katowice
- ESL One Katowice offline qualifiers!
- Check out tournament details here!
- Always a huge event on Twitch – you don’t want to miss out!
LCS North America
- CLG vs TSM fighting for first place this weekend!
- The coaches of the losing team will dye their hair pink – HotShotGG or Reginald… I wonder who’ll look better?
- Twitter Proof…
- So no backing out!
New York Videogame Critics Circle Awards!
- Fourth annual awards
- Developers from around the world, and game oriented comedy clips from The Daily Show and Dorkly – it’s a great watch!
- Monday, February 16th, 4:30PM PST!
- Watch it live here
Fragdolls first annual “Just Dance Challenge”
- Charity event for the Special Olympics
- Each time they hit a goal of $200, they’ll start a group dance to a Just Dance song!
- So far they’ve raised a total of $6k and are aiming for a $10k goal
- The event finale will be streamed Sunday 02/15 – 7PM – 10 PM PST! Remember to follow them with the link in the title
Awesome, new top games being streamed!
Twitch Partner Spotlight – TigerWriter!
- This week’s awesome partner – TigerWriter!
- The Binding of the Beard! What a God
- He’s a variety caster playing plenty of different games – an extremely nice guy with a great community
- Stream schedule: Sunday to Thursday at 5PM PST/8PM EST
Video Spotlight – TerrorHertz!
- Terror is an awesome streamer, though not full time mainly streaming on the weekends. Give him some love, and don’t forget to thank him and all awesome streamers for their time entertaining us awesome bunch!
- Check out his trailer here
- Want to be featured? Send in a 60-90 second trailer for your channel and DM /Twitch on Twitch with a dropboxxed video!
Staff Pick!
- This week, the staff pick is an awesome mobile broadcaster with a pretty unique replay feature – DZLiveOnTwitch!
- Recently partnered
- He’s that dude with the cool foot pedals we spoke about last week!
Q&A
- This week it exists! YAY! As always, answers aren’t typed here because they’re generally a little waffely, but below are all questions asked (if you’re interested) with the VOD link at the bottom!
- Will there be any improvements to the current inbox system? The current system is a little too basic.
- How can we purchase the new Praise Helix shirts?
- Bets on how long TPP will take to complete?
- Twitch has mentioned more varied content on the Twitch channel – any more information on that?
Closing Thoughts
- Survivor GameZ did awesome
- Thanks for watching, as always!
- Remember PraiseIt is now a global emoticon!
- PAX East panels have been released – Twitch’s Town Hall isn’t on the first day this time around!
