As some of you noticed we recently did a show from the brand new NiPTV studio in Sweden where the team joined in and Heaton too, to produce the kind of quality I think the community really wants. And this is still really only the beginning. But Friday morning I flew back home to Denmark after having just found out that we had been picked by TechLabs as the official English stream for that event, which was a real honor.



So after getting some sleep on Friday I woke up to the news that TechLabs was starting at 7CET, in the morning. Now this would have been just fine, if it hadn't been for the fact that installing my new processor took untill 2:30 AM. So after about 4 hours, I got up and I honestly did not feel like casting anything at all. I was so tired, my girlfriend went straight back to sleep and I was sure I would be casting for maybe 200 people who had decided to get up that early to watch counter-strike. On top of that, the first match didn't start untill 9:30, but in that massive delay something great happened.



I think that first game started out with more than a thousand people tuning in. And in spite of the delays people were keeping remarkably cool, being friendly in the chat, talking about the upcoming games and events, helping out with information for the newcommers, and so on. My day ended around 19:00CET after something like 12 hours of casting, talking to TechLabs, talking to Petar from hltv.org, talking to the stream chat. At that point more than 7400 people had tuned in for the final game between NiP and Virtus.Pro, we had Heaton co-casting and pre/post-game interviews with Fifflaren and Xizt live from the event.



I've been trying to find the correct phrasing to express how amazing it was to see that many people showing support for a game that we all love, in spite of the delays and the not-so-optimal timing, at least from a central european point of view. I think it goes a long way to show that the roots of the community are stronger than we might sometimes think, people are willing to get up at 7 in the morning to cheer for their favourite teams, willing to wait for hours with next to no info about when the next games are, and that is simply amazing. It made me forget about being tired and made me have a great time with everyone tuning in, so this is simply an attempt to thank all of you for that experience.



I will try and upload the VODs to our youtube aswell, tonight.



- Anders.



Of course if you want to leave feedback about the cast, or anything else, you are welcome to do it over at www.nip-gaming.se in the forum sections.



You can also follow NiPTV on twitter @NiPgamingTV (where I will try and be more active I promis)