Hey guys, it's Nate, aka The Foot Accountant. Welcome back to the channel. Today, we're going to be starting a new series on the channel. We're going to be looking at the promos that come out for 2020 in FIFA Ultimate Team. I figured I started now because it's 2020. It's team of the year. It's the start of a new year. And last year, this is when the promos starting going nuts in FIFA 19. FIFA 19, when it actually turned to 2019, a lot of the promos stepped it up. EA stepped it up with the promos, with the content, with the cards, with the SBCs and objectives. And I've been wanting to do a series like this for a while. So we're going to do a series called Rate the Promo because I feel like this would be something cool that I can do with you guys. It's mostly going to be, it's not just going to be me. It's what I'm saying.  I want to have like somebody new join me each and every time we do one of these. I actually have some repeat people as we go down the line. But I want to bring other content creators alongside me do these videos together and kind of get two people's ideas and get two different thoughts, two different trains of thoughts kind of going and just talk about the previous promo that would have just ended. And kind of our thoughts on that because I think these types of videos are fun and cool. And it gives us kind of a good thing to talk about inside of FIFA and always looking to improve the game. I'm not saying that EA should watch these videos, but I do think that they can, they could probably learn a few things from us watching these videos and maybe even make some better promos in the future. And it's just something cool that I think we can do talking about a good promo or maybe criticizing a less than desirable promo as well. So basically what I'll be doing is we'll be talking about the players that are in packs, the upgrades for the cards, the player selection along those lines. We'll look at the SBCs and we'll also look at the objectives and kind of consider the whole promotion as a whole. We'll give it a rating out of the end out of 10. So kind of like a match rating, we'll rate the promo out of 10. So I think that's going to be pretty cool. And again, like I said, there's going to be people that I bring on to do this with me. It's not just going to be me sitting here talking to you about my thoughts on this promo because then you're like, well, what's this dude? It's just one dude putting his thoughts on YouTube about the promo. I want to have another influencer, another content creator from Twitter, from YouTube, from Twitch, whatever. Join me and kind of put their thoughts alongside mine for this promo. But this is the first one. So this is just going to be the rough go at it. This is the very first Rate the Promo episode number one. And we're doing Team of the Year, FIFA 20. We're starting 2020 off with this promotion. As many of you guys know, this started last Monday. So it's been out for a full week, actually eight days technically was the length of this promo, which is also something a little bit different. They don't usually extend the promos into Monday as well. But I guess that's one more day they could run lightning rounds. One more day they can make money. So they saw the opportunity there and they went for it. But first, I want to talk about our first segment of Rate the Promo. We're going to talk about the players. We're going to talk about the team selection. And we're going to talk about the card upgrade boost. Now, obviously, this is a team of the year, right? As we know, that team of the year, we get some of the best cards in the game. This Mane card was great. And I think we should start with talking about the voting. Because obviously they started with the voting, with the website that was open where we could vote for our team of the year players and put our own squad together and give us that opportunity to vote, which is cool, right? They just started doing that a couple of years ago. I think it was like FIFA 17 or FIFA 18 where they first gave us the ability to even vote. And even back then it was like with the ballot boxes, right? It was with those ballot boxes that they gave to the big name content creators. They gave it to pro players and stuff like that. And that's how we voted technically. But this year, basically anybody could vote. So I thought that was pretty cool. That's a GG. Thank you EA for that. Allowing everybody to vote this year on their team of the year. So that was pretty cool. But again, for the players that got in, I thought it was a lot of deserved players that got in. I thought there wasn't too much of the FIFA bias that really came out here. A lot of people like to vote on cards that they would like to see in FIFA and not based on real life performance. I think they found a good mix here with real life performance and with FIFA and in-game how these cards are going to feel and play in-game as well, along with the meta and what kind of teams people are using. I was at first thrown aback by how many Liverpool players there were in this team of the year, but that's just because I'm not a Liverpool fan. And if you are, you're loving it. I mean, how many Liverpool guys we got in here? We got one, two, three, four, five. Five Liverpool players in the team of the year. That's almost half, which is crazy. That almost half of the team of the year is Liverpool. But they had a fantastic year, so I think it is deserved. It is warranted with the guys that did get in. De Young, I think De Young, Delict and then Trent and maybe Mane as well. We're kind of like the guys this year that we were like super-duper pumped to have because they were different, right? Like this team of the year is so different from what we've had in the past in terms of player selection, in terms of the cards that we've had. I mean, in years past, the team of the year was predominantly just dominated by La Liga, right? Barcelona, Real Madrid, cards like that were all over the team of the year. In fact, if we actually take a look back at some of the other, like the past two team of the years, FIFA 19, we've got Modric, we've got Messi, we've got Marcelo, Ramos, Veron. There's five players right there from La Liga. And then you have some Prem guys with Van Dijk, De Gea, Conte, De Bruyne. But then, you know, again, it was just, it was dominated by those La Liga players. FIFA 18 as well. You've got Ronaldo when he was at Real Madrid. You've got Messi. You've got Modric again. You have Marcelo, Ramos. So again, five players from the same league there as well. So it used to be, you always had your Ramos and your Marcelo and your Modric and stuff like that with the Ronaldo and Messi both being from La Liga. I think it was just cool this year that we got a lot of Prem players and it was just different guys in the team of the year. You know, it's just kind of cool to see how the sport of football progresses, how players progress and the cards that do get into team of the year as some of the best players in the world. So I thought the team selection was solid. I'm good with it. I'm cool with it. And I also feel like some of these guys made team of the year cheaper this year. Allison being a little bit lower rated of a goalkeeper. I thought that, you know, 440K for a team of the year card is pretty nuts. Even 770 for Robertson, like last year Marcelo's card, he was right around a million coins, 900,000 coins for most of the year. Having his team of the year center back under a million coins is pretty nuts as well. A team of the year attacker at like 2.5 is also pretty crazy. I don't think we've had a team of the year attacker that cheap since like Harry Kane's days because none of these guys last year were cheap. That's for sure. But Harry Kane was probably like the next kind of cheapest team of the year card if we go back a couple of years. So it was just cool to see the different players in this year's team of the year. And the stat boost that they got were of course massive as well. The young with a huge stat boost. The broyne with a massive stat boost. I think the overall three or the overall cards that were the most boosted and the most surprises to us. Maybe not a surprise, but just had the X factor from team of the year. Van Dyke getting a 99 rated card was nuts. Messi 99 was deserved. I would have liked to see a little bit more boosting like on the shot, especially and even the pace. Like give Messi 99 pace. Give him 99 shot. Why not? Just why not? And then Ronaldo getting a 99 card as well. The voting for that 12th man was kind of interesting as well. Did we really want Ronaldo? A lot of people voted for Lewandowski, but it was going to be hard for Ronaldo not to win that. Being Cristiano Ronaldo. And of course that helps EA sell packs. So again, for the player selection, the boost of the upgrades and just the overall team, the car design as well. Can we talk about that for a minute? The car design, unbelievable. What a lovely car design, beautiful, beautiful car design. I love like the 3D imaging, you know? That's like the first time we've ever had that in foot with like the 3D imaging on the bottom of the cards. So that looks freaking sick. I was a huge, huge fan of that. So let's talk about some of the new players. We'll talk about objectives and SBCs as well. So objectives, we got two main objective players, right? We had the ZH Player Moments card, which this one is still available right now. Three days, 15 hours left at the time of this video. A good looking card.  This is a card that you can definitely throw in the squad if you've got maybe man of the match, not man of the match. Once to watch Quincy Promes, if you've got the Taglia Fico left-back objective that you did, this guy could slot perfectly on that left side. You could fit something in there. Maybe you have like Malin or Bergwens for some of the other team of the weeks that were early on. Maybe you have one of those, Red. This guy could help you link out some of those. So that's a cool objective right there with the ZH card. And then I'm going to take us over to Footpin again to look at some of the other cards that came earlier on that are no long in the game. We have the Ainsway's NESTA objective card, which again, the promo started out and it was just kind of like the objectives and the SBCs were just, they were okay. It was just like, yeah, it was just okay. This NESTA card, it was doable, but they didn't give you a ton of time to do it and I just wish they would have boosted his stats a little bit more on the NESTA card as a flashback. Manuel Neuer was a nice SBC if you're a Bayern fan, but now seeing that Team of the Year Allison is 400k and so many people have packed him in upgrade packs, was that SBC really worth it? Don't really know. Dava Louise, the next SBC player that we got, I am about to end up finishing crafting this card tonight at the end of Team of the Year, but there was no way I would have done this SBC without having upgrade packs out. I mean, this card was overpriced. It wasn't as big of a boost as the Dava Louise from last year. So I wasn't a huge fan of that SBC card, but it was just okay, right? The real winner out of all the SBC cards that we got this year on foot has to be Bernardo Silva. Bernardo Silva, this is a big time dub. You know, 287,000 coins for a card that many people have compared to Gold Messy. That card is 900,000 coins, almost a mill. This guy is 200k. It was very easy and very cheap to craft if you were doing upgrade SBCs and this helped out a lot of players' teams, right? It's just a nice card to collect and it's nice that Bernardo Silva gets some recognition for our Player Moments card. That, I think, was the best SBC card that was released this week. That was the best one. The other ones were just kind of okay. Again, Marcelo, we would have loved to see a bigger boost on a card like this. We already did Ferdinand Mendy, right? Maybe make this card a bit more juiced. Give it 90 paces. Give it like 85, 86 defending. 88 physical, 80 shot, 90 passing, 93 or 4 defending. If you would absolutely juice this card and still require the same price, people would have went out and do it, right? But the upgrade on this in terms of the...  I just wish they would have boosted this card more, especially for Marcelo being in so many of the past team of the years. FIFA 18, FIFA 19, come on, man. Give him a huge, huge boost. Sure, make him 300,000 coins as an SBC, but give him a massive stat boost. That's kind of a common theme during this promo was just the stat boost was not there, except for this Ed and Hazard card. I think Ed and Hazard got a really nice boost and this one's kind of interesting as well because it's almost like an icon SBC. This one has no expiration date. This card is out for the rest of the year. Sorry about hitting the mic. This card is out for the rest of the year as far as we know it. So that's something that I'll probably be crafting during the season because that to me looks like a Tots card and it's going to be a craft from upgrade SBCs during that time. So that's basically all the players SBCs that we got this promo. We got a couple of players the months as well, Trent Alexander Arnold and then Luis Suarez. So again, the SBCs, this promo, the player SBCs were just okay, I think. They were just okay. We had a really good bright spot with Bernardo Silva and the rest were kind of just okay, right? That's kind of how I see it. But the real thing that shines about this promo and the thing that I'm so glad EA did was they dropped the good upgrade packs again. And for somebody who was on a high budget, this is what really, really made this promo this year. The Premier League, the New Year's Premier League upgrade, the 25,000 coin pack that gives you 12 Premier League players all gold and then three rare. It's basically a 25K pack of Premier League players and this is why this right here for me makes the promo a dub. I know a lot of you guys maybe did 10, 15, 20 of these. Your clubs just, you don't have the coins to be able to do a ton of these. You don't want to go broke during this period. I totally, totally understand that. So I understand why some people might be kind of frustrated with this promo because it doesn't cater to somebody who's like on a lower than a 500K budget. It really doesn't because if you did more than like, I mean, you have to do a decent amount of these upgrade packs unless you get like a team of the year card, right? I got insanely lucky. I packed two Contes, but one of them was a duplicate. I had to submit into an SBC and I also got Allison. We're not done yet. Maybe I pack another one, probably not though. But that's pretty insane luck. I spent 1.5 million coins on upgrades.  Two base icon upgrades, almost three. David Louise, Bernardo Silva, Suarez. I think there was one more in that I did as well. I did another another card along the line somewhere. But these upgrade SBCs really made the promo for those that are on a higher budget. But you know, like for the rest of the promo, Trent, player of the month, I mean, that's not part of the promo, I guess. The 83 plus upgrade, it was not very good for me. At least we were getting these SBCs. They came out and that's one other thing I want to make. Another downfall and another L of this promo was the untradable pack rewards that they kept putting out of these SBCs, dude. I don't know, understand. I mean, I do kind of understand why they're putting out untradable pack rewards, but it just sucks, man. It just it makes less people want to do the SBC, especially when it's overpriced already. A lot of people were not very happy with this and it was very, very prevalent during this promo. David Louise rewards were untradable. I think like half of hazards rewards are untradable as well. If we go look at hazard, it's kind of weird, right? Because the first three, these are tradable. One, two, three and then the next three are untradable when they get to the higher level packs. So that is kind of like a head scratcher and puzzling right there that they did that. So that was another part of the not so good part of this promo is the fact that they started using untradable rewards as packs back inside of the game. So again, a lot of positives from this promo. I mean, the fact that they made these Team of the Years very packable in my opinion is a major W as well. I was able to pack myself two Team of the Years. I've never packed a Team of the Year before. And if you go look on Twitter, tons and tons of people are packing Team of the Year. So it's just crazy, crazy to see the amount of people that have packed these cards. So I think that's a W as well. Not making these cards super duper rare that nobody, nobody could pack them but still making them very hard to pack and requiring a lot of luck. I spent 1.5 million SBCs. I'm very happy that I got one. Last year I spent around 2 million the upgrades and I didn't get one. So I'm happy with my luck this year for sure. And I feel like I give myself a chance, plenty of chances to get some of those Team of the Year cards and hopefully that you guys got some of them too. Now I think I covered just a lot of the things out of this promo. Again, we talked about player cards. We talked about the team. We talked about the cards that were in packs, the drop rate, the boost, the selection and the voting process as well. I think that was all done nicely this year. The SBCs again were just kind of average. And again it really catered towards the upper tier audience. Now if you're on the lower tier audience with not a lot of coins maybe more you have to do some more of the objective grind on the game because you don't have as many coins to buy things yet you know maybe you're happy with ZH. Maybe you're happy with Iniesta but they certainly didn't make a lot of stuff just easy to do and they didn't give a lot of options for people that are on that lower range of the promotion. Which kind of makes sense I guess because it's Team of the Year right? At least they were giving you guys some of these pack pulls like the Team of the Year Challenge SBCs to do but when they make them untradable you know people who don't have coins they're not going to be packing Team of the Years out of this or cards that have value to actually improve their club so there's just less people that probably want to do these things to be honest with you when they see that they are untradable. But all in all I think I'm going to give this promo and this is going to be a little bit biased because of my pack weight I think and because of my coin total and how I could actually use and participate in this promo again with my higher coin total. I'm going to give this thing an 8 out of 10 I really think it was a solid promo the card selection was good could I rate it higher? The only thing that would make me rate it higher you know what maybe 8 out of 10 is a little bit high too maybe 7 and a half out of 10 might be my final my final number 7 and a half out of 10 if they would have valued some of these SBCs at a lower price especially Dava de Wies and if they would have boosted a lot of the other players like Iniesta if they would have boosted his stats Dava de Wies boosted his a little bit more and then of course boost Marcelo's stats as well. I think Marcelo and Iniesta were the two that really needed the stat boost then I think I would have given this promo a lot higher over rating and then making all the packs tradable please. Now not the upgrade packs, not the 25Ks but making the packs back from SBCs and the daily SBCs make those tradable and you will have so many more people that are involved that are having fun and doing stuff during team of the year if you make packs like this tradable so again 7 and a half I think it's a pretty solid rating not a bad start you know I was very very excited when they dropped these SBCs the upgrades because that's what I was looking forward to and that's going to go for a lot of these videos as we wrap this one up a lot of these rate the promo videos you guys are probably going to have different opinions because we all have different focuses we all have different goals and we all have different situations in foot some of you guys like league SBCs some of you guys like trading with icons doing the base icon upgrade five times instead of doing the league SBC five different times we all have different motivations different desires and different motives on FIFA right so that's why I want to take a look at these promos from as all of the broad ranges I can and say how did this how did people who like league SBCs like this promo how do people on low coin budgets like this promo how do people with tons of coins like this promo so again I think I'm going to give it a seven and a half out of ten considering we know team of the year is always kind of a money grab promo you got to open packs stuff like that but I think they made team of the years more accessible year through packs than they ever had just based on the amount of supply that they had in the market for going to say you can go buy team of the year card right now for four hundred and forty thousand coins like that's insane that's mental I don't think we've ever had that opportunity to do that before Allison right now is four hundred and forty three thousand coins for his team of the year goalkeeper card so Gigi Gigi's to EA on that one that's like half the price of what the hail was last year I think the hail was like nine hundred K at one point so that's very interesting and I'm kind of glad they did that so at least more people are able to afford a team of the year item even if it's just the goalkeeper so seven and a half out of ten is how I rated this year for twenty twenties or twenty nineteen feet for twenties team of the year hopefully we have another rate the promo episode coming next week with we will feature our first guest I'll get that sorted and it'll be fun it'll be something different on the channel spice it up for you guys and also bring you some sort of new content looking at this game that we so dearly love and hopefully maybe EA can see these videos and and maybe use as a way to get some feedback from us and stuff like that on this game so if you enjoyed this video and you like the idea of the rate the promo series hit the thumbs up button show your support let me know that you like these videos drop a comment down below if you have any suggestions for this series or for anything else going forward and of course subscribe to the channel if you are new it's been Nate the photo accountant catch you guys later peace out


Ukraine rolls out target-seeking Terminator drones. New surprises await the Russians. A video from Ukrainian drone fundraiser Sirhe Stenenko released demonstrates new technology, an attack drone which locks on with machine vision and does not require a human pilot, according to Forbes. The first Terminator movie dropped 40 years ago. Now the technology for autonomous killing is going mainstream, with all that implies. In the video, an FPV attack drone with automatic target recognition homes in on a Russian tank from long distance. Even after the video link is lost, the drone successfully completes the attack. A reconnaissance drone watches the FPV hit. 10 seconds after the impact, a more violent secondary explosion shakes the tank from the inside and burns fiercely. It is not the first time this type of technology has been used, but Stenenko is collecting funds to build a thousand of the drones, indicating moving beyond prototyping to mass production. The main protection against FPV drones is radio frequency jamming, which can shut down the video link between the drone and the operator, prevent the drone from receiving control signals, or confuse its navigation. There is a continuing arms race as developers build more advanced jammers and drone makers upgrade their communications to beat the jamming. A drone which uses machine vision to track its target, automatically and does not rely on operator signals, is immune to jamming. They neutralize the work of the enemy's electronic warfare in most cases and allow you to hit the enemy even more effectively, states Stenenko. In addition to being jammed, FPV drones typically lose communication in the last few hundred feet of the attack as they drop below the radio communication horizon. Skilled operators are able to allow for this and ensure that the drone is on target so its momentum will carry it through. Automatic guidance removes this problem.


The chopsticks move. They're not broken. Astra and Ursa Major get hitched. Japanese company iSpace puts a lander on the moon. All this and more on tomorrow's space news. The private Japanese company iSpace has put their Hakuto R lander on the moon and haven't heard back from it. To quote their report, iSpace engineers monitored the estimated remaining propellant reached at the lower threshold and shortly afterward the descent speed rapidly increased. They report most likely that they made a hard landing on the surface of Luna. The company have also said, iSpace has already accomplished a tremendous feat by entering lunar orbit and attempting a fist landing. If I hear that as first landing, yes, agreed. If they meant fist landing, it seems that they would have been successful. They don't report how fast it was going at contact, so I just trust that they know what they mean by hard landing. In any case, they have not received further telemetry after contact and that fits the hard landing hypothesis. They have learned much and will learn more from all the data, the real payload, and have plans for the next attempts already in motion. We wish them best of luck in their missions. Astra is a rocket company that impressed the heck out of me for successfully horizontally launching a vertical rocket without harming the pad with Astra III, when one out of five of their motors failed at first movement, leaving only approximately enough thrust to hover. They have learned much and are proceeding to Astra IV, their next upgrade, and to that end are announcing a partnership with a rocket maker I'm only just learning about, Ursa Major. Ursa Major is a company of about a hundred people working very carefully to build the best safest rocket they can. From what they show, they are taking great pains to test every failure mode they can imagine, so by my amateur lights, they are doing it right, and I intuit a better than average chance of success. We will bring you developments in their mission as we learn them, so make sure to keep an eye on the channel because we will be bringing you the latest news on Astra and Ursa Major as we learn more about their latest rocket system. Oh, it's so foggy in here. You know where else is foggy? Vandenberg Space Force Base, though West Coast Base, is leasing Space Launch Complex 6 to SpaceX. This launch pad was last used for the final Delta IV heavy flight last September, and was also the planned Space Shuttle West Coast Launch Site, with about $4 billion spent and Enterprise being test-fitted to make it ready back in the 80s before the Challenger disaster restricted the shuttle's use to the Cape in Florida. Current documentation suggests that SpaceX is intending to launch their Workhorse Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets from this historic site, much like LC-39A, their only other dual-use pad. Nothing was noted about Starship, however, but Starbase was originally intended to be a private Falcon launch site, so anything's possible. In the long run, this might double SpaceX's West Coast capacity next to Slick 4 East. SpaceX has managed an impressive launch cadence using their reusable first stages and multiple launch sites, really getting a lot of use of LC-39A and Slick 40 on the East Coast, and this would probably allow a much higher cadence for the polar orbit's best-reached from Vandenberg. I am particularly fond of Vandenfog, maybe because it is day trip close for me, and while we love to dig on them over their poor visibility, it's important to note that the reason this base is located there is that the fog helps to protect the military assets. For Space Launch Delta 30, the range you oversee Vandenberg, the fog is a feature, not a bug. I'm really looking forward to future years when I get to hear more flights in person. I'll leave it to Jamie and the Vader team to show me all the pretties. I can live with that. Thank you to the citizens of Tomorrow who helped to fund this show month after month. Your kind contribution helps to keep 204 alive and activated and in return for the ground support, suborbital, orbital, escape velocity, and plaid pro plus citizens get access to a variety of different perks. If you want to see how you can see news scripts as they're being written, gain access to our member streams, and much more, head to the join button below. At Starbase this week, following the launch on 420, we saw the chopsticks finally move, confirming that no critical parts were destroyed by the blast of Super Heavy. This is great news, as such large custom items aren't easy to produce overnight, so this bodes well for the return to flight when SpaceX is ready for the next iteration. There was a little news about the FAA grounding Starship over excessive debris outside the flight plan, and this is very normal. It's a standard practice. I expect this won't delay things unnecessarily, and was expected for any anomalies that impacted the flight plan. For example, Relativity's Terran-1 is currently grounded, even though they don't plan on flying it again.