Esports, a show devoted to all things esports. I'm your host, Catherine Norr. Today we're talking with 12-time FPS world champion, co-founder and chief gaming officer of ReadyUp and Esports Hall of Famer, Jonathan Fatality Wendell. Welcome, Jonathan. Hey, thank you. Thanks for having me. How are you doing today? Nice to see you again. Great. So I'm sure you're asked this a lot, but and I can kind of guess what your answer is, but what is the origin of the tag Fatality? So actually as a kid, I used to play a game called Mortal Kombat a lot and I used to go out with my friends, go to like a 7-Eleven or wherever an arcade was and save up some quarters and we'd play Mortal Kombat when I was probably only 10 or 11 years old and this is before the internet came out so I would log on to BBS's and it would ask me what my alias was and I was like, I didn't know what my alias was. I didn't have one yet. I was 11 years old or so. And so I kind of chose name Fatality because in Mortal Kombat when you do the finish move, you've already won, but now it's all about the show. And so Fatality was kind of like a metaphor of like me like not only dominate my opponents, but do it with like a show, make it exciting for people to watch. And that was kind of like my hallmark thing was always to perform my best on the biggest stages and I was able to do that. And what was your evolution in FSP games? In FPS games? I'm sorry. Well, I think it was, obviously playing Mortal Kombat, playing a 1v1 type of game was very exciting to me. And then when the internet came out, you had games like Doom and Quake and Unalternament and all these different first person shooter games. And I just kind of like took it by storm and basically started, you know, playing a lot online and eventually playing in tournaments around the Midwest. I grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. And then eventually I started winning all the tournaments in my area. And by the time I turned 18 just graduating high school, one of my friends told me about this tournament in Texas and I went down there, I had 500 bucks my bank count and I ended up winning over four grand that weekend playing a Quake three arena.  This is insane. And so I remember slapping the check on my dad's table as the young kid and obviously, you know, it was just an amazing moment for me as a young kid and, you know, as a young adult at that point. But I basically started a career from that point on. What did your parents think of that? Well, I mean, I actually had to move out of my mom's house to pursue this dream of mine. And my dad understood my competitive drive and he let me live with him for about a year or so. But in the first three months, I won that $4,000 check.  That was a lot of money back then, especially for me only having 500 bucks in my bank account.  I was at the very beginning of eSports and showing people around the world that you can make a living playing video game. Sure. And so what are some of your career highlights as an eSports professional? Well, obviously my very first highlight was, you know, going right after that tournament that I won the four grand at, I got a chance to go to Sweden to represent USA. I went there and I played against the top 12 guys in the world that were invited there. And I beat all of them. I won 18 games straight, losing zero. And then instantly I was kind of the number one seed. I was the number one gamer in the world at that point for Quake 3 Arena. Shortly after that, I won tournament after tournament went to Korea and South Korea won the gold medal there and 2000 representing USA again. And then went to Germany, won there with Australia, won there. I just started just traveling all around the globe and just kept winning. And the biggest tournament in my life was actually in 2005 where I was playing a season long million dollar world tour in a game called Painkiller. It's very much similar to Quake in an old tournament. It's the first version shooter. And in this game, I was kind of the underdog. There's another player that was definitely the better player, you know, leading into it. And I was kind of fighting from behind the whole time. And eventually at the biggest moment, the biggest stage, I was able to overtake him and win the 100,000 championship in New York City. We got featured on 60 Minutes. I was on MTV TRL and got front page of Business Week, Time Magazine. It was kind of a wild time in my career. But definitely capitalized on the moment. Okay.  Why don't you tell us about that? Oh, that's just, that's a lot of traveling. That's traveling all around the world. There's one from France there, one from Texas. And then there's, it looks like Singapore, more Texas. Yeah, there's a lot of tournaments in there but basically just travel around the world winning. You know, all these checks at a young age was, it was really phenomenal. It was really crazy. I knew I was doing something special and different than everyone else. And I was kind of like the living proof that you can make a living playing video games as a career, not just as like a hobby. And let's show the doom championship picture. Let's hear about that. Yeah, this was a fun tournament. This was a tournament that was put on by QuakeCon. QuakeCon is like one of the biggest landfests in America. About over like two, 3,000 people you should show up to this event. They probably have traffic over 10,000 people come throughout the weekend. It's a really fun event. It's a great way to bond with people in the community. But in this event specifically, they're actually, they were launching the game Doom 3. And so none of us have fully played the game yet. Like some of us were there like the opening night of the game going for sale. We bought it at Best Buy or wherever they sold it at. In fact, then when you actually physically go to the store and get it. But yeah, we played for like five days and then obviously went to the tournament. And then we didn't even know there was money up for grabs. The news was that there would be something fast to win. And I'm like, oh, what's fast? Like I was thinking like a car or something like that. I've won cars before. I've won a motorcycle. I've won different prizes playing video games. So I was getting kind of excited because like something fast could be a vehicle for sure. And I was really excited about that. But they never really announced it.  We were all there having a great time. It's really just a great time to hang out with a community of people that you typically hang out with online, but now you're in real life and you're doing things in the person. And I remember one of my buddies telling me, it's like, hey, you've already won 10 grand. I'm like, what do you mean I won 10 grand? It's like, well, 25 grand first and 15 grand second and 10 grand third, like you're already in the top three. You're guaranteed like at least 10 grand. It's like no way I'm winning 10 grand this weekend. And they're like, yeah. So then I went on to play in tournaments and I ended up winning the whole thing and won 25 grand that weekend for playing Doom 3. So it was a really cool experience to win that. But also just playing a new game that has like a new fighting technique and being able to be that dominant at the early stage of a game really showed kind of like my skillsets, I believe. Well, there was a big change from when there was a tournament in 1972 where the prize was a subscription to Rolling Stone Magazine, right? Yeah, I was a part of that lifetime, part of those days of early esports in Quake where I would get like a cell phone for a year, like where I'd get internet for a year for free. And I think the most thing I cherished the most was actually just this piece of paper that says I was a champion. And I put that in my algebra binder in school and I would brag to my friends behind my shoulder all the time. And it was just a lot of fun back then. And those are the days before esports was really a career. It was just a hobby and people were just having a lot of fun playing and fragging out online. Let's show the Intel photo. So tell us about that tournament. Yeah, well, so this tournament obviously was the World Tour finals, the Czech there. And that was just kind of like my big win. It was the finale of winning the World Tour that year. It basically, the tournament was kind of built out to be like this number one paint core player in the world versus the number one gamer in the world. So that was my arch rival all year long. And then I was able to walk away with it. So you couldn't ask for a better like rivalry, person-versus-person kind of experience. It's like what you see in the movies and what you see in scripts and so forth. So we really captured a true story there and kind of the true underdog story, but it was a good battle. Sure, and a viewer asked what games, what are some of your favorite games and do you play any casual games? Yeah, I mean, I think all the games I play have some competitive aspect to it. I just love competing in general, that's kind of like in my blood. So obviously the last few years, I've been playing a lot of PUBG, Player of the Known Battlegrounds. It's been one of my favorite games. Right now, I actually been playing a game called Diabotical. You can check it out as diabotical.com, it's a free to play game. But it's very much like Quake, Serena FPS shooter. And then the games I play casually, I mean, and like I still take kind of serious is like I play some mobile games as well, whenever I'm taking a break or probably passing out going to sleep, I'll play a game called Clash Royale. And so those are kind of like my games I like to play and sometimes you can find me live streaming these games online. Okay, yeah, that was my next question. Where do you study? I was trying to beat you to it. It was like I was predicting the question, that's my skill. Can you stream on Twitch? Yeah, so I stream on Twitch, just twitch.tv, slash fatality, I stream on there as much as I can. I'm actually holding a tournament this weekend for Diabotical. So trying to have different avenues of engaging with the community and people. And I feel like people really like seeing me host events as well, not only just playing. So I'm trying to explore with that concept and idea with holding my own events. It's called the Fatality. And on Saturdays we have an open tournament for like kind of like the community. And then Sunday is like the finale where I bring in top eight players that I invite to play against these eight players who qualify for the open tournament. And this was kind of a fun, a community event. I'm doing my second one this weekend and looking forward to do more in the future with other game titles as well. Okay, so now I'm sure a lot of people want to hear this. What advice do you give to gamers who want to go pro?  You have to understand people's, what they're thinking before they even think it. You have to have good acrobatics, I think the reflexes. And a lot of this stuff actually comes from also being, I think very well-rounded. I grew up playing sports my whole life so I understood competition from the sports side of things. I understood how to outthink people and play tricks on them. I do the same thing in the video games. And you try to get under their skin a little bit. You try to get them to make a mistake. And but also like the things I did outside was I also, I ran every day. I ran two miles every day. I run two miles, do some push-ups and setups and that'd be kind of like my quick workout for the day. And then I also get back to training and doing my role job, right, playing video games. And so, I think that's some of the good advice of being well-rounded, but the best way to kind of like give yourself a jumpstart in the game is be a part of the alpha, the early beta test of games. Make sure you're there at the very beginning because that will give you a big edge over your competition and also will keep you up with the meta and finding good people to train and play with. Sure. And what would you say to people who say that eSports isn't a sport? Well, I mean, I never really get really into that much. I mean, I have a lot I can back it up with, you know, of what I do in traditional sports and how I outthink people and play tricks on people in real sports. Like when I play tennis, like, you know, I hit certain shots to hit them in a certain spot. So then I move my opponent to a certain area then I can hit the winner. In the video games, I'm doing the same thing. I'm trying to get inside his head. I'm trying to shoot shots in a certain way to push him into a corner where I can, you know, finish him off with a rocket launcher or a shotgun. So the, I think the same gamesmanship and so forth that I see in traditional sports, I can use that also in the game. And I don't know, it's worked for me. And, you know, it's very competitive. So if you like competition, eSports is right up there with the best in traditional sports as well. I interviewed one of the people that is involved with the Arcade Blaster. Have you heard of that? Arcade Blaster? No. Yeah. Oh, okay. Well, I'll just have to have you watch my video of that. It's pretty interesting. It's a tool that you can use in FPS shooter games where it's like a gun and you play. It's kind of cool. Oh, cool. Yeah, that was an earlier show that I had. So... Is it like, is it based around like reflexes and like shooting targets? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, cool. Yeah. Yeah. PewDiePie is their, is their spokesperson. Oh, that's cool. Okay. Well, there you go. Yeah. So tell us about your company Ready Up. Yeah. So Ready Up, we're a B2B company. We're trying, you know, our goal is to help, you know, people that have their own operated channels to engage with their audience more. So we want to help their audience engage in events, to buy merchandise, to add events to their calendar so they can stay informed of when events are coming up. So events, we look at it as very broadly. Event could be, you know, it could be a tournament. It could be a qualifier. It could be a physical event. You want to travel to it and go watch like a big tournament. But also it could be a DLC is coming out. New season is starting. A new cosmetic item dropped in the game. So we want to help people engage in what they really enjoy and love. And we believe with our platform and how we can offer our platform to businesses can really help engage their audience in a more powerful and meaningful way. Okay. And so why did you start that? The reason why I started is because it's something that I obviously want in my life because, you know, it's hard to keep up to date with all the games I love to play. So when a new season starts for Diablo or when Diablo 4 comes out, I want to know like pretty fast. And, you know, I can't rely on the TV tell me when it's coming out because the TV is not really that game or ask unless people are spending tens of millions of dollars for marketing budget to let you know, call if the dude just came out. But like, you know, the idea is that you have all these games that you really fall in love with even like Player Unknown Battleground, PUBG. It didn't have a lot of mainstream marketing. It was kind of word of mouth and got exposure. But as the years went on, I was still loving PUBG. I wanted to engage more with it, but like a new map came out. Well, I have to rely on someone telling me that a new map came out and so forth. I think with Ready Up, we can help the mainstream be more connected with the gaming world and eSports so that we can get that information out faster and quicker. And then that turns in more gamers, more people playing eSports, more competition, more marketing dollars, more sponsors, just everything gets bigger. So I think we're still at the infinite stage of how big eSports and gaming can get. And my goal with Ready Up is to kind of fill that void and make it a better wellness for everyone that really enjoys the game to play. Sure. And what is your role with the company? So my role is like, I'm co-founder and chief gaming officer. You know, a lot of these concepts and ideas have came from myself personally, just because I've been studying the market for a pretty long time. I've been doing this for a couple of decades now, even though I look a little younger. But yeah, it's something that I just been noticing that's been lacking and missing in the space. And so right now I deal with bringing on new leagues. Obviously we work with NACE. We work with ESL. We work with a lot of collegiate level leagues and organizations to help engage against their audience. So our distribution for our platform through our customers' own operating channels is growing every day. And we want to continue to help them and get this product launched fully in 2021. Cool. Okay, so what can you find on Ready Up? You mentioned different events. Maybe you can tell us more of exactly what you find. Yeah, so right now you can go to readyup.com. You can check us out. Obviously the Ready Up.com is kind of a consumer-facing product right now. We want to offer that service to businesses. So but you can go check out readyup.com right now and get an experience of like for your business, like what you would like to possibly see on your own operating channel. But readyup.com is an opportunity also for people that just want to know when events are coming up, when a term is coming up. And you can easily click on Discover. You can go through all the events that are coming up. And then actually, if you register on readyup.com, you can actually add those events to your native calendar on your phone. So if you want to stick it to your Google Calendar or Android Calendar, you can do that very easily through this summit. And it's a cool way to keep up the day. Like I look at my calendar here on my phone and I can see that my event's coming up this weekend, right? And on that actual calendar invite or on that calendar sync that we have, it shows like the call to actions, like download game by merchandise, sign up. And it gives all the details of what's going on in the event as well. So there's a lot of call to actions to get people to engage and to be informed. And now you know that this event's coming up, you can tell your friends, you can share it with your friends. You know, if I know like a big, like say a world championships coming up and I want to watch it just like the Super Bowl, I can call my friends up like, oh, hey, I forgot, but this weekend is the League of Legends World Finals.  Like that's kind of like the aura I want to kind of happen with Ready Up. I want this thing kind of naturally just kind of flow and I think we can offer a lot of people, a lot of value in Ready Up. Before Ready Up, how would people find events and merchandise and things? Yeah, so you literally have to rely on word of mouth in a lot of ways or do you have to find out from your biggest favorite influencer and rely on them to give you the information? But, you know, for me in the past, it was always about me being on IRC, which is like kind of like the early version of Discord, right? But it's, you know, basically relying on my friends or my network of friends to tell me, hey, there's an event coming up. Oh, there's a tournament in St. Louis. You need to go to it. Like all those kind of things, like if I didn't have a friend online to tell me, I wouldn't have won as like, I can count probably tens of thousands of dollars that I would not have won if I didn't have a friend tell me about it. And so all those opportunities are just missed if you just don't know. And so I guess that's like kind of a very good example of how it could be used. Do those friends get a cut if they tell you about a tournament and you win? Oh no, no, no, they get no cut. No, no, I'll be nice to them.  So, you know, these guys just wanted me to be in it too.  So I was kind of an added value to the event in general. And so, but yeah, I mean, some friends, you know, I would train with or I would work with and that was kind of like a trade in kind of thing. Like, you know, these people I actually train with and I helped them get better. And when we go to the tournament together, they have access to me and to train with me. So I used to have like a small network of people I trained with and I would have like a hotel, like as a land center, I'd have like four computers in there. And I would basically have my small group of people that I trusted. And some of these people that were part of my network, they let me know about tournaments and so forth, they came part of that network to train with me. And it was a great, it was a great time. I loved the, I loved training and practicing. That was some of the funnest times of my life. And I was competing in the tournaments for the biggest high of my life, but the training and the practicing was a lot of fun too. Sure, and there was a great picture of you and a helicopter. I want to hear what the story behind that. Yeah, just, you know, this is me, gosh, this was like 2007, I think, 2008. And I landed in France and was going to Monaco.   And this guy asked her like, it was not going on a date with me. And I was like, sorry, my helicopter's broken. So then we dated for a couple of years. And this was the two year mark. And I took her to France and went to Monaco. And I was like, oh, I got the helicopter fix. And then we took the helicopter to Monaco. It was a great date. Oh, that's a great story. So how can someone partner with ReadyUp?  We have the contact information in there to, you know, reach out to us to do business. Like I said, we have been working with ESL and NACE and cyber athlete for Southeast Asia and so forth. And just reach out to us on readyup.com. And we can, you know, look at possibly working with your channel of distribution with your own operated channels. So definitely reach out to us. Okay. And there was another question from a viewer. Do you think that people in esports need a good personality or do they just need to be good at the game? So I would say you need to, like if you really want to take off, you have to have the personality kind of go with it a little bit. Just like you see in any sport, you see these guys who are like insanely talented. But, you know, maybe they don't have the TV charisma or wherever the deal is. And they just, they don't get the deals. Like that deals outside of their endemic brands or business, right? So to really step outside the box, you kind of have to have something that, you know, that, you know, other people don't have. But if you're very talented and very skilled, you'll find a way to make money from it or monetize it. It's, you know, being good is very important. Don't, don't get me wrong. That's probably the number one thing. And then we can figure out the other side. And we've definitely enjoyed your personality today, fatality. So we do need to wrap it up. Thank you so much for being my guest. Oh, thank you so much. And thank you for walking me down memory lane. It was, it was enjoyable. Fantastic. And thank you to the viewers who submitted questions. And thank you for joining us today. Next week, my guest will be TV producer, Jay Moses. We'll be talking about eSports and Hollywood. See you then.


President's main objective is to bring about what he describes as a balanced government. Everyone who's read the history of the country knows that three elements have in turn dominated our government since the earliest days. First the agricultural element, then they lost out to the northern industrialists who reached their peak during the palmy days of Mark Hanna, and then after the war the new group, the financiers and stock sellers, they ruled until the crash came. Now President Roosevelt believes that the people are now ready and determined to help bring about a balanced government in which none of these three groups will predominate, but each group will share and share like with the others. And even if we all are working together unselfishly and equally, then we will have real economic peace and security. As for the future, no one can predict, but although it is true that a great deal has happened since the 4th March, I want to assure you and I speak from knowledge that President Roosevelt has only begun to fight. Mr. Howe in all the 21 years that you and the President have been so closely and constantly associated, can you remember many busier weeks than this one just ended? Since the inauguration, no one week has been busier than another because it couldn't be ordinarily peace and quiet rain until just before the end of the session and Congress develops a high-fevered activity and runs around in circles, but this time there is no return to normal. We started in at the same gate or even faster than that which the previous session closed. That's true, there certainly has been no unemployment in your circle in the past three months, but Mr. Howe, you promised to let us know all about what's happened each week in Washington, particularly those things which get crowded out of the papers by the sensational stories which fill the first page. What has happened this week that's particularly interesting? Well, of course, things are a little lonesome in the higher intellectual circles at the moment because so many of our deep thinkers are on their way to the European Conference. We got them all for a boat named the President Roosevelt, which all Europe will think is a compliment to FD, but as a matter of fact, it is named after Teddy and is old enough to have been his christening present. I understand, incidentally, that all the members of the Commission demanded a dozen extra pencils and four pads for use on the way over. You mean to work out their plans for bringing about world prosperity? Not at all. To try and figure out how they could live on the six dollars a day, which is the limit the government will allow them. I suppose they've had time to think about economic conferences but judging from their conversation before they left, I'm convinced that the six dollar per day limit was occupying the major part of their thoughts. They had the wonderful idea of renting a cottage out in the suburbs somewhere and pooling expenses. That fell through. Some thought that the fact that you had a higher health and the suggestion that Senator Pittman and Secretary of State Hall should take turns in cooking the meals and washing the dishes met with rather a cold reception. So they all go to hotels at Mr. Cox, who is taking his family along, hiring a whole house. And Mr. Warburg, the advisory group, who is an expert on high finance and has taken probably two houses. Have you heard from? Because there was radiograms from the boat since they left. I can't say we've seen any very startling information. And I suspect that most of them are just recovering from what we call in France, Mal-de-Mer.  I suppose Congress will adjourn pretty soon with the feeling that it's done a lot toward the return of happy days. Everybody, of course, is a little more careful than the prospect of a German. But it's hard to tell whether the legislators or the people are happier about this Congress getting through its jobs. For the moment, the joyous note is rather spoiled by the gloom that is settled over the budget department. There are rumors that an additional force of cleaners was called in on Saturday night to mop up the tears shed in the way the Senate spoiled the department's beautifully balanced budget when the Senate tacked on $150 million by reducing the proposed cuts in the veterans' allowances. How does that affect the general public? Well, incidentally, that is an action that should be administered to every one of you, because it means that additional taxes will have to be raised, which will amount to about a dollar and 25 cents for every human being in the United States directly or indirectly. You can be assured that eventually you will have to dig down and give Uncle Sam $1.25 cents for yourself and your Mrs. and all the goodies if you happen to be a man of family, because in the long run, any deficiency of the budget has to be paid for by the people. Now, Mr. Howe, will you excuse a personal question? I've noticed, as I've been talking with you here, that you seem worried about something. Has anything gone wrong? Are you expecting some sort of an important message? You jump every time anybody comes into the room. Well, perhaps I better make an honest confession. As long as you've noticed it, I am dreadfully worried. Is it something you can tell me? I suppose so. It's about those kittens, kittens, two, three weeks ago. The lady, somewhere out in California, wrote me she had two highly bred Persian cats who were about to add to the family. And could she name one of the kittens after me? I was flattered, and at once agreed. But I haven't heard a word since. I mislaid the letter so I can't tell her. Day after day, hour after hour, no word about those kittens. I never realized the anxiety of respected Godfair. If anyone in California has any word right, then let me know. And be sure and tell me how mother and the young ones are getting on, and how father stood the strain. It'll be a tremendous relief.


Hi everyone, this is Chichu. Welcome to my channel and welcome to a quick little update video And I've been meaning to make this video address this topic for a while now I'll just I was sort of waiting until the final nail was put on the coffin for YouTube's annotations Okay, now if you've been on mobile you really haven't encountered YouTube annotations But if you've been on desktop or tablets, you might have played around with YouTube annotations It's sort of a feature that YouTube introduced in 2008 where you could basically have as a creator anyway You could basically have Windows pop-up in your videos where you know you could add additional information to your videos if You know there was something you wanted to reference Or you could link up the windows where people could click on the window and They would be directed to another video that might have been related to what you were talking about and whatnot, right? Now I started making videos in 2007 sort of requiring the tools I needed to be able to learn how to edit how to shoot video how to mess around with lighting and play around with sound a little bit initially, right? and basically I was working towards learning how to put my math content together and YouTube annotations were an amazing feature As far as I was concerned for me to create the math content because they allowed me to layer the work and Sort of reference the videos that I was talking about, right? So I sort of after playing around for a little while and learning how to do all this Create all this content. I started introducing Annotations of my videos but probably around 2010 2011 and they continued doing that work until early 2018 because in 2018 basically at the beginning of 2018 YouTube Stopped people from creating any more annotations and they started directing people to use End screens and cards and I looked then to those features those new features that YouTube was rolling out The end screens I've been using the cards. I Haven't been using and I will not use them most likely because they're sort of a I consider them to be sort of intrusive because they're if you're watching a video in the top right corner you'll see sort of a little something pop up and Does a little thing like this and you can click on it and opens up another window in it You can have you know as creators you can have things reference where you can reference other videos or other information, right? But for me who's creating sort of ASMR type of videos sort of chill videos I don't really appreciate things popping up at me Rapidly right because the way I was doing the work using annotations. I was having the video sort of slowly Fade in and it would stay up from anywhere between 10 to 30 seconds or so sometimes 45 almost a minute sometimes was talking about a Specific video and then I would slowly have them fade out and when they were fading in I would Surround the videos or the images with the annotations and If you scroll on top of the video or the images Little text would pop up and say it would say click to open a new tab, right or click to watch a new tab And that's sort of how I Designed the content I was building Specifically initially with the mathematics because with math we're talking about a concept and it's related to other videos I would have sort of a and videos that I had created I would have a video sort of slowly fade in and Certain parts of the screen and the annotations would be there And then you could click on it if you wanted to know further information about what it was that we're talking about Or you needed to learn that technique to continue the video that we were doing in regards to the mathematics Then you could click on that watch that video learn that technique and then come back to the original video and continue watching now That you knew what it was that we're doing right phenomenal for building educational content Once I started playing around with that and learned You know acquired more power to edit videos. I started incorporating that stuff into a lot of the other videos A lot of the other content we're creating on this channel Made be related to food may be related specifically to ASMR Different topics we've been discussing ASMR and I used a lot of annotations In the comic book videos that we're creating Specifically the comic book reads or when I was showing you my comic book collection or halls, right? For example in a lot of the comic book reading videos that we're doing at the end of that video I would have multiple videos pop up sort of like at the end screens that YouTube has right now But it wouldn't just be two videos. It'd be like multiple videos popping up with, you know Annotation on those videos where you could click on them and watch them and then I would have the covers of The comic books we've been reading a lot of them would be in the bottom and they were little and All those covers you could have clicked and read those comics or gone to the video where we did the reading for that comic, right? Phenomenal. I loved it. I used my own annotations a lot, okay? because I'm mainly using Content and stuff on desktops. I'm not really on the mobile platforms very much, right? so I really appreciated that feature and Basically since 2010 2011 up to the end of 2017 We've had, you know, we uploaded, I looked into this. We uploaded approximately 300 plus videos and Almost all of those videos had annotations. Some of them Multiple annotations throughout the video including the annotations at the end of the videos, right? So those 300 plus videos that were annotated Which required Hundreds of hours of annotating me creating those annotations, right? Especially for the ones related to comic books and Mathematics as well, right? But the comic book stuff sort of took over where I had little images the covers popping up and Just allowing people the opportunity just to see it click on The image and go to a reading, right? I loved it personally, okay? but since the end of 2017 YouTube announced that they were getting rid of annotations and introducing cards and end screens and they weren't going to allow Any more videos at the beginning of 2018? I believe any videos to be annotated So you could only use cards and end screens from the beginning of 2018. Let's say so any videos that have been loaded on from 2018 and Onwards only have the end screens because I'm not using the cards and last time I checked Which was a while ago They only allowed five cards to be used per video, right? For me if you watch some of those videos You'll know there were like dozens of annotated images or videos in some of the videos I put in sometimes You know multiple videos in a row, right? So the cards really didn't do it for me Basically because of the limitation of how many you could use and because I found them to be intrusive I usually turn off annotations whenever I see a card pop up in any type of video that I watch from anyone else, right? But the end screens they're workable, right? Because they're at the last 20 seconds of the video and one thing YouTube Announced at the end of 2017 beginning of 2018 was that You know as creators we should go back and add cards and end screens to the previous videos that we had uploaded, right? now for some of us that have right now have 600 plus videos 650 plus videos on YouTube and You know 300 plus of those were annotated and what they mentioned was if you go back and add the cards and the end screens To any videos that you had annotations on the annotations would be killed, right? Which I had no desire to kill the annotations, right? So I didn't add any cards or end screens to any of the previous videos from Beginning of 2018, right? What YouTube announced at the end of 2018 was Initially I had announced that they were going to allow the annotations to exist, right? But then at the end of 2018 they mentioned that all annotations are now going to disappear So 300 plus videos that we had annotated the annotations on those are gone The hundreds of hours of work that I put in to annotate those videos They're gone a resource that I used for my own videos just to watch the videos just to make sure Especially for the math content that I've been building just to make sure I'm referencing the right material and stuff like that Where I would click on and make sure I was going to the right video and then build content related to a certain topic in mathematics. I Haven't been able to use those annotations where I won't be able to use those annotations, those Clicking on the images, the videos to go to those videos, right? So I found that I find it very unfortunate that YouTube, Google, Alphabet Inc. decided to do this because it wouldn't have cost them anything Really to maintain those annotations on those videos Very unfortunate that they did this and this is sort of the second time that Alphabet Inc. Google has done something that They introduced a while ago and then people had been working and spent a lot of time building content on that feature That they introduced where they've taken the feature and eliminated it from their platform where all that information is lost, right? Whatever number of hours that people had put on are lost. One of them was their image hosting Platform that they had and now the annotations So I just wanted to give everyone's head, everyone heads up Because what I'm going to do in the background Time-allowing is go back and add end screens to some of those 300 plus videos that we have uploaded. Most likely I'm going to start off with You know the most popular videos and start adding the end screens on there. I won't have I won't be adding cards on there For multiple reasons, right? Two of which I stated and Unfortunately, I don't think In the description of the videos, I Provided links to all the reference material in all the videos that we created Okay, because one of the reasons was because of the Limit on how much you could share in the description of those videos the other one was because I assumed this was a feature that YouTube was going to keep forever and my Desire my hope is that at some point we will have features again Added either on YouTube or another disruptive innovation another platform that has video sharing Abilities where they will allow us to have videos slowly Fade in or images slowly fade in where people can go on an image and click on that image and acquire additional information without a little boop thing popping up here distracting your line your view Distracting you from the information being shared or the story being told Right because as someone who edits video or people who've been editing video is quite easy to make something very Unintrusive in the background just pop up just in case someone else wants additional information where they could click on it Or go to a reading maybe a video or an image or something like this, right? I just wanted to share that with you My apologies it is beyond my control I sort of laid out my work the way I was going to create and layer everything based on the annotations But what I've been doing since the beginning of 2018 making sure Trying to make sure anyway that any videos or images or anything that we talk about in in the content that we're creating in the videos That we're discussing that they're also The stuff is referenced in the description of the videos so anything from 2018 and onwards You're pretty much guaranteed that if there is an image popping up or referencing to another video or video popping up Referencing that video the link in the disc is in the description of the videos, okay? Before that pre-2018 I can't guarantee that everything that was popping up in the videos is going to be referenced in the description of the video at some point time allowing when I Focus my full attention on this work on this content where I'm able to get some help Coming in to do some of the back-end work I will try to go back and Provide all the links to all the referenced content in the videos in the description of the videos, okay? Until then what I am going to do is continue using the end screens We're not going to use the cards and any videos popping up. I will try to make sure that I reference the links the information in the description of the video Okay, aside from that. Thank you for being here. Thank you for supporting this work. Thank you for subscribing Thank you for turning on notifications. Thank you for participating and Giving feedback to the content and additional information in the comments Regarding whatever topic that it is that we are talking about because there's a lot of people Providing a lot of additional information a lot of background history and possible corrections That I've you know might have referenced incorrectly in the video in the comments of all the videos that we have Okay, aside from that Thank you for being here, and I'll see you guys in the next video. Bye for now


Hello, I'm Divina Fromex, I'm a professor at Sorbonne Nouvelle and a specialist in media and information literacy. A field that I have plowed for now about 40 years. The field of media literacy is thriving at the moment, partly because we've had several democratic crisis. And so it is being promoted mostly via the information disorders that are hate speech, fake news, cyber harassment, etc. So one of my concerns is that the holistic vision we have in media literacy, which also takes into account the opportunities and the creativity that is involved in such learning by doing pedagogies is going to be lost. My other concern is that, at least in Europe, now we have a directive of audiovisual media services that makes it an obligation for member states. But this directive also includes the role of the platforms, the platforms are supposed to do media literacy and to promote it. And I fear that these platforms that have been part of the problem of the information disorders are not maybe the best actors and the most innocent actors to get involved in media and information literacy. The landscape of media literacy has changed a lot because of COVID. So for instance, the European Union has created EDMO, which is an observatory for digital media that is mostly about this information and fact-checking. It has created a new expert group in which I am to fight this information and promote digital literacy. So there's lots of opportunities for media information literacy to be showcased as one of the solutions, creating an awareness at the school level, at the team of the leaders in the school is key. Because after that, they can prepare their own strategies and pre-bunk all of this and be ready in anticipation. They can, for instance, have young people who are ambassadors and who can signal when there is problems among peers, there are some examples of that kind. They can train some specific teachers to do it with other colleagues. They can bring help outside experts, journalists, animators and mediators from the police, from other sectors of activity. It is often put, at least in France, under the heading of well-being and sort of good school climate. Because, of course, what's happening online has consequences offline and conversely. I'm very hopeful for the future of media and information literacy. We have a whole range of echelons that are now activators. Of course, we now have to make sure this is implemented. And what I'm going to fight for is two things. One is what I call meal comps, which is to say getting to have a framework of competences for media and information literacy that can be attached to the ditch comp. The framework that we have now for digital competences, and we're working on that. The other thrust is to make sure that media literacy becomes part of a basic core curriculum from K1 to K12. Because it cannot be used just from time to time as an adjustment variable when you have a minute, when you have an hour, a spare hour. It's been transversal and it should remain so. But we deserve to have it also as one of the core subjects.


come in the last four to five years in terms of the way you've approached your work, thinking and planning. It's really phenomenal. And you should be really, really proud of that cultural change. Thank you. Because I don't think that it would have happened but for a really great leadership and being supported by great leadership. So this type of thinking though is, I mean, for a resident to read that this is what their police force is thinking about doing to make this a better community. Anybody can sit down and read this and very visibly then connect actions. And it's so rare that in the name of our planning processes we actually do that. Well, it's hard to capture in public safety, right? Because we're always trying to keep things from happening. So it's really nice to be able to embrace things and look, we want this to happen. We're going to physically take the time to spend the effort to get these things accomplished. And like I said, when you have a 24-hour day, seven-day, so we operation, there's always a lack of communication. It's just natural because you don't see all of your employees all the time. So this is just a great way to remind people of what it is we're trying to do. Yeah, I do think having teams organized around, people organized around specific tasks makes it much more likely that you've built in an accountability structure, not us to you or Jesse to you, but to yourselves. That's really, I think, powerful in terms of making progress. Thank you. Nice, and community service wise, I think one note here is we have one big may do item which was the pool that climbed into the must do category, so that early in the fiscal year was a pretty big lift. Certainly happy to be working with John now and handing that to a construction project, but definitely excited to see that project meet that leap and be moving forward. And I think just two other things I want to highlight more as things to look forward to in the next couple of months here, but releasing the survey looking at program needs and interest in the community, very excited about that, spent some time last week at the REC conference, the contractor who's helping us develop that was there and it was really nice to have some focus time with him. Hear about some of the work happening in other communities they've worked with and kind of comparatively feel like we're on a really good track there. Along a similar line, working on the financial labor process and standardization of some of our scholarship efforts, I think is something that I know staff is very excited about nicely with other communities and colleagues, so more to come there, but I think a lot of work, intentional work going in upfront to make sure to come out the other end with a process and a product that's gonna be what the community wants and what reflects I think the values we talk about here, but very excited to be working on those. Slow processes though, and I think to get to the right place, that's okay. Appreciate the work and expansion of program and it's taken place the last couple of years and it feels like it's gathering steam even more and people are identifying with what the offerings are. Thought the guide book this year was really great, taking people through what the opportunities were, services book and all the work that went into. And then we're not there yet with the O'Brien Community Center and also the 21st century childcare funding too and a lot of work chasing things that some didn't come to fruition. Maybe not for fault. Or the pursuits though I think in all cases that happens in the work and dust off and get back at it. Two other very quick things I want to call your attention to that you're gonna see in the next couple of months. One is the County Public Safety Authority which has now stood up, the Board of Board is meeting. The Chief Hebert and our dispatch supervisor have been working with the team on selecting a consultant who will move us into the operations plan of what that organization is gonna look like and then manage it for three years. So that's a process that Rick and Sharon have spent a lot of time on. We do anticipate awarding that contract in November and that will come with an additional FY19 ask of funds from the communities to pay for that consultant and invest the capital money to actually stand up the new center. So that's forthcoming and thank you to Rick and Sharon for doing that. And then just as a reminder, the Senate Mitigation Committee is on hold until the new noise exposure map with the F-35 data is released which is supposed to be in November in draft form for public hearing in December. So that has the potential to kick up very quickly. And of course we will keep you informed but just a flag for the radar screen. So that's kind of cool. Marnie, what's an F-35? It's been so long since I've had this conversation. Questions, comments from Council? Thank you for this update. Appreciate all the work. I think some of these we've checked in on more and know we didn't have as many big items, Chief, but thank you for all the work in the department and the restructuring that's been done over the last year and a half. Getting positive feedback on the street on that. So thanks for all your work. Questions, comments from the public? Seeing and hearing none, you're released. Thank you very much. Thanks for all the work. Thank you. Up next is approval for Myers-Pool Engineering Contract. So this is a follow up from the October 1st meeting. So we have provided a revised proposal. The scope and fee of pretty much, they've stated the same but we've clarified some things that were discussed. So one is kind of a basis of design. So within the proposal, Weston Samson provided that the basis of design is for that PD option. That is the option where we're looking at eliminating shade structure, reducing the slide. Those items are outlined in March 30th memo. The other item that's in the proposal is the kind of billing fee structure. So task one through four, they've clarified that that would be billed on per second fee. And then we also discussed, we changed task five, the construction administrative piece to time and materials. Thought there as sort of the detailed design comes to fruition. Some things may change based on the funding, so we don't wanna lock ourselves into that $100,000 potential lump sum fee if, say, we remove a community center that requires less inspection. So we've changed that to TNM type billing. So I think the major question leaving last time was the dollar amount. Yeah, so in the memo provided, we gave a breakdown, so the full sort of hard construction cost number, $3,070,275, which was outlined in the March 30th memo. And that's with the $267,800 deduction for those ED options. Then adding in sort of the soft costs for things like permits and this engineering proposal with construction administration plus the bonds and insurance and some of those other soft costs overhead and profit for the contractor and contingency. The total cost of the project, total estimated cost is $3,740,000. And that is based on the current preliminary engineering documents. So the other thought is as we go through design phase and getting starting documents, you'll see updated cost estimates as the scope of work gets more defined. Would that 3.74 just from a financing perspective, would that all be covered by bond? So debt, minus any grants, et cetera. That's the total financed amount, right? Minus any grants or fundraised amount, right? Right, okay. That's all in project costs. But the bond amount was higher than that. 3.9, yeah. So this is one of the conversations we've been dancing around and this is the first time we take a hard vote on that is we have talked about the all-in preliminary engineering plan. We've talked about the value engineered plan which enables the full use of the pool, all the features minus those kind of on the margins cost savings opportunities that the engineer could identify. It's still keeping in all the features minus the shade feature, I guess. And then the, so that, so if we approve this, if you approve this contract, that's locking the engineer into designing that value engineered option. I just, I think that the base number has moved from the original numbers that we considered. I think it's the point, right? I mean, yeah, it definitely has. So we went from 3.7, we went from 3.9 to 3.4, to 3 million on the initial options, right? So the, I have to pull up. I mean, it's first time we've seen 3.7. That includes the $300,000 that in features, assuming fundraising. So that is the 3.4 inclusive of that. Okay, yeah, okay. No, no it's not, because it's the VE construction estimates, the 3 million. The value engineering is just the material cost saving stuff. Not the slide, it's not the fund, the stuff, the 3,000. Okay, I'm sorry. Well, I think what's different is that when we first saw value engineered, it was at 3.582. And so it's $200,000 higher now than it was before. So the March 30th data did not include all of those sort of post-engineering design costs. So the construction inspection, the bond, the construction support. So those were not factored into this. The other thing is they outlined a design build sort of project execution, which we are not proposing for this project. So design build does, in the March 30th, they called out $150,000, for example. It's in this proposal, it's more like $170,000 for traditional project implementations. Thanks for breaking this out in that detailed way. I think the challenge that I had this time was trying to map it back to those last, that's what I just did this weekend is I tried to pull up those old numbers and plug them in somehow, and that's why I was saying it changed.  So if the fundraising targets of $300,000 is met, we would be looking at 3.44, as needed. Bonded that. I calculated, so say, for example, fundraising covered the slide in the community room, that's 314,000. There would be a bond payment of 3,431,000, wrapping in, say, the 5,000 in interest from the band, if you're to, if you're to band right away. So that would be the bottom line. Okay. The questions, do we have any lingering questions from last time? I think this will get us that much closer than putting the numbers together so that we can overlay them on the final budget proposal and we get to that big, giant discussion after we get the bill grant. And then. But that is what, you know, we're going to start previewing with you on November 5th, is that how that debt service, how that debt payment could potentially lay out over FY20 and future years. Great. Thank you. Just to be a little bit nitpicky. So in the previous value engineered one, the, you know, the design and engineering costs were $115, other $173. There's additional fees for permitting. I'm curious why those line items increased. Additional fees for the 150 and the updated. Like permitting task three, $20,000. We didn't have that previously. Exactly. And that's the, to get the full picture of the project, they probably should have been included this March 31. So you had that design sort of, okay, here's design construction, but it didn't give you the full picture of construction administration permits. So this updated estimate is a closer estimate to what needs to be for the project cost. And can you speak to why the engineering design increased $23,000? So that's the design build versus traditional sort of design bid built. So you save a bit, you know, in this initial memo, they discussed design build project, which is turnkey, which is a bit more riskier and not recommended for this type of municipal project. This estimate is, or this proposal is for a traditional design bid build project, which you pay a little bit more, plus this is just a rough, you know, they threw $150,000. This is a little more thought out with this proposal, but the thought is design bid build, you save a little bit, potentially more in the beginning, but you have risk because it's a turnkey project where your traditional sort of design bid build project, you pay a little bit more to do the really detailed engineering upfront versus designing and building it all at the same time. I guess what concerns me is that each time this comes back to us, the price is gonna go up because we're already speaking in terms of like, you know, we have estimated construction costs of 3.07 million or whatever, and we're already saying like some inconsistency, and I don't, I would be very concerned if somehow we crept back up to the 3.9 million when we already tried to kind of mitigate some of that for our, our tax base. So I think that's a totally reasonable concern. I also think it's important to remember what was happening in March when that data was presented. You know, we were doing preliminary engineering on the pool and Main Street in the attempt to get to the bond vote. We were, John was a month into the job. This was primarily a community services project, not a public works engineering project. So yeah, these numbers, as we get more specific into executing contracts and final design documents and whatnot, the numbers will change. You can never have finalized construction numbers with a massing study or a preliminary engineering design and try and get as close as you can, but it is going to change. But this, this document is the first contract outside of preliminary engineering that we enter into for the life of the project. So these numbers for the engineering portion of this, once this contract is executed, won't change. Hopefully the bids come in. And then we'll see what the bids come in. Yeah. And I will say, you know, as we get into sort of that construction design, one of the decision points will be, okay, what do we want to put as, you know, bid alternates so that we could strike it from the actual construction work if, you know, bids came back higher than we anticipated to keep it, you know, in that range that we want to keep the budget at. Okay. That's helpful. But the bids are going to come in lower. They always do. They always do. Cost of construction is definitely not going up right now. Right. Right. Thanks for addressing the questions and issues and numbers were still a little confusing, but not through any fault of yours. Appreciate the memo that clearly outlined it and appreciate you guys vetting those other questions we had on there. Thank you. Questions, concerns, additional? Questions in terms of the public. Yes, ma'am. Hi. I just have a couple more questions actually. Are there any outside, other than the funders and group, are there any outside, is the city looking at any outside other funding options? Are they investigating grants or federal money or whatever else that's maybe out there? Yep. So, so far when we talked about this at the last meeting, we have submitted a pre-application for the Vermont Land and Water Conservation Fund grant. The pre-applications were due today. Full applications if you're invited or due in mid-December. So, the way that process works is if you're invited to submit a full application, you have a site visit with a funder from the state Forest Parks and Recreation Department. They kind of walk through the site, talk about the project. What I'll say is I think we're in really good shape in that funding pool and that we have a lot of the design work done. Pre-application is very basic and I think I probably over send information in terms of site plans and maps and design. I think they at times get just sort of an napkin sketch. So, we're in a really good position to be competitive there as with any grant. It's, you do your best to put in a good application and see from there. We are gonna be looking at some other opportunities as well over the coming months. So, we will definitely be coming back here to seek approval to apply for funds. But right now that's the big one. How much is that? So, we are asking for initially 150,000. The grants range in terms of award size anywhere from eight to 10,000 all the way up to I think the highest I saw in the 40 years stretch was like 250. Anything above 100 is definitely fewer and farther between. They tend to be more in the like 50 to $75,000 range for the larger projects. So, we're gonna ask for what we need and hope they award it and we'll go from there. Thank you. Yeah. Any questions, comments, concerns from the public? So, seeing and hearing none, I are taking a motion for approval of the engineering contract from Mars Memorial Pool. Motion by Eric, second by Nicole. Any further discussion? Seeing and hearing none, all those in favor, please say aye. And those opposed, motion carries. Thank you for your work. Thank you. Thank you guys. Next up is discussion of approval of pre-development agreement of the Champlain Housing Trust to consider a home ownership affordable housing project at the front of 32 Mallets Bay Avenue. Also known as the community center. So, just a quick background on this. So, we, Champlain Housing Trust is very interested in doing perpetually affordable housing development in the newsgate. It's been quite a number of years since they did a new project here. We had originally been talking with them about Lot 7D when the hotel was going to be on Lot 9. Obviously that is changing, but they're still very interested in being here. When the space study was done historically on the city hall property and the police station property, it was conceptualized that we would only, if we moved to the front of the OCC building, we would only need about a third to a half of that space. And so therefore we'd be interested in fully developing out the street front with a community partner. Doing affordable housing option at that space seems to be very logical to us. And especially the model CHT is looking at, which is a affordable home ownership option. So, townhouses or condos, where people are really invested in their property, we think would be a good match. It also, they don't, they can do that project, they believe without low income tax credits, which we would likely not get in the next funding cycle because 268 got those tax credits this year. So they've identified a grant funding to do the feasibility study that would be needed to move this project forward. So that's an engineering study, a market study, a zoning permitting study, et cetera. They, for that application, they need, they don't necessarily need site control, but they need to know the site won't be sold out from under them. So what this pre-development agreement says is that we're interested in exploring this, that we commit to not approaching another developer to use the front portion of the OCC for a specific time. And actually that time has changed since this draft. So this draft says June 30th and it would actually be the end of September, 2019. We have no plans to talk to any other developers. And with this pre-development agreement, they can apply for that funding and that application is due November 5th, hence why it's coming to you tonight. Happy to answer any other questions about that. There's no local dollars in this. Yeah, I think the only, that was the restraint on approaching other people is just, I think we would appreciate the mentioning that if, should they pursue this and decide in April or March or May that it's not feasible, that they consider releasing us from that requirement and not arbitrarily holding it and that we should make them aware that we may present that request. Should we get a determination from them that it's not a feasible project? Just, I mean, you're right. With everything else we have going on, we're unlikely to do that, to be in that place and space. I don't think it requires any kind of adjustment to this. I was just gonna mention it as a talking point to them. And I've seen letters like that before where they release communities from that requirement and they're like, we're no longer considering it. Feel free to consider that and all in point. I don't think we should build in the contract. I think they're right to ask for that whole, that makes sense. Other questions, concerns, comments? I just have one point of clarification. It reads like this, so I just wanna be sure that, this doesn't prohibit us from moving forward with any of the discussions we're already having about the actual, like tenant space. Right, no, it does not. So anything that's currently happening, any of the current tenants in the building or any future tenants in the building or anything having to do with the current building for the print, fair game. This is solely for that undeveloped parcel at the very street front of the lot. Good question. You just fill us out that this council hasn't taken on this issue, but we have lots of supporting documentation. If anybody's curious about that space, we have an extensive look at it from a conceptual standpoint as to what the property can hold. There's, we're dealing with financial issues with it right now because the property itself is underutilized in Lynch Park. It's a huge piece of land, and back when there were other buildings envisioned on that plot of land. So we pursued potentially moving city hall there in addition to the housing, et cetera. So we've got stuff, if from a conceptual standpoint, anybody who needs wants that. I was really excited to hear about this actually. For a real home ownership is really important to me. I have many times walked by that property and thought that there was a bunch of space up there that we could use. So I'm really happy about this. Yeah, it's very exciting. Thanks for all your work to bring this to fruition just so now that that came from all of your conversations there. So thank you. It's got great potential. Questions, comments, concerns from council? Questions, comments, concerns from the public? So seeing and hearing none, this is on as an actual discussion item. So I would entertain a motion on that. I'm from the pre-development agreement for the Champlain Housing Trust for 32 miles to get out of there. Second. Motion on a full seeing by Christine for our discussion. Seeing none, all those in favor please say aye. Aye. And those opposed? Motion carries. We are ending tonight's meeting at 9.01. We are doing so without councilor Colston at the table, which means we should all jab him and say he's the reason we've been going late. And seriously, that completes tonight's agenda, and I would entertain a motion to adjourn. Second. Motion by Eric, second by Christine for the discussion. Seeing and hearing none, all those in favor please say aye. Aye. And those opposed? Motion is adjourned. Meeting is adjourned.


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Hello friends, welcome back to another episode here on the channel. I hope you're all doing great and for anyone new to the channel. My name is Lee also known as Osiris in today's episode. We are continuing on with our series 11 content after kicking off with it in yesterday's episode. And as I mentioned in yesterday's episode, what I'm going to do I normally put up a full video with about 10 sample teams. But this week what we're going to do is do a sample team every single day and they'll stay up for about four weeks. So you'll have a good chance to use them and at least they won't go down straight away. So today we're kicking off with Groudon. We had Zashin yesterday. If you are interested in a Zashin team to kind of start playing in series 11. Now we've got Dynamics back. Go back and check yesterday's video out. Maybe watch this one first and then we're kicking off with Groudon today. So Groudon obviously going to be one of the bigger used more restrict more used restricted Pokemon. You've seen a lot of players have a bunch of success with Groudon. Great Pokemon has a drought ability bringing the sun. And then you've got a lot of Pokemon surrounding it that can take advantage of that you got the Charizard for one with that solar power. We've given the safety goggles on this team because I feel like it is a pretty common item on it. But it does give you a way around sleep powder gives you a way around rage powder as well. So things like being a soul that are going to have that chlorophyll boost aren't as threatening as they would have been before. We've got ancient power on here just to be able to hit a pausing Charizards if we're in that situation. Gives us a way to change the weather if we need to as well outside of just having the Groudon with its drought ability. Hurricane obviously in its max form doing the most damage as well as the blast burn went under sun. So we're just trying to maximize the damage there with Charizards output and then you've got Venus all another option for a Gigantamax or Dynamax Pokemon on the team. I'd say the Groudon is probably a good candidate for that as well in some situations. But the Venus was pretty standard here. Got the Cobra very on this one just to reduce the kind of threat of those flying Pokemon now we got Dynamax back. Max Airstream is going to be in abundance everywhere. So you're going to need to kind of compensate for that a little bit and coming down a similar kind of vein is what we did with the Zashian team with Grim snarl Grim snarl fits onto these sort of teams pretty well as alongside how well it fits on Zashian teams and most teams it does with that screen support but not opting for scary face on this one going more down the line of Thunder Wave just as a sort of speed control here and then we've got Reggie Alecchi kind of standard Reggie Alecchi give it the life hope just for a little bit of extra damage output and then rounding off with Umbrian which gives us a way to kind of also disrupt opposing teams with that yawn the moonlight going to take advantage of the sun you've got snarl there to slow things down and then file play for a bit more of a damaging attack. So that is the team in nutshell friends will have a couple of games of the team now as I say these teams this week are kind of sample teams they're going to be more meta teams that you're going to be able to pick up and use hopefully help you out get settled into the format and give you a little bit of experience with a bunch of different teams if you catch every episode this week so make sure you do this is Tuesday today this is ground on tomorrow we'll be moving on to Kyoga which I'm pretty excited about so we'll jump into our first game I'll have a couple of games of the team today a pilot a talk through a few of its mods and then we'll wrap up with the rental at the end of the episode as we always do so sit back friends and we'll jump into game one today's episode first up today we have a very similar looking team we've got a groud on we got a Charizard a Venus or we got a regi like a talk call and a polygon to so yeah very similar looking teams very similar concept it's almost a mirror but there are some slight variations here they've got a bit more of a trick room mod in their team obviously with the polygon to and that talk all going to perform pretty well under trick room circumstances so I think if we go down it like a Charizard route we need to be very careful of that regi a leaky lead but we've also got Grim Snall and I think the screen support is going to be pretty huge for us in this one so I think we got Grim Snall I think we got Charizard we could also bring Umbrian just to disrupt our opponent side of the field because that that would be a huge player behind screens and then it might give us a bit of room for someone like ground on to come in and kind of clean up with towards the end I feel a little bit like we're kind of missing a trick by not bringing regi a leaky to this one but how useful is it going to be if my opponent what I'm kind of predicting them to go down a hard trick room route or a semi ish hard trick room route and that's going to make it a little bit difficult for us to to get the most out of regi a like even though it does have that offensive pressure they can put on from the start and which we see my opponent go straight for so I think the one thing that we've got you know is we have a switch into to ground on here with Charizard if we want to kind of get around potentially any electric type attacks from that regi a leaky could be an option we could just throw up a light screen but it does put us in this that they kind of frame of mind where we could be a little bit worse off if we because we go light screen right we go light screen and I think we go G max wildfire into the regi a leaky now we will take yeah I think we'll do that we should take an electric type attack what will take a thunderbolt or a volt switch from the regi a leaky for sure the sun's not up so we're not getting the boost from the solar power but the light screen will help us out a bunch against this regi a leaky even though you know it will depend is it specs is it magnet is it sashed a lot of different variations with regi a leaky and specs being the worst case scenario here Charizard protecting from my opponent so that's not actually too bad and we have pulled the trigger pretty quick with gone find a gigantic max here you know it's normally not always the thing that you want to do we do see a leaky web come out but that's not the worst thing in the world because we do have that that the way of support that we can go for the next turn if we need to we do have max rockfall as an option from our Charizard which could be quite useful into the opposing Charizard for sure and we do just wipe out the regi a leaky so that electro web not the worst thing like I say not the worst thing in the world and we'll see what my opponent brings in to kind of combat against a big G max Charizard so ground on coming in okay and we can't slow the ground on down unfortunately that's the one thing you can't can't do and that will cause us a few issues of course we've got the rough yeah let's just see what we've got and we've got which screen did we get up your light screen we need the reflect I don't know we'll not take it will not take a big attack from this ground on you can take a reflect as a better off just a thunder way it's probably better off at this point you know I honestly think rather than reflect here I think we thunder wave the Charizard and then we go for max guard of our own and you've got to think as well how slow is that ground on my on our opponent side of the field you know like how slow is it because they have a hard trick remote in their team so potentially the ground on my actually under speed our Charizard and if they're going for rock slides there may be a chance that we am we actually get this to the wave often to the Charizard here we're max guard and they rock slide I would imagine so yeah we get the thunder wave off slow right down make life very difficult for that Charizard there's a rock slide and then we can get the reflect of the next turn and go after that ground on if you want or we go after the Charizard and they are paralyzed so the thunder wave paying off massively here yeah the solar power coming into effect now we should be able to get a max rock fall into this Charizard off now and now the Sun's up we've got that boost it might be enough for us to take it down it's just whether or not we can take I would say we'll take a rock slide it's just whether or not the ground on actually yeah it's not even going to attack here it's just going to go for that protect so we can go for the the reflect we get that up which is going to help us for the rest of this game the paralysis there definitely helps on the Charizard the last turn but the rock fall here might be enough depending on yes enough it's enough it's enough okay that's good and and Charizard Grimstone going to be able to kind of see out this turn and we still have the Sun as an option in the back if we need it as well so that's that's also a good thing and not often Charizard gets kind of through all its max turns unscathed but we've had a good return here there's a ground on takes a bit more residual damage here from that wildfire so what's coming in let's hope it's a p2 it is p2 p2 can we get a blast burn I don't know if we can we're probably going to see the trick room go up here I'd imagine but we can we can we can slow this p2 down we can go for a spirit break into it and we probably want to bring in like Umbrian here I think then we can like put things to sleep yawn everything and then get like Charizard Groud on and after that but my opponent cancels so and we are able to pick up a nice victory there first to start with and lots of the text on the team kind of working out pretty well for us in that first one so good game to my opponent and we will jump straight into game 2 of today's episode up next we have a oh this looks a spicy team we've got a blast toys it's going to be a gmax blast so you would assume then you've got this ash in the entire issue for a Rilla boom and gochum great looking team and with the blast toys there gives you another option outside of just your general Charizard and your Venus or residual damage and you've got the the gmax cannon aid which is the option there and the blast toys going to make things a little bit more difficult for our kind of Charizard Groud on side of the team but we do have Venus or which kind of really does pretty well against most things on my opponent side of the field the only thing to really worry about would be that anti I think what we'll do is we'll go Grim snarl we'll go Umbrian we'll go Venus or and then we'll go Groud on in the back haven't really featured too much of a lecky I need to get back in the swing of bringing a lecky in these games but I think with what we've selected we should be okay I think what my opponent probably do is try and go for an early and gigantic max with the blast toys get that cannon aid residual damage and really for Venus or to kind of thrive in this match we just need to get rid of something like the entire slow everything down really you know so I think that's a big thing for us and but what are we worried about here the anti or the blast toys more the blast toys I think we can also send away stuff as well if we want and but I think a light green go for the yarn into the anti shut that down put that to sleep or at least force it out we're not going to see anything go for the max here it's interesting sacred fire going to get this maximum damage off into the Grim snore and gets the burn that's kind of to be expected as we see what's going to come out from the last choice but we're able to see that pretty comfortably behind that light screen and we should be able to get a reflect of this next turn although you have to kind of worry about you have to worry about the extreme speed but if they go for that then they're putting themselves a massive disadvantage because they will go to sleep if they stay in an extreme speed so it's not too bad and we can go for reflect here and a yawn into that last choice so like I say there's like there's a there's a trade-off for our opponent here if they want to go for the extreme speed then they can do that but makes things a bit more difficult for them if that entire is asleep and they can't get the maximum functionality out with it but we're seeing the blast as we switch out so you don't mind too much and Zashin come in yes we like to see that on the yawn slot because I think here like Grim Snarl we get the reflect we get the reflect that's that's pretty huge for us so that's massive especially against Zashin now secret fire coming out and this time into Umbrian which is alright do you see the burn come out but again not really too worried about that to be honest and that Entai will go to sleep now so I think with Grim Snarl going down here it should go down to the burn pretty sure should go down yeah okay that opens the door first but I think we get Venus onto the field now we got Max Quake into Entai and we probably want to switch I think we switch ground on Umbrian we could be really cheeky here could be really cheeky I mean we could be cheeky as well and just stay in with Umbrian and just go for file play into Entai I could also be an option because I think the turn after that we're going to want yeah I think that's what we'll do just if the Zashin stays in and goes for like close combat or secret sword into the Umbrian it will take us down but I think the Venus is a bit more of a draw for my opponent to go for that behemoth blade in but again if they stay in and go for that then they've got pretty much two sleeping Pokemon on the field and then we can get Groudon in after that to get that chlorophyll boost get the residual damage kind of stacking from Venus and of course all the time the special defense boosts will be helping out against like something like the Blastoise it could be a little bit problematic for us to see where they go so Entai fast asleep and there's the behemoth blade is it into Venus? I think it will be oh it's into Umbrian that's even better well I mean we take that pretty well with Umbrian put the screens up um yeah so there's a quick into Entai it is enough to take it down okay so that this makes it way easier for us with the Zashin going to sleep now um I think we just switch Umbrian out this next turn whatever comes in we probably want to start the residual damage we actually get a little bit of chip into that Zashin as well so Umbrian the burn's not helping but the leftover kind of negates that to a certain extent anyway you know we're not in the best of positions but the Blastoise going to find it hard to come onto the field now you know so it's most likely oh it is the Blastoise is it going to max? are you going to max Blastoise? I feel like I don't even switch out here you know I feel like I just go for a yawn um I'll do a switch to the ground on here no I think I yawn I think I yawn the Blastoise here because we punish them if they go for like max hail storm into into Venus all we don't really mind that too much because we've got light screen ups and they're not going to be taking us out um and then as long as our GMAX fine lash does like 50% here or around that then we know we can pick up the knockout onto it the next turn by just switching Umbrian out to the ground on and then we've got the sun up as well at the same time where we're not getting that disrupted if we switch ground on here and then they go for the GMAX um well you know they're going to go GMAX panornaid regardless so they're not going to be able to weather up so it's a bit of a moot point but you get what I mean I think getting the speed booster next turn will be way more beneficial because yeah the panornaid comes out here picks up the knockout onto um Umbrian and they are life orb as well so we do get the yawn which makes it a little bit easier to deal with but a max quick will be able to get the the zash in this next turn GMAX fine lash will get the Blastoise and then we've got Venus or ground on to kind of clean up whatever's in the back and it may be something like really boom oh no Umbrian is just sticking around sticking around there's still a thing we'll probably switch in uh do we switch in or do we just keep like the no I think we go we go after the the Blastoise do we do we go after the Blastoise here no I think we go after the the zash in here with the max quick and then we'll go into ground on and we'll keep going in the back for later so we'll see my opponent does but we're going to be able to kind of close this one down pretty well yeah they max guard here and hope that zash in wakes up that was kind of one of the things that it did cross my mind even though I didn't reiterate it to you at the time um but yeah we're not picking up the knockout on the zash in but there is a deal of damage here from the vine lash will be enough and then that takes us down to our last max turn which we've got pretty good return here as the zash in doesn't wake up um which is fortunate for us of course there's a vine lash picking up the zash in we'll get the cannonade residual damage onto ground on here but we're going to be in a good spot to hopefully I think like vaker coming out could disrupt us being able to have a clean kind of break onto the Blastoise for sure but again we still have you know the switch in to Umbrian from ground on if we do see something like really being come onto the field now um that might be worth doing because okay it's got a jump alright that's not too bad at all that is not too bad um so yeah let's just let's just go earth par into I mean the thing is the worry would be is if if the Blastoise wakes up and we don't attack into it that would be my big concern you know yeah um and I think we just precipice blades at this point now the gold jump could sword stance but it's pretty risky at this stage I think I think you probably want to just go maybe Oxlide Earthquake I mean even Earthquake's pretty risky but your Blastoise is asleep so there's a much worry about going for that but we see the dragon claw come out take that Wavino and then the precipice blade single target yeah and that should put put it in leaf storm range like a sun step yeah I mean probably earth power gets it which is a bit more reliable from this from this stage so we can just precipice in leaf storm um precipice in earth par I think are the more reliable options here the earth power should get the gold jump but if you were worried at this stage you can always click the leaf storm I mean we're in a decent spot aren't we as we do see the battle canceled from our opponent we pick up another win with the team so that's a good showing a feel from the ground on team we've had two good archetypes that we played against today again to give good examples of how the team can pilot so it gives you a few ideas with how the team can function and how good was Umbrian Umbrian is just amazing Umbrian is so good I do love Umbrian in this format so we'll jump now and remind you all of today's rental team okay friends here is today's rental team I hope if you do try it out you have a lot of fun with it definitely if you do let me know down in the comment section below just let me know what your thoughts are on the team in general or the build or a similar build that you've been using yourself in the format so yeah we've had a nice couple of games today I've really enjoyed it I do like ground on I do like this kind of archetype of team and Charizard being back with this Gigantamax format it's just it's quite exciting when you're playing in a Dynamax format for sure so if you do try it out definitely let me know and the baseline of it I hope it's helpful and I hope you have a lot of fun along the way so friends thank you so much for tuning in remember this week like I keep saying this week you probably get sick of me saying it we're doing a new team every day and they're going to be the sample teams for kicking off into series 11 to help you get better into the new format so tomorrow we're going to have Kyogre which is going to be exciting Kyogre one of my favourite restrictors of course so we'll be back tomorrow with Kyogre so stay tuned for that friends keep an eye out for it and I'll catch you all later so take care until the next time