Boozy Broadcasts

The Bob Ross Livestream

One day, for reasons that have been lost to time, friends Ran Christer and Zoe Dickinson (presumably with some input from Manuel Ausin) decided to do a livestream in honour of the great Bob Ross (I think it was his birthday or something?). The decision was made to go live after the weekly set of meetings and a trip to the pub, which was the standard schedule for any given Tuesday night. So upon returning to the studio, a mini crew quickly assembled - even though the studio was actually packed with other YSTV members who were enthusiastically watching.

The original idea for the stream (presented by Manuel Ausin) was for both Zoe Dickinson and Ran Christer to follow a Bob Ross tutorial and compete to see who could draw the better picture. As to be expected, the whole thing soon went off-track, but was very entertaining to watch, with a large amount of FTP students tuning in as well. Both pictures were hung up in the control room after the stream.

Drunk Werewolves

Having played it just a few weeks before at a YSTV social and inspired by the Polygon series Overboard, Thomas Schubert came up with the idea to have YSTV drunkenly play the hidden role game werewolves. The idea was so popular, that the studio ended up being way to small for all the people who wanted to join in. Here are the attendees:

• Thomas Schubert, the game master and host
• Zoe Dickinson
• Caroline Preynat-Viero
• Olivia Gibbs
• Alize Akturk
• Sophie Bolwell-Davies
• Matthew Zeffertt
• Jack Carter
• Karinna Hollins
• Manuel Ausin
• Theo Bimson
• Rory Percival

The stream was directed and vision mixed at the same time by Ben Allen, and was mostly entertaining due to most players being unable to understand the game - notoriously true for Rory Percival.

Drunk Drivers

The final Boozy Broadcast so far featured the most epic Mario Kart tournament there has ever been and ever will be. It was produced by Thomas Schubert (mostly based on the desire to use one silly graphic he made), featured complex picture-in-picture transmission that was worked out by Andrew Waddle just minutes before they went live, and was hosted by Jacob Boyle, YSTV's resident Nintendo expert, and Rohan Ashar, YSTV's main sports commentator.

The whole event turned into a social more-or-less, with many people dressing up and throwing bananas. The winner was decided by a strict sudden-death system.

The matches:

• Alize Akturk vs. Joe Radford on Water Park (Winner: Alize)
• Isobel Drury vs. Manuel Ausin on Cloudtop Cruise (Winner: Manu)
• Matthew Zeffertt vs. Zoe Dickinson on Sunshine Airport (Winner: Matt)
• Alize Akturk vs. Mol Dainty on Moo Moo Meadows (Winner: Alize)
• Dan Derbyshire vs. Will Stirk on Excitebike Arena (Winner: Dan)
• Manuel Ausin vs. Olivia Gibbs on Piranha Plant Pipeway (Winner: Manu)
• Alize Akturk vs. Jonathan Hughes on Wario's Goldmine (Winner: Alize)
• Sunnie Hsia vs. Dan Derbyshire on Mount Wario (Winner: Sunnie)
• Sunnie Hsia vs. Louis Dickson on Ribbon Road (Winner: Sunnie)
• Sophie Bolwell-Davies vs. Manuel Ausin on Wild Woods (Winner: Manu)
• Alize Akturk vs. Matthew Zeffertt on Animal Crossing (Winner: Matt)
• Matthew Zeffertt vs. Manuel Ausin on Baby Park (Winner: Manu)
• Sunnie Hsia vs. Caroline Preynat-Viero on Mute City (Winner: Sunnie)
• Sunnie Hsia vs. Manuel Ausin on Rainbow Road (Winner: Manu)

Note: Louis Dickson was not meant to be a contender, as he was floor managing. Still, the studio crew thought it would be fun to see him suffer. It was, and his quote Princess Peach is a Brexiteer! is now legendary. Especially since he was actually playing as Rosalina.

If everything had gone according to the rules, then Manu would have won fair and square - but since Mario Kart is obviously cruel and unfair, he was forced to face off in a surprise finale against host Jacob Boyle on Sunshine Airport. Since Jacob was not drunk, he won the match with ease.