wootfast -> The Athletic Supporter, Essential Accessories, and Superfan were awarded to players who pre-ordered which game? Monday Night Combat
ikickpies -> Reclaimed Metal + ?? = Black Box | Direct Hit
ward_parrot -> The Market Gardener's name is a reference to a World War II battle fought in which country? Netherlands
ward_parrot -> What type of poem is written in the item description for every Total War: Shogun 2 promotional item? Haiku
mrtwitchbeast -> What is the name of the item set for the heavy which includes the Tomislav, Family Business, Eviction Notice, and Capo's Capper? Black Market Business

xenoburster -> Which weapon used to incorrectly allow the Long-Distance Kills strange part to be applied to it? Big Earner
kayzeno -> Which hat for the heavy has been officially retired & removed from the drop system? Football Helmet
koojoh -> Who (first and last name) is the father of Blutarch and Redmond Mann? Zepheniah Mann
mrventi0 -> Throughout TF2's lifetime, how many golden wrenches have been distributed to players? 101
haviktrocity -> The WAR! update occurred in which year? 2009

koojoh -> How much damage does a critical fan o'war hit inflict? 11
fireball411 -> Other than the ullapool caber, which other melee weapon is capable of gibbing enemies? Apoco-fists
the10thclass -> Not counting reskins, how many demoman-specific melee weapons exist? 6
ikickpies -> The 'Point Breaker' achievement is for which class? Spy
nedandgene -> In total, how many TF2 Halloween events have there been? 5

Congratulations! Add Katie to collect your prizes.

I like the idea about increasing wait time between requests with each request. I'm going to give that one some thought.

In the meantime, I've increased the amount of time before loadouts are removed for disconnected viewers. I did some testing and realized that it's pretty common for Twitch IRC to not acknowledge someone has rejoined within 2 minutes, so peoples' loadouts could just vanish for no reason. I increased this to three minutes and hope it helps reduce the accidental removals.

"Can I punch with my hands?"

"The demoman is German, right?"

Have something you want to see us play? Post it here!

After last night's stream, the statistics showed that 75% of all requested loadouts were played, 22% were abandoned, and the remaining 3% were cut off due to the stream ending. We had a typical viewer count (averaging ~20-25), so missing out on 3% seems fine to me (we're always going to lose some when the stream ends), but 22% being abandoned seems high.

I'm curious to know what you guys think might make choose my fate better. One idea that I've been considering for a while now is to give priority to viewers that have not requested anything yet. Meaning, if you've been sitting in the stream since 10, and someone joins at midnight and submits a request, theirs will jump ahead in line in front of anything you currently have in queue. My big fear with this is that it might lead to starvation for some users - i.e. if new users keep showing up and requesting something, someone who has been watching the stream longer may have requests that never get played - and the last thing I want to do is penalize people for sticking around longer.

What do you guys think could make this work better, if anything?

Closing this since we use !addloadout now

Post your requested loadouts here for February's "Choose My Fate!"