About this blog.

I wanted to start this blog and get a good couple of posts up before I started to draw attention to it. Soon I will be posting on forums to let people know of it's existence which is likely to bring in a large number of people and I wanted to make it clear in this post exactly what I am trying to do with this blog.

I like the X-Wing miniatures games a lot but don't get to play much. I do watch videos on YouTube daily and I'm always looking for new ones. As searching videos on YouTube can be quite difficult I thought I would make this blog so that others are able to come here and find a directory of nearly all x-wing videos easily browsable. I'm also tagging the videos with the aim that if someone wants to learn strategies to play as or against a VT-49 Decimator then they can choose the tag and find all the videos featuring that ship easily. 

I have also chosen to review the majority of videos and score them. These reviews are based solely on how good of a production the video is. The points made are not to deride the video publishers but more to give them constructive feedback on things they could improve to make their videos better. The end point being that all X-Wing videos will be of a broadcast quality which will help expand the hobby and bring in new players, who knows maybe we'll even have a 24 hour TV channel in the future, XSPN. 

The scores are not meant as a rubric across all videos, but instead a marker of how well the video has been made. I have previously stated that all X-Wing videos are worth watching to me and would be 10 out of 10 just for existing, the scores are just a way of measuring the videos quality compared to the potential present in each case. Not all videos have to be to the standard of Team Covenant or Sanctioned, that would be too costly and time consuming to be able to produce videos on a mass scale. 

Even two guys in their house with a camera can produce an excellent quality battle report and the more people doing things like X-Wing Academy the better. 

I'm also brand new to blogging and I know I've got to do a bit of CSS work to normalise my post layout and make everything more efficient. And just as I am giving feedback to the video creators any feedback on how I can improve the blog is greatly appreciated. 

I hope you all enjoy the blog and find it useful. 

About this blog - Part 2

I also thought I would give a little insight into how I find and watch the videos included in the blog.
At the moment the focus of the blog is on newly published content. Granted there are plenty of excellent videos on YouTube, but it would be too difficult for me to go through all of them.
Instead focusing on newly published content gives me the opportunity to give feedback to publishers before they start their next project. It also means that as people follow this blog I will also be driving new traffic to the newly published videos to increase view counts which is a great help for the publishers.
To do this I check on YouTube various times a day and search only "x-wing" and then filter the results to only show me the uploads made today (last 24 hours). I then go pretty far down the list until I am sure I've found just about everything. I am guessing that any video regarding the X-Wing miniatures game would at the least use the word x-wing at some point so should show up in the list.
It may also interest you to know how I watch the Videos, on occasion I will watch on PC but the majority of the time I am watching on a 46" smart TV with a YouTube on TV app installed. This app always defaults to the best quality available for a video should the connection speed be able to support streaming it, for this reason I have the tv connected through Ethernet cable instead of WI-FI to provide the lowest latency possible and as such the best possible quality. Whilst watching I am sat approximately 2.5 meters away on my couch.
As such when I comment that certain details are hard to make out on a video, I am sat roughly 2.5 meters away from a 46" screen. Maybe if you are watching a video on a PC monitor and you are only 30 cm away from the screen everything may seem perfectly legible. But as I have mentioned before I am trying to help contribute to this community to give it more widespread appeal. Nobody sits around a PC to watch any other sporting event (unless it is because they have no other alternative), so why should it be any different for a game like X-Wing.
Whilst before I have said my focus will be on newly published videos, I do intend to add older videos to the blog to try to have a more complete selection for any visitors, things like the X-Wing strategy tips channel, whilst not having published anything in a while, has excellent instructional videos that are very useful for newcomers to the game and so I will be looking into posting regarding those videos soon. Also important battle reports from worlds and nationals will also be on the back list. If anyone has any ideas for any videos that they feel should be included please feel free to let me know.

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