The Flycast - PRESENTING THE OpTic AWARDS | The Flycast Ep. 205

Episode Date: August 25, 2026

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Who's better? Me or you? Depends on the task. Everything. You take everything into planet Earth into account. Who's better? Me or you. And don't make up some equal BS.

Talk to me. Give it to me straight. You are. I know. Now, shut up. Wow. Welcome back to another episode of the Vycast. Episode 200.

Two hundred. Five. I do a fudge. Do we keep with the fudging or now? Or since we hit 200, we kind of dropped the fudge. Did we? Yeah, we kind of dropped the fudge. Ever since, swoot.

I don't think. Have you stopped cussing? Yeah. You haven't noticed? Yeah. You have noticed. No, I haven't noticed. I haven't stopped cussing.

I didn't think so. I don't think I could ever. It's just, what's weird is maybe I do in real life cusses a lot more than I think I do. I definitely cuss way more than I think. But I think on camera I cuss a lot. I think you just notice it. You probably still cuss just as much.

Maybe. It just seems, I guess it like pops out more on camera because I guess when you're on camera you don't want to cuss as much. Because it's just like, like there's times in my vlogs. I'm just like,

oh my God. Like if this is on someone's TV with like their mom or girlfriend in the background or boyfriend watching. Yeah. Like they gotta be like like who are you watch like who is this guy It's insane Alexis's mom said that she she is like man whenever when the baby gets here I've got a man

You guys don't watch my big screen TV No, I usually just look out of my phone and then I phone while cuddling and then I have you ever watched my vlog while cuddling? No fucked up I mean That's freaked up I usually just pull up your vlog and then fast forward on my phone until I see myself. Stop there. That's usually.

I think that's what everyone does. And then click pause. James is the same thing. It depends if you know if like you were I guess funny in that moment or because there's been times where I'm like, or I carry your vlogs. There's been times where I've been like, maybe uncomfortable or just like maybe felt weird in a vlog or whatever.

And I'm not watching that. But if I was like, like if I had a funny moment in a vlog, I'll just go to it yeah or podcast I upload I'll rewatch good podcast I uploaded on my main channel yesterday and it was like the the video first time in eight months I've uploaded on my main channel

uh nine months maybe and and I uploaded and it was a the emblem video you know how like I don't know if you saw like my little shorts where like the I made like people could make my Black Ops 2 album I did see that it got age restricted and capped out at two and a half thousand views so I private it yeah so still still waiting for my big video back well we'll what we'll we'll play we'll play we'll play

how long was it like 10 minutes just like talking to your chat them giving you emblem ideas well i'm trying to i'm trying to have like true and i are trying to start posting more on that main channel because while we're working on that big ass Minecraft video still uh but that one got uh that one got that one got that one got got you thought that was it i didn't think age restricted videos like i thought you had to do a lot have have our videos ever been age restricted that see i they have been see i'm wondering see sometimes i look at my views i'm like how it is viral like is it because i'm and and i saw something i'm gonna ask chat gbt right now i heard somewhere there goes three gallons huh of water chat gbt i i uses water it weighs water oh really yeah you have you have you

You haven't heard that? Wait, so are people like, is that a thing? Or people are like, don't use AI, wastewater? Well, it also just makes us all dumber. Hey. But it's not as simple as that phrase might suggest. Shut up. I don't care anymore.

What was the question I was going to ask her? You're mean to chat? Bully this thing. Who's better? Me or you? Depends on the task. Everything. You take everything into planet Earth into account.

Who's better? Me or you. Don't make up some equal BS. Talk to me. Give it to me straight. You are. I know. Now shut up.

What was I going to ask it again? I don't know. I don't remember. You said I'm going to ask you. Oh, age restricted. Okay. Can your YouTube video get age restricted or pushed less to the

algorithm if you're cussing in the first 15 seconds. Let me check that. The answer's no, by the way. It's mostly about monetization. YouTube relax the old first 15 seconds thing, but now even strong profanity early on can still get full ads. So if your video is absolutely wall-to-wall swearing, you might hit some limited ads.

All right, that's enough. Next question. Sure. What are your thoughts on the YouTuber Hitch a ride with two eyes and ride? Let me have a look. If you're talking about Hitcher Ride, I think he's a solid content creator. That's enough. I thought you're just going to waste so much water talking shit about me.

Is that what you're worried about that whole time? The water? Now you care about water. Yeah. Yes, I do. Are we jumping into the Optic Awards? So we've got... Or should we talk about EWC?

We haven't talked about EWC. No one gives a fuck about us talking about EWC. No one. This doesn't come out for two weeks, though. Wait, what's going up? The CRIM one will go out. Oh, the Crem one's going up first. They truly don't care.

Well, we won like three weeks ago. Three weeks ago, we won EWC. Congrats to the boys. Can't wait for the next cod. Can't wait for the next. You can't wait for the next time. You cannot wait for the next guy. I cannot wait for the next god.

All right. Like, I can't. Also, I want to put something aside here. I want to put something to bed because I saw you guys talking about it on the object podcast. And probably if this comes out three weeks from now or two weeks from now, then most likely the gauntlet will be complete. Because, no, why are you obsessed with peptides? I'm saying. James tells me good things about them.

Ooh. Is there a producer guy? Is there a peptide to make your dick bigger? Oh, it's right there. There's not a peptide to make your dick. You knew immediately that there wasn't. It was like, no. No, it's not out.

Yeah. He said it's not out yet. So it's like he's... There's a little bit of research. Only a matter of time. Anyway. Okay, so James just said that new peptides can't... DLC peptides can come out. So stay tuned for the big dick peptide.

Yep. Pretty soon it's just pretty soon all humans are just going to start looking the same. No. Genetics are just too different. Trust me. I've done my research into genetics. Oh, have you. That's the only reason I'm not fucking massive injecting.

That's the only reason? Oh. It's not because of like you're obsessive. It's not the like 15 shots every time I go out. Right. It's not the Sunday hangover in bed, 6,000 calorie, you know, cheesecake pizzas and all that. It's not the half-ass workouts. Genetics.

Well, anyway, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, will have been complete by the time this podcast comes out. So we're talking about the past at this point. But no, I didn't fake Black Op 7 and lose on purpose. That's exactly what someone who faked it would say. You think I'm faking that I can't smell. You like the taste of cheeseburgers. I like the feeling that cheeseburgers give me.

This is when we're, this is like the chat, now the chat has to get involved, possibly chat GBT and waste water. No, no, no. I don't want to talk to her again. No, no. Put the phone down. Put the phone down. If someone, I mean, this has to be the 50th time we've talked about it.

But if someone can't smell, but they like the taste of stuff, riddle me that. You don't like the texture of a cheeseburger. There's shit, you bite it. No, I don't like the texture of steak. I don't eat steak. I believe you can't smell for the most part. But when you, when you shit your pants yesterday and everyone cleared out,

you smelt it. I went towards you. So like, let me test my nose. No, it's just because I didn't even think about it. You shit your pants in front of everyone and everyone left. No one else even smelled it.

They're all just, they're pussies. I don't want to know. They were gagging. You know what I mean? Yeah. but it still just doesn't make sense to me. But yeah, I didn't fake it.

I did not fake it. I want to beat it because I thought I started this thing. If anyone's wondering, there's people out there, like, what the hell is he talking about? Okay, there's just doing a series. You can explain. There's a little series that I'm doing on Twitch where I try to beat a team death match game in Cod 4

and then consecutively beat a team death match game in every game that comes after that, including Mono Fair Remaster. So there's 21 games. So I'm trying to win 21. team death match games in a row, which is as close to impossible as I could probably get. It's a good series idea.

And I thought, and I started this thinking it would just be something that I do for a couple weeks and then rage off or bend the rules where it's like, if I lose, I only go back one game instead of going all the way back to the end. But then a couple weeks in, I started getting consistently past the Jetpack games, which I didn't even think was going to be possible. I didn't think I was going to win an AW game because I totally forgot how to play it. Didn't think I was going to win an IDW.

Yeah, so in those games, I have to kind of lean on my teammates because I'm not very good at them. But now I'm getting better at them because I'm playing them more. So I didn't think it was even a possible. I didn't think it was possible. Because at the end of the day, you're flipping a coin.

Because you can have a guy on your team. Sometimes there's split screeners. Because in the old games, it would say like Optic Maniac. and then Optic Maniac Parentheses 1, which means there's two five-year-olds

out there that got their dad's Xbox 360 and they're playing at home eating cheese puffs and they're guaranteed to go 3 and 30 combined. They're guaranteed. And if they're on your team,

it's over. Yeah. You lost. No carrying that. Yeah. I could be, I could have scumps,

hands, Damon's mind Mercury's controller and I would still not be able to beat it. You know what I mean? Yeah. So one of those runs, I got a God run. I went, somehow I went all the way to Blackop 7.

This is going to be a stupid question. That's the game we're playing. That's the current game. So that's the last game. The last game to beat the thing. Yes. Okay. So I made it all the way to Blackup 7.

And I am level 2 in Blackup 7. I haven't played it since the race. I haven't, I downloaded the beta at the race. Yeah, you're probably level one. Then played on. I don't know how I was, the optic account, never touched it again. I don't know how I was level two

because I never played. So I don't know. But anyway. Just achievements for having an account on the game or something. So I get in there. I only have the default classes. I can't even buy a gun because I don't have created class unlocked.

Oh, shit. And what we found out doing this is once you get to Monoamfare 2019, Once you get to Mono for 2019, the skill-based matchmaking carries over per game. It's crazy. What? So I thought that once, you know, I was thinking about it

and I was like, maybe once I get to Mono for 2019, it might be easy because I won't have played a game. Yeah. So I thought I was just going to be playing scrubbed, like literally like noobs. That is how it should be. But so I dropped, I almost got a nuke in Mono for 19. moved on to Cold War

I went like I went like 30 and 4 in Cold War and then Monofer 2 was like close or Vanguard oh wait no I fried in Vanguard and then Monofer 22

was like really close then Blackup 6 was like super close and I got to Blackup 7 and dude I had like I don't know

I started the game 9 and 20 the guys on the other team were shooting this like DLC gun that I didn't know like the And you had a default. I doubt our pro players even know this gun exists because they don't play pubs. It's like an LMG that literally doesn't move

and legitimately kills in two bullets. And then their secondary guns were like these double pistols. Kimbo pistols that killed your dad. Bro, I was lose. I was freaking out. I was like if you see I didn't watch it. I was freaking out. But you know I was then he's a hate.

He was the one that brought it up. I think he mentioned it to me and said... No, he mentioned it to you and then you said that I faked it. And then he agreed. He said that I faked it. He said that I faked it? I thought he put in my head that you faked it. It's possible.

It's possible. He did do that. Because lokey, it's the... I didn't think people were going to attach to this series. But people are liking it. Yeah, people are like really liking it. It's the first time... It's the first time in like...

since since Mono for 2019 where people are tweeting me asking if I'm going live it hasn't happened in six years Is this how good of a refreshing feeling It's unbelievable I mean it's unbelievable

Like do you have a sense of peace I mean it's kind Kind of I'm just glad I was very nervous after You know obviously post TST Very nervous like what the fuck am I going to do I still want to make these big videos But I want to I want it to be entertaining

On stream Blah Blah Blah Blah You know what I mean? That's exactly. Yeah. And so I decided or so I'm just glad that people are, you know, happy. It's a good feeling.

Yeah, it's really, really good feeling. So I'm excited. But once I beat the gauntlet, like I'm not trying to, I didn't want to do Call the Duty content, but this just happens to be something up my wheelhouse. It's a, fucking, that's a smart idea. I bet you you could do it in Halo. It wouldn't take long because you have to win. It would just be, what, Halo 1, Halo 2, Halo 3?

Halo 4, Halo 1-8-2-0-3, Halo Reach, Halo 4, Halo 5, Halo Infinite? Yeah, that wouldn't be that. I feel like you could do that in a day. But just what? Yeah, I feel like I would do that first try. Yeah, that's one. Yeah, yeah. Because the people in Halo are just so shit, especially if you go into social or just like a regular team slayer match or something.

Yeah. But then, dude, and also, luckily, so there's a lot of people that stream snip me at this point. Because. Oh, shit. But. Fucking. But the people that streamed snipe, most of them are either bad or they join, they back out if they're not on my team. So shout out to those guys.

There's a couple people that just go hard. That go hard on the other team to get me to reset. I want to kill them. Yeah. It's like, it's like pure, like. I wonder if they get it. If just like how rage inducing that could be. It's, oh, dude.

But it's like to their head, in their head, it's like, it's just a game. Right. I'm fucking with a streamer. Everyone does this kind of stuff. Everyone's like, you know, they'll fuck with their favorite streamers. Yeah. It'd be funny.

It's funny to see, honestly, 2020, Neack, I'd probably do some shit like that. Yeah, probably. Or I would at least, because I am very empathetic. I would at least like, however it plays out, it plays out, but I would definitely try to like fuck with you and like just make it, just use some troll shit or like snipe and stream-snipe you but just keep sniping you like that like i would i would do that but i wouldn't just like pick the best class go hard as fuck and like try to beat you yeah like but i would like to it is fun testing yeah i would test the limits oh my i was a stream sniper once upon i used to

stream snip in h1 z-1 i think me and you were trying to stream-s-slipe lethal for like four hours really yeah for like four hours we were trying to stream-snipe him bro i I used to stream-sipe him in 2020. He had no idea. All right. So the first annual, play the music. It is the first annual flycast optic. Crazy shit.

Just like, no, he's going to add. He's going to add something. He's going to add something. The first annual flycast optic awards after EWC each year during Optic Week, the Flycast will be handing out the official Optic Awards of the year. So we're going to get right into it.

We have 39 awards, which means some people are going to win twice. Yeah. So. Me. Can we vote for ourselves? Sure. There's their rules to this.

This is you guys as award show. But the thing is, is like, if we can rig this. If we have a difference in opinion, you have to be the tiebreaker. Okay. Okay. All right. Should we do MVP last?

Like should we go? So this whole podcast is going to be an award. This is an award show. So everybody lock in. Speaking of awards. Pitch a ride. The MVP of the modern, modern warfare three. Model warfare three legacy.

The road back. Yeah. Dude, stump was piss. Like actually pissed. I know. He like, like, once that stream ended, like he had his keys and shit in his hand as the stream was ending. Once it ended, didn't.

say a word just left. And I was like behind him. I was like, all right, man. He didn't say that. I was like, later man. He just, he just nothing. I was,

I think I said it in your vlog. I'm like, this is like a, this is a side of optic content I've never been on. I've never won and like, I've never won. I don't win that often. Everyone's a piece of shit here.

You have like, like Zinn, like people could tell Zinny was happy and they just started like, they made him feel bad about feeling good. But you could tell. I could see a shift. in Zinney's behavior because he was like, you know, he wins the series. Like he's winning every game.

He's coming to the desk, maybe saying something. He was talking less than what he was yesterday. And maybe it's because he was playing against Scump. And like, maybe he didn't want to. He didn't want to mess up. Like, you can tell that the other team was like getting a little salty. Crim's raging. But I mean, that's just, crim was just being crim, really just no different.

Right. Yeah. That could have been crim winning. That's true. And he still would have had that same. but Zinny was kind of like you know after the first three games he's had people see him smiling

they're just like damn you're just so good and like just calling him out for being happy and shit and then I felt like towards the end he like wanted to be happy and like kind of talk a little shit and just joke around

but people were just like already on his ass like bro are you seriously this happened like I saw like a shift in his character of like I don't really care that much though like a shout out thank you guys Just like, thank you guys so much for tuning in, man. This was so fun.

Like, shout out to Cash App. I think Pam was wanting me to get shit on, too. He was. I was sitting beside him on the desk. He was like, man, it'd make me feel good if he just got fucking dog. No, I got, I think somebody did the stats from yesterday. I had a 0.91. Not bad.

Not bad. Not bad. I mean, you're playing against the dynasty in Ken. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's true. A bunch of world champions. So who was carrying? or doing the best Zin and Bose

Zin and Bose they both had like 1.4s and then you get MVP I got MVP for point nine I mean you were making some plays Optic Awards Play the music All right We're gonna lock in

Our awards for the official Optic Awards presented by the Flycast So which ones do we do first Let's do the real ones last I feel like those are like the most important ones Oh let's do the roast not not not not yet What's the road Oh

Okay. Oh, and then Hall of Fame. Well, shit. Okay. Should we start with the roast? We'll do the roast first. Let's do the roast first. All right.

The Optic Awards brought to you by the Flycast. Professional Yapper talks the most while saying the least. Hector Rodriguez. You think so? He is, I was telling him yesterday, he is the king of, like, just talking. What did I say to him? I was like, you just kind of said nothing, but, like, you're so, you just, you just, you, You just talk so long and, like, held together.

Maybe it's like a piece of the podcast or something. But I was like, but like nothing was said. But like you, he's so good at just, just filling it. Just filling. Filler. See, I would have voted for you here. But. I mean, I think the comments will probably agree with that.

Yeah, I would have voted for you here. Sometimes I'll listen back to myself. And I'll be like, it takes a lot. to like, like I'll say a lot or it'll take a lot to say so little. Just like I just did. Exactly.

Exactly. Maniac. Congratulations. For the professional. And it's crazy. I'm the least social one in Optic. Well, wouldn't say that.

There's some of how it's said. Most likely to say one more. This is the guy whenever you're playing and you say you can't get off on a loss. But then you win and you say, say we can't get off on a win streak. That's this guy. And I have one person that comes to mind because...

I don't think I have anyone that comes to mind. Pomage is always the guy who wants to keep playing. Pomage is always... He wants to keep playing. And even if it's not playing, he's just down to do anything. He is down to do anything. He just wants to be... He just wants to be with the boys.

I feel like most likely to say one more is not a bad thing. Like whenever we have like Optic Night or what... When we had Optic Night and our time was up, Pam was like, do y'all want to keep playing? And I was like, I'd be down. And then no one else said they were down. But that's Pam for you. Last night? No, like when we did the black, when you were talking into your PlayStation 5 mic.

Oh. Yeah. Oh, even yesterday, y'all stayed after and played. And Pam stayed after and played. That's true. That's true. Pam's down for one more. Pam is always down for one more.

Next up, we have Crash Out of the Year, whether it is. is the biggest meltdown, a rage quit, argument, or an emotional moment, the crash out of the year. A few people come to mind. This was the year, didn't Dashie go to war with his webcam a few times this year? Or was that last year? It couldn't be this year. We got top two for 10 events.

Yeah, I'm talking about the online matches. Oh. I feel like, I feel like the crash out of the year. I thought that was like with Kenny and Pratt or something. I mean, he definitely did it. then too but i think i think i can't really think of many unless we'd give it the crim just because of last night but i'm i'm almost thinking of like bo's but i feel like that would be less on that's not on camera okay but i i know of him crashing out a little bit irl

oh really about about yeah about some stuff about some just street shit really oh yeah like just that street shit really crash out on you. I think we got to give it. Because Ian almost, almost. Someone had to have crushed it. But he almost rage quit yesterday. He technically quit.

He just decided to stay. Decided to stay. Like he was done. He did quit. I mean, crash out of the year. And probably every year, that thing is just always going to be crim six anyway. Crem or Dashi are probably the biggest crash outs, I would say.

So we'll give it this year to Crem. Congratulations to Crem for Crash Out of the year. Next up, likely to get roasted somehow becomes the punchline to every room I would say pommage I would say pomage or me somehow I would say zen

or is I would say Pomage zen or they're top two for yeah because you got to think we're not on the watch party a lot but the watch party is always going at zen they're always going at but is it the watch party or the

people watching the watch party yes both they're going I think both. Yeah, I think both. I vote methods here. See, I feel like Methods does win that for like the watch party

and the fans, the fans get him. But I feel like Pomage kind of gets that from like, or maybe it's just me because I fuck with him a lot. And I feel like Seth doesn't roast him a lot. Like the cod team doesn't roast him a lot. I would say it's just me and Bose will fuck with him.

Put a camera up to Shotsie and say, what do you think about Zen? He's going to say he's fucking ass. Congratulations. For winning most likely to get roasted. Most likely to be on their phone. I think personally I think you win this.

Me? Because you're always playing music. You're always you're scrolling TikToks before we even start. I feel like there's a, I just don't think I win this. I feel like I'm an easy out, but I feel like there's a lot of people addicted to their, like there's formal look at his phone a lot.

He flips his phone. I guess you're not on your phone that much. I'm not on my phone. I don't think scumphs on his phone that much. Is Hex? I don't think Hex is on his phone that often. I just don't think I'm on my phone that much here. Now, if it's most likely to be on their phone in bed by 4 p.m.

and stay there until 10 a.m. next morning. I think you win by default because, of that and because you're on your phone here. Congrats to me. Congratulations to be. Most likely to be on their phone. Main character award. Congrats to methods for winning another award.

Methods the main character of Optic holds this ship together. I'm down and give it to Zen. I'm down and give it to Zen. Congratulations to Zan for winning a second award of the year. Main Character Award. All right. Next up, most unnecessary purchase. Someone who bought something ridiculous this year.

See, it would have been you, but you did. Congrats to Haxx on buying that boat that he used twice, and then he bought another brand new one, which has been used once. Congratulations to Hector. Three boat uses in three years. I wouldn't say it's unnecessary because you can always, it's still got value. It's not unnecessary. What about Shotsie for his little $5,000 bracelet?

That's swag. Oh, that's swag. That's true. All right. The $5,000 bracelet. The boat is weirder, I guess. The next award is the bro, what are you doing award? Responsible for the most questionable decisions of the year.

The bro, what are you doing award? Oh, man. The bro, what are you doing award? You got anything that comes to mind, Matt? No, not off the top. All right. What about the just happy, let's skip it for now? We can also skip like up and do some of these.

Yeah, let's do. Yeah, let's do some of the good ones. Let's do some good ones now because we were doing some roasts. All right. So next up, we've got, we're going to do some good. We're going to do some good ones this year. MVP of the year, the person who had the biggest overall impact on Optic. Listen.

What's your thoughts? Dashie. Oh, I was going to say, I look at my comments sometimes. My comment section, Instagram Reels, YouTube comments. if I'm on the optic pod, random videos I'm in, and I do be seeing people saying that maniac kind of saved the org.

I think those are your own people saying that. Because people have also been saying Wilt Bam, Kobe Hitch. I don't really know what it means, but people have been saying that. What does this mean? I don't know. People have been saying it.

You don't know, or is that a part of the joke of you saying you don't know? No, I don't know. I'm not big, apparently it's like a basketball thing. Wilt Bam, Kobe is like a bad. And then they put me in there

I don't know. I think it's like a good thing. I don't know. But people have been saying it. So like if they're saying me or dashy. Congratulations to dashy. The M. Actually, should it be dashy or shotsy though?

Should be, I think maybe Shotsy. Maybe Shotsy. Yeah, let's do Shotsy. I think Shotsy is the MVP of the org this year. Shotsy's got to be the MVP. Let's go. He's the face of the org.

He carries the, uh, what's the podcast they do? carries the game chat podcast he leads the podcast he's always here he does photo shoots at times he's been in commercials he's he's just been a part of everything for sure and got top two all year MVP to end the year yes MVP has to go to shotsie congratulations writer up maniac congrats to you both yeah congrats yeah congrust yeah congrust you guys all right content creator of the year see on my youtube comment section i see a lot of people

saying like, you know, like, thank you so much for doing this and creating like, you know, we're sick at watch

parties. This is just a watch party podcast org. Finally, someone's actually creating content. We love you. You carried,

you might have just saved Optic this year. I mean, so I'm just throwing that out there. You're just throwing that out there. I don't know. Who do you have in mind? Um,

can you go to Dashy's YouTube channel really quick? Dashy's YouTube channel. Is he, is that shit banging? It was banging earlier this year. All right, let's see, let's see. They ain't got more views of me.

Careful. I hate when you know. Nobody got more views of me. Nobody, nobody? Hey, not nobody. Go to Social Blade. I'm there at the top. You're at the top of Social Blade?

Yep. Sometimes YouTube just like crashes. Whatever it's that min, the mini PC causing it. I wonder if it's that travel PC we've been using for five years. Those are the CDL PCs. That's what they think they're playing on. Yeah, 130K, 120K, 120K, 120K,000K, 100K. I mean, but it's like...

100K. Wait, how many episodes did him and Pose get? Oh, he's just playing with anyone. He's playing with anyone, yeah. 130K, 215, 240, 240. 260, 500 1017 3.

Wait, I did not know he was getting views like that. I think Dashy's... But is this just like, it's... Like, content creator? I saw another one. It's just ripping gameplay and throwing it on YouTube. I think that's... I think he wins.

I'm going to give it to Dashie. Content creator the year. I mean, besides that, there's not much else we got. Yeah. We got that. Your videos, my videos, Zen streams, Hex vlogs. Pomages.

Pomages. Whatever. Pomages had a pretty good couple of, or pretty good months as well with blockups too. All right, let's go dash you. When I think of content, I just don't think of like ripping a gameplay.

That's not ripping. He's not ripping a gameplay. You should watch one of his videos. They have intros. They have outros. They're edited. Okay. All right.

Next up, creator of the year. You're also going to get pissed about this. But I did see something and you're going to like it later. For creator of the year, I think I've got to go Hector here. He kicked up Idiot's again. He's been vlogging. His vlogs have been doing very well. And also he's made more than just vlogs.

And Ediates is a very creative show. I don't disagree with you. I think we have to go Hector here. I do think I do think I take the title as King Vlog. How about, give me that? That's later. And that's what I was going to tell you. Hex does have a, we're talking creative, creative.

He's a creative. With, um, he's, he, I mean, with between all the merch stuff. But then I look at, between the spray cans, idiots, like my vlogs are more creative. But he does more creative things. But he does have idiots. And he has idiots. He has the merchandise stuff that he does, the whatnot streams that he does. He's creating a lot.

you're only saying that because you're mad I didn't pick you congrats the actor winning creator of the year creator of the ear hex best competitive best competitive performance I would go Mark

I would go dashy here because I think Dashie Dashie should have won MVP this year he kind of got he kind of got robbed by scrap like he should have won

MVP of the entire year Yeah, you got topped I didn't even realize Scrap got MVP of the year. Of the whole year. Yeah, I'm gonna go down. That's kind of weird. I feel like we go Dashier.

I'm really going to go Dashier. Because Dashie, I think Merck took a little bit to warm up. Like with the NPC. But Dash was just every single event. Yeah, I think Bruce was like automatic this year. Yeah, we can do that. Most valuable teammate, I would go Hooke here.

I think Hooke is, I think Hook really excels in that, in this. And as a teammate, I think people love him. having him has a teammate i think he brings out the best in shots i would definitely say him or murk yeah i would say him or murk i think murk the the the thing is i think of murks like one v3s or like big moments where murk will make a play hook doesn't get the shine that he deserves because they won't either be on a screen in those moments or he just doesn't pull something out of his ass but as far as just like consistency goes like when it goes to listening's

his comm stand out the most by far as like, I wouldn't say leading the team, but sort of just like being a presence. You know he's selfless. Yeah. He doesn't care about anything but winning. And he's just sort of that teammate you want to have. Most valuable teammate, we can give it to, we can give it to hoop, not mad at it. Next up, breakout star, the person who made the biggest leap this year.

I have got a crazy one. Let me know what you think. All right. We're counting huntsman in this, right? I would say Neum Neum was on the Huntsman for a couple months He dominated on the Huntsman Went to L.A. Thieves

And won an event for L.A. thieves. I think we go Neum here as the breakout star Congratulations to my man. I agree. I hope you're doing okay over there on the dark side. Yep. And we had a good flycast with them too. We did. Like we had a flycast with him sort of,

I think not too long after he joined Huntsman did his things with Hansman goes to the league ends up winning an event the episode of course to end up coming out and it was actually a good one but I wish it would have came out but congrats to me and well deserved

now best new edition best new edition I think it's just it's got to be big swoot it's got to be swooted it's got a big it's got to be sweet listen not a lot of people gel with

even if they have a big personality but not a lot of people like we've had big personalities around at least let me know if I'm forgetting someone but like the bo-test sisters minks um just like big personalities in their own space but then when you kind of get around people you're like not that familiar with and don't know that well maybe you've seen them online whatever but you're just in your shell a little bit more but then sometimes you're like maybe you'll you'll force it to where like you don't want to be in your shell or that's just your personality you have a big personality but it just doesn't

gel like you would hope it does but i feel like with swutie it's just it was the most natural of like like he's like roasting people they're roasting him back he just he he gets along with everyone he's smiling like it was such a natural of him like not trying to force it he's like not trying to force itself in content he had the ball support of vlog camera start like put in people's faces yeah uh swutie for sure was the best new edition um yeah i don't think you know no one no one i mean yeah was it was he the only new edition i mean there was like some people from the huntsman all the huntsman guys but swutie stands out by far no one close swutty best new edition for short congrats congratulations

moment of the year uh do we go the paris major here or e wc because the paris major looked crazy i feel like moment of the year oh wait wait moment of the year is bruce's snipe right snipe was it is that there's not like clip of the year right moment of the year is bruce's two piece snipe it has to be it's one of the craziest things i've ever seen in cod why am i forgetting matt matt's gonna try to find out we don't go we don't go we don't go we don't go ah uh oh we don't go we don't I don't know. No, it's on, it's on Den. Den? No, you want to just skip it and go back to it?

Yeah, well, yeah. Most dedicated. Most consistently puts in the work when nobody is watching. Most dedicated might be Pomage. You think so? He does put in work. And nobody's watching. No.

That was not in my head at all, but it just popped up. But I think Pomage is very dedicated to being in the Codd streaming, to showing up whenever he needs to show up. He's always down for whatever. and I just think he's dedicated to the craft. Yeah. Okay. I'm down for that. Who else were you thinking?

It's either me, Pam, or Hex? Or actually... Hacks, I don't know, man. Actually, Zen... Zen is dedicated. Zen carried the huntsman this year. As far as what? He was GM of the huntsman.

He was calling... I was here doing around the bars wait video of the year is me and peanut okay i i forgot about it i forgot about oh video oh yeah we pass them video of the year the podcast with you and around the bar with around the bar with 100% all right congrats to peanut thank you to peanut for the video thank you so so so much to peanut um hopefully hitch wins one of these yeah well i mean that okay most dedicated i would put methods. I'll put methods.

Zinni is dedicated. Because his consistency is... What he did with the Huntsman this year. Like, I don't think people... People don't realize how much effort he put into that. Okay. And he's dedicated to the watch party. He streams consistently.

He streams all the time, makes YouTube videos. He does the fat Tony eats... Oh, yeah. Eat shit. Tony can't stop eating. Yeah. Yeah. Methods might be... He's the honest thing.

This is the snipeers. Streamers react to Dashies 1V2 Quicksgoe versus LAT. Oh, now I remember. I love how Eston Dillon just, like, uploaded this. He uploaded it? Dude. That's moment of the year.

Yeah. Yeah. Let's give that moment of it. Was that at Paris? I don't know where that was. I don't think that's Paris. No, I think that might have been Manchester. Okay, moment of the year goes to Dashis.

He's 1B2 Snipes. It was just everything about it, the slide. He got flinched. Yeah. You hear the head. The head shot. Oh, God. Yeah, we'll give it to dashy.

Employee of the year. Who could that be. Gotta be Matt Craig. Gotta be fucking Matt Craig. I don't know. Albini's been putting in work. Albini's been here for four weeks. He's not winning this.

Maybe he'll win it next time. Matt Craig. Who, I mean... It's just Matt Craig. I mean, there is... Matt Craig or James. But as someone see... Matt, would you say there's a...

a secret hard worker. I was going to say like a Tanner. He's traveling. He probably has fucking SD cards out the ass and footage out the ass. He has, like he's doing, you know how hard that kind of job is. Yeah. And then he's probably got some other stuff on top of that.

Like is he Loki? If Matt, besides you, is there a name that comes to mine? Definitely can't be Roger Page. It's, I mean, you got to think like Tandah's process, which is an insane amount of work.

Riley also does watch party have a year. He's chilling in his chair, though. It's a lot, though. If Matt Craig got hit by a bus, this place would go up in flames. If Matt Craig got hit by a bus, it would be a hard, he would be a hard one to replace.

Yeah. As far as just weird little shit. Yeah, I wouldn't take, I wouldn't be able to text. No one wants to do. I wouldn't be able to text, James at 2 a.m. and say, hey, do you know where the spare USB extender cables are? Because James, first of all, would be on tender and not caring about work.

And he, second of all, wouldn't know where they are. So I'm going to give this to E. James is at the bottom. He just has like that easy. I'm going to oversee everyone. I work so hard. Right. Yeah.

Let's give this to E. Matt Craig. E. Matt Craig. Congrats. Employee of the year. Congratulations. Are we biased?

No. No. Best duo? Uh, there ain't another duo in this or, man. What? It's your maniac. Kay grads did the best duo.

Let's actually think about, I mean, what, Seth and Zen? No, it would be shots in dashy. Oh. But let's not even dive into that. It's not even worry about the... Because it definitely ain't Zen and they don't do shit together. Besides watch party. Yeah, they go to dinner.

But it ain't. Even on some duo shit. They don't do no duo shit. They don't grab. What's the last time Zinny and Seth got food together? When's the last time they rat, battled, or freestyled in a car? When was the last time they ran a half marathon together like we did last week? When's the last time they woke up at 4.30 in the morning for an easy 5K, got a coffee after and writ down their goals for the year?

They're not on our level. Yeah, they're not. Congratulations. No bias. Best guest appearance. I think I got to go repulse here. with the with the with the silent library was that this year yeah right that was that was in like february right i thought it was in like february we did a silent library yeah i think that's repulse

but it's nine months ago it's not this year we're doing in cod years every year after ewc we hand out the awards so it's ewc to ewc so i think i think i think repulse was a definite definite definite W. Repulse came in. He sucked the shit out that lollipop. He made that shit. He made that shit clap and then he left. Congratulations to my man, Repulse for winning best guest appearance. King vlog, listen, as best vlogger of the year. As the original King vlog, it doesn't pay me as much as it as I thought it might to hand it over for a year to the best vlogger. Give me your camera. Hand it over.

From King vlog to King vlog. It's recording. Yes. Maniac does win King vlog of this year. Congratulations. To Maniac. To Maniac. I fucking love it.

The King vlog. Wow, accepting my award. Mm-hmm. You're gonna double... I'm a double dip. You're gonna double fist. I can't think to a once

I can't think of a better situation to announce my winning of King vlog than to double dip into two cameras while they're both making a video for a blog

and yapper of the year as well and yapper of the year caught it both on camera all right uh I think we skip phrase of the year. Let's do quote.

Let's keep talking about a vlogger of the year. Let's do. I've put in my time. It's hard to come up with new stuff with the boring life you live. You know, I really try to take, you know, try a little bit with the edits.

I've tried to get other people involved. You know, we've had our ups, we've had our downs. We've had some bangers. We've had some sleepers. We've had some shit. But, you know,

at the end of the day, we've gotten the job done. and this award means a lot to me because I did not think I was going to come back to vlogging did not foresee it in my future ever the fact that we did you know

I feel like we built a little community in the YouTube comment section and I just want to say thank you to you guys for always showing up, like commenting and subscribing appreciate you guys man phrase of the year maybe people have been saying

Wilt Bam, Kobe Hitch. And I don't know why people have been saying it. But I feel like that would be a good phrase because I can't really think of other phrases of the year. WBKH, I think it would be a good phrase. Not quote of the year, not quote of the year. Phrase of the year. What does Wilkamb Kobe Hitch mean?

There goes water. Ficking. If you're talking about creators tossing those names around, it's usually short-hand Will for Will Chamberlain, meaning crazy stats, banned for Batman or Bio

or just Impact. Kobe for Kobe Bryant, Platch or Precision, and Hitchie, she usually points to Christopher Hitchens or just someone's nickname, like. Oh, so you missed her do it all. I guess,

maybe that's what they mean by it. That's what that man. I don't know. But, I mean, that has been... You just kept seeing it spam. Yeah, people have just... Wherever you are. Yeah, like, anytime anything good happens

like on stream or on videos or like, while I'm competing, like, doing competitions, like competing and stuff? I feel like that just started yesterday. People have been saying it. I don't know. People have been saying it for a couple months at this point.

He made it up. But if it just started yesterday... I just can't think of any other phrases. That's the only reason I said it. There's got to be one. A quote of the year. I can't remember the exact quote, but at the beginning of the year,

we made a quote that we were going to put on a t-shirt. Oh, what was it? like a and I want that to be quote of the year but I can't remember what it was do you remember Matt

you know what I'm talking about it was like a quote we were gonna put on a t-shirt it might have been like it's like a flycast kind of thing so flycast in like January like this is the year something about goals

and like this this is the like this is the year a goal I can't remember we'll have to come back to it but we can just put flycast quote of the year yeah quote of the year

all right uh you want to do the hall of fame now because i think we're kind of run out of time when do we start so the hex award you got to think the hex award for this year that's got to be somebody who knows their shit the ce he's he's he's figuring figuring shit out super alpha yeah alpha alpha alpha alpha as much as possible. Even if he's not alpha, he thinks he's alpha. Exactly. So who is going to win the Hex Award of the year? Might be Zinny.

It might be Zin. It has to be. I think Zen wins this year. Thinks he works the hardest. He thinks he's more alpha than he is. And he's got shit going on. And he's multi-mills. At all times.

Yep. Got shit going on. At least he'll tell you he's super busy. That is true. Congratulations. Congratulations. The Hex Award. To Zen for winning the Hex Award.

The Scump Award. This is the guy who whenever he picks the sticks up, shit is happening. I think this is a balance between gameplay and content. This is somebody who pushes the organization forward. So we're not doing like, we're thinking, we've got to think whole career.

Exactly. Okay. I think, I think this is the guy who pushes things forward, in game, out of game, and is making optic as a whole a better organization.

And I think personally, Shotsie wins this award. Shotsie is 100% the only contender, I think, that could win the Skump Award. It's weird. I was actually thinking about it the other day. I was like, Shotsie is kind of just skump.

Right. Now. I think so, too. Shotsie is the now scump of Optic. I think I was probably a close second here, but I think Shotsie, congratulations for winning the Skump Award of the Year. The Hitch Awards.

So what kind of award would this be? I think this is a very creative. The Hitch Award would be like used to work really hard. Kind of like he got a little bit of money. Then he sort of just stopped caring, kind of just went independent, backstabs, his friends. And, you know, just kind of does what he has to now. Who do you think would win that award? Bose, congratulations for the Hitch Award.

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Free of charge. BetMGEM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with Eye Gaming, Ontario. All right. Congratulations to Bose. All right, the Maniac. The Maniac Award. The Maniac Award, I think this is somebody who stopped uploading, stopped making content, you know, worked hard on mental health,

worked hard on addiction, to be addicted to very many things and really, really hurt relationships around him, you know, throughout the years. So I think Daltouche, congratulations to Dahl Tush for winning the Maniac Award.

I'm sure he will be excited about winning the Maniac Award. He has a very long time, but he still got shit going on. Yeah. Congratulations. The Dahl Tush Award. So now the Dahl Tush Award. Someone who had a weird come up.

seemingly you would think doesn't belong in this space but somehow pulled it off found an audience for himself yeah loves doing anything to numb his mind some would say

he was an addict himself he overcame it he would stream but hated every second of it he then stopped streaming because he hated every second of it he's still unsure what to do

and maybe seemingly lost in life. James. James Sellers. James Sellers. Congratulations to winning the Daltoosh Award. Congratulations to James. I must want to say myself, Pomage or, well, that's all that.

Well, that's going to do it for the award show. Let us know. The first annual Optic Awards presented by a sponsor. that they're going to find for this pod. Yeah. Congratulations to everyone. And thank you guys for sticking with us throughout this year for the first annual Optic Awards.

And we'll be back next year. Yeah. Thank you guys, man. Let us know in the comments below who you would vote. Leave category name. Who you would vote for. Maybe we got it wrong. Maybe we were biased.

Maybe we're idiots. Maybe you're smarter and better than us. And have it way harder. because you work a 9 to 5 and we just but that's going to do it for the flycast man thank you all so much for watching see y'all in the next one mac and gregg play the outro music bed