How do you think Challenge-TV is faring today?

CHTV is doing horribly. In the last week there has been a total of ZERO demos uploaded. This is the biggest reason I am trying to revamp the site. It may even be a waste of time. With Youtube and other sites like it it seems that everyone just wants the simplicity of hitting the play button and watching a match.

I think demos are now for the die hard fans. Someone needs to create a demo player that plays all of these games without needing that game installed.


Yea I am asking cause of the recent post about CH-TV's possible death, can you tell us about the events if any that led up to this?

Just that. No one adding demos to the site. People download demos but CHTV will never grow if all we do is download.


About that, how many downloads a month does CHTV actually have?

I do not know. The backend of CHTV is older than I am. One of the things I want coded in is the ability to get all of these stats. How many downloads per day, per month and so on. I have a lot of ideas.


Also some have attributed the small amount of uploads to it being summer, whats your opinion about this?

That is ridiculous. Simple, the problem is people do not want to upload demos, I don't know why.


In the thread a minor flame-war between you and Phil almost started, can you tell us more about this situation and why Phil isn't working on the site currently?

Phil helped out a lot with CHTV, most of the current code was created by him but he did not finish, no one ever does. Phil blames me for not forcing him to finish. Phil is a grown man and he is volunteering his time and expertise and I never wanted to be pushy and or bossy.


We will talk more about your vision for Challenge-TV later but for now, could you just share some of your ideas for CHTV?

A total redesign, I want to add archives, ie. the old Challenge sites. I want stats as I mentioned earlier, I want every person to have a profile that shows how many demos they have uploaded and perhaps downloaded. A news section that allows trusted users to add news (I am not too concerned with news, CHTV is a demo site but I do want a small amount of news). I want to run tournaments through CHTV, I also want a video section and many many more!


You recently offered a DVD pack in exchange for donations, how has that worked out?

There have been a few donations and I am pleased with the people that have donated. They are appreciated.


You claim that the DVDs contain over 20 000 demos. Is that individual demos or demo packs?

The demo packs are counted as 1 demo.


So the actual amount of demos are closer to 60-70 000?

That is possible but I do not think it is that much.


What will the money go to?

To a designer and a coder. I have someone working on the design and that is not going well, it is a very slow process. The code is going very slow as well. I need someone that can do both for a very very very very cheap price, free would be nice.. then the money can be put into a tournament!


Last thing on the topic of the present, who is the sponsor of CHTV?

A fan of CHTV answered the call when I needed help. A guy by the name of Mescon who lives in Sweden is hosting CHTV and Promode.org. He is a very kind guy and is appreciated.


You heard him, start uploading more demos and while you are at it why not donate $25 for your own QuakeWorld demo collection.

Also make sure to check out the first and last part of the interview in which we talk about the creation of Challenge-TV and its future respectively.