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Dear awesome people,

You may have noticed that we have a little pre-roll sponsorship mention at the beginning of each Desert Brutality STAGE video.   This is because the match could *not* have happened without direct corporate sponsorship.

Thus, the Desert Brutality match itself was indeed sponsored by sponsors, but the channel, as well as all of our content, is wholly supported by you - the Patreons.

The match itself barely made it financially speaking without putting me in debt, honestly, and that was with substantial sponsorship.

Thus the reason you see those pre-rolls before each stage, as we are thankful for their help in making this happen.

Thank you for watching and hopefully that clarifies any questions that may be lingering in that regard.

~Karl

Comments

Keith Hubbard

Thanks for addressing the topic. I appreciate everything you have done for the community. It's just perception is everything today. Those pre-rolls just felt out of place on InRangeTV content.

Corey Allhands

Absolutely nothing wrong with acknowledging those who made it possible.

Nicholas White

I really do not understand people's issues with it. It was short, not overly or awkwardly scripted, and RELEVANT. Everything costs money. If everyone upped their contribution to $100 a month, well, maybe then they can complain. Until then, Karl and Ian, do whatever it takes to balance the P&L, and keep content coming. On a seperate unrelated note, where did the Finn's guns come from, and did anyone use your WWSD guns?

Kiono Hiemalis

Complely okay to see the acknowledgement, for one they are great shops, esp that Finnish one, and secondly, they fit onto the range and you don't make endless minutes of ads for them either. All is well~

Nathan Gefvert

You were very clear about it. Really not sure why anyone had an issue with it. Much better than the folks that talk at end about this newly discovered product and spout the marketing points every 15 seconds like they are reading ad copy...

Alfred Gawron

I do not understand this bitching, there is nothing wrong with sponsorship, especially in a match. What do you people want? Is there some rule, I don't know about, that creators are only trustworthy when they are on the brink of poverty? They have to pay bills and have a healthy surplus to plan and live their lives, otherwise nobody will do the work it requires. It's a simple matter of trust, either you do or you don't. If you don't, than nothing they do or say will be good enough....

Andrew Donoghue

I would much rather a couple of second sponsor banner at the start of the video than no video, that’s what you have to look at it like. It’s not the choice between sponsored and unsponsored, and without sponsorship there will be a few less videos, it’s a case of sponsorship or no video. The sponsor is making that video happen, appreciate them for that fact alone.

alphawhiskey

Who was upset? Running a match is a completely separate entity from InRange that just happens to be hosted by the same people.

Teddy

I presumed that InRange holds a similar philosophy to P&S, wherein if someone sponsored you, it was going to be a product or service that you thoroughly approved of - no selling your soul here to pay the bills, just mutually beneficial partnerships with legit people. I'm totally fine with that! Besides, it's not like you haven't communicated your prior partnerships with and happiness with Varusteleka, KE Arms and their respective staff in other videos!

Carl Knoos

Hey, whatever you need to do in order to run these events. Having said that, maybe having a 30-60 second pre-amble to the match series explaining it would assuage those who feel differently.

James Caldwell

I could see some people, who were not paying close enough attention to what you stated at the beginning of the video, thinking there was a double standard (claiming to be viewer supported and yet, putting in an ad). To make it perfectly clear in the future, I might have started out the video something more like, "Though the InRange channel is wholly supported by Patreon, this stage of the actual Desert Brutality Match could not have been brought together without the generous financial support of KE Arms." (or something like this that makes perfectly clear where the monetary fences are drawn).

Thomas Bobay

Thank you for the clarification and thank you to everyone involved for putting on such an awesome event.

Gabriel Costa

Regardless you guys put great content and we understand that doesn’t come cheap. We support this channel either way and understand you have to do what you have to do. Much thanks and keep up the great work!

Daniel Kibler

This is a non issue. Everything life costs money and running a business is no different especially one that you don’t make huge money off of. If you had sponsorships I would still support both of you guys. Your transparency just further proves your integrity.

Keith Hubbard

If this was a InRangeTV ad spot and not a Desert Brutality ad spot it could be an issue. InRangeTV was demonetized and set to patreon so that the channel would be entirly viewer supported. Accepting adds for InRangeTV content would nullify the claim that they are wholy viewer supported. Now for this instance you are correct that it is a non-issue. KE Arms sponsored portions of Desert Brutality and this is just thanking them. The ad spot just comes off as a YouTube sponsor spot, which is where some of the confusion stemmed from.

Cole Goben

Ha! Thought the sponsorship was apparent. Even if it wasn't and they wanted to sponsor the channel as a whole I think that would be great!

Adam Jacob

I've got purchases coming up, and I'd much rather give my money to a company that has demonstrated their support the community than otherwise.

Vozlek

It's sad that you even had to make this post, I could clearly tell that it was the event that was sponsored and not the channel. If anyone thinks that these are not expensive enough for a need of sponsorship, then I'd say you don't need those dumb asses support.

PL

You deserve sponsored help to run an event. Can I say, as interesting from an engineering point of view the 'what would Stoner do' stuff was, it's great to see inrange running around against the clock with cool guns and kit again! Excellent stuff. Mags back in pouches though (or at least cram em in your smock) like a real scenario pretty please? It really does add to the fun (and the time).

Andreas Nohl

For me it was clearly sponsoring if that event nothing else.

Steve Zeatlow

Long time InrangeTV supporter, no problems here.

David Hynes

Do what you have to. Not a big deal.

Greggurt

What are the Finns using for the competition?

Ove Toranger

I would go with "equipment" - since it's Friday and I feel like making a funny :)

Ove Toranger

I have no problem with this and judging from other comments, neither does most !

InRange TV

They borrowed my Hk416 clone & G19 Roland Special. Annsi used Ian's 5.56 Valmet AK.

Nicholas Wineman

Desert Brutality was one of the most challenging and FUN matches I have ever attended. Keep up the amazing work. Lifetime Patreon supporter. 4th Squad!