Ian Boswell, you have just won a full year of the All-Access Pass! Congratulations! Now go find a medic, you’re on fire.

Fans of The Orange Box from Valve Software have probably become addicted to the online game Team Fortress 2, just like Matthew has. Now those addicts have a chance to win a full year of the All-Access Pass (a $99 value) and show off their movie-making skills.

Make an in-game music video (aka Machinema) using “I Blame The Spy” and you could win a full year of free music from Matthew Ebel dot net.

Read on for more details…

The Official Rules:

• Videos may use the entire song or part of the song, length is up to you.
• Do not use any copyrighted material such as other songs or movie clips that you do not own the rights to. Sound effects and other creative additions are okay, but don’t do anything illegal.
• Videos must be posted publicly to YouTube to be eligible (though they may also be posted elsewhere).
• Videos must contain a legible, full-frame credit of at least 3 seconds with the phrase
  

  Music “I Blame The Spy” by Matthew Ebel
  www.matthewebel.net

  (Can be at beginning or end of video clip.)

• The first sentence of the video’s info must be
  

  https://matthewebel.net – Music “I Blame The Spy” Used With Permission.

  (Yes, with the http:// in there.)

• Post a link to the video’s YouTube page in the comments to this blog post so we can find it!
• Submission deadline is July 31, 2009. All videos must be posted to YouTube before August to be eligible.
• Entries will be judged by a panel of Matthew’s friends and colleagues who have played TF2 but have not submitted a video.
• Judging criteria will be: “Best.” Seriously, that’s it. Judges will simply pick the video they feel was the best, based on their opinions alone.

If you have any questions about the contest, please Contact Us

Not sure exactly what we’re talking about? Something like this…

If you have, however, and you have ever played an Engineer for more than 5 minutes, this is a tune you’ll be able to sympathize with. For once Matthew has forgone the piano entirely for a Johnny Cash-inspired ballad dedicated to the heartless cretins that are the Spies.

This song is also going to be the subject of a new contest soon, so stay tuned!

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Lyrics:

Why did you have to stab me?
I’m only doing my job
to keep my people movin’
and standing by the bomb.

My turrets are unhappy,
they bow their head in shame.
The sappers are so heavy,
and I know who to blame.

I blame the Spy-
That dirty, low, back-stabbin’ guy.
He flicked his butt right in my eye,
he’d make a Scottish cyclops cry.
I blame the Spy.

I’m battered, bruised, and bleedin’,
but help is on the way.
Then suddenly my Medic
has stabbed me in the face.

Seems someone tried to warn me
by lighting him on fire,
but really who could blame me?
My circumstance was dire.

I blame the spy.
Won’t someone swat him like a fly?
That tabarnak I wish he’d die,
I’ll make him kiss his ass goodbye.
I blame the Spy.

And like a Wall Street banker
he took everything I had.
Like diving with an anchor
it’s enough to drive me mad.

Nailing him’s a Demo’s pipe dream
or a soldier’s launching pad,
but now that he’s on my team
maybe this guy’s not that bad…
…nope, screw him.

I blame the Spies.
Invisible to untrained eyes.
A fitting end I can’t devise,
he’s even ugly in disguise.
I blame the Spies.
I blame the Spies.