I am so excited to finally have the chance t go to RTX! For many of my readers who don’t know what RTX is, it is a convention held in Austin, Texas by a company called RoosterTeeth. It is a 3 day convention filled with booths, which could be selling items or providing information, panels to ask questions to the employees of RoosterTeeth and other various companies who will be attending, and displays of the newest and latest games and technology coming out.

This year, it will start on July 1st and run until the 3rd of July. As I have said in other posts, I would like to someday be employed by RoosterTeeth. They make such great content and make me laugh every single time I watch their videos, podcasts, or short films. Their sense of humor is right up my alley and that humor transfer to real life. It’s not just a “stage” act, and that is why I can’t wait to meet them in person.

The schedule has been posted on RoosterTeeth.com and on RTXevent.com for anyone who wants to see what the three days will entail. As I said before, there will be panels where the employees will talk to the fans and tell them about upcoming things they have planned and reveal new stuff to us that we didn’t know was being released. They have been known to take certain members from the crowd and interact with them, maybe by doing a quick Q&A after the panel is over.

I am also really looking forward to going because it will give me a chance to meet other RoosterTeeth fans . Meeting people who have the same interests as you do is one of the best things. Where I live and go to school at, there aren’t a lot of people, if any, that like what I like, it’s hard to connect with people. When I go to RTX, I will finally be with people who will accept me for who I am. This is a place of no judgement and everyone is free to be who they are. That is a place where i can not wait to go and will not want to leave.

Interested in going to RTX? Go to the links above and find out more! If you have any questions or insights, let me know in the comments below!

Burnie Burns, born as Michael Justin Burns, is the CEO of RoosterTeeth and the creator of Red v. Blue and Lazer Team, along with other projects created under RoosterTeeth. Burnie was born in New York, but has lived most of his life in Austin, Texas, where RoosterTeeth is currently located.

In his early life, he went to Alief Elsik High School, where he got the nickname “Burnie.” It was given to him by a classmate who wanted to differentiate him between the other Michael’s in his class. He then went on to go to The University of Texas at Austin. Here, he started working on the campus TV station. While he was there, he started a new TV program Sneak Peak, which is the longest running student television show at The University of Texas at Austin.

While attending school, he was working at a tech company where he met future co-founders of RoosterTeeth, Geoff Ramsey and Gus Sorola. As they started working together, they started to develop a new, game changing video-game based videos. The videos were called Red v. Blue. They used a technique called machinima, which means to take pre-recorded game play from a video game and dub audio over top to make create a story.  When they first used this technique, it was widely disregarded, and nobody really paid any attention to the series. After they got recognition from Computer Gaming World, the series became so popular, that they had to revise their original thought of only making these short, comedic videos to a full season length, consisting of 20 episodes or so per season.

Because of the popularity they were getting, the decided to make their own website, properly named redvblue.com. Their domain name has since changed to RoosterTeeth.com, because after Red v. Blue, their company grew beyond their imaginations. Over the course of the next couple of years, they went on to make more machinima content, like The Strangerhood and PANICS. These shows made their popularity grow even more, so Burnie had to grow his company.

Presently, they have made a lot of great content. To name some, Immersion, where they take video game situations and try to replicate them in real life, RWBY, being a very popular anime show, and The RoosterTeeth Podcast, where his co-founder, Gus Sorola, hosts a podcast every week and has guests through out the company talk about recent events and popular topics.

Because of them, they have inspired me to pursue the Communication Media field so i can one day hopefully work for them. To hear their story, to have them come up from nothing and create such a successful company, who has produced a Blockbuster movie called Lazer Team, it has motivated me to learn all i can about production and editing.

Have you ever heard of these guys? Do you love them as much as i do? Let me know in the comments below about what you think!