saved the day Really, I haven't seen the game in high graphic setting in a while, and that first game on Bonnie Springs looked very appealing. In these moments have to appreciate the work of our great map team!
He really did, we were headed towards an UIless low quality stream until he told us he could stream.
Jerom wrote:Actually the winter tournament finals got almsot 500 I think. But that one was more anticipated, theres a 100 viewer core or so that knows this event is happening and tunes in within the first hour of the stream. Then there's a group of ~200-300 people that might tune in over the course of the stream if they notice it, which they may or may not. Then there's another group of unknown size that might randomly find the stream without knowing about it or so, or viewers that are very hard to reach (they're more easily reached by an ongoing event, if they catch one stream they might get hooked or at least look out for the finals). But for such a one weekend event, 250 viewers is awesome indeed. I feel we still lose a lot of the less diehard members when there's a caster switch or the stream goes down for a little bit or if there's other downtime. I have no idea how that would be fixed given that we have no professional casters that can do all of it in one sitting some way or another.
Downtime (in the non-literal sense) isn't a serious issue unless it's fairly extensive, chiefly because regardless of how impactful it is, little can be done about it. Literal downtime as in the stream being unavailable at any given moment in time on the other hand should be avoided as much as possible
Jerom wrote:Actually the winter tournament finals got almsot 500 I think. But that one was more anticipated, theres a 100 viewer core or so that knows this event is happening and tunes in within the first hour of the stream. Then there's a group of ~200-300 people that might tune in over the course of the stream if they notice it, which they may or may not. Then there's another group of unknown size that might randomly find the stream without knowing about it or so, or viewers that are very hard to reach (they're more easily reached by an ongoing event, if they catch one stream they might get hooked or at least look out for the finals). But for such a one weekend event, 250 viewers is awesome indeed. I feel we still lose a lot of the less diehard members when there's a caster switch or the stream goes down for a little bit or if there's other downtime. I have no idea how that would be fixed given that we have no professional casters that can do all of it in one sitting some way or another.
Downtime (in the non-literal sense) isn't a serious issue unless it's fairly extensive, chiefly because regardless of how impactful it is, little can be done about it. Literal downtime as in the stream being unavailable at any given moment in time on the other hand should be avoided as much as possible
how would you avoid that when casters switch though? Thats the one that costs us the most viewers.
Jerom wrote:Actually the winter tournament finals got almsot 500 I think. But that one was more anticipated, theres a 100 viewer core or so that knows this event is happening and tunes in within the first hour of the stream. Then there's a group of ~200-300 people that might tune in over the course of the stream if they notice it, which they may or may not. Then there's another group of unknown size that might randomly find the stream without knowing about it or so, or viewers that are very hard to reach (they're more easily reached by an ongoing event, if they catch one stream they might get hooked or at least look out for the finals). But for such a one weekend event, 250 viewers is awesome indeed. I feel we still lose a lot of the less diehard members when there's a caster switch or the stream goes down for a little bit or if there's other downtime. I have no idea how that would be fixed given that we have no professional casters that can do all of it in one sitting some way or another.
Downtime (in the non-literal sense) isn't a serious issue unless it's fairly extensive, chiefly because regardless of how impactful it is, little can be done about it. Literal downtime as in the stream being unavailable at any given moment in time on the other hand should be avoided as much as possible
how would you avoid that when casters switch though? Thats the one that costs us the most viewers.
Apart from not changing streamers: Don't ask me; I'm just a swe_tard.
pecelot wrote:Of course huge thanks to everyone involved, but the waiting was pretty annoying, and I would imagine some newer players would get mad because of that. Also, maybe try to confirm the casters in the future so that such shenanigans won't happen again?
Well the biggest mistake was to originially plan the semi finals on saturday too. But with semi finals on sunday, the entire schedule had to be created on saturday in terms of players, which was pretty tight already (this was about the only option, as diarouga couldnt play late and kaiser couldnt get home earlier). We had arranged h2o to cast but something seemed to had surprisingly gotten in between. There wasnt really anyone else available, which made it really hard to find casters.
Maybe for the next time its more important to focus on caster availability beforehand. Theres always good players available, and theres always a way for them to schedule. It was really unfortunate that the veteran casters zuta and interjection werent available.
AFAIK third place doesn't receive prize money, and thus doesn't need to be played out. Split goes $100 to first, and $50 to second, taking up the total $150 prize pool.