Very simple but definitely more balanced version:So what do you think would have been better?
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Very simple but definitely more balanced version:So what do you think would have been better?
Loved the qualifiers, so much engagement, so many matches to see -- great idea to make it like this guys, looking forward for next week too!
As a general suggestion.
I'm not sure if its possible but could casters do a deal to spread out the casting of top games.
The vast majority casting one high level when other high level games were on going didn't feel right.
It's a very crowded schedule but when 3 or 4 top level games are happening it's disappointing that you can't see the games you want to see most.
That's a valid suggestion. But Naraic also has a good point. Viewers may have interest in watching with quality casters. I follow at least 5-6 top casters and some matches were not being casted by anyone. If casters can organize and cover all/most games maybe it will lead to better experience for the viewers.(which, I assume, is one of the things casters are looking to do).There are like 10 streams to choose and you can view game yourself too
Saturday: I was casting the best series (T90 did the same) -> 1800 viewers
Later Saturday: I was casting the 2nd best series (T90 the best series) -> 1300 viewers
How would you decide on who gets the rights on the best series?
who decides the tiers? Someone will always complain, i always had the worse match ups. Free pick for everyone should be the best.maybe a rotation plan, so everyone gets some Tier 1 and TIer 2 games. And the community have more variety.
I don't know.Saturday: I was casting the best series (T90 did the same) -> 1800 viewers
Later Saturday: I was casting the 2nd best series (T90 the best series) -> 1300 viewers
How would you decide on who gets the rights on the best series?
This is a good point. I watched bits of Accm Vivi on Ornlu's stream and some of Nicov Kamigawa on Ashlyn's stream.Imo this is also a great opportunity to check out small streamers/casters. For example i was watching Kamigawa vs Nicov on Ganjis stream, before Nili even streamed it. (G3 was sick btw).
There are a lot of small streams by quality people, who if they are smart, cast the Tier 2,3 games and if they are lucky get a great series. Ganjis was getting a bunch of viewers ( before Nili started casting it also) for example.
Saturday: I was casting the best series (T90 did the same) -> 1800 viewers
Later Saturday: I was casting the 2nd best series (T90 the best series) -> 1300 viewers
How would you decide on who gets the rights on the best series?
Assigning which piece of cake/chocolate/etc one should get isn't also huge effort but siblings have been fighting over it since the dawn of time. Just saying.In NAC I remember you both saying you would work together, more than before.
Assigning which one cast which serie does not sound like a huge effort..
How does that make it better? The point is even if there is a solution which seems fair from the outside, it is very subjective. It is a business after all, people will work together as long as it is beneficial to them individually.This is a 20000$ prizepool tournament, not a cake
Nili and T90 are professional casters, not siblings
I mean imagine, player A goes for civ X and player B for civ Y but its not in his draft. You can't really go RE here because, because Y now has insight over the civ of player A, but he could change his civ now with that more knowledge. Admin Loss is the only option, maybe even accompanied with 50% prize cut. That is totally unnecessary and would destroy the esports experience and professionality we want to promote.
Which can be worse than AL in my view :D Imagine you have a water map in the pool, and Player A picks that civ on a land map for his opponent, he has two disadvantages since he cant use that civ anymore on the water map. As I said, I dont want that potential drama at all, in any way its avoidable. Just have admins checking the proper settings of a match before the match starts as any othr referee would do I am not talking about qualifiers or something but a live-streamed multi-thousand dollar tournament And we can say, player are self-responsible to pick their civs, and thats true, but still, it will happen, that they misclick and start the game, which is avoidable. If they choose the wrong civ from their draft, thats a totally different story, but if they break the rules and we could have seen that before the game, it would be little work for preventing huge chaos and drama and our image of professionalityIn previous tournaments, player A picks the same civ and got to choose the civ for player B (a civ from B's draft), this seems ok to me
That was the plan, but thanks to the server maintenance on saturday the ro16 had to be played on sunday too, so they were massively behind schedule. Shouldnt happen next week.Best solution here would be anyway, that the qualifier finals, that tend to have 8 well-known players competing in the closest possible matches for the spot in the main-event and some cash in the bag would be streamed successively not simultaneously.