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Dealing with Stream Nerves?
- Thread starter Josa
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how new are you to competitive smash/gaming?
do you get nervous, but less so, playing important matches off stream, as well?
are you better than the people you're playing on stream, or close to the same skill level?
do you get nervous, but less so, playing important matches off stream, as well?
are you better than the people you're playing on stream, or close to the same skill level?
zman804
Smash Ace
Sounds like you're worried about messing up with an audience involved and less with the pressure of the given situation itself.
If you do fine with people watching your matches, in similar matchups and situations, try to keep yourself in that zone. **** the camera, **** the internet, you're just doing this for yourself and mistakes are just mistakes.
Basically, try to distance yourself from an invisible audience, because it sounds like you're adding pressure to yourself because of it.
If you do fine with people watching your matches, in similar matchups and situations, try to keep yourself in that zone. **** the camera, **** the internet, you're just doing this for yourself and mistakes are just mistakes.
Basically, try to distance yourself from an invisible audience, because it sounds like you're adding pressure to yourself because of it.
Avro-Arrow
Smash Journeyman
4tlas
Smash Lord
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I agree that it sounds like you're worried about what the audience is thinking.
With any problem in life, there are two solutions: stop what's causing the problem, or change your perspective so you don't think of it as a problem.
For the first route, I'd suggest trying to commentate. Getting used to a personal interaction with those audience members will reveal their normal reactions to stream. If your stream isn't filled with monsters, then they probably aren't judging you nearly as hard as you can imagine them to. If they are monsters, then don't seek their approval. Awful people's approval means nothing good anyway.
For the second route, I'd suggest treating it like any other match where you don't get nervous. If you normally aren't trying to prove your worth, then don't think that way on stream either. There will always be another match. Anyone who's judging you is a judgmental person and there's nothing actually wrong with you. And so on.
With any problem in life, there are two solutions: stop what's causing the problem, or change your perspective so you don't think of it as a problem.
For the first route, I'd suggest trying to commentate. Getting used to a personal interaction with those audience members will reveal their normal reactions to stream. If your stream isn't filled with monsters, then they probably aren't judging you nearly as hard as you can imagine them to. If they are monsters, then don't seek their approval. Awful people's approval means nothing good anyway.
For the second route, I'd suggest treating it like any other match where you don't get nervous. If you normally aren't trying to prove your worth, then don't think that way on stream either. There will always be another match. Anyone who's judging you is a judgmental person and there's nothing actually wrong with you. And so on.