-Ran
Smash Master
First, of course, I'm going to thank you for picking up Smash Brothers for the circuit since it aids in our exposure and provides our best players with a legitimate opportunity to play against each other. Unfortunately, the rest of this thread is going to address the apparent shortcomings of the tournament to our community at large. As a professional organization, I had high hopes for your ability to actually manage the tournament for the onlookers, but it appears that you are incapable of doing so at even a snail's pace.
Believe it or not, our community loves to watch and be a part of events, even if we are left with nothing more than a textual stream. There was one tournament [Clash of the Titans 4?] where the video feed went out completely, but SamuraiPanda continued the stream with nothing but an audio feed commenting on the matches as they went on. Though you lack the ability to stream Brawl matches, there is literally nothing preventing you from having a laptop set up to stream audio updates, or provide a platform for the various players to talk to the community via a chat.
Speaking of chat, I must say that the Facebook integration is a halfhearted effort. I do not want to spam my entire Facebook page with MLG updates that are going to pollute the updates of all my friends into oblivion. A simple java chat would suffice for the needs of our community. I fully believe that communication through the Facebook chat is actually preventing people from commenting due to not wanting to flood their personal Facebook. Forcing us to use this method of chat is ridiculous.
In terms of updates for the bracket, it took us over five hours to get a bracket. Updates were incredibly slow. At the very least, if you had an audio stream going on, the important matches would be able to be conveyed to the community instantly. You don't need to have a trained analyst manning the mic, but rather just let the players interact with the community. You'd be amazed at the poise they are capable of exhibiting. I digress, we need to have updated brackets and matches so that we can discuss them and marvel at the matches that are happening. On that note, it would be rather nice to see the bracket include the mains of the various players so that we can see character match ups.
Doubles broadcasting is nearly nonexistent. Truly, you should be providing us with a bracket that is at the very least being updated. There is real money behind this secondary event, and it should be treated as such. Instead, we're deprived of the entire day's hype and left with four updates at the most.
MLG, I would hope that you take my advice and adopt an audio-stream station, faster updated brackets, and a better chat application for our community. Due to your inability to secure the rights to video streaming, you can at the very least provide us the above.
PS: We'll have to talk about your stage list another day.
Believe it or not, our community loves to watch and be a part of events, even if we are left with nothing more than a textual stream. There was one tournament [Clash of the Titans 4?] where the video feed went out completely, but SamuraiPanda continued the stream with nothing but an audio feed commenting on the matches as they went on. Though you lack the ability to stream Brawl matches, there is literally nothing preventing you from having a laptop set up to stream audio updates, or provide a platform for the various players to talk to the community via a chat.
Speaking of chat, I must say that the Facebook integration is a halfhearted effort. I do not want to spam my entire Facebook page with MLG updates that are going to pollute the updates of all my friends into oblivion. A simple java chat would suffice for the needs of our community. I fully believe that communication through the Facebook chat is actually preventing people from commenting due to not wanting to flood their personal Facebook. Forcing us to use this method of chat is ridiculous.
In terms of updates for the bracket, it took us over five hours to get a bracket. Updates were incredibly slow. At the very least, if you had an audio stream going on, the important matches would be able to be conveyed to the community instantly. You don't need to have a trained analyst manning the mic, but rather just let the players interact with the community. You'd be amazed at the poise they are capable of exhibiting. I digress, we need to have updated brackets and matches so that we can discuss them and marvel at the matches that are happening. On that note, it would be rather nice to see the bracket include the mains of the various players so that we can see character match ups.
Doubles broadcasting is nearly nonexistent. Truly, you should be providing us with a bracket that is at the very least being updated. There is real money behind this secondary event, and it should be treated as such. Instead, we're deprived of the entire day's hype and left with four updates at the most.
MLG, I would hope that you take my advice and adopt an audio-stream station, faster updated brackets, and a better chat application for our community. Due to your inability to secure the rights to video streaming, you can at the very least provide us the above.
PS: We'll have to talk about your stage list another day.
