ever since pound 4, livestreams became an essential part of tournament hype and we set our standards for big internationals there. a lot of organisation has to be done in order to run a good livestream so its up to us that we as a community help setting up.
participants for big tournaments like genesis, pound, apex are on average around 500 people. thats a a big number. but 10 times more people were sitting in front of the apex livestream over the weekend. and thats not just a new tendency; also pound 4 was able to hit the thousand on grandfinals, same with apex 2010 and pound 5; and of course genesis 2. it cant be ignored that the non-tournament-attendants constitute a majority of the community
the problem is we need to find a livestream standard as optimized as possible. apex had a very good standard right there but also came in with a lot of criticism:
-too little streams: there was only one livestream for both smash bros and the schedule was set this way that a lot of matches were left out to be streamed. later the organisation also used the one livestreams for alternate beat em ups, which not only destroyed the hype almost entirely, there also seemed to arise a dispute between those two fronts. it polarized with the chat mainly going on insulting each other.
-keeping the chat updated: this has always been a problem, and every stream was flawed this way. there is either a complete lack of commentators or the ones in charge dont care about the chat at all. apex was pretty professionally done, i also like dogys commentary and he did a great job for sitting there for hours and commentate also partly about uninteresting matches. but: i would like to have updates about the tournament, giving brackets, answering questions in the chat, telling whats going on and what will be going on. C, a swedish smasher did an absolute great job on pound 4 with keeping the chat informed.
the problem about this is we either need a lot of voluntaries or we, as a community, could set up a fund specifically for livestreams on big internationals. we could then get a good connection (that rivals apex), professional commentators like dogy and people that update the chat with all the important tournament info. and no important bracket matches will be left out! apex was being done great but alex strife seemed to be subjected to all the contracts he made with the supporting partners and hence had to pay more attention to the other games as well, along with the commercial every 30 minutes.
participants for big tournaments like genesis, pound, apex are on average around 500 people. thats a a big number. but 10 times more people were sitting in front of the apex livestream over the weekend. and thats not just a new tendency; also pound 4 was able to hit the thousand on grandfinals, same with apex 2010 and pound 5; and of course genesis 2. it cant be ignored that the non-tournament-attendants constitute a majority of the community
the problem is we need to find a livestream standard as optimized as possible. apex had a very good standard right there but also came in with a lot of criticism:
-too little streams: there was only one livestream for both smash bros and the schedule was set this way that a lot of matches were left out to be streamed. later the organisation also used the one livestreams for alternate beat em ups, which not only destroyed the hype almost entirely, there also seemed to arise a dispute between those two fronts. it polarized with the chat mainly going on insulting each other.
-keeping the chat updated: this has always been a problem, and every stream was flawed this way. there is either a complete lack of commentators or the ones in charge dont care about the chat at all. apex was pretty professionally done, i also like dogys commentary and he did a great job for sitting there for hours and commentate also partly about uninteresting matches. but: i would like to have updates about the tournament, giving brackets, answering questions in the chat, telling whats going on and what will be going on. C, a swedish smasher did an absolute great job on pound 4 with keeping the chat informed.
the problem about this is we either need a lot of voluntaries or we, as a community, could set up a fund specifically for livestreams on big internationals. we could then get a good connection (that rivals apex), professional commentators like dogy and people that update the chat with all the important tournament info. and no important bracket matches will be left out! apex was being done great but alex strife seemed to be subjected to all the contracts he made with the supporting partners and hence had to pay more attention to the other games as well, along with the commercial every 30 minutes.
