EPTThis blog has made me a Total Biscuit fan. He brings insight and intrigue to (mostly) European StarCraft, and he devotes so much time, energy, and resources to eSports and the StarCraft community. You are a total boss, Total Biscuit!
SHOUTcraft 3 Postmortem - Page 2
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Tortious_Tortoise
United States944 Posts
This blog has made me a Total Biscuit fan. He brings insight and intrigue to (mostly) European StarCraft, and he devotes so much time, energy, and resources to eSports and the StarCraft community. You are a total boss, Total Biscuit! | ||
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Montana[TK]
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robin19999
Netherlands246 Posts
The tournament was well run and casting was great. Unfotunately there were a lot of 3-0's but that's something you can't predict before hand when you are making the brackets. Also the tip system is very inventive and I like it because it allows someone to support the player which they were unable before this system. I think it is something worth using in more tournaments. Great tournament and i'm already looking forward to the next. | ||
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Gurrgeh
United Kingdom24 Posts
If you want to see specific matchups or reward certain players then there's nothing wrong with holding shoutcraft showmatches to specifically achieve that. You could almost certainly do a $500 or $1000 showmatch and cover yourself with the donations and ad revenue and perhaps a little on top (for the larger prize end). I guess the harder issue with those would be sorting out all the logistics and hassle (like getting dApollo to drive up) for a much shorter format. Still, I think you'd pull it off very well if you chose to. I feel like I need to especially appreciate you guys as a fellow brit.. but you make it easy. I've even been away travelling (and write this from a hotel room in Italy) and yet I made time to see as much of SCI3 as I could because you all work hard and you put on a very good show that you should be very proud of. From your early WoW videos ending up on mmo-champion through to your continued SC2 work and just getting to lament about shitty journeys to Dreamhack Summer with you, you've done a lot for the gaming community that i've been able to appreciate and enjoy. Thanks for all the work, both you, dApollo and the people in the background. Oh, your gamescom coverage was awesome too. | ||
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Egyptian_Head
South Africa508 Posts
good job TB, keep it up. Hope the brackets work out better next time. | ||
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Dittert
United States97 Posts
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DoublespeakUS
United States55 Posts
I understand that you can be very critical of yourself TB and I hope you are relaxing now that SCi3 is over. I admit it was early for me - Central American (Chicago) time. But it's nothing that I don't normally do for work or the GSL. Perhaps do an American Rerun, similar to what the IPL does for EU. I was definitely busy Sunday morning and would of loved to watch a rebroadcast, even though I know that the videos are on jtv and youtube. It's just nice to have the authenticity of a live stream running fluently, along with reading chat and such. Great job! | ||
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WolfgangKies
25 Posts
On September 13 2011 02:28 TotalBiscuit wrote: ...I would put the slightly lower views down to the awkward time for Americans, plus the potential effect of the September 11th anniversary... I think though the above mentioned factors did contribute to the lower views in my mind the main issue is that the SCIs and in particular the SCI III are absurdly underhyped for what they are (outstanding in every possible way be it the huge prize pool, the fact that it's entirely funded by the community, the highly entertainig casters, the exceptional players or last but by no means least the absolute dedication of TB and his team which results in unparalleled professionalism.) I guess what I'm trying to say is you need better PR for your invitationals Sir Biscuit; I don't know,you could just use your contacts in the community, ask Day[9] and Husky if they would put out videos to promote the tourneys, maybe you could send Day[9] a shirt with all the necessary information printed on it, which then he could wear during his dailies or something like that Anyway, great tournament as always (thank you for that) and keep up the good work! (I know I posted this twice but I don't know whether this is the correct place to put it or the "SHOUTcraft Invitational 3 - Catchy Title" thread) | ||
Adebisi
Canada1637 Posts
On September 13 2011 07:16 WolfgangKies wrote: I think though the above mentioned factors did contribute to the lower views in my mind the main issue is that the SCIs and in particular the SCI III are absurdly underhyped for what they are (outstanding in every possible way be it the huge prize pool, the fact that it's entirely funded by the community, the highly entertainig casters, the exceptional players or last but by no means least the absolute dedication of TB and his team which results in unparalleled professionalism.) I guess what I'm trying to say is you need better PR for your invitationals Sir Biscuit; I don't know,you could just use your contacts in the community, ask Day[9] and Husky if they would put out videos to promote the tourneys, maybe you could send Day[9] a shirt with all the necessary information printed on it, which then he could wear during his dailies or something like that Anyway, great tournament as always (thank you for that) and keep up the good work! (I know I posted this twice but I don't know whether this is the correct place to put it or the "SHOUTcraft Invitational 3 - Catchy Title" thread) I think the PR is fine... I mean its announced way ahead of time with a lot of activity on the TL thread, he puts it on his youtube, and every time a new player is announced it makes it to the front page of r/starcraft, and during the event its at the top of r/starcraft. Frankly the start time killed it for me so I'm just getting caught up on VODs of specific matches, stay up to watch GSL finals -> wake up at 2pm EST next day, SCI3 already over  | ||
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surfinbird1
Germany999 Posts
One little issue I have though are the tip jars. I know you introduced those so players would get a little extra without breaking the 5k Blizzard limit and people could support their favorite player specifically. I would rather have people donating money to the "organisation" to keep the series going. Also, do you and Apollo get anything out of this or are you doing this just because you enjoy it so much? I mean, you put in a lot of hard work and you don't get compensation for that. I guess, youtube/twitch.tv views give a little something but many people watch the tournament live and won't watch the VODs and the ad-revenue only supports the next tournament. Anyways, congratulations on another successful SCi. (And please more Terraria with Jesse :D) Edit: On the TLO issue: I don't think TLO played abysmal or anything. In my humble opinion it was his weird build order which shot him in the foot. The reaper is a nice touch but concussive shells are godly. Also Bunkers! This could have ended in a very different fashion if he had used a little more standard builds. Say what you will, his micro was spot on in most of his games. | ||
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Ownos
United States2147 Posts
 Not too upset about the 3-0s. I don't expect every match/game to be close 50 minute game and going down to the "ace match" every time. I'm just as happy seeing a player winning quickly and decisively. | ||
bkrow
Australia8532 Posts
 some really good matches and surprise performances.I think the next one should get hyped up beyond measure because it deserves more attention! | ||
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Psyonic_Reaver
United States4342 Posts
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Bartiemus
New Zealand84 Posts
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Bear4188
United States1797 Posts
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Deleted User 101379
4849 Posts
On September 13 2011 07:25 surfinbird1 wrote: Also, do you and Apollo get anything out of this or are you doing this just because you enjoy it so much? I mean, you put in a lot of hard work and you don't get compensation for that. I guess, youtube/twitch.tv views give a little something but many people watch the tournament live and won't watch the VODs and the ad-revenue only supports the next tournament. As far as i know the only thing earning TB money from this tournament are the youtube views of the VODs, other than that it seems that all the money flows back into the tournament. Time for a "Please keep some of our ESports dollars" ("Force our ESports dollars down TBs and dApollos throat"? :p) Petition? | ||
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