EPTYou should too, it's great
The reason I bring this up, other than to direct people to check them out, is that as part of the christmas episode (I know, I know, I'm behind on all my podcasts at the moment) it was mentioned that there was a hell of a lot of sc2 content out there.
I found myself wondering how true that was. So I went to check.
Turns out it's not as simple as I thought. Sure, the obvious things are easy to check out. Day9 puts out about 20 hours of content based purely on the day9 daily. That's not counting other things he does like the AGHL, Red Bull LANs, tournaments of all flavours, and other non related stuff to SC2.
Then there's the OneMoreGame content, which from the briefest of glances puts out 13-15 hours of content alone, just based on Live on 3, Kings of Tin and Inside the Game. I realise that these numbers are unreliable, as the content released by those shows varies both in length and frequency from month to months.
Then there's perennial favourites like State of the Game which, in theory, puts out a 2 hour show 4 times a month for a solid 8 hour contribution.
Then we get a bit further out into casts like the Amove.tv stable, which includes a couple of hours of Starcraft related content from Garrett and Kyle a week, so chalk that up as another 8 hours.
So far, that's a decent amount of content. Rough calculations show that if you were to spread that all out, it's not that unmanageable as it's about one and a half hours every day.
Thing is, that's very much the tip of this content iceberg. That's not counting other podcasts that I don't know about and the tournaments themselves, which can take whole weekends, of which I counted a near dozen on Team Liquid's tournaments page for just December last year.
Then there's the pros and semi pros who stream. Which generally adds a couple of hours of content, per person, per day. So at this point it becomes more than a single person can feasibly watch in a day, even if you restrict yourself to your favourite team (unless that team is Team Grubby, but still).
Why do I mention this?
Partly I mention this because it's awesome to know that we have a scene that is so vibrant that we're spoiled for choice when it comes to what to watch. It's great to know that my commute to work is made shorter because there's always something to listen to as I cycle in.
Not that my reasons are entirely high minded and altruistic. I also mention this because I want to be a caster. This means getting my face out there and becoming known and (this is the important bit) getting people to watch my streams/my shows, to leave comments, to "like" and "follow" me. Which is a daunting task, given the sheer volume of content that already exists.
Granted, there are ways of doing that. For starters, looking professional and having a good overlay helps. As does having a regular schedule and interacting with your audience.
The question is, what can be done beyond that? Also, how much of that daunting wall of content can be overcome by just being consistent and decent?
Having said all that, I'm probably going to do best for myself by just keeping on keeping on. Given that, from what I understand, it takes 10,000 hours to be an expert at something and I've got a long way to go.
So I'm not gonna stress about it too much...
