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I also give a 5/5!
Even with the tech issues that ran through the tourny, it was some of the most fun I have had watching starcraft. I am fairly new to the game, and scene in general, and I was blown away!
One of the things that I love you about you TB and by extension Genna as well....is your honesty and front facing posture to the issues that were there. It is wonderful seeing someone acknowledge it and state what they can do better next time. How many people in your standing would say I need to learn to be a better OBS or get one on site to do it? Not many. It shows you care about your brand and your product.
I must tell you, while I have respected you for awhile, this has cemented that 100% It was a great show and wonderful thing you and the Mrs. are doing for the NA scene. Please keep it up. Lord knows we need the help lol.
To steal a line from your blog...America, Fighting!!!
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On May 24 2013 04:02 Lunares wrote:
Have you thought about moving to Kansas City and trying to utilize google fiber?
This is... not as crazy as it sounds. Were I making a living from streaming content, I'd probably consider the option.
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Been waiting for this write up! :-)
Like to hear that you dont consider it a failure. I myself didnt watch much, simply becouse I dont have 24 hours a day to watch SC2 and I am from EU, so ofcourse when I find time I an more inclined to watch EU competition. However, Id like to give Genna, TB and everyone else involved a cheers for doing this and encouraging local competition across the pond. However TB, if you do this again, please watch your health! we dont need you or Genna getting a heart attack from over-work and stress.
I have a question, however, I noticed that the revenue from the turnament was lower than I thought it would be. Was it lower than You expected?
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On May 24 2013 04:00 TotalBiscuit wrote:Show nested quote +On May 24 2013 03:55 zachreborn wrote:
TB great write up. This likely won't get read or caught by you but you don't need to procure a T3 or pay those costs. I'm a network engineer and depending upon your area and a little research a simple dual residential ISP setup with say a pfSense firewall/router doing load balancing would do the trick. If you'd like to discuss it shoot me a PM.
Thanks so much for the tournament I loved watching it and have some of the VODs I missed queued up for this weekend. Yeah I thought about bonding, I did that in the UK, but the only ISP That does 5 up in this area is TWC who suck so even if I bound 2 DSL lines together, teh speed would be too awful to be useful
I'm unsure of where you are located but I think I recall NC somewhere. Must be out a bit from some suburbs to not even have comcast or verizon as a viable option? How about 4G coverage? Even a load balanced 4G plan with your TWC could be useful. Obviously the round trip delay would make playing games harder but casting shouldn't cause issue.
I'm unsure how far in you've looked but I have customers down in Raleigh which I could speak with to see what is available if I'm remember correct anyhow and you are in fact based out of NC.
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On May 24 2013 04:18 zachreborn wrote:Show nested quote +On May 24 2013 04:00 TotalBiscuit wrote:On May 24 2013 03:55 zachreborn wrote:
TB great write up. This likely won't get read or caught by you but you don't need to procure a T3 or pay those costs. I'm a network engineer and depending upon your area and a little research a simple dual residential ISP setup with say a pfSense firewall/router doing load balancing would do the trick. If you'd like to discuss it shoot me a PM.
Thanks so much for the tournament I loved watching it and have some of the VODs I missed queued up for this weekend. Yeah I thought about bonding, I did that in the UK, but the only ISP That does 5 up in this area is TWC who suck so even if I bound 2 DSL lines together, teh speed would be too awful to be useful I'm unsure of where you are located but I think I recall NC somewhere. Must be out a bit from some suburbs to not even have comcast or verizon as a viable option? How about 4G coverage? Even a load balanced 4G plan with your TWC could be useful. Obviously the round trip delay would make playing games harder but casting shouldn't cause issue. I'm unsure how far in you've looked but I have customers down in Raleigh which I could speak with to see what is available if I'm remember correct anyhow and you are in fact based out of NC.
I am based outside of Charlotte.
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As a foreign caster for this event it was an absolute pleasure to be a part of such a great event.
The Russian scene loved it and after talking to many viewers they would love a second season of SCA
Everyone can nitpick at little issues here and there but most of the issues were out of TB's/Genna's hands on top of having to work around WCS for the most part(which needs to be reformatted in many aspects).
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On May 24 2013 04:11 Crownlol wrote:Show nested quote +On May 24 2013 04:02 Lunares wrote:
Have you thought about moving to Kansas City and trying to utilize google fiber? This is... not as crazy as it sounds. Were I making a living from streaming content, I'd probably consider the option.
When you got a wife and kid it makes it harder to just pick up and move.
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Keep it up TB! It's all much appreciated what you do for the community!
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Thanks for the clarification TB.
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5/5, it's nice to be treated as an adult and shown transparency. GL in your future endeavors
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TB, my deepest thanks for taking a risk w/ the NA scene and putting up a tournament as well as you could.
Wish you the best and hope to see it happen again!
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Very clearly and well written TB. Personally I love the tournament during the weekdays, I watched it each afternoon/evening it was on. Also, in reference to the section about how you 'rode the hype wave' personally I thought that Idra casting was incredible! I'd love to see him again, and day9 as always.
Obviously the technical issues will be straightened out, and I really hope there will be another one! what made it really interesting to watch was how players would talk about how they always met each other on the ladder etc and since they know each others play styles so well it adds an extra level of mind games.
5/5 article, 6/5 tournament, and I hope there's another one in the future!
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Thanks a lot for the post mortem. Quite interesting to see that only ~25% of the costs are covered through streaming income...
(BTW, because i don't like reading long posts in the forum, I put the post in a [PDF] and formatted it a little bit, maybe someone wants to read it again  )
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I watch 4-5 hours of ladder streams a day, either directly or as background while doing other things. Shoutcraft NA really pumped up the quality of the ladder viewing experience. Nony made a solid run and had a shot at getting in last day. Vibe put on a move as well. Incontrol and Catz both talked about gunning for a slot, and their extra interest made me extra interested. All of these guys were hitting people above them in the leaderboard, and I was refreshing GM list every morning and evening to track who had moved up or down. The value added from the existence of SCA was amazing, and I hope to see it continue.
The tournament itself was solid. I enjoyed the pregame interviews, and it was awesome seeing the faces of players who were just names on GM list before. Thank you for bringing us this fabulous event Genna and TB!
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However. The elephant in the room is WCS schedule. With 16+ hours a day of Starcraft going on and an intense, rushed schedule within the first season, who is to say if it is even feasible to run anything other than weekend-warrior events in future? This is the immovable object we are fighting against and trying our best not to meet head on. Even if we can beat WCS NA in numbers, why would we want to fight them anyway? We certainly don't want to go against WCS EU and when we did run into them we suffered. I don't even know if there is a solution to this, I'm just hoping for a more manageable schedule that does not take over weekends as much as it does or shows that massively over-run that we have to try and dodge.
Why aren't more people hyperventilating about this? Where's Slasher/DJ Wheat or other alleged esports 'journalists' reporting on the potential short term and long term impact of WCS on the rest of the independent tournament scene?
Dang.
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I think a tournament with only people from North America, could be great. I'd like to see Shoutcraft America be all the top players from here like Scarlett/goswser/huk/suppy fan favourites like CatZ/minigun and with newer top players and see them battle it out. I don't see why one competition can't region-lock. That means no violet/polt/demuslim despite the fact that they may live in NA, we have MLGs and Dreamhacks to see everyone compete with each other, we should have one to determine who's the best in NA.
Also I think its clear to see that Idra commenting grabbed peoples interest.
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Always with great post tournament wrap ups, thanks for the great event TB.
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I (think I) agree with 100% of your sentiments, TB.
I do believe expanding the initial round to 32 players and allowing time for other high end (huk, idra, incontrol, catz, etc) NA/SA pros to hit the proper GM rankings will do wonders for the tournament.
The casting lineup for SCA1 was pretty damned good. I do believe this helps viewer numbers (if only slightly). On a related note, I think it's one of the factors that helped SCA1 beat out WCS AM -axeltoss is probably the sole reason I just cannot watch those games.
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On May 24 2013 04:02 Lunares wrote:
Have you thought about moving to Kansas City and trying to utilize google fiber? KC isn't exactly a hub for things. However, Google is bringing fiber to Austin, that might be a more suitable location.
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