Progress Report

I came back at StarCraft 2 pretty hard, putting some serious games in, trying to rekindle some semblance of talent that I think I have. There are about another thirty or fourty games in very late December that repersent a few days of hardcore readdiction. I have since settled in to a slightly more reasonable amount of play, but only to fill that time will League as well.

Originally I debated abandoning League when doing this project as it is so much more time consuming than most other games. I then realized that most of the games I would look to fill it with are equally time consuming. Instead I decided to stick with a game that has already absorbed a lot of my interest and probably more of my money than I would like admit.

Going forward I think I will be making content about Hearthstone and Heroes of the Storm, although perhaps not playing them directly but instead commentating on what I see and hear from people I know who play and the streams I enjoy watching (ie. Day9TV)

In future months I will show rate of growth from month to month, what percentage of total views each month represents, and a simple plus or minus of views from month to month. All of those numbers with only a single month are resoundingly boring, but I have an Excel spread sheet that should look a little more interesting in a couple months and with it those statistics.

If there are any other metrics that you think would be beneficial for me or to see, please let me know. I am always happy to incorporate the ideas of others.

I have not really experienced a pull for specific content in one direction or the other. I am sure this is because I have not garnered nearly enough interest to see a reflection of what is preferable based in views yet. That being said, the plan is to just more and more to hope to get an idea of these things. I would also like to really start to do more narrative videos talking about relvant or hot topics. I enjoy doing them and I am constantly improving my audio set up to make those videos in particular extra amazing.

Bottom Lane Baddies will persist after Dino gets back from holidays, and you will see lots of 2v2 with myself and RockitSauce which I am likely to make a named segment out of as well. I am hoping that my confidence is adequately bolstered this month to begin the 1v1 grind in SC2 from which another segment can come.

The stream in general, as I would expect is getting attention from a small group of people closely tied to my self and XGP (Hero) who have an awesome time just hanging out. Growth here is hard to predict as Twitch tends to be a little bit explosive. Small growth at first, steady and predictable but then suddenly a stream will garner interest from an intense number of people for any number of a list of reasons. The average stream up time from day to day is probably over five hours, so I am hoping for now, raw exposure will help get things going and from there I will look to do more to entice people to come watch!