A request for Brood War event managers - Page 3

This thread has been talking about "Why TL does not cover BW events." People have stated due to the lack of consistency, the difficulty of finding VODs and or streams and lack of a pro-scene. I'd also like to mention that I think the overall productions of our streams and VODs are subpar that of which of SC2. The NASL and GSL are one of the two biggest tournaments year round for SC2. Their production quality is through the roof. The GSL you have the best casting duo in history Taseosis, they are funny, entertaining and most important know the game inside out. They have sick intro's nice overlays and graphics and their studio for sake is fantastic. You also have the ability to seemingly have the English or Korean VOD to your liking. The casters are always nicely dress giving a polished and professional look and feel to GOMTV's stream and VODs. The NASL the casters are two high level players (I believe Masters) they are entertaining, you know what to expect from them, they are dressed up their studio looks amazing. They have a production crew making overlay changes and such that it never interferes with viewers experience.

Now if we look are brood war in my eyes. We have disorganized VODs and streams. Now I'd argue its alright for different leagues to have different organization BUT they actually need to link the VODs in a pleasant and easy manner for people to access. That being said we have people who have bland overlays, cheap microphones, in and out streams constantly to the point it becomes unwatchable. This is a turn off for viewers. And this is only the tip of the iceburg in terms of getting a fancy looking stream when you compare ourselfs to the actual events that get covered by TeamLiquid. Lets even go further the scheduling of events. The GSL has given its viewers a 3 week calender of when games going to be casted and played. It is all these small things that would contribute to more awareness to our scene, and the longevity of brood if you wanted to say that. Me personally however I think we are doing fine.

While we might be the "Poor man's eSport" there are other things that could contribute to a better basis for our community and experience for viewers. One that everyone worked together, event organizers, casters and players. Meaning that don't X event organizer decides to ban a couple people from his or her events. At this point I think I'd heavily encourage anyone who is making suggestions if how to increase the awareness of Brood War to take it upon yourself very much what Hacklebeast wrote above and help contribute. I'd say go offer to update Liquidpedia. Offer to help to admin and organize times for players to match up and play each other. Become mediators between two members of the community so we stop this nonsensical banning and hating of each other or referred as "drama".

With all this being said, I think we can definitely improve our VODs to a degree and the organization for sure. I don't want to sound smarter then anyone here and anyone can feel free to disagree with me. I've been on and off YouTube productions for 5 years or so now. I've done a ton of trial of error and I've become somewhat adept at the technical side of videos. I definitely say first impressions on a video is the most important factor that organizers and casters give off to viewers to sustain those viewers. This normally done with a high defination Camera, graphics and narration and or content. Now because content and a HD camera are not really related to BW lets move away from those. Narration is very important. If you know brood war inside out and know builds and timings and know how they effect the game scenario then I'd say you'd make a great casters. Now there are some of us that just like to cast for the fun of it or just started getting into casting and you might not exactly know everything in the game. This is where you can be very entertaining and have the time pass for your viewers so you can learn as they learn and over time you can improve your own casting. At least that what I did, cast a ton be as entertaining as possible without being too distracting like getting really into the game. That is something that makes a quality video. Our casters voices are also important and if they have a dirt cheap microphone that echo's or has so much gain on it that half of the sound of the video is white noise is a immediate turn off for me. That being said I don't think you need to buy a 600$ setup for a microphone like I did but I honestly think if you got a dedicated microphone if your serious for the brood war scene I don't think it crazy for you to go and do some research and get 40$ decent microphone or a 100$ blue yeti. With narration tackled to the ground we need a way to spice up our VODs. Now obviously we are not Starcraft 2, we don't have 1920 x 1080 pixels to work with. But we have spice up our videos with a nice graphical overlay that displays the players information. Now this can be in several different ways I've seen for Brood War VODs. The ISL3 on the left side of the screen their was a rotating panel that displayed players stats another great addition to foreign brood war tournaments. I've seen the normal replay progress overlay that incorporates a nice picture to cover it up. While the player names are taking part of the screen in the top left of the screen, nothing flashy but it gets the job done. NOT taking a icon of a map and dragging it to the corner of the screen to cover the replay progress bar．It gives the impression that we are cheap, we don't want that. Or my own personal overlay where we take advantage of the 16 standard resolution of YouTube and Twitch.TV and use it to our advantage. Instead of wasting the left hand corner to display the tournament name and players name one we can just cover over the unless panels in the bottom right hand portion of the screen to display players names, current wins and losses of a series the map name and the actual tournament itself. I am bias towards my own overlay so of course I understand there are those people who do not like it.

If the three pages of discussion is a indication that people are serious of revamping the foreign brood war scene I'd say I'm ready to see it happen. I've already tried getting all my casts on the calender, make dedicated VOD pages, update LP of my tournament, constantly update tournament, incorporated VODs and stream, a fluid consistent stream and Perfect Audio and even got a little creative with my own personal intro music to all my VODs.

I will say for an organizer / caster it is time consuming to organize 20 something people and in some other peoples cases 32 or greater and to cast it all, update LP and do all the technical aspects is a lot to ask for. I'd reach out to others to see if you can help out by providing the results of tournaments into LP if your able. Help out with conflictions instead of feeding into the arugement. And lastly enjoy the scene thats the whole reason why we are here.

Thats my opinion if people agree with it I hope we might be able to change things of people are willing to help out. To respond that event organizers should make calenders events in advance. I think it is difficult but when I think it about there really is not a excuse for us not to place calender events.