SOSPA - the Korean Afreeca Broodwar Scene - Page 5

A guide to Mobile Afreeca

First off, download the Afreeca app and also Korean Keyboard functionality.

When you launch Afreeca it should look like this
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Click on the icon indicated by the giant red circle, which will lead you to the main interface of Afreeca
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To login, select the top right icon, translated to "More". It should bring you to this page
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Click on the log in icon, and logging in shouldn't take any explanation. The page should look like this
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If you logged in successfully, you should see this page
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Nothing of use, so press the back button and go back to the "More" page. If you want, you can fiddle around with your settings, which I have translated (liberally)
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If you want to change up how the broadcasting is organized, here is the translated options of that
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Anyways, after all that, you can go back to the main page to find the broadcasts you want to see. Here it is again for reference
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The first way you can find broadcasts is by using the search function. Typing in 스타 (press the symbols ㅅㅡㅌㅏ in that order) will show you all the online Starcraft streams, or you could be more specific by typing in the broadcaster's ID (Sonic's is sogoodtt, Mong is cksgmldbs, etc etc .. will compile a list later). It should look like this
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The other way is to select the Category icon, and then game. It'll show all the game broadcasts, so its less specific than the search method. Here's how the categories should look like
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Regardless of method, you should eventually stumble upon the broadcast you wish to see. If you're using your 3G or 4G connection, you should see this when you select the broadcast
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Just hit OK and the broadcast should start. And bam, you get to watch Afreeca on your phone. Should look sorta like this
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Now you notice how I circled one thing, and squared another. Those two are very important. The circled icon gives the broadcaster "추천", or "recommendation", which boosts the broadcaster's ranking. You can give these to each broadcaster once a day, and is possibly the best way to support them other than giving them balloons/stickers.

The other icon allows you to favorite/bookmark that broadcast. Makes it much easier finding that stream again, and to give 추천 on a regular basis

Now go back to the main page. Here it is again for reference
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Go to bookmarks. It should look like this
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Now each broadcast you bookmark is automatically set to notify you when they go online. Naturally, you dont want ALL of them to be set like that. So click the Notification Settings icon. Then you should see this.
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You can turn the notification setting on/off for each broadcast. When you're done, hit the done icon.

And that's about it to mobile afreeca! Yea there's a shitload more other stuff, but that's all you need to know to watch SC :D and it would take up way too much time explaining lol


I'll add both of these guides to the OP sooner or later, in a much better format .. sorry for the ugliness of these guides, but I'm a little lazy lol