EPTThe entire tournament was absolutely atrocious for non-live viewers, bar the last 6-10 games of the last day.
Ignoring the scale of the issues and lack of quality is not helpful, to either improve the league or esports.
[NASL] The Verdict - Page 10
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resilve
United Kingdom678 Posts
The entire tournament was absolutely atrocious for non-live viewers, bar the last 6-10 games of the last day. Ignoring the scale of the issues and lack of quality is not helpful, to either improve the league or esports. | ||
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p1cKLes
United States342 Posts
You know as someone that puts on events, the first event is always and I mean always the toughest. Though in every case you always learn from the previous event, and I find more than anything pre-work is the key to success. There were a lot of little things that could have been avoided even for a first event. Sound being one of them. That's something they should have figured out the night before not a day after it started. Schedules are important and sticking to schedules are even more important, and I'm not talking about a general outline here. I'm talking a minute by minute schedule for every single thing that is happening. And in this case there probably should have had multiple schedules, ne for stage and the general people that are attending the event and another for the stream. Some of it overlapping obviously. In some respect it almost felt like it was thrown together and thought about at the last minute. Not that I'm bashing NASL at all. Overall, I truly felt for a first event it was a huge success and the last two days were great, but just as constructive criticism there were a lot of things that could been avoided IMO that would have made it more of a success. Though in general I'm definitely excited for season 2 and hopefully this will be NASL's defining moment by taking all the constructive criticism and capitalizing on it. | ||
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NotSoSerious
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emythrel
United Kingdom2599 Posts
On July 21 2011 00:17 Primadog wrote: then what is this "Hot_Bid's Master Plan to Take Over the World for Evil" memo for? Prima, you weren't supposed to talk about that memo in public..... We write our articles ourselves, they get edited slightly when we write a horrible sentence or if our illustrious editor feels they need a touch up but the content stays exactly the same. No one makes us write an article (well maybe the Feature game one but I pick the game and what i want to say lol) and I've yet to be told I couldn't publish a negative article assuming its well written and generally correct. | ||
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Dispersion
Korea (South)504 Posts
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Kuni
Austria765 Posts
Overall, altho the effort has to be respected, the NASL as it was presented in Season 1 is a tournament, which should disappear and make room for better productions and events. From the technical difficulties all the way to Gretorp's "performance" (and altho it is my personal opinion, but still shared with a lot of the viewers). One great final-series doesn't make up for all that mistakes and failures over the course of Season 1. However, as was more than one season planned from the beginning, it's not like a 2nd season won't happen, but if the organization doesn't turn 180° around, there should not be a 3rd season, no matter how forgiving we should be as a community. Everybody makes mistakes, but the competition (other tournaments) are just FAR superior at the moment. | ||
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Wabbit
United States1028 Posts
1 Major issue omitted: - Lack of spoiler-free access to VOD's Maybe I am in a miniscule minority of people who don't have the time to watch the live stream and watch the VOD's, but this pissed me off the most (a LOT), much more than any of the sound issues (the 2nd biggest issue that shouldn't have existed). Figured out now that SC2ratings.com is spoiler-free with links to VOD's. NASL should have promoted this or something (anything). | ||
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Jepsyn
Canada364 Posts
If you expect perfection after one season you are expecting far too much. And JTV chat should just be disabled because as much as everyone is entitled to be critical no one has THE RIGHT to be a douchebag... you just don't The NASL was an awesome tournament despite the few glitches ( the jtv trolls were wayyyyyyyyy worse than any audio problem) and i look forward to next season  | ||
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WightyCity
Canada887 Posts
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VenomBRA
Netherlands168 Posts
White-Ra <3! | ||
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Giryit
Canada11 Posts
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Primadog
United States4411 Posts
On July 21 2011 03:19 Wabbit wrote: Good article & coverage. 1 Major issue omitted: - Lack of spoiler-free access to VOD's Maybe I am in a miniscule minority of people who don't have the time to watch the live stream and watch the VOD's, but this pissed me off the most (a LOT), much more than any of the sound issues (the 2nd biggest issue that shouldn't have existed). Figured out now that SC2ratings.com is spoiler-free with links to VOD's. NASL should have promoted this or something (anything). sc2ratings is awesome. I have a chance to talk to the guy behind it (Koibu0) at the finals and he's working hard to help tournaments like the NASL with make a half decent VOD rating system. | ||
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edc
United States666 Posts
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Synwave
United States2803 Posts
Thanks for the extra content and this write up was cool to read. Bye bye White-ra! | ||
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zipz0p
United States123 Posts
There were hiccups, but I really would call them that. As jimlloyd pointed out: these are things that can be fixed. I expect that we will see a much better NASL S2, with better players and smoother operation. I, for one, can't wait. Though it will be difficult to find the time to watch with as much dedication as I did in S1. | ||
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Zethiel
Bolivia39 Posts
 but the first article was amazing description of the game, I was happy to read it, I almost felt like I was watching the game! | ||
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Fritti
Netherlands52 Posts
My personal most glaring example about this is the music: right after the gg, some 20 seconds of music was played, during which nothing happens at all. To me this always felt like a cheap rip-off of the GSL background music, thrown in because 'we should have epic music after a game'. In my opinion, the music is a necessary component of a good production -- but it should be there in the background, NOT drawing your attention to itself. It is a supporting component; if it is not there, people will miss it, but it's value is in making you excited / pumped / cheering without even realizing that the music helps you. One of the reasons that GSL's music lists are so wanted is that the music director there consciously selects tracks that help set the mood without drawing attention to them. And furthermore, the GSL audio producer simply starts the tracks while the commentators are busy hyping the upcoming or previous match -- invisibly! Anyway I'm interested to see how NASL season two will turn out! | ||
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bluemirror
United States12 Posts
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OliverDONG
Canada151 Posts
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Ciraxis
Australia400 Posts
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