EPTIt's my fault for not being very clear about how OWCs' casts are done. In the tournament procedures, I do sort of outline exactly how the casts are done, but those procedures were written for the original OWC and were only slightly modified for this one. If you'd like to cast my tournament, I would like to be contacted about it first. I'll try to me clearer and more organised in the future about this. I take responsibility for this.
Someone repeatedly asking me, while I'm trying to run a tournament, in a lobby chat, if someone ELSE can cast the game, is not the way to go about things. Someone wanting to cast a game needs to contact me directly. There are several ways of going about this, from PMing me to messaging me in-game, to asking me directly in my stream chat, IRC chat, or even by email. I love to have people cover my tournaments; it makes me feel important, to be honest. But I don't like when people stream my stream within theirs. That simply deteriorates the quality of my event. Especially if 400+ people could be watching a higher-quality cast. That means several people are hearing about an event, and happening to click a stream, to find terrible quality. That makes me unhappy. When a streamer listed for an event does something like that, it makes the event look bad, and it doesn't bode well for the streamer either. It makes them look silly. I did not myself see BigT ask for money. I don't know if I should believe that he did, as others have said, but using my event to ask for money while streaming MY stream is very disappointing and is, in my opinion, very unprofessional. Especially because these tournaments are not about the money. OWCs are supposed to be all about community fun.
BigT is not a bad caster; in fact, I like his casting. I've been watching him every now and then ever since phase one ended. I don't have a problem with BigT at all, and I want to make sure people know that. I know he really wanted to cover this event. I only wish he had contacted me about it personally so that I could speak with him directly about it, rather than us just indirectly speaking.
So, I'd rather this thread not be about this drama and instead just to be about discussion of this tournament! So please don't mention the BigT stuff anymore, okay ? And please don't say bad things about him. He's a cool guy. These are all of my thoughts on the matter.
