NASL Launch - Page 213

On April 13 2011 13:08 Xaga wrote:

It's not live though... It's pre-recorded =\

Anyway,
Awesome first day of NASL! If things keep up like this, I'm going to be staying up late every night for the next few months watching these games, ha.

On April 13 2011 13:08 Teim wrote:
Enjoyed the rest of the games. But that last game was just painful to watch. Poor Rainbow trying to micro but no chance with that lag.

On April 13 2011 13:07 Gondlem wrote:
Very impressive first day for NASL overall.

On April 13 2011 12:58 Lowspark wrote:
I hope no one reads this as a flame or me being angry, but I have been extremly dissapointed in NASL day one. I am going to list my critics and hopefully NASL will look to change some of these.

1. This is a major tournament, there should not be commercial break in the middle of game analysis. GSL takes breaks after 1 game or 2 games and shows commercials during a break from bothe gameplay and game recap. The fact that after every game Incontrol will say something like "here is where the game was lost" and a commercial starts and when the stream is back they are queing up the next game

2. at least one new caster is needed. I love gretorp as a player, he has a great style and interesting games. He is not a commentator. He gets over excited at points of the game that are insignificant, he emphasizes the wrong things in battle, he has tons of awkward pauses in the middle of sentences and even gives off the wrong information during battles.(one example being in artosis vs sheth where he keeps quoting resources lost, and saying how artosis is loosing more than sheth and the differential stays the same. also in the same series he talks about how effective banelings are against stalkers, and is super suprised when a ton of artosis's stalkers survive)

3. Incontrol is a decent caster, he has charisma and isn't boring. Still he is not the best commentator. For such a large tournament, possibly the biggest and most important in the US, they should have the best casters. MLG had a great lineup, TSL has a great lineup, and NASL has an extremely subpar lineup. How can such a big tournament not feature day9, jp, djwheat, or one of the other big name casters in the US? It just makes no sense to me that you can have such a large tournament and not have good casters. Also, Incontrol does not need to address us as ladies and gentlemen everytime we go into a game.

4. what makes MLG so great? a crowd. what makes the gsl so great? a crown. OSL, MSL, all the major tournaments are casted with a live crowd. So it is different since the US is so large and we don't have one giant gaming center where every team has a house for the players to live. The TSL has made it work fairly well, likely due to the casting changes. If the NASL is going to be completely online, there needs to be a variety of good casters in the rotation and currently it comes back to bad casting.

5. Quality production. While the production is not bad, the studio they are in just looks awkward. Also, jtv is great for streaming and I know tsl is on ustream, but something like the NASL that seems to be something fairly standard and the first season is goign to take 3 months or so, they should use a high quality stream product. MLG uses octoshape, GOMtv has the GOMplayer, NASL should have something too.

6. website. I know a website is coming, but seriously they should have had one up already. No excuses here, same thing with tsl 3. It is stupid and really just careless they dont have one already.

I am still going to watch NASL, but things need to be imporved

On April 13 2011 13:08 acker wrote:
I'm glad this is being casted live instead of replays.

On April 13 2011 13:09 Holgerius wrote:
Except for the lag stuff this was a very nice day 1. T'was a good start for NASL I think.

On April 13 2011 13:06 Jampackedeon wrote:
I can't believe they didnt restart this...