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Qikz
United Kingdom12025 Posts
On April 04 2011 18:21 Ethic wrote: Yet another MLG that Day9 has saved, because he can commentate his ass out of any hole. He really should be getting paid big bucks for this shit. For me personally, Day9 saved MLG for me. DJ Wheat and JP did there best too and I really enjoyed their commenating, but Day9 just seems to know how to keep me interested. | ||
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Ai52487963
United Kingdom136 Posts
There's so many casters out there who'd love to play 'backup' to the main guys. I feel like they could be doing constant casting of all the games and during the main breaks, jump to their commentary. So much time during the stream I was just sitting around not watching anything, when there was plenty going on. | ||
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MrSexington
United States1768 Posts
Clearly there were games going on during many stretches of dead stream... why not catch those games with an additional pair of casters on a 2nd stream? | ||
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NeWeNiyaLord
Norway2474 Posts
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Piledriver
United States1697 Posts
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MythicalMage
1360 Posts
On April 04 2011 19:14 Piledriver wrote: Actually, I would have liked it if there was a second stream even without casters. Just being able to watch games in between, without downtime would have been really good. Considering they can't keep one stream running, I find that a bit of a stretch. If theres that much stress on the venue ISP, then they need to change their system somehow to make it work. | ||
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BeMannerDuPenner
Germany5638 Posts
granted i didnt camp infront of my pc the entire weekend but i saw maybe 3 or 4 series? given that i still spend like 12 hours watching over the weekend thats just not acceptable. if it wasnt for the at times very funny LR thread ( sadly also huge amounts of pure idiocy in there...) i wouldve just turned off. | ||
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marvellosity
United Kingdom36161 Posts
So many times through the weekend I clicked on the stream and on only one occasion was a game actually being shown. I'd not seen any MLGs before, and this one left a sad impression :/ | ||
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Daralii
United States16991 Posts
On April 04 2011 18:56 maartendq wrote: They're trying alright, but that's pretty much it. I had some spare time last evening and said to myself "hey, let's have a look at the MLG". Saw some cool games initially, but after those: 45min down time. Well, that's annoying. Next I hear that some really good games are apparently not going to get casted, for reasons unbeknowst to everyone.. I basically followed Idra vs. TLO via twitter.. Thing is, MLG is mainly a Xbox360-event. MLG got big on HALO, a game where the top players have about as much skill as incredibly average PC FPS gamers, due to controler limitations. It's not a Starcraft-exclusive event like the GSL. The guys at mlg have to spread their focus to different things at the same time. The problem is that they're not spreading their focus equally, nor are they even trying to do so. As people have pointed out in this thread, the difference in production value between Reach/Black Ops and SC2 is mind blowing. They have a bigger budget and more sponsor backing than most smaller LANs put together, and yet they fail to deliver content of even half the quality. The only excuse is lack of effort. On April 04 2011 16:46 KawaiiRice wrote: I... I have no words. :|I shouldn't have to wake up and not know I play in an hour or go to the last day of the event with nothing and be told I have consolation matches les go MLG ! | ||
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JiMMyUriNE
United States49 Posts
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cYaN
Norway3322 Posts
If it's extremely difficult to get that schedule to work out or something (i can't imagine it would be, but if) then just give wheat day9 and jp some replays and have then commentate that while waiting. Another alternative is having some pre made interviews. Especially after each day of play ask players about the whole field etc etc. I assume the lag/connection stuff will be fixed for next time, but this is almost as important. SHOW ME THE GAMES PRETTY PLEASE! | ||
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Jiddra
Sweden2685 Posts
They should fly him in and sit down and talk with him, many years in streamin production, is in LA and doing film production studies or something. MLG, you need people that know what they are talking about, now! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded& Edit: PS. Stop those plans on trying to sell this kind of production in europe before the production value is much better. | ||
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Clamev
Germany498 Posts
I just wanted to say that it would be really if they had a graphic showing the updated brackets. because a lot of times i just did not know what was going and if the player that just lost was out or what. | ||
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Mr Mauve
United Kingdom386 Posts
1. I've had a good think and have decided to love the tournament structure, at least the way the championship losers' bracket works and the way a coherent and exciting story could be generated (first you must overcome the people who came 5th in their pools... then the people who came 4th... then the people who came 3rd... etc, until you reach the END BOSS). The production team need to help the commentators get this across with some graphics and some match reports. It's so so bush league for Day[9] to be alt-tabbing to a monochrome graphic somewhere on the Internet and reading from @TeamLiquid to help explain what's going on. Given the amount of downtime to fill between the rounds (only 1 game broadcast per round, remember), there needs to be at bare minimum a summary match report for the commentators to access (or a roving reporter to deliver - JP, what's happening in the other matches?). I watched a small fraction of Sheth's journey and that was done pretty well given the resources available to the commentators, but there are 4 separate stories going on at once during the championship bracket and they're all worthy of coverage. 2. Do an experiment with me. Pretend you don't know anything about what happened over the last 3 days. Try as hard as you can to not use your existing knowledge of which links on the MLG website go where. Google "MLG" and try to work out what happened in the Starcraft 2 tournament. I'd love to know the fraction of people who end up here: + Show Spoiler + Suppose you came to this page as an outsider... what on Earth does it mean? | ||
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Soleron
United Kingdom1324 Posts
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Knu
United States67 Posts
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TrANCE,
301 Posts
I like listening to Day9 and Wheat usually but this tournament for the first time i just had to mute them it felt like 10% games 90% desperately thinking of stuff to fill the void. and the casting booth was the tackiest thing i have seen in years that looked like some home studio must have been a 2 for 1 deal on the monitors and the polished aluminium with strange patterns in it looked horrendous the lights made it look like some cheap american daytime soap. Not that i want any money to be spent on the background the Sc2 poster from last season would do nicely. I still could have stomached everything else if the games were well organised | ||
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Jiddra
Sweden2685 Posts
On April 04 2011 20:17 Mr Mauve wrote: 2. Do an experiment with me. Pretend you don't know anything about what happened over the last 3 days. Try as hard as you can to not use your existing knowledge of which links on the MLG website go where. Google "MLG" and try to work out what happened in the Starcraft 2 tournament. I'd love to know the fraction of people who end up here: + Show Spoiler + Suppose you came to this page as an outsider... what on Earth does it mean? I'm not an outsider, have been trying to use MLGs site plenty of times, I still don't get it. I don't know how many times I have tried to find a fking bracket and just ended up here in the LR thread trying to find the link. A newcomer to SC2 is going to give up in a minute and just continue to watch Halo. | ||
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Daralii
United States16991 Posts
On April 04 2011 20:50 Jiddra wrote: Good to know I'm not alone in that regard. =/I'm not an outsider, have been trying to use MLGs site plenty of times, I still don't get it. I don't know how many times I have tried to find a fking bracket and just ended up here in the LR thread trying to find the link. | ||
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leadphyc
United States99 Posts
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