NASL Finals Stuff - Page 5

On July 12 2011 15:03 HydraLF wrote:
Like for Formula 1 in UK, one hour before the race start we have the pundits analysing highlights of previous games, talk about latest news in the industry, express their views on how the race is going to pan out, who to look out for, then Martin Brundle will be down the paddock walking around interviewing drivers, team bosses, celebrities when they were setting up their cars/doing their own stuff, there is never any downtimes, certainly no track staring for hours.

On July 12 2011 14:57 ApBuLLet wrote:
One thing that I did not like about NASL is that it was hard to follow consistently, especially if you do not pay for VODs, which personally I think should not be necessary just to follow the league, but more of an extra thing for the more die hard people. Like you said, it's hard to watch every single game in an entire season of basketball, and the same goes for the NASL. That's all well and good, not everybody needs to watch every single game of such a long tournament (compared to what we are used to), however, many of us would like to be able to follow the league closely even though we may not have time to watch all of the games. For example, you do not need to watch every single NBA basketball game in order to know the results of matches, the standings in each division, which players are injured, what happened in the highlight games/series' each week, etc. With the NASL, you really DO need to watch all of the games to get this type of information. Yeah I can go to the NASL site and look at the standings, but that doesn't tell me what went on during the games at all, and that's what I want to know.
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My suggestion is to have a weekly (roughly) ESPN-type recap on what happened in the NASL during that week. Have set topics, even if they are just a rundown of the highlight matches of the week, and have the casters, players, etc, talk about them briefly. Just a few ideas of what you could talk about are trends going on within match ups that may be changing a bit at that time, trends going on between players (something like "IdrA's ZvT has been awesome lately because he has adopted this playstyle that is just a little bit different from what he is doing before and this is why it is so good), highlight matches such as July vs MC or something like that, big upsets, funny/interesting games (KiWiKaKi on Terminus RE, Artosis vs. Grubby, that kind of stuff ), etc. I'm sure there would be plenty of topics to talk about for an hour or so each week.

I know Day[9] isn't really a part of NASL other then casting at the finals, but I could totally see him doing a job like this full time for NASL. Not necessarily spending an hour analyzing something like he does in his daily, but just brief, pre-planned analysis of games to convey the general idea of what happened in a game.

You could even bring players on as guests through skype or something sometimes (as you did for interviews) and have them talk about a game they played, or a game someone else played. These players don't necessarily need to be in the league either, just people who are knowledgeable about the game.

Lastly, I think something like this would need to be a free thing that everyone has access to, otherwise it is rather pointless. My main problem is that it is hard to follow without having VOD access because there is no other way to see any of the games to even get a general idea of what is going on. This makes people not want to buy the VODs because there is no way for them to get into it really. An hour long show once a week would be an awesome way to keep people interested who do not subscribe, and hopefully it will be enough to make want to see the stuff they are missing by not subscribing.