SHOUTcraft America announced - Page 27

On May 03 2013 17:35 50bani wrote:
Fun fact
During Flash vs Parting yesterday I saw only 46k viewers on the Gom stream on Twitch. I think this tournament won't beat that despite better hours, so whoever bet there would be more than 50k concurrents(I think that was Wheat, right?) has a lot of #tagging to do...

On May 03 2013 18:08 Greendotz wrote:


I'd bet my non-existent pride that the RO16 will pull in 30,000. With the finals hitting the 45,000-50,000 mark. Does anyone have the figures of the previous Shoutcraft invitational by any chance?

On May 03 2013 17:33 Spidinko wrote:

Yeah I didn't really go into details as this is not the place.

But if you look at most NA tournaments, they invite known players and make a qualifier.
Qualifiers are a great way to get some recognition in the scene. All's good until you realize that basically only Koreans get through those qualifiers and what that means is, that new NA talent doesn't get the recognition it deserves.
Without recognition they have it harder to become known as top NA players and unless they can beat top KR players they don't have very high chances of becoming known.

It can be argued that this leads to players losing incentive which further lowers the quality of the region.

On May 03 2013 17:35 50bani wrote:
Fun fact
During Flash vs Parting yesterday I saw only 46k viewers on the Gom stream on Twitch. I think this tournament won't beat that despite better hours, so whoever bet there would be more than 50k concurrents(I think that was Wheat, right?) has a lot of #tagging to do...