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Katowice25012 Posts
The list of featured streamers on our right side bar is always a work in progress. It is meant to reflect those who are currently noteworthy in the community, be it through pure skill or personality or a special quality that makes them the source of attention and praise.
We would like to start moving the list towards something that updates quickly and has players moving in and out of our list more fluidly. To that effect, we'll be making it easier and more clear how to get on the list. Additionally, we'll be removing people more aggressively and at set intervals as well. The most noticeable change here is that now we will add anyone currently in the WCS system to the featured list, which includes all of the Challenger League players.
Ways To Qualify For A Feature:
- Be in any region's WCS system. This includes Premier and Challenger Leagues.
- Have an appearance in the Round of 16 of any premier tournaments as defined by Liquipedia.
- Have an extraordinary amount of viewers on your own merits. This doesn't happen often but occasionally people will grow their stream to have several hundred viewers at all times and this is worth consideration.
In addition we'll be removing people more regularly. Following each season's WCS qualifiers we will go through and remove from the featured list any players that no longer meet the above requirements and have fewer than 300 average viewers on their stream (though this exact number is subject to change with more research). This means that while in WCS any player will remain featured but it is possible to drop off the list should they be eliminated from Challenger League. For the number reporting we will be using a tool that tracks viewer counts while the stream is live on TeamLiquid, which all streamers will have access to seeing in the near future - it is very similar to the twitch dashboard but on some occasions will report slightly different averages.
What This Means For Players
For those of you looking to become featured, it will be easier to get on the list but once there you will need to work on your stream. The featured list is very competitive these days and being included does not guarantee viewers as it did in 2010 (despite popular opinion often thinking otherwise). Viewers have a lot of options available to them, and we have found that a feature without a strong existing fanbase sometimes doesn't help at all - which is why we sometimes appear slow to add new talent. If you're an up and comer who made it into WCS or had a deep DH run, you should prepare for the future by building your stream fanbase to ensure you remain on the list. Do it by having a good stream, interacting with your viewers, and participating in the community in what ways you can - such as doing interviews or being on the variety of talk shows that exist.
For the Other Notable Streams category it will function the same as before, a way to highlight a small handful of people who have visibility in the community through things like casting large LAN events and hosting shows or events.
Overall this should make our sidebar more accurate as to who is currently notable and hopefully makes our criteria a little more clear to the community.
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Feature avilo! Also feature ClarityBails, he was challenger league last season. Neeb too.
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yes, thank you.
I had my qualms of the new system that was in place, but as it expanded and moved along; I ended up being quite satisfied. Lately, my biggest complaint has been how slow things have been changing. Players like Protech were still featured despite being irrelevant for months (even a year?). I like this will be more in-line with WCS without sacrificing the merits of achievements in non-WCS events (DH/MLG).
you can go ahead and feature me btw, I don't mind.
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Hmm. I really like this. Will be interesting to see new streamers more regurarly.
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Sounds like really smart changes, and encourages better streams for the community overall. Very cool!
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Orb featured with sub 30 viewers comes to mind... haha. No hating, but I saw quite a few unfeatured streamers higher than him.
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Here, here. It's about time and hopefully we can update the categories as well.
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Ya, it makes sense. No real point having people featured who doesn't seem to do anything or that has a very low following. Might as well cut off some of the none popular streams in the feature section. Great to see that Featured streams and normal streams finally means something, it certainly didn't seem to matter before.
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Katowice25012 Posts
On July 07 2013 08:30 intense555 wrote:
Feature avilo! Also feature ClarityBails, he was challenger league last season. Neeb too.
I didn't intend for this to be a thread where you suggest people you want featured, specifically because all three of those cases are covered in the text that explains our criteria.
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Will there be a similar thread regarding this topic in the Dota 2 section?
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Katowice25012 Posts
I feel pretty good about our Dota featured list so that will remain mostly as is. SC2 has a much higher turnover rate for players so having a system that easily deals with people going in and out is a lot more necessary.
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Hopefully you guys make the "Favourite streams" feature more prominent with this too.
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hopefully this means you'll finally feature pro7ect after 1000's over consistent viewers and qualifying for wcs/rog and the BW TLS ~_~
kind of frustrated how slow it has been to update this policy
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Am loving the new rules! Makes perfect sense and rewards those who work hard on their streams :D
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I like this new system. I think it would also be cool if you get featured if you were one of the people in the top 50 streamers from the other thread. That is probably redundant though as all those people are most likely already featured.
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Makes perfect sense, good work guys.
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On July 07 2013 08:30 intense555 wrote:
Feature avilo! Also feature ClarityBails, he was challenger league last season. Neeb too.
Please not avilo...
Not to player bash, but that player has had more problems on TL.net, SotG, etc. etc. than almost anyone else. He's a master at pissing people off and getting into ragefests.
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On July 07 2013 08:43 Bashnek wrote:
Hopefully you guys make the "Favourite streams" feature more prominent with this too.
Really have to agree with this fellow. Is there any way to make this option more visible?
I probably watched streams for a whole year before I knew about this option; it would have saved me sooooo much time when i had to check if some of the non-featured-but-very-enjoyable streams were on or not.
Other than that I appreciate the fluidity and look forward to discovering new streams.
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awesome love this. Now I have a decent incentive to train for tournaments!
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