Why are there no big tournament replays?

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Canada184 Posts

August 06 2014 22:36 GMT

I used to play broodwar but never got into sc2 due to lack of lan and one account per key. But recently ive been watching lots of vods (past 4-5 ESL casted tournaments on youtube) and even downloaded sc2 starter edition.

But when I look online I cannot find any of these replays. What is going on? With all the time and effort they put into these tournaments it would be a relatively small and easy task to upload the replays.

Has a reason ever been given why we don't get replays?

I also find it odd how I cannot even find some game vods. For example both Scarlett and MaSa qualified for IEM, yet I cannot find their final games anywhere.

iHirO

United Kingdom1381 Posts

August 06 2014 22:41 GMT

http://i.destiny.gg/replays/Day1Replays.zip

Nebuchad

Switzerland12267 Posts

August 06 2014 22:45 GMT

Actually if you know where to look, most of the biggest tournaments release replaypacks. Even WCS does it now, which was one of the things I always missed, having gsl equivalent level replays. IEM does, a lot of Dreamhacks do... MLG is maybe the one who does it the least.

Genome852

United States979 Posts

August 07 2014 01:21 GMT

They say some pro players don't want their replays released. Which is strange because you can always just pause VODS anyways to see what's happening...

brickrd

United States4894 Posts

August 07 2014 01:26 GMT

On August 07 2014 10:21 Genome852 wrote:
They say some pro players don't want their replays released. Which is strange because you can always just pause VODS anyways to see what's happening...

not really... the camera on a vod can only be in 1 place, the production tab isn't always up and who wants to pause and unpause a vod 50 times? if youre a serious player looking to copy a build then vods dont compare to the actual replay, where you can study exact timings, building placement, even copy a players mindset by watching his point of view camera

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Canada184 Posts

August 13 2014 06:42 GMT

iHirO: Thanks for the replays, they were interesting. But as a Canadian I like to see other Canadian players players. Those replays contained none of them.... But how did you find that set?

brickrd: That also used to be the argument for broodwar replays. But with vods the prod tab is up *most* of the time I think anyone who is serious enough about stealing strads can figure it out. At this point, not having replays is just hurting fans more then hurting people who want to copy strads 1:1.

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