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On November 08 2016 00:57 aQuaSC wrote:

The fact of the online event like that happening all year is really amazing, I enjoyed watching it on BlizzCon but personally I didn't took is as super amazing and it felt as an extra thing this time on the convention. Especially when the games were more for fun than gameplay alone due to significant changes as it all needs time to create any form of metagame based on them to be truly fun to watch.

Personally I don't take TB as the best person ever entertainment-wise (it's a subjective matter) in StarCraft scene looking at others involved, he is enough of a reasonable person to criticize himself over how his casting may not be top-notch, others may think differently knowing him for other things (I watched maybe one or two his videos on Doom and No Man's Sky I think), though his input in the scene is enormous and I'm eternally thankful for what he does. StarCraft community is standing far too much on the shoulders of personalities instead of the game itself, and with a big part of these influential people gone, TB is super important. Olimoley and co. deserve utmost gratitude from the community as well despite pulling the strings from the backstage and not being so visible.

One more thing on how dependent this community is on personalities: Destiny streamed yesterday and had average 5k viewers with peak at 6k, with highest level streaming SC2 players having no more than 1k on average. Made me think how numbers would look if IdrA, Day9 or even Husky came back.

EDIT: I loved Axslav streams back in 2011, it would be great if he came back too :D

On November 08 2016 05:07 Ansibled wrote:

Is there any streaming that isn't dependent on personalities in the long term?

Outside of that. I have been working on a project for the last couple of months that has just kicked into high gear. I'm not ready to talk about it yet, I don't want to announce something that we won't be able to show you pretty much immediately, but it's taking an outside the box approach to the problem of growing the audience and building a larger fanbase of casual eSports viewers for Starcraft. We have some incredible people working on it (the best, trust me, they're bad hombres) and support from many figureheads of the scene. I'm really excited to eventually share it with you.

2017 is going to be a really exciting year.