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TL;DR:
Matches will now air on Wednesday-Sunday as opposed to Tuesday-Saturday. To facilitate this change, there will be no games on Friday of this week.
NASL feels it did not communicate effectively enough with Naniwa yesterday. While Strelok has still been awarded the win, Naniwa remains at 0-0 and will not be fined.
From now NASL will allow players to postpone their match by one day if they need to reschedule because of major LAN events.
NASL will not put the decision to take a free win in the player's hands, since that put the player taking the free win in an uncomfortable position. NASL will make that decision themselves.
If you are annoyed with any of these changes, be sure to read the full statement from the NASL before posting about it.
We are going to be changing our format slightly to improve viewer experience and player scheduling conflicts.
The broadcast schedule will be moved forward by one day and matches will now air Wednesday through Sunday at their regular times.
This change will occur this week so there will be no broadcast on Friday. Friday's matches will air on Saturday. From there on out we will continue with our adapted schedule.
We want to apologize for the delay in our broadcast this Tuesday and the absence of the anticipated match-up between JulyZerg and White-Ra.
There was also an issue while trying to film the first game of the day, Strelok-Naniwa. At first Naniwa asked if we could reschedule for a different day. Naniwa then asked for time to rest before the match as he had been traveling. Meanwhile we asked Strelok and his manager if that was OK, Strelok agreed to wait.
Naniwa had not logged in to the player channel and did not see this message. Later it became clear that he did not receive this message from us.
While this was going on we saw that Naniwa was laddering. We were taken aback and went to Mouz's manager to ask if he wanted to take a win.
Immediately after the problem we called Dignitas' manager Odee to discuss and he stands by our decision to award the game to Strelok. However, we could have communicated better and will not be penalizing Naniwa; he will remain at 0-0 and will not be fined.
Previously we had allowed players to delay their match on a given day if they gave us advance warning. From now on we will continue to film according to our regular schedule but we will allow players to postpone their match by one day if they need to reschedule because of major LAN events. As always, emergencies or illness will allow rescheduling.
This delay will allow us to be more flexible to LAN events as they occur and to make sure that we can air every single match that should be played.
Also to be noted, waiting on players to arrive is heavily affecting our schedule. Many times we have been forced to break our schedule and film games out of series. This increases our edit time immensely in addition to throwing the casters off. When compounded with our tight encode schedule it can have major effects on our stream timeline.
By adding a two-day lead time from shoot to show, we think we can make sure that every game where the players arrive on time will be played.
We are also no longer going to put the burden of choosing to take the win on to the players. We had been asking them as we thought that they would prefer that, but based on feedback we see that there is too much pressure for them to not take the win.
Thank you for your continued support.
NASL Staff
The broadcast schedule will be moved forward by one day and matches will now air Wednesday through Sunday at their regular times.
This change will occur this week so there will be no broadcast on Friday. Friday's matches will air on Saturday. From there on out we will continue with our adapted schedule.
We want to apologize for the delay in our broadcast this Tuesday and the absence of the anticipated match-up between JulyZerg and White-Ra.
There was also an issue while trying to film the first game of the day, Strelok-Naniwa. At first Naniwa asked if we could reschedule for a different day. Naniwa then asked for time to rest before the match as he had been traveling. Meanwhile we asked Strelok and his manager if that was OK, Strelok agreed to wait.
Naniwa had not logged in to the player channel and did not see this message. Later it became clear that he did not receive this message from us.
While this was going on we saw that Naniwa was laddering. We were taken aback and went to Mouz's manager to ask if he wanted to take a win.
Immediately after the problem we called Dignitas' manager Odee to discuss and he stands by our decision to award the game to Strelok. However, we could have communicated better and will not be penalizing Naniwa; he will remain at 0-0 and will not be fined.
Previously we had allowed players to delay their match on a given day if they gave us advance warning. From now on we will continue to film according to our regular schedule but we will allow players to postpone their match by one day if they need to reschedule because of major LAN events. As always, emergencies or illness will allow rescheduling.
This delay will allow us to be more flexible to LAN events as they occur and to make sure that we can air every single match that should be played.
Also to be noted, waiting on players to arrive is heavily affecting our schedule. Many times we have been forced to break our schedule and film games out of series. This increases our edit time immensely in addition to throwing the casters off. When compounded with our tight encode schedule it can have major effects on our stream timeline.
By adding a two-day lead time from shoot to show, we think we can make sure that every game where the players arrive on time will be played.
We are also no longer going to put the burden of choosing to take the win on to the players. We had been asking them as we thought that they would prefer that, but based on feedback we see that there is too much pressure for them to not take the win.
Thank you for your continued support.
NASL Staff
thanks for the info motbob!
