Would also be sick to see some guest casting from players.. I know Pinder has amazing game sense as is an awesome caster.. I'm sure having other players like, PiG or iaguz giving their insights into their game knowledge by guest casting would be amazing!..
I like this idea for LANs. For online stuff it's a bit harder though (especially if we keep using Mumble).
Perhaps instead of "Hey Dudes! Follow me at" when things are at a lull maybe ask the audience a question and ask for their answers @yourtwitter... things like:
"who do you want to see with this round?" or
"what did you think of SonSo's last engagement?"
That way you are stimulating the audience to do something during these quiet times and you can use their answers and insight as things to talk about during the game set-ups or initial mining periods. Reward those who make the effort with 15 seconds of stream fame via mentioning their name and you have a pretty good way to get people following you and making the stream chatter a little more interesting.
I actually didn't see that much today as I was focusing on my play today but from what I saw I noticed a sizeable improvement from last time for which nice Maynarde and Doble it was a pleasure to watch your cast today. As far as improvement goes I don't think I saw enough to give a valuable contribution so I'll remain quiet for once :P.
I listened to Maynarde and doble cast the ACL games today, (Deth& Pinder, and Mafia&Tgun I think?) and I gotta say I thought it was good. Not perfect, but pretty close.
The two of you work well as a pair, even if doble gets a little distracted from time to time.
I particularly liked your casting Maynarde, I thought that you did a good job of highlighting the exciting moments, and building off that (those were some cool Bane Vs Bane wars!) and you went so far as to explain (in brief) WHY that was cool. Which I think is very good for casual players who maybe don't know so much about the game.
I noticed that Arnor mentioned you talk alot about the SEA player base, and while I agree with him that outsiders may view this as bias, I think its bloody brilliant! It's exactly the kinda shit you should be plugging, get our boys names out there and show the damn world that we will not be overlooked. We have a wealth of talent in this region and the world needs to know! So keep at it, or even...
Give em a bit more, if you could grab a little info on the players your casting, in the down time, or when games are moving slowly, etc, you could inform the not-so-informed viewers of the players recent accomplishments?
(no hard feelings Arnor, I meant no offense)
doble I didn't mind, although at times he didn't seem as excited about what was happening as I felt he should have been. Although that isnt to say he was like that all the time, I did only watch 4 - 5 games...
I get the impression he isn't a SC2 player? Correct me if I'm wrong though?
And unfortunately I missed Ol' superman's casting, so I can't comment on that, Im sure you killed it though Dox.
/2c
Sorry if it was a bit blunt.
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The only thing I dislike about watching the stream is there can be a lot of downtime between games. I'm not exactly sure how to remedy this however, but maybe just have the casters shooting the shit and answering stuff and rather than just having the blank acl screen? Or perhaps rather than jumping around series so you get out of loop follow the 1 player for a bit perhaps? Like I said I'm not really sure how to fix it but there does seem to be an abnormal amount of downtime between games.
Other than that tho I really like the casting and its awesome
Oh, having guest players cast in games for LANS etc would be farrkkeeen siiiiiccckkkK!!!
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