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Originally Posted by Dox

2) Downtime. Downtime. Downtime.
This has been an ongoing echo for 2 years now. As far as I can tell, we ONLY streamed matches on the feature station all weekend. (I could be wrong). So after 1 series finished, we had absolutely nothing on the stream for 30 minutes while players packed up, set up, warmed up and veto'd. Just keep chaining games back to back, especially during day 1. I was going to offer to interview people during downtime over the weekend but that idea went out the window when I ended up spending all my time at the venue behind a casting desk. :P

It's not as simple as "just stream more matches!". If you stream back to back to back matches then you are holding up the tournament; the players, the casters and the entire event suffers.

In ACL Brisbane's case we chose to put the tournament ahead of the stream.

The only real way to have back to back games is if there was a limited and pre determined number of players, and it was set up so we knew the exact time that players are playing each other. That is just not realistic for the type of tournaments that we run (we want as many players as we can fit).

Maybe if we had a second feature station it would have improved the downtime issue, but that is more work piled on to the already large amount of work that has to be achieved in a small amount of time for production. There's only so much you can do in a night.

If you want more interviews and more content to the stream then someone has to be proactive about it, ask the stream director and he will probably say "yeah, jump in to the chair and let's go!" Hell, even if someone wanted to download some replays and go through play by plays of previous matches in the downtime then we would have obliged.