[Philosopher]

Originally Posted by DynSL.Fullmetal

Looking at SEAcraft as a brand, i feel it is lacking some fundamental things. You need to advertise more effectively to a broader audience, the occasional Reddit post just isn't bringing in sufficient viewership. I feel another noteworthy contributor to the lack of viewership is related to lack of production quality. For this brand to move forward you need rethink how the games are being represented and optimize certain features to cater towards the target audience. Perhaps one of the thing you could do to adjust how this tournament is represented could be things like: pre game trash talk or even something as experimental as implementing diagetic sounds.

Honestly what i'm trying to say is that I feel there as so many different representations that Starcraft tournaments can have and if you are able to uncover a representation that the audience would go to greater extents to support, then you will get a far greater viewership.

message hidden in rant: Be experimental

Source of knowledge: Media student

Besides Team-liquid threads, which don't really get read and Reddit there isn't much advertising left available. Unless you get big name people to retweet your tweet about the tournament, and even then with SEAcraft being on at the same time as Proleague and NSSL the viewership is always going to be low. I expect this. However there are 3 places to advertise for Starcraft events TL, Reddit and Twitter and in most of those cases you do require some knowledge about the event for you to be interested in watching it.

I think the Production quality is quite good, Metalcore does a great job in setting up the stream in such a manner that provides good quality for NA/EU (if there are any) without ditching SEA viewers. His microphone is crystal clear, and yes sometimes there are a few hiccups, but when you're working at 1am on casting that is gonna happen. One thing we could fix is downtime..and that is something I need to work on.

In reference to Trash talk and diagetic sounds. I feel like that stuff is just gimmicky. I want to showcase talent and games, not bring people over to the stream using a technological equivalent to a girl in a bikini. And no one wants to hear no name players trash talk each other, it may be entertaining when the big guns do it over twitter or battle.net, but its kind of sad when it feels forced....and in my opinion diagetic sounds are just annoying and not worth it.

Thanks for the opinions. I think the suggestion of thinking outside the box is a good one and I will work on that.