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A General Do’s and Don’ts to Streaming.


Just elaborating and expanding on my Previous guide i wrote - Can be found here.
I am also writing a bit of an advanced guide which will come in due time - Will focus on the techniques and ideas of observing that you may not pick up on.


Please note that some things i write in here may be personal opinion, and previous mistakes of my own. I just wrote these things that i like and i don't like from watching various streams

Of course i have left out the super basic obvious things, cbf writing them.




Do :

1. Do Use More than 1 Overlay. 2 - 3 is nice, they’re easy to make and easy to switch from - So take your time to do it!
   
2. Do Use plenty of hotkeys for your 3rd party programs (ie. Starboard has hotkeys use them instead of showing us you’re a complete noob and entering the scores in manually.)
   
3. Do Be Nice and smooth in your actions. Take it slow, seduce your viewers with your smoooooooth actions.
   
4. Do Use the Camera Pan button (default middle mouse) to scroll.
   
5. Follow units with the hotkey (default is like shift+f or something - change this.) You can Click the portrait, however see below "Don't #9" For reason why.
   
6. Do If you’re paired with an observer - give him prompts to what you’re talking about and visa-versa.
   
7. Do Subtly point out things casters may miss. don’t over exaggerate it.
   
8. Do Show the Tug-Of-War tabs briefly after some damage harass, or economic boosts (mass drones/mules etc.) Don't keep it up there for too long! that's why its a giant pretty quick information bar .
   
9. Do Take off in game overlays when you drop the console. Just keep a screen as completely blank. maybe bind it to the same key (i’m yet to test this,I'm sure it will work)
   
10. Do Take off your ingame overlays when you’re in the lobby it (if you dont have an idle overlay) looks horrendous to see a bar at the bottom thats supposed to be the in-game console - Check out Systems - it’s pretty baller and basic.
    
11. Do Your research on who is playing. Remember their styles. When i observe certain players i know their styles (eg. Rossi’s multi drop Purple terran vs Zerg. BE PREPARED TO HAVE YOUR FACE 1MM AWAY FROM THE MINIMAP.)
    
12. Do Wish your players GLHF in the game lobby, Set yourself as Referee so you don't see any annoying chat machines ingame (the other spectators). You be the host too, You're running the show (unless rules state a ref has to be). Make sure they're ready too before you start
    
    
13. Do Be Professional about your cast.

Don’t :

1. Don't Display a webcam in-game. You're beautiful, but It’s distracting and we’re here to watch the game and listen to you talk about it, not watch you talk about it. Save it for in-between games.
   
2. Don't Click on buildings and units rapidly, selecting a lot of things in a small amount of time, going through their base to see what tech they have. We can see how many gateways there are without you clicking on each one individually quickly. Just Control Click them all at once if you want to select them.
   
3. Don't Be Ser Box-a-lot. Cursor box sparingly (just highlight some gas maybe a cancel or something)- Use the program SC Tactician (still in beta) to draw on the screen.
   
4. Don't Open up starboards preferences to change the scores/names/teams etc. Everything has EASY hot keys. learn them.
   
5. Don't Alt-Tab out of SC2. If you have to absolutely do it then minimise your task bar so you have to hover over it to see it. We dont want to see this. Starcraft shouldn’t look like its running on your computer, it should look like it IS your computer.
   
6. Don't Use the arrow keys to scroll.
   
7. Don't Push the edge of the map to scroll. (disable this option in your settings if you're about to observe a bunch of games. its easy to change back)
   
8. Don't Follow units by scrolling along with them Use the hotkey..
   
9. Don't Keep your mouse moving very fast, Your cursor is usually where the eyes of your viewers are following when not much is happening. Use the cursor to your advantage. You're not playing the game, your watching it
   
10. Don't crack witty jokes like tasteless does, unless its OC and actually quite suiting. (ie. maynarde's Perv comment) Also Don't Joke about the stream chat/quality
    
11. Don't Zoom in when it’s not needed. some times it's okay to really show some 1v1 SCV battles when not much is happening early game, but if it's mid-late game, there should be no zooming in unless you're showing some manner mules
    
12. Don't Look around through the fog of war - It's too dark and uninteresting, Use your map explanation with the minimap.
    
13. Don't Cover your stream with Logos and overlays. Use the Sexy Gif style that rotates (see Dox's ACL one).
    

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Quick Comments

	Stallion:
	Baldie:
	syfMiley:	huge plays
	xGKingdelete:	never knew about that middle click thing
	Maynarde:	Excellent addition
	nirvAnA:
	asdfSchnitzel:
	iMSystem:
	DGWoLF:	Thanks man Very usefull info. i guess i gotta start learning more hotkeys rather then just income Production and units :P