[Benji]

Originally Posted by nirvAnA

yup its 5xbo3. if its getting streamed just showcase the best 2 matches. They can be played concurrently so whole match can be over in an hour. atm theres no ace format because some teams can have 1-2 very strong players carrying them all the way through.

I disagree with this, if its being streamed you want to show all the games as it makes it more dramatic. If you stream for 4 times as long, you're getting 4x more stream hits which is the goal I assumed, plus it makes it more exciting for the team, as you can all watch and cheer your teammates on.

[crAzerk]

Originally Posted by xGKingBenji

I disagree with this, if its being streamed you want to show all the games as it makes it more dramatic. If you stream for 4 times as long, you're getting 4x more stream hits which is the goal I assumed, plus it makes it more exciting for the team, as you can all watch and cheer your teammates on.

I've to agree with this, streaming an entire series makes it more entertaining for sure. And given it's only for Tier 1, surely the players are of high enough calibre to draw and keep viewers too! (as compared to current suggested format of just 3 ace matches)

[deL]

What's stopping you letting someone else stream a 2nd match that is going on if people want to watch a different matchup.

[syfChadMann]

I'm sure there are enough casters and streamers to cover all games....

[Benji]

@del and Chad

It builds up tension for starters, if one team is 2-0, the third game is very important for the team without a win, and puts some pressure on the player, as well as makes it more exciting. If you do 3 games at once, you'll finish watching the first game, and the commentator will announce 'Oh yea, and X and Y won so team Z has already won' after only seeing a few maps.

Second, split viewership, lets say you have 500 concurrent viewers watching (Random number), if you stream 3 games at once, you're going to have something like 200/200/100 (Random numbers) and each stream is worse off because of it. Also, theres quite a large turnover on viewers, a few people will tune in late or tune out early for a variety of reasons. Lets say you get 1500 stream views in an hour, splitting the event up and doing 3 streams means you'll be casting for about an hour to an hour and a half, giving you about 2k views total, but if you have 1 guy run it, it'll last 3-4 hours and you'll have 4500-6000 views total, which is more impressive to sponsors obviously.

Finally, running the event for 3-4 hours makes it more of an event, if it only lasts an hour its more of an afterthought and people are more prone to missing it.

[xpaperclip]

I say stream every game as a set as well. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense just to show the "ace match", especially since it could finish faster than the other games and then you have the weird situation of the "main event", as it were, ending without a known result for the overall match.

I also don't understand why it all has to happen on a single day. If it were spread out a bit more you would also mitigate to some extent the issue of having to pick a particular match to showcase, and you would have a couple hours of games on a few different days, and it would also give some teams more flexibility in scheduling.

[aLtMrFool]

We do have enough casters / streamers, but I don't think we can find a time where we can get all the players we need + all the casters / streamers we need to commit to at the same time? I'm not very sure..

Then again, are we able to get people to commit for 3-4 hours for this like benji suggested?

[Frogmite]

Originally Posted by aLtMrFool

We do have enough casters / streamers, but I don't think we can find a time where we can get all the players we need + all the casters / streamers we need to commit to at the same time? I'm not very sure..

Then again, are we able to get people to commit for 3-4 hours for this like benji suggested?

Yes there's a lot of commited casters that usually cast events that take around 3 to 4 hours: Benji, Zeph, mr zain, flamga, maynarde, eddie, meatex,...
The standard time to start such events are 8PM AEDT on thursdays.

Casting only ace matches:
Pro:
+You get to watch ALL the most important games of every matchups of the week.
Cons:
-You cannot watch all the games of a particular matchup.

Casting only one matchup:
Pro:
+You will have the intensity of watching a game from the begining to the end
Cons:
-You will miss the other matchups or will have to switch channels, or get 2 streamers for one division.

Both methods are valid, i suppose it can be discussed in this thread. Once again, we will do what the community, and the casters, prefer.

[Benji]

Originally Posted by Frogmite

Yes there's a lot of commited casters that usually cast events that take around 3 to 4 hours: Benji, Zeph, mr zain, flamga, maynarde, eddie, meatex,...
The standard time to start such events are 8PM AEDT on thursdays.

Casting only ace matches:
Pro:
+You get to watch ALL the most important games of every matchups of the week.
Cons:
-You cannot watch all the games of a particular matchup.

Casting only one matchup:
Pro:
+You will have the intensity of watching a game from the begining to the end
Cons:
-You will miss the other matchups or will have to switch channels, or get 2 streamers for one division.

Both methods are valid, i suppose it can be discussed in this thread. Once again, we will do what the community, and the casters, prefer.

Why not only have 1 match a night? So you've got Clan A vs B playing on Monday, Clan C vs D on Wednesday etc, do a group stage over a few weeks and do the same for the finals?

This was what I had working in my head anyway.

[ToR.Arnor]

Originally Posted by xGKingBenji

Why not only have 1 match a night? So you've got Clan A vs B playing on Monday, Clan C vs D on Wednesday etc, do a group stage over a few weeks and do the same for the finals?

This was what I had working in my head anyway.

Thats the way I had it in my head too the TCL format comes to mind there are 3 'play' nights over a week (lets say monday, tuesday, and thursday) each team will play 3 games over say a 4 week period

[Frogmite]

Originally Posted by xGKingBenji

Why not only have 1 match a night? So you've got Clan A vs B playing on Monday, Clan C vs D on Wednesday etc, do a group stage over a few weeks and do the same for the finals?

This was what I had working in my head anyway.

This is another valid solution.
We will have to take care that games don't happen on wednesday night (CO) and sunday (GPD, master cup).

[Benji]

Originally Posted by Frogmite

This is another valid solution.
We will have to take care that games don't happen on wednesday night (CO) and sunday (GPD, master cup).

Obviously, I was just picking random days.

[aLtMrFool]

However its gonna be done, it still sounds really exciting! Looking foward to it^_^ though I still have some months of training to go! Plus, scheduling is a big problem for me since I'm in NS xD

[nirvAnA]

benji you first gotta consider the circumstances we face before coming up with suggestions. this is SEA. esports is undeveloped. the market is small. we are not NASL or MLG. no one is getting paid, this is all volunteer work for the community. taking small steps will lead to growth and sustainability. getting ahead of ourselves will lead to ruin and withdrawal of sponsors and overworked volunteer staff, putting us further behind.

people dont wanna watch matches every single day, look what happen to NASL. and even they failed hard and we have 1% of their viwer base. the SEA community want to watch GSL as well, and other exciting events. having it on one day is fine. it may sound good to have it on multiple days on paper but when it actually happens in reality it will be a nightmare logistically for the admins and casters to cast games 3 days a week. This means an admin has to be free 3 days a week as well as 3 sets of casters (for tier 1 ALONE), for 7 weeks straight which is not practical, or sustainable. in a perfect world where everyone is dedicated like frogmite yes it will work but in the world we live in today it wont. you have to consider the constraints we are working with, and more importantly sustainability.

all the tier1 matches will happen on the same day. whether its gonna be cast as a set or just the ace matches is still open for discussion. the reason why i said just cast the ace matches is so

1. people get to see just the "Best of the best" each week and it produces the highest calibre games. sponsored players get the limelight and its as close as a "pro league" format you can get in these circumstances. its kinda like how they just show the best matches at MLG each round while the others are available in replays later instead of showing every single match.

2. every team is covered. so there won't be the nightmare scenario every week of finding three casters to cast the games, inevitably ending up with some matches not being cast at all. look at the CO, its hard to get casters or admins regularly and its just one caster, once per week! its harder work then people think and you never ever wanna overwork the casters or admins who are volunteer staff after all. once they get burnt they don't come back. like torniquet who is already inactive after getting flamed. and look at all the hate erasmus has recently copped after being MIA for just a tiny while. it was his own initiative to single handedly run the PDCL and when he had to go inactive for abit because of 100 hour work weeks and having other commitments people quickly forgot the work he put in. admins are often under appreciated, its a thankless job and we want the "workload" for admins /casters spread out and manageable so they continue to enjoy it instead of it becoming "thankless work".

3. Do i think there will be less viewers with this format? NO. more people will wanna watch a single official main stream showing the best games rather than three separate streams or one stream on 3 separate days. the clan mates who want to cheer on their friends might not tune in but that is a very small % of the overall viewers we will be getting who came to see the best. you want people on TL to be seeing glade, tgun, pig, ender constantly and making their names familiar and getting SEA out there. why would sponsors be interested in unknowns? they want familiar faces and this will help with that.

(this is for tier1 only. for tier 2,3,4 there will be different arrangements)

for the SEA cup it of course will not be this way and be in the more traditional show all games between the clan.

[NvJazBas]

Can we not name this tournament ~~ Cup?? I always didn't like it being called ~~ "cup"..lol just a suggestion again!

[AxSGRiM]

I agree with JazBas, just sound weird.

[TCPLemminks]

In terms of stream views, I'd rather not have to make a choice between whether I want to watch this game or that. However, considering the logisitical nightmare that Nirv mentioned of having the games run over three days, we should avoid this.

That being said, if in one day we have all of teir 1's matches being played, what's stopping us from having the three matches being casted by three different casters. Aside from the fact that we would have to get 3 casters to commit 3-4 hours of their time in that day and not get paid for it.

As a side note; Other leagues can have one person stream their clan's matches if their clan members want to cheer them on.

[TASlowHands]

As a sideline on the streaming issue, Having an ''official'' stream showing the best games sounds like a good idea. Maybe the fact that clans will want to watch each other and cheer each other on could be addressed by someone in the clan streaming their clans games, so long as the games arent simultaneous im sure someone in the clans could stream and cast them for the rest of the clans enjoyment. Big events often have mulitple streams/streamers with different content.

[Volition]

I am really excited by what i am reading. Thanks for everyone who is willing to volunteer to put in all the effort to get this going. It can at times be a thankless job - to all those offering suggestions, please remember that what seems like a small improvement to the tournament for you may be a heap of work for the (unpaid) people who will run the tournament. If they say it will be done in a certain way, let it be done in a certain way - it isnt like each team is paying to get into the league.

As for when when the tournament should be run, i can see pros and cons of it being on a set date (as people will miss out), but also the logistical nightmare it will make for admins and teams and casters if it isn't a set date. for the lower leagues that wont be casted, maybe designate a time and day in the thread, but give the teams the option to agree to play it at another time (only if agreed, if not agreed must be played at designated time). rules, but with flexibility to make it go smoother.

Thanks again to all the hard workers who are putting in the effort to get it going. The fact that so many issues are being resolved (like having 5 1v1s to limit the effect of smurfing, and 4 divisions to try to make it more competitive).

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Maynarde:

[AxSGRiM]

Originally Posted by neatnoicepls

As a sideline on the streaming issue, Having an ''official'' stream showing the best games sounds like a good idea. Maybe the fact that clans will want to watch each other and cheer each other on could be addressed by someone in the clan streaming their clans games, so long as the games arent simultaneous im sure someone in the clans could stream and cast them for the rest of the clans enjoyment. Big events often have mulitple streams/streamers with different content.

I agree with this a lot!

I also think there should be a weekly recap where all the casters talk about the games played and the interesting things they saw during the week along with how they feel the times will do in the future and next weeks. That would be really cool for me ;D