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NOM · Tue, 12th-Mar-2013, 2:40 PM

What really matters is at least from one end it was pretty much perfect.

After dying in 37 degree heat during the day, the weather cooled down and felt really nice (highish 20's)

only one mic died. the sound was amazing ( i was right at the back for a little while and it was just as good as the front.

We only had 1 bm arsehole that was hitting a girl (there was the music festival at the same time. and there was a walkway close to the stage and it felt good having someone in the crowd pwning the crap out of them,

and who really cares if the players hear what's going on. its a show match for ENTERTAINMENT. It wasn't a chance to win big or anything serious like that .
also...
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jbhewitt · Tue, 12th-Mar-2013, 2:41 PM

If you werent there you missed out, truly.

Last M rated event ever at FedSquare - went out with a bang!!!

Warms my heart to see so many people coming to see Starcraft.

I wanna give a full report sometime/someday. Our crew worked hard 100% for over 30hours straight. Thanks for watching!

**Baldie** · Tue, 12th-Mar-2013, 3:00 PM

Was a pleasure to work directly on. Sure there are always things to work on and improve but I definitely was blown away by the live audience. Dustin himself said to me the crowd was awesome and he was really enjoying himself and I am sure that would be echoed by the other Blizzard staff.

I myself do not nearly know the level of work, equipment, budget and staff required to produce a world class stream - I learned a lot last night about that - however I will say the team who was there worked flat out from arriving in Melbourne to provide the best quality as available given their resources.

Keep the feedback coming and thank you to all who attended!

UHF · Tue, 12th-Mar-2013, 3:06 PM

It looks like the people at the live event were enjoying themselves, and from all accounts they did. It was fantastic to see the players on stage on the Blizzard stream, and to get to hear from both Dustin and Mr Jack was a real treat. I would have attended if I could!

Coming from someone watching from home however, I'm not going to sugarcoat it!

The live stream I would pretty much label a disaster. Whilst everyone keeps saying the live event was awesome, you're still catering for thousands (potentially tens of thousands) of people watching online. As much as I've come to expect this sort of quality from Australian events, I can't help but feel that we really missed the mark on the launch stream.

The 3 main things I can point to are:

Sound quality - this was so bad I ended up muting the stream for the majority of the time. What's worse, there was no one to confirm whether this was being fixed, was able to be fixed or even if they were aware of the situation. This ties into the next point:
Moderation/Stream Admin - stream chat was left to it's own devices, and it wasn't pretty. the stream was getting ripped to shreds by almost everyone in chat.
An overall feeling of a below average event. The awesomeness of the live event didn't really translate through the stream at all. Sometimes when we got a wide view of the audience cheering, and it looked great. Other than that it felt a bit 'bleh', compared to all the other regional live streams (yea yea, i know 'this is SEA').

At one point near the start of the stream we had 3k viewers, but that plummeted down to 1.2k pretty quickly and it was only Dustin's interview through drove the numbers back up.

Yeah I know it's basically against some eSports code to post criticisms like this and everyone will probably have a fit and yell at me, but I really felt underwhelmed.

**Maynarde** · Tue, 12th-Mar-2013, 3:10 PM

^ UHF, not against any code at all your criticism was the best in this thread as it's the most constructive

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PiG:

I echo this

**nirvAnA** · Tue, 12th-Mar-2013, 3:16 PM

wheres the pictures

Dot where are u!!!!!!!!!!

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	Maynarde:	Livi took a bunch, they might be up if she uploads :o
	NOM:	i posted some

FvRphoneheha · Tue, 12th-Mar-2013, 6:25 PM

Great job guys

Was good fun! I found the Viva La Dirt League videos slightly cheesy/cringeworthy, but so I've always done when it comes to SC2 parodies of pop songs; more something for our community to enjoy and laugh at. Production wise I thought the live event was definitely good. Again, didn't see the stream, so can't comment on the issues there.

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	Pox:	the only good sc2 parody is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4uAobKLrG0
	SLCN.CautioN:	THE VIVA LA DIRT WAS SOOOOOOOOOOO CRINGE WORTHy

CleighMoores · Tue, 12th-Mar-2013, 7:07 PM

I have to commend the entire team behind the event, for a product that's scarcely represented in a city better known for it's music and sports, it fit in really well. As someone who longs to see more gaming related events happening in the public I was very well pleased.

Casters were solid, the space at Fed Square was well used, and apart from that one scuffle everybody seemed to have an awesome time! The turnout was truly impressive, far more than I anticipated.

Sucks to hear the stream wasn't very good, but Melbourne still seems to be very much television oriented, and I imagine the internet connection was less than stellar. Hopefully that changes ASAP!

The fact that these things are happening here is a good sign regardless, because at least it shows we are open to, and more than happy to host these sort of events with capable teams on hand. The biggest of thanks to Blizzard, and the whole ACL crew for the event, can't wait for the next one

On a side note I took a whole lot of photographs and footage of the event, so I'l be sure to share them sometime in the week when Uni assignments aren't dominating my time xD

Edit: Oh and how can I forget! Got to meet so many awesome people! staff, players, personalities, so good to get to meet you all in person

syfMiley · Tue, 12th-Mar-2013, 7:33 PM

Loved it, My pictures will be coming up soon on my page FM Solutions

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CleighMoores:

Awesome, can't wait to see em!

**nirvAnA** · Tue, 12th-Mar-2013, 9:28 PM

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**PiG** · Tue, 12th-Mar-2013, 10:05 PM

This was so much fun. The live event was amazing! WCS was sickk but to have so many people, (I was told 2000) down there watching the design behind the game, some showmatches and local talents maynarde and Flamga was amazing! I met so many people and just chatting about Starcraft with so many passionate people was so exciting.

Hats off to everyone that put in the work to make the event a success! Thanks Blizzard for making and promoting such an awesome game