Calaagree, about the maps, there was no misunderstanding actually. You want to rule them and to force (it's what you wrote, right?) the tournaments organizers to use standard mappacks. They want to keep their freedom. Pretty irreconciliable points of view.
I'm not against having common mappacks with other tournaments and it can be pretty practical sometimes. But this should be only on a voluntary basis.
And as i said above, having standard mappacks would be a dramatic loss of diversity, for a game of which the diversity is the whole point...
calaagree wrote:when you are streaming and you see people coming on your chat saying : "is there a relay?" then this does not help you to continue.
Maybe they just don't know that streams exist, and you should probably not be that disappointed. You can't have the whole community aware of what you do, whether or not your communication/advertising is good. But maybe it shows you can improve your communication.
Maybe, as well, they don't like streams because of several reasons. Have you ever tried to watch a stream through a very poor connexion? Also, some players might prefer to have only the match, without the comments. For instance, it's not really interesting to have the comments in a language you don't understand, and not everybody speaks english (or french, german, or any). When you come on a relay, you can chose as well which player you watch/follow, which might be a crucial feature if you are clearly a supporter of a specific player. And you have often better graphics on your own PC than on a stream that has its own quality, often not that good. The attendance might also think the comments are not interesting, that's probably the harsher thing to realize (but of course it's pretty much dependant on how well the sportscaster expresses, and his culture - which means not everybody can do the job).
calaagree wrote:If a match is really important then it would be streamed. It is not that difficult to find streamers. Again, relays are restricting the number of viewers, and then the number of potential "new" viewers (as lives are often dead because everybody goes on the relay).
On another hand, relays are accessible from the game and could bring casual or roockie players to discover the eSport world. Just because they have seen a strange server, they were curious and they watched what happened there. It will probably not happen with a stream which is often really hard to reach if you don't have a direct link or if you are not used to browse the right websites.
I think something like a radio could be really relevant as well. With a radio, you can combine the comments with all the advantages of the relay, having both running at the same time. A radio will be less impacted by poor connexions too i think, because there is less information to transmit. Of course, it's less interesting for those who didn't buy the game and would like to watch pictures.
All in all, i think there is not a perfect system that supplants all the others, that's why all should have their chances to succeed and attendees will decide which form they prefer. Thus i believe we shouldn't restrict the options, and restricting an option will not make the opposite one win as much as we lose on the other hand, whatever option we restrict.
so gl hf all 