Do YOU want to shoutcast?

I've been fighting for it for a while now and this event I was finally allowed to bring players up to the casting stage for commentary. Unfortunately, I was only able to get people who were not competing in actual matches (don't ask me, red tape). So I was able to get up Xantims and Kagril for two different matches, one yesterday and one today. Of course not at the same time, although I think that would be cool to do for a game; just have two players cast the matches.

Anyway, I thought it went well overall. I like having players who are active in the community talk about the games because they represent the community more than I or any other caster ever will, at least until we get a retired generation of players. Its also great for me to be able to bounce my thoughts off of knowledgeable people. Then again, I also don't want to turn the stream into pure analysis.

The best stream is going to be a mix of good action play-by-play and intelligent color commentary, but as things stand the client limitations and technical issues are severely hamering both of those things. Especially the play-by-play. I won't go into a lot of detail as to why but suffice to say that both players I had up were completely boggled as certain times during the fights. They agreed it would be much easier to cast the game from a first person perspective rather than the gimped floaty cam that is the current situation.

But I'd really like to hear what people were watching it thought. I'd like to know who would be interested in commenting on games. I feel like we're moving in the right direction in regards to the stream, but we've still got a long way to go. In the future we will probably be doing player interviews rather than shoutcasting, but that will give players ample opportunity to analyze the matches and offer their opinions.

I am intensely committed to making the stream be a quality production, and while their are a slew of things I can't fix, the are are a lot of things I can. I hope the stream continues to get constructive feedback, between myself, the WSVG, and the community we can make this great.

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