Prediction Thread

[AmaNutin]

Petition to remove micheal bolton: https://forums.eveonline.com/default...4&#post1568304

Supporting.

Also, they need to get those youtube videos out faster.

[ry ry]

Petition to remove micheal bolton: https://forums.eveonline.com/default...4&#post1568304

Supportin

This is the appropriate response.

[walrus]

it speaks:

I would encourage any player who would like to give commentating a shot to do so. There are several groups running alternative commentary, and several people doing their own commentary of matches that are up on youtube. There are many excellent tools to do a simultaneous broadcast, either thru own3d.tv or thru a shoutcast style radio stream. The more the community is involved the better the overall tournament will be for all involved. If people are interested in the details for setting it up, feel free to eve-mail me and I can help you get everything you need working.

As for my performance on Sunday, I was similarly displeased with my cast, although I might not have used some of the harsher terms that some have used in this thread. The cast from home was significantly more difficult than I had predicted, I had several technical difficulties, and all of my practice for the tournament and experience from other games involved me casting with my co-casters next to me and someone else operating the camera. For a more detailed description, I would point people to my post on the AT forum, which I will shamelessly C&P here for your convenience:

The viewer has the advantage of being able to see all the wonderful new effects and team sorting on the stream interface thanks to the great work from the guys at the EVETV production team, CCP Veritas, and The AT team.

The commentators have the client and delayed version of the stream that is about 5 seconds behind. I also found that for some reason my stream was even further behind than this, like 20 seconds or something, likely due to my computer being made of wood. With only the client available, I was pretty flustered as I had practiced to cast from the overlay and during last years commentary I had never used the caster client computer. Other than that I had a match where I lost all my locks save for 2, and that wasn't fun at all.

I've gone over the videos of my cast for today and I have a list of things that I need to work on. I recognize that today wasn't exactly an all-star performance, but I hope that people will be a little patient with us. Aside from kil2, none of us have ever cast from home or cast these 6 man teams, so we are still getting comfortable.

In the past, if a caster has proved to be consistently less skilled than expected, they are benched from commentary during at least the finals weekend and only utilized in the "couch" segments. I hope that this does not happen to myself or any of the other commentators, but we all want to see the tournament be the best possible production it can be.

We are still getting the hang of this home casting setup and the feel of the 6-man matches. Also, we are using the qualifiers as a good opportunity to test out the proper ratio of color vs commentary, and how polarized each of the commentators should be in their specialties. I hope that we can provide the viewers with the best show possible as we all get back into tournament mode, but if you have ~constructive~ criticism for us I am fairly certain that all of us would appreciate it.

[Daneel Trevize]

Well that seems to have wiped the :SMUG: right off of his face. Now he just needs to shave, and Success!

[AmaNutin]

Well that seems to have wiped the :SMUG: right off of his face. Now he just needs to shave, and Success!

Hopefully we'll see about that next weekend.
So essentially he sounded completely disconnected because he had poor latency.

Also, somehow get him to take down that picture of Shadoo in his background or change the angle of the webcamera so he doesn't look like he's posing for the stream.

[Snake]

>implying he is going to get any better.

He was heavily criticized on his style and general shttiness last year, and there was no improvement over the course of an entire year. If you honestly think he is going to dramatically improve over the course of one week then lol.

[Sakura Nihil]

To paraphrase the message to CCP from last summer...

"Actions, not Promises"

[elmicker]

Well that seems to have wiped the :SMUG: right off of his face.

Hardly. Opening with a line like

I would encourage any player who would like to give commentating a shot to do so.

is spitting distance from the neckbeard standard of WELL IF YOU CAN DO SO MUCH BETTER WHY AREN'T YOU DOING IT EH!?!?!!!!

[Daneel Trevize]

Did you just not get the whole tone of that post or am I missing something? He goes right to pointing out there's even non-official commentary sources which people might seriously consider, something CCP might have conflicting views about, in an effort to be pretty damned level with everyone. It's not like he rubbed in that he was CCP-approved or anything about that it would cause them extra work to find a convincingly better replacement at this late stage so that really we'd have to :deal with it: at least until the finals. He put himself pretty open to any & every point of complaint. That said I did barely watch any of his matches because of it being him commentating.

Also it's true some people won't get that a duo will always have the setup of colour vs commentary, someone's always going to play the less technical elite pvp guy proposing the same noob-friendly general mechanics discussion in the middle of someone's potential fight of their lives.

[roigon]

..In the past, if a caster has proved to be consistently less skilled than expected, they are benched from commentary during at least the finals weekend and only utilized in the "couch" segments. ...

I think that would be a really nice solution. I find that MBIII has a role to play there. In the CCP PR segments where they drag some CCP sales person to the AT studio and all the normal player commentators start inspecting their nails or the ceiling, MBIII will actually fill the role of jester by throwing in a some silly questions or providing amusing anecdotes. Thus making the boring PR segment, a little bit less boring.

[Snake]

..In the past, if a caster has proved to be consistently less skilled than expected, they are benched from commentary during at least the finals weekend and only utilized in the "couch" segments. ...

I think that would be a really nice solution. I find that MBIII has a role to play there. In the CCP PR segments where they drag some CCP sales person to the AT studio and all the normal player commentators start inspecting their nails or the ceiling, MBIII will actually fill the role of jester by throwing in a some silly questions or providing amusing anecdotes. Thus making the boring PR segment, a little bit less boring.

I think you are forgetting that this is exactly what happened last year. Case in point: http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PL...tailpage#t=48s

Now imagine these terrible comments without shadoo there to be smug and just look at him like he is retarded. Do. Not. Want.