Streaming arrangements
In terms of streaming, we understand at the minute there are less streamers and people wanting to stream. The league is less spoke about and we are currently mid season and there seems little to no interest in how teams are doing.
In slap 1 the games came on a first come first served basis for being streamed, which yes is not so possible now, but even if it was so simple that you cant arrange the game the same time as another game in your division, gives more chances for divisional games to be streamed. Especially in lower leagues, one of the best and most exciting things is a streamer streaming your game and you are put on the show its great. When I joined, the fact I could get my entry game shown felt great and you wanted to perform and it got others talking about the game.
I understand the prioirty in pro and wanting people to play the games, but realistically if a 20 minute slot is taken then just do it 20 mins earlier or later, you have 2 weeks to play a game. With 4 divisions we cant say first come first served, so lets just have it first come first served for each division, and in the rarer case where you have all 4 divisions playing a game at the same time, then sure prioritise in order (pro, challenge, intermediate, entry) This would mean that people can have their game streamed more and people will actually be able to watch games.
How thing are at the minute it seems like out of all the games in the league about a third of the pro games actually get streamed. Yes this would be easier with more streamers which we need, but if we have more of a range of divisions and chances for people to get shown on stream they will be more active in the league, try more and get people talking about games.
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Lewis Howarth
May 17, 2022
We understand the concerns around streaming, and I understand why the streaming team want to prioritise Pro Div games. Pro games are the only games uploaded to YouTube because of the amount of work it takes, this is why we would rather cast them.
The ideal approach would be to have 2 Pro Div streamers, 1 Challenger streamer, 1 Inter streamer, and 1 entry streamer and use a first come first serve system. The problem is we only have 2 streamers who are both very busy at the moment.
We understand that this season has been a bit of a drop from previous seasons, but after 4 seasons of non-stop streaming and Slapshot, people are more likely to take a backseat and relax for a season. We have some ideas on how to make next season run a bit better, but we need to find more time, and require some help from the community, to be able to achieve these goals.
The problem with forcing people to change the time of their game is there will be way more FF wins/losses because players will just refuse to play at those times. I've been in a situation many times when a streamer has asked us to change our game time and we just can't because of availability. Ideally, we need to find a way that requires the streamers to have some down time and relax, instead of casting 3/4 games a day, while still getting as many games casted as possible.
Every time we ask people if they want to stream, they just laugh at us and then complain that their game isn't getting streamed; it isn't really helpful, unfortunately.