Streaming NZ Tournament events.

[CrazyMobius]

Most of the people that care about our nationals will be AT them haha.

Oh yeah. You are right!!

[CptMunta]

Most of the people that care about our nationals will be AT them haha.

[CrazyMobius]

Hey Munta, I'll trade you Nationals for Japan if you want. 

[fluxcore]

lol, ditto any day

[CptMunta]

Lol that's true. I should shut ungrateful mouth. Actually will be in Amsterdam weekend of nats. Only in japan late sept for a 3 night stopover in Tokyo. Hopefully around the time if evo japan fingers crossed.

[Barnstorm]

I honestly think it is a waste of time and money at the moment

the australian evo apac stream which had daigo didnt even get that many viewers (most i saw was 300)
to be realistic i think 20 viewers would be about the max the rest of our players would be at most events/nationals

[[NIUE] BIRRY WONG]

There is also the argument that streaming it (which would result with the video being saved online at the time of streaming) would provide a quicker access to the match vids for people. Say, if i wanted to go home and study a few matches before a final or something, the fact that it wouldve been streamed would mean i could do that with very little hassle. We tend to be pretty slack with uploading shit atm, and since so few of us actually have/bring cameras to events, I can see some benefits to streaming.

And tbh, it is fairly inexpensive to stream shit. Hell, there is even a free Ustream app for iphone that you can use to stream stuff. Would be great if not for the shitty shitty iphone camera.

[Barnstorm]

There is also the argument that streaming it (which would result with the video being saved online at the time of streaming) would provide a quicker access to the match vids for people. Say, if i wanted to go home and study a few matches before a final or something, the fact that it wouldve been streamed would mean i could do that with very little hassle. We tend to be pretty slack with uploading shit atm, and since so few of us actually have/bring cameras to events, I can see some benefits to streaming.

And tbh, it is fairly inexpensive to stream shit. Hell, there is even a free Ustream app for iphone that you can use to stream stuff. Would be great if not for the shitty shitty iphone camera.

Cost of streaming isnt really an issue I think the set up is the biggest cost like you said so few have cameras already

I also think getting people to attend events is more important than a stream

[[NIUE] BIRRY WONG]

Totally agree.

I dont think a stream would be a bad idea though. I think it would be worthwhile to just go ghetto, throw up a camera, hook it up to a stream and hope for the best. Just a sort of, 'no effort' attempt at a stream would be worthwhile for the few that would watch, and the few that might want to utilise the videos in the short term. However, at this point we certainly shouldnt have it as anything close to a priority.

[fluxcore]

Uploading 7 hours of decent quality video in NZ is nothing to sneeze at, cost wise.

[Lennysaurus]

Streaming in New Zealand would be pretty expensive tbh bill.  Download is cheap enough, but upload here is expensive as fuck.

TBH our events are run bare bones.  Ranbats lately haven't been breaking even in some cases, so after nats we need to look at that problem as well, let alone scrounging together cash for a stream.

In other news, I am in the process of buying an HD capture card.  Should have it sometime next week at which point I will be rigorously testing it ready for our 3v3.

[zos'la]

good stuff lenny.

[[NIUE] BIRRY WONG]

Im gonna start looking at HD cameras too. Mostly because i want to start making porn filming shit.