What was everyone’s take on the stream/production? The in-venue experience has been very subpar so far, which mostly stems from the fact that we’re sharing the hall with numerous other (very loud) stations, not to mention a fucking rave. Gameplay hasn’t been too exciting so far, but that’s to be expected for Friday. Things should pick up tomorrow.
Speaking about tomorrow, I am very concerned about the schedule. We start at 11 with each group having to play 3 more games. These have to be played back-to-back-to-back as the fourth qualifying team in each group has to play all 3 matches. This means we can’t even start bracket play for the length of 3 series. There are also a comparatively large number of teams in bracket play (I believe 20? All the group participants plus 4 more teams from open). I think either we’re going to run late, or important matches won’t be streamed, or both. I hope I’m pleasantly surprised, but past experience has shown that trying to run this many matches in one day is usually problematic.
Casting and analysis has been great, @Wonderboy analysis on point as always.