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Game Duration in the Competitive Scene
Imagine:
--- Quote from: Sammy B. T. on November 05, 2013, 04:41:43 pm ---Speaking generally of all events, I think at a certain point ones has to put the matches before the stream otherwise one doesn't get to stream anything. During the Flotsam we ran into this problem once when the Gents and the Merry Men ran one of the most brutal sniping matches I have ever seen in Guns of Icarus. It was Battle on the Dunes day so this was something we were aware could easily happen. After 30 minutes we decided to switch the stream and begin the next match. We actually even got to get back to the MM/Gent game and watch their climax and finale. We were lucky things lined up to allow this.
Now I can understand times may be a bit unpredictable with the BO3 system, however I think that would be even more incentive to respect people's time more than the stream. We're all playing a video game so we have to remember that time commitments to this game will be low for most players.
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Wasn't really an option. Both matches on the other side of the bracket had finished before the 2nd match in question was halfway done. Even if the stream would've switched over to one of the other matches, the end result would've been the same, Rhinos/Gents take the same amount of time and the two teams waiting would've had to bow out.
Byron Cavendish:
Okay, but still I'm sensing your attitude here is insinuating that we as snipers should be adhering to a specific perception of how to play the game. Which in turn is insinuating you want to dictate how we play. Just because they finish their games fast and first means that we should to, or that is the correct way to compete? Sounds very discriminatory. You don't hear us saying "they should snipe and play their games longer". We are both exhibiting all the different styles of this game and it's diversity. Like I said previously, if you want to just cast brawling short games on your stream, fine, make that clear to us so we can bow out. I'm not going to impede your production, I want it to succeed. But at the same time we aren't going to compromise our style. I don't feel I should have to defend how we compete any more than any other style should have to.
Sammy B. T.:
--- Quote from: Imagine on November 05, 2013, 04:57:50 pm ---Wasn't really an option. Both matches on the other side of the bracket had finished before the 2nd match in question was halfway done. Even if the stream would've switched over to one of the other matches, the end result would've been the same, Rhinos/Gents take the same amount of time and the two teams waiting would've had to bow out.
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Oh, yall had both sides going at the same time? My misunderstanding.
Imagine:
--- Quote from: Byron Cavendish on November 05, 2013, 08:07:01 pm ---Okay, but still I'm sensing your attitude here is insinuating that we as snipers should be adhering to a specific perception of how to play the game. Which in turn is insinuating you want to dictate how we play. Just because they finish their games fast and first means that we should to, or that is the correct way to compete? Sounds very discriminatory. You don't hear us saying "they should snipe and play their games longer". We are both exhibiting all the different styles of this game and it's diversity. Like I said previously, if you want to just cast brawling short games on your stream, fine, make that clear to us so we can bow out. I'm not going to impede your production, I want it to succeed. But at the same time we aren't going to compromise our style. I don't feel I should have to defend how we compete any more than any other style should have to.
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First of all, my last comment wasn't directed at you. Secondly, in every post in this thread so far that I've made in here I've repeatedly said that I don't blame you guys for playing the way you want. My last statement we directly in response to Sammy's previous post, and has nothing to do with you.
I'm done explaining that so stop purposefully misreading for the sake of making yourself look like some sort of martyr.
--- Quote from: Sammy B. T. on November 05, 2013, 08:14:53 pm ---
--- Quote from: Imagine on November 05, 2013, 04:57:50 pm ---Wasn't really an option. Both matches on the other side of the bracket had finished before the 2nd match in question was halfway done. Even if the stream would've switched over to one of the other matches, the end result would've been the same, Rhinos/Gents take the same amount of time and the two teams waiting would've had to bow out.
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Oh, yall had both sides going at the same time? My misunderstanding.
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Yeah, ever since one week we had like 7 teams sign up and we tried to cast ever match only have it run waaaay long which no one liked, we've gone to having matches run simultaneously with the 2nd set getting recorded and put onto youtube later.
Byron Cavendish:
As it was vague to me who you were referencing, I was assuming something negative was applied. It seemed like you were implying our game was responsible for multiple teams bowing out, and that was a fault we are responsible for. If that was not what you were implying than my mistake.
I want to make this perfectly clear, I'm not trying to be a martyr. I'm just really tired of the complaints, and the theory crafting of how to make our play style "viewable". This exhaustion has lead me to believe that instead of having to discuss and defend my team's style, it is better to just not compete in specific events where our style is largely viewed as a negative. Like I said, I like your production, and I want people to watch it. If they don't like watching how we play, than we won't play in the Rumble. If it isn't an issue, than we will. That's not martyrdom, that's sportsmanship, responsible accountability. I'm just not going to defend my team's style anymore, nor change our style.
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