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Ability for everyone to watch competitive matches

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Erheller:
Sometimes I'm browsing the server browser and I see scrims or other competitive matches I want to watch. Sometimes if I'm lucky, the match is being casted and I can figure out who's casting by asking around on global or just checking all of the GoI Twitch streams I know of.

Other times, I'm not so lucky.

I'd love to see a way for more people to watch these games within the client. Maybe competitive matches could have more spectator slots than usual. Maybe there could be special lobbies that are dedicated to spectators. I don't know what the best implementation will be - I just know that I'd appreciate a way to watch ongoing scrims without having to rely on Twitch or Youtube.

Potential upsides:

* Promote competitive play
* Help players improve by watching good teams play
* No more threads like thisPotential problems:

* Lag and server-related issues - We all know that GoI is laggy for some of us. Maybe having a lot of people connected as spectators will make that worse.
* Ghosting (cheating) - This can already happen with the livestreams, but if it ever becomes a problem, you could approach it like CS:GO does: have the spectators watch version that's delayed by a couple of minutes so by the time the spectators see something, that information is already useless to the people playing.
Thoughts?

Goldenglade:
I do enjoy streaming. I do believe that any attempt at cheating will be brought down immediatly by the delay which will just about void anything they want.... 20 seconds will throw off a lot

ramjamslam:
I believe there was originally no limit to spectator slots, but that caused a lot of problems when people like Total Biscuit started showing up so I don't see the spectator slots growing from 4.  It would be cool to either have links to streams from the match list or some sort of in game video feed from spectators though.

Milevan Faent:
Integrated Twitch.tv support would solve a lot of this. Then the players (or spectators even) just need to tag themselves as streaming and people can click the twitch link from the streamer in game to open the stream.

Omniraptor:
Quality of life improvements are waaay far down on muse's to-do list. You can ask politely to stream or even just join a match, sometimes people will let you.

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