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Of all the things not to **** up, it was this!
The fact they managed to screw this up just shows how thrown together it all was and that no one, including the hosts where really paying attention.
You end up slapping yourself for watching it to begin with!
Spoiler alert, nobody gets slapped in this one
Mainly the stream.
- Long shot of the player playing, with people walking across the view or standing directly in front of it, which actually took up a quarter of the screen,
- Cameras freezing.
- Camera dying because the battery hadn't been changed.
- Camera not at the right angle to actually be able to see the score for player 1 on Aztec.
- Didn't seem to be any structure or schedule with people in the 'booth'.
- Gameplay commentary was almost non-existent for a lot of the games (other than when Bob Matthews was in the booth talking about Aztec). If you didn't already know the game you wouldn't learn a lot from the commentary.
- Clear favouritism for certain players.
- There was even a point when someone was commentating on a game which wasn't even on camera - while an actual game was going on.
The quality of some of the older games left a bit to be desired as well. bulbs out (which were significant to gameplay) which weren't changed, score reels sticking and phantom switches giving points only spotted by either a player (Ray, when he got 5k extra pts) or by the Twitch viewers (when Steve got 10k extra pts) how many people had the same random pts awarded during qualification while it wasn't being closely monitored?
I have to say I don't like the format of the top qualifier being able to pick all 3 games for the round ('driving the bus') it tends to lead to the same games being played, and streamed, over and over, which gets a bit boring (especially Whirlwind being played 3 times in round 2). It also means player order doesn't change per game.
Some severe sunken inserts on one machine, some of the ball movements were more like Orbitor 1.
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Yeah this is because Phil has had issues with three wireless streams - it wasn't great
related to the wireless.
This actually was never the problem - just some of the cameras all Sony's would get stuck. I've seen it a couple of times on mine when they've been on all day.
Nothing you can do about this other than a head on camera which has downsides for other reasons.
Agreed!
Yeah I think towards the end of the day some of the commentators had been in the booth too long. I think when Colin got on it was better for sure.
Of course - better than BS'ing some non true non bias!
The games is what was brought in. I went through most of them the night before and they all started off good but the downsides of games being brought to an event is they can be ropey- remember the icarus switch on my Led Zep?
It was and they reviewed some of the earlier streams on the game - and it was only in the finals it seemed to be happening; but in qualifying I doubt _any_ tournament director would pick this up, even at UK Pinfest!
Its top seed and its in pretty much _every_ US tournament but with some eliminating games you've previously picked. But note that two (maybe three can't remember) of the groups picked three of the same game!
Cheers,
Neil.
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Posted some of my shaky cam walk round!
And this is one of the most under looked things about comps. The amount of time that goes in to prepping and checking a game before it is used in comp.
That's the reason that the games that I bring to comps, either my own or borrowed, have been play tested and shopped before they get packed up and then checked again when set up. It's why the machines are on free play during the VIP session. Not just to allow players to have a practice, but to effectively play test them with a couple of hours solid play so I'm confident they will last the whole day in comp.
The Icarus switch is a great example. We actually identified that very early on the Saturday, but I didn't want to change it for 3 reasons
- It was only a very minor fault
- Games had already been played through qualifying with others dealing with the fault
- I don't generally like having to make physical changes/adjustments to other peoples machines, in case I bend/break something too far - (it has happened as recently as a couple of weeks ago damaging an opto board on EHOH)
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Yeah Opto on getaway too! But these games had all played well during the night before and during practise in the morning. EM's are always a different story in events and 160 players constant hammering!
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I attempted to watch the 'Twipy' stream.
Do these people own audio mixers? That do not distort. They could do this so much better.
Jack Danger presents it - a Stern employee - along side a brilliant videographer. Shouldn't she be the other side of the camera or is 'eye candy' that hard to find ?
I was waiting for Kanaeda to go up and slap Mirco when he said there was no playfield issues on other streams......
@Neil McRae can you not advise them on some kind of mobile 5G device to use to stream? Or better still - get them to record it - edit and put on youtube 2 hours later?
Do these people own audio mixers? That do not distort. They could do this so much better.
Jack Danger presents it - a Stern employee - along side a brilliant videographer. Shouldn't she be the other side of the camera or is 'eye candy' that hard to find ?
I was waiting for Kanaeda to go up and slap Mirco when he said there was no playfield issues on other streams......
@Neil McRae can you not advise them on some kind of mobile 5G device to use to stream? Or better still - get them to record it - edit and put on youtube 2 hours later?
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its not the connectivity thats the problem...