mayernikmatt
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With the rise of eSports and chess, I think it's about the time cubers look too into making professional looking and more consistent livestreams of competitions in order to help grow the community. I believe it is pivotal to mainstream cubing by making it easy to watch in order to draw in newer cubers and even non cubers to the sport. Also, I think streaming local comps would provide great opportunities for announcers to practice for bigger comps like nationals or worlds, not to mention trying new visual techniques and software in a lower pressure setting like instant replay or real time solve analysis that could be used for bigger comps if they work out.
I have wanted for a while to stream a competition and at this time I believe have the knowledge and capability to make a quality stream of local competition. I have worked as a student broadcasting intern with my High School for 3 years and now have a broadcasting position at my college. I have streamed over 40 events so far in my career. By having competed at 11 Rubik's cube competitions over the course of 4 years and with my broadcasting background, I believe I would be great at streaming a competition. However, I do acknowledge the challenges of doing this at small competitions. I know organizers and delegates are already quite overworked and strained on competition day and I would think having to deal with some guy and a bunch of cameras would be really annoying. I also don't know if the WCA allows for people to stream competitions even with the permission of the Organizers/Delegates. Below I have questions for specific groups of people:
To Organizers/Delegates: Do you think most organizers/delegates would be open to someone streaming a local competition? Would something like this just add unnecessary stress?
To the WCA higher ups with answers to this question: Do you need special permission to live stream competitions or "broadcasting rights"?
To all cubers: Would you even watch local competitions if they were streamed? Would you be indifferent to competing knowing you are potentially being recorded or would it bother you?
I would love to hear your thoughts and if you guys would be able to answer my questions it would help me tremendously by getting a feel if something like this is possible.
Happy cubing!
I have wanted for a while to stream a competition and at this time I believe have the knowledge and capability to make a quality stream of local competition. I have worked as a student broadcasting intern with my High School for 3 years and now have a broadcasting position at my college. I have streamed over 40 events so far in my career. By having competed at 11 Rubik's cube competitions over the course of 4 years and with my broadcasting background, I believe I would be great at streaming a competition. However, I do acknowledge the challenges of doing this at small competitions. I know organizers and delegates are already quite overworked and strained on competition day and I would think having to deal with some guy and a bunch of cameras would be really annoying. I also don't know if the WCA allows for people to stream competitions even with the permission of the Organizers/Delegates. Below I have questions for specific groups of people:
To Organizers/Delegates: Do you think most organizers/delegates would be open to someone streaming a local competition? Would something like this just add unnecessary stress?
To the WCA higher ups with answers to this question: Do you need special permission to live stream competitions or "broadcasting rights"?
To all cubers: Would you even watch local competitions if they were streamed? Would you be indifferent to competing knowing you are potentially being recorded or would it bother you?
I would love to hear your thoughts and if you guys would be able to answer my questions it would help me tremendously by getting a feel if something like this is possible.
Happy cubing!
I think streaming small competition definitely adds value and provides more media exposure which is always a plus
