I missed out on those, I’d very much like to try them next time.
I haven’t listened to any of your commentary but, I personally dislike when commentators try to do play-by-play for fighting games. I think good commentary is less about play-by-play and more about the mentality behind each player’s actions, character/match-up information and when things are missed or could have gone better. I don’t need the play-by-play because I can clearly see what’s going on.
No one’s commentary is going to be good unless someone starts throwing some Wendy’s natural cut sea salt french fries at people and then eating them.
Its a mix
like in a sports game they’ll do that then play by a play something awesome
its a science and it involves flair and personality… its triiiicky!
How not to do commentary: Try to copy others style.
I see a lot of people doing commentary that just copy Yipes, instead of coming up with their own stuff. Just be yourself, and scrap the stuff people hate. And realize that if you want to be good at it, it’ll take time and practice just like everything else.
Hopefully I can go to the next Hazbats so I can pull off some of those new Strange Flames of the Faltine loops and do some Frank West shenanigans. Also does anyone play UMvC3 on PS3? I’d like to add some people from AZ so I can play online with 'em.
The whole stream is archived on the Twitch page, too. If you have a hard time seeking through the 6+ hours of video for the matches you’re interested in, imagine what it’s like for Haz to have to do that for every single match of the night. He’s gotta wade through the downtime, find the matches, cut them, compress them, upload them, and fill out all the Youtube descriptions and stuff. It took me an hour to upload a 5 minute clip to Youtube once. Say there was about 5 hours of match footage where each match takes 5 minutes, that’s 60 matches streamed and therefore 60 HOURS of uploading time alone. Granted, my upload speed is definitely a lot lower than Haz’s (Which he upgraded and is paying for for the sake of our stream, BTW), but I would still say that even if it took him half as long to upload, it’d still be 30 hours of just one phase of the process. Add on another 8 hours to wade through the stream and cut everything, and then another 5 or 6 to compress all the files, and then another 1 or 2 to get the Youtube playlists and descriptions in order, and you’ve got a feat that would be impossible to accomplish at the time that you made your post.
I think I may be making some liberal assumptions with your post, but if I’m right in thinking that you’re complaining about matches taking forever to be uploaded, I hope this sheds some light on the entire process and helps check any sense of entitlement for this luxury that any of us have. If I’m wrong, I apologize sincerely for jumping to conclusions, but I think this also serves as a reminder to everyone as to just how much work it is to run all this shit. I think a lot of people get this notion in their heads that the amount of time it takes to watch their video is the amount of time it takes to upload it, but in reality the time to upload it is exponentially greater, especially with the scale of a Team hAZmat production. I still can’t believe that Haz uploaded all those videos from Devastation, that must have taken forever and I rarely see a major tournament upload every single one of its streamed pool matches.
And while we’re at it, we can’t forget the time and energy it took for Tyler, Nef, and TDot to create/maintain the website, the player cards, and the standings that are all new features to this season. To a stream monster this stuff seems like a slight step up in scale for our season, but to a local scene that’s not the East Coast or California, this shit is monumental.
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Muji, I thought it was terrorist magic. I just figured there was a big explosion and then all videos appear on YouTube. Either that or a genie, singing Arabian nights. <3 haz
Hey man, the pyramids weren’t uploaded to Youtube in a day.
Idk if Ive seen anyone try to copy Yipes. If they were it wasnt close enough for me to recognize it as trying to copy Yipes. There are mad amounts of people that use phrases that he started on the mic (as well as everywhere else), but that happens w/ most everyone throughout the whole community as well as other communities…words like: free, fraud, body, ect…and even those are probably copped from another scene/person.
::slowclapformujiandhaz::
Seriously, once I realized Twitch archives their stuff I was grateful for that; to have Haz go above and beyond the call of duty and chop everything up into individual matches is just icing on the already delicious double chocolate cake. With ice cream.
They’re archived on twitch? ._. I must go there nao!! Also, What I said was both half and half. I was sorta complaining but I didn’t mean a lot by it. I was just very anxious to view the final match again.
I liked your commentary btw. I may not know how to criticize really but, I just liked how you weren’t really biased with what you said. But then again I only really watched a couple matches.
They get archived on twitch immediately after the stream stops. You just have to navigate through hour+ long videos to find the matches you want to watch. Which really doesn’t take much effort.
I didn’t know about it before until you guys told me. I went there and saw the matches I wanted to see rather quickly.
Jumpin on XBL for some UMvC3, feel free to join me!
@ koogey: i agree the best way to commentate is not imitate others and be natural on the mike; its too hard to appeal to everyones sense of humor or liking so just do your thing.
@reece: i think “assigning” stream partners is a good idea, but its hard to tell someone to get the fuck off the mic without stepping on some toes. I talked with a few people about who should be where and why but again its hard to maintain a level of consistence without telling someone to get the fuck off and looking like an ass.
@zaine: your commentating is getting alittle better, sometimes your big white ass still bores me to tears though …
i think the formula for good commentating is simple:
two “straight” men with knowledge of the game to banter back and forth with about the game: strats, setups, position, play by play during the match if necessary and personal information WHEN the match is not going on: load screens, character/level select etc.
one “hype” man and one “straight” man to follow the lead of the hype man during matches and analyze/talk during down time; down time being any time the hype man aint yelling and going wild
Koogeys right when he said shit takes practice to be good at.
For those who want to be in the commentator spot watch your favorite sporting event and listen to how the commentators interact with each other.
muji: chen and ultra
reece: strikeforce has great commentators, not the ufc
zaine: dont watch golf, watch something else
dana: day 9 is good for you i think, corky but informative
diante: just talk
kyle: you do well, you follow leads, take the lead the time is right, have good knowledge about both games, you also bring in the bears…
actually now that i think about it kyle and walter should commentate from now on. They will bring he gay fighting game players out in force and get shit POPPIN and bring the viewers up by like 2000 percent…
I actually haven’t commentated in some time. Usually because so many other people seem to really want to do it all the time, so I just let them have at it. I’m always down to fill in though.
Anyone got practice sessions going on this week besides armandos(i should be there)? After today, I got the next few days off. Can use some practice