AZ Thread. hAZbats start this saturday! 1/21. Check First posts

Tsumuji · February 7, 2012, 10:45pm

I talked to Armando last night and he told me his work schedule changed, so he’s not hosting.

SaBrE · February 8, 2012, 12:25am

Well Damnit. Got some good freetime for practice. Lol

xMaKaVeLix · February 8, 2012, 1:39am

How far do you wanna travel scooter?

SaBrE · February 8, 2012, 1:54am

Depends on who is there and howmany

Crazy_EX · February 8, 2012, 3:26am

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.

Are individual match vids really neccessary. Haz already does a tremedous amount of work and to think that he takes the time to cut the stream archives into individual matches is insane!

WNF does a great job of simply posting 2 hour parts of their weekly stream. Perhaps this would be a better format and save Haz a ton of trouble. Plus, people get to rewatch the full flavor of the stream instead of small parts of it.

Keres · February 8, 2012, 3:47am

Pros and cons of full videos versus individual matches aside, it would also depend on whether Haz’s account supports videos longer than 15 minutes.

brainpipe · February 8, 2012, 4:01am

I think that is probably a good idea honestly. No need to keep overworking Haz when he is already doing so much.

Mango91 · February 8, 2012, 4:08am

Fuckin John Madden over here laying down the low.

But seriously, Luey is right. Especially with what I have highlighted above. If you think about it, you don’t really need two “straight” (let’s say "know-it-all’s) on the mic because two people giving the play by play is redundant. One is going to explain something about the match (say maybe explain an option select) and what does that leave the other guy to talk about? Nothing. In fact, he will want to say something so he doesn’t seem like dead weight, so he will probably say something underwhelming (like play-by-plays). If you have two different roles on the mic, then they won’t intervene and steal (let’s say “content”) from one another.

Armando, if you’re reading this, it’s like HoNCast and why it’s so popular. They have Breaky sounding like the world is ending and then (God forbid) they put someone sweet like Onaprayer or N0tail on two actually explain everything.

Silpheed · February 8, 2012, 4:59am

I agree with the whole just archive it and have people watch through the videos. Who knows somebody might even find something they weren’t looking for and be better off.

xMaKaVeLix · February 8, 2012, 5:30am

can anybody finish this? pics or it didnt happen, played with my son a bit and got to the 4th stage, plan on trying again later. and i think you can skip ahead…no cheating!!

theDUKE · February 8, 2012, 5:35am

Bigger chunks does sound better as far as posting the vids. Maybe (per game):

-Beginning til top 8 (pt. 1, 2, 3 ect)
-Top 8
-WF/ LF

GF

4 chunks. Booyaw!

SaBrE · February 8, 2012, 6:04am

agreed with ernest… If you cant find a specific match in a 2 hour chunk, then wtf is wrong with you?

Spiteful · February 8, 2012, 6:37am

Thank you to Scott and Arnold for the gj posts, Haz bat was great.

I agree that the videos should be posted the way people have been discussing, so Haz can have more time to sleep!!!

Cory: I messed with that game and got to level 7. Stopped playing before I got too addicted!

brainpipe · February 8, 2012, 6:37am

The more I watch Dieminion play UMVC3 the more I think the design behind his team is brilliant.

Easy_Mac · February 8, 2012, 7:31am

I may not be perfect practice by any means, but I feel it may be some help. Beats online lag at least. I know it would help me drastically to have the practice session with you compared to lag at least. I am near ASU Tempe. Feel free to contact me if you want to practice (623) 698-3484.

Mango91 · February 8, 2012, 9:41am

^have you ever come to any gathering ever?

Angelic · February 8, 2012, 10:07am

They have me working 10 hour shifts for the next two months pretty much…

I managed to swap 9AM-7PM for tomorrow so I will try to host, no promises though I may be tired and I may be forced to work longer than the 10 hours like today…

Silpheed · February 8, 2012, 10:15am

Oi, Mr. Spiteful, could you possibly help me? I saw your Vergil Saturday and I wanted to practice the combos, I just haven’t been able to figure out how to follow up after the sword hyper. What exactly do I need to do after?
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I’m on pad btw, don’t know if that matters. >.>

Angelic · February 8, 2012, 10:35am

after wall bounce… you do H S H, let go into of L to release sword charge, then you do crouching H, into light sword projectile, into crouching H cancel into sword super. When you press two ATK buttons to do the sword super, I personally use L+H to do it, and just never let go of the L because you need to start charging immediately. Once the sword super hits, take a small step back to space yourself nicely, then while still holding L do a DP forward M, which is the sommersault move thing. Once the move finishes, you let go of L to release the sword, cr. H into light projectile into cr. H and then sword super again and repeat.

Silpheed · February 8, 2012, 10:50am

Hm, so I go back? I tried doing what you said except I crouched first so the final hit of lunar phase would hit but it wasn’t very consistent but I’ll try that out.