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Also, upload STV demos for every single match. Send them to someone like Salamancer, who does most of his casting from demos—this way, if a game cannot be covered live for some reason, you can still see your favourite matchups.

Match betting even with imaginary money would make NC even more interesting. Just sayin’.

hats

Quoted from rytis

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anyone tried contacing Chad or Ethiopia, I heard they are ballaz in tf2, we should let them know about this nations cup

Yeah, just contact some of their players so they can know about Nations Cup.

Quoted from AcidReniX

If the whole community felt the same way, then why have a nationscup tournament at all? Why not just have the predicted top 4 teams play a quick 1 day cup and be done with it?

The fact is, there is some interest in the lower skilled national teams, while the majority do want to watch a higher skilled game, it’s dumb to think that no one is interested in watching the lower skilled games, just because you do not.

I’d do the casting just so the players could watch a vod of themselves representing their country. I’m sure they would appreciate it, it’s fun to watch a commentated game that you’ve played in. That to me, is already enough to make me want to cast the games.

Let’s put it this way. If you have two matches:

Finland vs Slovenia.
Poland vs Romania.

Which of these in your opinion would be more fun to watch? Obviously you don’t have to watch either of them, but if you did want to watch a TF2 game, which would you pick? With no disrespect to Slovenia, I wouldn’t want to watch a Finnish powerhouse team destroy them in 6 minutes, I’d much rather watch Poland vs Romania, as I have no idea how the game would play out, I know barely any of the players, and I’d predict it to be a closer game.

If the big 4-6 teams are playing each other, I’m sure they will take priority (as more people would be interested), but at any other timeslot, the lower teams are going to get coverage.

I’d want every game to be casted. Hell, in my perfect world, I’d like every single TF2 game to be casted, but the only limitation is casters and streamers, so obviously some games would get priority, but it doesn’t mean the other games are worthless. You might not enjoy it, but others do so shhh.

I thought my thoughts are what most people think just as you think everybody thinks what you think, but out of the several people that wrote here, they agree with you, so I guess maybe I am the only one who thinks like this.

Quoted from ThePledge

I like how Trath points out the obvious stuff. VanillaTV will, as we do quite often, come up with a plan on how to do it. AFAIK, we start planning in detail after this ETF2L Season ends. Or at least after the general season and before playoffs.

Just keep watching vanillatf2 and etf2l to know what happening when and where. The coverage will be awesome, even if I myself have to hop in to make it happen because the rest is slacking ;p

Point out the obvious stuff? I gave several ideas that I haven’t seen you offering anywhere. Hell, all of what I wrote can be applied to regular season matches, if it is so obvious why hasn’t it been done yet? Judging from VTV performance for the last several months, I don’t think anything is obvious regarding VTV coverage of anything. So yeah, a plan regarding NC coverage isn’t obvious. I haven’t seen any talk of the NC on #vanillatv.staff (where the cool kids are yo), Leftism however has stated that there has been talking of it, so I guess that means in only the top of the chain.

Also, if you haven’t already noticed, Mr VanillaTV High Authority, the person that opened this thread to get people talking and get the community’s thoughts and ideas amd what they expect from the NC and VTV coverage of it, isn’t from VanillaTV. And then you write about how you will hop in and do everything yourself if everyone else is slacking off, as if you have planned and done so much for the NC coverage.That is just fucking hilarious.

TL;DR
get off the bandwagon

Quoted from Extremer

Match betting even with imaginary money would make NC even more interesting. Just sayin’.

Refined metal?

E: Didn’t we have a betting system some time ago?

Quoted from Trath

Also, if you haven’t already noticed, Mr VanillaTV High Authority,

Quoted from Skyride

Trath, you are currently trial staff for vanilla

Ouch..

Quoted from Trath

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No. I have never done anything yet, I am in #vanillatv.staff because at some point I will volunteer to cast in an open mic. Skyride called it a “trial staff”, it can also be called “tell byte you will volunteer and get in to #vanilla.staff”.

I feel a woosh soundclip would fit in well at this point.