First things first.
Shoutouts to FINEST KO stream and staff for making it possible to share NCI with the world.
Shoutouts to Katana Dash for holding down GG brackets (or should we call them BROKEits?), and OrionxElite+Rin+Willy+everyone else who helped keep an eye on BB.
Shoutouts to people who weren't staying over at my house who decided to stay over at my house.
Shoutouts to CHICKEN 'N' WAFFLES!!! (you know what the N stands for)
Shoutouts to Chun, and to Myung for the venue, making NCI possible in the first place. The event was definitely a success in my eyes, and couldn't have been without your help.
Shoutouts to doing Alex v Hugo's IIIrd Strike intro with Coopa in real life, and to a good following match.
Shoutouts to Myung's ice cream X-factor power-up.
Shoutouts to EvilRod for taking 1st place at GG, I'll beat you one day...
Shoutouts to PNW for being really cool, glad Spark didn't come so black people could get paid.
Shoutouts to GG players, keep it up and maybe we'll even get our good matches and not our shitty ones streamed. OTL
Shoutouts to shtkn, you looked so happy during Catherine hahaha...
So, I don't see any discussion on this in this thread, but we need to talk about the allotted stream time for each game, ESPECIALLY for SUPER NCI's with larger turnouts. While the tournament was a large success overall, I feel that the stream was a big failure (for equal-ish distribution, not hype) not because of any one individual's fault or FINEST KO's, but because of an overall lack of planning for large numbers of (late) entrants. I can't say I'm without my own bias, but even a non-GG player could say it felt really apparent when GG winners finals-losers finals-grand finals took up under 10-ish minutes total, after what felt like 2 or more hours of waiting. There were some amazing quarter finals for the game that would've looked great on stream, but I feel that an exceptionally large BB turnout and making room for Catherine in addition to our already established lineup threw a lot of things off course. No hate, as I entered both of those games.
Can I get some stats on how long each game was streamed? How long does it realistically take to switch from PS2->Next-gen console stream setup and vice versa? Do we need to start even earlier? Or work faster/more efficiently? We need to take a look at our past mistakes so we can have a better overall flow of streaming and less waiting in between games. As the streamers know more than me, I don't really have much in the way of suggestions, other than we create a few different formats for stream-allotment, for when we have a normal amount/insane amount of entrants, kind of like a work schedule for big retail days. If anyone has any ideas/criticism, please share and let's make this even better for the future.
And, finally, take this generally, with a grain of salt, as this was a Super NCI and I guess it's expected to go overtime. Just thinking aloud because of how late norcal.jpg is with even an average tourney.
EDIT: Maybe we should just DQ people who don't show up, EVO style, and turn 50 man tourneys into 5 man ones
I'm free today for either gamecenter or hosting at my place. I have beers :o