• The work done by everyone not in front of a microphone, camera or a gaming PC felt pretty much flawless. I dont know what combination of lux/configs/postprocessing magic you do, but the game capture itself is very, very attractive. It looks like it does in the trailer. Speaking of, I enjoyed the intersitials/transition videos, gave it a nice professional feel.
  
  The "drop" splashtext in the killfeed should be standard everywhere, but I guess it requires a custom system because it seemed to lack obscure killicons which hurt.
  
  Everything ran smoothly and I felt I could rely on the countdown timers. The observers did a great job, I can only recall like two missed momments. The freecam shots following the demo rollouts and the picture-in-picture playercams (like gotaki's engi) were really fun and I would like to see more.
  
  
• While the actual shoutcasting during the matches was pretty stellar (I personally quite enjoyed the contrast between elmo/wils being more cerebral and composed and snazzy/goose being loud and sensational), the obvious weakness was the analysis. I didn't really feel that anyone there felt really confident or prepared in anything they were saying. often they would repeat the same truisms or fall back to tongue-in-cheek humour with the 8-ball or playing dumb. Coming in unfamilliar with the current scene, any context about the teams and the players really would've helped me.
  
  I found the veterans segment to be really interesting and worthwhile but it felt kneecapped by the hosts not really knowing the right questions to ask. Clealrt there was ice that needed to be broken. maybe if elmo lead a sort of roundtable it wouldve gone better? I'm not sure.

The grand final doesn't follow these rules at all and no one is addressing it, not the casters, analysis desk. It goes into more an EU style rules where most points after map timer ends; wins (draws go into golden cap) but the maps overall have 1/6th less time in the map still (this is usually to counter act the long nature of the progressive rule-set win condition)

Did everyone forget? or was this not stated rules properly? I feel like this change has some pretty big implications but its not even talked about by analysis

I really liked when Elmo/wils had something insightful to say about what was happening in the game due to their understanding and experience of prem play whereas snazzy/goose mostly just state what is happening even though their energy was awesome. Maybe it would be better to combine these different types of casters rather than having them seperate?

Production was top notch and the competition was the best I've seen at an aussie lan. I think the qualifiers were a great addition