We eSports now!
I am excited to announce that evlTV is now a Twitch partner!
Now you may wonder why that's important to you, especially if you don't tune into our casts. Twitch partner will help us gain a larger amount of viewers to the TF2 comp scene, and bring in a new group of TF2 competitors. This ultimately to add more evidence to valve that we are a real eSport and deserve their support!
I want to thank all of our casters, production staff, Mr Slin, eXtv, fans, and UGC/ESEA teams for their tremendous support in helping us achieve this goal!
[size=14][b]We eSports now![/b][/size]
I am excited to announce that [url=http://twitch.tv/evltv]evlTV[/url] is now a Twitch partner!
Now you may wonder why that's important to you, especially if you don't tune into our casts. Twitch partner will help us gain a larger amount of viewers to the TF2 comp scene, and bring in a new group of TF2 competitors. This ultimately to add more evidence to valve that we are a real eSport and deserve their support!
I want to thank all of our casters, production staff, Mr Slin, eXtv, fans, and UGC/ESEA teams for their tremendous support in helping us achieve this goal!
Congrats
(doesn't make us esports but still congrats)
Congrats
(doesn't make us esports but still congrats)
inb4 evltv becomes the new esl
inb4 evltv becomes the new esl
just wondering, what does having twitch partner actually do to gain visibility for your channel, besides provide spammable emotes?
just wondering, what does having twitch partner actually do to gain visibility for your channel, besides provide spammable emotes?
u get quality options which makes it watchable for a good bit of people
u get quality options which makes it watchable for a good bit of people
Nurseyu get quality options which makes it watchable for a good bit of people
right, i get that it improves the watching experience, but does it actually increase visibility of your channel and "gain a larger amount of viewers to the TF2 comp scene"
[quote=Nursey]u get quality options which makes it watchable for a good bit of people[/quote]
right, i get that it improves the watching experience, but does it actually increase visibility of your channel and "gain a larger amount of viewers to the TF2 comp scene"
fatswimdudejust wondering, what does having twitch partner actually do to gain visibility for your channel, besides provide spammable emotes?
In addition to the quality options, there are various places twitch will display our channel, possibly including the front page during huge events. It also legitimizes our channel which can increase our following and viewership.
I didn't mention this either, but all of the money we receive from subs / ad revenue will be used to cover our expenses (which basically consists of a monster cat license fairly inexpensive) and then help us organize events, and pay members of the community who contribute to our channel (uberchain / dashner etc). Effectively bringing in more funds to the TF2 community. I'm not interested in lining my own pockets, which is what many people do after gaining twitch partner.
[quote=fatswimdude]just wondering, what does having twitch partner actually do to gain visibility for your channel, besides provide spammable emotes?[/quote]
In addition to the quality options, there are various places twitch will display our channel, possibly including the front page during huge events. It also legitimizes our channel which can increase our following and viewership.
I didn't mention this either, but all of the money we receive from subs / ad revenue will be used to cover our expenses (which basically consists of a monster cat license fairly inexpensive) and then help us organize events, and pay members of the community who contribute to our channel (uberchain / dashner etc). Effectively bringing in more funds to the TF2 community. I'm not interested in lining my own pockets, which is what many people do after gaining twitch partner.
Nurseyu get quality options which makes it watchable for a good bit of people
I believe twitch has changed it so you don't have to be a partner to get quality options just have to have a certain amount (80 or so?) viewers watching and then your stream is updated with them.
This happens every time if you aren't partnered so if next time you stream and you only have 20 viewers you won't have quality options
[quote=Nursey]u get quality options which makes it watchable for a good bit of people[/quote]
I believe twitch has changed it so you don't have to be a partner to get quality options just have to have a certain amount (80 or so?) viewers watching and then your stream is updated with them.
This happens every time if you aren't partnered so if next time you stream and you only have 20 viewers you won't have quality options
MaxillawsThis happens every time if you aren't partnered so if next time you stream and you only have 20 viewers you won't have quality options
are you saying that if a partner streams and gets 10 viewers then they won't get quality options?
[quote=Maxillaws]This happens every time if you aren't partnered so if next time you stream and you only have 20 viewers you won't have quality options[/quote]
are you saying that if a partner streams and gets 10 viewers then they won't get quality options?
you dont have to be partner but if you are you get them all the time
you dont have to be partner but if you are you get them all the time
MaxillawsNurseyu get quality options which makes it watchable for a good bit of people
I believe twitch has changed it so you don't have to be a partner to get quality options just have to have a certain amount (80 or so?) viewers watching and then your stream is updated with them.
This happens every time if you aren't partnered so if next time you stream and you only have 20 viewers you won't have quality options
This is correct to some extent. We hit 200+ viewers a few times last season, and never saw the options. However over the past few weeks we have been seeing the options on many of our games, as they have been hitting 250+ viewers.
Transcoding HD streams real-time takes a lot of computing power. Twitch says you only get those options if they have available capacity. From our experience if we consistently hit 100+ viewers we would get the quality options.
Twitch partners have guaranteed trans-coding, I would assume that applies even if you only have 10 viewers.
[quote=Maxillaws][quote=Nursey]u get quality options which makes it watchable for a good bit of people[/quote]
I believe twitch has changed it so you don't have to be a partner to get quality options just have to have a certain amount (80 or so?) viewers watching and then your stream is updated with them.
This happens every time if you aren't partnered so if next time you stream and you only have 20 viewers you won't have quality options[/quote]
This is correct to some extent. We hit 200+ viewers a few times last season, and never saw the options. However over the past few weeks we have been seeing the options on many of our games, as they have been hitting 250+ viewers.
Transcoding HD streams real-time takes a lot of computing power. Twitch says you only get those options if they have available capacity. From our experience if we consistently hit 100+ viewers we would get the quality options.
Twitch partners have guaranteed trans-coding, I would assume that applies even if you only have 10 viewers.
Twitch partners always get quality options. Lately twitch added more transcode servers which means that the viewer percentage of total viewers a channel needs to get quality options is much much lower (I think I saw Sezco get them with 50).
Twitch partners always get quality options. Lately twitch added more transcode servers which means that the viewer percentage of total viewers a channel needs to get quality options is much much lower (I think I saw Sezco get them with 50).
flatlineTwitch partners always get quality options. Lately twitch added more transcode servers which means that the viewer percentage of total viewers a channel needs to get quality options is much much lower (I think I saw Sezco get them with 50).
I've seen clockwork and Duwatna getting them consistently around 60-80
[quote=flatline]Twitch partners always get quality options. Lately twitch added more transcode servers which means that the viewer percentage of total viewers a channel needs to get quality options is much much lower (I think I saw Sezco get them with 50).[/quote]
I've seen clockwork and Duwatna getting them consistently around 60-80
flatline has it. transcoding for non partners is based on availability.
grats guys and keep up the good work!
flatline has it. transcoding for non partners is based on availability.
grats guys and keep up the good work!