SnackThere were some of those prerecorded bits I thought to be completely unnecessary and added nothing to the stream. "The marriage game" felt so shoehorned in and had no substance, why not just get more interviews with more players? On day 2 the guys on the couch cut to a pre-recorded segment of Dr.Happiness literally saying "Yep it's day 2 at LAN the games have gotten started and production is under way :)". What did this add to the stream? Why even put it in there?
Strongly disagree that this stuff felt pointless. I wasn't able to tune in for most of day 2 and 3, but at least on day 1 all of those little segments were fantastic. Just think about previous years, and how much more time we would have had to spend staring at some stupid logo with music if it hadn't been for those segments. I remember i58 opening up with like 3 hours of that shit. Every hour on day 1 that they wound up being able to fill with prerecorded stuff was absolutely worth it. It made the whole experience watchable instead of mind numbing, checking in and out every 10 minutes. Switching it up from just straight up interviews was great too tbh. I don't have anything against interview specifically, but after 2 or 3 it's important to switch up the content if the game still hasn't started, and the marriage game was a good way to do that. Legitimately hope we get more of this next year; at least for day 1 the stream was much closer to being continuously entertaining than it ever has been.