Not sure I agree with that with regards to 5.
The whole production has been amateur hour. When it started, the player cams were mislabeled and all out of focus. The sound has been off all night and still sounds super quiet. The lack of player gamertags makes the kill feed unreadable. They really need to clean this up for tomorrow.
I only realised that it was on when I watched that video and I've been point in and out of the stream since yet no gameplay so far...
It's tough to know what's happening when the kill feed is just filled with "Red 02 kills Blue 03." Like, I understand they had a ridiculous amount of teams register for the event, but it should be totally doable for the main stage to have gamertags.
It's odd though, the main stage is the only one I've seen where they're using preset gamertags. They just switched to a non-main stage and there's actual gamertags.
One of the great under appreciated secrets of Halo is that it's frequently hilarious.
The Austin tournament in March is actually organized by HCS. I'll be curious to see if it does substantially better in terms of viewership. I still think they need to have better prize pools for player and viewer interest. $40K is fine for the first foray back into H3, but I'm really hoping they can do more for Austin.
Unless it's a ridiculous amount I don't see how increasing the prize pool will affect viewship.
Well, I think for this tournament, we saw some mainstay pros from H2A and H5 decide to stay home because the prize money wasn't enough to justify going. It surely could help to have names like Frosty and Royal 2 here. I think that higher prize pools help get orgs back involved, too, which also helps with viewership to some degree.
As I said, I'm sure a higher prize pool would attract more pros which would be great.
I think that's at least partially a function of the wonky H3 spawns, that can see opponents spawn directly in front of or directly behind you. Onslaught and Amplified in particular can be pretty harsh for spawn killing.
