Profile of Stormless

1. "This was the excuse that was given on Sunday for casting the event unauthorised:"
This you dont do that is a direct pointing towards someone and condemning that person. The clip is also out of context and adds nothing to the letter except gain hate towards the player and making the letter look like a personal attack.

I will tell you very openly that the only reason we have written this post is that we asked Hans whilst he was casting to stop casting the event and do something else. He read this and then decided to continue and make the public speech on his channel that I linked.

This is NOT supposed to be an attack on Hans, but it absolutely is a result of Hans' actions. Our community has done very well working together as players and casters in the past. There has been in a way an unspoken mutual agreement between us all regarding events and streamers and I think we now should solidify that agreement because it's been broken.

Most of the top streamers are playing in the event or want to watch and support the community. Perhaps they will stream another game for their audience. If they really want to stream CoH during an event there is NO problem with this, but don't stream the event itself.

The issue is that you do not go on to Twitch, see that a friend of yours is casting a game, open their stream and re-broadcast it (Not even bothering to do it via CoH game which is a direct Twitch violation) then decide to publicly tell everyone that you're doing it because 'Their content isn't as good as yours'.

The only reason that Hans decided to make a speech about this publicly on his stream is because we had messaged him privately asking him to stop streaming the 2v2 tournament during the event.

The reason I have written this open letter is because we as TO's feel absolutely disrespected by this kind of behaviour. And everyone here who wants to support growth of CoH2 and tournaments should understand that. This kind of behaviour actually was the cause of the loss of One4One Events back in 2016 too.

Always having to step aside for others, please tell me HOW ON EARTH IS THAT FAIR.

I mentioned to you already that you do not have to 'step aside'. We are politely asking that you don't rebroadcast our content live and disrupt a live event.

You can cast your own content and if you are good enough, people will watch you

I can be wrong, but isnt its called capitalism ?
So many words, but just need 1 answer, did somebody from tounrey stuff (Fahu,Currahee, AE, Stormless, maybe somebody else) give HelpingHans right to cast ?

No, we didn't. HelpingHans didn't even ask

I suppose I am somewhat guilty of this when it comes to GCS1. I have to say my intention when waking up early was to watch it and I only casted when I heard the awful audio quality, which I even waited a while to see if it would be fixed first.

I apologise

I appreciate this TightRope. Thank you

I feel the need to write this open letter to the community due to some recent events regarding tournaments within our scene.

On Sunday at the opening of the Ultimate Team Tournament hosted by Currahee & FaHu, it was apparent that the official scheduled casting was disrupted by unofficial and unauthorised re-broadcasting on Twitch by one of the game’s top players. This caused one of the official channels to suffer a significant viewership drop and caused upset to the Tournament Organisers (and other TOs) who were upset at the lack of respect shown. Whilst we did still achieve an average of 450 viewers, we care deeply about reaching as many people as possible and this post is more about the etiquette and morals involved.

I want to make it clear to everyone that it is disrespectful to the people who create, manage and run tournaments for you to undercut their event and earn revenue / follows off the back of their hard work. Not only is it a stab in the back to people who actually put hard work into the scene, it is also damaging to a small community struggling to keep a competitive scene active. I will explain some of the damage caused:

• Tournament Organisers feel cheated and less willing to run events
  
• We are denied viewership and statistics that go towards getting sponsors for events
  
• We are denied donations and contributions to prize pools on the official channels
  
• Casters are left upset that their broadcast has been undermined
  

This was the excuse that was given on Sunday for casting the event unauthorised:

https://clips.twitch.tv/KindHappyCockroachWoofer

I would like to make it very clear to any streamers out there that we don’t expect you to not stream because of us. What we DO expect is for you not to stream our event and steal from our hard work that we put on for you. Please feel free to stream your automatch games or any other games that are available to you. This would be considered a respectful thing to do and you will also be contributing back to the community members who are creating events for you to watch and play in.

If you would like to cast or broadcast games from the event, we would ask anyone who wants chances to cast or wants to get involved to send us a message just to politely ask for permission first.

Last but not least, I would like to point out that it is against the Official Twitch Rules to rebroadcast another stream by screen capture:




https://clips.twitch.tv/TemperedLazyLettuceBibleThump

Any streamers who participate in this kind of behaviour should be aware that their channels can be reported and removed by Twitch for violations like this.

I am grateful to the many of you who show courtesy and etiquette in the community when it comes to tournaments and events. Credit to people like Maza who asked to host the event in Russian for our Rusky brothers and did a fine job of it. We are grateful to anyone who contributes.

I hope that this helps to clarify any ambiguity about what we as tournament organisers expect from streamers, players and friends.

Stormless

This letter is supported by A_E, Currahee & Sturmpanther