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Fangame Marathon 2016 Wrap-Up/Future Considerations
Onynekyu:
First of all, thanks everyone for this AWESOME event !!! Specially ShadowsDieAway with his events for letting a new fangamer like me to participate at this marathon. I REALLY enjoyed watching every runs/races when i'm awake . I'm already looking forward the next one :atkHappy:
The only issue i have is about the lack of donation tracking. Because i was expecting a donation tracking on the stream, and some announcements sometime beetween two runs. Otherwise, i have no other complains.
BBF:
--- Quote from: Fireball7d7 on June 13, 2016, 04:36:52 PM ---I think people in the community, especially on the Twitch team should not be streaming during the marathon and hosting it to show their support. I was extremely agitated to find people on the team streaming during the marathon, not in relation to it whatsoever.
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tfw not a single speedrunner is allowed to stream during GDQs or ESA.
(click to show/hide)Great logic
I never speedrun off-stream, and I see no reason to change it because a marathon is running.
patrickgh3:
After being a part of the tech crew, I have a lot more respect for organizing a live event and for what goes on when you see the "up next" screen. Even though it was stressful it was a lot of fun. I'm excited to help out with the next event, though in the future I'll be a lot more busy with RL commitments so we'll see.
Thank you for the summary TJ, I generally agree with every point. I especially think the variety of segments was great. There were a lot of non-normal-speedrun events and I think they all went great: blind race, fangame creation, draw my guy, david and goliath, churatch sunpossible, twitch does avoidance, needle maker, jump master, twitch plays guy games 2. And the rest of the normal speedrun events had a great variety within themselves.
Fireball7d7:
The purpose of a team is to support each other and work together so by streaming, I see that as going against that. I am not saying do not stream, I am saying that it would be more respectful of the people who put together the marathon to not stream for a 2-3 day period.
tehjman1993:
--- Quote from: subfusc_moose on June 14, 2016, 03:50:49 AM ---
--- Quote from: Fireball7d7 on June 13, 2016, 04:36:52 PM ---I think people in the community, especially on the Twitch team should not be streaming during the marathon and hosting it to show their support. I was extremely agitated to find people on the team streaming during the marathon, not in relation to it whatsoever.
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What? Why would I be forced to quit streaming for a whole weekend just because I didnt want to watch most of the runs? Its not like any of us "rebels" stole viewers from the marathon, everyone from my chat for example were also watching FGM or told me they dont want to watch it.
I mostly heard and saw positive things about the marathon, so good job. My only question though is why some people get 4-10 hours of stream time and then runs like biotope from gludraq get rejected.
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That's an oddly specific run to point out, but nonetheless I can answer your question.
We ask that runners give us a time slot of when they are available, such as Saturday 12:00-6:00 PM EDT and Sunday 8:00-10:00 AM EDT. They also submit up to 5 runs that they are comfortable doing in this marathon. As you could probably guess, it gets very hairy trying to schedule runs in someone's available time block. Any runs that were rejected were 100% due to time constraints, not the content of the game. We, at no point in this marathon, scheduled a run to start outside of any runner's preferred time. The one goal we had for this marathon was to allow every runner to get at least 1 of their runs in, no matter how many they submitted. We achieved this goal. This is why runs such as Biotope, unfortunately, did not make the cut. I personally think Biotope is a fine game to have in a marathon, but time is on no one's side here! This is also why many events of the marathon were moved to a "bonus" stream -- we simply did not have enough time.
For those that received more time than others, your comment seems to allude to some underlying tone of favoritism, which was most certainly not done when organizing this schedule. I don't even think we looked at the names most of the time when putting people in time slots. Generally, those that received more air time than others did two things: 1.) Gave us an extremely large time window to schedule them in, and 2.) Submitted a large amount of games. Fulfilling both of this criteria is almost certain to result in more time for the runner.
I hope this answers your question.
Regarding the whole "don't stream during marathon" topic going on in here - this is not related to Fangame Marathon directly. The purpose of this thread is to receive feedback directly related to the marathon itself, from planning to organization to execution. Please try to keep it as such. Thanks!
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