If only 1300 people are watching Injustice on KN stream, that means there are pretty much only about that many people interested. We may get a piggy back off Spooky's stream and that's awesome, I will always advocate putting you guys on there for top 8, but in reality, the majority of the 20,000 people watching TS are just waiting for Injustice to finish, but granted there will be some new eyes opened every time and they will check us out as long as they aren't playing or watching another game they like. The most viewers we've ever had on KN was 2300, and that was at ECT5 while TS had 23,000, when Injustice was brand new. For majors we always break 1000 viewers.
As for getting paid $1000 - (lol) $2000 a day to stream, I can tell you right now I have never been paid that much, in fact I only started getting paid to stream in the last year, and made a grand total of ~$2400 streaming around half a dozen majors (GUTSII, TFC, NEC, WB, FR, maybe one other). In addition, my out of pocket costs (gas, tolls, hotel) offset my payment almost to the point where I come out even, and I also do throw a few bucks to my guys from time to time, if I get paid the day of. The only streamer who sees legit profit is probably TS, and well deserved. Make no mistake, Spooky DOES love streaming NRS games. He has been a huge help to us and in the past I have defended him when players didn't want him streaming us at all.
Players need to stop worrying about brackets and start worrying about winning the entire tournament. Stop training for your pools and isolated matches and be the best you can be. Is that good enough? I'm going to just make sure I eek my way out of my pool and let it ride from there. At least I can say I was in the top 8, or 16, or 32, or some other forgettable placement. If you aren't in the top 3, no one should care about you. There are always going to be issues with brackets, you can't keep everyone happy. If anyone thinks that brackets are intentionally made unfair, they can GFT, we try our best to have players who can do it, and when those players show they are incapable, they are removed. Believe me, it's already happened. The more pools, the more chance of free pools. No one should be concerned about who makes it to top 32.
I have some matches from the last couple tournaments that I will have Kazi post on his AG youtube soon.
Jaxel posts his matches as he goes, immediately, by the match when he streams, so long as he has a good connection rate. For example, the Break has like 500/100 and he has his entire streams up instantly.
Commentator biased, hype, whatever, I mean there needs to be color commentary but I can understand players who are flat out insulting others for no reason not being suitable for an entertaining stream. The commentary station proximity to the players is something that is hard to deal with when there are multiple streams in a room and a lot of games going on. I'm going to get a separate amp for my headsets, because their cannot be a problem with them. The audio in the commentator's headsets is the exact same source as the players, it just has an amp from the mixer. That should help filter out noise somewhat.
