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2 years ago ::
Feb 02, 2011 - 7:53PM
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Magic Weekend will be held February 10-13, featuring both a Pro Tour and a Grand Prix.
The first Magic Weekend is simply too big to be contained in one webcast, so we're doing two! The titanic Player of the Year showdown between Brad Nelson and Guillaume Matignon is on Saturday, and the conclusion of Pro Tour Paris will be shown on Sunday. The Saturday webcast for the Player of the Year is February 12 at 9 a.m. local time. Find the closest city to see when that is in your area:
- Los Angeles: Midnight Friday/Saturday
- Chicago: 2 a.m.
- New York: 3 a.m.
- Rio de Janeiro: 6 a.m.
- London: 8 a.m.
- Rome/Berlin: 9 a.m.
- Moscow: 11 a.m.
- Sydney: 7 p.m.
The Sunday webcast for Pro Tour Paris is February 13 at 2:30 p.m. local time. The semifinals and finals will be streamed live, and the webcast will also feature highlights of the Player of the Year showdown and the Top 8 quarterfinals. Find the closest city to see when that is in your area:
- Los Angeles: 5:30 a.m.
- Chicago: 7:30 a.m.
- New York: 8:30 a.m.
- Rio de Janeiro: 11:30 a.m.
- London: 1:30 p.m.
- Rome/Berlin: 2:30 p.m.
- Moscow: 4:30 p.m.
- Sydney: 12:30 a.m. Monday
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2 years ago ::
Feb 10, 2011 - 10:56AM
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ben stark is an amazing guy. what he drafted looks like junk but he easily 3-0s. he is a limited master
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2 years ago ::
Feb 10, 2011 - 11:47AM
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guys at least make sure whoever writing these reports know how to play the game. look at this final paragraph. black casting zenith with clone shells revealing golems and spitter, but somehow he is losing (presumably to the grindclock) because he is extending his hand in defeat but then he is 2-1. Black cast an emergency Black Sun's Zenith for three, but the flurry of activity that followed had both his Clone Shells opened to reveal the Fume Spitter and Precursor Golem underneath, and Black extended the hand in defeat. Black 2, Yasooka 1
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2 years ago ::
Feb 10, 2011 - 12:13PM
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I still don't get why Wizards can't provide actual video coverage of PTs. If 3rd parties (read GGSlive) do it for free, why can't Wizards? You already fly people out to write coverage, why not put them on video, instead? Watching a match is a lot better than getting a 500 word summary of it.
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2 years ago ::
Feb 10, 2011 - 1:12PM
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where are the 8th round results? it has been over hours ago
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2 years ago ::
Feb 10, 2011 - 1:31PM
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where are the 8th round results? it has been over hours ago
A better question is, why is the coverage for these events so bad? Wizards spends well over a million dollars to put on a Pro Tour, yet they can't even bother covering (i.e. advertising it) particularly well. There is a demand for coverage. Several thousand people tune in to watch Starcitygames Open Series events, which are significantly less important. Get with the times, and get real video coverage of the event. You have the equipment already, as they do a live broadcast of the finals.
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2 years ago ::
Feb 10, 2011 - 1:48PM
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i bet they think they are doing a good job. Set aside the lack of live coverage, the match reports are awful and mostly inaccurate. Scoreboard updates are way late, and they cant use brian and rich to full capacity. so sad.
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2 years ago ::
Feb 10, 2011 - 6:03PM
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Date Joined:
Oct 23, 2006
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It's true. They seriously need to rethink how they do everything regarding Pro Tours. But even the video coverage is bad. You can't see any of the cards well enough to make them out and the frame they use is almost always behind. The camera is often aimed at players while something significant is happening on the board. (I give them credit, however, for attempting to show more of the matches during the top 8 rather than have someone walk around and occasionally report that something much more interesting than the match you're watching just ended.)
On top of that, the archive is the same poor resolution as the live stream because they won't have at least one of their encoders capturing in HD. I see why that is not an option live as network limitations are out of WOTC's control. For on-demand, however, there is no excuse for this. I am going to miss the top 8 this weekend for sure and if I want to watch any replays I will be treated to a grainy 320x240 frame size.
What they need to do is have someone come in and rethink the overall coverage from scratch. And if they are doing this all in-house then they should seriously consider vendorizing.
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2 years ago ::
Feb 11, 2011 - 6:00AM
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Date Joined:
Apr 24, 2008
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It used to be a lot better, somewhat in the years 2000-2006 (plus / minus a few years)
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2 years ago ::
Feb 11, 2011 - 7:01AM
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Date Joined:
Dec 15, 2009
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I enjoy Rich, and I could listen to him commentate all day. Even play by play on podcasts were clear enough to know what was going on w/out the video. I think most of us are used to how pro sports are broadcast. MTG would have to be broadcast more like Golf flipping between the matches (like the Worlds T8 was) while providing the hand/table coverage of poker. The trick is that MTG has a much more complicated board state than poker, so you would actually have to show that while keeping a mockup of the players hands in the bottom frame.
The cost, however comes with a lot more videography. A lot more cameras and a production crew that can put it togeather on the fly. One of the things I HATE about ggslive is all the random BS between matches, but without a roaming camera allowing commentators to be followed around viewing the floor, discussing the standings et. There really isn't that much to talk about.
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