Yeah I had a good 3-4 hours watched, not even a single token, but I’ve gotten previous things they’ve done with YouTube streams. Not having any way of tracking it in the moment is pretty frustrating
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I also received only 5 tokens toward the start of the broadcast, then the webpage broke. Refreshed within a few minutes and saw “Connected”, but did not earn any tokens (and therefore no skins) throughout the rest of the broadcast.
I also noticed the webpage broke when the broadcast ended, but that’s fairly inconsequential.
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I watched the entire stream, literally. I have only gotten 5 tokens and the Genji skins. Actually my first time doing this, so I hope I didn’t do something wrong.
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Oh, I just noticed the bolded, italicized print from the perks page:
In-game items and Perks will appear in your account on or after November 15, 2022.
This would make sense as to why the rewards are not distributing. I imagine the concern lies with most of these OWL items not directly in the game yet. Typically, before a cosmetic is awarded, it’s added to the game first, like the “Kettlebell” weapon charm and “Plates” souvenir currently in-game with no way to earn them.
I imagine that they did not want to directly award the tokens or skins (even though most of the skins are technically in the game), until everything is in the game. From what I can see, the new player icons, sprays, and name cards aren’t in the game yet, and likely won’t be until the next major patch, which is the Nov 15 balance patch.
So I guess we’ll all just have to manually count our hours of viewership, and hope to see a dump of content added to our profiles on the 15th. It would have been nice if they kept the OWL tokens tallying to help validate hours watched, but I imagine it would mess with the other item tracking.
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Yep everyone make sure to view it on a browser tab with it minimized and muted. God forbid they actually get realistic view numbers without being padded by bribes of drops and tokens.
What annoying me is that we got no way to actually see our hours watching counted/progressing for drops. Twitch is much better in this regard.
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Yeah, YouTube’s drop system still has work to do. Fortunately, the system works fairly solid. IIRC, the system had a handful of issues when it was first implemented during OWL season 3. Viewing from the OWL app/website was more reliable. Then, as we moved through the 4th season, YouTube became the more reliable source.
I imagine we’ll eventually get that kind of reward tracking in the future. I wonder if Twitch has some kind of patent on that, preventing YouTube from implementing a feature like that. Normally, OWL token tracking in-game has been sufficient for hours watched. And who knows, maybe in the next couple of days, they find a way to keep distributing tokens, and we will be able to keep track that way.
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It’s not a problem which comes from Youtube but from the Blizzard itself. During this whole season 2 times tokens weren’t granted quickly. Most of the time it has worked for me without any problem. I had also received 5 or maybe 10 tokens and that’s it. No double tokens, no skins. I hope that they fix this soon before November 15 because Blizzard’s trust level is very low and viewership has risen up mostly for good rewards and not for one meta (except for Atlanta who used Bastion and Rein) and a boring stage we got to se which reminds me of Midseason madness tournament stage when they were close to each other in library. Crowd will only be able to attend last two days which is another disappointment.
Wow, okay.
If you’re calling it a “bribe”, yet purposely collecting it no matter which way you’re doing it, what does that make you? 
Even the free incentives that have been around for five years are getting complaints now.
I only got 10 tokens as well and had the entire stream up. Oh well, on to today’s encore and do it all over again around 4:45 PM EST.
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It seems the Encores are spread into 4 different Premieres, we most likely won’t get as much reward time as the live broadcast.
If you wish to afk them while asleep, make sure to open each in a separate tab, the streams should (hopefully) start automatically.
Drops are already enabled and the Connected Diamond is visible on all 4 streams.
To prevent your browser from disabling inactive tabs make sure to set your videos to 144p beforehand.
Encore 1: Round 1 | @SeoulInfernal vs @Spitfire | Playoffs | Day 1 - YouTube
Encore 2: Round 1 | @HangzhouSpark vs @ShanghaiDragons | Playoffs | Day 1 - YouTube
Encore 3: Round 1 | @FLMayhem vs. @atlantareign | Playoffs | Day 1 - YouTube
Encore 4: Round 1 | @TorontoDefiant vs Houston @outlaws | Playoffs | Day 1 - YouTube
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Will the first encore not just switch over to the second encore, etc etc? It used to do that…
I don’t really remember, to be honest. This is the 2nd time they’ve done separate Premieres instead of one long broadcast for the Encore like last season.
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Others said that you need to actually refresh the tab when the streams go live so there’s that. Just to be sure.
Any suggestion on best browser to watch? I’ve tried OperaGX and sometimes it crashed in middle of the stream. Firefox seems stable but occasionally freeze when it go from “waiting” to live.
Why does my YT always run out of memory and crash the stream on OWL only? Luckily I also have the iPad going on in my room with it on so when I go to work I can just forget about YT on my desktop. BUT WHY!? It’s done the crash 2 or 3 times already.
Maybe hiding the chat will do some good.
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Why does my YT always run out of memory and crash the stream on OWL only? Luckily I also have the iPad going on in my room with it on so when I go to work I can just forget about YT on my desktop. BUT WHY!? It’s done the crash 2 or 3 times already.
So I’m not the only one with this weird *ss bug lol. Another reason I prefer Twitch over Youtube.
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They changed it to this 4 separate video format primarily to prevent an issue they would occasionally run into, which is the full 4-match broadcast would potentially bleed into the live broadcast. This way, the last video (which starts at 11:00am PT) won’t typically run much longer than 2 hours, leaving about an hour gap before the next live broadcast starts.
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My YT app on phone just switched over to second encore automatically.
When the matches are longer, you can expect jumping into the following encore 15-30 mins late, but yeah, if you have autoplay enabled, they are setup to chain together. For some reason, I read your initial question as the encore broadcast would chain together the 4 matches in one video.
Watched the whole thing live yesterday and got only tokens but no skins, not sure what I’m doing wrong since I’m connected and everything.
Edit: 1/11 2022 - I am getting my skins now so there just seems to be a delay.
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