Noticed the competitors in AWC, mostly, as talented as they are seemed not to promote themselves much, which is strange since you need exposure to help grow the sport or at least keep interest in the sport at an acceptable level.
Why would a sponsor someone if they do not promote themselves to get exposure to the brands?
Some orgs have social training to help them grow their brand, things like how to respond to the fans, interact and achieve interest,
I want to see these guys get paid but if they just do it for the “love” with no interest in growing the brand, then there we probably wont be seeing much AWC in the future =(
wow is a terrible esport for many reasons. The sooner blizzard stops putting resources into trying to make it one the better.
Think of all the terrible esport centric changes they have made, like an AoE cap or GCDs changes to stuff like cooldowns. They have almost all been reverted for being awful.
Idk seems like why AWC is so dead because the ramp up with upcoming blizzcon help promote it automatically. Now that blizzcon seems to be a thing of the past that extra advertising is just not there for them.
they’ve said they plan on bringing Blizzcon back but I doubt it’ll make AWC any better. If you don’t PvP and actually learn what other classes do in arenas, you wouldn’t know wtf is going on 90% of the time. Hell I play this game a lot and I barely know what’s going on lol
For me (I’m a dummy) I often don’t know what’s going on just because of all the covenants and all that comes with it. I don’t play enough of other classes or chosen other covenant to know. Hopefully with the talent trees instead of borrowed powers it will be easier next expansion to follow what’s going on not only in arena but also in an AWC tournament
The future is going to be interesting. I have always said AWC has so much potential but the lack of attention to it on the live game hurts the tourney settings. One positive is the YouTube contract will be up before next season so hopefully they go back to Twitch. They have definitely improved the UI and even doing the player intro videos is nice. Production has improved a lot although still behind in a lot of aspects. Not having LANs also hurts a lot. That hopefully will change next year.
This has always been the case. You have a few that have done it well (Cdew for instance) but the biggest thing is time. The only positive of promoting yourself is to gain a following for streaming. Otherwise the already big time sink for practice etc and how little the prize pools are hurts. Unless you have an org backing practicing/preparing for the tourney and promoting yourself isn’t possible because many of them work a job as well.
Ya and those are the players you see flourish. But the negative is a lot of orgs don’t stick around. C9 just dropped their team, and even WoW focused orgs like Method stopped sponsoring teams for the event. There is no money there for the orgs, and not enough exposure.
This isn’t only the players fault. I agree players could do more. But there is also fault on Blizzard’s side too. I am really interested to see if they go back to Twitch. YouTube really hurt their viewership among other things.
Also Blizzcon returning next year is good for it. There is a lot of work to do. The game state of PvP has been hard on it. Hopefully DF will begin to turn that around.
i was talking about exactly this to a couple of people, which is why kawhi hasn’t ever gotten sponsored. the 4 ghosts of TR.
this can be said for league also to a certain degree although with it is easier to see plays from a top-down view with lidl characters dashing across the screen with massive animations. the awc team, casters included, have improved with helping the audience understand what’s happening throughout the match over the years but honestly it’s not enough. casters need to do a better job explaining each team’s positioning throughout matches (are they playing defensively currently for a reason? do they want to maintain this aggressive position to achieve something? what is team X planning? etc) instead of shoutcasting non-stop spell usage.
wow could easily become a bigger and even mainstream esport if they put a single ounce of effort into it.
there’s so many core issues wrong with AWC fundamentally that unless blizzard makes drastic changes, AWC viewership will shrink until a new expansion hits, and then it will shrink again after the first 1-2 cups.
not even gameplay related:
why are we streaming AWC on youtube live???
why are you promoting AWC with just a few tweets and social media interaction?
why is there like 4 tourneys major tourneys a year only?
why is it that the most elite competitors in your esport can work a minimum wage job, and earn more income over a year then they did if they were competing in all of your tourneys?
it would be so easy to just simul-cast AWC on all streaming platforms, add in game promotions for AWC like team tabards, or other cosmetics/titles (which could also contribute to AWC prize pool)
i could type an essay, but in short blizzard would rather just keeping milking this cow that is practically already dried out, instead of nurturing it a little bit to produce a ton more milk.
the future is meek at best
