The Heroes of the Storm American Championship concluded today, with Cloud 9 defeating Tempo/Storm in the finals to claim first place in the region.
My tweets from during the event:
(This screenshot was taken from my feed, so the oldest tweets are at the bottom and the newest tweets are at the top.)
As you can tell, I was a bit disappointed at Tempo/Storm’s defeat, and was sad that Zuna and the team were having a tough time on the day of the finals.
Some of it might have had to do with the fact that the point of the tournament was to qualify for BlizzCon, which Tempo/Storm did, and about which I’m happy. But, that extra prize money would’ve been nice to go to the team I support the most.
Overall, the broadcast was amazing. I have a more in-depth article being planned out right now about why the broadcast was so successful.
In summary, the interface, camera control, audio balance, and usage of down time all contributed positively to making the broadcast a success.
Even though Heroes of the Storm is probably the smallest out of the big eSports right now, I’m glad that the producers and directors behind the scenes are working on things that make watching Heroes of the Storm better than even the seasoned productions like League of Legends’ League Championship Series.
On the 19th, the event opened up with a bit of an error in the interface, with the team names being inverted (it’s possible that it could be attributed to a seating mix-up?):
This error was temporarily patched up by just removing the team names two minutes into the game, and was fixed later on into the game.
Apart from this, I didn’t really see any problems over the weekend-long broadcast.
Stay tuned for my in-depth article – if it’s not posted directly on my website, then it probably means it was posted elsewhere. Even in that case, I will still include excerpts and a link here soon.