As in the title, I always wonder how live stage works, especially in EU & NA. I just wondering because the live stage in my country, it delayed for 3 mins, so the players after winning they had to wait for 3 mins to celebrate. It was.....weird.
GeminiRune4 votesMost competitive stages have the games played on a tournament realm server, which has the games spectated on actual live setting rather than a client spectate setting with the 3 minute delay. One of the more recent cases where your eyes deceived you was actually at the recent IEM Katowice but that may have been a matter of production as players loaded in and immediately paused for a brief period. Some pro cases where there is usually the 3 minute delay that I've noticed on broadcasts are like Challenger Series qualifiers (specifically NA and EU) since those are both online and not through the TR. In your country, the tournaments may not be played on an official tournament realm. That delay is definitely weird.
Firsthand experience, I've been to MSI back in 2015. There was no delay of any kind. When the game was over, the teams reacted in live time.
PhuZip116281 votesHmmm, I've heard of the server. The tournament in my country, the patches they played were actually the same as the other official tournaments (previous patch after update). So does that mean they played on that server? Or is there any kind of tool to roll back the patch on the actual game server that we normally play on?
GeminiRune2 votesWhen you put it that way, I can assume that there would exist multiple versions of the tournament realm that are allowed to be used. Recent competitive play has been on Patch 7.5 and will be rolling into 7.6 this week. It is possible that they could have either picked up a TR server but it is also very possible that the organizers rolled back to the previous patch as well. There was a case in the Challenger Series one week where that had to happen. I believe the reasons were something around the stability of the patch, but that's beside the point.
PhuZip116281 votesSorry for the delay, I think you answer my question very clearly, thank you!
The Lexer2 votesI've heard before that there is a 5 second delay between in-game and what is shown to the audience, but honestly don't remember when I heard that nor can I confirm it
PhuZip116281 votesI think there's a chance that the tolerance is there but 5 seconds is not actually big of a deal xD
Hi Im Kuratchi1 votesYEAAH!!!... I've always wondered this too I've seen them just react over them winning then few minutes later the audience reacts to the win with the "Live" recording.