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Viewing Experience reduced due to softer cheers

Kei143·10/3/2018, 9:44:05 PM·1 votes·1,836 views

I am actually not enjoying the VODs as much right now. The reason being the cheers of the crowd is so soft, it just can't get me as hyped as watching NALCS. I want to cheer with the crowd, I want to be as astonished as the crowd when an off-meta pick is locked in during champ select, I want to hear them troll chant ward kills, I want to get hyped with the team chants when they make a big play.

TSM TSM TSM TSM (even though TSM isn't at worlds). LETS GO LIQUID HUNDRED WHAA ? HUNDRED THIEVES LETS GO C9

I understand that the casting is being done in NA remotely to save costs and they softened the local noise so it doesn't get crowded out by the Korean casters, but my feedback is that my viewing experience has been diminished. The color caster's hype casts in live just doesn't sound as cool without the cheers.

So if an e-sports Rioter sees this, please forward my feedback to the broadcasting team. Maybe they they can figure out a way to bring the local cheers to us without the sounds being crowded over by the Korean casters.

[sg-soraka]

4 Comments

FlashNeko10/3/2018, 10:31:12 PM1 votes

I think part of it is also be the local crowd may not be as into it at this point. It's just the early Play-Ins, none of the local teams are playing yet, and also the live audience is seeing the opposite groups of what they initially paid to see because of the day swaps.

So even if the sound is somewhat muted, you can kind of tell they're not being all that loud anyway both because of those factors and because, while the games have been good, there hasn't really been a #LCSBigPlays/Baron Steal moment yet.

We'll see if it still sounds this muted once the main Groups Stage begins.

KVbqbFsC8e10/3/2018, 10:35:41 PM1 votes

The Play-ins are being played in the new LoL park, which is a rather small venue made for LCK games with a capacity of only 450. Add in that these are Play-in matches with Wildcard teams that nobody in Korea cares about, and its not surprising you aren't hearing the crowd much.

GeminiRune10/4/2018, 2:18:17 AM1 votes

It is a bit to consider that local crowds aren't global crowds. Of course being immersed by a NA viewing experience, the hype and excitement won't always necessarily cater to other parts of the world more than their own and whomever attends the venue to support a team. LCK from my experiences is quite known for tradition to open their games with fan support cheer rather than in a consistent spur throughout a game. There are the occasional cheers and screams, but there's never really true adrenaline chants in the Korean environment. But in a case where it's play-ins and as FlashNeko addressed in the sudden schedule shift, the hype is only as much as whomever has the most fan support on stage at a time.

As for the weakness in casting and local noise; I'm more than certain some of that can be filtered out but just for the overall experience it's nice to have it. Besides LPL and LCK's English casts have to undergo that year round not to mention secondary language streams that potentially piggyback off of an English stream (don't quote me on that one).

All and all, not everything can truly be satisfied. If they could block out the local crowds, that would defeat some of the immersion that's been a common matter from when they did remote shows in the past: MSI 2017 comes to mind there.