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#1 11/19/2008 - 04:25 AM

billy
Administrator Join Date: 12/12/2007
Location: Netherlands
Posts: 379

We are proud to be introducing a new feature on our website. This feature was suggested to us by one of our users - dronge - Thank you!

The feature in discussion is a user submitted game summary. What does this mean? This means that while you're watching our stream, You may add any penalties, goals or fights that happen during the game in exchange for points.

Points will be awarded for the first person to submit the correct entry, So speed is important.

You get two raffle tickets for every 100 points you earn in a week.

Point Breakdown
Goals - 3 Points
Fights - 2 Points
Penalties - 1 Point

How does this work?
- Go inside a stream that you're interested in watching.
- While watching the stream, take not of any penalties, goals, or fights that happen.
- You may open the game summary in a pop-up, or you can use directly on the stream's page.
- To submit an entry - simply click on Submit Addition at the top of the game summary.
- Be as accurate as you can since inaccurate entries will be removed and points will not be counted.
- If you've made an error, You will see an Edit button that only you can use.
- After you have succesfully submitted an entry, you will redirected to a page that lists the amount of points you currently have.

You can view the point leaders by week, month, or all time here.

If you have any question, please let us know and we hope you enjoy this feature.

Any further suggestions are welcome! .

Thanks.

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#2 11/19/2008 - 06:29 PM

Cossato Canadese
Sophomore Join Date: 09/23/2008
Location: Italy
Posts: 24

Billy, I like this feature, as you saw last night

But I think that giving points to the fastest person is not that fair for the lag time:

- some people may watch the game also in tv and can watch goals and penalties with a good 20-25 seconds in advance (I tried it yesterday with the Wild-Pens game: the stream was at least 20 seconds late);

- even between streams there is lag. For example my connection could be a little bit slower and buffering than another one. And, I noticed, there is some kind of a lag time between HQ and HD streams of the same game.

So, personally, I think it would be better to give more people the chance to get points. 2 or 3 people (like it was meant to be) is fine, especially during games with a lot of users in the chat. I don't think it's going to be hard to find 3 people posting the summary with 100+ users in the chat.

Maybe you can choose 1, 2 or 3 people to get points proportionally to the number of users in the chat watching the game.

For example: if 100+ users are watching a game, you give points to the first 3 people. From 50 to 99 get points the 2 fastest people and less than 50, the point goes just to the fastest one.

Obviously I'm saying that according to my yesterday experience, but I'm pretty sure someone else is thinking the same.

I hope this message could be of some help

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#3 11/19/2008 - 06:53 PM

billy
Administrator Join Date: 12/12/2007
Location: Netherlands
Posts: 379

Good idea, I'll have to contemplate on how to implement that - but will do so

Cossato Canadese said:

Billy, I like this feature, as you saw last night

But I think that giving points to the fastest person is not that fair for the lag time:

- some people may watch the game also in tv and can watch goals and penalties with a good 20-25 seconds in advance (I tried it yesterday with the Wild-Pens game: the stream was at least 20 seconds late);

- even between streams there is lag. For example my connection could be a little bit slower and buffering than another one. And, I noticed, there is some kind of a lag time between HQ and HD streams of the same game.

So, personally, I think it would be better to give more people the chance to get points. 2 or 3 people (like it was meant to be) is fine, especially during games with a lot of users in the chat. I don't think it's going to be hard to find 3 people posting the summary with 100+ users in the chat.

Maybe you can choose 1, 2 or 3 people to get points proportionally to the number of users in the chat watching the game.

For example: if 100+ users are watching a game, you give points to the first 3 people. From 50 to 99 get points the 2 fastest people and less than 50, the point goes just to the fastest one.

Obviously I'm saying that according to my yesterday experience, but I'm pretty sure someone else is thinking the same.

I hope this message could be of some help

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#4 11/19/2008 - 10:52 PM

Cossato Canadese
Sophomore Join Date: 09/23/2008
Location: Italy
Posts: 24

Ok no problem, I'm sure you'll find out something

Btw, another little idea...maybe it's not important. You use the red colour for Penalties, black for Fighting.....why not use green for goals?

I know...it's stupid, sorry hehehe

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#5 11/19/2008 - 11:56 PM

billy
Administrator Join Date: 12/12/2007
Location: Netherlands
Posts: 379

Done It now highlights goals in green

Cossato Canadese said:

Ok no problem, I'm sure you'll find out something

Btw, another little idea...maybe it's not important. You use the red colour for Penalties, black for Fighting.....why not use green for goals?

I know...it's stupid, sorry hehehe

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