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thanks to Intel for sponsoring this video Intel extreme Masters is a

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legendary production that hosts some of the biggest teams playing the most

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popular Esports titles and these events happen multiple times a year all over

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the world now ESL has invited us to take a look behind the scenes at what it

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takes to run one of these types of shows we've never done something like this

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before and I'm super excited so let's get to

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it this event is featuring two main titles

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simultaneously League of Legends and Counter-Strike Global Offensive and I

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mean that literally Esports league has split Oracle Arena in two dedicating one

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side to each title and they're being streamed live at the exact same time the

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majority of the magic that you see on the stage itself like all the physical

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effects and LEDs and all that fun stuff is managed by a team of people that is

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sandwiched between the two stages hidden by some black curtains doing all of that

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stuff live now for the League of Legends matches

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those are all hosted on riot games own servers on tournament Realms offsite but

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Counter-Strike on the other hand is hosted here by ESL that helps ESL

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because with Riot games they can't set up scripts on the server for counter-

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strike they actually can and that gives them the ability to cue things that

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happen on the server to make effects happen on stage or for your own stream

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that doesn't remove the job of the league operators but it just gives them more control and more ability which is

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pretty cool for the majority of what people will see the live streams we have

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to move on to the main production control room this area is just a sea of

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high-end Battle Stations and monitors and control panels absolutely everywhere

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so to keep this manageable we're going to go from group to group first off we

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have the fiber rack and there is a lot of runs going to it this is the main

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input for the entire control room and this will include things like all of the

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different cameras the in between stage production area the hosts the casters

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everything fin we have the audio mixing station this is specifically for the

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broadcast not for the stage if you're watching the stream this guy controls

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what you're listening to third we have the graphics station any cool effects or

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awesome looking Graphics that appear on screen are queued up by this guy he has

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some really high-end custom broadcasting software running here not xsplit or OBS

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but we'll get more into that later and fourth we have the Observer group this

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is the group of guys that will get all the various in-game camera angles that

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can be switched to on the Fly and this is also where the instant replay machine

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is this guy has to do instant replays manually so if you see a replay on

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stream it's cuz this guy was on the ball and then fifth there's the technical

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director this guy controls what camera feed is actually being shown on screen

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at a specific time the technical director will take cues directly from

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the row behind him station number six the producer row this is where the live

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producer and creative producer will act kind of like Puppet Masters making sure

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that all the other stations around them are doing the right thing at the right

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time so everything looks good for you guys at home and last but not least is

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the recording and streaming section this is where all of that stuff that we

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talked about earlier comes together and is transcoded into one video feed using

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Intel Quicks sync on a core i7 processor the same ones the competitors are using

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and then it is put up online through OBS so that you guys can watch it on Twitch

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TV yes I did say OBS they do use OBS for

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the final push I assumed ESL setup would be extensive but I never never expected

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how elaborate it would actually be I really appreciate them showing us around

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they had to do it while the event was actually running so hopefully you guys

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did like what we were able to show you in the end thank you to Intel for

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sending us to imem Oakland 2016 if you guys want to see all the rest of our

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