thanks to Intel for sponsoring this video Intel extreme Masters is a
legendary production that hosts some of the biggest teams playing the most
popular Esports titles and these events happen multiple times a year all over
the world now ESL has invited us to take a look behind the scenes at what it
takes to run one of these types of shows we've never done something like this
before and I'm super excited so let's get to
it this event is featuring two main titles
simultaneously League of Legends and Counter-Strike Global Offensive and I
mean that literally Esports league has split Oracle Arena in two dedicating one
side to each title and they're being streamed live at the exact same time the
majority of the magic that you see on the stage itself like all the physical
effects and LEDs and all that fun stuff is managed by a team of people that is
sandwiched between the two stages hidden by some black curtains doing all of that
stuff live now for the League of Legends matches
those are all hosted on riot games own servers on tournament Realms offsite but
Counter-Strike on the other hand is hosted here by ESL that helps ESL
because with Riot games they can't set up scripts on the server for counter-
strike they actually can and that gives them the ability to cue things that
happen on the server to make effects happen on stage or for your own stream
that doesn't remove the job of the league operators but it just gives them more control and more ability which is
pretty cool for the majority of what people will see the live streams we have
to move on to the main production control room this area is just a sea of
high-end Battle Stations and monitors and control panels absolutely everywhere
so to keep this manageable we're going to go from group to group first off we
have the fiber rack and there is a lot of runs going to it this is the main
input for the entire control room and this will include things like all of the
different cameras the in between stage production area the hosts the casters
everything fin we have the audio mixing station this is specifically for the
broadcast not for the stage if you're watching the stream this guy controls
what you're listening to third we have the graphics station any cool effects or
awesome looking Graphics that appear on screen are queued up by this guy he has
some really high-end custom broadcasting software running here not xsplit or OBS
but we'll get more into that later and fourth we have the Observer group this
is the group of guys that will get all the various in-game camera angles that
can be switched to on the Fly and this is also where the instant replay machine
is this guy has to do instant replays manually so if you see a replay on
stream it's cuz this guy was on the ball and then fifth there's the technical
director this guy controls what camera feed is actually being shown on screen
at a specific time the technical director will take cues directly from
the row behind him station number six the producer row this is where the live
producer and creative producer will act kind of like Puppet Masters making sure
that all the other stations around them are doing the right thing at the right
time so everything looks good for you guys at home and last but not least is
the recording and streaming section this is where all of that stuff that we
talked about earlier comes together and is transcoded into one video feed using
Intel Quicks sync on a core i7 processor the same ones the competitors are using
and then it is put up online through OBS so that you guys can watch it on Twitch
TV yes I did say OBS they do use OBS for
the final push I assumed ESL setup would be extensive but I never never expected
how elaborate it would actually be I really appreciate them showing us around
they had to do it while the event was actually running so hopefully you guys
did like what we were able to show you in the end thank you to Intel for
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