Welcome to the Official Smogon YouTube Thread
This is a project started off from a suggestion for battlers to view old Tournament battles that may have been missed and showcased fun, interesting battles. Support for the idea was fairly strong and so here we are now. For the time being, we are going to upload mostly well-known, showcase battles.
Here is the link to the actual YouTube Account
http://www.youtube.com/user/SmogonU
Anyway, here are the goals for the project:
*Competitive Tournament Matches: Mostly Semi-Finals and Final games would be fun to watch. However, I'm not opposed to uploading other tourney round games. These games will probably consist of well-known players in well known tournaments (Smogon Tour, Official Smogon Tournament, World Cup etc.). Gimmick tournaments will be by a case-by-case basis in my opinion. We'll cross that bridge when/if we ever get there.
*Commentaries / Commentators: Videos with audio from well known battlers in the community that warstory games and talk about whats happening, what both opponents are thinking. (It would be nice to get the players themselves to annonate or comment on the games themselves, but that is going to be near to impossible I realize) General strategies. etc. etc.
*Tutorials / Informational Videos: Not sure if this idea will ever get off the ground but I'd love to see some videos that teach players. It would be similar to how articles are written on the site teaching players certain ways to play or aspects of the metagame. How to build a Rain Dance Team, Sacrificing Pokemon at key moments in games, predicting. etc. etc. I just wanted to add that the time frame on this thing is gonna be further down the line if this thing is actually still going.
How to Format the YouTube Videos:
Before the Video is uploaded, there are a few fields that need to be filled in or edited after the video is officially up. Here is a step by step walk through of how the formatting should look.
Title
The title should be of the Tournament that was played (e.g. World Cup), the Round of that tournament (e.g. Finals), followed by a dash - and the players that played (e.g. Earthworm Vs Husk)
Description
The description should have the same information that was in the Title (name of the tournament and <player1> vs. <player2>) along with: a link to the Smogon Tournament thread (e.g. http://www.smogon.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61345, credits to the music used (e.g. Breaking Benjamin), credits to the uploader (optional) and credits to the editor (optional)
Tags
Tags should always have Smogon in them. Besides that, it is up to the uploader. Possible Tags can include: Shoddy Battle, Tournament, Pokemon etc.
Recorders w/ Permission to the Smogon Account:
-loedoc
-Locopoke
-Sheep
-PurpleWeezing
-Vacuum
-Minato.
This thread is here for discussion between recorders, upkeep of the account, distribution of the password etc. etc.
Please keep the thread as clean as possible and on point. If you have any else to suggest, feel free to post.
Thanks
This is a project started off from a suggestion for battlers to view old Tournament battles that may have been missed and showcased fun, interesting battles. Support for the idea was fairly strong and so here we are now. For the time being, we are going to upload mostly well-known, showcase battles.
Here is the link to the actual YouTube Account
http://www.youtube.com/user/SmogonU
Anyway, here are the goals for the project:
*Competitive Tournament Matches: Mostly Semi-Finals and Final games would be fun to watch. However, I'm not opposed to uploading other tourney round games. These games will probably consist of well-known players in well known tournaments (Smogon Tour, Official Smogon Tournament, World Cup etc.). Gimmick tournaments will be by a case-by-case basis in my opinion. We'll cross that bridge when/if we ever get there.
*Commentaries / Commentators: Videos with audio from well known battlers in the community that warstory games and talk about whats happening, what both opponents are thinking. (It would be nice to get the players themselves to annonate or comment on the games themselves, but that is going to be near to impossible I realize) General strategies. etc. etc.
*Tutorials / Informational Videos: Not sure if this idea will ever get off the ground but I'd love to see some videos that teach players. It would be similar to how articles are written on the site teaching players certain ways to play or aspects of the metagame. How to build a Rain Dance Team, Sacrificing Pokemon at key moments in games, predicting. etc. etc. I just wanted to add that the time frame on this thing is gonna be further down the line if this thing is actually still going.
How to Format the YouTube Videos:
Before the Video is uploaded, there are a few fields that need to be filled in or edited after the video is officially up. Here is a step by step walk through of how the formatting should look.
Title
The title should be of the Tournament that was played (e.g. World Cup), the Round of that tournament (e.g. Finals), followed by a dash - and the players that played (e.g. Earthworm Vs Husk)
Description
The description should have the same information that was in the Title (name of the tournament and <player1> vs. <player2>) along with: a link to the Smogon Tournament thread (e.g. http://www.smogon.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61345, credits to the music used (e.g. Breaking Benjamin), credits to the uploader (optional) and credits to the editor (optional)
Tags
Tags should always have Smogon in them. Besides that, it is up to the uploader. Possible Tags can include: Shoddy Battle, Tournament, Pokemon etc.
Recorders w/ Permission to the Smogon Account:
-loedoc
-Locopoke
-Sheep
-PurpleWeezing
-Vacuum
-Minato.
This thread is here for discussion between recorders, upkeep of the account, distribution of the password etc. etc.
Please keep the thread as clean as possible and on point. If you have any else to suggest, feel free to post.
Thanks
