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Originally Posted by wjd13
1. Twitch is always highlighting community members/events on their front page. To my knowledge, no FRC event has ever made the front page. Does anyone know if Twitch plans on highlighting Kickoff? Wouldn't that be a good opportunity to introduce a huge audience to FIRST?
2. Streams on Twitch can be tracked by their number of viewers. To make the front page by default, it takes about 10,000 viewers. Think we can make it happen?
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Of note: FIRST was on the front page when GameSense was doing FIRSTChampLive. FIRST and Twitch are working together on bringing the audiences together, and Twitch is also working with the individual community shows (Robo Sports Network, FIRST Updates Now, etc).
They have been introduced & are well acquainted - it's some of why Kickoff has moved to Twitch! I'm sure the folks behind the shows can say more on their end, if they'd like. I'm just speaking from the level I know.
To your second point, I think what might do us in is that while each Kickoff location has hundreds or thousands of people, that's still only one Twitch 'view' - the computer it's being played from.
I would hope that FIRST is in the hopper for front-page for this weekend. It'd be great to bring more eyes!
In the same vein, though, I hope HQ is ready with moderation and anti-spam tools in chat. I'd hate for a big-name toxic streamer to go and bother our stream and make the Twitch chat a less than gracious place (as twitch-chat can sometimes be.)
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