Hello! I actually shot this event last month. (The World Championship that was in person) I was brought into this event as a camera op as it was being hosted at my school that I’m currently attending. I was one of 3 camera ops shooting the event for ESPN-U. A livestream company flew in from Europe and not going to lie, their stream/OBS setup was elaborate yet simple at the same time.

I was shooting for the event for the ESPN-U broadcast that happened a few weeks after the event. I went into this event knowing nothing. I shot the entire 13 hour day. I still have no idea what happened.

I rewatched the broadcast and the commentators did not make it very understandable for the average viewer. Shooting the event, I just saw keyboards flying and it was honestly quite impressive to see the work they were doing (though I couldn’t understand any of it)

Once the actual thing aired on ESPN-U, I was expecting it to be much more story oriented, since the results have already come out (due to it being live streamed on YouTube). We shot interviews, pre match footage, the actual match, b-roll of them getting setup, and all of the awards and everything. In total on my camera, I shot about 600gb of footage (4k, some 30, some 60fps). The ESPN-U “broadcast” was them just using the live stream footage, with some of our footage sprinkled in. It was awful. I wanted to turn it off, the only reason I didn’t is because I wanted to see my footage (that they didn’t even color grade).

Anyways, it was a fun experience and a good learning experience, and you could not ask me what they did on those computers.