camp3r said in Thoughts on RGL’s Future (by me :D):
Chucklenuts Cup a disastrous failure is completely disingenuous and what drives those from this scene who actually have the vigor to bring projects from simple Discord musings to ac…
I wouldn’t call the Cup a failure, however, to put in the effort for 2 days with a group of community figures with an audience that large and only get 84 new players, with no guarantee they will all continue to play competitively seems to me like a large waste of potential. However, I don’t blame that on RGL. The Chucklenuts is made up of 9 content-creators totalling over half a million, subscribers. None of these creators made any sort of video or community post on youtube, this is especially devastating as some channels do ave over 100k subscribers. I didn’t even know the cup was an event until the day of, and I personally follow some of those channels. New players are great but 84 is a low result. While improvement should always be looked at positively, the Chucklenuts Cup definitely wasted a large amount of its potential. Holding a traditional sixes newcomer cup (yes I understand there are different requirements so it is not the ideal comparison) would have been so much more effective in gathering new players. When working with others outside of RGL more has to be done to actively draw any large quantity of players into the scene. I hope that RGL’s future collaborative events can see more effort from its partners, maybe then can we see a new wave of players come into the scene. Not blaming everything on the youtubers, but not using their platform is a massive waste that shouldd be learned from.