Are you a community streamer or talent interested in broadcasting the Arlington Major?
It would be wise to check out their rules first, it might be surprising.
For years there had been debates and tension between independent/community streamers and official Tournament broadcasts of events.
In 2018, just shortly after ESLannouncedits exclusive streaming deal with Facebook for all of the Pro Circuit events.
ESL thenissuedan apology to fans on reddit, but the issues didn’t stop there.
A few months later, Valve made anotherstatementaddressing broadcasting rights.
Weve also heard your feedback and concerns around Dota TV streaming rights.
This resulted in Tournament Organizers issuing full community broadcasting rules in advance.
With the upcoming Arlington Major at hand, PGL released its streaming rules and guidelines.
It certainly sounds as such and could easily be interpreted and then applied to mean as much.
Let’s take a look at theguidelinesfor ESL One Stockholm Major 2022 for comparison.
Create a positive and inclusive environment and ensure proper moderation of your chat.
This statement and guidelines seem much more than fair and understandable.
It doesn’t lean toward indicating an attempt to control the broadcaster’s freedom of expression around the event.
And certainly doesn’t extend to social media outside the broadcast either.
So is this a preemptive attempt to quell the negativity of PGL or the event itself?
Would it be too far to wonder what would be next?
Maybe we react a bit extreme, but at any rate, buyer (or broadcaster) beware.
