Quickybaby just hits 11k viewers!

Ectar:   No one was ever picked as a "main horse" and no one ever has been. The difference is simply recent content output.   I met Quickybaby at Tankfest 2012 and we started playing together. I would join in his streams every so often and would occasionally post on Facebook when we went live. We would also at the time retweet RitaGamer who had not long started streaming. At that time the only other prominent streamer was Highflyer15 who was more well known for his youtube videos. There wasn't many other people streaming at the time and the most views were always on Russian channels. I can remember Quickybaby reaching a peak of 500 viewers when we did a 12 hour stream when British tanks were released, and I can remember RitaGamer getting excited about reaching 50 twitch followers. Things were a lot lot different 2 years ago.   To give you another example of the "it's not just 1 guy" - We brought Highflyer15 to Gamescom 2012, and we also brought him to Gamescom 2013 along with Circonflexes. Just because we haven't featured a contributor recently on our portal doesn't mean we're no longer supporting them. Our recent articles related to content patches have been player created youtube videos and there has been multiple other players highlighted. If someone isn't making videos it's pretty hard to promote them in a video-centric article that is focused on specific content.  

Ectar:   They have the "propaganda machine" available to them, however any content has to be relevant to our articles. Both players are well known to our community team and I drop by both of their channels frequently myself.  If we're publishing a post about update 9.3 and a player/editor has no content related to that, we don't really have any other options.  - Community Contributors have direct contact with Wargaming and know the stuff we're looking for. Now along with being relevant to the article, the content also has to be within what would be considered normal forum/in-game rules. (This is why some streamers/youtubers will never be officially promoted due to their language/behavior when they stream or the content of their chat).  We want to promote as many players as possible as we're trying to spread our coverage as far as we can, that content however always has to be of a certain standard and not just "for teh lolz".  The people who have met me in real life or know me personally know my sense of humor and whilst there is lots of stuff out there which I agree is funny or entertaining in it's own way, it's not appropriate for an official games company website to promote.   The aim of this recent event was to promote Clan Wars which with 11k viewers I think you can all agree that to a certain extent it worked.  Yes there is things we can improve on next time and I'm pretty sure that more Community Team members, streamers and clans will want to participate next time. If you're unhappy that XXX streamer didn't take part, please understand that this was the first time we've done something like this, and to get the most coverage it's only natural we'd do something with the player who has the highest viewer numbers.  I look forward to seeing what the next campaign brings, how many players/clans take part and what we can do to promote it.