Hey hi yeah I just watched Scar's vod to that absolute nightmare of an event that was the Twitch Rivals MCC (copper crown).
How do you have a stagewalk with zero stage access for wheelchair users? How do you knowingly have disabled participants and exclude them in a mini-event within the event? ("Everybody stand up and plug in those cords!") How do you fuck up your communication so bad that an award for heart was presented to a server without saying what it was actually fully for? (Scar said he was told it was about the Gamers Outreach charity streams, got presented live as an award to Hermitcraft in general for their 10 seasons of play instead and made it seem like he was pushing the charity event unprompted despite this award coming from Mojang themselves who contributed to Gamers Outreach because of the past charity events Scar hosted) How do you have up to 4 instances where players need to access the stage, 3 of which were pre-planned, and the 4th was a high possibility, and yet zero access to the stage outside steps anyway? Why is your first thought to make them go through the crowd instead as their entrance in place of their stage walkout, putting themselves at risk, all of which their safety is in your hands?
The whole thing was fucked. I already hated Twitch, but good lord, I feel like they screwed over Scar so much, especially with that setup placement too. Why are your speakers placed next to a streaming setup when you know they'll be blasting anyway? Ah yes, a competition, known to be won by the best players and teamwork dynamics of their player roster, and you set it up so when your ambiance is going on, a player's desk is shaking. How often does this happen?
And in the end, they still didn't know how to really treat Scar when Pink Parrots won. "Hold that crown up high with your team" meanwhile they all tower over his wheelchair. They can't control that one, but c'mon. She could've said literally anything else and yet she told everyone to put a hand on it and hold it high up.
Also so many of the crowd camera pans showed how many disabled people were in attendance. Can you imagine how horrible it must feel to watch another disabled person be dismissed and not accommodated to as an official member of the event, at a convention you paid hundreds of dollars to attend? Of which most of the time you were probably hyped for this event specifically? That's gotta feel shitty. This is how Twitch treats us? I dunno man, I would want my money back. Clearly they aren't using it for proper accommodations.
