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The Excel Centre in London once more hosted a titanic clash between some of the world’s best esports competitors. Hot on the heels of 2022’s World Masters and the EUIC 2023 Finals. Flux were asked back for the third year running to run the 2024 broadcast operations for The Pokémon EUIC Finals.
Overseeing three days of epic action across all four formats of Pokémon gaming. Flux was on hand to stream every high impact moment to a global audience.
The event featured competitions for four exciting formats: Pokémon Trading Card Game, Pokémon Video Game Championship, Pokémon GO, and after the success of the previous years – Flux were asked to take on the production of Pokémon UNITE for the first time, making us the only broadcast and content supplier on-site.
To make it happen we built five specialised production galleries. Four of these were used the for UNITE, Video Game, Trading Card Game and GO competitions. In each of these galleries, we provided Vision Mixing, Graphics, Replays, SME and Observing Stations. Font of house saw a total of 30 cameras, 3 Jibs, an analysis lounge and 4 Caster booths were deployed to capture all of the action.
The fifth gallery acted as the brain of the production – housing a central hub for vision control, delay, distribution, broadcast audio, networking and comms. Giving a central area for control and QC from a single location.
Outside of all of the live action, Flux provided a roaming content and editing team, rapidly producing content for VT playback and social delivery.
All in all, Flux provided a team of 80 crew alongside all technical infrastructure – making sure it went off without a hitch.
The whole competition was a massive success with over 2 million combined views across various accounts and channels.
We also want to give a huge shout out to our amazing crew who pulled long hours throughout – including three days pre event to rig and test – and never once let their standards drop. A team this good is rarer than a Rainbow Charizard.
Get in touch to find out how Flux can evolve your production from a Magikarp to a Gyarados.