Best Breakfast Ever

We knew it was going to be an awesome weekend. Barcraft Switzerland’s first ever GSL BrunchCraft #1 on Saturday morning had pretty much everyone on our team excited. We knew though, as it was going toÂ start atÂ 9am, that we could never expect as many people to show up as for the other events. Oh, how very wrong we were…

Seriously, who would ever have expected, that a BrunchCraft at 9am on a Saturday morning would attract more than 100 people?! That’s right, >100 enthusiasts of breakfast and StarCraft II found their way to the Oliver Twist Pub in Zurich for our early-morning BrunchCraft! Fact is: that was the highest attendance we have had at any of our barcrafts so far! That alone puts a wide smile on our faces! The utterly overcrowded Pub, full of hungry and thirsty E-Sport fans kept the bar staff, Sarah and Brendan, more than busy all morning – obviously, if we had known that so many people were going to show up, we would have employed more staff :D And the participants did not only order breakfast’ish food an beverages. No, the first order going in on that Saturday morning were nine Guiness – well, beer is like food anyway, and there is nothing wrong with some food for breakfast, right? :D

Once again we pimped up the Oliver Twist Pub with an additional TV right above the bar. And for the first time, we were able to feed HD streams to all available screens – no delay, perfectly synchronous and with crisp picture quality. If there weren’t any trouble …

We started out watching the HQ stream, but as GOMTV’s streaming servers were massively overloaded, there was no chance of getting a lag-free feed, without switching to the lower quality stream. Unfortunately, repeatedly occurring problems with the internet connection kept the Barcraft Switzerland staff busy throughout the event as well.

You would think, that people were upset about the issues, right? Wrong! Despite the problems we experienced, it was literally impossible to keep the audience form having an awesome time. Sure,Â the pubÂ was packed. Sure, people had to wait a little longer than usual for their english breakfast, respectively their traditional 9am-Guiness. And yeah, eventually we had to turn back the stream quality. And yet, the atmosphere was simply amazing! BrunchCraft meant excitement, thrill and nerdchills – all day long!

Thanks to every single one who came! Thanks to Brendan and Sarah, who had toÂ work so hard on that morning! Thanks Brendan, for personally putting so much effort into our project as well – you are a big part of this! Stay tuned, and see you all next time! In the meantime: <3 eSports