Hello World Bladers!
After falling into relative disuse for the past couple years, the WBO Committee has recently decided to begin taking steps to revitalize our official Youtube Channel, BeyChannel!
Beyblade News
The revitalization will begin with a new segment titled "Beyblade News". Check out the first video!:
As you can see, the main purpose of these news announcement videos will be to drive traffic to the WBO–specifically, the official thread for the product being announced/revealed–emphasizing that we are always the first to announce details regarding new Beyblade releases outside of Japan. Additionally, now, besides the forums themselves, and our Facebook and Twitter pages, BeyChannel will become yet another avenue for Bladers to be among the first to learn about upcoming releases.
And of course, any help you guys can provide by liking our videos, sharing them, and subscribing would be greatly appreciated!
By the way, the Beyblade News video above (and all subsequent updates) was produced by our very own Tris (and narrated by ... Dude!) ! Be sure to check out his Youtube Channel: iTris2. As a token of our thanks, we are awarding him with the prestigious Peridot Face [Image: peridotface.png]! Thanks for putting up with all of our nitpicking, haha.
Competitive Content
From the very beginning, however, BeyChannel has always been first and foremost, about presenting content for serious Bladers, and Bladers who are looking to learn about the competitive aspects of Beyblade for the first time:
(Jan. 09, 2009 1:51 AM)Bey Brad Wrote: I wanted to deliver absolutely the best Beyblade video experience in the world, so that's what I'm going for with this. My goal is to provide loads of high quality, high definition Beyblade videos with no fillers and no random battle requests between terrible Beyblades! Any video posted here will have a purpose for serious Bladers.
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Our first video is on the infamous Sliding Shoot. I know a lot of you have been having trouble performing this, and it's a hard technique so it's no surprise, so let's work on it together! Watch the Sliding Shoot video in HIGH DEFINITION!
Rest assured, BeyChannel will not be straying far from its original spirit. In addition to the "Beyblade News" and other update videos, we also have many ideas for new content tailored specifically for serious Bladers, and novice Bladers looking to become competitive in the upcoming months.
And we are of course open to any suggestions of what you guys would like to see as well, so please, let us know if you have any ideas of your own!
Tournament Footage
There's one other aspect missing, though: tournament videos. As you all know, the WBO has also facilitated the hosting of hundreds of Beyblade tournaments across the globe since its inception. There's a handful of tournament videos up right now, but they're all within Canada; this certainly doesn't represent how far-reaching our userbase is, now does it? This is why we feel it's time to finally expand ... and to do that, we need your help! As a result, BeyChannel will now be open to submissions of new tournament footage from all Official WBO Tournament hosts/participants/spectators. Interested? Here is how the submission process will work:
Submission Process
1. Contact Kei for Font/Video/Audio Guidelines
2. Assemble tournament footage into a 2-4min clip (quality: minimum 480p widescreen and footage must have not been posted on Youtube before)
3. Upload the assembled footage to a file sharing website and send it to the WBO Committee for review.
4. If approved, the WBO Committee will add the BeyChannel intro/outro to your footage, and then post the video on BeyChannel!
Simple, isn't it?
(Protip for anyone who is interested in doing this: while close-ups of individual battles are very important, try to get a few shots of the venue, participants, etc.)
Tournament footage contributors who have their material posted on BeyChannel will also be given one of the following Face Boosters as our way of saying "thank you" for all of your efforts:
- Face Booster RED [Image: faceboosterred.png]
- Face Booster BLUE [Image: faceboosterblue.png]
- Face Booster GREEN [Image: faceboostergreen.png]
- Face Booster ORANGE [Image: faceboosterorange.png]
- Face Booster YELLOW [Image: FaceBoosterIconYellow.png]
- Face Booster PURPLE [Image: FaceBoosterIconPurple.png]
That's all for now! Again, please like and share our videos, and subscribe if you haven't already!