Saving NA CS: Parks

North American Counter-Strike isn't just made of players, staff, and organizations. Fans, casters, analysts and other personalities are important components that sustain the scene. In order to hear the thoughts of these community members, Dust2.us presents "Saving NA CS" as a series of interviews.

This series starts with Jeffrey "Mnmzzz" Moore talking with Scott "Parks" Park, a caster for LCA Broadcasting, about the importance of broadcasting Main and Advanced games, and the state of the Impact scene in North America.

Please note that the full interview can be found below on YouTube, while the transcript has some key snippets from their conversation.

For those who don't know, what is LCA Broadcasting?

LCA Broadcasting is a broadcasting organization based in NA and a little bit in EU, as well. Teams come to us and they want their games cast and we help them out with that. A lot of good teams that just don't otherwise have the ability to get their name out there or their brand out there, we give them a lot of that, and the players as well.

Why is it important that we broadcast Advanced and Main?

It's one of the things of the next generation of players coming up. You want to get some kind of viewership on them, get some kind of idea of what you are seeing. A lot of the times it's easier for up-and-coming players to get noticed because of the clips that we pump out and they get noticed more often, a lot of players are able to get pushed up into ECL that deserve it. Storylines as well, because you get a lot of rivalries from some of the players that go back seasons and seasons, because they played each other in Advanced.

Why do you think NA Impact teams struggle so much to get signed?

I think a little bit of it is the inconsistency of rosters. The reason FlyQuest [RED] were so easily able to find a team is because they have been around for a while and they have shown they are happy to stick together. There are a lot of rosters that tend to have a lot of changes after events or when they go to those events they can't show up in any way, and that causes the team to require changes. We never had a team like RGB if that makes sense, where they have stuck around for years even though they hadn't really had much success. I think once we see a lot more of those, orgs will be more interested coming in and showing their interest in being there because the teams are interested in staying there.