WellPlayed.org is a website devoted to the cause of uniting the eSports community. The goal is to bring everyone together and get them talking about their favorite players, casters, matches, and tournaments. Now that everyone is here, it’s time to bring the content together too. Imagine being able to sit down and turn on a stream with the push of a button. Imagine having streams of all of your favorite games at your fingertips, with an incomparable array of tools to arrange, view, and organize them to your liking. The time has come to create a stream-viewing experience with the same level of polish and flexibility we demand from our other media. The time has come for WellPlayed.tv.

What is WellPlayed.tv?
“WPTV will definitely offer the most complete experience available today for stream watching. I know it's something that the community needed for a long time, and WPTV will deliver. My favorite thing is basically the sheer amount of features and endless possibilities that it will provide.” – Kapl0w, WPTV Designer

WellPlayed.tv is the result of over a month’s work to develop a stream-viewing tool that takes the ease and familiarity of watching television in the comfort of your living room and puts it on your computer in an intuitive and familiar interface. The goal is to bring streams from all walks of the eSports world to one place and make them instantly accessible to everyone. WPTV has been designed from the ground up to make an uninterrupted viewing experience the number one priority. The suite of viewing tools is comprehensive and discrete; use them to create your ideal viewing experience, and then hide them when it’s time to watch. The dark color scheme makes sure that your eyes are drawn only to the stream; you’re here to watch, and nothing should distract you from that.

WPTV is designed to maximize your viewing experience without sacrificing the use of your computer. Gone are the days of needing to keep a stream open in full screen just to be able to keep track of a player’s health or supply count. Similar to WellPlayed.org, streams on WPTV will take up most of the screen by default, allowing you to easily see every Hadoken and Baneling explosion without having to give up the rest of your desktop. When creating the interface, the dev team drew inspiration from websites like Grooveshark, and as a result WPTV is clean and easy to use, and the content is provided by the community. WPTV aims to become the de facto tool for all eSports streaming. Can you imagine a day when you’ll be able to watch matches of Super Street Fighter 4, StarCraft II, and Mavel vs. Capcom 3 in the same place using one web app? That day is closer than you think.

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WellPlayed.tv Features
“What I like is that I won't need to waste time carefully arranging windows to view multiple streams, I'll be able to do it all from a single window. Anybody who likes watching StarCraft II streams will love WPTV.” – Absentis, WPTV Executive

Multistream
Simple and powerful, WPTV will allow you to watch multiple streams at once. Gone are the days of switching browser tabs and adjusting audio outputs. You’ll be able to watch Artosis vs. ViBe on the NASL stream and then immediately switch to the EG Masters Cup stream in time to catch iNcontroL vs KiWiKaKi. Organizing your streams is a quick and logical process with drag-and-drop capabilities and options to re-size screens and adjust audio so you see and hear exactly what you want.

Hotkeys
Using hotkeys familiar to any PC gamer, WPTV aims to recreate the feel of a remote control with little more than the WASD keys. Inspired in part by the work of Jake from WarpPrism.com, streams can be flipped through as easily as television channels. Don’t know what to watch? No problem. Flip around until something catches your eye. These controls won’t be forced on anyone; a full point-and-click interface is also available, but for those interested in mastering WPTV’s keyboard tools, a guide will be available to explain every nuance.

Community Integration
Although in a separate domain, WPTV is fully integrated with WellPlayed.org. Any streams that you follow on the main site will carry over to WPTV, as will your upvotes. The same comprehensive search will be included as well as well, allowing you to search for streams with very specific criteria. You can search for “Live Master Zerg,” find every Master League Zerg player whose stream is currently live, and start watching one right away.

Notifications will be another feature integrated between sites that will provide granular control over your viewing experience. When a stream you’re following goes online, a notification will appear on both WellPlayed.org and WPTV, so you’ll be able to always know when your favorite players or tournaments are live.

Browsing
Each channel in your “Favorites” list will be assigned a number. That number can be used to immediately jump to the channel, just like on a television remote. Because uninterrupted viewing is the goal of WPTV, use of the search and browsing features will not pause what you are watching. As indicated in the image below, the stream will be minimized but continue to play as you browse other channels. This will allow the detailed descriptions of every stream that’s part of WellPlayed.org to be seamlessly integrated into your viewing experience.

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Coming Soon
“WPTV will allow the members of the SC2 community to fit more events and streams in their day by allowing them to organize and prioritize their favorite streams and events. Whenever someone watches a stream they are inherently supporting it and therefore the SC2 community.” –XMO, WPTV Developer

WellPlayed.tv is almost here. It will debut in the coming weeks, but we want your feedback before it launches. Tell us what features you want to see. This is a “for the community, by the community” movement, and we need your ideas to make this into the ultimate way to watch eSports. If there’s something you want WPTV to do, let us know in the comments below!