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It's never coming.

Yeah, Luke is on the line.

But I feel like I'm bumbling around it all right now.

But one of the things that...

We're thinking about with all this with broadcasting and Counter-Strike and on the screen and everything like that is I think the direction that things were going for a while was not in a way that actually serviced what an analyst desk should be in my mind.

I think what PGL do.

is they still do the classic formula, which is the tried and tested formula of what a desk is.

And then they will occasionally introduce some new elements to that.

Like obviously they've started doing this thing that shows the positions that players play on the maps, right?

That's an element they've added to their desk segments last year.

And I'm sure there'll be more of that stuff this year.

Um, but in my mind, a desk segment is there to first of all, entertain, but as well, educate the viewer, uh, whether that be on micro stuff, whether it be macro stuff, whether it be storylines, whatever, there's all of those things that they need to be catered for.

But with so many tournaments and so many matches and everything going on, it's essentially the same thing time and time again, that, that, you know, if you stay in that safety of what I just provided, um,

then you're not providing anything new for the viewer.

And one thing that we noticed when we did EPL a couple of years ago was that if you offer the viewer a lot more

I don't know if it's randomness, but it's just something they're not expecting to see within that time.

You can maybe keep engagement for a little bit more, which doesn't mean that there isn't a place for analyst desk.

I think there is, but I think that you pick your slots, especially when there's some budgetary restraints, which are probably why Blast and ESL were doing some of these two-man desks for a while, which...

That's why it needs to be a balance, you know, because they're talking about the fact that it's subjective about what people find entertaining.

You need to be able to offer stuff up that is different so that you keep people engaged.