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Ask HN: What are the skills and/or software(s) required to become an emcee?

5 pointsby sprkv5almost 3 years ago
I was just looking at the recent MultiVersus tournament hosted by a certain YouTube streamer live now; and I was kinda fascinated by how they were hosting, presenting the rules, tracking the players and their respective voice chatrooms, technical issues, etc. I do know that they've got some folks helping out behind the scenes. I wanted to know what it takes to setup such an event, especially for the host.

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dragontameralmost 3 years ago
Entertaining an audience and keeping their attention has more to do with Theater training rather than computers.<p>Control of your face muscles, portraying your emotions (or your intended emotions), communicating with the audience, etc. etc. These are theater skills. You practice that by attending open-mic nights, going up on stage and trying to hold people&#x27;s attention. Maybe improv games, or whatever.<p>Or dressing up in costumes and learning to communicate through only body-language (ex: Disneyworld mascots). Then when you take the costume off, you know what to do to communicate your ideas and how to keep the audience&#x27;s attention through multiple dimensions (body language, facial language, and voice).<p>------<p>EDIT: I&#x27;m not saying you have to do classical theater training to be a good online mc &#x2F; master of ceremony. But you probably want to practice the theater-like skills for that kind of learning...
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