Leaderboard

Great job guys and a great initiative. I would like you to get a bit more personal tho, since your not doing a podcast about science or history. You are doing a podcast where the only thing that matters is your opinion about things - so speak up! Be spontaneous, humorous or even harsh if necessary. Also, I don't think there is no need for the intro where you structure what the whole podcast should be about. Gives the podcast that "cooperate feel" you want to avoid. But two interesting characters. This ought to be good when you find your rhythm. Keep going

If the podcast was 2 hours long, then perhaps a introduction could serve a point. But since they are doing a short version, it should really just be sweet and intense since they will have no problem keeping peoples attention for that short period of time. For me, it's the guys behind the podcast that maters and not so much the topic at hand. When listening to a podcast you want to be invited to their world and you trust the producers that the whole show will be interesting in terms of opinion and content. The same principle applies if you go to the movies or theatre. If they have to present every subject at the start to keep listeners hooked, then they are doing something wrong. The intro works the other way around for me. If I know that a topic that don't interest me will come up last, I will never finish the podcast. Better to keep the suspense and option for surprise throughout the whole episode. Then again, it's ECL-talk so everything should be pretty, pretty interesting to begin with. No need for the boring introduction. Just my opinion.

I like the introduction. That way I know if the podcast will even interest me. Should definitely keep it in my opinion. As for the actual podcast, regurgitating the stats and/or games played isn't very captivating to the listener. Needs some meat on the bones. Keep it up, though!

I agree on your former point but partially disagree on the latter. While the overview at the beginning is not absolutely necessary, it prepares the listener with a sense of structure that helps follow the podcast. That same principle is used in various media and is certainly not exclusive to formal contexts. Very often such a structuring introduction will be more subtle, though, and perhaps ECL Talk could learn from that to alleviate the sort of frigidity that I believe you're referring to. On the whole, I think the guys are keeping things pretty natural with a decent balance between form and the digressions of spontaneous banter.

Thank you for the feedback @Lauri! While it is true that you can face off against anyone in EASHL, we did try to highlight just how well represented the ECL players were on the regular leaderboards - once again confirming that the ECL holds most of the top players. At least, that was what we tried to show When it comes to the games played, that was what we were able to see on the screenshots - the actual leaderboard was sorted by points scored for skaters and wins for goaltenders, the standard sort when entering the leaderboards. We will hopefully get even more ECL-specific in the show as the season grows closer!

I think content this time was a bit out of the main focus because in eashl you can faceoff against any team and who has played the most isnt really that interesting (personal opinion ofc), so ill hope next time we get something more ecl related topics