Follow and Alerts

Great casting is planned, not improvised. The single biggest problem a caster has is not calling the game, it is knowing what to call and when. Braket solves that with follows and alerts: subscribe to the tournaments and players you care about, opt into notifications, and let the platform tell you ahead of time what is worth covering. You show up prepared, and you never miss a live match again.

Following a tournament

On any tournament page, when you are signed in, there is a follow control near the title: a 🔕 Follow button that becomes a 🔔 Following button once you are subscribed. Click it and you are following that tournament. Click again to unfollow.

Following a tournament plugs you into its schedule and its live moments. It is the right move for any event you plan to cover, or any event you just want to keep an eye on to decide whether to cover it.

Following a player

Casting is often about people, not just brackets: the rising star, the reigning champion, the rivalry everyone wants to see. On any player's profile page you will find a follow control: 🔕 Follow player, which flips to 🔔 Following once you subscribe. Follow the players whose matches you want to catch, and follow the ones whose personal streams you want to know about.

Following a player does two things for you. It puts you in line for match alerts around that player, and, crucially, it lets Braket ping you when that player starts streaming on their own Twitch (more on that below).

The alerts you can get

Alerts are delivered as web push notifications through Braket's installable app (the PWA), so they reach you on your phone or desktop even when you do not have the site open. They are opt-in and they come in three flavors, each timed to a different moment in a match's life:

1. Upcoming match, with lead time

Braket watches for matches whose scheduled window is about to open, and pings the tournament's followers ahead of time (roughly a thirty-minute heads-up before the window opens). This is your planning alert: it tells you a match you might want to cast is coming up soon, while there is still time to claim it, set up your stream, and get ready. The notification names the tournament and the two players so you know exactly what is on deck. Each upcoming match fires this once, so you get a clean heads-up and not a stream of repeats.

2. Match went LIVE

The moment both players ready up and their match actually goes live, Braket pings the tournament's followers. This is the "never miss a cast" alert: the match is happening right now, so if you are covering it, get your stream up and start playback of the recording as it becomes available — near-live segments while the match runs where the game supports them, or the full replay right after it ends; if you have not claimed it, this is your last call. The two players in the match are naturally excluded from this particular ping (they already know, they are the ones playing).

3. A followed player went live on Twitch

Braket continuously checks whether the players you follow have gone live on their own Twitch channels. On the rising edge, the moment a followed player starts streaming, it pings you with a link straight to their channel. This is gold for a caster: if a top player fires up their stream, you know instantly, and you can decide to co-stream, react, or plan coverage around them. The alert links directly to twitch.tv/theirchannel.

Turning it into a coverage plan

Put these together and you have a genuine production pipeline instead of a guessing game:

• Follow the tournaments you want to broadcast. You will get the thirty-minute lead-time pings before windows open and the go-live pings when matches start.
• Follow the players who draw an audience. You will know the instant they are streaming and can catch their matches as they come up.
• Opt into push in the app. Enable notifications on the My matches page so the alerts actually reach you. Then let the schedule come to you.

The whole point is that you never sit refreshing a bracket hoping to catch a match at the right second. Braket tells you a match is coming, tells you when it starts, and tells you when your favorite player goes live, all with enough lead time to claim the match, line up your stream, and be ready to call the first play the moment the game goes live.