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Why aren't the 2023 St Louis Rapid & Blitz and Sinquefield Cup visible under Broadcasts?

@loepare said in #14:
> Lichess wasn't a neutral platform before either. Also, we still allow all user-created broadcasts - also from STL and USCF tournaments, we just don't feature them on lichess.org/broadcast. So feel free to create your own broadcast instead of complaining about the voluntary(!) broadcast team not creating the broadcast for you.

Okay, thanks for explaining this. So Lichess broadcasts is being organized by a group of biased volunteers who will pick and choose and cherry pick whatever chess events at their personal discretion. There is absolutely no policy or governing body around this. Therefore by your own admission, Lichess is indeed not a RELIABLE source for chess broadcasts, as events can and will be cherry-picked by this group of volunteers for any reason what-so-ever.

I think as a chess community we need an unbiased and reliable source of chess broadcasts that doesn't get involved in political controversies. Lichess has already proven to be a failure as a chess broadcasting system.
@tscr said in #21:
> Okay, thanks for explaining this. So Lichess broadcasts is being organized by a group of biased volunteers who will pick and choose and cherry pick whatever chess events at their personal discretion. There is absolutely no policy or governing body around this. Therefore by your own admission, Lichess is indeed not a RELIABLE source for chess broadcasts, as events can and will be cherry-picked by this group of volunteers for any reason what-so-ever.
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> I think as a chess community we need an unbiased and reliable source of chess broadcasts that doesn't get involved in political controversies. Lichess has already proven to be a failure as a chess broadcasting system.

That is totally not what I was saying. The general policy is that the broadcast team is trying to feature every tournament for which it can get the sources. It is of course always bound to the decisions of the whole Lichess teams or the legally responsible officials at Lichess. So there is definitely a policy and governing body around this. What I was trying to point out is that you are acting as if you head a right to STL broadcasts being published by Lichess on lichess.org/broadcast, although this is just possible through a voluntary broadcast team which isn't obligated to do anything.
>I think as a chess community we need an unbiased and reliable source of chess broadcasts that doesn't get involved in political controversies. Lichess has already proven to be a failure as a chess broadcasting system.

Here is the source code to start your own site: lichess.org/source

I'm closing this topic now, since OP's question has already been answered.

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