Welcome, Caster

So you want to call the shots, hype the plays, and turn somebody else's tournament into a show. You are in the right place. Braket was built to be Steam-native and Twitch-friendly, and casting is not an afterthought bolted onto the side: it is a first-class role that runs straight through the platform, from the match card to the network directory on braket.gg.

This guide is for casters, streamers, and observers. Read it end to end and you will know every lever you can pull: claiming a match, going live on Twitch, following players so you never miss a moment, appearing in the network caster directory, and casting the biggest event Braket runs, the All-Stars. None of it costs you anything. All of it is designed to send viewers, and credit, back to you.

What "casting on Braket" actually means

Braket organizes matches as scheduled windows between two players. Somebody has to be the third voice in the room: the person who watches the match, explains what is happening, and streams the commentary to an audience. That is you.

Under the hood, watching a Braket match means playing back its recording. Every integrated game uploads a replay of the match to Braket — after it ends, and, where the game supports it, as near-live segments while it is still running, so you can trail the action by only a short delay. You cast from that recording: click the ▶️ Watch replay button on the match card (a steam:// link that launches the game straight into playback) or open the replay from the game's own browser, and commentate over what you see. There is no fragile in-game spectator seat to coordinate, no dependence on being online at the exact right minute, and hidden information (the players' hands) is release-gated by the tournament's delay policy, so stream sniping is blunted by design. Where the game supports caster-hosted sessions, a trusted neutral caster can additionally host the match themselves and stream their own live view. Braket does not relay any video either way; the game handles playback, and your broadcast is yours.

What Braket adds is the tournament-facing layer around it. That is the part you interact with:

• Caster identity. Braket records who is casting which match, shows it on the match card, and puts your Steam persona and avatar next to it for everyone to see.
• The stream pointer. You paste where you are streaming (your Twitch channel, typically) and Braket shows viewers a "Watch the stream" link straight to you.
• Live state. When you link your Twitch channel, Braket detects when you go live and stamps a 🔴 LIVE badge on the match, so viewers browsing the bracket can jump straight into your stream.
• Discovery and planning. Follows, alerts, a casters board, and a network-wide caster directory so you can plan coverage ahead of time and get found.

In short: the game replays the match for you, and Braket tells the world you are the one covering it and where to tune in.

Why it is worth your time

Community casters are how a bracket becomes content. A tournament with no caster is a results table. A tournament with a caster is a broadcast: highlights, rivalries, a story arc from the group stage to the final. That content is exactly what grows an arena, and it is exactly what grows you.

Braket is deliberately built so the value flows back to you, not away from you:

• No re-streaming, ever. Braket never rehosts your video or wraps it in its own player. The 🔴 LIVE badge and the "Watch the stream" link both point out to twitch.tv/yourchannel. Every viewer Braket sends becomes a viewer on your channel, following your account, subscribing to you.
• You get found where it matters. Your cast shows up on the match card, on the tournament's casters board, and, if you opt into the network, in the braket.gg caster directory alongside every other caster and every arena you have covered.
• You can plan instead of react. Follow the tournaments and players you care about, opt into alerts, and Braket pings you before a window opens, the moment a match goes live, and when a player you follow starts streaming. You show up prepared, not scrambling.
• It scales past one game. Because casting is a network feature, the reputation you build casting one arena travels with you to the next. When Braket runs its cross-game All-Stars championship, casters are part of the show.

The rest of this guide walks through each of these in detail. Start with claiming your first match, then link Twitch, then set up follows and alerts so the tournaments come to you.