Just to add, and thank you for all the views, the added complexity here is that Leigh and I might be trying to do a live update or a feed or both..we try to do both...but often admin and organisational stuff gets in the way of being able to give a live update, in particular, full attention. This is especially the case during alternates periods, when side events hit finals/start and towards the end of Day 1.
So its not quite as simple as "One on the feed, one on the update" with the fantastic volunteers doing what they can do around that.
Really the whole issue, over and above cost and providing content that viewers and players want to see, is about the resource we dedicate to live events and what the prioirities are.
It was a simpler world with Live Updates Only, but not necessarily better...once the live feed genie is out of the bottle its not easy to say "right, updates only again"!
I look at the parallel with say AWOP at GUKPTs who have two people full time on the live update (one writing, one photos) and another two full time on the feed (commentator and cameraman/mixing desk) and think they do a pretty good job...but they aren"t helping run the event too.
So these are the issues at hand anyway....certainly to be addressed for Season 5.
