About

Q: What is this site?

This is a fan site made to track entrants at BarbarousKing Marbles-On-Stream event.

Q: Hmm.. how does it work?

To make a long story short, the server is reading the usernames on screen. It's not perfect, but it does a lot.

To make a short story long, there's no API and there's a lot of code to scrape and track usernames behind chat and around face-cams. Streamlink gets the stream, my code binarizes and tracks the usernames and Tesseract OCR gets the text (best it can.)

Q: Ok but how accurate? Am I in or not?

It's hard to say because every Marbles is different, but generally it's 98% accurate (match to closest username, not per letter) and misses ~20 names through edge cases.

Here are the one's I know & am trying to resolve.

• Early Names hidden by an alert [Not resolvable]
• Bitrate making names unreadable [Gotta guess on this]
• Names with many underscores i.e Near_________ are sometimes missed by OCR
• Barcode names i.e Il1lI1l are unreadable to the OCR
• Any overlay that obscures a name while it's on screen

Q: So with all this work; you must know the secret of getting into marbles?

Uhhhh... So the short answer is:

1. Be Early and chat right after the loading screen completes
2. Type !play or !PLAY or !Play or !play # (# can be any single number)
3. Hope the RNG gods smile on you!

The technical explaination is: your chat goes to the Twitch IRC servers which is then downloaded onto Barb's machine. However due to the massive amount of messages sent during Marbles, the messages no longer arrive in order. So generally your message will make it in, but when I have no clue when if it's based on lag to the streamer, ordered, random, etc.

Q: I'm not in, so the website must be bugged. Who do I talk to?

Just ping @MiloticMaster in Barb's discord or in the #rats-nest.

Thanks for using this! barbLove

Improvements 0.3.1:

• Increased check FPS from 10 to 30.
• Username movement is now tracked, so server can smartly check unknown usernames and keep track of ALL users even if only 4 are visible.
• Added tracker for better feedback.
• Many back-end improvments.

Improvements 0.2.2:

• Fixed bug with username search.
• Increased avg accuracy to 98%.
• Added lag from LIVE.

Improvements:

• Number of users is more accurate (now ±30 users).
• Fixed placeholder for user input.
• Username search is slightly more accurate.