Long-form tournament editor

What the tournament was

The video covers a 3v3 Minecraft PvP tournament I ran and recorded — sixteen teams fighting through a bracket across a rotating set of custom arenas, with the whole event captured as Flashback replays and every team's voice chat recorded. The job is turning all of that into one story. A few of the arenas:

The video: The first KnavishMantis Minecraft tournament video — a long-form edit of a 3v3 event, and the first of a planned series in the same style.
Length: A broad target of 25–45 minutes for the final video.
Source footage: Flashback replay files of the whole event, per-player voice-chat MP3s that line up to the replay by UTC timestamp, and a Python-rendered bracket/stats graphic you'll be given to display and animate.
The work: Cut the long-form video, sync the player audio to the replay, display the bracket and data cleanly, and — the hard part — build the story and narrative out of raw multi-POV footage.
Style: I may push a distinctive, non-generic style.
Narration: Depending on the style we settle on, you might write a script for me to narrate — the writing would be your responsibility.
Timeline: About 3 weeks from hire. (I'll wait for my channel to be monetized before posting the final video, so there isn't a time rush.)
Pay: $1000–4000 for video editing.
Ongoing: One video for now, but I may do more tournaments in the same style.
The bar: I need someone with proven experience and skill who can work more or less independently from my initial instructions and style suggestions.

My own attempts

I tried to edit this myself, twice. All my experience is in shorts, and long-form didn't go well.

One of the 15 fights, edited by me — use it to gauge the scope and length of a single fight. But I made it boring: I over-narrated and over-analyzed it instead of letting the fight footage and the teams' Discord audio carry it.

The bracket. I rendered this in Python — it doesn't have to be Python, but you'll need some way to produce the equivalent.

The gather phase — every team's movement across the map during resource collection.

The gather data — I have what every team collected, down to a team's exact inventory at any point in the phase (e.g. what inventory rank team 14 held 30 minutes in). You get all of it after I send the files.

What to call youGmailDiscord usernameWhat you'd want for this video

Your best long-form edits

Especially tournament/competition, narrative-driven, or motion-graphics-heavy work. One is enough if it's the right one.

Link the one long-form video you've edited that's closest to this job. Tell me exactly what YOU did on it, what was the hardest part, and what you built yourself.I may go for a genuinely distinctive style, not the default gaming-montage look. Link something you've made that has a style of its own, and tell me what drove those choices.I have Flashback recordings of the whole tournament and separate MP3 audio of every team. Given the Flashback recordings, how would you go about adding each team's audio to the fights? (Hint: I have UTC timestamps for the start and end of both the Flashback recordings and the Discord audio.)Given everything above, how long would this take you end to end, and how would the time break down?

Long-form tournament editor

What the tournament was

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My own attempts