I'm going to cast Starcraft 2! Not that I haven't already, in fact so far, I've already got almost 2 and a half hours worth of content online, but alas, I'm getting ahead of myself. Hey TL, this is Sata here, finally giving back to the community that I've lurked in for oh so long.

A brief history of my current position. After seeing the link to CSL's new casting call, I decided to try my hand at casting, seeing as how I love watching Starcraft 2, and love to hear myself speak. After performing terribly for the first couple of takes, I finally started to get the hang of things and found myself really enjoying the work I was doing, commentating some great play and giving back to the community. While I may have a grand total of some 20 views, now, thats still a great number, and even if only ten people watch some of my videos, I'd be happy.

So far, I've just been following the replays and brackets from CSL's (just completed) season 5 games, as they're readily available, high level play that follows a relatively straight track. If I do manage to become the official CSL caster, I will continue to cast those games, if not, I'll probably jump around and cast whatever replays I can get my hands on, because I particularly enjoy casting right now.

For those who are interested in a new caster, check out my youtube page which has my games (shameless self promotion) at

youtube.com/satallgeese

For anyone else who wants to know how I got into casting, it was as simple as acquiring Fraps, setting it to capture at 30 frames per second, recording the games and recording my talking, before using VideoPad Video Editor (which autoconverts the raw AVI's from fraps into something manageable) to combine all the parts and just uploading them to youtube. 1080p, however, takes ages to convert into a manageable size and even longer to convert to a complete video, so the hardest part of casting so far is only managing the computer to convert and combine all the files before uploading. A single 25 minute game can take nearly two to three hours of conversions before its finally ready for the hour upload to youtube (nearly 3 hours for a 25 minute long video). I am, however, uncompromising my 1080p, because the viewers deserve only the best, at no expense.

If anyone would be so kind, I would really love some criticism towards my casting abilities, I know I've been told for my first series (UCSD v UCR) that I am a bit emotionless but I tried to fix that in UW v UCB, and I definitely know that UW v UCR is my best series I've casted so far, I had alot of fun with those games.

Thanks Teamliquid, I'll see you guys on the cast!