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Part 2: Planting the Seed

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Baldie
Profile Blog Joined June 2012
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August 08 2012 16:53 GMT
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Planting the Seed
It’s Tuesday 13th March 2012. I think to myself, “I am nobody to this industry at the moment. How can I make my mark and start my journey?” I come across a site by the name of SC2SEA.com, a site I had briefly heard about in the past. I decide I might as well start somewhere so I create an account. I spend the next week sussing out the website and eventually make my first post. “Here goes nothing” I say to myself.


Sourcing the Substance to Grow
After getting no reply from my post I quickly realise unless I make something of this I will just be another stat on the site, another number. “What’s missing in this community? How can I fast track myself?” I ask. Nothing comes to mind. Days pass and I notice a bit of resignation sink in. Then one day a gentleman by the name of sPo0k private messages me on Facebook and asks if I would like to cast a clan war between ToR (Time of Rising) and another clan having seen footage of a single cast I had done in the past. We knew each other through a Facebook page I co-ran called SASL (South Australian Starcraft League). For those of you unaware what I mean by casting, it is simply commentating as you would see in traditional sports.

I thought about the offer. “Casting. Casting? CASTING!” I said to myself. That’s it! In that instant I realised I couldn’t see any casters doing clan wars regularly. Perhaps this was my opportunity. Needless to say I took up the offer straight away. I knew I would be terrible in fact I expected to be laughed at and mocked. To put it bluntly, I was petrified. What if no one liked it? What if I made a mistake? What if this? What if that? All my fears and concerns came up but I took a deep breath, pushed them to one side and took it head on.


Building the Foundation
I can’t recall how my first official casting event went. It must have gone well otherwise I wouldn’t be where I am today. However I do recall falling in love with the ability to see and cast players exceptionally better than me, many of whom I already had a lot of respect for. Each cast brought with it new confidence, new experience and new opportunities to learn and grow.

Long story short opportunities continued to present themselves. Within two clan wars I had people private messaging me on SC2SEA.com requesting I cast their clan wars. My foundation was starting. I now knew this was my fast track. I took on every opportunity that presented itself regardless of if I thought I was worthy or not. I started to make overlays for my stream and watched international events such as the GSL and MLG religiously trying to learn casting techniques and current builds.


Growth
It’s Monday 16th April, a month after joining SC2SEA.com and I find out a weekly tournament called the “wT Weekly”, an event which attracts some of the big names in SEA and many up and comers, is being stopped. I had been searching for weeks for the next step. Constantly asking “What’s my next opportunity? How can I expand myself further?” I looked at the thread on SC2SEA.com and saw the sadness by the community for its termination. Before I knew it I was private messaging Petraeus (a New Zealand Grand Master), a previous admin to the weekly and someone I had met through a clan war between his clan at the time, wT, and SPR. My proposition went along the following lines, “I would be happy to cast this every week and admin it as well. This tournament is too important to lose.” My fears of rejection were ever present as I pressed send but they seemed to be having less grasp over me now. A few minutes later a private message pops up and reads, “Make it happen.” So I did.
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