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Mellotron
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States329 Posts
August 19 2010 09:54 GMT
#81
dApollo may be new to casting, but i think hes already pretty damn good. Casting is something that everyone has a different taste for. I really doubted i was going to like dApollo just because i like day9 so much, but i was pleasantly surprised at how easy on the ears his voice is, and he really seems to know the game pretty well. Maybe there is still room for others to constructively criticize, but it was a great relief to me to find that dApollo was a decent caster. I didnt want to sit through bad casting for those VODs. Thankfully dApollo is surprisingly decent and if he continues to cast from time to time he will only get better.
Starcraft player since 1999
Doraemon.doraemon
Profile Joined May 2010
United States335 Posts
August 19 2010 09:56 GMT
#82
they don't really have to do a 50/50 split of talking time... kinda like in nba there is a play by play guy and there is a color guy... the color guy chips in once in awhile...

i think it'd be ideal for day9 to talk 70% of the time and d_apollo the rest 30%... just my personal opinion...

but anything with day9 > any other combo!
Warri
Profile Joined May 2010
Germany3208 Posts
August 19 2010 10:35 GMT
#83
On August 19 2010 03:49 Sqq wrote:
Felt like Day9 was talking a bit down to Apollo at times, like "uhu" "yeeeeah" "uhm" "ya".

Tho they did very good. Alot better than those two clowns commenting on the Quake Live game av3k vs calipt. They basically masturbated over anything av3k did, followed him 90% of the match and gave calipt about 1 minute all together on the cast. It was a total embarrassment.

Lol he actually does that everytime he has a cocaster, no matter who it is.
aka_star
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United Kingdom1546 Posts
August 19 2010 10:36 GMT
#84
I agree with the OP it did come across awkward and hope it improves
FlashDave.999 aka Star
Sfydjklm
Profile Blog Joined April 2005
United States9218 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-19 10:37:44
August 19 2010 10:37 GMT
#85
On August 19 2010 18:56 Doraemon.doraemon wrote:
they don't really have to do a 50/50 split of talking time... kinda like in nba there is a play by play guy and there is a color guy... the color guy chips in once in awhile...

i think it'd be ideal for day9 to talk 70% of the time and d_apollo the rest 30%... just my personal opinion...

but anything with day9 > any other combo!

actually that is ideal by industry standard. As it is, day is a color commentator while dApollo is a play by play.
twitter.com/therealdhalism | "Trying out Z = lots of losses vs inferior players until you figure out how to do it well (if it even works)."- Liquid'Tyler
chocopan
Profile Joined April 2010
Japan986 Posts
August 19 2010 12:29 GMT
#86
This is repeating what other people have already said but, I think apollo is doing fine, he is obviously more nervous than Day9 but he's better than plenty of other casters, and I'm sure he will settle into it. D9 is always good but it takes some time for a pair to find their "combination play", in JapaneseEnglish hehe.

They're doing great, hang in there boiz!
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theSAiNT
Profile Joined July 2009
United States726 Posts
August 19 2010 15:08 GMT
#87
Just been watching some of today's (19th) cast. They're getting a bit better although in big battles they're still often shouting over each other. The rest of the time there's a pretty good balance. Just have to learn to contain the excitement sometimes and let the other caster speak if they've started first. Keep up the good job.
floor exercise
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
Canada5847 Posts
August 19 2010 15:13 GMT
#88
I think it's just as bad as yesterday. Day is a chatterbox, it's just what he is, he's great on his own but any cocaster is going to have to let him run the show, that's why he worked well with JP, because JP was passive and content to just get in a line or two wherever he could. Apollo is trying to cast like they are playing equal roles. There's nothing wrong with that, but Day is just not accustomed/good at it. The result is bad caster synergy. Can't blame anyone, they just don't work well together
FortuneSyn
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
1826 Posts
August 19 2010 15:23 GMT
#89
On August 20 2010 00:13 floor exercise wrote:
I think it's just as bad as yesterday. Day is a chatterbox, it's just what he is, he's great on his own but any cocaster is going to have to let him run the show, that's why he worked well with JP, because JP was passive and content to just get in a line or two wherever he could. Apollo is trying to cast like they are playing equal roles. There's nothing wrong with that, but Day is just not accustomed/good at it. The result is bad caster synergy. Can't blame anyone, they just don't work well together


this sums it up pretty well. apollo is doing fine when he's talking except minor mistakes, but both of them are trying to be the main caster.
Boonesbane
Profile Joined May 2010
United States170 Posts
August 19 2010 15:27 GMT
#90
As with most people around here, I find day[9] to be a god among men when it comes to commentating, so this commentating is working out pretty well for me. For someone who seems relatively new to commentating, certainly on this big of a scale, dApollo seems to be doing pretty well.
" good sir, you appear to be somewhat lacking in intelligence. please refrain from posting until this is remedied, since it renders your opinions slightly less than correct and has a tendency to irritate more informed forum-goers. " - Grack "idrA" Fields
aka_star
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United Kingdom1546 Posts
August 19 2010 15:28 GMT
#91
On August 20 2010 00:23 FortuneSyn wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 20 2010 00:13 floor exercise wrote:
I think it's just as bad as yesterday. Day is a chatterbox, it's just what he is, he's great on his own but any cocaster is going to have to let him run the show, that's why he worked well with JP, because JP was passive and content to just get in a line or two wherever he could. Apollo is trying to cast like they are playing equal roles. There's nothing wrong with that, but Day is just not accustomed/good at it. The result is bad caster synergy. Can't blame anyone, they just don't work well together


this sums it up pretty well. apollo is doing fine when he's talking except minor mistakes, but both of them are trying to be the main caster.


agree it might work better if they were paired with different people, together its a bit of a mess and often they will cheer and talk over one another which makes it hard to enjoy the flow of the game.
FlashDave.999 aka Star
sleepingdog
Profile Joined August 2008
Austria6145 Posts
August 19 2010 15:32 GMT
#92
I think it's just as bad as yesterday.


on some point I thought it was even worse...maybe because the games are better and both are therefore more excited (if this is even humanly possible)

one of them HAS to tune it down, otherwise the finals will be a pain
"You see....YOU SEE..." © 2010 Sen
Stuv
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Netherlands942 Posts
August 19 2010 15:34 GMT
#93
On August 20 2010 00:27 Boonesbane wrote:
As with most people around here, I find day[9] to be a god among men when it comes to commentating, so this commentating is working out pretty well for me. For someone who seems relatively new to commentating, certainly on this big of a scale, dApollo seems to be doing pretty well.

Big +1.

Day9 is God. I love seeing him in a foreign country going wild and creating a good atmosphere in the big area.

"Aint no thing."
sammler
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United Kingdom381 Posts
August 19 2010 15:47 GMT
#94
And the simple reason is that Day knows this game inside out. It's all about game/proscene knowledge. Apollo is obviously not as familiar with strats and players and so he has much less to say and therefore fills with babble.
"I wish I was good enough to be called bad by IdrA." - Moa
Donner
Profile Joined August 2010
Germany91 Posts
August 19 2010 15:49 GMT
#95
i actually like them and have nothing bad to say except day9s "aha" or "uh-hu" sounds a little bit weird it sounds like he is marking apollo
Necrosjef
Profile Joined March 2010
United Kingdom530 Posts
August 19 2010 17:10 GMT
#96
Anyone else think that Day9 looks like Apollos dad? Everytime I see them it reminds me of my 10 year old cousin and his uncle.
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eNtitY~
Profile Joined January 2007
United States1293 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-19 17:17:14
August 19 2010 17:16 GMT
#97
Apollo has to stop saying "Straight away" in every sentence.
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Full
Profile Joined April 2010
United Kingdom253 Posts
August 19 2010 17:24 GMT
#98
First day was pretty awful.

apollo was butting in a lot, looking awkward and messing up. Probably nervous.

second day he was much much better and much easier to listen to.

Day9 was just in general pretty good on both days, trying to get the crowd involved and stuff.

Overall, day1 pretty average.

Day 2 more good than bad :D


I'll put it this way, i much prefer to see d9 and apollo there over HD and Husky.
sNes.
Profile Joined June 2008
United States377 Posts
August 19 2010 17:28 GMT
#99
apollo doing a great job with calling out some good builds..he was on point with stuff and they are great on the fly commentators..would like to see this pair do some more casts..and of course..Day9 is Day9..epic epic man indeed
Heroes get remembered but Legends never die
Mylin
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Sweden177 Posts
August 19 2010 17:43 GMT
#100
I'd like to see Day9 by himself simply because he's at his best when he has to fill out everything by himself.

Apollo is sort of just in the way.
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