EG & TL to Produce English Proleague Broadcasts - Page 43

On December 26 2012 22:40 proofy wrote:
The casters for proleague are awful. Seems like kespa literally asked them in twitch chat, "Hey want a job?".

On December 26 2012 22:48 ZerglingTwins wrote:


Better than Doa plus LOL caster combo clearly, if Doa is widely praised, why are these two getting so much shit from people?

On December 26 2012 22:55 forsooth wrote:

Doa and that other guy actually know how to cast, and are good at it. The guys they've got on now have no idea what they're doing, and it shows. The fact that you even posted what you did is extremely confusing.

On December 26 2012 23:02 ZerglingTwins wrote:


Doa and the other guy know nothing about proleague, fail to recognize some very famous players, even worse than TB and Mr. Bitter combo at this aspect. Mr. Bitter knows famous players at least. And if you compare game knowledge, a noob plus a LoL casters compared to a Korean and a former progamer combo is no contest. What else can Doa combo offer? English is not an issue, since new combo are both Americans probably, at least Korean guy's family is in Jersey, don't know it is his native language or not.

On December 26 2012 23:13 floor exercise wrote:
The arguments that "it should be really good casters" don't really hold water when a guy like Tasteless can just umm and uhhh his way through a cast and generally be terrible at his job but untouchable because he has earned that right. What does this hypothetical new viewer think of him? No one seems to care, not one of the caster cabal speaking out would ever utter his name, because it's Tasteless. Why are these casters held to a standard old casters simply aren't?

On December 26 2012 23:09 forsooth wrote:

All of us who watch Proleague and know its history don't need some caster to offer us deep and insightful commentary (which the two clowns they have now don't even do) nor do we require them to recognize every single progamer the instant they appear on camera. What matters is being well spoken, being able to do good play by play, and being professional. How do you think it looks when someone unfamiliar with SC2 tunes in and hears some person constantly stuttering, enunciating poorly, randomly yelling, and generally behaving like a poorly socialized nerd on stream? Right now, that's exactly what we've got and it's terrible. Absolutely terrible. I know that a few prominent members of the community who have posted in this thread are trying to be diplomatic about it, but I can't be bothered when the casting is this bad. It's honestly a joke.

On December 26 2012 23:02 Blind Io wrote:
I would personally love to see Jorosar casting Proleague, I think he's worked hard and paid his dues. IMO he did an great job at Dreamhack (even tweet casting the game when the stream went down) and at IEM. He is strides ahead of whiplash and SNM in both hype/personality and game knowledge/analysis, plus he has no other contractual commitments with any other events.

On December 26 2012 19:39 Waxangel wrote:
so apparently there's a terrible-casters guild that agrees not to criticize each other, but gangs up on newcomers

alright, so that's exaggerating somewhat - inc and husky have improved a lot since NASL S1 and the SC2 beta days, respectively. But I can't be the only one who finds the act of holding PL up on some pedestal in order to take down two newcomers somewhat distasteful and hypocritical. All the polite language in the world doesn't mask that.

On December 26 2012 23:13 floor exercise wrote:
The arguments that "it should be really good casters" don't really hold water when a guy like Tasteless can just umm and uhhh his way through a cast and generally be terrible at his job but untouchable because he has earned that right. What does this hypothetical new viewer think of him? No one seems to care, not one of the caster cabal speaking out would ever utter his name, because it's Tasteless. Why are these casters held to a standard old casters simply aren't?

On December 27 2012 01:27 Lukeeze[zR] wrote:
As far as I'm concerned, I'm ok with SNM and whiplash. They will only improve meanwhile online cast is very limited and has very few margin of improvement. Plus I don't mind hearing new voices, the more people the better for the industry. I understand Inc&Co are jelly and are trying to defend what used to be their oligopoly, but having only a couple of "proven" casters is not good in the long term, the more competition the better for the fans. If SNM and whiplash end up being not good enough at the end of PL, they will be naturally fired and replaced by other ones who are willing to move to seoul. If you think PL is the holy league, you can not ask for online cast because it's simply bad.

On December 27 2012 00:49 Zenbrez wrote:

You probably are the only one tbh.