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Mcduffs of ImbaTV and Rifkin of BaseTradeTV both rose to prominence without being part of the old boys club.
both guys scrapped fought and clawed their way to an important spot within the SC2 scene via hard work. Mcduffs has since left. Rifkin and BaseTradeTV is still going strong.
The world is never perfectly fair. The little IT Consulting business I've slowly built has 5 customers. With 4 of them i was their #2 choice. In each case i was substantially better qualified. When their #1 ordained choice guy messed up i was right there instantly providing impeccable service with my mouth shut.
Check out how Rifkin went from nuttin to a key broadcaster for SC2 events.
On March 04 2015 15:50 Yorkie wrote:
Tbh I watched your casts because I really like a lot of the Taiwanese/Chinese players. At the end of the day your commentary wasn't for me and if you're saying you followed all of Artosis's advice then I'm sorry but that's simply not true. I do however appreciate your effort to bring English content from that scene to us when nobody else would. GL in your future endeavors!
i agree.
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Idk bruh you seem quite unreasonably salty about not making it as a caster despite all your hard work. I mean, nobody is gonna doubt that you put in the work to actually cast the stuff and learn the language and all that.
But here's the thing man, I, and I'm sure many others, don't like you as a caster. You're not likable as a person, you don't have a great personality, and the way you talk/cast is just kinda idk - I can actually feel how whiny you are through your casts. Maybe if you could fix all these things you'd be better?
Also you have a kind of ratty and unwashed look, it's a real turn off knowing who the person behind the casting looks like when you look like that. Don't take this personally, okay maybe DO take it personally because how you look is very important when you want to be in the spotlight. Your haircut from the Artosis video you posted makes you look like a Backstreet Boys wannabe. Why not just dye your hair tips blonde too? Your glasses are so off-putting too. They look unclean and they are SO reflective. Why not get glasses that don't do that or find a camera angle that helps with this issue? Idk bruh your appearance speaks a lot about you as a person, I get physically uncomfortable just looking at you from the camera. Please clean yourself up man idk what's worse is that your haircut seems intentional, idek anymore.
Why's the background of your cam shot so cluttered? You have like empty drink bottles or something there and there's just SO much going on. They way you sit and your posture also makes it seem like you're just uninterested in whatever is going on, or makes it seem like you're ABOVE the conversation with Artosis.
All in all, I'm not trying to be really mean, I'm just laying down the truth (in my opinion) as to why you're never gonna make it if you don't change - you're difficult to listen to and even more difficult to look at.
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dunno man,
like if a caster/host proves they are good, draws in viewers and is popular, they deserve to get more gigs right?
unless your solution is that everyone in the SC2 community is entitled to do one cast only or it is just "the old boys club" getting further ahead?
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perhaps the greatest organization that ever existed for SC2 was NASL. Everything they did put a smile on my face and made me feel welcome. They've also been perhaps the most open-minded organization I've worked with on the planet.
I have something awkward to tell you...
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Sadly, I have absolutely no idea who you are (which may be taken as an argument supporting your concerns, or a sign of your irrelevance, my worthlessness as an e-sports fan, or a boring random fact, your pick... ) and obviously I have no insight into the inner workings of the "e-sports", so I don't know how much of the specific you said is true.
However, I would like to say that this "old boys' club" mentality or variations thereof is extremely prevalent in the contemporary society and is seen basically everywhere, from a very small tiny scale of getting along in a social group to multi-billion businesses. A lot of things now work almost exclusively on personal connections and mutual favours - it has reached the point when, particularly in America, they completely embraced it and made up this cool newspeak around it (man, I would like to punch everyone who ever says "networking" and doesn't mean TCP/IP). But also on the small scale it's so often so annoying, when you come to some activity that seems open to everyone, but there is this internal structure with unknown rules and workings ...
At least there is still the 1v1 ladder.
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On March 04 2015 14:49 Parametric wrote:
What's your degree in?
Chinese language and literature.
I don't mean to show off by any means now, but someone I would call a "member of the old boys club" in this blog messaged me. We talked a bit, me and him both being fucked - figuratively speaking - and I think now is a good time to request that this thread be locked.
Closing thoughts:
I wish I could have done something right with casting SC2. I always wanted to be an amazing caster, but I never was. I have lost passion.
I'm moving forward with League of Legends and maybe Heroes of The Storm.
This weekend I will be casting World of Tanks APAC Asia Season 3 finals.
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On March 05 2015 00:48 BreAKerTV wrote:Chinese language and literature. I don't mean to show off by any means now, but someone I would call a "member of the old boys club" in this blog messaged me. We talked a bit, me and him both being fucked - figuratively speaking - and I think now is a good time to request that this thread be locked. Closing thoughts: I wish I could have done something right with casting SC2. I always wanted to be an amazing caster, but I never was. I have lost passion. I'm moving forward with League of Legends and maybe Heroes of The Storm. This weekend I will be casting World of Tanks APAC Asia Season 3 finals.
Would you mind to reveal who that person is?
Seriously, you just got a lot of criticism. The thing to do now is probably to accept the criticism, go through it and decide what you think is relevant and right and what is irrelevant and wrong. The worst thing to do now is "I don't listen to you, my point still stands, passionlost because noone understands be, I'm off to League of Legends but I'm still relevant and awesome because I cast WoT APAC Asia Season 3 finals and I really don't want to show off in here." Sadly, that's what you're doing.
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