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chickensmasher
Canada57 Posts
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xtfftc
United Kingdom2343 Posts
On May 13 2011 20:19 Darksidius wrote: He is right, IdrA isn't a technically good caster. But, his understanding of the game is fantastic, he isn't afraid to use his knowledge to speak out against plays or players, add some occasional BM and you have one of my favorite casters. Meh... Yes and no. TB is pushing it a bit too far. Yeah, a Silver or Bronze player might still be excited for 10 minutes after the game is practically over but I doubt it. After watching several games, especially with the same caster, it is not hard to notice when excitement is genuine and when it isn't. But even if unexperienced viewers stay excited, does that mean that viewers with more knowledge of the game should just mute the stream for a while in order not to get bored to death? There needs to be more balance. Considering that for now the casters are the ones who have to fill-in the time between games and provide the post-game analysis as well, if they start with the analysis way to early it is likely that they would run out of things to say - especially with the ammount of games that are being broadcasted every day. But when there is nothing else to be said, sometimes it might be a good idea to actually stop talking as much. This may sound like blasphemy but again, it happens all the time in sports broadcasting - the commentators would often slow down, make pauses, only acknowledging the occasional good pass (micro) and so on. However, for now it seems that SC casters feel obliged to talk all the time, which hurts the quality of the cast in my opinion. | ||
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hyped
United States135 Posts
It didn't hit me till waaaay later (I was thinking about it as I prepared my breakfast) and I'm still not sure if it was intended to be a joke or not--what do you guys think? | ||
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blackone
Germany1314 Posts
On May 13 2011 23:01 xtfftc wrote: Meh... Yes and no. TB is pushing it a bit too far. Yeah, a Silver or Bronze player might still be excited for 10 minutes after the game is practically over but I doubt it. After watching several games, especially with the same caster, it is not hard to notice when excitement is genuine and when it isn't. Yea, I think his opinion is very strange, especially since he uses sports commentating analogies all the time. If a soccer game is at 6-0 10 minutes before it's over, no commentator in the world would try to hide the fact that this game is totally over. | ||
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RM_12
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Djzapz
Canada10681 Posts
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zoN-
Sweden46 Posts
This is just golden! <3 idra | ||
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MountainGoat
United States507 Posts
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xtfftc
United Kingdom2343 Posts
Comming up next: fighting errupts between rival supporters during an Idra vs <insert random cheesy scrub here> match at MLG: Columbus. :D I'm definitely going to adapt some football chants for the next LAN even I attend. On May 14 2011 00:31 RM_12 wrote: Thanks to xtfftc for updating the OP Oh you <3 | ||
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TheSubtleArt
Canada2527 Posts
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walklightwhat
Australia752 Posts
On May 14 2011 01:14 TheSubtleArt wrote: Idra isn't a good caster by any means, and he would certainly fail is he tried to cast alone. He's an analytical caster, but requires someone alongside him to add energy and makes things interesting. I felt the incontrol / idra combo worked really well yesterday, and preferred it more than gretorp / idra. Incontrol is good at improvising, adding energy to a cast, and in general making anything interesting or finding something to talk about during dead time. That's when Idra can do what he's really good at (offering amazing analysis on a game) without having to fulfill a role he's not that good at. Yep, the Incontrol/Idra and Wheat/Idra were really good casting tandems. And, ironically perhaps, Idra and Totalbiscuit would probably make a ridiculously good casting tandem. | ||
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progeny
Sweden43 Posts
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decaf
Austria1797 Posts
On May 13 2011 12:21 Euclid wrote: ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/d020Y.png) fuck man, idra you're awesome | ||
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isleyofthenorth
Austria894 Posts
must have missed it. he shat on cruncher? :D | ||
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OrchidThief
Denmark2298 Posts
On May 14 2011 01:21 walklightwhat wrote: Yep, the Incontrol/Idra and Wheat/Idra were really good casting tandems. And, ironically perhaps, Idra and Totalbiscuit would probably make a ridiculously good casting tandem. I doubt it, even with Idra by his side he'd still be clueless. Unlike djwheat and incontrol that knows what's going on. Totalbiscuit is probably an ok caster, just not a very good sc2 caster. | ||
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Warrice
United States565 Posts
On May 14 2011 01:44 OrchidThief wrote: I doubt it, even with Idra by his side he'd still be clueless. Unlike incontrol that knows what's going on. Totalbiscuit is probably an ok caster, just not a very good sc2 caster. fixed | ||
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GreggSauce
United States566 Posts
i thought idra did a great job, and i enjoyed his opinions, but i'm in his fan club so thats probably expected hahaha. "crunchers some fat kid I met in the elevator and had no idea who he was" haha, that was classic. i enjoy his very very blunt analysis* of players, strategies, and races. | ||
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Nagano
United States1157 Posts
On May 13 2011 12:21 Euclid wrote: Are they not disappointed in cruncher's trollbaiting of idra? Does complexity believe Cruncher really had no part in this? It takes two to tango, guys. While cruncher's approach is more conspicuous than Idra's, he's been trying really hard the past month or two to get a huge rise out of idra, from "  " to stream sniping, inevitably resulting in an idra comment and ban. "Badmannered"?, yes. "Uncalled for"? Really? | ||
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integrity
United States1014 Posts
regarding TB's post: one thing i notice last night about idrA casting is his ability to call players moves much better than other. so i would say yes, idrA is a great caster! i think it is a little rude of TB to call idrA a bad caster tho. | ||
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Jinsho
United Kingdom3101 Posts
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