EPTI think it's high time our good friend dApollo gets his own fanclub for his utter awesomeness at casting!
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Just the facts, mam:
- Full name: Shaun "dApollo" Clark.
- A member of Team Dignitas since 2007, for whom he has played multiple RTS games, most notably playing Command and Conquer: Tiberium Wars at the highest level, winning the World Cyber Games 2007.
- Started playing our beloved Starcraft II from the beta on. Though a formidable player, he sadly never won a tournament.
- Got into casting when living in Korea with Tasteless. Since then, dApollo has casted the following major events in SC2:
* IEM Cologne 2010 alongside Day(9)
* DreamHack Winter 2010 alongside Day(9)
* The SHOUTcraft Invitationals #2 and #3 alongside TotalBiscuit
* Assembly Summer 2011 alongside TotalBiscuit
* DreamHack Stockholm Invitational alongside DeMuslim
* DreamHack Summer 2011 alongside Day(9)
* Multiplay UK i40, i41, i43 and i44 alongside TotalBiscuit.
* 2011 DreamHackValencia Invitational alongside TotalBiscuit
* SCAN Invitational 1 through 4 tournament alongside TotalBiscuit
* IGN Pro League 3 alongside DJWheat (In rotation with two other caster duos)
* Grubbys Pro Invitational #3 alongside 2GD
* ASUS ROG Stars Invite alongside TotalBiscuit
* Dreamhack Winter 2011 alongside Totalbiscuit, Artosis, Tasteless, Day9 and MrBitters
* 2012 DreamHack Open/Stockholm with Wolf, Incontrol and Semmler
* MLG Spring Arena 2 with TotalBiscuit, djWHEAT, Wolf, Rob Simpson, and itmeJP
* The GD Arena Starcraft 2 tournaments with Semmler and 2GD
* The ASUS ROG 2012 Summer with TLO
* The International stream for the Iron Squid Tournament with TotalBiscuit
- Is living in the GDStudio together with 2GD, Semmler, Trance and Skrff. (Link)
- Is British, which automatically provides him with stunningly good looks.
- "Has a strong attraction to beer and other drinks." (Liquipedia) Any further comment necessary? I think not!
- Stream located at http://www.teamliquid.net/video/streams/d.Apollo
So what makes his casting so good? In my opinion, dApollo is one of the most analytical casters out there. Coming from a progamer background means that he is able to quickly analyse games as they unfold. Perhaps most impressively, dApollo has an immense knowledge of just about ANY high level Starcraft II player. This has given him the uncanny ability to predict the strategies coming out of players right at the start of any match. I have seen no other caster who has been so consistently spot-on in his predictions. TotalBiscuit weighs in:
On October 09 2011 21:47 TotalBiscuit wrote:
You can sign me up for this one. Very, very serious about his work, researches all the time, has a big notebook full of stuff, talks to the players on a regular basis about their strategies, coaches and plays random in Masters so is up to date on the metagame and knows timings better than any other caster in Europe. Hope to cast many more events with him, he is the perfect analyst.
You can sign me up for this one. Very, very serious about his work, researches all the time, has a big notebook full of stuff, talks to the players on a regular basis about their strategies, coaches and plays random in Masters so is up to date on the metagame and knows timings better than any other caster in Europe. Hope to cast many more events with him, he is the perfect analyst.
Interviews:
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http://www.team-dignitas.net/articles/news/Interview/615/Interview-with-Apollo/
http://esportspogdi.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/to-have-the-pleasure-of-commentating-the-best-players-in-the-world-is-a-complete-honour-dapollo/
http://technorati.com/entertainment/gaming/article/an-interview-with-shaun-clark-aka/
And some links:
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signed up fans (If you signed up and don't find your name on this list after a few days, write me a pm. I try to update this list as often as possible, but I may always miss the odd name or two :o)
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Total: 135
* KinQuh
* MrLOST
* OrchidThief
* MGN
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* TotalBiscuit
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