SHOUTcraft Invitational 4 - "Colin Smith" - Page 170

On January 16 2012 23:10 TotalBiscuit wrote:
It's a fairly pointless argument one way or the other. The tournament exists because I fund and organise it, so that also means I cast it. I certainly can't afford Tastosis as a casting duo, it would draw a ton of viewers away from our stream and mean we made much less ad revenue to fund future tournaments and let's be honest, they're not going to commentate some online tournament like that anyway. Outside of actual pro-players and Artosis, Apollo has the best analysis in the industry.

On January 16 2012 23:09 JimmyJRaynor wrote:


in Canada Medical residents are paid far more than "peanuts". but its also a lot lower than the 150K+ that even the lowest paid MDs make upon graduation

there are probably less than 100 SC2 players that make more money than a Canadian Medical School Resident.
and this is guaranteed money...
1 case of carpal tunnel syndrome or a "bad month" and an SC2 pro players salary plummets.

wrist and RSI injuries are common.

i don't know how much residents are paid in other countries but its probably pretty similar.

an anaesthesiologist can make 500K in Canada how many SC2 pros made that?

this year's graduating class of U of Toronto medical school will make more money hands down than the 100 best SC2 pros over the next 5 years.

and you get a certain kind of job satisfaction that you just can't get interacting with polygons 10 hours per day 6 days per week.

On January 16 2012 10:52 Jimmeh wrote:
Go and watch Thorzain vs Ret (I think it was Ret anyway, definitely a Zerg) on Daybreak. You miss several engagements, drops, etc. (if it's the game I'm thinking of anyway) whilst you watch this big battle in the middle when, really, that's not the main focus.

Another game, I think anyway, which I can't remember who played so I apologise, I noticed 2 hatches being sniped by drops whilst you focused on a hatchery being built.

I really don't want to be harsh. It's really nice that you've been practising and, honestly, it shows. You've certainly improved a lot. It honestly only seems to happen when there's one big engagement going on whilst a lot of tiny things (drops, etc.) happen at the same time. Also, the worst observing moments seemed to happen towards the end of the first day so, to be fair, you were probably just tired and overworked.

I can understand that casting and observing at the same time can be hard (to say the least) but if you can't observe competently whilst casting then you shouldn't be observing, especially when you have someone with you who will probably be better.

I honestly don't mean anything rude by this. You're an entertaining caster, even if you do have your faults, and you obviously put your heart and soul into your work. And I personally really appreciate it. You're very dedicated and it's nice to see someone put so much effort into something (let alone the amount of money you personally contributed towards the prize pool). I just think you should stick to what you're good at (casting) and let someone else do the observing if you're not as good as them.

EDIT: Second game I was thinking of is Thorzain vs Stephano on Daybreak, I believe, from Day 1.

EDIT2: Thorzain vs Stephano on Antiga from Day 1, sorry.

On January 17 2012 07:02 RHoudini wrote:

Nononononono, we don't want Tastosis for this tournament.
You and Apollo are doing an excellent job - the number of viewers says it all.
Looking forward to the next edition!!

On January 17 2012 08:02 betaman wrote:
So he is supposed to divert attention away from a big engagement, potentially game ending engagement, to focus on a drop that might be easily cleaned up?

It would be nice if there were say 2 observers and the 2nd one could pull up a picture in picture (PiP) when a drop is happening during a big battle or 2 drops are happening at the same time so we dont have to miss them but i imagine this would be very difficult to implement and co-ordinate on the fly so both observers arent looking at the same thing.