Introducing WardiTV 2020 - the largest event ever by WardiTV. Designed to bring you a high quality online tournament where players can play for big prizes in a tournament that doesn't drag itself out. Four qualifiers, six groups and one playoff bracket all played between January 21st and February 2nd with $7000 to be won.
This event is fully sponsored by viewer & fan irvnasty. Thank you.
Groups are 4 player dual-elimination with BO5 matches. Top 2 players advance to a 12 player single-elimination bracket.The 2 players with the best map scores from each region are seeded into the RO8.
Group A (KR) - Sunday, Jan 26 11:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) Trap vs Impact | Solar vs Dream
Ro12 - Friday, Jan 31 11:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) RO12 matches will be kept to EU Server/KR Server only. Mixed server matches should start in the RO8. Ro8 - Saturday, Feb 01 11:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) Finals Day - Sunday, Feb 02 11:00am GMT (GMT+00:00)
All dates are providing no scheduling conflicts with events that are still yet to be announced.
$6,000 is distributed across the top 12 players of the main event.
Guys, I’m irvnasty, and I’ve provided the financial support to make this event possible. This post is a little lengthy, but I wanted to give a little background, so bear with me.
Firstly, I want to thank Wardi for his hard work bringing this to fruition. He has been extremely responsive from day one, and his suggestions and guidance in how to approach this have really made him a joy to work with. I have every confidence that he will make this tournament live up to my hopes and expectations and yours. I’m sure all will agree that Wardi personifies passion and commitment to our scene, and I believe that his casting shows unrivaled professionalism in keeping focus where it belongs—on Starcraft, the players themselves, and the decisions they make that create such rich and compelling gameplay.
Secondly, I want to thank ZombieGrub for agreeing to join as co-caster for the event’s knockout stages over the final three days. ZombieGrub’s outstanding game knowledge is supplanted only by her gift for expressing clearly and accessibly the things that she sees developing in the game as they happen.
While our scene is blessed with many great casters, for me Wardi and ZombieGrub are somewhat of a dream team in that I have been enjoying their work casting on Twitch day after day and night after night for years. I feel that I have been along for the ride as each of them has grown into his or her place in the scene. I have long felt that each of them is deserving of more opportunities to cast live events, and I am certain that they will demonstrate that they belong at the mic even as the very best players in the world are at the keyboard. It would gratify me deeply if this event were to blossom into more and similar opportunities for each of them in the future.
I certainly also want to thank the players who will choose to participate. We know that you are busy, and we have tried to put together a format and prize pool, in both the main event and the qualifiers, that will justify your participation and reward you for your success. Likewise, we’ve tried to schedule the event in such a way that it will avoid conflicts and allow your love of competition to prevail. My fingers are crossed that even the biggest names in Starcraft will recognize the benefit of growing grassroots community tournaments to support the future of the game and will consider taking part.
On January 05 2020 04:19 irvnasty wrote: Guys, I’m irvnasty, and I’ve provided the financial support to make this event possible. This post is a little lengthy, but I wanted to give a little background, so bear with me.
Firstly, I want to thank Wardi for his hard work bringing this to fruition. He has been extremely responsive from day one, and his suggestions and guidance in how to approach this have really made him a joy to work with. I have every confidence that he will make this tournament live up to my hopes and expectations and yours. I’m sure all will agree that Wardi personifies passion and commitment to our scene, and I believe that his casting shows unrivaled professionalism in keeping focus where it belongs—on Starcraft, the players themselves, and the decisions they make that create such rich and compelling gameplay.
Secondly, I want to thank ZombieGrub for agreeing to join as co-caster for the event’s knockout stages over the final three days. ZombieGrub’s outstanding game knowledge is supplanted only by her gift for expressing clearly and accessibly the things that she sees developing in the game as they happen.
While our scene is blessed with many great casters, for me Wardi and ZombieGrub are somewhat of a dream team in that I have been enjoying their work casting on Twitch day after day and night after night for years. I feel that I have been along for the ride as each of them has grown into his or her place in the scene. I have long felt that each of them is deserving of more opportunities to cast live events, and I am certain that they will demonstrate that they belong at the mic even as the very best players in the world are at the keyboard. It would gratify me deeply if this event were to blossom into more and similar opportunities for each of them in the future.
I certainly also want to thank the players who will choose to participate. We know that you are busy, and we have tried to put together a format and prize pool, in both the main event and the qualifiers, that will justify your participation and reward you for your success. Likewise, we’ve tried to schedule the event in such a way that it will avoid conflicts and allow your love of competition to prevail. My fingers are crossed that even the biggest names in Starcraft will recognize the benefit of growing grassroots community tournaments to support the future of the game and will consider taking part.
Thank you so much for such an unbelievable gift to the scene! I can't express how much this means. Highly approve of ZG as a co-caster too. This is going to be awesome, I can't wait to play in it!
On January 05 2020 05:59 Silky wrote: No NA server quals? T_T
Think EU stands more for foreigner then it does EU, as I'm guessing every player not living in Korea can participate in the EU qualifiers. That or it's related to what server it will be played on.
On January 05 2020 04:19 irvnasty wrote: Guys, I’m irvnasty, and I’ve provided the financial support to make this event possible. This post is a little lengthy, but I wanted to give a little background, so bear with me.
Firstly, I want to thank Wardi for his hard work bringing this to fruition. He has been extremely responsive from day one, and his suggestions and guidance in how to approach this have really made him a joy to work with. I have every confidence that he will make this tournament live up to my hopes and expectations and yours. I’m sure all will agree that Wardi personifies passion and commitment to our scene, and I believe that his casting shows unrivaled professionalism in keeping focus where it belongs—on Starcraft, the players themselves, and the decisions they make that create such rich and compelling gameplay.
Secondly, I want to thank ZombieGrub for agreeing to join as co-caster for the event’s knockout stages over the final three days. ZombieGrub’s outstanding game knowledge is supplanted only by her gift for expressing clearly and accessibly the things that she sees developing in the game as they happen.
While our scene is blessed with many great casters, for me Wardi and ZombieGrub are somewhat of a dream team in that I have been enjoying their work casting on Twitch day after day and night after night for years. I feel that I have been along for the ride as each of them has grown into his or her place in the scene. I have long felt that each of them is deserving of more opportunities to cast live events, and I am certain that they will demonstrate that they belong at the mic even as the very best players in the world are at the keyboard. It would gratify me deeply if this event were to blossom into more and similar opportunities for each of them in the future.
I certainly also want to thank the players who will choose to participate. We know that you are busy, and we have tried to put together a format and prize pool, in both the main event and the qualifiers, that will justify your participation and reward you for your success. Likewise, we’ve tried to schedule the event in such a way that it will avoid conflicts and allow your love of competition to prevail. My fingers are crossed that even the biggest names in Starcraft will recognize the benefit of growing grassroots community tournaments to support the future of the game and will consider taking part.
Huge thank-you. Irvnasty saving e-sports. I'm excited for this event!
On January 05 2020 05:59 Silky wrote: No NA server quals? T_T
Think EU stands more for foreigner then it does EU, as I'm guessing every player not living in Korea can participate in the EU qualifiers. That or it's related to what server it will be played on.
I'll add this, since Wardi is far too classy to do it himself:
If you are excited about this event, please do what you can to spread the word, and consider supporting the stream. Everyone's financial circumstances are his own, but the cost of a film or a meal or even just a cup of coffee, when scaled to the thousands of discrete viewers who may tune in, will go a long way to supporting future events or drawing the attention of prospective sponsors.
Great tournament format, great casting team, Wardi's commitment to the scene and ability to contribute to it just gets bigger and better and Irvnasty is a bloody legend!
This is awesome~! Thanks Irvnasty for the finical support of the event. Wardi and ZG together are going to kill it I can't wait to tune in to watch. This really is a great way to kick off the 10th anniversary year of Sc2~!
On January 25 2020 23:26 Harris1st wrote: Serral declined? Pity :/
Would ve been the suprise of the year, if he accepted ( The last online tournament I remember hin play is ultimate Series or something like that a couple of weeks before BlizzCon 2018..
Line-up is great. If I had the choice though I'd swap around a few players in the Korean groups because for example Cure vs Zest is just such a common online face-off at this point and TY and Special played each other in a qualifying match yesterday.
On January 26 2020 05:14 Elentos wrote: Line-up is great. If I had the choice though I'd swap around a few players in the Korean groups because for example Cure vs Zest is just such a common online face-off at this point and TY and Special played each other in a qualifying match yesterday.
Scheduling was a bit of a challenge due to the upcoming lunar new year and EU ESL on Sunday. Wardi had to do a lot of work to fulfill my desire that every initial group had one player from each race. After that, the opening match-ups are mostly 1v4 and 2v3 based upon aligulac rankings to follow a consistent system. The only deviation from that was necessary due to another scheduling conflict.
Considering the complications of organizing 24 players from all around the world over the course of a week, I think Wardi has done a tremendous job of putting together not just a great field overall, but groups that will be very difficult to predict from day one!
On January 26 2020 05:14 Elentos wrote: Line-up is great. If I had the choice though I'd swap around a few players in the Korean groups because for example Cure vs Zest is just such a common online face-off at this point and TY and Special played each other in a qualifying match yesterday.
Scheduling was a bit of a challenge due to the upcoming lunar new year and EU ESL on Sunday. Wardi had to do a lot of work to fulfill my desire that every initial group had one player from each race. After that, the opening match-ups are mostly 1v4 and 2v3 based upon aligulac rankings to follow a consistent system. The only deviation from that was necessary due to another scheduling conflict.
Considering the complications of organizing 24 players from all around the world over the course of a week, I think Wardi has done a tremendous job of putting together not just a great field overall, but groups that will be very difficult to predict from day one!
On January 27 2020 00:19 Elentos wrote: For the purposes of players getting seeded straight to the Ro8, is it safe to assume that 8-3 is not considered better than 6-2?
It'll be seeded by 1st place map scores. If you advanced in 2nd you will go to the ro12 guaranteed.
On January 27 2020 03:40 Elentos wrote: Makes sense. So then the follow-up question is would a tie between the 3 first place players be resolved by bo1 tie breakers?
Yeah, if the seeding difference is the difference between prize money boundaries, BO1 tiebreaker. If the seeding difference is are you Seed #1 or Seed #2 into the RO8 (or in RO12) from your region, its just a coinflip
On January 28 2020 01:05 Elentos wrote: I don't think anything in this match is normal but it sure is hilarious.
Not after that game gotta be honest.
I liked how it looked a bit like that Starcraft Masters arcade game for a while
On January 28 2020 01:12 Elentos wrote: This is gonna be another one of those TY matches that should have been a 3-0 but is actually a loss somehow isn't it?
On January 27 2020 03:40 Elentos wrote: Makes sense. So then the follow-up question is would a tie between the 3 first place players be resolved by bo1 tie breakers?
Yeah, if the seeding difference is the difference between prize money boundaries, BO1 tiebreaker. If the seeding difference is are you Seed #1 or Seed #2 into the RO8 (or in RO12) from your region, its just a coinflip
Slight correction to this, if it's tied map-score then our first tiebreaker rule will be map score in the final match you played (so in the Winners Match). If this is also equal, then a BO1 tiebreaker.
I wonder if Polt might have a shot against Reynor. On paper he doesn't, but Polt managed to beat Elazer at IEM qualifiers (I didn't see the series, how was it?) and decent zergs in various online cups, so maybe... but it's bo5 so probably not? Will be interesting for sure.
On January 28 2020 21:23 Poopi wrote: Thank you for bringing us that much starcraft!
I wonder if Polt might have a shot against Reynor. On paper he doesn't, but Polt managed to beat Elazer at IEM qualifiers (I didn't see the series, how was it?) and decent zergs in various online cups, so maybe... but it's bo5 so probably not? Will be interesting for sure.
Polt's biggest weakness in a longer series atm (aside from not having recovered his peak skill) would be the fact that he does the same build every TvZ - a BC opening into bio. Easily exploitable.
On January 28 2020 21:23 Poopi wrote: Thank you for bringing us that much starcraft!
I wonder if Polt might have a shot against Reynor. On paper he doesn't, but Polt managed to beat Elazer at IEM qualifiers (I didn't see the series, how was it?) and decent zergs in various online cups, so maybe... but it's bo5 so probably not? Will be interesting for sure.
Polt played Elazer when it was 4 AM for him. He made a lot of mistakes. Anyhow Polt is by far the weakest player in this group and wouldnt expect to much from him. Especially as he plays from ping from NA and ALWAYS plays bio.. Maybe he can make something happen in the losers match which I doubt though
On January 28 2020 21:23 Poopi wrote: Thank you for bringing us that much starcraft!
I wonder if Polt might have a shot against Reynor. On paper he doesn't, but Polt managed to beat Elazer at IEM qualifiers (I didn't see the series, how was it?) and decent zergs in various online cups, so maybe... but it's bo5 so probably not? Will be interesting for sure.
Polt played Elazer when it was 4 AM for him. He made a lot of mistakes. Anyhow Polt is by far the weakest player in this group and wouldnt expect to much from him. Especially as he plays from ping from NA and ALWAYS plays bio.. Maybe he can make something happen in the losers match which I doubt though
On January 28 2020 21:23 Poopi wrote: Thank you for bringing us that much starcraft!
I wonder if Polt might have a shot against Reynor. On paper he doesn't, but Polt managed to beat Elazer at IEM qualifiers (I didn't see the series, how was it?) and decent zergs in various online cups, so maybe... but it's bo5 so probably not? Will be interesting for sure.
Polt played Elazer when it was 4 AM for him. He made a lot of mistakes. Anyhow Polt is by far the weakest player in this group and wouldnt expect to much from him. Especially as he plays from ping from NA and ALWAYS plays bio.. Maybe he can make something happen in the losers match which I doubt though
On January 30 2020 00:23 Elentos wrote: With today's results I hope by the powers of rigging that maybe we can have 2 TvZs in the Ro12 instead of a ZvZ and a TvT.
On January 30 2020 00:25 Xain0n wrote: Cure didn't play well today, he got supply blocked once and lost tanks and marines to slow banelings… Ragnagod was in great shape, instead.
Cure was also absolutely winning the first game against RagnaroK and then fell apart to 1 counter-attack unnecessarily. He's definitely had better days.
On January 30 2020 00:33 CynicalDeath wrote: gratz for SilverCoin level 3 btw ;]
RagnaroK was one of two players that I'd say I pushed pretty hard to get as final invites, along with Dream (who replaced a protoss player on very short notice and competed reasonably well in group A, so thank you Dream). I'm a big fan of both, but also thought they were the strongest players still available. I would have felt pretty silly if they both had flopped. RagnaroK looked fantastic today, especially with his engagements even off of creep.
Also, that's probably the strongest I've seen someone make ultralisks look in a long, long time.
RagnaroK was one of two players that I'd say I pushed pretty hard to get as final invites, along with Dream (who replaced a protoss player on very short notice and competed reasonably well in group A, so thank you Dream). I'm a big fan of both, but also thought they were the strongest players still available. I would have felt pretty silly if they both had flopped. RagnaroK looked fantastic today, especially with his engagements even off of creep.
Also, that's probably the strongest I've seen someone make ultralisks look in a long, long time.
You guys did an amazing part with the invites. Dream had some impressive online results in the 2nd half of 2019 and Ragnarok realy exploded in GSL, good on you to invite them.
On January 31 2020 06:12 Schelim wrote: Whats the thought process behind winning game 1 with mech and then going bio every game and losing multiple times?
Wanted to mix it up in game 2 and got all-in'd, then had a shit early game in game 3 and 4 and figured mech was too slow to recover is my guess. Also probably depended on the maps. Eternal Empire is so much better for mech than every other map in the pool.
i've always respected and appreciated him putting on and providing a cast for all the tiny weekly tournaments. but from that, not only has he made a big enough community and name for himself to get a sponsor for a tournament like this, and still casts so damn much that the Pylon Show essentially has an entire Wardi segment, but his commentary has gotten a LOT better too.
i don't mean to hate on past Wardi here, but to me he used to be rather meh, not hatable or anything but just like, background noise for the sc2 i'm watching. over the years he's worked himself up to being a quality and entertaining caster.
also, on that note, Zombiegrub, with a somewhat similar history, is a great commentator and i would like to see her get more gigs.
On February 01 2020 00:09 Xain0n wrote: TY's mech plays just seems more solid.
I think Solar is also worse against mech. In general I think against top Zergs you don't do yourself any favors playing bio on this map pool. And then if you add in some mistakes...
Both these guys should be able to do a bit better though. TY isn't supposed to lose World of Sleepers from his early game and he knows it. And Zen was just worst thing I ever saw until they played on Triton.
On January 31 2020 22:40 Schelim wrote: Wardi's hard work and grind has really paid off.
i've always respected and appreciated him putting on and providing a cast for all the tiny weekly tournaments. but from that, not only has he made a big enough community and name for himself to get a sponsor for a tournament like this, and still casts so damn much that the Pylon Show essentially has an entire Wardi segment, but his commentary has gotten a LOT better too.
i don't mean to hate on past Wardi here, but to me he used to be rather meh, not hatable or anything but just like, background noise for the sc2 i'm watching. over the years he's worked himself up to being a quality and entertaining caster.
also, on that note, Zombiegrub, with a somewhat similar history, is a great commentator and i would like to see her get more gigs.
I fully agree these two has put on so much work over the years, it would be nice to see them more at offline stuff. And although this is a bit of a controversial things, I would like to see Rifkin at least once in an offline event, say what you want about his casting he has deserved some time on a stage after all his done during the last decade. Naruto too, by the way it's been to long since I've seen him outside of his room.
This is the live commentary thread for today (too) right? Working on that assumption I've linked to this on Reddit, in hopes we get some more folks over here as well.
On January 31 2020 22:40 Schelim wrote: Wardi's hard work and grind has really paid off.
i've always respected and appreciated him putting on and providing a cast for all the tiny weekly tournaments. but from that, not only has he made a big enough community and name for himself to get a sponsor for a tournament like this, and still casts so damn much that the Pylon Show essentially has an entire Wardi segment, but his commentary has gotten a LOT better too.
i don't mean to hate on past Wardi here, but to me he used to be rather meh, not hatable or anything but just like, background noise for the sc2 i'm watching. over the years he's worked himself up to being a quality and entertaining caster.
also, on that note, Zombiegrub, with a somewhat similar history, is a great commentator and i would like to see her get more gigs.
I do not know. Personally his cast is subpar. Here is a good video that explain:
On January 31 2020 22:40 Schelim wrote: Wardi's hard work and grind has really paid off.
i've always respected and appreciated him putting on and providing a cast for all the tiny weekly tournaments. but from that, not only has he made a big enough community and name for himself to get a sponsor for a tournament like this, and still casts so damn much that the Pylon Show essentially has an entire Wardi segment, but his commentary has gotten a LOT better too.
i don't mean to hate on past Wardi here, but to me he used to be rather meh, not hatable or anything but just like, background noise for the sc2 i'm watching. over the years he's worked himself up to being a quality and entertaining caster.
also, on that note, Zombiegrub, with a somewhat similar history, is a great commentator and i would like to see her get more gigs.
I do not know. Personally his cast is subpar. Here is a good video that explain:
On February 01 2020 22:23 Elentos wrote: It feels like ever since Fantasy retired everyone has decided to stay in games way longer than they should in his stead.
Maybe he wanted to gauge Cures power? Raynor played terribly (compared to his usual level) in the beginning but the fact that Cure couldn't finish him off until 19 minutes should give him some information!
On February 01 2020 22:23 Elentos wrote: It feels like ever since Fantasy retired everyone has decided to stay in games way longer than they should in his stead.
Well, if you can't beat Dark and Serral, the least you can do is play for the memes.
On February 01 2020 22:23 Elentos wrote: It feels like ever since Fantasy retired everyone has decided to stay in games way longer than they should in his stead.
Maybe he wanted to gauge Cures power? Raynor played terribly (compared to his usual level) in the beginning but the fact that Cure couldn't finish him off until 19 minutes should give him some information!
Reynor does it in every game he loses even if it's against Serral where he learns nothing by doing it.
All I really want from this tournament is to not have a ZvZ final so go Cure.
On February 01 2020 22:23 Elentos wrote: It feels like ever since Fantasy retired everyone has decided to stay in games way longer than they should in his stead.
Maybe he wanted to gauge Cures power? Raynor played terribly (compared to his usual level) in the beginning but the fact that Cure couldn't finish him off until 19 minutes should give him some information!
Reynor does it in every game he loses even if it's against Serral where he learns nothing by doing it.
It could be argued that no one can get inside Serrals head like Raynor can though xD
On February 01 2020 22:23 Elentos wrote: It feels like ever since Fantasy retired everyone has decided to stay in games way longer than they should in his stead.
Maybe he wanted to gauge Cures power? Raynor played terribly (compared to his usual level) in the beginning but the fact that Cure couldn't finish him off until 19 minutes should give him some information!
Reynor does it in every game he loses even if it's against Serral where he learns nothing by doing it.
It could be argued that no one can get inside Serrals head like Raynor can though xD
It could also be argued that his ID is not Raynor.
Well this is a sad loss, double the workers but run out of steam before Cure runs out of marines.
On February 01 2020 22:23 Elentos wrote: It feels like ever since Fantasy retired everyone has decided to stay in games way longer than they should in his stead.
Maybe he wanted to gauge Cures power? Raynor played terribly (compared to his usual level) in the beginning but the fact that Cure couldn't finish him off until 19 minutes should give him some information!
Reynor does it in every game he loses even if it's against Serral where he learns nothing by doing it.
It could be argued that no one can get inside Serrals head like Raynor can though xD
It could also be argued that his ID is not Raynor.
Well this is a sad loss, double the workers but run out of steam before Cure runs out of marines.
TBH, that would be an indisputable fact so I don't agree that anything else could be argued. It could be argued that it's not sad though...
On February 01 2020 23:21 TheGoatPuncher wrote: Man, Cure just can't move out can't he? He hasn't been able to get to Reynor's side of the map for ages now.
As long as Reynor spent all his money on super inefficiently fighting on Cure's side of the map that wasn't really a problem. Now Reynor won a big fight and is teching though so it could become one.
It's weird how LotV flipped bio-mine vs LBM into being Zerg attacking all game and Terran hoping they run out of steam. Used to be the other way around.
Raynor just kept bashing him with inferior compositions all game long, refusing to switch despite having the economical advantage for most of the game. If he had won this despite Cure not making any glaring mistakes and being more cost efficient all game long I'd scream imba
On February 01 2020 23:28 Elentos wrote: It's weird how LotV flipped bio-mine vs LBM into being Zerg attacking all game and Terran hoping they run out of steam. Used to be the other way around.
Yeah, it's odd.
Seemed to work for Cure though, which I guess is down to Reynor's inefficiency, which you mentioned in the other comment. He stuck on ling bling muta for waaaay too long. Should've focused more on just posturing about and transitioning to broods or something like that. The amount of gas Reynor threw into all those banes was absurd.
On February 01 2020 23:33 Nakajin wrote: IDK what Reynor was thinking there, he had so much room to tech up. It looked like he just wanted bury Cure on pure mechanics for no reason.
Yeah, Raynor basically threw that one hard. Somewhere Serral is shaking his head and tut-tutting.
On January 31 2020 22:40 Schelim wrote: Wardi's hard work and grind has really paid off.
i've always respected and appreciated him putting on and providing a cast for all the tiny weekly tournaments. but from that, not only has he made a big enough community and name for himself to get a sponsor for a tournament like this, and still casts so damn much that the Pylon Show essentially has an entire Wardi segment, but his commentary has gotten a LOT better too.
i don't mean to hate on past Wardi here, but to me he used to be rather meh, not hatable or anything but just like, background noise for the sc2 i'm watching. over the years he's worked himself up to being a quality and entertaining caster.
also, on that note, Zombiegrub, with a somewhat similar history, is a great commentator and i would like to see her get more gigs.
I do not know. Personally his cast is subpar. Here is a good video that explain:
It's a 2 year old video that's poorly made focusing on a beyond cherry picked sample. What's that prove?
My favorite part of this video is the "I don't have a whole lot of time to actually find an example to prove my point, but here's me skipping through randomly saying a lot of dumb shit that isn't true". It was pretty great, dude turned out to be an idiot.
Anyways I agree, my casting in 2018 sucked compared to my casting in 2020
On January 31 2020 22:40 Schelim wrote: Wardi's hard work and grind has really paid off.
i've always respected and appreciated him putting on and providing a cast for all the tiny weekly tournaments. but from that, not only has he made a big enough community and name for himself to get a sponsor for a tournament like this, and still casts so damn much that the Pylon Show essentially has an entire Wardi segment, but his commentary has gotten a LOT better too.
i don't mean to hate on past Wardi here, but to me he used to be rather meh, not hatable or anything but just like, background noise for the sc2 i'm watching. over the years he's worked himself up to being a quality and entertaining caster.
also, on that note, Zombiegrub, with a somewhat similar history, is a great commentator and i would like to see her get more gigs.
I do not know. Personally his cast is subpar. Here is a good video that explain:
It's a 2 year old video that's poorly made focusing on a beyond cherry picked sample. What's that prove?
My favorite part of this video is the "I don't have a whole lot of time to actually find an example to prove my point, but here's me skipping through randomly saying a lot of dumb shit that isn't true". It was pretty great, dude turned out to be an idiot.
Anyways I agree, my casting in 2018 sucked compared to my casting in 2020
Your casting has definitely improved but let's not act like your 2018 casting was bad or even sub par by any means.
In any case, that's for hosting all these tourneys. I got my fix of sc2 in especially with some tournaments being postponed due to coronavirus.