Day9: "And this is Day9 Daily number X"

"And I will now happily take some questions" *sips drink* (anyone else notice that he loves to sip his drink right at this point?)

HD: "And here we have Y spawning in the X o clock position"

"I don't think I agree with this"

Chex

United States87 Posts

July 15 2010 14:18 GMT

#82

I can really only comment on Day[9]'s casting since that's most of what I watch, but I really don't think there are problems with overused phrases beyond 2 casters in particular.

"Most normal thing in the world" comes to mind with Day but I actually think its hilarious and accurate.

wishbones

Canada2600 Posts

July 15 2010 14:21 GMT

#83

I think its just fine the way it is, i mean casters are all main streamed eventually, look at nfl, look at nba, look at poker, look at golf, look at that, and this, and everything. Never ever ever, will you see casters worried about overused lines, because those lines are just the norm.

Logo

United States7542 Posts

July 15 2010 14:22 GMT

#84

I don't think it's a problem, but it's still fun to just kid about it. I can also see how a caster may find it helpful. If a phrase is said the best way often it's no big deal, but it's still nice to know what some of the common phrases are. For example if a caster realizes he's saying blunder 10 times a game he may want to pull out a thesaurus and start having players make mistakes, screw-ups, errors, goofs, ands slip ups.

palanq

United States761 Posts

July 15 2010 14:22 GMT

#85

there was this one series with iNcontrol where the commentator (husky?) said such and such was absolutely out of control ~15 times

Rabiator

Germany3948 Posts

July 15 2010 14:26 GMT

#86

One thing I noticed when TheGunrun is commentating is that everything which Martijn points out is commented as "nice". The english language should have sufficient variations of that word in store, but it always sounds like "talking without saying anything".

Tom the Legend

United Kingdom38 Posts

July 15 2010 14:27 GMT

#87

"Heeello there ladies and gentlemen, moletrap comin at ya" - begining of every moletrap commentary.

TheBB

Switzerland5133 Posts

July 15 2010 14:34 GMT

#88

"on the ground" and "in the air"

I mean, they're marines. We all know they're not flying.

Fenrir-Vice

United States123 Posts

July 15 2010 14:37 GMT

#89

"so annoying"

Heard this like 10 times during one show match, my ears start to bleed whenever i hear, "oh this probe is going to attack the building scv and just generally be really annoying."

Geo.Rion

7377 Posts

July 15 2010 14:46 GMT

#90

not overused, it's one of my favorite lines from Day9, he used it a couple of times, sg like this:
"Truer words were never spoken"

Matiz_pl

Poland163 Posts

July 15 2010 15:02 GMT

#91

"materialize"
Not sure who says it, but I heard it quite often from one caster in kinda weird situations and rather too often.

Lucius2

Germany548 Posts

July 15 2010 15:09 GMT

#92

scv drilling away at sth

ChanChan

Australia18 Posts

July 15 2010 15:14 GMT

#93

Playgu & Rivo.

Wrist

Netherlands35 Posts

July 15 2010 15:14 GMT

#94

On July 16 2010 00:02 Matiz_pl wrote:
"materialize"
Not sure who says it, but I heard it quite often from one caster in kinda weird situations and rather too often.

pretty sure its gretorp

AskJoshy

United States1625 Posts

July 15 2010 15:31 GMT

#95

Really? People don't like it when we identify the players and where they're starting on the map? I really thought those were kind of... you know... important for spectating.

One phrase that I know I've said 100 times is "it'll be interesting to see/I'm curious to see," but it's because I'm not 100% sure why the player's done something. Sometimes I say that so I can let the viewers know about various possibilities. For example, if you see a Twilight Council dropped relatively early, I say that I'm curious to see whether the player will go for tier 1 upgrades, a dark shrine, or a twilight council, and sort of touch on each strat until we see another upgrade or tech building in the works.

CrushDog5

Canada207 Posts

July 15 2010 16:13 GMT

#96

To me, casting a game (particularly a tournament game, particularly when the casters don't know the outcome) is different than doing a strategic analysis.

In a tournament cast, saying "I think this is a mistake", or " Oh I really don't like this move" seems borderline arrogant. After all White-Ra and TLO can CRUSH any current caster.

It seems better to say "this seems risky" or explain WHY this strategy is unusual or surprising. Casting a tournament game should help viewers understand the game at a deeper level, not just spout opinions.

Strategic analysis, like what Day9 does when he picks a few games to highlight some strategic point, is a totally different story, and opinions and analysis are the point of the cast.

Generally, though, I LIKE each casters signature phrases.

"See you guyyyyyys next time"

ghermination

United States2851 Posts

July 15 2010 16:17 GMT

#97

"I don't like this"
"I like this"
"I think that x is a y"

Nokarot

United States1410 Posts

July 15 2010 16:25 GMT

#98

Don't know how to phrase it in a quote, but when people start talking about "oh pink zerg is the best," "no orange is clearly a more dominant color" it really annoys me. Not because I'm an elitist jerk- I enjoy some humor, but it's overused, as per the topic

The only time I really liked someone mentioning color being dominant was diggitys dual planetary fortress rush video, regarding "the most formidable colors in the protoss army" not standing a chance.