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I had no issues understanding her at all, her casting IMO was greatly improved over the VoD's posted last week. Calling hellions "Race Cars" was fine with me, she was clearly just attempting to be cute, people call battlecruisers - Cattlebruisers all the time which is just as pointless tbh.
Biggest problem was I think she's more used to being lead caster so she needs to get used to Co-casting more, (this is a problem levelled at Day[9] also ) also her and tasteless's casting styles are similar and as such don't overly complement each other greatly, although you could see by the end they'd loosened up toward each other. I feel she would greatly improve if casting alongside Artosis for Analysis and leave her to the play by play.
Really can't understand why people struggle so hard with her accent.. it's just a typical Asian English accent, no more no less. Yes she could do with slowing down sometimes so she doesn't trip herself up and ramble, but that's something that can be learnt through experience.
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I'm from Central Europe and I understand everything she says.
Those of you who can't understand her probably need to work on your own English.
Pretty ironic isn't it :p
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On February 22 2011 08:29 Kickboxer wrote:
I'm from Central Europe and I understand everything she says.
Those of you who can't understand her probably need to work on your own English.
Pretty ironic isn't it :p
It was only really the DoTA casts that she did where I couldn't understand her. Outside of that I can understand her but in those games I literally didn't know wtf she was saying.
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Really not digging it. I want Tastosis back.
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I really dont get how people cannot understand her.
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I think she is a good choice for a caster. Given some of the guest casters they've had, I'm quite happy they chose somebody who, if nothing else is very entertaining.
I'll just always remember "Nicole, something terrible has happened.......I have no drones"
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She is not doing just fine, doesn't matter how many days she casts her voice will not magically change.
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I scrolled through this thread just to find out how many people would get banned.
At first I didn't really like her casting and I made fun of her for about 30 minutes. After that I realized that she wasn't a bad caster, and that he accent wasn't really that bad. You can understand what she was saying. After some time I realized I just didn't like the change, without Artosis I felt bare.
She should do fine, but she needs to relax a bit.
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From the start of the cast to the end she improved a ton. She's also has good chemistry with Tasteless. It's okay, not great, but I don't mind it now.
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On February 21 2011 19:27 OptimusYale wrote:
Starcraft 2 is coming out!
Nerds: WE DONT LIKE CHANGE, ROAR BROOD WARS IS WAY BETTER IM NOT GIVING SC2 TIME TO EVOLVE!
New observer system in GSL
NERDS: WE DONT LIKE CHANGE, ROAR TASTELESS SHOULD HAVE THE OBSERVING RIGHTS BECAUSE ITS CHANGED AND WE DONT WANT TO GIVE IT TIME!
New commentator who's a girl
NERDS: WE DONT LIKE CHANGE, IT SHOULD BE TASTELESS AND ARTOSIS CASTING 300 GAMES A DAY!!!! LETS NOT GIVE HER A CHANCE!
Seriously nerds, life's going to change and you have to adapt. The reason your socially awkward is because you don't like change. She's good, her accent is a non issue, she commentates well. Remember how nervous you were on your first day of school, or your first day of work. Now put that in front of a huge international audience and you'll imagine how difficult it will be! Stop the whining and live with the change. She's better than the korean female commentator, and having a female speak in my ear makes me feel much less gay than listening than 2 guys all the time!
Her knowledge is very good, her humor will get more natural as she settles down, her accent will become neutral in time, her english is perfect. To those who say it's not, have you ever taught people who are learning english as a second language? Their lexical choice is often disjointed and their grammar has minor inflectional errors. As a language major and an english grammar teacher, I would say shes better grammatically than I guess 70% of native english speakers because we change the grammar to be more conversational and often its wrong!
Obviously if I disagree with you I am social awkward and a gigantic failure...
The gsl is the top of starcraft tournaments, and with that you need the top casters. She is not. The GSL is not where you go to 'improve' it's where you go when you're the best.
Sure you can improve while you're there, but you need to be good going in. And she isn't. And if that makes me racist then I guess I'm a racist.
EDIT: I don't give a crap if she's a girl. I don't care if tastosis were girls, I dont care how manly or un manly I feel as I watch starcraft. All I want is the best experience, and kelly doesn't provide that.
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watched it last night, and I can't understand her at all. I understand parts of it but I have to really try to listen to it and things she says doesn't seem that meaningful to pay extra attention in understanding her. so it seems like I end up blocking her out during code A casts.
no one can deny that her tone and accent is off. and it seems like she tries to say something then gets mental blocked and tries again to say the same shit only to fail miserably. she is having hard time trying to express her thoughts in english and compound that with horrible accent and tone, you have KellyMilkies.
poor choice for Code A caster Gom.
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I feel the only reason people dont like her is cuz they dont WANT to like her. Everyone got used to artosis and tasteless and dont want change. Even if its for the health of the casters (which is quite selfish of people.) but honestly the only problem i had with the cast was the communication between her and tasteless. Once they get to know eachother the cast will be really smooth. Her accent isnt that bad and she does know the game. Its better than most of the blizzcon fill ins then had.
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I'm not particularly a fan of SC2, and watching games with her commentate is not helping matters. If i had actually paid money to watch the GSL, and then have this unprofessional amateur attempt at casting, then i would not pay in the future. Even having Tasteless/Artosis is kinda boring now, and was never *that* professional.. the Korean's get actual experienced and knowledgeable progamers on both their BW and SC2 commentary teams. Having someone charismatic and knowledgeable should be a key thing to make the broadcasts appeal to a wide audience. This is no better than an amateurs attempt on youtube.
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thx for the interview! kelly atucally makes code a interesting to watch now
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On February 22 2011 08:05 akaname wrote:
I'm sorry, but I really enjoyed her casting, didn't have a problem with her accent at all, and i think she's suited to code a (artosis and tasteless often just made fun of players, not their finest moments), with the big guns tasteless and artosis for code s.
i think a lot of the things people pick her up on (sense of humour, catch phrases, etc) is totally unfair and you can see plenty of examples of it tasteless for example getting players names wrong.
As i said, i have no problem personally, but given the debate I do find it funny now that the top of my screen the title is followed by the google ads:
Interview with Code A caster KellyMilkies:
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I wouldnt buy either of those since there is no such thing as a British accent for a start. English, Scottish, Cornish, Welsh or Irish maybe but not British. Many speakers have their own grammar flaws in those regions because they had and in many cases still have a mother tongue that is not English. Many British regional accents would be more incomprehensible than hers. Its why some British TV shows have subtitles put on them when they are aired in the US. I suspect they try and teach you a plummy false one like the one TotalBiscuit uses for clarity but then he gets bashed for doing that by many as well.
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the fact is this is supposed to be ENGLISH STARCRAFT2 COMMENTARY
and #1 qualification for being an ENGLISH COMMENTATOR is verbal English skills
#2 knowledge about starcraft 2
I really would like to know what casting qualities GOM saw in her when they hired her. she does not meet two criteria I mentioned above AT ALL.
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I understood her 100% fine. I get the feeling a lot of people just aren't used to hearing a wide range of accents. Aside from the accent and a few mispronounciations, I didn't notice anything bad or awkward happen that hasn't happened with our beloved Tastosis from time to time before. She's definitely not ready for Code S games and not sure if she ever will but I can see she's taking it seriously, I'm assuming she will take a lot of the criticism constructively and improve. Was also impressed she has a pretty deep understanding of the game, notices when the important upgrades are complete, has a good sense of what units are worth, etc... Plus she's a cutie.
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She has more game knowledge in Tasteless IMO. At least she try to get into the mind game and stuff, don't like her accent but her casting is above average. Tasteless really need to improve though.
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On February 22 2011 09:25 xbankx wrote:
She has more game knowledge in Tasteless IMO. At least she try to get into the mind game and stuff, don't like her accent but her casting is above average. Tasteless really need to improve though.
In the beginning of the thread somebody claimed she had more game knowledge than Artosis, and now this?
Are you serious?
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I'm not really a big fan of her as a caster either, but it seems she is a logical choice. I'd imagine that when changing from Artosis to someone else, it's pretty difficult for anyone to fit in his shoes. Having a female caster is probably something that could potentially draw a new audience in, so it seems smart to go with that. They're not likely to get many new viewers with a downgraded version of Artosis, after all, so female is a good plan. And as far as her accent, well, anyone they chose would have one. It's rather unlikely that it would be easy to find a qualified American caster living in Korea. At least not a female one, anyways.
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