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Calgary26004 Posts
On March 08 2011 04:00 StutteR wrote:
Guy has a pretty nice voice but not very exciting. Being a humanities major I find it hard to believe he couldn't add 150 three times... but it could have been nerves.
Last TLOpen during the break I told DJWheat I had a cold and couldn't remember the unit names and it was pissing me off. I felt like I couldn't talk properly. Mental state REALLY affects casting, I'd imagine any bit of nerves and fatigue would kill your casting.
I'd give him at least 2 weeks before making any judgements.
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On March 08 2011 04:00 StutteR wrote:
Guy has a pretty nice voice but not very exciting. Being a humanities major I find it hard to believe he couldn't add 150 three times... but it could have been nerves.
It was a half joke
You wouldn't have noticed if Artosis had said it
Tastosis are just amazing, head and shoulders above all the others (impressive considering Wheat, Chill, Day9, etc) I sit there and actually laugh, which is rare, its beautiful and I hope it goes on forever, but they will just burn out unless they get a few extra commentators
Based on many casters I've heard, Kelly is great for a girl casting in a mans world (you don't see any female casters for the big men games, superbowl, rugby, football, etc) She is very enthusiastic and quite knowledgeable. However her accent/voice isn't the best, and honestly, no matter how hard they try, girls in computer games (AT THE MOMENT) are a distraction when 99.9% of gaming pop is male, same thing as having a single good looking girl in a poker game - nice to look at but ultimately distracting, and the guys turn into douches
This new guy is above average.. not instantly funny, but nice to listen to, has decent-ish knowledge, and has a good professional air about him which is v important.
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On March 08 2011 04:00 StutteR wrote:
Guy has a pretty nice voice but not very exciting. Being a humanities major I find it hard to believe he couldn't add 150 three times... but it could have been nerves.
He was just making fun of himself? What the fuck is wrong with people these days just mute him and put on some music if it's that bad... People never do anything other than complain on teamliquid anymore.
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He's certainly got a great voice and good at play by play, and fairly decent game knowledge. But I'm not sure if he's good enough to take the artosis-role, but I would definitally be fine with him taking over the tasteless-role... His solo casting seemed to be a lot better than today as well, so I'm sure he'll improve in gsl quite fast.
The combo with Kelly, however, did not work at all. I don't want to whine at Kelly, because she's doing better then I expected after the first couple of days, but I would love to see Doa+someone else, f ex moletrap.
Hopefully when Doa gets more secure, he'll start to talk a bit more, and Kelly talk less... She was definitally helping him out today, but that resulted in her talking too much and a fairly poor cast all-together tbh.
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What happened to Moletrap? Wasn't he going to Korea to compete for a Code A casters chair? I still think he'd be ten times better than Kelly.
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Here is my 2 cents,
These are not personal attacks or insults on either caster, just my opinion.
I thought Doa did really well. I thought he was very well spoken, he didnt studder often or get caught up on his sentences. His casting was very solid. He knew what he was talking about, seemed knowledgable, not as knowledgable as Artosis, but knowledgable. I think his problem, when compared against the casting Archon, is the chemistry of being put with some1 to cast with who you enjoy working with and mesh well with.
Again this is just my opinion, but Kelly is reason enough for me to mute the sound. Her english is very poor, her jokes are never funny, and she does not seem very insightful, whether she is or is not knowledgable, i can't tell. She leads them into a lot of awkward moments by ending conversations or back n forths instead of playing on them and giving open ended statements. She makes jokes and then cackles at them, but she is the only one laughing whereas the other caster just goes into a "this is awkward" moment.
In my opinion half of the casters last night did an excellent job.
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On March 08 2011 03:46 PuercoPop wrote:
Kelly has a lot more game analysis knowledge than a lot of people realize
After I heard "He is pulling drones of gas so he is going all-in" when guy was doing standard "pull-guys-off-gas-when-you-have-100-gas" I would argue with that statement.
Love that new caster - because I can actually understand what he says. It doesn't take much to be a decent caster.
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On March 07 2011 23:57 Hrrrrm wrote:
Just watched the first game of the night and was quite surprised at how well Erik did. I am one of those that immediately didn't like Kelly because of her voice/accent while speaking English. The only way I can describe it is that while I can understand her, I feel like I'm constantly decoding morse code. I just don't want to do that while I'm trying to relax and just watch some good games.
My thoughts exactly
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He didn't do too bad, I feel Artosis and Kelly have more chemistry, but it's hard to pin a strong opinion down on it with just one cast under his belt. I liked the Artosis homosexual joke 
He could potentially be good, but I kinda feel he lacks character at this point.
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Calgary26004 Posts
On March 08 2011 04:16 raidmaster wrote:Show nested quote +On March 08 2011 03:46 PuercoPop wrote:
Kelly has a lot more game analysis knowledge than a lot of people realize After I heard "He is pulling drones of gas so he is going all-in" when guy was doing standard "pull-guys-off-gas-when-you-have-100-gas" I would argue with that statement.
I think the truth lies in the middle: She understands the fundamentals and the current state of the game, but her words often have little depth.
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It took me a few rounds to get accustomed to Kelly's voice and when Erik popped in I actually found it hard to listen to him!
What this told me is that we're all just becoming familiar with certain voices and honestly, after a while Erik became easy to listen to as well to the point where I suddenly didn't mind these two whatsoever. I was much happier to hear two new people instead of splitting up Tastosis, which sounds wrong.
Tasteless and Artosis need to be together to cast and now we'll all become familiarized with Kelly and Erik and the world will be a beautiful place filled with GSL and NASL.
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I was hoping Moletrap would be the new code A caster, but this is good enough. I wonder what the chemistry between this guy and Kellymilkies will be like. Hopefully they hit the sweet spot after about a week of casting.
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On March 08 2011 04:15 Owii wrote:
What happened to Moletrap? Wasn't he going to Korea to compete for a Code A casters chair? I still think he'd be ten times better than Kelly.
I find this quote to be most useful about Moletrap's situation:
+ Show Spoiler +On March 08 2011 02:15 Lonyo wrote:Show nested quote +On March 08 2011 02:08 GagnarTheUnruly wrote:
There's a new guy casting code A with Kelly now -- does Moletrap still have a chance? I was rooting for him... Well. Currently the known information stands like this. 1) Kelly has said she's returning home on 17th March (see here: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=196179 see 2:30 in the video). 2) doa is casting alongside Kelly currently in Code A 3) Moletrap has said that "next month" (from the 21st Feb) he is going to Korea for "2 to 3 weeks" for Code A casting selection. 4) Another GSL is due in April 5) March GSL started in February. The implication is that moletrap will be in Korea when GSL April is happening. You could guess that doa will be there and it might be a moletrap + doa dual cast for Code A with no Kellymilkies, beginning some time around the end of March.
Just because he didn't cast last night and there is no information about his status doesn't mean he's out of the picture. GOM is probably keeping quiet about his application in a similar fashion to how they kept quiet about Doa until the night before his cast. They probably don't want another Kellymilkies scandal to have enough time to blow out of proportion.
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On March 08 2011 04:16 mnofstl007 wrote:
Again this is just my opinion, but Kelly is reason enough for me to mute the sound. Her english is very poor, her jokes are never funny, and she does not seem very insightful, whether she is or is not knowledgable, i can't tell. She leads them into a lot of awkward moments by ending conversations or back n forths instead of playing on them and giving open ended statements. She makes jokes and then cackles at them, but she is the only one laughing whereas the other caster just goes into a "this is awkward" moment.
Kelly's English is really good. It's just not standard. As Singlish speakers go she's very clear and concise in her communication. Singlish isn't what we're used to hearing, but it's like saying an Australian has poor English because you don't understand his vernacularisms and his vowel intonation isn't the same as yours. People just speak different. If you grow up in Singapore, depending on who your friends are and where you are schooled, that's probably just the way you talk, and you can get just as verbose in vocabulary and verbal skill with that accent as with any other.
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I thought he did an excellent first day, and you can surely see that he was already getting a good rhythm going by the end of the cast. Looking forward to more from him, and glad that Tastetosis is going to get a break so they can focus on really making Code S amazing (yeah, I'm going to be expecting more from you guys now so less "Umms" from Tasteless please!)
I think Tasteless getting to play the analyst was really good, it seems to have allowed him to sharpen up on his critical thinking as a player as well as establish some credentials for why he is alongside the all knowing Artosis.
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DoA had amazing play by play. Not quite the same level as artosis and day9 but who is. Better than 90 percent of casters out there.
I feel like he has a lot of potential/sides to him that we have yet to discover though. Casting with Kelly and it being his debut , i got the impression he tried to play it safe and say less witty stuff and more the obvious standard stuff. Hopefully he will get the chance to cast with artosis/tasteless and we can see his potential unleashed as long as he is not "star-struck" I appreciated his attempts at humour and found them quite funny.
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Good, bad, I don't know tbh. I can listen to him without any problems, so that's a great start. Even took me some time to love tastosis, so I'm gonna give Doa some time to grow. Not that he's really bad atm or anything.
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Listening to the VoDs now, I feel he's doing a pretty good job. If he gets a little bit more comfortable and casts with someone else, I think he'll do great.
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On March 08 2011 03:38 chonkyfire wrote:Show nested quote +On March 08 2011 03:04 jeremycafe wrote:
I find Erik to be a much better caster than Artosis. I would love for Erik and to be one the casters of Code S. you don't care about game analysis? don't get me wrong I think erik is a fine caster, but in terms of game knowledge he doesn't even come close to artosis
[Edit: Tasteless] is constantly calling units by the wrong name and consistently misses things. Instead of improving what does he do? He makes his "omg nerds are gonna make fun of me over this one" in a nerdy voice. [Edit: Tasteless] isn't getting any better. I'd put my money on Erik getting better over time when it comes to analysis.
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I think he is alright but i think he needs to do more predicting instead of just stating what is already happening in the game. Or maybe state the significance of what is happening.
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