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Doa and Moletrap are average as casters go, but kinda raises the question why they're casting the biggest SC2 league in the world when a diamond scrub like me identifies moments of importance in the game better than they do. That said, they both have pretty great casting voices, and their passion kind of makes up for their lack of knowledge.
Tasteosis is awesome, pretty much the standard for a casting duo. I miss the days when they divided up their roles a bit clearer, but I still wouldn't watch the GSL without them. Like the two of them both too much, and Artosis's game knowledge is probably superior to even day9s at the moment.
Kelly? Least game knowledge and most difficult to understand voice. Game knowledge becomes somewhat irrelevant when I feel as if I'm watching a cast in a foreign language. I just mute it, same as I did watching Broodwar vods.
I don't think any of GSL casters are awful but Tasteless and Artosis have kind of set a standard that really only Day9 + Chill or Day9 + DJ Wheat can compete with.
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On May 19 2011 01:41 JustPassingBy wrote:Show nested quote +On May 18 2011 23:03 Moralez wrote:On May 18 2011 23:02 JustPassingBy wrote:
Kind of hard to vote... My opinion goes as follows: Artosis > Moletrap > Tasteless > DoA > Kelly.
However neither is Kelly horrible, nor is any other caster of the level of Artosis. Moletrap > tasteless? whaaaat ! Well, moletrap seems to know more about the players than Tasteless does. Both seem to know not enough about the game to shine by analyzing the gameplay. Both have a deep history of casting: Tasteless officially casting big tournaments apart from the most prominent leagues in Korea and moletrap (illegally) casting the games of those prominent leagues on youtube. Tasteless's cast can be incredibly funny, moletrap's cast can be amazingly exciting. At least that was my train of thought.
The problem is Moletrap tries to know more about the players, but he tells a lot of stuff that is not correct. The positive thing is, he is working on it (the whole twitter thing). Tasteless on the other side doesn't care about this stuff, because he has Artosis. Thats one of the reasons why they are called the casting archon.
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I miss Kelly. I don't understand how somebody could like Moletrap or DoA more.
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Doa just tweeted:
@DoaSC erik lonnquist
Back to the US on Friday. No, I wasn't fired. In fact I plan on coming back soon IF all goes well. Plenty to cast in the NA scene though!
Guess we're getting a new caster to go with Moletrap soon.
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On May 18 2011 17:57 iba001 wrote:Show nested quote +On May 18 2011 16:18 CustomKal wrote:
Order for me was:
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Excellent
The only reason I put bad for Kelly was because it is just so hard to understand it. I have a large enough issue understanding anyone with a reasonable accent, and she just makes it unbearable for me (may have something to do with my slightly hearing deficiency). Personally I really like moletrap and doa because they both bring an insight to the game, and moletrap I feel brings a korean style commentating, but in english of course.
And who can't love Tastosis XD. isnt that an issue with you rather than her? Not trying to be mean or anything, but if you can't hear someone then why would you blame them?
I blame them because I can understand every other caster no problem in the GSL. The fact that her accent is so thick, and she is doing English commentary is a problem. English commentators have to be able to speak clear English, thats just the way commentary works. Until she is practiced enough in English to speak without an accent, I don't think she should be an English caster. By all means the rest of her casting is fine and thats why I didn't put horrible.
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On May 18 2011 16:54 Drygioni wrote:
I like all of them, although tastosis are the best ofc. Kelly had decent game knowledge and denied a high 5 to artosis, doa makes D&D references and moletrap is all around funny guy.
Should put jason lee in the poll for lulz.
"slip a cannon in you backyard" anyone? or something simliar xD
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don't vote for tasteless anymore, he's at 1337 
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I don't like DOA or Moletrap casting to much nothing against them either but just not to my taste. They don't really add much to the games they are casting in my opinion.
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Kelly was really smart and understood zerg players really well. She also understood protoss openers very well too. I can see how many cant get past her accent, but if you like analytic casters she is great. She is also animated, so she does a great job in my opinion.
Doa, on the other hand, tends to cut Moletrap off and is wrong a lot. Personally, I dont like his humor either. I do hold him to the standard of Tastetosis, but he is clearly the worst of the 5 casting english GSL.
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excelent - 99% of the time he's right
average - very lucky artosis is there to correct him politely. Tasteless used to be the funny one in the relationship, but I think Dan's humor as of late has surpassed Tasteless'
bad - game knowledge is a little lacking at least the last time I saw her commentate.
average - He's no artosis, but he's improving a lot so I can't hate on doa.
good - surprisingly good for someone I'd never heard of. Again... he's no artosis
I'm a big fan of some player casters. I think IdrA and Sheth do a great job as does Day9. TSL finals was awesome and Chill does a really good job. Go day9!
Hotbid is the best obs.
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Artosis and Tasteless are sometimes the only reason why I watch the GSL. But the other casters in the poll I haven't watched that much of, so I decided not to vote on them.
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92% excellent, these numbers are amazing.
Artosis bring it to the next level, he should start comparing him self with CNN journalists.
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Good ("Average" might've been a better choice.)
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This thread is really just flame baiting, but all I want to really say is that there are some casters that make me watch a match even when I have no other vested interests in it or the players - only Tastosis consistently does that for me. Day9 and some euro combinations of TLO/DeMu/Rotterdam/Khaldor aren't too bad also.
Side note: I'll miss DOA, I really felt that he was underrated as a caster.
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On May 18 2011 16:12 KMARTRULES wrote:
Anyone who votes horrible or even bad are either trolls or have really high standards, all the casters have done a great job.
Have to agree with this.
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Until I hear some PLAYGUUU or REEBUH x9000 I can't comment 
Honestly there could be worse casters than those five
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Tastosis is just perfect. I LOVE them :D
I don't like Doa + Moletrap, but those guys trying to do their best and I think they will be good casters soon.
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On May 19 2011 02:56 bruteMax wrote:Show nested quote +On May 18 2011 16:12 KMARTRULES wrote:
Anyone who votes horrible or even bad are either trolls or have really high standards, all the casters have done a great job. Have to agree with this.
We have such a high standards for the commentators because it's the biggest league with the best players, and it has a monthly fee. We want the best out of it, and nothing besides tastosis is really getting me to watch it.
I used to watch every single code a and code s vod, but this season I couldn't even watch the code a final, because they just annoy/bore me with their commentating. After so many seasons with tastosis, it's no wonder nothing compares quite as much, and that is the problem Gsl have right now.
Us viewers have been spoiled for so long with tastosis, and everything else just doesn't compare and lessens the entire viewing experience.
This teamleague for example has been much less entertaining for me, and it's entirely because of the quality of the casting. If I had known they wouldn't use tastosis at all, I might not have bothered to pay for it at all, and that would've been my first GSL thing I wouldn't have paid for.
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Artosis and Tasteless are epic. Kelly is horrible, Doa is average, and so is Moletrap.
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