Khaldor's casting for GomTV - Feedback & Poll - Page 57

On July 23 2012 09:46 Jockmcplop wrote:


I have to agree with this. These are professional players, and yes, they will make mistakes, but a caster cannot know what the player is thinking when he does it. The mistake could be due to incomplete information of a situation, and given the information he has he was doing the best thing he could. Sometimes, Khaldor makes it seem like these guys just don't know what they're doing. He is consistent about it at least, and i don't notice him giving some players more stick than others. Sometimes i just think if the player had a chance to explain their mistakes, then they could probably explain why it wasn't actually a mistake, but bad luck or bad information.

edit: i think i pretty much quoted Day9 here when he was talking aobut casting (he wasn't talking about Khaldor), but the point is relevent here.

On July 23 2012 10:05 ridethecatbus wrote:
Read post 983 on page 50. You can all stop shitting on Khaldor now. He already said he's done with this thread.

On July 23 2012 21:15 vonKlaust II wrote:
Khaldor, I think you should tone down a bit. You keep shouting a bunch, and I kinda feel that the excitement isn't really sincere. There is no dishonour in shouting when you're really excited and the game is really thrilling, but please keep the screaming to those moments. This goes for alot of casters by the way.
Thanks.

On July 23 2012 17:13 plogamer wrote:

I'm sorry you think this is "shitting" on Khaldor.

I heard his cast where he said that he has to go through tons to BS that he cannot change, like his voice, in a feedback thread.

This isn't one of them. I have nothing against Khaldor personally; voice or otherwise. My post was about something that can be changed. I even made a suggestion towards achieving that.

But hey, it's his loss if he won't take any feedback because there's tons of useless feedbacks. GG, I'm done with this thread too.

On July 24 2012 22:56 shabby wrote:
Khaldor,

Please take this is constructive criticism. GSL is the best SC2 show, but by paying hundreds of dollars a year to watch I feel the crew should consider the following feedback. Since watching MLG Arena and coming back to Code A I spent some time trying to put my thoughts into words as to why the Code A experience is not as pleasant:

- Chemistry. It feels like wolf is casting with you and you are casting alone. You never ask him questions, you almost never really acknowledge what he said, often times you actually repeat it and try to make it sound your own.

- Cockblocking. When improvising in general or just attempting to act professional on "TV", it is imperative that you don't cockblock your co-host. When Wolf goes off on a rant or makes a joke or whatever, you say things like "okey...." or "what was that" etc. Even if you don't find it funny, it would go a LONG way to acknowledge what he said or even give a charity laugh. It is what every other professional does, and it is what makes people like DJwheat, artosis etc able to cast with just about anyone. Stop trying to make a fool out of wolf and just run with it. If you expose his weaknesses and don't play to his strengths you aren't doing your job right.

- Play by play. I firmly believe you should stop doing so much play by play, at least until you figure out what you can say to adds to the viewer experience. Most of the times you raise your voice, sometimes shouting, and begin to say things that have no meaning or no bearing on the game. Examples are "He is trying to do it", "He is going in" (10 seconds after the battle started), "He wants to make it work", "Oooh, wow, this is bad, this is really bad". I think it would be better if you comment on what is actually happening and/or what the consequences of such an engagement could be. If you aren't comfortable with it, maybe you can let Wolf do it every now and then, because right now you overrun him in that department.

Apart from that it's the same things for you as for 99% of casters or tv/radio hosts. Maybe read some more english to broaden your vocabulary (if you take your job seriously enough, I suppose) and maybe swap out an hour or two of your marathon casting with playing the game or analyzing strategies etc so you have more to bring to the table each cast.