EPTHow can a caster become known? - Page 2
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Rockztar
Denmark210 Posts
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Seraphone
United Kingdom1219 Posts
So work primarily on getting really good and knowledgeable. There's a lot of casters in the scene but not a lot of great casters. | ||
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Heweree
United Kingdom497 Posts
There are so few good foreign casters, something like 5-6 in the world. I believe that if you are really good you will get noticed. | ||
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Footler
United States560 Posts
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." Basically just put yourself out there, if you get an offer to cast some unknown tournament with 23 viewers and you are completely able to commit to it then just go for it. Keep up that kind of work and your name will sort of get in circulation and you never know when Tastosis' flight to MLG gets cancelled due to weather and djwheat/Day9/MrBitter/etc get bumped up into the premier casting position and they need a caster for the other streams. Suddenly your name is dropped to the MLG staff and BAM there is your breakout event. So it seems like luck but in reality you were aggressively preparing just for an opportunity such as that to pop up! Also, in the meantime it doesn't hurt to do something that makes you stand out from the other casters. | ||
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Utinni
Canada1196 Posts
That's what I would do if I was casting atleast. | ||
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FuzzyJAM
Scotland9300 Posts
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windsupernova
Mexico5280 Posts
It will be hard and it may not pay off but thats the only way I can see someone standing out atm.Unless of course you are a much much better caster than everybody else that people will notice you because of how damn good you are but honestly I think thats a stretch. Market yourself. | ||
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NadaSound
United States227 Posts
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Reval
United States297 Posts
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Zeetee
United States153 Posts
User was temp banned for this post. | ||
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kju
6143 Posts
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=295784 there are some advices if u want to become a caster | ||
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Shikyo
Finland33997 Posts
However let's take your casting. I only watched one VOD but this is the feel I got. It's very monotone / uninteresting to me and you ramble about random stuff that sounds awkward rather than funny to me. I didn't really find that you added anything to the game, it just kind of was in the background. I think the analysis was very shallow and the play-by-play isn't crazy either(Like Tobi Wan Kenobi as an example), so I honestly became quite bored after a few minutes even though the game itself wasn't that bad. I honestly think there's dozens of similiar decent-voice, play-by-play, shallow analysis commentators. The best thing you can currently do in my opinion is to understand the game at a high level and be able to articulate well. You don't actually need to know how to play well even though it helps, you can study replays and try to analyse them very hard and try to understand why the players do what they do. You can gain knowledge of the game like that as well, but in my opinion at these times it's very important to impress others with your game knowledge not being lackluster. Then it's just yeah, contacting the tournament organizers and maybe sending them example VODs. Even if you aren't known at all, if they like your commentating you should be hired, because in the end popularity doesn't matter as much to the organizers assuming you really are that good. However for you personally you should be concentrating on improving your commentating before worrying about getting known somehow. | ||
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Skaminator
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NerdCRAFT
United States53 Posts
However let's take your casting. I only watched one VOD but this is the feel I got. It's very monotone / uninteresting to me and you ramble about random stuff that sounds awkward rather than funny to me. I didn't really find that you added anything to the game, it just kind of was in the background. I think the analysis was very shallow and the play-by-play isn't crazy either(Like Tobi Wan Kenobi as an example), so I honestly became quite bored after a few minutes even though the game itself wasn't that bad. I honestly think there's dozens of similiar decent-voice, play-by-play, shallow analysis commentators. Thank you for the feedback! I try to make the game interesting as for the rambling it has recently become a bad habit of mine that I am trying to break, so it's nice to know that there are people who will tell me what they don't like. As for the understanding of the game, I thought I did have a pretty good understanding of tactics within the game, but I haven't been updating myself so to speak. So I will continue studying the game and hopefully make it interesting! Thank you very much!^^ And thanks everyone who has been replying I have a lot of good ideas now. | ||
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BearStorm
United States795 Posts
Why am I making these points? Because I feel like there is a large influx of casters who are late to the game but have a lot of talent. The community should recognize this and raise their standards for casters. So hopefully there will be some turnover and if you are the next big thing hopefully you can get a shot if you do well where other casters have not. | ||
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stormseeker442
United States60 Posts
and of course myself [/QUOTE] sure ill subscribe why not! :D | ||
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phiinix
United States1169 Posts
If you're going to make yourself known, you need to be different. I CAN'T STRESS THAT ENOUGH. There HAS to be a reason for me to watch you over Husky or day9. THERE MUST BE. If you're going to open the game and talk about how daybreak is a 2 player map, talk about idra being a macro player, talk about him being "emotional" when it comes to losing, you're instantly tossed into my "standard caster bucket". You stumble over some of your words; if it takes you too long to convey what you want to say, i'm not interested. The words I hear should be flowing out as fast and as smoothly as I can think of them myself. The example of this is 2:55 video time OZ v Idra. Starts out okay, gets to the point where I wish you would just move on to the next point. Imo there's no more room for play-by-play casters. Unless you're faster than Husky, more unconventional than Total Biscuit, or more respected than Wheat, you're not going to make it big from standard stuff. | ||
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NerdCRAFT
United States53 Posts
sure ill subscribe why not! :D Thank You!^^ | ||
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Koshi
Belgium38797 Posts
Maybe you should try to cast some tournaments? I don't know much about it. | ||
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mango_destroyer
Canada3914 Posts
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