EPTMoletrap leaves GOM - Page 31
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Not that I don't like Tastosis, but I'm sometimes tired with their filler stuff. Moletrap instead talked about players, who they are, their statistics and I really respect that, he is the caster that made players seem less random to me. Sometimes he even brought some fun facts about them. Kids jumped on this whole Moletrap hate bandwagon with no reason, but this guy knows his shit. As Warlord_Master said, this guy deserves a lot more respect than he gets. | ||
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On April 17 2012 14:34 entrust wrote: I don't understand all the Moletrap bashing, after all the criticism he received when he was starting to cast in GSL he really stepped his game up. IMO this is the caster that made the biggest progress in this whole SC2 world. Not that I don't like Tastosis, but I'm sometimes tired with their filler stuff. Moletrap instead talked about players, who they are, their statistics and I really respect that, he is the caster that made players seem less random to me. Sometimes he even brought some fun facts about them. Kids jumped on this whole Moletrap hate bandwagon with no reason, but this guy knows his shit. As Warlord_Master said, this guy deserves a lot more respect than he gets. It's his voice, and his constant WHOAAAAAAAAAAA OHHHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOO OHHHHHHHH that pisses people off. Every time he raises his voice I end up muting my stream because his voice makes my ear hurt. I thought that was obvious no? | ||
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Waiting on his reply. OGN would be sweet, just happy for him to stay in KR and do what he loves. though i wont be watching LOL even if he's casting. Moletrap instead talked about players, who they are, their statistics and I really respect that Right on! that is proper commentating. Moletrap was the 1st to do this on GOM. Tastosis constantly ignores stuff like this. Wolf performs well in this area. I love hearing the background of a player and getting to know him and his style better. | ||
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ZenithM
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On April 17 2012 14:34 entrust wrote: I don't understand all the Moletrap bashing, after all the criticism he received when he was starting to cast in GSL he really stepped his game up. IMO this is the caster that made the biggest progress in this whole SC2 world. Not that I don't like Tastosis, but I'm sometimes tired with their filler stuff. Moletrap instead talked about players, who they are, their statistics and I really respect that, he is the caster that made players seem less random to me. Sometimes he even brought some fun facts about them. Kids jumped on this whole Moletrap hate bandwagon with no reason, but this guy knows his shit. As Warlord_Master said, this guy deserves a lot more respect than he gets. Everyone knew he was getting his so-called "stats" directly from TLPD rather than actually knowing the players like Artosis, Wolf and even Khaldor do. He was the caster with the least knowledge of the Korean scene, and the least knowledge of the game altogether. Seems like he lived off mainly of his BW knowledge alone, but that was not enough in the end and he had nothing to compensate for this (average-to-annoying voice, bad humor attempts). Moletrap's critics are hate-filled, yes, but they are so for a reason, there is no smoke without fire. Now Moletrap was not the worst he could have been, imagine if he had been venting his BW background like HD does by calling every unit/building by its BW equivalent's name or calling Nestea "Zergbong", faking an old-school nostalgia every time. That would have been fun. | ||
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On April 17 2012 09:57 sc2superfan101 wrote: i'm not saying that caster's haven't improved. some of them have, some of them haven't. i'm saying that it makes no sense to me that any of their improvements came from constructive criticism threads based on the lack of quality in any of those threads. and i'm not so sure that they almost always see the criticism. i sure as hell wouldn't be reading a thread about me if i was a caster. what can you really expect? a whole slew of trolls who either hate you or love you and then a few people who can never agree on what actually needs to be fixed. it would be impossible for them not to know what the general feeling of the community about them is, but that even furthers my argument that a thread would have done moletrap no good whatsoever. a very vocal, sizable part of the community hated the guy's casting, and i'm sure he was aware of that. why would he then go into a "constructive" criticism thread about himself populated by those same people who can't stand him? that wouldn't be good for him, it would be terrible! reading over a 1,000 posts about how bad you are would be bad for anyone's self esteem, even if they had rhino skin and a very healthy sense of self-worth. my advice to a caster would be to never read anything about yourself on the internet. they should know what they need to improve on without having to sift through mountains of bad posts. some of them probably do check out the criticism threads every once in a while. some of them probably do try to keep some of that criticism in mind. i highly doubt that they have ever gotten anything really useful from a thread like that though. I definitely agree that some casters stay exactly the same throughout their tenure at whatever organization they happen to be stationed at. I also agree that the threads are full of people who are the antithesis of what the thread asks for- constructive criticism. Its either "I hate your casting" or "I love your casting" and you might have to hunt for some truly genuine posts from people who want to see the caster succeed, instead of either disappearing or remaining exactly the same. Love it or hate it, CatsPajamas will always say "Old Generation Starcrafters" and Moletrap will always have his signature voice and style, etc etc. And I also agree that Moletrap must have known about the mass of people who believed he lowered the entertainment value of GSL... As for the threads being helpful/whether or not the casters view them I guess we would have to find out directly from them [the casters] So yeah TLDR that seems pretty solid Hope I mentioned moletrap enough to keep this on topic, because it does have to do with (speculatively) reasons for him moving on | ||
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On April 17 2012 15:51 ZenithM wrote: Everyone knew he was getting his so-called "stats" directly from TLPD rather than actually knowing the players like Artosis, Wolf and even Khaldor do. He was the caster with the least knowledge of the Korean scene, and the least knowledge of the game altogether. Seems like he lived off mainly of his BW knowledge alone, but that was not enough in the end and he had nothing to compensate for this (average-to-annoying voice, bad humor attempts). Moletrap's critics are hate-filled, yes, but they are so for a reason, there is no smoke without fire. Now Moletrap was not the worst he could have been, imagine if he had been venting his BW background like HD does by calling every unit/building by its BW equivalent's name or calling Nestea "Zergbong", faking an old-school nostalgia every time. That would have been fun. What is wrong using TLPD as a caster? Loads of casters use it, its still by far the best resource for data on players. Who cares where the stats come from? He's not opening up Liquipedia and just showing you that. You make it sound like casters that prepare their casts, studying things like Liquipedia are doing something wrong? I hold only respect to casters that take their job seriously and actually knuckles down and prepares for their matches - Apollo is a great example of this; Hard work both playing, casting and studying stats improved his casting sooo much, and he regulary gives shoutouts to Liquipedia (which is much appreciated by the contributors). | ||
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