On August 04 2013 23:19 Tiaraju9 wrote: Its strange how people put relevance on "fun factor". Can be nice here and there of course, but I don't want casters focusing on being funny. I'm worried that the kind of feedback in this thread could lead to it.
None. Most of the best casters, like artosis and tasteless don't read these threads or skim them. Artosis has said that threads are not a good place to find useful feed back.
IdrA is an incredible caster. Yesterday was the first time I heard him in his "new" form, where he has clearly practiced casting and worked on not being monotone. I haven't been keeping up with all the major tournaments but I really hope IdrA is getting picked for a lot of them.
Idra was ok, but I couldn't bare to hear Khaldors praises over players he clearly favoured. He doesn't distance himself from player he roots for and the entire cast suffers.
I think Apollo has matured into a brilliant caster. He's versatile, and can cast along pretty much anyone. That being said, Artosis and Idra are favorites much due to their persona and "aura"
I dub thee the casting egg. I like them because Khaldor actually asks Idra questions. This has always bothered me about play by play casters, I think maybe some don't want to appear like they don't understand the game so they hold back on asking even basic questions.
It sucks that arguably the best casting duo ever (snm and whiplash) won't be a thing anymore because of school. They were one of the best, if not the best, casting duo since the start of sc2.
They have perfect synergy, great play by plays, and snm is one of the best analytical casters to date (4th after idra, artosis, Apollo), they have the perfect casting voices, 95% of their calls are correct. I cant ask for a better duo than snm and whiplash.
The current duos are very good at casting, but just not as good as whiplash and snm. Those two together are what I consider near perfect when it comes to sc2 casting.
There is literally no point to a play by play caster. Any analytical caster can do that part too so why bother having one guy that can do two things and one guy that can only do one when you can have two guys who can do both? And Khaldor's play by play is like he has a mental template: "the [race] player is moving in and dropping in supply but the problem for the [team] player is that".
Wondering if I'm the only one who likes every single casting duo there is. There are two that I'm rather reluctant to pick, or rather, would not pick if there were an English alternative:
1. Tastosis has been around for so long, I sometimes pick another caster just because. Not saying they're bad or anything, but really it's getting stale.
2. The proleague casters can be a little...off sometimes. They improved over the course of proleague, and by the final rounds I was hardly cringing at all, but the bad taste of rounds 1-3 still surface sometimes.
There did a great job, no complaints. But the #1 casting duo is Tastetosis. They cast the best players, on the biggest stages, and they just have a chemistry that is on a different level than any other duo because they have done it together for so long. Apollo is pretty much great with anyone
On August 05 2013 00:24 xAdra wrote: Wondering if I'm the only one who likes every single casting duo there is. There are two that I'm rather reluctant to pick, or rather, would not pick if there were an English alternative:
1. Tastosis has been around for so long, I sometimes pick another caster just because. Not saying they're bad or anything, but really it's getting stale.
I can support these sentiment. Most, if not all, casting pairs have improved a lot and I won't exclude a tournament/league because of the casters (I do have favorites, but none of them make me cringe or turn volume off). Tastosis seems to have lost their edge, because their humor and jokes have not grown over the past few years!
I like Apollo/Day9 a lot. Day9/DJWheat isn't bad either. I only briefly saw Khaldor/IdrA, but it seemed pretty good as well. Artosis and Rotterdam are pretty good casters as well, at least individually speaking. I don't like Tastosis because I think Tasteless isn't a very good caster, as I'm pretty sure he views it more as a job at his point in life with side perks while his passion for the game seems to have died out.
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