Two years ago, the North American Star League welcomed Ben “MrBitter” Nichol into its casting team. Today, we wish him the best as he moves onto a new role in eSports with Red Bull. Over the years, the NASL team has grown quite close as an eSports family. As such, we remain supportive of each person’s growth and journey, whether they grow within our organization, move away from eSports, or move on to other roles. In the case of MrBitter, the next phase of his journey will be working for Red Bull eSports. For anyone who may be concerned by this, that journey will still likely involve StarCraft, as MrBitter stated, “StarCraft will still be a huge part of who I am and what I do.” Kevin “RotterdaM” van der Kooi will continue to anchor WCS America, which MrBitter assured is “going to be the best show ever now that he doesn’t have to carry me anymore.” Rest assured, the pair will still have opportunities to cast together. Kevin's new co-caster for WCS America will be announced soon. Thus, although we will miss him, we are excited for Ben and wish him the best at Red Bull.
no more mrbitter casting wcs America? so sad I wish him all the best of luck working with redbull though. redbull has been doing some great stuff for esports but I am kinda mad at them for stealing mrbitter....
Cool to see RB getting involved, obviously this marks a move for RedBull into more events! Sad to see Bitterdam break up, but change at NASL might not be too bad. Frodan and Gretorp leaving was a shock at first but it was for the better for all parties involved.
Hopefully NASL brings in a good new caster like Nathanias or something, though Nathanias lives in PA and moving to California might be tough.
For selfish reasons, this news sucks as Bitterdam was my favorite casting combo =(. As a fan of Bitter since the days he would post guides on the BNet forums, congrats man, best of luck!
Well that's probably a terrible long-term business decision. I mean I'm sure Bitter knows what dollar amount is worth it to him to make such a change, and made it. But it sure does seem like a downgrade job in every other way, just not in paycheque. Now Red Bull treats their people well, I'm sure it will be a great experience and wish Bitter the best of luck. It's too bad he has chosen to be less important, I wonder who NASL will replace him with?
On March 05 2014 06:46 darkscream wrote: Well that's probably a terrible long-term business decision. I mean I'm sure Bitter knows what dollar amount is worth it to him to make such a change, and made it. But it sure does seem like a downgrade job in every other way, just not in paycheque. Now Red Bull treats their people well, I'm sure it will be a great experience and wish Bitter the best of luck. It's too bad he has chosen to be less important, I wonder who NASL will replace him with?
How can you know that he will be less important? He may be less visible to the community, but that does not mean much.
On March 05 2014 06:46 darkscream wrote: Well that's probably a terrible long-term business decision. I mean I'm sure Bitter knows what dollar amount is worth it to him to make such a change, and made it. But it sure does seem like a downgrade job in every other way, just not in paycheque. Now Red Bull treats their people well, I'm sure it will be a great experience and wish Bitter the best of luck. It's too bad he has chosen to be less important, I wonder who NASL will replace him with?
So he will probably make more money, working for a company with a good reputation who will likely treat him well, and this is a terrible long-term decision? Because it makes him less important on Reddit?
Cool. So, why does Redbull eSports need casters, again? Are they making a new tournament or something, or did they pick him up as a player? I'm confused by this. Utterly confused...
On March 05 2014 06:55 dUTtrOACh wrote: Cool. So, why does Redbull eSports need casters, again? Are they making a new tournament or something, or did they pick him up as a player? I'm confused by this. Utterly confused...
He worked a lot "behind the scenes" at NASL so I guess he will do the same at Redbull.
On March 05 2014 06:55 dUTtrOACh wrote: Cool. So, why does Redbull eSports need casters, again? Are they making a new tournament or something, or did they pick him up as a player? I'm confused by this. Utterly confused...
He worked a lot "behind the scenes" at NASL so I guess he will do the same at Redbull.
I thought he was purely a caster just like Rotti?
It's no secret that you need passion to continue to work in the SC2 industry. I recall Khaldor saying that if he wanted a higher pay, he'd leave SC2 pronto. Axslav said that just casting doesn't really help make ends meets as well.
On March 05 2014 06:55 dUTtrOACh wrote: Cool. So, why does Redbull eSports need casters, again? Are they making a new tournament or something, or did they pick him up as a player? I'm confused by this. Utterly confused...
He worked a lot "behind the scenes" at NASL so I guess he will do the same at Redbull.
I thought he was purely a caster just like Rotti? .
Nah, Rotti oftentimes mentioned that Mr Bitter did a lot of stuff on the organizing behind the scenes part and stuff.
That's cool I guess. Was kind of hoping to see Day9 do more casting. Day9 doesn't seem very relevant anymore in the SC scene since he doesn't cast anything. Yes he does dalies and they get good viewer numbers but not like he use too.
Just throwing it out since a lot of names are floating out there, I'd love if they somehow get Ret. Loved him during HsCs and the last ESL.A Rotti/Ret pairing could potentially surpass their EU/KR equivalents. He said he wanted to get into casting right?
Tod/Rotti would also be insane, but I'm not sure if Tod fully wants to transition/leave his spot at ESL.
I'm glad these two (bitter and rotti) are being split up. When together, they talk so much about things other than the game at hand that it gets really annoying to listen. This change was necessary.
EPT
Probably Nathanias
