EPTYou are mainly known for your “Breaking Out” series featuring a lot of up and coming North American players. Why did you start it?
I've been casting for a lot of Starcraft 2 now(winter 2010 for my CSL team, go Purdue!) and I've always been looking for more stuff I can do. The other thing that made me want to start the show was seeing how hard it was from up & coming players in the scene to get recognized. I cannot count the number of times I've seen some crazy upset in the early rounds of a qualifier. A decently well known Korean getting knocked out by a no name NA player that 95% of people have never heard of.
I want to get your perspective on North American scene. As some people may consider that the NA scene is one of the "weakest" scenes compared to the flourishing EU and KR region. I'm curious on your end, do you agree with this notion?
I definitely agree NA is the "weakest" region for Starcraft in some senses. There's always talk about Europe being stronger than North America in terms of player skill(let's not even go into Korea/Asia). Europe also has a lot more tournaments and events going on all the time that players can participate in. However, I think the only assumption I feel people wrongly make about North America is that we just lack the talent. I feel it's just not being tapped into properly because we're a bit behind in the driving factors for players. We need more events to encourage players.
Aside from SC2, is there anything you enjoy doing? Any hobbies?
I'm actually a software developer! I recently accepted a job at Amazon and I should be starting over there in about 2 months. Between that and Starcraft, most of my time is taken up. I have actually been doing martial arts for almost 12 or 13 years now though. Besides that, I enjoy sucking at DotA with some of my college friends.
I've been casting for a lot of Starcraft 2 now(winter 2010 for my CSL team, go Purdue!) and I've always been looking for more stuff I can do. The other thing that made me want to start the show was seeing how hard it was from up & coming players in the scene to get recognized. I cannot count the number of times I've seen some crazy upset in the early rounds of a qualifier. A decently well known Korean getting knocked out by a no name NA player that 95% of people have never heard of.
I want to get your perspective on North American scene. As some people may consider that the NA scene is one of the "weakest" scenes compared to the flourishing EU and KR region. I'm curious on your end, do you agree with this notion?
I definitely agree NA is the "weakest" region for Starcraft in some senses. There's always talk about Europe being stronger than North America in terms of player skill(let's not even go into Korea/Asia). Europe also has a lot more tournaments and events going on all the time that players can participate in. However, I think the only assumption I feel people wrongly make about North America is that we just lack the talent. I feel it's just not being tapped into properly because we're a bit behind in the driving factors for players. We need more events to encourage players.
Aside from SC2, is there anything you enjoy doing? Any hobbies?
I'm actually a software developer! I recently accepted a job at Amazon and I should be starting over there in about 2 months. Between that and Starcraft, most of my time is taken up. I have actually been doing martial arts for almost 12 or 13 years now though. Besides that, I enjoy sucking at DotA with some of my college friends.
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