EPTWorld Cup casting compared to SC2 casting - Page 4
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WGT-Baal
France3360 Posts
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Thalandros
Netherlands1151 Posts
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skrzmark
United States1528 Posts
Also, offsides exist because you can literally kick the ball from one side of the court to the other. | ||
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GizmoPT
Portugal3040 Posts
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SuperHofmann
Italy1741 Posts
On June 21 2014 06:33 nkr wrote: I wish some caster would be this intense when someone puts down an early pool Tiziano Crudeli, one of the most epic italian commentator... LOL | ||
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ZenithM
France15952 Posts
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bigbadgreen
United States142 Posts
I think a major advantage for the WC and other sports for that matter is the scale and ability to see the majority of the playing surface in the screen shot at once. I don't think you can solve this issue. While in football you can get a rough idea of what's going on at all times anywhere on the field, in SC2 the size of the maps to units would make you lose track if they zoomed to that same size. Overall I think sc2 casting has come a long way, but it has a long way to go to maximize it's potential. You also have to take into account the time and money lead that other sports have. The broadcasts are more polished because they have the resources to dedicate to making it polished. The size of crews involved, and the equipment involved is mind blowing. | ||
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Arceus
Vietnam8333 Posts
For example, you are right that ESPN soccer's commentary is terrible, but those from Sky Sport or StarSport Asia are pretty decent. Also theres a lot more of stats, tidbits and trivia in football than that in sc2, thus casters who do their homework surely entertain you better. Meanwhile, the like of Moletrap back in the day didnt know jack about the GSL he was casting. Still theres one thing in common: Korean casters in SC & Brazilian/Spanish ones in football. Holyhell I dont understand shit about what they are spitting but Im definitely excited and into the game. Also back in the day some channels used to have a special sound effect whenever one team scores, like a circus sound with twisted team name iirc. Pretty awesome | ||
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Noonius
Estonia17413 Posts
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urboss
Austria1223 Posts
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TaShadan
Germany1969 Posts
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dNa
Germany591 Posts
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Hangman89
Singapore43 Posts
On June 21 2014 12:26 Roswell wrote: I was first team all state as a midfielder, granted I probably wasnt good enough to make a starter in college but I know plenty about football. The game would be better without offsides being a penalty. Would get rid of some of that stupendous defenders advantage. You basically cant burn someone one on one past college. When you have an average of 2.3 goals scored per game, (world cup,) you have a high majority of games that end with one bad call or no call, which results in a free kick. So all that effort 90+ mins goes to waste because of a questionable call. I mean hell, the first game of this world cup was decided by a brazil player diving. And not only that if the game results in a tie, you simply do penalty kicks and remove anything resembling a team sport to a simple mechanical skill. Imagine if Basketball at the end of a tie was decided by whoever couldnt make the next free throw loses. And perhaps the worst part of football is their is no coaching during the game, besides calling a sub, you have 15 minutes during half time to go over things. American Football the coach is probably the single biggest factor besides having a great QB. There are no plays in soccer other than positional battles. Basketball has 200+ plays, soccer has "give and go"? Free kick and Corners? Football is amazing because it has basically zero commercials and is by far imo the best sport for schools. But MLS and Premiere is so boring, remove offsides and you have a better game. I dont know what game you are watching or claiming to have played, but it sure as hell is not football. | ||
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Zprit
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Ardias
Russian Federation609 Posts
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Vertigro
United Kingdom261 Posts
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Ender985
Spain910 Posts
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fmod
Cayman Islands330 Posts
Also, football matches last for a full 90 minutes along with half-time and stuff, so it's hard to keep up the chatter and excitement all game long. | ||
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submarine
Germany290 Posts
WC commentary can be emotional because it really is exiting for a caster to comment on his national team. This is believable and does not seem fake to me. SC2 casting on the other hand can be cringeworthy. Stop tanking yourself so seriously. Who the fuck thought wearing suits to comment on two nerds playing a videogame against each other would be a good idea? In the last days I have seen a lot of german WC coverage. Very seldom do I see ties in this footage. There is a reason for that. Formal and serious is not fun. People watch the WC for fun. The best SC2 casting I have seen was at HSC. The casting there is less "professional". There is a lot more real humor and at the same time there is often more real insight offered. The players and casters alike are more real and try less to imitate TV sport casts targeted at wider audiences. They do not try to fake emotions as much. The worst offenders in my opinion are the English proleague casters apart from moonglade. | ||
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aerlins
Austria4 Posts
How many people watching the world cup, are playing soccer by themselfes or have at least in the near past? And how much of the people watching sc2 streams are playing sc2 themself activly? Next difference is, sc2 is way way way more complex then soccer, basicly u can tell anyone in 5 minutes the most important things of soccer and he can allready watch and understand whats going on in a soccer game....try that for sc2, wouldn t work, aber 5 minutes of explanations the person would still have absolutely no clue whats goin on in a sc2 game. I wrote a post yesterday about how i think a lot of casters are not doing very well in knowing the game. And i still think this is true. A full time caster has to at least have the knowledge of a masters zerg, terran and protoss players since it maybe takes like 2 hours a day average on practice and informing yourself to be on that level. I just want to mention some good examples of casters in terms of knowledge, day9, apollo, wolf, rotterdam.... I don t want any super deep analysis in games, but at least proper knowledge, i think artosis was the best caster some years ago, nowadways if feels like hes playing and casting too many other games. | ||
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