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On March 22 2011 11:34 Kennigit wrote:

It's only ro32

On March 27 2011 08:03 eoLithic wrote:
Tonight I watched TSL3, as most of the people that will read this post did.

I was especially looking forward to tonights' games beacuse Chill, a commentator I love was going to commentate. He is not afraid to say his opinion about players and their playstyle, and he gives credit where credit is due.

Also, the matches. Three of the finest koreans(mvp, genius and nestea) was facing three of the finest foreigners.

Now I was cheering for the koreans, as I always do, and having watched most of the "koreans vs. foreigners" tournaments since beta, I did expect alot of conclusion being made as far as the legendairy "skill gap" goes, but boy was I suprised.

Without making any statements about the situation in the BW seen vs. the current SC2 scene, I know that the gap in BW has always been huge and that now with SC2 being a fairly new game, foreigners are doing pretty well.

I also understand and have to agree with people getting excited and emotional when foreigners happens to take matches of koreans, but what I watched tonight(TSL3), took this to a new level.

The skill gap seemed to dissapear after an hour of Chill talking exclusively about how the foreigners are finally almost, if not as good as the koreans. Every single move, every single engagement, every single match and the reflections made based on the outcome was focuced on the korean players nationality.

It was so obvious and eventually took over almost all the commentating, from Chills side that is and ended up coming off a little unproffesional for me.

Husky was somewhat keeping his cool and commentating the games and Chill was still doing awesome analyzis and all, but at one points nothing could go by without something being said about the "korea vs. the rest" topic.

I mean arn`t commentators meant to cast the game between to proffesional players that is undeniably extremely skilled at a game and to some extend put aside their nationality/background?

If we look at a couple of statements I presume is correct:

- The foreigners probably practiced harder than ever before
- The foreigners has so much info to work with concerning the koreans playstyle

- Without knowing too much about their preperation, I do not think the koreans prepared alot specifically for this tournament


Now, the foreigners played great do not get me wrong and so did the koreans, but there were no mercy for the koreans what so ever and the commentators, especially Chill made huge assumptions after every single engagement and/or match concerning the skill gap betweem the scenes being crushed.

IdrA, Jinro, MorroW has lost games to way lesser players countless of times, yet we don`t jump yo conclusions about the lesser player catching up skill-wise, beacuse let`s face it; anyone can have a bad day or get unlucky positions, die to a suprising timing-push or something similar.

What I`m trying to say here is that tonight, without trying to target Chill in any negative way concerning his casting or him in genereal, he made me feel like I was watching a series of games where the main focuse was to emberass the koreans.

This may seem abit too harsh, but I found it quite unproffesional actually to make the conclusion(s) Chill did.

Now I love Chill and that may be the reason why I am abit dissapointed in tonights commentating. He commentated extremely well, but the koreans vs. foreigners thing was abit too much.

Just commentate the game as what it is, a game between to proffesional players that represents themselves as players and should be treated as such when being commentated.

Loving TSL3 so far, but would appreciate future casters to maybe tone the war between scenes abit down^^

This goes for alot of other tournaments and casters ofc. The TSL3 tonight was just the example of my choice. No offence intended to Chill or the TSL tournament in general. Keep up the good work!

cheers for reading.

EDIT: I am in no way offended by the commentating. It simply took a huge bite out of what should have been proffesional commentating of the games.

It made it sound unproffesional to me.

On April 11 2011 06:39 Frankon wrote:
3) Hot_Bid i wish you would hide the UI during the big fights.

On April 20 2011 09:45 hifriend wrote:

I really disagree with this. I think it's vital that the minimap and preferably production tab is visible at all times, but especially during battles.