Kadka
STK Scientific
The Initiative.
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Posted - 2010.06.15 06:53:00 -
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Edited by: Kadka on 15/06/2010 06:54:50
TotalBiscuit, thank you for taking the time to provide your "professional" two cents. You provide good insight and background knowledge, something lacking in the thread thus far. As far as the commentators go, here's how I feel it:
Kil2, you generally know your stuff, but you come across as tense or nervous. Chill man, we're all hear to listen to you, and you do have a decent gist of what's going on on the field. Speak with conviction! Day 4 you were on your game much more and came across much smoother.
Verone I personally like to listen to a lot, as he has a naturally smooth voice and a gentle, humble attitude. He exudes a sense of joy at just being able to do what he's doing, which is really nice. He would be a great balance against someone like Kil2, filling the dead space between analytical statements and bouncing jokes back and forth. Regardless of the mistakes he makes, he's a keeper.
Darius might have been a decent leader ingame (c/d?), but his deadpan nature does not lend well to commentating. His jokes are flat and incredibly dry, and lend more to studio work (aka reading off a sheet). Switch Darius and Soundwave.
AngelHun is fantastic. His situational awareness and informational fill-ins are spot on. His only drawback is the nature of his voice; couple him with a high energy voice (Kil2) or a smooth talker (Verone) and you'd have quite the duo. PL vs. MoW was brilliantly done by both parties, and they lended well to each other.
Briana is not as terrible as people make her out to be, but she is by no means good in any way. All you crying sexism, you're a bunch of f-ing morons. Remove head from sphincter and actually listen to her. She is not a good speaker, and it has nothing to do with pronunciation (I don't care if you say bahl-gorn or bale-gorn), it has to do with delivery. Whether english is her first language or not, she needs lessons on smooth speech patterns.
For future tourneys, I'd love to see some indication of EW on our screens. For you who say give the commentators a break, no, screw you, I will not allow my intelligence to be insulted simply because you have incredibly low standards. An enjoyable experience for all (read "most") means the standards of the studio need to be higher than that of the status quo.
EDIT: BFish, QFT! |