I vote for FITES. Its in my area, and I think it has potential. Not only that, but I think it'll be more accessible by more people.

Academically: I love communication and science, astronomy and cosmology to be exact. Communication because I think its fascinating to see the different ways humans communicate with each other, and the norms within communication. Also the differences between how men and women communicate is interesting, and how they act differently during given situations. Also, finding norms and patterns in communication on social networks is very fascinating to me. As for astronomy and cosmology, well, the universe is just fucking awesome. It's incredible what all is out there, and its quite saddening that we will hardly get to explore it in this generation. I could talk for hours on this topic.

Personally: I love tennis. Was a beast of a tennis player through highschool. Played in a national tournament, as well as some other high level tournaments. Could have played NCAA D2 tennis at my school, but got lazy and just wanted to focus on school work. Though I still get out and play from time to time. I also love broadcasting, and want to make it a future career if possible (sports broadcasting). If not, I have backup plans since its a tough industry. But I have a radio show at my college radio station, and I will also be broadcasting some of my schools ice hockey games this year, as well as basketball possibly.

I agree, there was feedback that was absolutely useful. And there was also some that was just complaining, and offered no help. And I appreciate your feedback as well, anyones for that matter, as long as its something constructive. I'm a caster that tries to improve the quality of my work constantly, so any useful feedback is appreciated. And by that, I mean something besides "know the game better" because yes, I know I don't know the game well enough. I've honestly heard that enough for now.

I've played this game for about a year, and competitively for the same amount of time. I'm not going to know everything about it yet, but thats why I continue to play and improve my understanding. Having the opportunity to watch these players also teaches me a lot about the game, and I'm glad I get to do that.

With all of that being said, I'm not going to understand this game fully overnight. Its going to be a process that continues to develop over time. I'd gladly continue to take any feedback that can help me improve.

Also, I thoroughly enjoy talking about video games. Just as much as playing them.

I have an understanding of the game that extends beyond Silver. I have a pretty decent understanding of the game, but not good enough to try and explain whats going on at all times. Sorry I'm not the invite level caster you were looking for.

Correction: I play this game competitively.

I do play this game, and competitively.

Yes, I never played invite, or at a super high level, but I do play by play casting. I'm not required to know every facet of the game, that's what the color caster is for.

Thanks for your opinions from throughout the event.

Exactly.

I'm glad I can read a killfeed, because that combined with having a deep voice at least makes me seem like I can cast

5'8"

Lets do it.

I'm hoping the Flyers can get a good season going. Made it to the playoffs last year, just barely lost to the Rangers. I don't really think they have what it takes to win the cup, with lacking defense and sometimes spotty goal tending. But hey, they're my team. Go Flyers.

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Absolutely right. While this game is mainly popular in Asia and South America, North America can actually compete on the global stage. One of the best NA teams just went down to Brazil for their CF Stars LAN qualifier for an exhibition to play against their best teams, and won every match if I'm not mistaken. I also believe it was WCG 2012 when Hammertime took 2nd, losing to the best team in the world from China in the final.

Most competition is in China and SA. Not too many people have heard about it, but I'd go out on a limb and say that this is the most popular FPS game over in the Asia region. I could be wrong, but I wouldn't doubt that it is. Pretty much every WCG and CF Stars before this had at least 100k prize pools.

Well out of all of those F2P games that you listed, at least in the NA scene, CrossFire has had the longest active competitive community out of all of them. CF has also seen the most amount of competition compared to those others, having more tournaments, larger prize pools, more consistent teams, and more LAN tournaments. And out of all of those games, CF is really the only active one competitively speaking in NA, the rest are pretty dead (except for Combat Arms, maybe kind of?). Granted CS is a much better game, and has a much larger competitive community, CF was still loads of fun. You could make it to the top without having to put in quite as much work as the top CS players, and still go to LAN events, travel internationally, and make a little bit of money.

Hey guys, just wanted to type something up quick about a cast/event that I'll be doing this upcoming weekend, and I'd love to see any support you can offer on the stream. Now I've casted two WCG USA LANs as well as obviously getting to cast games for this great community, and will be attending GXL to cast as well. This past week I was given the greatest casting opportunity so far though, for the game that I got my start in, which is CrossFire. For those of you that don't know what it is, it's basically a free, not as well done version of CS 1.6.

This weekend I will be flying out to Los Angeles, California to cast from the ESL Studio that they have out there (actually in Burbank) for the CrossFire Stars North American Qualifiers. Basically, CrossFire Stars is the biggest international tournament held every year, where the best teams from around the world meet up to fight it out on LAN for a $220,000 prize pool. The NA qualifiers will not be on LAN though, and only one team from NA goes to South Korea for the grand finals. You can find more info on it here if you wish to do so. It's interesting to see the level of production and stat tracking that goes into the whole league/tournament for teams and players.
http://www.crossfirestars.com/en/

Basically why I'm here though, is because I'd love your guys' support on the stream if you have some free time on Saturday and Sunday. I'm not sure exactly what the viewer base will be, since the game has died quite a bit over the past year in the North American scene. That's why I want to get the stream as many viewers as possible. Getting to cast from the ESL studio (picture below) is going to be quite an experience.

I don't have a stream link, or exact times for cast start times yet, but I will edit this post and put them on here once they become available. Thanks again for any support you can give, and if I don't see you then, see you at GXL!

Stream and Schedule:
October 4, 2014 from 12:00PM ~ 8:00PM EDT
October 5, 2014 from 12:00PM ~ 8:00PM EDT
http://www.twitch.tv/national_esl1_hd
http://twitch.tv/crossfireonline

http://i.imgur.com/DlZ9uJe.png

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