Listening to the talk on User Generated Content which they used the acronym UGC for.. was very confusing for a second. I had it on in the background.

Thanks, but as I said, I know he denies it. I just doubt that Nintendo wouldn't want to protect their IP considering this is INCREDIBLY similar to it.

I'm thinking of things that would make me want to throw away my 50k a day life, and "not wanting to be famous" isn't on the list

You may be right but.. it smells like Nintendo threatening to sue the shit out of him to me, even though he says that's not it.

I think Valve's problem is there are too many weapons that were terrible ideas to start with, and now they can't take them OUT OF THE GAME - they're forced to try to jiggle them around and somehow magically fix them.

Had a blast casting this; hell of a match!

Thanks to dashner and duder for their fantastic work on all of this! I'm stoked to go watch the VOD myself.

Shoutout to london and Marxist as well on a great cast.

Congrats to the Buds, amd a great season for QF as well!

Check out the VOD linked above. Really top-end UI graphics, transitions, overlays, a bunch more. Dashner put a lot of work into it.

Looks sick!

My feeling is the Polar Bear's superior weapons, its claws and teeth, would beat the Gorilla.

That is, if the Gorilla doesn't knock it out. Which feels unlikely.

UGC stands for United Gaming Clans

http://i.imgur.com/Nec0ytu.jpg

GO BUDSQUAD!

RIP. Really sad news, fantastic actor in dozens of films.

*Super Bowl

(Two words)

Watched a bit of it, looks okay. To answer some of your questions..

Re: Camera work..

If you know how sixes works, you will know about what is happening at any given time. You will want to capture moments such as a team building uber, preparing pushes and so on. You will need to take note of when teams will be going in for bombs or picks, and watching those classes. From this cast you seem to understand these things. At any given point in a match, there will be some combo or flanker that is "DOING" something - almost like phases. There should never be a "throwaway" camera switch, ideally.

For mids, some camera people like to take it onto free cam and hover above a mid point on initial mid, some don't. If you do it, make sure to turn your sensitivity way down and not shake around a lot. There are people on the forums and in the community who like this, and those who don't (probably leaning toward don't)

Oh also if you haven't already - hotkey every player. So you can switch to them without clicking all around. In general, a ton of camera switches is not desirable. Stay with one combo or flanker for a while if you can. It'll allow you to talk about what's going through their head/possible strats/etc.

And connected to that, to answer your question about talking over one another, it's not always easy. In an environment where you can't see visual cues from one another, it can be tough. If you do want to emulate TF.TV, alternate mids; one caster takes one mid, describes what's up, talk through most of the picks at mid while the other person doesn't speak. From there you try your best to alternate insight/calls/PBP/whatever. You can discuss this beforehand too so you both know what to expect from one another. Casting with a partner is never perfect the first time, but work at it and you will improve.

Re: aliases, in an environment like this, ESEA LAN, probably everyone knew who the couple aliasers were. But normally, you'd want to mention it a few times if you could i.e. "that's enigma on Scout, tagged up as 'woad ashe' currently" You don't necessarily have to mention that every time, just reminders if it's not an obvious alias. Sometimes if a whole team or 6-7 people are aliasing, it may be easier to just apologize and read out what peoples tags are - some players like to mess with casters in this way. It's great. Luckily ESEA and ETF2L have the client or rules that prevent waaaaacky nicknames.

But yeah you guys seem smart and seem to know the game, work on going back and forth (like a talking tennis match) and you'll see better results for sure. EDIT: And to agree with above, more enthusiasm in your voice is important. You may feel excited about the play, but need to use your voice as an instrument to demonstrate that. Your voice is all you have as a caster!

Hype Williams

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ETF2L and UGC select their best of the year in similar ways, in that they're either nominated and/or voted by players and members of that same division. Maybe by limiting this to ESEA members, it could be a little less of a popularity contest than if it was just open to public. Idea being that if you played in and followed ESEA all season, you'd have better knowledge of the teams and players than some (but obviously not all! I know there are plenty of people on the forums here who know a ton about this past season) of the non-playing public. You'd be trying to avoid people writing in stabby for every position or shit like that.

At least in theory, you could get better results this way. Although no system is perfect.