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Was nice!

Also, the second map is up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dAlqeGWhXQ&hd=1

Quoted from Enef

Was a fun watch, though some of the commentating was cringe worthy to be honest.

do elaborate, it’s not feedback without explanation..

Quoted from torden

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He’s gonna be online any minute, SO EXCITED!!!

OMG OMG OMG :DDD

Quoted from nvc

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do elaborate, it’s not feedback without explanation..

Imagine if you were one of the yogscasts fans who had never played tf2 before or had only played very little, if a commentator started listing tournaments and achievements he has made as a player but then kept mentioning the weapons and how he wasn’t sure what they are or what they did it would probably seem a little silly to you.

At least, it made me cringe a little that all those almost 750,000 viewers would be hearing you say that you were extremely good at the game (which you are!) but that you didn’t know what half the weapons in the game did.

It’s something a lot of the regular casters we have in the game lack, the ability to research things a little bit outside of their own personal needs.

It’s understandable that as a player in a 6v6 environment you wouldn’t need to know all the weapons, even as a commentator for the 6v6 part of the game but as a commentator commentating on 9v9 to a huge variety of people, players and non players it’s kind of silly to not know what the weapons are and do (considering that highlander always almost all unlocks).

Quoted from Enef

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Imagine if you were one of the yogscasts fans who had never played tf2 before or had only played very little, if a commentator started listing tournaments and achievements he has made as a player but then kept mentioning the weapons and how he wasn’t sure what they are or what they did it would probably seem a little silly to you.

At least, it made me cringe a little that all those almost 750,000 viewers would be hearing you say that you were extremely good at the game (which you are!) but that you didn’t know what half the weapons in the game did.

It’s something a lot of the regular casters we have in the game lack, the ability to research things a little bit outside of their own personal needs.

It’s understandable that as a player in a 6v6 environment you wouldn’t need to know all the weapons, even as a commentator for the 6v6 part of the game but as a commentator commentating on 9v9 to a huge variety of people, players and non players it’s kind of silly to not know what the weapons are and do (considering that highlander always almost all unlocks).

I see it as being okay considering i knew i could fall back on Sal for random weapons… and then there’s the part where we are commentating from a VoD anyway… so i can’t actually see the name of the weapon on a HUD to then cross reference, and i wonder how much time it would actually take to learn what each specific item model looks like… a while! I can appreciate that some of the new guys may think it’s strange, but i beleive i made it pretty clear that i play 6v6 where most of these random weapons are banned, and if not, nevermind… Sal saved the day.

I’m not retarded though, and to set the record straight i do actually undertake prior research to my commentary. Heck, i could go and photocopy the notes i put together for Epsilon vs Infused (which Arx and Beta then covered as i was just on backup mode) yesterday. Before that, the last TF2 event i did was Assembly, and i put together similar research to the DH QL event i covered in the summer for that too (results and map scores etc): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgYhVzJU2_ixdDdhRGZMRnQ3TjRDX2NYRmItbGZMUEE

Fair comments though, just wanted to clear up the part about me not doing research. I understand where you’re coming from and i do appreciate all feedback. Had i not known that i could bounce off Sal i’d have turned down the invite to present the event, well, that or i’d have spent 30 hours teaching myself 2011 public TF2 to then try and bullshit my way through it.