Restarting Gaming Nights, started Helix Gaming project, done the DWPS two (soon to be three) times, provided TS servers when we lost DCH and were looking for a new sponsor a couple years ago, provided time and effort into helping run the community at differing stages of it's development stretching back all the way to when it was a group of school friends as BRS (immature leave/joins aside), honest opinions getting big changes to the community explained and getting them improved for the betterment of the community (not alone in this though, as quite a few people do the same thing)...
Yeah, bunch of duds there (/sarcasm).
Back on topic and needless flaming aside, and mainly addressing Cal's point, I agree that on much of his content, he has obviously put the time in to be knowledgeable and is actually a reasonably interesting presenter (unlike some on YouTube). TBF, he gets on my nerves a little bit sometimes, but that's my opinion so doesn't really weigh into the argument. My main problem is that for SC2 he obviously has no concept on how the game truly works, and without that, it's difficult to even be a play-by-play guy as you can only really say whats going on. Professional sports is the best example of this.
Sure, play-by-play guys are very often someone who never played the game professionally, but regardless of that, they still have an in-depth knowledge of the players on the fields and a good understanding of how the game works. Perfect example of this is in American Football commentating. You get the play-by-play guy that may never have played professionally, but has played in college, but transistioned into the presentation side of it. For that, they constantly learn about all the different roster moves, who's at what position, the implications of each game in the bigger picture etc. But during the play, they have to be able to understand how the game actually functions (e.g formation, likelyhoods of different types of play based on down and distance, personnel that have come in etc.) in order to fufill that job properly.
I'm not saying he has to know how to perfectly split marines or properly engage a baneling attack (because that is what the colour guy, in this case dApollo, who in my opinion is one of the best colour guys out there), but without that fundemental understanding of game mechanics, he will continue to be a poor caster, relying on dApollo to actually tell him whats going on, who then goes on to explain it.
Tasteless/Artosis is actually the perfect way for me to finish this. Tasteless used to play Brood War competitively (as did Artosis) and intended to come over to SC2 and play that professionally as well (before switching to casting after EG left Korea), and thus has a very in-depth knowledge of the game and it's mechanics, thus giving him the perfect knowledgebase to commentate play-by-play.
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