I think anders does a really great job, especially considering he solo casts 95% of the time. Cs is too fast of a game for 1 person to successfully catch every play by play AND analyze the strategy. look at the raid call finals and how many different people they had teamed up to cast that tournament... 2 casters, an observer AND 2 people doing interviews/bullshitting in between matches... ANDERS has to do all that same stuff by HIMSELF rahim vs. anders debate: I greatly enjoy and love rahim... but his style is not something i would be interested in watching an epic match with. rahim is good for lopsided matches/group play matches with unknown teams but i enjoy watch top teams because i want intense heart pounding action and anders delivers a thousand times over compared to rahim does anders use the same phrases/reactions over and over? yes he does, english is not his first language and diversity will come with time/experience... not to mention some sports commentators become known and famous for their reactions/lines tips to improve: freeze time at the beginning of each round... 100% of the time the scoreboard should be shown EVERY round so we can see money/stats only acceptable time for scoreboard not to be shown during freeze/buy time is if you are showing the overhead map re-watch your own casts... the best/highest paid announcers/commentators in sports re-watch every single game they cover... one of the hardest aspects of casting CS games is the time it takes to explain strategy a round in cs is 1-2 minutes... so if it takes you 30 seconds to explain a strategy... thats a lot of action missed... re-watch your casts for when you try to explain strategy and figure out how to cover the same information more efficiently using less words etc (of course this helps with a color commentator) i know this is a mainly euro community but the best comparison for announcing cs vs. a "real" sport would be the NFL... short bursts of action with a delay in between each play/round... the play by play announcer is the only one talking DURING the action, leaving the color commentator to talk in between plays/rounds one main problem you had casting with thorin was thorin talking a lot during the action... this is obviously like any type of chemistry something that could improve with time a play by play announcer casts the entire mood of the match and examples of times i feel you have ruined the mood was finals navi vs. nip on nuke... yea we get it navi doesnt play nuke much... mention it once then drop it, it's navi's fault they cant find the time to practice nuke we dont need to hear about it every single round... also thorin in the last tournament got very unprofessional towards the end constantly berating GO with such a huge bias to 1.6, calling the chat retards etc etc, not hating on thorin as i enjoy his commentary and think he is AMAZING in his knowledge and history and feedback but theres a time and a place for it yes both of those times had more to do with lurppis/thorin than it did anders but any little thing can affect the mood of the cast i would like to see more usage of the overhead map at the beginning of the rounds so we can see strategies developing OTHER than that I am a HUUUUUGE fan of yours anders, there have been many times ive left work early or called off a day just so i can catch your streams as i live on the east coast of USA and work until 4 my time which is usually when all the matches are finishing keep up the great work, ive been playing CS since beta1 and watching esports since 1999, youve got a huge fan and supporter right here

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