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LCK Casts

Tract·1/19/2017, 6:01:25 AM·1 votes·2,344 views

I've been a SKT fan since summoner level 5, years ago, and I watch most LCK games...or WATCHED anyway. I was really looking forward to the split starting but I could only last a few minutes before dropping the volume on the non IGN cast. Not sure what it is with them but the new casters are just uninteresting and boring at best, and flat out annoying often. I just can't make myself watch or care while listening to their unfunny dull drone. Please, find new casters or get Monte and DOA back.... or League as a resort may die from this singlehandedly, as Korea is such a major region. SPOTV is just plain inferior, anyone else agree? Possibly if Riot sees enough of this kind of thing they will do something, because LCK is essentially crippled right now.

edit to clarify: not a bring Monte/DOA rant, and yes I know that the still very good OGN broadcasts have great casters, my point is that the 1/2 of the time when there is a far subpar SPOTV cast, many English speaking viewers will have trouble watching much, and more likable casters would be good, even if they are not monte/DOA

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GenghisEmo1/19/2017, 6:17:22 AM2 votes

I agree for most part. I respect one of the SPOTV casters if he breaks down or gives me relevant info on why something works the way it does or the interactions. It's the dude that went to Worlds alongside OGN's Papasmithy.

Now OGN's casters i prefer. Papasmithy is still quite entertaining and the other guy with him, whose name i can never recall and jokingly refer to "Not DOA, but sounds similar to DOA", is also good.

Thank goodness Papasmithy is still with OGN for LoL. And thank goodness he was at Worlds.

The SPOTV casters are not very exciting, they are just knowledgeable. And one of the casters bugs me so much since the guy can never, NEVER, pronounce names well. the other can pronounce them relatively well if it is something Korean, but anything Chinese-ish like "Longzhu" and butcher city central here we come. Papasmithy also has issues pronouncing some names well, but they pale in comparison.

OGN English casters for life! That is until they also leave if they so happen to ever leave...

I was so freaking happy that OGN got to cast SKT vs JAG and MVP vs BBQ... but the MVP vs BBQ was a bit less exciting as only the first game of the match was good, the second was a stomp, and the last was a bit of a mess.

I freaking miss DOA and Montecristo when i see LCK now. But i'm happy to know, that the game i play a lot more, Overwatch, is where they are currently casting. They are have so much to learn and have so much to improve on. There is another caster exponentially better from casting Counter Strike, Call of Duty, and now Overwatch (note, FPS games, and several vets and pros from these games now in Overwatch so he is familiar with them which is advantage to the guy, while DOA and Monte have to try and learn the players). Luckily, DOA and Monte's MOBA and RTS experience and suggestions seemed to bring some great ideas to FPS genre in an attempt to improve the viewer experience. Some ideas Blizzard is considering to add to Spectate feature. One is here or coming soon for Overwatch.

Now back to League, i will miss DOA and Monte, may not watch LCK as religiously, but I will continue to watch it if casted by OGN, or if it is a team i respect or love, or one that piqued my interested and it was casted by SPOTV, then i will suck it up and watch the damn game.

Miror B1/19/2017, 1:00:05 PM2 votes

Yet another post about trying to "bring back" monte/doa, yet another downvote because of how dumb I find it to be.

Jerry Seinfeld once did an entire episode about how aside from almost incredibly rare circumstances (like what he demonstrated at the beginning of the episode with Jeneane Garrofolo or however you spell her name) mutual breakups literally never happen. As was the case with Monty/Doa as Rito didn't break up/fire them, they left on their own knowing that they'd be leaving things like LoL/their fanbase probably forever. The idea that Rito can/should bring them back is an almost non-ideal concept that fails for multiple different reasons and doesn't actually benefit rito in the slightest (even if the LCK english audience falls off a bit, which trust me, is pennies compared to the tens of thousands of koreans who watch lck on a daily basis). Ignoring all the videos that Monty released that looked to be heavily against rito (becoming the esports equivalent of the "bin-laden tapes"), how exactly could rito bring them back? "Oh, I know you guys left and sorta tried to suggest that Overwatch looks to have a brighter future than this game and will probably still be around in a few years unlike this one, but hey, here's some $, now could you please break the contracts you have with blizzard and rejoin to appease the small-ish english LCK fanbase we have?" Ultimately, there are only really two "sides": you're either a fan of monty/doa, or you're a fan of LCK. If you can't watch LCK without the two, then I implore you to go watch overwatch and stop complaining about them being gone. If anything, it'd kinda help them and prove why they got those contracts (as nowadays casters aren't so much hired because of the quality of their work, but instead based off of how many fans they can "draw in" just by being there).

GeminiRune1/19/2017, 9:17:16 AM1 votes

So far the LCK casting on English side has been pretty normal to that of the likes of the Summer Split. You have your OGN Casting with Papa and Achilios which has maintained the casual and engaging banter that Monte and DoA would normally run into during its deader points of gameplay. And you have the SpoTV Casting of LS and Valdes which although may be less appealing on the ear for what the typical viewer is used to with LCK, it's still informative and professional despite having lesser experienced casters.

If it's casters first to you, then are you really that much of a fan for the team you support? If you can't give anything a chance or if you can't handle change, then you're being rather petty about it and only bound to ruin your own experience for yourself from here on. The games so far have been living up to a lot of hype regardless of where you watch it from. And this is still the beginning of the week to some extent! But hey, you're free to sit in front of your browser on mute, which I doubt a lot of people actually do because they learn to suck up their pride and get used to it.

To say the League is going to die from the loss of Monte and DoA is just absurd. We lost Deman and Joe a while back and similar things were said. Lesser considered talent came in or shifted around: Quickshot being a direct example going from Colour to PBP. They found the room to improve off of that and form their own personalities to fit them. Point is though, casters aren't going to magically fill the shoes of the ones that depart from a scene. And more importantly, casters do not ruin the League in which the players play in.