Product placement in Worlds Casting

Verandure·10/10/2018, 1:54:50 PM·6 votes·5,229 views

Please stop making the casters say say "...Acer Predator Replay" when they're speaking otherwise normally. It sounds incredibly stupid -- more stupid than the amount of times "...blood in the water" was used as a metaphor in the play-in group stage. It's 'fine' to mention Acer Predator sponsors the replays (what the hell does that even mean?) but don't try to embed "Acer Predator" into any sentence involving the word "replay".

> "Like you saw in the replay, brought to you by Acer Predator"

is infinitely better than

> "Like you saw in the Acer Predator replay"

Their commentary doesn't need the extra time gained from shortening it.

It's not the same thing as the sparse use of "State Farm Analyst Desk" to close out each game segment.

10 Comments

Virgin Ray10/10/2018, 9:44:32 PM3 votes

It's probably for blind spectators who don't know what replay system they use in worlds.

Cavesloth10/10/2018, 2:40:23 PM1 votes

Brought to you by Carl's Junior....

Velzard of Koz10/10/2018, 5:02:22 PM1 votes

They should learn from Pitbull and just spam that shit.

,,Acer Predator would recommend to us to watch Acer Predator Replay brought to you by Acer Predator. In a minute, we shall look at the stage again and take a picture with Acer Predator."

AmWhaleIRL10/10/2018, 8:39:31 PM1 votes

It's most likely in a contract they signed with Acer Predator when they got sponsored. Riot wouldn't go out of their way for that and force the casters to do it otherwise. If you don't like it you need to look towards the sponsors.

Melvear10/12/2018, 3:42:04 AM1 votes

It's been this way for nearly a year though...

GripaAviara10/20/2018, 9:47:02 PM1 votes

Every product placement is annoying but since they keep commercials to a minimum, it's fine imho

But it's kinda dumb, because I heard it for a while and before writing this post (i googled) I didn't knew exactly what it is. Since it's Acer i had a hunch but ... other than that