Watching Worlds with SKT and Monte

To be fair there are several different style to contaminating on a game. Monte is a gameplay annalist. His common partner in the LCK is DOA a color commentator. It is DOA's job to raise tension and interest in a moment to moment of a game and Monte's job to give his insites to the Macro and Micro level events of a game to help explain events on a mechanical and gameplay level as well as predict how he thinks the game is playing out.

On the world casting crew the jobs are the same but for most game with two gameplay annalists and one color commentator. His job being the same as it is in the LCK.

Also to be fair he is playing a numbers game. I think that nearly anyone who has experience watching both these teams can agree that SKT was the heavy favorite in this match up. If they played, let's say, 100 games SKT could win 70 or 80 of them. They are just a better team. Saying that from the beginning of the game SKT will destroy them is just playing the odds. Sure anything can happen but is it likely in this case? I would argue no.

Personally I do not need false hype. The hype is not why I watch professional games. I watch to see how better players and teams than myself handle the situations, even the hopeless ones. If a team has little to no chance I would rather hear that and focus on my personal analysis of the game than hear casters make of dream scenarios on how the other team is still in a game.

I agree completely. First Cloud9 then AHQ. i dont even care that much about ahq, in fact i kind of dislike them because they beat my team haha. But the fact remains that Hero worshiping the korean overlords and acting like everyone else is crap is just completely unprofessional. Forget the teams themselves, thats not the issue. If youre going to shoutcast an INTERNATIONAL tournament why the hell would you want a clearly biased shoutcaster. its gotten to the point where i just stop watching any of the parts with him in it. Am i salty that my favorite team lost? Hell yeah i am. 110% SALT. But that does not mean i would be biased on any other team faceoffs sense the only ones i cared about in the first place where cloud 9 and fnatic. (shame unicorns diddnt make it i like watching them play). I say bench him and have doublelift shoutcast / analize ftw

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Quite honestly, I could really care less which teams proceed or not. I do like certain teams but it really doesn't change anything about what I said. He is just too negative against these teams. It's not that SKT is his favorite. He doesn't this with any team that is the top team, he praised SSB and SSW non stop last year.

Everyone knows which team is the favor to win. We know it is SKT, we know last year it was SSW/SSB. The point of a tournament is competition, if you keep reminding your audience that there is** nothing** a team can do to change the outcome, then there is no point in listening. As shout caster, you should be smart enough to admit there are chance for certain throws. Phreak, "there is a chance that there can be a reverse sweep, but it's really unlikely." What does Monte say, " this game is as good as over.

It's not only about being negative. he doesn't criticize the team he favors. Bang and Marvin get caught, instead of saying or following up with that, he says, it's ok, wont change the outcome, faker is making up for it. Faker is just csing in lane... It's stupid to watch his. The entire 3rd game, AHQ was 1k away from SKT. He constantly says it's over.

There, fixed it for ya. You can watch it without sound. You can't watch it without video.

I don't really have anything to say to this except mute it. The buttons there for a reason. Don't wanna listen because the shoutcasters suck, are biased, or anything else? Then mute them. It's your option to listen to them and watch the video. Both are separate options.

Also, lets be serious here, their job is to analyze the game and they were analyzing it. They were saying that even though members got caught, it wasn't a serious blow, nothing will happen. It doesn't ONLY happen with that team. I've heard that in fnatic games, in CLG games, in OG games. Saying that its ok at a time for team members to get caught doesn't only happen where you said. It's been used numerous times.

If it truly is a gamechanging teamfight, they'll say it is. They'll legit say "This teamfight will decide the game RIGHT HERE." "THEY GO FOR BARON AND COMPLETELY CHANGE THE SWAY OF THE GAME." likewise if a teamfight or members getting caught doesn't change much, they'll say that too: "X is down, but it doesn't look like that big of an effect as red team goes for dragon anyway. They try to steal, and....nothing." "X is down, but with the team being this fed, it doesn't matter, AND THEY GO IN ANYWAY"

So....yeah.

TL;DR: Mute it and watch if it annoys you that bad. Also, that applies to all analysts shoutcasters, not just the one you described

I see at this point that I am not going to convince you off of your opinion and vise-versa so... pointless conversation I suppose (would just like to add that I do like monte and do watch his videos I am just trying to point out his weaknesses)