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Worlds Live Commentators

Fegone·11/3/2019, 5:47:49 PM·3 votes·3,227 views

I don't know - maybe it's just me- but watching worlds has become increasingly annoying listening to the NA commentators. To the point where I actually watch the EU stream instead. What I'm talking about is the shit they say is 90% just plain wrong. (maybe 90% is exaggerated, but it sure feels like that).

For instance: Blue team aces red team. Commentator: "And now that means they're getting Baron for free!" Blue team proceeds to take two towers and inhibitor Commentator: "And after these towers they still have enough time to go get Baron! WOW!" Blue team recalls and resets.

or "And now with their last pick they HAVE to pick (champion) , in order to counter (another champion) from the other team!" Team picks something completely different

or "And now this means they can push all the way to the nexus and win the game, WOW WELL DONE" team takes inhibitor and then recalls because the enemy team's members start to respawn

-- To me it's just so annoying these comments thrown out there when they're either not happening, or just wrong. These commentators are not pros, they don't know shit about what to fits better to the team comp, the team strategy, etc, which calls the team needs to make, when not to make a call. They should do what they're supposed to do: Comment on what happened, and not try to predict what's going to happen.

6 Comments

IncrediPhiLL11/3/2019, 5:57:11 PM3 votes

There was only 1 NA commentator today... the other 2 were EU. Just pointing that out.

There was also only 1 NA analyst at the analyst desk today.

Kazekiba11/3/2019, 7:57:24 PM3 votes

Nah they absolutely do know what should be happening, but teams simply refuse to make the right call.

Remember when g2 hovered Veigar as an answer to a Ryze, but they didn't do it. Or they couldve put Veig support and mid Naut to counter the Leo+Kai'sa. Well, they hovered it. But then they didnt fucking pick it and it would have made the game a lot better for them. Granted they went on and won the game anyway, but Veigar, Rumble, and a few other champs were left unpicked by the pros all tournament, and no one knows why and the commentators HAVE been name dropping them too.

From an outsider's perspective, they usually have a 90% accurate idea of what teams are supposed to be doing, even if it doesn't end up actually happening.

Saezio11/4/2019, 3:26:47 PM1 votes

Watch the game on lol esports on mute and open Iwilldominate's twitch stream. He casts the game way better. An alternative is LS but personally I don't like his style a lot