I mean, there's one thing I've always wanted to talk about, which is the
perception of caster bias.
Oh yeah this is good, this is a good topic.
So recently, I got this big Reddit thread about how I was biased towards Fnatic in the
playoff series against Misfits.
Now, going back and watching the cast, I understand very well where that perception came from
and I think the outcry was valid.
I think it's largely because I, going into the cast, had actually high expectations of
Misfits.
Watching their series vs UoL and knowing how overconfident Fnatic would be, I was actually
expecting Misfits to take that series, but I never actually said it on broadcast.
I never actually made it any kind of narrative point.
It was just a thing in my head that I was like this is probably what's going to happen,
but I just kind of never made it apparent, right?
Problem is then when I came into the game, I was always looking at everything from Misfits
actually being the dominant team against Fnatic.
So when you're a caster you have this tendency to be like, you try and big up the losing
team because you want to give people expectations or hype that there's still the possibility
they can come back.
And so what ended up happening was when Misfits did a lot of good things, it wasn't as surprising
to me as it should have been because to many of the fans and just everyone really, Fnatic
were the favorites, and that's perfectly valid.
There's no reason as to why Fnatic wouldn't be considered the favorites.
But as a result of that, you have this cast that comes across as everything from the perspective
of Fnatic.
It's like Fnatic are doing this to try and counteract Misfits, Fnatic are doing that
to counteract Misfits.
And the problem with that is it's not like I have a favoritism towards Fnatic.
I don't really have favorite teams, the only team I was actually ever a fan of was CLG
EU back in the day.
I love that taem so much.
But aside from that I've never really been big fans of teams.
I like to see Europe do well internationally of course but bias is one of these really
difficult things where it's all about how a caster phrases things from certain perspectives
and you're never always going to please everyone because you might criticize TSM play and the
TSM fans are going to get annoyed about it.
Like it's going to happen you can't accommodate for everyone.
But what's important for me is for people to understand that it's very rarely intentional
bias, it's very rarely casters doing their best to be like, I to talk a lot about this
team not really about the other one because I'm not really a fan of them.
I think you can say it's basically never intentional bias.
I don't think we ever come into a game and we say...
Yeah but the only time that it will come across is because I know when I cast G2 versus ROX,
I could hear my own bias, because I wanted G2 to do well in an international event and
that spilled out into a cast, which was definitely a fault in my end, and that was an element
of bias.
But even then I don't think it's intentional.
I think that's a subconscious bias.
It's a subconscious bias.
It's never me actively trying to put down the ROX Tigers and hype up G2 right.
But it's one of those things that for me I feel is important for the community to understand
that call it out, for sure.
Tell the caster, I think you was super one sided in that cast towards a certain team,
but also bear in mind that it's usually just a mistake made by the caster, that they will
definitely try to rectify and if you hear it in game one, also listen to game two three
four and five because I was very aware of it in game 1.
I was told it, people were like you need to cut this down.
And then I made an active effort two three four five to try and make it more balanced
and better.
But people very rarely cling on to that.
So for me it's just important because it will happen in the future, like especially around
Worlds is something that all casters are very, very cognizant of.
But it may happen as a result.
So feel free to call them out.
Feel free to let them know, like I thought you were super this perspective this game
but also understand that very rarely, if ever at all, is it a genuine bias.
That they actually like, oh I love this team so much because we do our best to stay impartial.
And while I have good relationships with many of the players on many different teams, I
actually don't care whether or not they win or they lose.
All I care is that Europe has a decent representation at the World Championship.
So that's why I want to say this.
I just think it's really important for people to understand.
I'm quite emotional guy just generally as well.
It's the reason I quit medicine, was I wasn't able to deal with the emotions, and so I do
get hurt by the fact that people just come in and say you're shit.
But I can accept that maybe people don't like my casting.
I know I've got weaknesses.
I know I've got strengths and I know that there's things I need to work on.
If someone comes to me and says you were a shit caster, I'm going to react to that.
But if someone comes to me and says hey here are the things I thought you were bad at,
then I know what to work on.
Yeah.
And I think that's super important as well because it is fine for you to not like a caster.
Oh 100%, I don't like him.
I don't like him at all.
Yeah that's fine right.
What I think the community seems to be very adamant against is like if someone were to
say I don't like Vedius people are just like, well fuck you.
Vedius is fine.
Vedius does a great job.
It's like just let him not like me.
It's fine.
He's allowed to not like me.
Right.
Like it might be my voice.
I have kind of an annoying younger brother voice.
I'm kind of cringey.
There are loads of valid reasons as to why you don't have to like me but don't just blindly
throw hate at casters if you don't like them because there's a difference between disliking
someone and someone being bad at their craft.
And all casters will put a huge amount of time and effort into making sure that they
are good casters, they're good at their job.
As we talked about earlier, the fundamentals.
Make sure that you talk about narrative, you talk about the game, you talk about everything
that you need to as a caster.
Make sure you meet that criteria and I can't think of a cast of that doesn't meet that
criteria.
But there will be stylistic differences.
I make cringy awkward jokes.
Phreak makes puns.
Yeah Phreak is the best example of it, because everyone, like so many people hated him for
so long but he is one of the best casters in the world at what he does.
People can still hate him now but he's thick enough skinned to get over it.
Vedius has a very thick skin as well.
When he came in and everyone was like haha I'm 12, member of Vedius subscribers or whatever
they do in Twitch chat.
I have a thinner skin than them, but I'm still relatively thick skinned I think in the fact
that I can deal with it.
But it's just really important for me for people to understand that you're allowed to
not like casters.
You're allowed to tell people that you don't like casters.
Just don't confuse disliking someone for them being a bad caster because while there's always
things that casters can improve upon, and while feedback is always extremely valid in
many instances, thinking about how you deliver that feedback and thinking about how you want
that caster to get better is very different from, "this caster sucks," just because you
don't like them.
I just think it's important to understand that distinction but don't stop giving feedback.
We always go into Reddit threads afterwards.
We always read that post game match thread.
We always read Twitter and we always check Facebook.
We always read these things, we read these messages.
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