You are doing a terrific job. I've been watching competitive NRS games since MK9 and this has been hands-down such a beautifully must-see, off-the-hook tournament so far! It makes a lot of sense that instead of just pointing the camera at one table and letting it go, you give someone the selection choice. Just what the doctor ordered.
That aside, the upsets, the drama, the pixel-of-life comebacks!!! Combo was crazy, CEO is nuts, EVO might just give me a heart attack!!!
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@Kitana Prime is quickly becoming one of my favorite commentators. He does a great job of mixing in some of the personal stories, technical aspects, and then his fun lore asides. Personal stories: It's cool to see someone like KP that knows the scene and gives some quick background, "he's come all the way from SoCal for this," or, "he's known as one of the best Bane players," without devolving into, "let me tell you a story about a time me and that guy hung out at a hotel room after-party three years ago and I'll talk about it over the entire match." Technical aspects: I don't think most NRS (or FGC) commentators, who know the games really well, realize that their #1 job should be trying to rope in people that are tuning for the first time and have little clue about what is happening. KP will at least say at some point, "ok, Cheetah doesn't have projectiles, so she needs to close in!" Personally, I think commentators should give those kinds of rundowns at the beginning of each match, but KP is 1,000x better than most commentators that never bother to explain the basics of a match-up to the casual observer. Fun lore: Those little bits that happen, like when Catwoman hits some interactible, "well, Catwoman is a master thief, she knows every inch of Gotham, she knows where that interactible is." Nice touch. #KitanaPrimeforEVOCommentaryonESPN
I'm calling it now: the Insaynne/CoachSteve Gorilla Grodd match against TekkenMaster's Black Adam is an instant classic. People will still be talking about that match 5 years from now. Sure, from a connoisseurs' perspective the Theo vs. REO match was some high-level s--t, but low-tier Grodd taking down the presumptive #2 player's #1 tier Black Adam, well, that's one for the record books. And with all due respect to TekkenMaster, of course. It is only because TekkenMaster is such a phenomenally great player that this match IS such a classic! For every YOLO character pick that has ever happened... most of them don't work out. From Pig picking Cyber Sub against REO's Kabal in MK9, through every time it has ever happened in IGAU1, MKX, to now. Yeah, I get it: a confluence of storms. Steve is the best Grodd player, TM probably didn't know the MU, yeah, yeah, yeah. Still! That is something no one would have predicted.
Can't wait to see wait Day 2 holds!
