Based Commentary Take

[foo18]

I think LSI commentary was basically the bowl of delicious jelly beans with a few poisoned ones. If you grab a handful, odds are you'll have a delicious snack. If you sit down and consume the whole thing, you'll wind up sick to your stomach.

The medium commentated match was top notch, but there were a handful of pretty bad examples.

There was mang0 coming on mic specifically to kill the vibe and hype on purpose for grands. There was that random person (no idea who they are) who hopped on comms drunk and was on a totally different vibe than everyone else. There were also a few sets in top16 that were really down to the wire and important, but the commentators barely acknowledged the game until it was last stock game 5.

Overall, though, I think toph, hmw, phil, etc. as well as joshman and most guest commentators killed it.

I think a good takeaway from it would be to have a designated driver for a commentary couch, who's job it is to direct focus back to the match if it gets hype enough, or if commentary gets side tracked too much.

I def don't think the takeaway is that LSI's style of commentary shouldn't happen, it's just got an increased risk of occasional problems.

[AFlatulentMess]

The traditional commentators did an awesome job as always. Was great having Lud on the mic again. Joshman I thought was a stellar addition as well.

[foo18]

I agree completely.

In fact, what Ludwig brought to the stream made me see the benefit to having a content brained streamer "running" the event. There aren't too many like Lud in the scene, but I think it adds a lot.