Singapore Major Talent Announced

Could be a bit heavier on the analyst side of things. Fogged, black^ and Lacoste are pretty good, but I feel that the DL season had a noticeably higher analytical level with Kyle, BSJ and Purge (and Fogged), especially ratio wise. There are a bunch of people in this roster who know enough to give stimulus or ideas to the people with very deep analytical skills, but the number of people who actually are semi-/ex pro players or at least top ladder people is lacking and I hope we won’t get a Kbop Sheever Tsunami panel that has to analyze a draft.

Are u saying that Kyle give a high level analytics. Really the most annoying and nocent talking person in dota scene. Really dont think BSJ is better then Lizzard or Black. Yeah gonna miss Purge. But if they wanted higher analytics they could just hire Synderen.

Just glad OD is casting and Kyle is not.
Nice with a new host i have never heard of in Sumichu.

It’s all just opinions man. I happen to really like both Kyle’s style and analysis. To each their own.

Most disappointed about Moxxi though. Should be good, but I’ll probably be watching Cap’s thing too.

Synderen is definitely missed

Yes Kyle is riding on some points too much. But his draft analysis and gameplan analysis is mostly on point and it’s noticeable that he led a fairly high level team back in the days when he talks about what type of hero a team needs or what strategy they are trying to execute f.e.. I get why people find him annoying, but he’s still an excellent draft analyst.

I’d rate Black probably the highest in the caster pool, but Lizzard is quite often lacking in vision of what a team intends to do. He’s become much better since his introduction, but yes I’d 100% rate Kyle and BSJ over Lizzard in terms of strategic analysis and drafting and I don’t have a strong personal opinion of any of them. Lizzard is a decent in-game analyst though and has a good eye for micro plays.

Definitely would like to have Synderen back, but it feels like forever since I’ve seen him cast anything, not sure he’s interested and if he is he’s currently sadly flying under the radar. PPD is another one I’d love to see, but same story. I wouldn’t mind Kips, she is usually sharp in the analysis department too although not the best speaker.

Also Kyle and OD are imo good at entirely different things and as such not comparable at all, OD is an excellent shoutcaster with a slight game knowledge and Kyle is an excellent draft analyst with decent verbal abilities. They don’t compete for the same slot. Overall the analysts imo are a bit shallow and there are too many I’d see more in the shoutcaster department, if they want to shuffle panelists I’m expecting a lot of mediocre analysis.

I will admit that I havent watched much BSJ analyst work. but in the games i watched with EU maches from OG and Secret he could not understand the draft and says so, and in normal games he makes big analysis that turns out to be totally wrong more often the right. Maybe i have been unlucky but really have hard time seeing him as more the mediocre.

regarding that i like OD and not Kyle. It was more from cast in general as I regard OD is the best play by play caster, and Kyle as the worst of worst analysist that have ever been. To make a point of why so totally dislike Kyle analyst is to use a Synderen term. If u have a Kyle pick analyst u got a Kyle anyalyst panel, draft and what ever he does. there is nowhere to escape that Kyle stupidity or brilliance what ever is your point of view, Either your got 15-20 of pleasure or pain or just mute with some good music in the background.

I honestly don’t have a problem if someone says that they don’t understand the draft. OG’s drafts are often weird and I doubt the average panel has any idea what they are doing when they draft their pocket strats or timing pushes. I liked BSJ’s after-game-analyses and he’s very insightful in carry lane matchups, rotation timings and map control.

I definitely agree with OD being the currently best play by play-/shoutcaster. My problem is that I’d rate GodZ, Lacoste, and Lizzard all as decent and likeable (Tsunami mainly fits the latter category), but they are all majorly panelists where there are a bunch of people I’d rather have. PPD and Synd f.e. know more about drafting than any of them, Purge is a better analyst, Waga and Cap are more fun on the panel and still have good analytical skills, Nahaz brings the statistical background.

Overall I’d rather have a bunch of guys who are excellent in different areas than a bunch of people who are decent all around, but don’t bring anything to the table someone else couldn’t. I feel that a large part of the major’s talent pool fits the latter more than the former. And that ignores that sumichu seems to be a random twitch streamer who occasionally plays dota and doubt I’ve seen Bkop more than 2-3 times and can’t find him on youtube. That they’d rather invite these two than Cap is mind boggling to me.

I’d prefer to not have the same ‘best of’ talents in every single LAN (I know we haven’t had one in a while, but pretend it’s 2019 of something). I’d rather have a bigger pool of talents alternating. I think OD is good, but I don’t want him to cast every single qualifier/lan I watch etc.

I’ll still miss Kyle, Cap, Synd though.