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Man Ryan keeps trying to speak and gets cut off, I really wanted him to talk more. Especially in the Liquid discussion, I'd really have liked more engagement with the guest. Great episode regardless!
I did notice he was trying to speak multiple times, but when he didn't say anything in the end, I guess he only wanted to interject briefly? Not sure, but yeah that was a noticeable point in the liquid conversation
won only the first master, got hailed as the best team. That's how cringy sentinel fans made most of the valorant fans in apac and brazil starting to hate this team
While I do not agree with the decision not to invite Sean to Masters, I HATE the argument that just being passionate and hard working means that you must be invited to events. There are dozens of english speaking casters across NA, EU, Korea, and possibly APAC as well who are all extremely passionate and hard working - not everyone can be invited, no matter how popular they are with the community and tough decisions always must be made in these situations And to stop the arguments that this had to do with undercutting talent and not paying enough - Sean already stated that this is not the case; he said on stream that he offered to work the event for free and was still turned down.
while i agree there's lots of talent out there and they all deserve a shot if they've put in the time/work, I also think the reaction from the community/talent shows how bad of a decision this is. it's one of the bigger events of the year + one of the best talent out there. surely they could've made an exception in his case (even if it was against their internal policy or whatever).
@@Ashup207 See I disagree - the reaction is a function of popularity and notoriety than anything else. You commonly see big name talent sticking up for one another, but you almost never see them sticking up for colleagues that has less of a following or are newer to the scene. I mean someone like Mimi (aevilcat) to my recollection didnt get invited to anything major last year, even though she was involved in casting far more tournaments, but i never saw any uproar about that? If you only ever let the big name casters be involved, then there is no room for new talent to be developed and to no pathway for them to move upwards based on their work, and it just becomes a closed loop Just to be clear - this was not meant to suggest that Mimi should have been invited, merely it was first name that came to mind as someone who is newer to the scene, but is clearly hard working and passionate about it
@@Brokenfar I think Sean is the perfect combo of not only being popular and having a long storied history but also being universally recognized as being one of the premier analysts in the scene. A lot of it is subjective too so I don't want to go down the rabbit hole of talent preference although Mimi is definitely someone I wouldn't mind seeing at an international event. I doubt Josh/Bren would get an invite this early into their casting so at least I'll still have their co-streams :)
Being the best in your role as broadcast talent should always get you tier 1 events. If someone is better, they should get your spot. No more need for discussion or feelings. The broadcast should come first.
@@mckinleyostvig7135 I agree entirely, but that presents an entirely different issue beyond what is going on with Sean - how do you decide who is the best? Popularity? Community consensus? Hold a vote each time? Is it based on the amount of time invested into analytical content or casting? What happens when someone moves to a different esport and then returns? Do they just automatically get more importance based on their past history (which was an issue brought up during the last CSGO major!)? I agree with the theory that it should be purely merit based, and that the best talent should get the tier 1 events,. However, I have never seen an objective way of measuring who is the best in this type of situation, and I believe that subjective measurements of "best" would be an extremely large problem if they started to be used as the be all and end all of choosing who gets to work for these events and who doesn't. I believe that event organizers should strive to hire the best talent, but accept that other considerations must be involved until an objective way of measuring who the best is has been developed
@@kobet9372 yeah, he was talking about being ready to press the ult button asap. I've done that as well in my games (ready to smoke or activate a molly as soon as I see they have and ult so I can delay the push a tiny bit)
@@incephony3542 it's not ignorant whatsoever, Liquid are internationally proven and placed top 4 at the last international event while FPX are a bunch of CIS chokers playing without a IGL, Liquid were 100% the favourites and should frankly be embarrassed they lost to a sub, FPX lost to LDN the day after as well which should show you its wasn't FPX being godlike but Liquid being exceptionally bad
