1. also noticed the in-game camerawork seemed to miss more than past years. and when the caster says "i'm going to watch [player] in this midfight" the observer should too. it's such a jarring feeling to think, oh hell yeah, let's watch kaptain like war said, and then remember that we are powerless and can't.
2. the camera-in-camera thing was nice but a lot of the time you guys should have considered putting the spy/sniper/player behind on *the main screen* and the stalemate spamfest on the little one
3. knowing what weapons everyone has out is completely unnecessary...?
4. one guy used a rocket launcher that had a skull flopping around, couldn't see anything on the bottom half of the screen. not sure what can be done about that.
5. sound! lots of casters weren't balanced/too quiet/and the sound always seemed to be ~10 seconds behind the video feed when it swapped to casters. it's been that way at every i-series i can remember so i'm not sure why it's not been addressed.
6. there should have been scores and recaps of the games that weren't casted, especially on the first day when fan favorite teams were playing offscreen. there was a lot of downtime but most of it was filled with fidget spinner advertisements. however that would've been a fair bit of extra work.

overall the hud took up so much less space than before in my opinion. and the espn-style nuze segment was an all-time lan highlight.

by the way, "suspicious play from suspicious turtle" is the funniest thing i've ever heard a caster say.

i think shade is underrated. whenever i watch froyotech matches with team comms, it's pretty clear that shade can read b4nny's mind at this point. their pushes just sort of happen -- it's really rare that b4nny has to wait or miss a window of opportunity.

really don't think you can over-emphasize how crucial that is.

i mean since blaze and shade don't really come to lan anymore, they can't lay claim to world's best. raymon and drackk for sure.

lmao

shoutout to row and cornpop and possibly other people i am forgetting (production people?) for spending a huge amount of money to fly over and cast this pro bono

there were fewer casters than ever, so i dunno what they would've done if na hadn't come over to help out. even with their help war lost his voice early day two

raptor was probably the main reason svift couldn't beat seven, but kaidus definitely made him look worse than he was. some of the stickies he hit were just insane.

b4nny has probably learned not to go to iseries without shade by now.

AMS? i didn't get to watch a bunch of him but when i did he was a playmaker.

also i do not think alle played very well, he was inconsistent

he was waiting for alle to contest, if i recall correctly. but i think alle got caught in sewer. the point is, there was a potential contest happening until the last second, at which point it all just fell apart.

he got caught behind, it happens. but with a player down and a player caught behind, silentes walked into rollout and died for no reason. the push was close enough that if he had lived, they would have held.

deffo keep paddie at the desk. he's good at it

damn, definitely had my hopes up for you guys to cast the gf :/

hey war if you read this get kermit to turn his mic up

gonna see a golden cap on granary for svift/seven here

it seems reasonable to add a caveat to the roster rule for the case of injuries and stuff like that

oh god it starts again in twenty minutes

i am probably not going to get a full night's sleep in twenty minutes