To bad SCGLive has Mike Flores and Matthias Hunt on the mic.
What are they talking about?!? Random games that they played the other day from the other day!?! "There was this 1/2 that evolved and I blood rushed it for the win. lol".
Plenty of dead air during matches.
They advertised that Magic Daily is airing the other GP?!? Way to go to tell your viewers to go somewhere else.
They should get a clue and be talking about
1)BIGGEST GP EVER 2700 People
2)Gold Rush 2
3)Pros at GP
4)Anything but talking about themselves
5)Cool Side Events
6) Day 1 Green or White
7)ETC.........
SCG, please pull the pug on these guys. It is unwatchable.
Hope it get better for you watchers. I am off to a game day.
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And this is one of the problems with covering Magic. People complain about coverage for regular GPs and PTs with Rich and Marshall. But always praise coverage for SCG Opens, or at least with certain pairings. The good commentators are mostly pro players, and they would rather play in a GP than do commentary.
Also the MagicProTour twitch commentators are also telling everyone about the SCGLive Coverage.
At least patrick chapin is saving this commentary right now. Mike Flores, Why do you exist?
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To bad SCGLive has Mike Flores and Matthias Hunt on the mic.
What are they talking about?!? Random games that they played the other day from the other day!?! "There was this 1/2 that evolved and I blood rushed it for the win. lol".
Plenty of dead air during matches.
They advertised that Magic Daily is airing the other GP?!? Way to go to tell your viewers to go somewhere else.
They should get a clue and be talking about
1)BIGGEST GP EVER 2700 People
2)Gold Rush 2
3)Pros at GP
4)Anything but talking about themselves
5)Cool Side Events
6) Day 1 Green or White
7)ETC.........
SCG, please pull the pug on these guys. It is unwatchable.
Hope it get better for you watchers. I am off to a game day.
I don't think pulling the pug on anyone is going to do anything good. Think of the dogs!
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If that's your "casual," what on earth is required for "formal," a butler in livery shuffling the decks whilst a pianist plays Brahms in front of a tapestry?
The worst part is I live an hour away but both my rides canceled on my so I'm sitting here wishing I was in Charlotte. Watching crappy coverage with tons of dead air. Talk about something RELEVANT please.
Haven't watched earlier coverage but I can tell you it was a long time to get set up for round 1 (wondering if people were going to be dueling on overturned trash cans, haha) and some of the matches went WAY over the time limit (15-20 mins), thanks to people not turning in match slips.
Part of it is probably the fact that Star City doesn't do limited tournaments. They only do Standard / Legacy. In constructed formats you can talk about all kinds of stuff. In limited, it is a random card every turn and half the games are not even going to be good.
Getting Patrick Chapin in there after he dropped certainly helped out. You need someone to be a jokester because there just isn't much in depth commentating that can go on for limited.
They will do a lot better at the Miami GP because it is constructed.
Pretty much this. It's great that SCG can run the event, but why have D-grade commentators like Mike "I know John Finkel" Flores in the booth? Get the big guns out! I guess the big players wanted to play in the event, but surely...anyone but Flores could have been available.
I don't get all this Flores hate I think he did a good job making one of the most boring type of events quite fun to watch.
I don't see people rushing to make posts about another boring Zac Hill commentary of a pro tour or GP but as soon as Flores is doing anything the hate parade comes to town seriously, you are getting free magic coverage commentated by a guy who actually knows a lot about the game and that's a bad thing?
i've never listened to mike flores' commentary but his SCG articles are borderline unreadable. If the commentary was anything like the articles, i feel sorry for anyone who had to listen to 8+ hours of it.
I don't get all this Flores hate I think he did a good job making one of the most boring type of events quite fun to watch.
I don't see people rushing to make posts about another boring Zac Hill commentary of a pro tour or GP but as soon as Flores is doing anything the hate parade comes to town seriously, you are getting free magic coverage commentated by a guy who actually knows a lot about the game and that's a bad thing?
Flores' commentary had no redeeming qualities whatsoever. All he ever did was make wrong assumptions about the gamestate, make the same joke 5+ times in a row, and ask the other commentator questions, disregarding his responsibility as a commentator.
Flores' commentary had no redeeming qualities whatsoever. All he ever did was make wrong assumptions about the gamestate, make the same joke 5+ times in a row, and ask the other commentator questions, disregarding his responsibility as a commentator.
I watched the draft portion of the coverage and you are over-exaggerating heavily.
Clearly there is plenty of exaggeration in this thread - they were not as bad as this thread suggests (nor is this Limited format a particularly bad format to watch, that's just your personal preference, people). I think Hunt made up for shortcoming when it comes to strategy from the other two (which was significant, I'll give you), and you should generally cut them some slack, I think. Armchair commentating is easy, actual commentating isn't. And this event was particularly stressful.
Granted, I much prefer the European commentators, Matej Zatlkaj and Simon Görtzen.
SCG would be better off taking a public poll on who to have commentate at future SCG events/PTs/GPs. I don't know the commentators well enough to make a decision on who I would want to commentate, but one of my favorite people to listen to is Cedric Phillips. The man is chill, knows his stuff, stays on topic, and when he goes off the beaten path it's just a funny little joke to put humor in our bellies.
C-Dawg Phillips!
Also a little plug to say grats to Frank Skarren: the man goes to my local game store so I have to represent!
Haven't seen the coverage yet, but I usually don't mind either Flores or Mathias as commentators. My favorites are Adrian Sullivan, Patrick Sullivan and Patrick Chapin, though.
The coverage for the SCG open where Bobby Kovacks won the legacy open (Lands deck) was hilarious.
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Why didn't they switch to covering the 10k standard event?
Because they were running Wizards's tournament for them, and Wizards was relying on them for GP coverage. Even if they wanted to switch events, it's not their call when it's not a StarCity event.
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To bad SCGLive has Mike Flores and Matthias Hunt on the mic.
What are they talking about?!? Random games that they played the other day from the other day!?! "There was this 1/2 that evolved and I blood rushed it for the win. lol".
Plenty of dead air during matches.
They advertised that Magic Daily is airing the other GP?!? Way to go to tell your viewers to go somewhere else.
They should get a clue and be talking about
1)BIGGEST GP EVER 2700 People
2)Gold Rush 2
3)Pros at GP
4)Anything but talking about themselves
5)Cool Side Events
6) Day 1 Green or White
7)ETC.........
SCG, please pull the pug on these guys. It is unwatchable.
Hope it get better for you watchers. I am off to a game day.
its like watching a catfish talk about mountain climbing
Make the white queen run so fast, she hasn't got time to make you wise.
Pilot of the storm who leaves no trace, like thoughts inside a dream.
Doctor, my eyes, tell me what you see. I hear their cries... just say if it's too late for me.
Doctor, my eyes...cannot see the sky. Is this the prize for having learned how not to cry?
I never understand what he's talking about and I doubt he does either.
Mike Flores + Adam Prosak would probably result in temporary deafness.
I am pretty sure all of the good SCG people are busy doing other things at the event.
Standard - N/A
Modern - Infect, Scapeshift
Legacy - TES, High Tide
Also the MagicProTour twitch commentators are also telling everyone about the SCGLive Coverage.
Tried to pull away, but now I'm Back At it
Love is Emphatic, cards need to be played
Hailing from the BA, accumulating CA"
I don't think pulling the pug on anyone is going to do anything good. Think of the dogs!
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Getting Patrick Chapin in there after he dropped certainly helped out. You need someone to be a jokester because there just isn't much in depth commentating that can go on for limited.
They will do a lot better at the Miami GP because it is constructed.
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I don't see people rushing to make posts about another boring Zac Hill commentary of a pro tour or GP but as soon as Flores is doing anything the hate parade comes to town seriously, you are getting free magic coverage commentated by a guy who actually knows a lot about the game and that's a bad thing?
Flores' commentary had no redeeming qualities whatsoever. All he ever did was make wrong assumptions about the gamestate, make the same joke 5+ times in a row, and ask the other commentator questions, disregarding his responsibility as a commentator.
Standard:
UWRB Jeskai Black
Modern:
RGB Jund
RUG Tarmo Twin
UW Eggs
Legacy:
BUG Shardless BUG
UWR Miracles
RUG RUG Delver
I watched the draft portion of the coverage and you are over-exaggerating heavily.
Granted, I much prefer the European commentators, Matej Zatlkaj and Simon Görtzen.
So fun to listen to.
C-Dawg Phillips!
Also a little plug to say grats to Frank Skarren: the man goes to my local game store so I have to represent!
The coverage for the SCG open where Bobby Kovacks won the legacy open (Lands deck) was hilarious.
RUG Tempo Tresh RUG
BUG Team america, Shardless BUG, BUG control BUG
WUBEsper StonebladeWUB
WUGBRTESWUGBR
UBRSneak and ShowUBR
EDH:
GUExperiment Kraj - FOILEDGU
RUBGwendlyn Di CorciRUB
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Because they were running Wizards's tournament for them, and Wizards was relying on them for GP coverage. Even if they wanted to switch events, it's not their call when it's not a StarCity event.