TobiWan: "CS:GO doesn't need a TI"

27-4-2015 15:51

Our final piece of content from CCS Kick-off Season Finals is a sitdown with Toby "TobiWan" Dawson, talking about the challenges of casting a new game, his future and the differences in tournament formats of DotA 2 and CS:GO.

After commentating the on-line phase together with Matthew "Sadokist" Trivett, the duo was chosen to cast the CCS Kick-off Season Finals as well, which meant we got to talk to him about a number of topics.

Those include some of the Australian's history in his casting career, the biggest challenges of getting into a new-game and CS:GO specifically and how much he would like to cast in the future.

Lastly, he shared his thoughts on differences between tournament formats in CS:GO and DotA 2 before closing out with a message to the HLTV.org community.

With this video, we conclude our CCS Kick-off Season Finals coverage, if you missed some of our content from Bucharest, go over to the tournament hub here.

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2015-04-27 15:52

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Still knows too little about the game, Tobiwan. His hype level is great doe, team him with an expert and he will turn into a great caster!

2015-04-27 16:36

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Be aware, hltv admins have already banned 40 posts about how terrible tobiwan is from this topic which is lik 32%!

2015-04-27 17:16

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Im giving constructive critizism, no need to ban me for that, so I guess Ill be fine :)

2015-04-27 17:19

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for hltv admins it doesnt matter, any critic to their beloved australian people is a reason to ban. they ll ban me too. just look. Tobiwan is a terrible caster because he makes mistakes almost in every round. He doesnt even know game mechanics, he doesnt know teams, the scene. Beside it his constant screaming is very tiring so a viewers cant stand more than a few rounds. Look at Anders to compare. Anders knows what is going on so he modulate his voice. Tobiwan doesnt know it though so he hypes almost everything, making plenty of mistakes btw.

2015-04-27 17:26

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Don't cLy

2015-04-27 19:09

+1 Tobi was awful, the biggest minus of CCS. Just spewed so much non-sense, mixing up what force-buys and eco's meant, talking about people being 'dinked' with a scout when they got bodyshot, having no clue about any mechanics. He was good at screaming, that was pretty much it.

2015-04-27 19:26

I want a TI

2015-04-27 16:45

Just to put this here for those who I am pretty certain won't watch the video and just reads the title (which is a bit miss leading): The reasoning behind me saying CS:GO doesn't need a TI is because the major problem with The International is it eclipses everything else in the calendar year. Which basically means to a large part of the Dota community (and players) there is only 2-3 weeks a year that really matter to them. The model structure for CS:GO majors is as close to perfect as I have seen so far, the only thing would be that Valve could easily find more ways to push money into the prize pool. Dota 2 raises a crap ton of money and the CS:GO market is even stronger than the Dota 2 one, so that was the points I was making about the whole TI questions. ------- I also wanted to say I had great fun casting CS:GO, I know I didn't do the best job and that pisses me off. I am also very aware I need to take a few weeks/monthss of just playing CS:GO and training with as many pro players that can spare the time (when I can find time around my other commitments). My knowledge is that of a Silver, and my perspective of the game (following and anticipating) are not good enough to bring something meaningful to a stream. Hype is what I do but it is not enough, and I will see you all again in a CS:GO stream when I believe I can bring something more than Hype. **Most of this stuff I also said during the video, I suggest you watch it --- and ask any questions you want, I am very open about answering things**

2015-04-27 17:21

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Tobi, where do you live these days?

2015-04-27 17:38

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I live in Berlin, is where my office/studios are

2015-04-27 19:26

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I've followed you in dota for quite a while, and I have the utmost respect for your casting. Just keep working at it and I'm sure you'll be able to provide people with in-depth casting of CSGO. Btw, I don't know if sadokist told you about the interview he did at Copenhagen Games, but I told him to give you my regards ;-)

2015-04-28 12:58

This is EXACTLY what I pointed out! Just keep at it, get familiar with the game, try improve yourself in it as well and just keep improve! You can be one of the best play-by-play/hype-casters (TosspoT-type caster) in the scene, just have a real go at it and dont quit too early! Wish everything well in the future mate! Was a great event all in all!

2015-04-27 17:49

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Which is still not enough to be a good caster. Playbyplay casting is the same bs like a support role in cs, made up to excuse poor performance. being a pro caster means you follow the scene and keep yourself updated all the time for YEARS. if you have other obligations you ll never became a good caster on ander's or day9's level. I ll not even mention korean OSL scbw casters :)

2015-04-27 19:16

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u did just mention those right there.

2015-04-27 19:36

i've read lots of stupidity on hltv before. this has still got to be one of the most inane comments i've seen on this forum.

2015-04-28 07:18

I've followed some of your casting in dota2 and i think you did great job in PGL despite your lack of experience on casting CSGO. Keep it up! :}

2015-04-27 17:51

I very much enjoyed your casting, I think if you started casting with someone with more knowledge like Moses, Anders, or a pro/former pro like Fiflarren you would have a lot to offer(especially since we only have one or two good casters at the hype aspect). I don't want to see you just leave after one tournament so just keep at it man!

2015-04-27 17:51

U have an amazing potential. As u say u only need to play more and stay more updated with the scene. U did all things considered a great job. That goes for all of the PGL staff very nice stream, top 2 with MLG. Also big up that u come here to HLTV and speak to us directly. I was very skeptical at the beginning, but u proved me wrong. I hope u do more CSGO stuff. :)

2015-04-27 18:00

you living on EU or USA? the best way to understand the game/meta game, is, as you might figure, playing a lot of it. you don't necessarily play with pros to understand the game, although it helps, obviously. if you on EU and want to play, it me up. my steam id is the same as my nickname on HLTV (id/antCB)

2015-04-27 18:06

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can't edit: "you don't necessarily need to play with pros to understand the game (...)" also, memorize all these (for the maps that matter, d2, inferno, cache, nuke, train, overpass, etc.) steamcommunity.com//sharedfiles/filedeta..

2015-04-27 18:09

Hey TobiWan I think you're doing a great job, considering how new you are to the whole CS:GO thing. One mistake I've seen you make a couple of times, is that if a CT is saving his weapon he still gets money, even if he dies in the seconds after a round is over, it's only the terrorists that doesn't get money when saving, and why it's so devastating to get killed after the timer has run out.

2015-04-27 18:22

I agree on the TI matter.

2015-04-27 18:33

you did a good job, I really enjoyed your casting just like I do in dota continue the good work, hope we'll see you during the next majors

2015-04-27 18:45

You seem like a serious guy, you should make quick progress if you manage to keep in touch with the pros. They can teach you a great deal on the game very quickly. Good luck.

2015-04-27 19:32

I like you Obiwan

2015-04-27 20:00

Would be nice though

2015-04-27 15:52

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2015-04-27 16:01

Not really, but a higher prizepool is absolutely required for the majors. 250k feels like 1% of what Valve is making off of tournaments like these in all their different sales.

2015-04-27 16:14

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and they just announced a major circuit for dota 2 with the international being the biggest. Feels like CSGO is the bastard child of valve tbh

2015-04-27 16:37

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Yeah.. it really does.. CS:GO has a better scene to it.. it should get more attention from valve, with bigger prize pools.

2015-04-27 17:34

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Better scene? Where do you get that info?

2015-04-27 21:09

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hltv. need more info?

2015-04-28 00:00

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A shining example...

2015-04-28 00:07

go back to doto ....

2015-04-27 15:52

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+1 Screaming silver elites shouldnt cast cs.

2015-04-27 17:17

wth you know about this game?

2015-04-27 15:52

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If there is a TI, other tournaments will become much less important, and they will fade out of the scene.

2015-04-27 16:42

but Tobi would love to cast a potential CSGO TI Final. What is he saying lmao ("__")

2015-04-27 15:54

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But he won't do, anders and semmler or even ddk and james are before c:

2015-04-27 15:57

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comes before him*, nice hltv, can't edit :<

2015-04-27 15:58

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well Valve decides who casts the final of a potential CSGO TI. Just like they decide who casts the final during the Dota 2 TI. They usually observe the casters during the actual torunament and then pick the one they like the most. Not the one the community wants to see or so. They have weird ways but they were right thus far in Dota 2 ("__")

2015-04-27 15:59

where did you get that...?

2015-04-27 16:05

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From nowhere, but those guys are miles better than sadokist and tobiwan. It's just mi opinion.

2015-04-27 16:15

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my*, fml

2015-04-27 16:17

valve will decide who will cast their events and no,tobiwan is much better play-by-play caster(but this is ofc just my opinion aswell:))

2015-04-27 16:17

you mean black ddk and white james?

2015-04-27 20:42

I would love to, but I am no where near good enough to do it.

2015-04-27 16:11

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Tobi, it was a breath of fresh air to hear you casting CS:GO.

2015-04-27 16:35

one day you will be ("__") I hated you during your, i call it "clown phase" (cause you made so many random jokes xD) in Dota 2 2013 or so but you proved me wrong up to TI4. Since then im sure you are the best play by play caster in the world. LD fell the fuck off too. He got lazy or something. I am happy that you cast CSGO and lots of people i know are aswell. Here have a Candle for free ("__")/[*]. Why?? I dont know. You might use it one day ("__").

2015-04-27 16:46

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seriously if i meet you in real life i will wreck ur neck kid

2015-04-27 19:35

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("__") sure come visit me here have a candle aswell ("__")/[*]

2015-04-27 19:36

It was pretty good to be honest, for the fact that it was your first try in csgo.

2015-04-27 16:53

I think you did a really good job on casting the PGL series, don't worry about the haters. The truth is...here in CS:GO we don't have the luxury of casters like in DotA2. Most of them have poor language skills, non-fluid talk and cringe moments, despite their advance game knowledge. And the list could go on... Also most casters bring zero hype to a game, sometimes I feel like I'm watching a golf game and everyone claps very slowly... Most casters when they try to hype a game they just "omg guyz this game gonna be gud" before the game starts...but real hype is brought when the plays take place and the caster shares the momentum of the play with the viewer. Like your famous "black hole" (that came out wrong lol). As constructive feedback, what you could improve: - Be more "multitaking", I've seen you do not pay attention that much to the minimap. You should throw an eye on it from time to time, as it give out a lot of info that you can use when casting; You can see where fights will take place before they even start, you can see fake plays, rotations, lurk players, flanks, where bomb is situated etc. I can't empathise enough how much info you can gain just from the minimap. - Strengthen your CS vocabulary, as you seen a lot of viewers criticized you for calling "dinked" when a player got hit by a Scout. "Dink/Ding" is just for headshots. So for example M4 variants from CT will never one shot headshot a target. It will deal ~80dmg. So a target hit in the head with M4 that got away...you can say that he got "dinked", same thing applies to pistols. Dink! is the sound the head helmet makes when hit :) Or at least it used to be in previous CS games. As for targets that got hit by Scout or AWP and got away. In 1.6 they were called "legged" "I've legged him". Due to how it worked there in that game, and kinda transfered, But you can simply use the word "tagged". "X tagged Y with the Scout bringing him to low HP". - Play the game a bit more. Sometimes players hit stunning shots that are real hard or spectacular but error 404 hype is missing :D That is because you don't play the game enough to actually know how hard the shot was to pull off. - A bit more synergy with your co-caster, you dont have to like him :D just cast the game, be friendly etc...go with the flow. I'm saying this as I've seen during qualifiers you and Sadokist where trying to bully each other...to make it fun? or smth? sometimes it went ok sometimes it came out cringy :) So in future casts if moments like this arise...dont make it cringe...just have laugh about it and have fun even if the bad joke is directed to you, treating it that waym would bring fluidity to the cast and no cringe moments.

2015-04-27 21:00

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Sorry can't edit I meant to say "multitasking". And head helmet lol...was thinking of head armor... Probably many more mistakes but sorry, English is not my native language.

2015-04-27 21:10

why? i mean he's not pac or biggie, but t.i. is pretty decent.

2015-04-27 15:55

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hahahahaha

2015-04-27 16:46

+1 :D

2015-04-27 16:54

No game needs a TI but it's just nice.

2015-04-27 15:55

nice try but csgo is the new cod. 1.6 ze best nubs.

2015-04-27 15:56

I don't think I've ever seen so much animosity between two casters, as between Sadokist and TobiWan.

2015-04-27 15:57

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Anyone Pansy is casting with comes to mind.

2015-04-28 01:28

TI? wtf is that

2015-04-27 15:57

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the international i think

2015-04-27 15:58

Gud rap budy of mine

2015-04-27 16:56

nice true words

2015-04-27 15:58

wtf is TI

2015-04-27 15:59

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The International. Valves Dota 2 Tournament. the eSports Tournament with the biggest Prize Pool. ("__"). They changed the format though and Dota 2 has Majors now aswell - starting this Fall ("__") Last "real" TI is this summer ("__")

2015-04-27 16:01

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they have 4 Majors and a TI each year now?

2015-04-27 16:03

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no 3 majors and 1 TI ("__") www.dota2.com/majors/ blog.dota2.com/2015/04/the-dota-major-ch.. Its probably to stablize the scene cause it got a bit weird. People were only caring about TI and everything revolved around it. It also saves them from the fact that the prizepool doesnt have to grow anymore because last year it was already $11 million or so and that probably isnt viable. I expect $15-$20 million this year though and then the money spreads over the year i guess ("__")

2015-04-27 16:05

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typo, yes 3 majors

2015-04-27 16:15

is TI that thing they made a film about it on steam called Free To Play ?

2015-04-27 21:23

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yeah its mostly about TI1 though (which wasnt that big) and a bit of the story. Still an alright eSports Doc imo that is better than F2P if you just want a quick update on Dota 2 youtube.com/watch?v=ju2IS0BZHDU ("__")

2015-04-27 21:27

CSGO doesn't need TobiWan either.

2015-04-27 15:59

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best comment of this thread so far

2015-04-27 16:02

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2015-04-27 16:53

he is the best commentatory for me .. him , anders and semmler are best and it's great to see him cast CSGO ..

2015-04-27 16:06

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so he is the best but anders and semmler are bestest? wut

2015-04-27 16:17

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everyone is best!

2015-04-27 16:51

A guy with silver knowledge is the best commentary for you? Says a lot about your skill level ^^

2015-04-27 19:28

My exact thinking.

2015-04-27 17:21

2015-04-27 18:21

Nice guy, silver elite gameknowledge. It is what it is.

2015-04-27 16:04

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He will improve though. I don't know why so many people need to give him shit here.

2015-04-27 16:07

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in one of the games he was casting, probably qualifiers for this tournament, I heard him (tobiwan himself) say he has 1k hours in CS:GO and 90% of that was casting matches. I don't like those casters, would rather have people like DDK duo who play the game at a decent level and can make interesting comments because of it.

2015-04-27 16:10

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Yeah, I guess he would be a lot better if he actually puts some effort in playing the game as well. Who knows, maybe he'll start playing it more like Anders did for example.

2015-04-27 16:15

did you watch the interview by any means? He said that he's not really good AT THE MOMENT because his main job is casting D2, and not CSGO. Give him some time and you will see he will actually get better than some of the casters we have now. At the end of the day I enjoy listening to Tobi more, regardless of his knowledge about the game, than I enjoy listening to anders and semmler really. Black and White DDK at the top.

2015-04-27 16:23

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why should I care about that? I prefer casters that are actually passionate about the game, not dota casters that are looking for more work.

2015-04-27 16:27

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Was going to explain everything, but I'm not in the mood for writing another wall of text, explaining something to someone who's not willing to even give more chances to a guy that literally has zero experience in the game to improve. Everyone gotta start somewhere, I hope you know that.

2015-04-27 16:33

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I get your point, you dont get mine. Tobi casts CS:GO because it means he gets more work, not because he cares about CS, he never even played it but went straight into casting. Fuck that, get someone who actually loves the game casting. But yeah I also feel thats enough cs go caster discussion for me today, but tobi is a caster in the mould of pansy, deman, tosspot etc.

2015-04-27 16:40

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i kinda have to agree, although pansy at least streams and plays the game like all the time, but about tosspot and deman +1. while we have guys like anders and semmler who were there from the beginning, or even a bunch of the NA casters that have been around for a long time, although they probably barely make any money out of all these muricano streams. ddk and black ddk have also been around for long now and their profession is just this game, they cast faceit games at every timezone and by now they just know what theyre talking about. im not sure what some kid from dota is doing here. i dont give a fuck if he casted the biggest dota games ever and was amazing at it. he should climb up the ladder in csgo like all the others have, and not just get hired for the biggest tourneys straight away and suck at it.

2015-04-27 17:41

Wrong. Tobi started casting cs1.6 first as it's the game he used to play afaik

2015-04-28 09:10

What im amazed is how, can u AND sadokist be so blind, everytime someone misses a guy with low hp, u call he tagged him, in a round in this lan, one of the players had 36hp from the start, he got granaded, first u call he got hitted by awp, clearly not, then sadokist in the next 5s calls he got granaded again. I mean WTF are u watching, are u2 that slow? This happend on like 10-15 cases.

2015-04-27 16:06

TobiWan: "CS:GO doesn't need me."

2015-04-27 16:09

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2015-04-27 17:35

I would rather to see TobiWan's interviewing with Striker.

2015-04-27 16:12

all these hate comments and he even mentions us in the interview and says its ok that HLTV hates him cause hes new to CSGO Casting. sucks for you guys who didnt watch it xD ("__")

2015-04-27 16:16

back to starwars pls tobiwan, stop saying bullshits

2015-04-27 16:17

go back to dota lmao who cares about what u say

2015-04-27 16:23

good guy obviously, but pretty bad and boring caster

2015-04-27 16:25

gj, ty!

2015-04-27 16:25

Tobi doesnt relize that while CS:GO doesnt need TI, it certainly doesnt need Tobi in the first place I remember the times when he was all about "competition between casters is good" and later on became burned out from the Dota scene altogether

2015-04-27 16:30

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IMO the rise of beyondthesummit showed true power of skins in dota2, summit's stream was linked on dota2lounge while joindota and other streams were not, and just like that summit streams had 40k while joindota 5k

2015-04-27 16:39

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I highly doubt it, the viewership from lounge makes around 5% and less, in this case it was just the pure fact that instead of building the production quality of the broadcast joindota overslept and its competition got ahead by a mile and despite the fact that at the beginning LD and Lumi were pretty poor casters, they eventually got even better then Tobi ever was and BTS completely took over the Dota casting scene due to lack of interest from the GD studio side

2015-04-27 16:54

oh pls. do your homework, cast a few small events, and if u then get good review, and just then, u go to the big events. u cant suck and just bcs of ur reputation from some shit game get hired for the biggest events of a game that u never gave a fuck about nor have any clue about. theres plenty of other casters that coulda been hired (no, not fuckin sadokist).

2015-04-27 17:45

comparing casting dota to casting cs is just silly, dota2 is so complex that there are at most 5 good english casters in the world, casting cs:go is super-easy

2015-04-27 16:31

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you must be joking XDD

2015-04-27 16:54

Play-by-play casting = just hypes highlights shits,of course easy Doing expert analysis, pointing out the strats, and explaining in-depth stuffs ain't easy

2015-04-27 17:39

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Even Play-by-play casting in D2 is almost as complex as expert analysis in CS:GO.

2015-04-27 17:47

What is hard in dota2 ? You only need to know that 5 pokemons will fight 5 pokemons and some pokemons will win with some magic speels.

2015-04-27 21:57

What CS:GO doesn't need is a caster with silver level understanding of the game. TobiWan may be a nice guy or whatever but I don't understand why he is getting paid to cast events.

2015-04-27 16:31

down to earth guy, welcome, gl hf

2015-04-27 16:32

Tobi > CS:GO

2015-04-27 16:34

This interview: "basically"

2015-04-27 16:35

He's good to listen to,glad he moved to csgo, but we have a lot of great casters, but it's good because we have sooo many tournaments going on.. They can't do every one of them, so it's good to hear fresh voices from time to time, imagine if we were stuck with 1 duo every tournament, would be boring :/

2015-04-27 16:39

Tobi if you read this would you do me a favour. If i have to listen to you please can u not call everything "The" does my nut in, the mid, the long, the short, the jugle. ty

2015-04-27 16:44

And you are probably mentaly ill.

2015-04-27 16:45

Just don't say a decoy on the minimap is a glitch showing a dead player...

2015-04-27 16:47

The guy is a commentator-god in dota for a reason. He has a perfect voice for casting, he is comfortable infront of the camera and if you've seen some of the highlights from his dota commentating, the hype he creates is amazing. He tells you in the interview that he is still kinda new to the game, and he will get better. He will be a fantastic caster once he know the game better, i'm sure. It amazes me people who go to the forums and create a hate thread because he said AWP instead of a scout once or something like that. Did that ruin your experience, really? Did that make you angry? It's like the people who call tv-stations because they got offended by something

2015-04-27 16:48

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+1 ("__")

2015-04-27 16:50

You hit the nail on the head mate. He is an epic caster imo

2015-04-27 17:13

nice try Tobi

2015-04-27 17:29

what ccs did wrong was pick two playbyplay casters, one whos completely new to csgo tobi needs a pro or analyst who can help him learn the game and explain things to him

2015-04-27 16:52

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cArn or devilwalk? :D

2015-04-27 17:14

I think CS:GO needs ONE very very big major.. so yeah.. thats all

2015-04-27 16:57

i dont like you

2015-04-27 17:02

you are best man , next major with you please

2015-04-27 17:07

<3 Tobiwan

2015-04-27 17:09

WHAT is TI btw?

2015-04-27 17:10

He is alot better than Pansy or Tosspot

2015-04-27 17:15

Redeye and Joe Miller to cast TI finals.

2015-04-27 17:25

Toby doesn't even play CS but he's already a much better caster than the RoomOnFire guys. He's full of emotion and he doesn't talk hours about obvious stuff most casuals already know. Even if you don't like him, you have to respect the fact that he doesn't act like he understands the game like other casters. He's not bullshitting you for hours, he just mentions what he sees.

2015-04-27 17:26

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Only in your dreams TobiWan is a 'much better caster' in csgo than the RoF guys.

2015-04-27 17:37

Me, and the majority of the community, doesn't want a caster who hasn't even played the game for fucks sake. We want (and we have) people passionate about csgo enough to dedicate full time in csgo, studying, playing and understanding it to the fullest, not good casters in other games that want to gain some extra cash. If he gets all the roles every topteam have in the scene constantly and gets a decent level of skill (at least dmg/eagle) maybe he can start being respected as a csgo caster.

2015-04-27 17:33

CS:GO doesn't need a Tobi.

2015-04-27 17:34

so many jealous geeks in this thread. although his knowledge about cs:go is not vast, i really like his casting. ppl flaming the guy in his 1st cs:go event as a caster make me laugh. i wonder how great anders or semmler was in his first event as a commentator

2015-04-27 17:52

Oh yea! We all need these "low-budget-shitty-quality-stream-250k-tournays" for the end of our world. No thanks...

2015-04-27 17:53

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did you even watch the itw ?

2015-04-27 18:54

You did a great job for your first ever csgo LAN event. keep doing it and you will get there eventually.

2015-04-27 17:58

terrible caster. stick to dota. and quit checking out sadokist when the camera is on you. we all see you looking him up and down gayboy.

2015-04-27 18:33

Who cares what he says?

2015-04-27 18:53

He realises Dota is slowly dying so he transitions into CS. Good choice

2015-04-27 19:07

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Top kek.

2015-04-27 20:59

I think a TI is exactly what this game needs. We are watching the same teams in the finals over and over again. A huge international would give more incentive for Asia and South America to put some good teams together. I would love if the rest of the world would put up a good fight against the best EU teams. A TI could generate new top contenders from all over the world, which would help the tournament scene a lot.

2015-04-27 19:10

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It's such a shame Koreans just completely ignore CS:GO, not enough kitten skins and exp bars going up I'm afraid.

2015-04-28 00:12

Implementing a TI successfully in the CS:GO scene would need two conditions: 1. The current majors stay, and their prize purse need to be at least doubled. 2. There must not be a huge gap between the prize pools of TI and majors. A ratio of 3/1 would be the maximum in my opinion. The reason behind this is that if we want a dynamic and healthy scene, we need to have pro players dedicated to the game all year long, not only practising for one tournament.

2015-04-27 19:39

very good casting throughout the tournament. not a lot of csgo knowledge but it's not necessary as long as they don't think they know and try to give their opinion on how the teams should play. and they didn't do that much. sure there were some things they said that annoyed me but all in all i enjoyed the casting!

2015-04-27 20:07

TobiWan should spend some time casting with the Faceit guys and RoomOnFire. He would learn a lot from that and his casting would improve drastically. Sadocist is not good enough to "carry" the casting.

2015-04-27 20:13

Toby is awesome. Give him some time to learn the game. He's very genuine and he has awesome voice! GO TOBI <3

2015-04-27 21:07

cs:go doesnt need a tobiwan

2015-04-27 21:09

omg the hateful comments in this thread, the guy does a great job for a starter in CSGO ....

2015-04-27 21:24

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he should learn on tier 3 matches, not tier 1.

2015-04-28 14:53

i remember the days when everyone was bashing Anders as a caster and look at him now.Give TobiWan some time and he will develop his casting skills

2015-04-27 21:46

Well he is annoying when he is on cam, moving weirdly like he is on drugs or something and gets hyped up for no reason. He needs to be humble and work on the game and his attitude if he wants to be taken seriously imo.

2015-04-27 21:56

The interviewer is so awkward ...

2015-04-27 23:25

Learn the game Tobi, come back when u have :D

2015-04-27 23:51

obiwan kenobi was good teller, i hope he replace anders and semler, they bad

2015-04-28 01:30

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tobiwan*

2015-04-28 01:31

Good interview! Good luck with the learning process and hope to see more!

2015-04-28 01:42

The guy is a real clown, lol

2015-04-28 02:04

eco =/= pistol round mate

2015-04-28 02:15

Id take Tobi every day of the week over the so called experienced casters that have been casting CS:GO since the start and haven't even improved. Yes i'm looking at you Anders Sadokist and some of the guys like Richard Lewis ..cadiaN or any one else who thinks they can give analythic toughs on the game. You guys have been in this scene forever and yet you are at best medicore. Tobi has everything that he needs to be great at CS:GO just need to not scream so much.

2015-04-28 02:24

i hate this guy seriously. get goes over the top on every little thing and my ears and my brain hurt after every single dissection of a single banana take or bomb site take. go back to casting mobas dude

2015-04-28 02:26

what is TI? ::P lol im probably a noob for asking :P

2015-04-28 03:48

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the international

2015-04-28 04:52

i have no idea what TI is either maybe a Triple cast i dont know WTF DOES TI MEAN

2015-04-28 03:55

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the international. fkin idiot

2015-04-29 10:49

#237 it means this. The international A Dota 2 tournament global one which had over 10million dollars prize pool last year and is expected to get even more of a prize pool this year. How ever it is hosted once a year and most of the prize pool comes from the community via skins/tickets or over all a package called "compendium" where you get all kind of jazz for around 40bucks a pop where some % of the 40bucks goes to the prize pool.

2015-04-28 04:55