IEM Oakland casters announced

20-10-2016 20:28

ESL has announced the on-air talent for the upcoming Intel Extreme Masters (IEM) event in Oakland.

On November 19-20, IEM returns to the Bay Area for an event at the Oracle Arena, where 12 teams will duke it out for their share of a $300,000 prize pool.

Eight tournament spots have been filled through invites, while the remaining four places will be determined by iBUYPOWER Masters, a $100,000 event scheduled for November 12-13 that will serve as a qualifier for the IEM spot.

DaZeD among the casters for the IEM event

After hosting the group draw for the event last weekend, ESL has now unveiled that the talent lineup for the competition will consist of 13 people, between hosts, play-by-play commentators, analysts and observers.

The full on-air team for the event looks as follows:

OJ Borg - Stage Host

John "Blu" Mullen - Reporter
Alex "Machine" Richardson - Desk host
Janko "⁠YNk⁠" Paunović - Analyst
Sam "⁠DaZeD⁠" Marine - Analyst

Henry "⁠HenryG⁠" Greer - Commentator
Matthew "Sadokist" Trivett - Commentator
Anders "⁠Anders⁠" Blume - Commentator
Auguste "⁠Semmler⁠" Massonnat - Commentator
Jason "⁠moses⁠" O'Toole - Commentator
Lauren "Pansy" Scott - Commentator

Heather "⁠sapphiRe⁠" Garozzo - Observer
DJ "Prius" Kuntz - Observer

expected

2016-10-20 20:28

Very good

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2016-10-20 20:29

1 reply

Seems like we only ever get the three top caster duos in one tournament for majors. Anyway DaZeD PogChamp

7 replies

who is #3?

2016-10-20 21:38

6 replies

James Bardolph and DDK.

2016-10-20 21:40

5 replies

pansy and moses are good as well though

2016-10-20 23:51

3 replies

Finnish people are funny? 8/10 joke

2016-10-21 04:36

2016-10-21 17:48

Moses is decent, pansy is terrible.

2016-10-22 13:31

dandoeskarry

2016-10-21 02:11

fck

DAZED OMFG YES

there is a savior!

2016-10-21 19:05

dazed hype

who cares

cool

No Spunj :(

+1. He's done an amazing job in such a short time frame.

2016-10-20 20:32

don't know why people hype him ,he does good analysis but his persona is not exciting and he says awkward things and I personally don't get . a bit overrated , can improve but not top tier by any means . dazed came in and actually is ahead of him interms of persona and analysis in my opinion

2016-10-20 22:07

persona? you mean personality? .. and Spunj is actually the most chilled guy you'd ever see, he keeps it real ft you.

2016-10-20 22:08

2016-10-21 00:27

what i meant was his presence on the screen is not as devouring as you would require , reminds me of moses where he just says things here and there and not really emphasize on his points

2016-10-21 12:35

Alot of ppl dont understand aussie humour. DaZeD makes me sleepy.

2016-10-21 01:27

aussie humour = best humour <3

2016-10-21 15:32

20th

ez for sk

Dazed

RIP Thorin :D

Never thorin

2016-10-20 20:35

YNk best analyst ever

ResidentSleeper

2016-10-21 00:49

dazed<3

too late

DaZeD hype !!!

DAZED fuck yeah

pansy? xdddd DAZED!!!

lol dazed

thooooooooooooorin :(

;(

Dj kuntz lol

It was all good until I saw that Pansy was in the casting list. Can't bear watching games that she casts.

+1 British accent is unbearable.

2016-10-21 04:38

not particularly that but listening to Pansy casting in general is terrible. I wouldn't mind if Metuz replaced her since imo he's a good caster.

2016-10-21 12:32

Wow, Dazed as Analyst. Gonna be n1

LuL

KappaPride

Dazed more like daddy

2016-10-20 20:30

O J B O R G J B O R G

-pansy

uffff no thorin

The worst thing about DaZeD being an analyst is that it didn't happen sooner!

2016-10-20 20:33

YNK + DaZeD PogChamp

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZED

2016-10-20 20:37

No Thorin because ELEAGUE

FCK WHY YNK ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

DaZeD srsly???

2016-10-20 20:38

OJ Borg yeeee

2016-10-20 20:45

<3 dazed

2016-10-20 20:54

PANSY <3

2016-10-20 20:58

glawks inc

2016-10-20 21:02

After every T win: WE LOSE TO GLAWKS

lool why dazed? steel so much better

Anders and Semmler are back? Weren't they casting Overwatch or I misread it?

2016-10-20 21:21

Dazed xd

2016-10-20 21:31

DaZeD.<3

I am getting annoyed of them!!! Give us DDK AND BLACK DDK... only casting ELEAGUE, ECS and the Majors. Always seeing this fucking duo of sado and henryG! Ffs

2016-10-20 21:37

2016-10-20 22:12

FREE DAZED PogChamp

dazed LUL

2016-10-20 21:39

sick casters #freedazed

2016-10-20 21:41

-pansy and it's perfectly fine.

2016-10-20 21:47

OJ "Family Show" BORG is back

2016-10-20 22:00

so much hate, pansy actually good for something different

2016-10-20 22:04

OJ my bro finally I can see you again

2016-10-20 22:11

I Miss Tosspot

DAD

2016-10-20 22:18

DaZeD PogChamp Cant wait to see him and OJ is back so great banters inc

2016-10-20 22:33

Finally, DazeD is going to be casting at a big event. Good to see him involved at a CSGO event again, even if it's just casting.

2016-10-20 23:09

moses, i missed him last time

2016-10-20 23:17

I care way more for the observers than casters or commentators. If they are saying shit, I just focus on the game and I don't care. But, if the observer is bad, they FUCK your watching experience so hard. sapphiRe is one of the best, she really know what to do. I can't remember how many times I raged while watching a match, because the fucking observer missed key frags during the rounds. What I hate the most is when a player is on a 1vX situation (where X is 2 or more), and the damn observer doesn't put on the POV of the lone player, I mean, it's so fucking obvious that the rounds is all about him, if he dies, the round ends, if he kill everybody else, he clutches and wins, just stick on this POV ffs!

2016-10-20 23:18

yeah, i can hardly watch epicenter because of observers.

2016-10-21 02:38

ANDERS BEST

2016-10-20 23:32

THEY LISTENED. I MADE A THREAD BASHING THE USE OF WORD TALENT. THEY LISTENED.

2016-10-20 23:47

what's wrong with using talent (professional voices)?

2016-10-21 10:35

I don't know I just hated that word. They kept saying talent talent talent here talent there talent everywhere in every god damn fucking news post. 1. I never see that word outside of HLTV.ORG - if I do, it's very very rare 2. I know the nerd who wrote those posts just learned that word and is overkilling it to sound articulate 3. I wanna see news about player profiles of real fucking CSGO talents, not caster talent with the Sam fucking faces I see every tournament.

2016-10-21 12:05