Open letter to Mohamed Fadl on E-sports

Ectar:   You've made a few points here and some I feel the need to touch on some specifically to give a clearer picture and also get some additional feedback.   7. - Having players turn up just for goodies doesn't keep people watching the stream. It makes people wait for a giveaway then leave. It also makes chat a very polluted place with lots of people just spamming "When is giveaway?" etc. On top of that many people also seem to expect giveaways to happen during the matches (when we'd rather everyone was paying attention to what's happening) rather than during the downtime between matches when any production normally loses viewers for various reasons (as people go to the toilet, get food, get up and walk around etc etc).  I've moderated high volume twitch chats in the past and the minute you get over 2000 viewers in a chat stream it moves pretty quickly and becomes very spammy in general.   8. - Decent suggestion but not always easy to have the set up of face cams for everyone. LoL does it for example but the images are normally quite small and the players are 100% focused during the matches. It's nice to see players getting emotional however due to the nature of playing in LAN finals most people remain calm and composed. It's not like CoD on consoles where they're all shouting at each other. You're also limited to what's available in the studio and not all WGLEU games are played in the studio like for example League of Legends.  Stuff like that may feature in the Grand Finals however.   9. For EU you have Mitch "Ubershouts" Leslie, Oliver "Laughter" Maxfield and Lauren "Pansy" Scott. As for Laughter he is an ex pro player and his stats more than speak for himself. He's normally doing the colour casting.  Both Mitch and Lauren normally do the play by play casting and have fairly extensive casting experience from other games, Mitch does CSGO, League of Legends and Overwatch.  Lauren is well known in CSGO circles for her casting.  Play by play casting and colour casting are 2 very different skills and not everyone can switch between the two. Hosting a show is also a very different kettle of fish.    10. Your earlier statement "I have seen screaming girls speaking about a game that they do not understand and know nothing about" doesn't make sense. There is only Lauren as a caster, she does the play by plays and is pretty dam good at it.  The only other female in the WGEU casts is Melly who does social media and she doesn't commentate on matches. She occasionally talks about what happened after a match but she doesn't go into in depth details. She more really commentates on the teams as she knows the teams really well due to interacting with then daily/weekly. Casting is very very difficult to do and whilst more female casters would be nice, it's sadly something that the majority viewing public find hard to adjust to. There is a lack of female casters for any top level sports in general, never mind eSports. That's mainly because many sports are still male dominated or are male only (Football, Basketball, Rugby, F1 Racing etc etc).  Regarding players you'll notice a lack of female players in the top teams for any major online game like League of Legends, Dota2 and CS:GO.  Why?  Because there simply isn't a lot of female gamers good enough to be at that level.  If someone is good at a game, they'll get in a team. It has nothing to do with their sexuality, hair colour, skin colour, nationality, religion etc etc.  I'm aware there is female pro teams for different games and I'm not taking anything away from them. I personally wish however that there wasn't a separate tournament/league like that as the last thing eSports needs is to segregation based on something. Everyone should be entitled and able to get on a team so long as they're good enough.  

Ectar:   You say "random dudes" when Oliver has been known in the World of Tanks eSport team for some considerable time.  Who else would you expect to see casting the games and how do you know/what area of influence/what current role do those people have,that you feel would be more suitable to commentating the matches?   If you watched the recent WGLEU finals last weekend for example I was one of the people on the analyst desk along with 2 pro players Kevin "The Deadzone" Van Huit who plays with Penta and "Still_Mojo" who used to play with Kazna Kru.  The Analyst desk was also hosted by Luke "Dorjan" Kneller who is known to a lot of viewers who already watch any eSport stuff from Wargaming and is also the voice behind The "replay of the week" video series that we do.