I often hear comments like:
- "We all know St4rk, but I'm not that familiar with Player X, so I guess we'll have to wait and see."
- "Well, we've made our predictions for map and civs, so wouldn't know what to talk about before the next game starts. Going for a quick bite and back in a few minutes."
With other sports you'd probably see an analysis of historical stats. These can all be found in the Voobly ladder. Example for RiuT:
- You can compare his rating progress to that of his opponent by entering his opponents name under the graph.
- You can see his 6 most frequent opponents.
- You can see his favourite civs (besides Huns) and notice he never lost with 6 of them (during the last 109 matches).
- You can see his favourite maps (besides Ara) and notice he never won Nomad (during the last 109 matches).
I'm sure every seasoned player is well aware of this, but it may give the broadcasters something to talk about and base their predictions on.
Of course this is maybe less useful for the remaining part of the CoT tournament as the final players are well known, but it could be interesting when commenting on less famous players. It allows the casters to do a little preparation, so their hundreds of viewers don't have to look up this data themselves.
- "We all know St4rk, but I'm not that familiar with Player X, so I guess we'll have to wait and see."
- "Well, we've made our predictions for map and civs, so wouldn't know what to talk about before the next game starts. Going for a quick bite and back in a few minutes."
With other sports you'd probably see an analysis of historical stats. These can all be found in the Voobly ladder. Example for RiuT:
- You can compare his rating progress to that of his opponent by entering his opponents name under the graph.
- You can see his 6 most frequent opponents.
- You can see his favourite civs (besides Huns) and notice he never lost with 6 of them (during the last 109 matches).
- You can see his favourite maps (besides Ara) and notice he never won Nomad (during the last 109 matches).
I'm sure every seasoned player is well aware of this, but it may give the broadcasters something to talk about and base their predictions on.
Of course this is maybe less useful for the remaining part of the CoT tournament as the final players are well known, but it could be interesting when commenting on less famous players. It allows the casters to do a little preparation, so their hundreds of viewers don't have to look up this data themselves.