James Is an Ass and We Wont Be Working With Him Again
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Day iii at Shanghai Major group phase starts with Valve firing the entire production crew and an unconventional annunciation fabricated by Gabe Newell himself via reddit.
Yesterday a shocking twitter post from the result official English language host James '2GD' Harding came after the second GSL game series finished announcing he was released from his duties by Valve. The console resumed with Jorien 'Sheever' van der Heijden taking over as the English panel host and everyone anxiously waited for an official declaration from Valve forth with a promised description from 2GD. Earlier James got to postal service his story, Gabe Newell fabricated a personal reddit post stating the following:
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2 things:
1) James. We've had issues with James at previous events. Some Valve people lobbied to bring him back for Shanghai, feeling that he deserved another take chances. That was a mistake. James is an ass, and nosotros won't be working with him again.
2) As long as we're firing people, we are also firing the production visitor that we've been working with on the Shanghai Major. They will be replaced, and we hope to get this turned around before the main outcome.
As always, I can be reached at [email protected]."
The previous events mentioned by Gabe Newell are The International two, The International 3 and The International 4 where James '2GD' Harding was the panel host. In an interview he gave at TI 4 to Expletive, James said "this is probably the last time I am going to host TI" and so information technology was. No detailed reasoning was given at TI 5 other than he decided not to collaborate with Valve anymore.
The announcement of his return at the Shanghai Major split the community into two camps every bit his personality and his loose, relaxed manner of hosting is non everyone's loving cup of coffee.
His thoughts on Valve's conclusion are yet to be made public as he decided to slumber on the matter rather than rushing the response:
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Going to sleep on it (statement). It'south a very very odd situation… I'm non trying to tease, just let me recall about this. Information technology'southward important to me."
However, once Gabe went to reddit, James responded in the 11k comments thread saying:
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This is why my statement is taking sometime. It seems more personal than professional. And then I volition respond. Simply for the record gabe, I don't recollect you lot are an ass. Only I don't think you are right about me (well maybe yous are a bit of an ass for calling me an donkey, but let's find out what others think shall nosotros?). Brb "
In the meantime some of players have started to voice their opinions regarding the Shanghai Major storyline and then far. Peter 'ppd' Dager kept a daily Vlog and in the today'southward episode he's giving his 2 cents on Valve'southward decision to fire 2GD.
As polarising every bit James Harding may be, the most disappointing part with this 2nd Dota 2 Major was the amateurism displayed past the production team. Plagued with an unbelievable corporeality of technical problems including; severe audio problems, freezing streams, poor lighting studio setup, no working microphones, really badly executed transitions from the casters to the panel and in full more than than four hours of delays in each of the showtime 2 days, was what truly divers the Shanghai Major and then far.
Without exactly knowing who is behind all these, the community flamed a lot toward Perfect Globe, but the fact is that the one hired to deliver the Shanghai Major production was KeyTV, the Chinese Content Producer based in Shanghai that was likewise responsible for Nanyang Championship. And if we have a look back we will observe the similarities in the production value of these ii events.
An inside perspective at how the English production went down in the first two days can be found in the TwitLonger mail fabricated by the English production translator hired by KeyTv.
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Based on my own communication and observation of the Chinese piece of work culture, they are more concerned with saving "face" than to albeit that they are wrong. Generally delays happen because people are busy arguing most whose mistake it is and not working together to figure out solutions. Communication was poor, relations were bad, and work attitude was BAD. (This is a general overview, obviously there are exceptions. "
After broadcasting the first two serial of the 24-hour interval without a panel, the English stream has managed to improvise a solution and resumed the show with Dakota 'KotLGuy' Cox as host. For the kickoff office of the day it was the crew from Moonduck studio who stepped in and delivered the in betwixt games analysis with Zyori, Purge, Maut, SUNsfan, PimpmuckL and SirActionSlacks.
If you are wondering why the official Russian panel is not affected by this mess, that's considering they were able to bring their ain small production squad to secure the Russian coverage part for this Major.
Source: https://www.gosugamers.net/dota2/news/34505-gabe-newell-responds-to-the-shanghai-major-production-drama
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