Should Billy know their names, yes. Should he know the format, yes.
Was the ping pong comment stupid yes but even with all that Billy is a good
commentator and can be quite funny at times. I enjoy it when Billy's in the booth.
Yep, I like Billy I in the box more then most but that type of comment is completely uncalled for.
I will also say, in the last match the announcers had no clue about the scores of the prior matches and were thus unable to figure out the 3-way tiebreakers. How about spending a little less time trying to guess the next shot and keeping track of the scores on both tables and writing them down so that in future matches later in the event you actually know the prior matches scores and can actually figure this stuff out? You are being paid to be there and work, take the 2 seconds to mark down the scores and keep track of them.
The lack of professionalism in this broadcast is so clearly apparent. I cannot believe the people at CSI are seeing this go off and letting it go as if it is acceptable. If I were in charge there someone would have been getting the announcers the prior match scores ASAP and I would be asking why they did not already have them to begin with.
At the end of last nights matches Billy Incardona said something that has been bugging me this morning. He couldn't figure out how to say the Ko brothers names so he called one of them "Ping Pong." Of course he quickly tried to cover it up by saying he was just joking. Joking or not I feel it was in very poor taste and unacceptable. Here we have Team CSI trying to provide great names from across the world and the commentators can't even take the time to learn their names. It's bad enough that they don't have an understanding of the tournament format. End rant.
Yep, I like Billy I in the box more then most but that type of comment is completely uncalled for. I am not offended by it (although I am not Asian either) but it simply looks the sport look amateurish and classless to have that type of thing in the commentary in a "high" profile pool event such as CSI is trying to produce.
I will also say, in the last match the announcers had no clue about the scores of the prior matches and were thus unable to figure out the 3-way tiebreakers. How about spending a little less time trying to guess the next shot and keeping track of the scores on both tables and writing them down so that in future matches later in the event you actually know the prior matches scores and can actually figure this stuff out? You are being paid to be there and work, take the 2 seconds to mark down the scores and keep track of them.
The lack of professionalism in this broadcast is so clearly apparent. I cannot believe the people at CSI are seeing this go off and letting it go as if it is acceptable. If I were in charge there someone would have been getting the announcers the prior match scores ASAP and I would be asking why they did not already have them to begin with.
At the end of last nights matches Billy Incardona said something that has been bugging me this morning. He couldn't figure out how to say the Ko brothers names so he called one of them "Ping Pong." Of course he quickly tried to cover it up by saying he was just joking. Joking or not I feel it was in very poor taste and unacceptable. Here we have Team CSI trying to provide great names from across the world and the commentators can't even take the time to learn their names. It's bad enough that they don't have an understanding of the tournament format. End rant.
As to all the commentator hate...it is what it is. I have yet to see a stream where someone somewhere didnt get a case of the ass over some commentator
I completely agree.....Billy called me "Table Tennis" one time and I'm still not over it!!!
Meanwhile Billy Incardona is a heck of a guy, and does his best for Accu-Stats and pool in general.....I agree that commentators could be better linguistically, however, we're lucky to have what we got, and Billy is by far one of the best.
Meanwhile Billy Incardona is a heck of a guy, and does his best for Accu-Stats and pool in general.....I agree that commentators could be better linguistically, however, we're lucky to have what we got, and Billy is by far one of the best.
It's really tough to pronounce three syllable full names.
Justin,
Instead of taking these opinions as "commentator hate", why not treat them as potentially valuable customer feedback that you and CSI can utilize to produce a better product?
I've been thinking that for a while myself but then people say that incardona and dileberto who sings songs from the 1930's on stream are the best commentators around.
Maybe there just aren't any younger guys interested in doing commentary? :shrug:
Justin,
Instead of taking these opinions as "commentator hate", why not treat them as potentially valuable customer feedback that you and CSI can utilize to produce a better product?
Can't expect too much out of some commentators that are mostly in their late 70's and were raised in a time of high racism.
Some of these old timers probably think that the Ko's grandfather was responsible for pearl harbor because they're asian.
The world gets goofier every day.
There are several threads that have Billy I as the best commentator in the game. For every person that says Ken or Bobby sucks there is one who says they are great. What would you do? Who would you listen to?