Hes an Ass and We Wont Be Working With Him Again
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Twenty-four hour period three at Shanghai Major group stage starts with Valve firing the unabridged production crew and an anarchistic declaration made past Gabe Newell himself via reddit.
Yesterday a shocking twitter mail from the outcome official English host James '2GD' Harding came after the 2d 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 console host and everyone anxiously waited for an official announcement from Valve along with a promised clarification from 2GD. Before James got to post his story, Gabe Newell fabricated a personal reddit mail stating the following:
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Two things:
i) James. We've had issues with James at previous events. Some Valve people lobbied to bring him dorsum for Shanghai, feeling that he deserved another adventure. That was a fault. James is an ass, and we won't be working with him again.
two) As long equally we're firing people, we are besides firing the production company that nosotros've been working with on the Shanghai Major. They volition be replaced, and we promise to get this turned around before the main event.
As e'er, I can exist reached at [electronic mail protected]."
The previous events mentioned by Gabe Newell are The International 2, The International 3 and The International iv where James '2GD' Harding was the console host. In an interview he gave at TI 4 to Expletive, James said "this is probably the terminal time I am going to host TI" and then 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 style of hosting is not everyone'southward loving cup of java.
His thoughts on Valve'due south decision are yet to be fabricated public as he decided to sleep on the matter rather than rushing the response:
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Going to sleep on it (argument). Information technology'south a very very odd situation… I'1000 non trying to tease, only let me think about this. Information technology's of import to me."
However, one time Gabe went to reddit, James responded in the 11k comments thread maxim:
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This is why my statement is taking sometime. It seems more personal than professional. So I will respond. Just for the record gabe, I don't think you are an ass. But I don't recollect you lot are correct about me (well maybe y'all are a chip of an ass for calling me an ass, but let'south find out what others retrieve shall nosotros?). Brb "
In the meantime some of players have started to voice their opinions regarding the Shanghai Major storyline so far. Peter 'ppd' Dager kept a daily Vlog and in the today's episode he'south giving his two cents on Valve's conclusion to burn 2GD.
As polarising as James Harding may be, the most disappointing part with this second Dota 2 Major was the amateurism displayed past the product team. Plagued with an unbelievable amount of technical issues including; severe audio issues, freezing streams, poor lighting studio setup, no working microphones, really badly executed transitions from the casters to the console and in total more than than iv hours of delays in each of the first 2 days, was what truly defined the Shanghai Major 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 evangelize the Shanghai Major product was KeyTV, the Chinese Content Producer based in Shanghai that was besides responsible for Nanyang Title. And if nosotros have a look back we will detect the similarities in the production value of these 2 events.
An inside perspective at how the English production went downwardly in the first ii days tin can exist found in the TwitLonger post made past the English product translator hired by KeyTv.
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Based on my own communication and ascertainment of the Chinese work culture, they are more concerned with saving "confront" than to admitting that they are wrong. Generally delays happen because people are busy arguing about whose fault it is and non 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. "
Afterward dissemination the first two serial of the day without a panel, the English stream has managed to improvise a solution and resumed the bear witness with Dakota 'KotLGuy' Cox equally host. For the offset part of the mean solar 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 console is not affected by this mess, that's because they were able to bring their own pocket-sized production team 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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