The guys over in India have always been good to me so maybe if we cross our fingers and toes I'll be in with a chance haha

Thank you all so much though, really it's what keeps me going sometimes <3

Currently brother I'm doing humanitarian work in Ukraine, most likely founding a humanitarian organisation afterwards. After not getting anything after the LCQ I had to step away from casting :(

Still I was blessed to have the 2 best playbyplays on the planet (pavlos and Harry)

Invites have already gone out I believe, I'm not on it :(

Great question, I'll let you know when I do brother

My messages didn't get a response :(

TOs don't work against casters, the actual malicious stuff comes from other casters lol

TOs can harm casters by having bad events and treating talent badly, for instance I had an event where they just didn't show us where to get food, so when we start at 7am and finish at 11pm, none of the shops were open and we went like 2 days without food

I damaged my own career by going to Ukraine, which made me "political"

It's hard to give specific examples due to my friends potentially becoming collateral damage due to just being associated with me (yes, people are that petty)

This is setup for the end, proper dms etc going out soonish, beers and huge hugs at lan brother <3

I don't think ever actually, the players know you're part of their branding as a caster, a good example with JuicySG was "the juice is loose", so there's usually quite a bit of respect between players and casters (especially in apac)

Most of the talent rumours are true, usually they're worse than you hear because as they go from person to person they get watered down due to people protecting those who told them

Yeah man, well if you wanna know anything ask away,

I don't really fear retaliation from TOs or other casters anymore so be as controversial as you want

Best memory would be APAC LCQ, putting myself and pavlos on the map and genuinely just having an amazing casting team around us. Close 2nd and 3rd are the 2 times I've cast in India, my first time casting internationally in Bulgaria was awesome as well, going to Sweden and meeting my mentor and now extremely close friend

As for worst, brother there are so many lows lol, waiting over 6 months to get paid, so much TO drama, the akuma vs navi match in Cs being fixed (I'll probably tell the story of that on a stream but we watched navi get ddosed in real time, random observers join mid game, gotv having 0 delay), being used to undercut other casters against our knowledge, realising the phrase "never meet your heros" exists for a reason

Like the highs of this job are so fucking high, but the lows are so damn low

Edit: would you want me to actually just tell stories from my times travelling? Both in esports and out?

Ehhhh I think geng were more ambitious which I quite like

Bhai, I love your country, I love your people, and I love the event, sometimes tech issues happen, we're used to doing the fills <3

Habibi, I can't write Arabic but it sounds like uh-he-bok-ee (I love you), once again, no word from the TO so maybe? Hopefully? Before we were contracted by Promod however they went out of business like 2 weeks ago haha

Bhai I was always gonna retire after this event, sometimes it feels like I just don't know the right people or don't have the right agency, alas, maybe I'm just not good enough. The issue with this industry is we never know and never get told

The analyst side, I started as a caster doing esea open games, and then grew from that into smaller tournaments, the analyst side you slowly pick up as you work both roles initially

LOVE YOU TOO BRO, I MISS CASTING YOU IN MYSG

Most likely a coaching role in NA collegiate, I don't know how long I'll do that for or what will come of it just yet though

I don't know who either of those people are...

Hi from India!

I feel myself approaching the end of my career, not fully gone yet but as I'm sure you've seen we've just not been picked up for anything this year outside of convergence and going into next year I've got exactly 0 events planned

So I see a lot of people ask questions about casters and events etc on vlr and they usually never get a response, mainly due to fear of TO retaliation

So guys ask away, I'll answer (almost) everything honestly and openly, and if you have any questions for the other casters here, fire away

The main one I get is why I never, went on VCL SA, simply put, I tried many many times to get on there, but I assume Nodwin wanted guys local to the area, granted they never replied so I genuinely don't know

On that note as well, you guys genuinely got me out of some really depressing times, the love you've given to pavlos and I brought me to tears, especially after the apac lcq last year. Your support means the fucking world to us and I want to say from the bottom of my heart, thank you <3

Anyways, ask away <3

Brother, even us casters say things we don't mean in the heat of the moment, I understand man <3

Glad you enjoyed the memes and I hope you like the show today <3

Being well prepared and genuinely just practise, pavlos and I write down like 5/6 points for pauses and then we just cycle through them & come in with anything else that comes to mind. It's pretty exhausting but it's part or the job we love <3

Thank you so much brother, although we don't comment much, us casters do read the vlr comments quite a lot. The praise you guys give us is genuinely sometimes the only thing that keeps us going haha

OH SHIT IM SO SORRY, WILL CORRECT IT FOR NEXT MAP <3

dyslexic caster moments :D

Thanks so much <3

When I started casting valorant, Indian TOs were the only ones that would hire me because I came to valorant late. They have remained loyal to me and I will forever loyal to them, if they need a caster for an event I will be there <3

Granted that means I'm now fairly used to filling for time haha

A lot of willpower and Pavlos there to make it easy for me, we also did gxr last year so we're fairly used to having to fill for a bit

A piece of me is proud of how bad my timing was haha

I'M SORRY BROTHER, FORGIVE ME 😭😭

I'll mainly be with GraceV! However every single caster in this event is so so so talented so I'll be with whoever the jods of TEC decide I'll be with lol

Thanks so much sayang, I believe!

1am wake up, get to the studio for 2.30am.... The first few days were tough haha

Man I ask that all the time

When I started casting Valorant, apac tournaments were the only ones who would hire me, so I decided to stay there and show them the same loyalty they showed me

Sometimes the production company chooses, sometimes Riot choose, we can send out reels and stuff to TOs and hope for the best

THANK YOU BHAI

We're gonna try and do even better today!

Luv you too!

THANK YOU ❤️

Thank you!

Had a strat talk with Pavlos just now, we're gonna nail these finals

Xeno is nuts tbh

Thank you so much man, hopefully the finals can be just as good as our casts beforehand.

Pavlos and I are extremely hyped and I'm about 2 redbulls in so I'm fucking READY

Yes you can be

Thank you so much man!

I'm probably gonna cry like a baby once I get back to the hotel once we finish this event cause if the support we've received from this

Given the chance brother, I would cast every LCQ haha

As for the East Asia one, I've been really impressed by EDward Gaming. But I am a sucker for an upset

As for hyping up passive teams, what I personally do in that time is use the 10/20 secs of dead time. I switch to narrative building with Pavlos.

A good example is when Onic change their playstyle and go to being passive,

"remember, this is a lower bracket match Pavlos, the butterfly affects of this round is a. Make. Or. Break, for our happy hedgehogs" or something like that lol

Thank you so fucking much brother, I hope you enjoy the finals!

Hopefully man!

I honestly have no clue my friend, Valorant is all of our passions, masters, no masters, champions, no champions.

We're still going to cast valorant to our absolute A game, regardless of the tier of tournament

One day my brother ❤️

Most of us actually had Bleed to win this one, but picks are a bit fucky with us. I want to cast good Valorant, I don't necessarily pick a team because I like them