this isn’t a product of the game itself, though, this is tournament players executing defensive play functionally. it’s not meaningless, and it’s definitely not commonplace for ladder players. these teams playing in AWC to deep dampening would clean almost any ladder team before damp sets in-especially for the middle ground layman you describe, that does deserve note by the casters, just. better than they’re doing it currently.
ehhhhh
this effectively rebuts that IMO, they don’t do a good job even in short games at anything except expressing the bald fact that they the casters are excited by the events of the game. you can use your tone to relay a lot more info than that scant little, but they just…don’t.
i’m not checked in enough to have known that, but i’m sad if it’s true. they don’t even pitch that low on league of legends casting, which is one of the prime sources AWC is cribbing from
i don’t agree, i think it’s deceptively intuitive for the specific subgroup of: people who might suck themselves as players but have a lot of experience watching and/or playing wow pvp
though, that aside, this:
isn’t even helping noobs. it’s not enough information to help somebody who’s never watched a wow match catch up, but it is pointlessly dense enough to ruin the experience for someone primed to receive concise info
a trite example of this balancing act would be streamers that commentate their own games; pikaboo sometimes strikes a really good balance between the current play by play, the intent behind that play, and the expectations he has of the match’s immediate future