Recently, Blizzard ANZ did a blog about observers, highlighting and interviewing me (inFeZa), called Following the Action.
A Snippet from the article:
Quote:
Phil ‘inFeZa’ Bertino is not based in Europe, North America, or Korea. He’s from Australia, yet he is one the most highly regarded observers in StarCraft II. Dan ‘Artosis’ Stemkoski described inFeZa’s observing as “Nothing less than stellar.” We recently sat down with Phil and asked him a few questions.
Question: How did you start observing?
Answer: I started observing after ACL Gold Coast. I had been a big fan of a local caster, Maynarde, who was casting at the time but he was missing out on drops and other things, which are hard to do while trying to cast at the same time. After the event I asked him if I could be his eyes while he sits back and delivers a quality cast. We did some online casts together, such as IEM qualifiers, before the next live event which had gone really well. It must have gone well since I was asked to observe many events thereafter , including WCS Australia, WCS Oceania with Tasteless, Artosis and Painuser, HDStarcraft, and most recently, IEM Singapore with Artosis, Kaelaris, Jorosar and Hasuobs.
I remember watching WCS oceania and saying "Man, this guy does not miss a thing". Then Tastosis started giving you probs on your work when you were beating them to things they wanted to see. It was like you were watching the game a few seconds in front of them, ha! Awesome work the praise is well deserved.
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