[Cordance]

I am looking for expressions of interest from people willing to judge a casting competition as I do not wish for it to just become a popularity contest. Judges for the competition will need to watch at least 2 casts each week more likely 6-10. Making a binary choices (one caster vs another caster) between several "skill" categories. Such as language range use, composure, game knowledge displayed, excitement, dead space filler, action capture (screen positioning) with a weighting due to live vs replay and solo vs co casted. The finalization of all categories will be made after a number of judges can be organized. I expect the competition will run somewhere from 10-20 weeks depending on numbers of caster interest. Starting sometime early in the new year.

For the interest of completeness I will lay out the rough format now to give people an idea of what the casting competition will involve. Keep in mind several if not all things will change before the actual competition is run. The concept came from the desire to improve and publicize the SEA region casting and subsequently games.

The Caster cup will be run as a single elimination competition where casters submit a "competition cast" they have previously done of a SEA game and/or SEA players.
A "competition cast" is a single game (live or replay) or maybe series depending on how judges time allows (to be finalized) and up to 5 min pre game and/or post game. Submission would be made via a link and if required a time so casters could used you tube or a streaming service recording rather than having to take time from casting to edit up a submission. The cast would then be judged on categories such as language, observation, production quality (to be finalized with judges).
Once the judges choices on each category are organized, to make things more interesting not all of the categories would be used to pick a winner each round. The casters would each blindly submit a number of categories (to be finalized) that they wished to be judged on, also a poll would be held with links to the casts for SC2SEA people to vote on a single category. Then at the end of the week only the categories the casters chose and the voted category would be used to score the match. Some round to round rules would involve never using the same cast twice and not being able to submit a cast with that rounds competitor as your co caster.

So anyone interested in watching some SEA casters and judging them? Judging results would be given to the casters only, so judges can be somewhat shielded from public S-storms.