Warcraft 3 Commentary and History

I was the first gamer as far as I'm aware to do commentaries in gaming. They became very popular and then everyone started doing them with whole websites dedicated to commentaries on gaming. Now it is just common place. For poker players - I was a very well known gamer, having played all of Blizzards RTS titles to a high standard from Warcraft 2 through Starcraft and Broodwar and finally?(well maybe, Starcraft 2 soon) culminating in Warcraft 3.

Here is a "Real" commentary from me that someone put up. It is a 4v4 FFA and was done for fun. The context for non gamers is that I am playing with 7 other random Warcraft 3 players whose average skill level will be weak to average. It was done only for a change as most of my commentaries were very high level games and nearly always 1v1. As you will see if you actually watch this commentary I get bored halfway through and start killing my team mates to spice up the game, it was really quite entertaining and a lot of my random laughing is in response to the stuff they are typing to me, they start begging me to stop killing them at points :). The commentary is done live whilst playing the actual game which was much trickier than it looks. I used to get paid $600 for every two commentaries I made by a subscription site back then. I did make the most downloaded commentaries back then! Remember this is from at least 5-6 years ago and also that I have to type to the other players, commentate and actually play the game at the same time. It is a shame this is the only one someone has uploaded, I have none of the scores of commentaries I must have made. Some really great games too as I used to only commentate on stuff where something interesting or novel took place. If you have any, please upload them =)



I was youtubing for Sky(As far as I'm aware the best Warcraft 3 player these days?) the other day and came across this video where someone commentates on a game of his whilst somehow pretending I'm also commentating on the match with him. He keeps asking me questions throughout the replay. It is quite surreal to watch. Probably using that old soundboard someone put together several years ago although I'm not sure.

Part 1.

Part 2.

I just found most of my results from Warcraft 3. I only played Warcraft 3 : Reign of Chaos. I never played The Frozen Throne seriously at all and gave up soon after its release.

War3 Beta Tournament : 1st Place (Made me famous right at the start of Warcraft 3)
Intel Masters Championships : 1st Place (Really professionally run UK tournament that only lasted one year, they invested way too much money in it obviously).
VGA Tournament : 1st Place (Forget what this even was, some nationwide networked Lan Tournament I think).
Warcraft Replays Tournament : 1st Place (Shrug).
Gamefixx Tournament : 1st Place playing under a secret alias. $5000 for first though.
Campus Party 2003 : 1st Place (Some HUGE and I mean HUGE lan played in Spain - Valencia, my mum still uses the Spanish Laptop I won there).
World Cyber Games 2003 in Seoul Korea : Silver Medal in Team event (I had recently switched to Humans as yes they were imbalanced =)) I won my solo group Stage 4-0 but then faced Grubby(has been one of the most successful Warcraft 3 player of the last 5 years) in the very next round who I lost 2-1 too in amazingly close games. He then went on to face Insomnia who he lost too. Not very fair since Human was not our natural race. Insomnia of course won the whole thing! Myself and another UK player called Bond surprisingly came 2nd in the team event. I came up with some strategies on the same day that took us right through to the finals where we lost to Chinese Taipei (Taiwan).

I took up poker professionally literally after arriving back from Korea.

And finally here's a blooper I found. Me getting a little angry at my Demon Hunter dying in a spot that he should never die. Must have been random damage, spiking on each hit.



Just for the record I haven't played a single game of Warcraft III in over 4 years. I will be trying Starcraft 2 obviously.