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Who is that shitty announcer and why does he have a mic?

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theabortionator
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Dude has nothing to say about anything.

Wow. He's from a place and he's going to try to do a thing on the snow thing. Wow he hit a rail thing and did a thing. Much excite.

At least twally was dialed.

Dude made the boarder cross unwatchable. Luckily the finals had good announcers.

Who is that kook though?

I hate when broadcasts use people that "sound exciting" or whatever. Dude was mildly better in the slope because tom was calling the runs but everything dude said was trash.
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theabortionator
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Dude is terrible and makes me want to fight him.

How many events is this guy announcing and why has nobody punched him out yet?


Watching pipe quallies now and dude is back on the mic being useless.
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GloryHoleGary
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theabortionatorDude is terrible and makes me want to fight him.

How many events is this guy announcing and why has nobody punched him out yet?


Watching pipe quallies now and dude is back on the mic being useless.


Were you just the first person to comment on your own thread?
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theabortionator
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GloryHoleGaryWere you just the first person to comment on your own thread?


Yes. I could have deleted after i saw the other thread but the other thread wasn't frantically yelling about this guy enough.
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GloryHoleGary
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Fair enough
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Lemuel
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Is this the guy named Todd? I don’t think he’s take bad, but I’ll have to catch up on some events.


If I hear Tom talk about how “playful” and “fun” tricks are I’m going to loose it. He’s got a ways to go before he’s as good as LVV. Tom does do a great job of pointing out nuances that make a trick good / bad that the average joe wouldn’t see or understand.
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theabortionator
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LemuelIs this the guy named Todd? I don’t think he’s take bad, but I’ll have to catch up on some events.


If I hear Tom talk about how “playful” and “fun” tricks are I’m going to loose it. He’s got a ways to go before he’s as good as LVV. Tom does do a great job of pointing out nuances that make a trick good / bad that the average joe wouldn’t see or understand.


I get having an everyman's announcer but they've been simplifying things pretty well for years.

They could still have a rando, just a better rando. Dude just shouts random things that don't really apply.

Clearly they told him "just keep talking" but he took it too literally. If he worked with tom or whoever else he's cohosting with it wouldn't be bad. Even when he tells the back story rhat is interesting to people it's aggressive. Idk.

Maybe it's just me. He seemed to be better in pipe and let tom talk.
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Daddy5K1***5
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Privileged “who ya know not what ya know” kinda vibes. Fishier than a ruroc dude about to snake ur line

**This post was edited on Feb 17th 2022 at 11:56:05am
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eheath
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Can't expect much when they hire one play-by-play announcer for like 20 different disciplines.
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theabortionator
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eheathCan't expect much when they hire one play-by-play announcer for like 20 different disciplines.


True, is there any even this guy doesn't just yell random stuff in?

The thing about having 2 announcers is you can work off each other. Even if you don't know anything about the sport.

Idk. With all the things the things with the Olympics you'd think they'd care a little more about the broadcast. They wouldn't hire some random dude to run a camera. Or maybe they would idk.

It's not ideal to know nothing about any sports but even with 0 knowledge of what a ski is dude could do way better.
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itsblind2oclock
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If I heard “he’s just having fun” and “he’s having issues” one more time I would’ve lost it. Most boring repetitive broadcast I’ve ever heard.
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hemlockjibber8
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theabortionatorThey wouldn't hire some random dude to run a camera. Or maybe they would idk.

wellll...... @rudager

jk buddy
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NickSkisGood
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We're talking about the kiwi with the goofy accent right? Sounds like he's yelling half the time just says the score to beat all the time. Also the announcers are trying so hard to avoid gender specific pronouns it's painfully awkward imo. All good tho but yesh the pretzel man talks circles around this guy

**This post was edited on Feb 17th 2022 at 3:36:07pm
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rudager
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theabortionatorTrue, is there any even this guy doesn't just yell random stuff in?

The thing about having 2 announcers is you can work off each other. Even if you don't know anything about the sport.

Idk. With all the things the things with the Olympics you'd think they'd care a little more about the broadcast. They wouldn't hire some random dude to run a camera. Or maybe they would idk.

It's not ideal to know nothing about any sports but even with 0 knowledge of what a ski is dude could do way better.


hemlockjibber8wellll...... @rudager

jk buddy

Well actually….




I don’t get the struggle with the announcers here either, Mind you, I haven’t heard them. From my experience, two is always better than one, and there usually is a production playbook that they follow. Seems like CBC and NBC are doing it right with ABM and Tom.
It’s a production thing, I’ve never understood half the things that production does. I’m in the technical side. I would just think it would be easier to find someone with experience and say “hey, want to come announce the freestyle events for two weeks at the Olympics?”. Might not be everyone’s forte, but it seems if you’re done in a sport, you either go into production, or coaching.
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theabortionator
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rudagerWell actually….




I don’t get the struggle with the announcers here either, Mind you, I haven’t heard them. From my experience, two is always better than one, and there usually is a production playbook that they follow. Seems like CBC and NBC are doing it right with ABM and Tom.
It’s a production thing, I’ve never understood half the things that production does. I’m in the technical side. I would just think it would be easier to find someone with experience and say “hey, want to come announce the freestyle events for two weeks at the Olympics?”. Might not be everyone’s forte, but it seems if you’re done in a sport, you either go into production, or coaching.


If you haven't heard it idk. Maybe you'd feel different if you did.

Its not that its a normy that doesn't ski park it's just that it's loud and kind of aggressive while adding nothing. He's not working woth tom hes just yelling fast in between. The pipe wasnt too bad but it was rough in some events.

Even the cross was rough and its like, dude its a race, how can you not announce that better.
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rudager
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theabortionatorIf you haven't heard it idk. Maybe you'd feel different if you did.

Its not that its a normy that doesn't ski park it's just that it's loud and kind of aggressive while adding nothing. He's not working woth tom hes just yelling fast in between. The pipe wasnt too bad but it was rough in some events.

Even the cross was rough and its like, dude its a race, how can you not announce that better.


Probably trying to revive the days when we spelt everything with a massive X, for extreme sports.
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