Talking

which of our two players have a shot at $1 million with the grandfinal of the ESL Championship”.The key with these types of throws, however, is to use your voiceproperly. With a regular throw, it doesn’t matter, but with the exampleI just gave, if you don’t use your voice properly, the throwwill fail. You’ll also confuse your production team, who might not beready to transition the camera elsewhere.Ideally, you’ll take a short pause before you deliver the throw. Onceyou start talking, focus on the final part of your delivery, whichshould be on a much-prescribed downward or upward intonation.The choice is yours, but whoever takes the throw needs to continuefrom the same pitch, so I usually take a downward approach so thecommentators I send it to are able to come in at a reasonable pitchwithout having to immediately get hyped, especially if the matchisn’t starting right away. You really will have to gauge this yourself.It’s also worth mentioning that once you know your casters betterand understand how they react to your throws, you can tailor thethrow to them better using the inflections in your voice, either up ordown, depending how they usually react. If a caster usually comesin with lots of energy after the throw, then use an upward inflectionon the end of the throw.THROW TO VIDEOA successful video throw is not one where you introduce the videoby saying “Let’s take a look at this cool video”. In fact, if you have touse the word ‘video’ in your throw, you aren’t doing it right.I almost always insist on seeing the video before I throw to it. This ispart of your preparation as a broadcaster, but if you don’t have time69