1/5/2024 0 Comments Esports commentator![]() Well, I'd learned very quickly that my fluency in casting was poor. When I got the opportunity to move to Germany and work at ESL full time as an esports commentator it was a very steep learning curve. Nerd Street: Are there any skills you picked up along the way that you were surprised you needed to have in order to further your career? Then I realized that there were other people doing this, but I wasn't taking it seriously enough at that time to really try and study what they were doing and apply it to myself. It wasn't until I started paying attention to the European Call of Duty 4 scene, and to some degree the American one. I just thought we were the only ones doing this. Eventually I started looking at other esports commentators, but in the beginning I didn't even know they existed. I took my inspiration from my love of Australian rules football and some of their commentators. Read more: Team Envy’s mummAy gives insight, tips on playing Astra So I’d look over the balcony and I could see my dad playing. I was actually very interested in the history of the game … and my Kindergarten used to be at the Oval, the stadium itself. He was a lead sportsman, and I used to watch all his games and I was very interested. My dad was a professional Australian football player. I took some inspiration from some traditional sports broadcasters from Australia, like Australian rules football which is a game that is only played in Australia and in some parts of India. Uber: Yeah, at that time I didn’t have any formal training, no. Nerd Street: At the time, you had no formal training, right? It was just a way to stay involved, but it sort of materialized as time went on. Just radio broadcasts of Call of Duty 4 matches at like the invite level, which is the top 12 teams in the country, and so I did that and it was just a hobby. So that allowed me to do broadcasts three to four nights a week. And so I decided that I would just start commentating on the radio the Call of Duty 4 games so I could still be involved in some way 'cause I still wanted very much to be in that scene, that community. ![]() It was sort of an all-in-one sort of community hub basically. So video games Australia had its own website, Cyber Gamer, which was like a ladder system. So, I stopped playing sort of competitively, but I wanted to be involved still, and there was a random website called Net Game Radio that was being run by a Defence Force retiree in Australia, and he was just getting people to come and radio broadcast some competitive. ![]() I didn't have the time to study aerospace engineering and then also scrim 40 hours a week. Scrimming 40 hours a week in a Call of Duty 4 team, and I was like 19, I think, but that was around the time where I was starting to have to go to university. Uber: Initially, it was really just a hobby. ![]() Nerd Street: What first sparked the idea that you wanted to be an esports commentator, and did you ever expect to make a career out of it? This interview was edited for length and clarity. Uber took the time to speak to Nerd Street Gamers about how he came to where he is now, and tips for other casters who might want to follow in his footsteps. Not only does Uber have a successful casting career, but he’s also a father, streamer and podcaster. He has a plethora of experience in other games such as League of Legends, Halo and Battlefield 4, just to name a few. With years of casting experience behind him, he was an obvious pick to join the OWL. ![]() Mitch “Uber” Leslie quickly became a fan-favorite when he entered the Overwatch League in its inaugural season as a caster. ![]()
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