"ProGaming needs more personality, the bigger the better. It needs less robot players and cookie-cutter interview answers. How exciting would matches be if they all had the energy and subplots of Savior calling out the entire OGN team, or when TT threw his headphones off and stormed out of the room after go.go used the c-bug? Nobody gets excited about Ever)P(TT and random ugly Terran go.go, but how much would you love to watch that rematch? The quality of a crazy emotional game doesn’t matter at all. We want to see TT get his revenge, or angrily explode after a loss. That’s even better than a great game of BW.

That’s why my favorite players are Chalrenge and Savior, and my least favorite are Midas and Bifrost. Never mind that pressure and big situations bring the best out of the first two and the last two are world-class choke artists. Chalrenge and Savior have personality. They give interesting answers, they are confident, they are guys you’d want to go out and get a drink with. Who would want to hang out with Midas other than to have him do your math homework, teach you a TvP build order, or cook you dinner? In fact, Bifrost should call Midas up, as he undoubtedly has consumed all editable materials in the OGN house. Judging by his growing waistline, it’s like he’s trying to apply his gaming strategy to real life—his diet is literally the BW equivalent of triple cc’ing.

But I digress. What I really want to talk is an increasing trend: player ceremonies. Before, we’d get a fist pump, or a neck roll, or something equally discreet, but now we have NaDa pointing to a ghost fourth badge or Boxer doing this:..."