Folge #35 mit 'Sadokist' und Frodo: About career life crisis and a CS:GO comeback

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Welcome to Episode 35 of “Game Face powered by Blue” your new favorite podcast in all things gaming. Our guest today is Matthew ‘Sadokist’ Trivitt.

Question´s for Sadokist from Frodo:

• What´s your gaming story?
• What was your first game?
• What´s your bigger love - gaming or motorsports
• How did you get into eSport´s
• When did you realize you want to become a CS:GO Caster?
• How could your dad help you with your breathing technique as a former radio host?
• How did your parents support your dream?
• the famous Snax moment in New York, how do you feel about it today?
• Was there some point when you realized you could burn out in eSport´s?
• Was there always gaming and motor sport together?
• So do you leave esports (CS:GO) now?
• Was it a hard decision to switch to iRacing, or was it the right time?
• normally you are a play-by-play commentator. Now you switched the role to color cast for iRacing. Why does it come to that change?
• How different is the iRacing World compared to the CS:GO world?
• Is the preparation nearly the same for you as a commentator?
• What are the differences between iRacing and real life Racing?
• Is there an opportunity for returning to CS:GO?
• You were a really successful CS:GO commentator, some would say the best CS:GO commentator ever. Is this your plan for the future to be the best iRacing commentator?
• What tips or advice would you give a commentator who is thinking about switching the game?

What's little Mathew's gaming story?

I was pretty young and little when it all kind of started for me. I guess I have an older brother who's three years older than me and he always was into gaming and like even Lego and stuff and creating and kind of now he's an engineer. So it all made sense. So gaming for him when it was new and novel was really cool. And he used to play games like, you know, Quake and Unreal Tournament and then tribes. And then obviously in nineteen ninety eight was a big year and pretty much every big game that shaped the industry came out in half life and counterstrike among those. And I just kind of always wanted to be one of the cool kids and play the games that my brother played.

So the motorsport thing was just through my dad and his interest in cars. And I think that's something you either have or you don't in the rural areas.

I mean, a lot of people fell in love with video games. How did you end up in eSports?

I did fall in love with Counterstrike. You're right. But the game that I actually got competitive with was Call of Duty four. And it was actually I mean, I played some cal, which was the CyberAthlete League or something along those lines. I can remember it was like it's like ESEA is now for counter strike or face it, I guess with their FPL and tiered system and Challenger. But I played some of that in, in early high school and I wasn't too serious about it. I wasn't very good at it. I was on a pretty average team but I enjoyed it. And then it wasn't until I moved it to Halifax again to go back to university. When I wasn't in class for the first year and I decided to quit hockey, which was one of the main reasons I'd move back there and didn't have an ID to go to the bars because the legal drinking age was 19. I was only 17, 18. And so I got really serious with CoD four and was on a pretty, pretty good team. That and as well as in black ops, the next iteration that actually, you know, is one of the top teams in North America for a bit. And it was pretty small, Esport, compared to, you know, if you say that now, Counterstrike, that's huge. But back then it meant nothing. I think I paid for part of my tuition and that was a big enough deal. But one day as I was in game leading, no one was listening to my calls in practice. And I just jokingly started commentating myself. And everyone was like, oh, like, you're actually pretty good at that. And I was like, Oh, great, thanks for listening to me now. 

Counter Strike wasn't what it was back then. Right. It was a lot smaller then and that was probably to my advantage and a perk because it allowed me to grow with the game. I think if I came in now and had to start, it's much harder.

Matthew´s dad helped him:

• use my diaphragm
• save my vocal cords
• And you learn as you go as well how to work with an audience:
• you know, what works, what doesn't
• how to build tempo
• listen back to yourself and be self-critical
• did I overhype something?
• did I not let the audience breathe that I talk too much, that I talk to little little

And I think you have to be pretty self-aware in that sense to develop those because some people could just listen back. No, I just sounded great. But you're not listening to the whole thing. You're not listening to the downtime.

I'll just keep doing it and we'll find a way to make it yours.

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