Interview with Star Commentator

After an exciting battle between Germany and Denmark in Counter-Strike, star commentator Paul “ReDeYe” Chaloner took a few minutes off to relax and to give us an interview.

Paul has been a videogame commentator since 2002 and turned professional in 2005. As the Company Director of QUADV, which is based in Aylesbury, UK, Paul travels the world to the biggest gaming events to cover the most exciting games, or covers smaller events directly from the UK. These can then, for example, be watched online per live-stream at www.quadv.com. But also earlier games or classic battles can be watched online thanks to a comprehensive database of past events.

He estimates that approximately 10 to 15,000 viewers were online to watch the first rounds of Counter-Strike, but the number should increase a fair bit by the final rounds. Top events will generally tend to attract up to 100,000 viewers online in Europe. However, this is a far cry from the literally millions of viewers that top events in Korea or China will attract. The fact that e-sports are considered official sports in Korea, for example, is naturally a great advantage for the gaming community in the Far East. “But we’re slowly catching on in Europe too”, says Paul, as can be seen by the positive response in Cologne.