Now that I feel like am armed with enough information to put some posts up, lets start with the Channel Fireball podcast that’s went out this week. Now Podcasts have grown to great popularity in the last 6 months and everyone and their mothers think that they can cast and have it be successful. The most notable casts are MNM, YoMTGTaps, The Eh Team and I hear so much about Mana Screwed and Limited resources being legit casts. I haven’t actually listened to the cast but I hear so much about them, I might actually give a few episodes a listen. Now Channel Fireball sponsored the Eh Team podcast for about 10 episodes and for some stupid reason, they decided not to continue to sponsor them. I guess cutting ties with a podcast that is growing in popularity is a good idea. And currently they are sponsoring MNM, which is fucking boring and has been around for 200+ episodes. And last week the Channel Fireball team decided to put out their own Podcast...fantastic.
Now let me jump aside from this really quickly and just let you, the reader, know that I have completely put my feelings aside for the CFB site and whats happened in the last few months aside and gave it my best to give an honest review of this cast and what it actually brings to the table. I have looked at it from the perspective that I just want people to hear the best and learn and gather as much valuable information from a cast.
OK so back to this opinion of the cast. What I find interesting is that this cast is basically just TSG and some other guy talking about the articles that CFB put out this week and not really highlighting the strengths of the articles, just kinda letting people know they are out there and what they are about. If your going to do a recap of the whats on the site, make me want to go read the article, don’t just let me know its there. As a magic player I am going to know whats out there because I already have the sites I go to every night to check the updates and whats new as far as articles. Your job as the person recapping whats on the site is to keep me on the site and make me want to read what your pros have to offer on the site, not just that nakamura wrote and article on Duress vs IoK and that it was good.
TSG mentions several times that he has good opinions about the financial side of magic...sure... and then offers the listener a few tips about what cards to pick up during the prerelease.they get around to how they are teaming up with Mtg cast to do...something with MNM and then TSG talks about how he does MED4 drafts and Ochoa and LSV laugh at him.
Anyways its pretty awful. In no way shape or form does this cast offer humor like the others. Its seems like a bunch of scrounged up ideas thrown out on a piece of paper and Is just out there to be part of the podcast world.
If you want to know what I think this is personally...i think is a piece of shit. This cast wont last long out in the fierce competitive jungle that is the podcast world. Everyone wants to make their make and be the next being YoMTGTaps crew or The Eh team, a funny, diverse and relevant cast that will keep you engaged. The Channel Fireball cast is just another something where TSG likes to talk and hear his own voice. Although I did like The Beme on the show :] other than that, it fucking sucks. If LSV is too busy to do something like this, just have him do a recording and have him ship it to CFB and that can be the cast.
Whats funny is that I go to the comments section about this cast and it gets praise and I kinda wish I saw what they saw. But then again it could just be people holding CFB's D in their hands.
EDITS!
Dunno how but I forgot to mention Top 8 Magic cast...hands down the BEST cast out there...then the eh team then taps :]
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