David Parker is a veteran Dota 2 commentator and co-founder of the popular esports studio Beyond the Summit. He joins Zyori to talk about Amazon’s failures with DMCA, Mason at The Summit X, match-fixing in esports, twitch chat moderation, and getting away from handles.

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro
6:06 Twitch DMCA
17:24 NA Dota and Valve supported BTS Summit
26:50 Teams and TOs adapting to the online format
31:08 Revenue share model for tournaments
33:50 Deciding where to base your studio
38:20 Politics and speech in esports broadcasting
49:50 Moderation / Censorship at Beyond the Summit
57:50 Mason at The Summit X
1:08:18 Twitch Chat Moderation, Mobile sports and working in SEA
1:17:18 Matchfixing in esports
1:26:50 Betting on Dota and working with betting sponsors
1:39:28 Moving away from handles and gimmicks
1:43:18 Growth in the Dota scene
1:52:42 Outro

Seth King, known as Achilios, is a full-time commentator for the Overwatch League and just finished his third season covering the league. Seth has been living in Seoul, South Korea for several years now, originally leaving the States to pursue a career in League of Legends commentary for the Korean LCK league.

TIMESTAMPS:
7:51 OWL During the pandemic
10:59 NA perfomance in the OWL
15:14 Using Youtube the platform
19:00 The OW community vs LoL community
21:06 Working with Wolf
23:11 Do you miss League?
24:41 Thoughts on Valorant
28:23 Overwatch 2 and the Story content
33:52 Longevity in esports
34:57 Dota from an outsider perspective
40:10 Zyori and Seth Press Pass adventures
42:02 Mobile MOBAS
44:07 Going out at events
47:01 Wild Rift and Mobile esports
51:06 Moving internationally to work in esports
54:56 Life in Korea for Achilios and learning the language
1:08:57 World of Warcraft, are you excited for Shadowlands?
1:15:55 Moving to real names from screen names as talent
1:19:11 Streaming and waiting for the next season of OWL

Richard Lewis is a well known esports journalist and desk host for csgo. He joins Zyori in a long, and at times quite heavy, conversation about working at WSOE, the infamous Loda incident, Redeye’s legacy, gatekeeping, Dota in the Esports Awards, and the end of OWL.

Maddie is a gaming content creator on Youtube and Twitch. Maddie opens up about becoming Maddie, how his content has changed, adventures in WoW Classic, the importance of self-confidence, and pronouns.

Dakota “Kotlguy” Cox is an actor, commentator, host, and creative producer at Beyond the Summit. He joins Zyori to talk about creating events in games outside of Dota, Omega League, NEOM sponsors, nascar, PC culture, gaming FOMO, me too in Dota 2, and Redeye.

Paulo “CatZ” Vizcarra is the CEO of ROOT gaming, streamer on Twitch, ex-Starcraft pro, and former consultant for Blizzard Entertainment.

In this episode, CatZ and Zyori talk about the history of Starcraft II, where the game is now, mentality as a pro-gamer, life as a creative, and psychedelics.