Comments on: ArenaCast — The Orange Interview

By: awesome

awesome — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 13:38:43 +0000

I don’t think it was awkward at all.
I’m amazed at how much english he’s picked up in just about a year.
Good interview.

By: Papertiger

Papertiger — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:54:37 +0000

This is amazing. I laught so hard xdxd

By: drakedog

drakedog — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:48:02 +0000

shiba sekgi

By: vumeli

vumeli — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:51:03 +0000

Good interview but you guys need to stop trying to be so damned funny. Orange did a brave thing going into this interview with 4 US players and for you guys to make it even harder for him laughing becuase he cant understand a language not common to him is just down right disrespectful. Give the guy a chance.

Good on you orange mate, you did well.

By: Revak

Revak — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:44:13 +0000

“Clockof… Clockof… Clockof…”

“Cloak of Shadows?”

“Yeayeayeayea”

By: crum

crum — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:02:41 +0000

Wow that was disrespectful. Need to work on your patience and stop trying to play the cool card by laughing and saying how awkward it is, no shit it’s gonna be awkward. Orange must of felt like shit when he’s trying to answer your questions and you guys just laugh. Pooks took the time to rephrase questions and help him understand and talk to him like he was equal instead of writing him off by saying oh you won’t understand this.
with that said, I enjoyed it. Bring pooks and isaac back more.

By: po

po — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 06:24:41 +0000

Djwheat does this kind of interview very well. It may help improving how you interview foreign players.

By: theory

theory — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:57:47 +0000

The real problem wasn’t Orange’s english, it was everyone else not being able to communicate well. I guess you guys just don’t have any experience speaking other languages, but a major issue is avoiding idiomatic expressions. You can’t say “RMP mirrors”, for example. He probably knows what a mirror is but not in that context. You need to keep things simple and rephrase when necessary.

By: Chrom

Chrom — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:28:56 +0000

Honestly like, it’s a really good thing and interview and you did great. But I think it’s odd that Azael and pooks behaved so much better in a respectful way than you guys did, myself, I don’t have english as my native language, and I’d get so nervous if I didn’t understood what you said and you guys started laughing.

Well, keep it up anyways, it was a good interview, just got a little upset about what I wrote above.

By: bull

bull — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:41:47 +0000

Still good though :)

By: Blah

Blah — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:57:56 +0000

This is quite difficult to listen to…

By: Vansilli

Vansilli — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:47:35 +0000

So Effin Rude, Keith.

By: dp

dp — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:44:10 +0000

yea i completely agree with #9, igoaf was really rude but other that that you did really awesome jp.

By: Marathi

Marathi — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:54:12 +0000

I’m so happy you used my question

Oli ‘Marathi’ Rushworth :D

By: Igoaf

Igoaf — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:10:23 +0000

If I ever laughed it was because of something JP AIM’d me so blame him

By: thaelz

thaelz — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:11:40 +0000

The only thing awkward about it was Igoaf in my opinion. He’s constantly sitting there doing nothing and just laughing when he feels its awkward or commentating on how “awkward” it was. It’s like he wasn’t even being tolerant of the language barrier and just thought the whole thing was stupid and pointless.

Personally, I felt it was fine and I think you did a wonderful job handling the language issue and clarifying for Orange, JP.

By: bull

bull — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:39:09 +0000

Good as always :)

Would love to see more detailed interviews with other players and/or up and coming players. Mabye from BG9?

By: bob

bob — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:42:35 +0000

didn’t think it was that awkward, he just stutters a bit not really a big deal

By: mukki

mukki — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:25:08 +0000

Thanks a lot for posting this! The only times it’s awkward is when you keep saying “this is awkward”, and you laugh at points where he may not understand why you are laughing. :)

By: Cupz

Cupz — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:42:07 +0000

Please do more!

By: reqq

reqq — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:14:12 +0000

ye was nice, though a bit unproffesional saying this is awkward all the time and also the laughs when he doesnt understand. That being said i love your shows and keep it up!

By: Pkr

Pkr — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:56:02 +0000

Amazing, I loved it.

By: mukki

mukki — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:45:10 +0000

Thanks for posting this!

By: Snowolf

Snowolf — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:37:37 +0000

Does feel a bit awkward, especially at the beginning, but it’s a good and interesting interview.

Personally I liked it, and it sounds great that you’re considering more interview of this kind :)

And the awkwardness will disappear with other players that are from US or EU :)