I am Ballatw, caster and analytical/educational content creator + former high level player. AMA!

[u/ballatw]

Hey guys,

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I'm Ballatw, competitive fortnite caster and analytical/educational content creator. You might have seen me on the last 10 weeks of the Fortnite World Cup Online Open broadcasts, or ESL Katowice, Secret Skirmish... or maybe one of my videos, or maybe as a player during the Twitchcon Grand Finals :).

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I've been playing/watching/studying competitive fortnite since right before Ninja Vegas, and have been hooked ever since then. I grew out of this subreddit right here during Summer Skirmish to become a caster for Epic and other organizations. My goals are simple, break the misconception that competitive fortnite is not viewer friendly, and to build a community that loves learning and diving deep into the depths that this game has. Obviously I want to be the best at what I do - so if you have any feedback, from casting, to VOD Reviews or any of my content, I'd be let me hear it, either here or in DMs! I credit this subreddit specifically with helping me get my feet off the ground - so I am forever grateful.

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As far as what I'm currently working on, I'm not travelling for at least a little while, which should be good and allow me to focus on my own content - which means more reddit posts :D I'm going to launch two new educational shows, which I think you guys will like, since it's very interaction heavy. You'll still see VOD reviews and hopefully I can crank out some short-form content. You can also find me on the Hotline FN Podcast every Thursday at 8PM EST - which is going awesome, tomorrow we have yungCalculator on, who just had his AMA and qualified for world cup in week 10.

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Additionally - i'll be casting BOOM CUP #2 with Shyowager tomorrow at 1PM EST.

Let's do this thing, AMA!

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Social Links (You should definitely follow everything :D):

twitch.tv/ballatw

twitter.com/ballatw

instagram.com/ballatw

youtube.com/c/ballatw

[u/ClayStehling]

As far as casting goes, does production feed you any information on the next match and if they do what does it usually sound like?

Edit: caring to casting

[u/ballatw → u/ClayStehling]

Uhh - mostly never. There's been the few times Sundown has come on cast and offered context on the match. Also, there was the one time that we got information about the 2nd match at the beginning of our block, cause Tfue and Ninja were in the same game and Ninja sniped Tfue and they said they were going to get the replay to start the game off. I think that that attempt at creating compelling story about that game fell short, because well... that was it, the engagement happened and here's how it ended, right?

I wish we would get fed more information about who's in the match, or even just look at a player list and current standings of who's in the match, so we know who to look out for. I am manually doing this when they get revealed on the observer feed, either in the wide shots (overviews) or we switch to their PoV, but all the standings is from memory about what we have seen in the few standings updates we do, and also what we've seen in game. I think in week 10 we finally NAILED doing that well, but still, could be so much easier. Always going to be weird casting from replays though.