 Hi, I'm Paul with The Verge and I'm here with Husky. Yeah, man, I'm HDSKie Husky. What's going on? And Husky does lay down interviews. Yes, very, very intimate. Lay down interviews. Intimate, in your hotel room. Yeah, we get in bed with the... Do you hold hands sometimes? A lot of times, yeah. I would say more times than not. That's good. That's a good journalistic technique. Yeah, man. So, I wanted to raise it up a notch. We're going to go to an escalator. Can you explain your job? What do you do? Basically, I do shoutcasting for StarCraft. That's kind of my thing. And my main... Which is just announcing games on YouTube. Yeah, basically, so if you watch whatever sport you watch, there's almost always an announcer. I'm trying to imagine a sport without an announcer and it sounds kind of boring. I don't know if there is one. But it's basically like if you were to watch a basketball game... The example I like is if you're really into American football, just imagine it as if you're watching the football game from the sky and you could see what everyone was doing the entire time. I'm the guy who's announcing kind of what's going on and all of that. It looks like One Mule will go down. The Little One trying to sample bunker. He will get it. There is only one Marine over here. Unfortunately, they are attacking the Evo Chamber. I don't think the Little One should be doing this because now all these Zerglings are going to be inside the base, especially once the Evo Chamber goes down. Indeed it does. Those SCVs have taken out both the Mules. And now there's going to be an SCV versus Zerglings battle here as these larva-injected Zerglings are just rampaging through the Little One base. So, game one looks like it's going to be an extremely short game. We didn't even have time to talk about both the players and look at that. The Little One is going to GG. So can you explain in one line for each race what the StarCraft races are and what that means? Yeah, there's the... You can use more than one line. Okay, I'm going to try it with one line anyway. There's the Protoss, Terran, and Zerg. So there's three races that you can play. And anyone familiar with RTS games at all, you basically build up bases and kill each other. So everyone does that. But the Protoss are kind of futuristic and all their units cost a lot of money and they're all fancy aliens basically. The Zerg are more primalistic. They're kind of like bugs. Or if you've ever seen Starship Troopers, they're the bugs. They're basically just like that. And then the Terran are basically... They're the humans, but they're kind of more... They're like if Texas was to go into space. That's kind of how the Terrans remind me. So they're pretty rugged. Yeah, they're kind of like the Marines from Aliens, the second movie. If you've ever seen that, that's what they remind me most of. So you play Protoss. Yes. I'm not too high ranked, so when you're watching all the pro gamers and everything, they put me to shame. They make me look like a total noob. So I just try and play Protoss as best I can. I've been playing it since I was 11 years old, so there's no switching now. Once you're Protoss, you never go back. What do you like about Protoss? I kind of like how since their units cost a lot, each unit itself is really powerful. So you don't have as much stuff, but they are all really, really powerful. So it's about babysitting a few important units rather than... The Zerg, for example, they have a bunch of stuff just running everywhere, and that just hurts my simple brain. So I like keeping my big ball of units that are really good, but very costly. And it was kind of like that in StarCraft 1, and I don't know, I just always kind of like that play style. How is this tournament going? Nanawa won the Invitational Championships, which seems pretty great. It's actually insane if you look at on paper. Basically he beat the two players who had won the GSL three times each. And he plays Protoss. Yeah, he plays Protoss. And so for someone to play Protoss and beat those GSL champions, it's the only two players that he beat to win the GSL three times, which is actually pretty insane. The GSL is like the biggest, most competitive tournament out there. It's held in Korea. And for him to win, not being a Korean, as Protoss, it was like hardly anyone would ever predict that to happen. So for him, he's been training. He has a lot of Korean people that he trains with and all that. It is definitely paying off. So mad props to him. That was really great. It just confirms what I always thought, but what I didn't, what I couldn't be sure of, that I am able to beat the best players. So it's good for my mentality. So you cast games. How do you make, is that your full-time job? Yeah, it's been what I've been doing full-time for about three years now. And for about half of that, I wasn't making a single penny. I wasn't doing any events. I wasn't even taking donations or anything like that from fans. And I've always had super supportive parents. So anytime if there's any trouble at all, they're just always like, well, just move back in with us and you can keep doing what you're doing. And that was a huge relief because when I was doing it in college and all that, it kind of affects your grades when you don't go to class is what I've learned. So yeah, so thankfully they were actually extremely supportive. I think most parents would have been like, wait, you're playing video games instead of getting A's in college. What's happened to my son? But no, it actually worked out. They've been super supportive and I'm just able to do it full-time. I travel around a lot to all the MLGs. Hey, Mr. Bitter, I couldn't help notice that you're drinking that refreshing NOS over there. Did you know that under the tab, there's a code where you can redeem the points to get exclusive MLG gear? Really? Yeah. You can get hats, t-shirts, sweatshirts and more. You just have to go to drinknos.com and there's going to be a lot more info there. You know what? There's the code. That looks so refreshing. I think I'm going to buy one. Oh, here. Thanks. Oh, look, it's already open. Outstanding. I am ready to be a better gamer now. All right, so now my soul is now the devil's. We have actually a pretty awesome match. Did you just call an MLG sponsor the devil? No. No, I'm calling how horrible of an actor and how shamelessly I can plug something for hours. For hours, man. Have you seen my Xperia Play phone? That's basically what I do and then my YouTube channel is kind of my focus where I have, it's like 500, I don't know exactly how many. It's about 600,000 followers. Those are people who are tuning in to watch StarCraft. They like it kind of as a sport. It basically is a sport. It's kind of taking over bars everywhere. There's kind of bar crafts going on. Yeah, I attended a bar craft. It was so much fun. Awesome. The stories I love are when the hockey bros come in or rugby or something and they're going to their bar to watch the games and there's all these nerds watching StarCraft and they're like, what is this? That's a really good sign and that's really healthy for StarCraft. Yeah, so it's just basically all StarCraft full time. It's the best job ever. I'm telling you, man, you can make anything interesting. So if there's something you like, you should pursue that and just find a way to make it interesting and people will watch. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you very much as well. MLG. I will, absolutely. Thank you. Thank you for having me.
 Hi, I'm Paul with The Verge and I'm here with Husky.
 Yeah, man, I'm HDSKie Husky.
 What's going on?
 And Husky does lay down interviews.
 Yes, very, very intimate.
 Lay down interviews.
 Intimate, in your hotel room.
 Yeah, we get in bed with the...
 Do you hold hands sometimes?
 A lot of times, yeah.
 I would say more times than not.
 That's good.
 That's a good journalistic technique.
 Yeah, man.
 So, I wanted to raise it up a notch.
 We're going to go to an escalator.
 Can you explain your job?
 What do you do?
 Basically, I do shoutcasting for StarCraft.
 That's kind of my thing.
 And my main...
 Which is just announcing games on YouTube.
 Yeah, basically, so if you watch whatever sport you watch, there's almost always an
 announcer.
 I'm trying to imagine a sport without an announcer and it sounds kind of boring.
 I don't know if there is one.
 But it's basically like if you were to watch a basketball game...
 The example I like is if you're really into American football, just imagine it as if you're
 watching the football game from the sky and you could see what everyone was doing the
 entire time.
 I'm the guy who's announcing kind of what's going on and all of that.
 It looks like One Mule will go down.
 The Little One trying to sample bunker.
 He will get it.
 There is only one Marine over here.
 Unfortunately, they are attacking the Evo Chamber.
 I don't think the Little One should be doing this because now all these Zerglings are going
 to be inside the base, especially once the Evo Chamber goes down.
 Indeed it does.
 Those SCVs have taken out both the Mules.
 And now there's going to be an SCV versus Zerglings battle here as these larva-injected
 Zerglings are just rampaging through the Little One base.
 So, game one looks like it's going to be an extremely short game.
 We didn't even have time to talk about both the players and look at that.
 The Little One is going to GG.
 So can you explain in one line for each race what the StarCraft races are and what that
 means?
 Yeah, there's the...
 You can use more than one line.
 Okay, I'm going to try it with one line anyway.
 There's the Protoss, Terran, and Zerg.
 So there's three races that you can play.
 And anyone familiar with RTS games at all, you basically build up bases and kill each
 other.
 So everyone does that.
 But the Protoss are kind of futuristic and all their units cost a lot of money and they're
 all fancy aliens basically.
 The Zerg are more primalistic.
 They're kind of like bugs.
 Or if you've ever seen Starship Troopers, they're the bugs.
 They're basically just like that.
 And then the Terran are basically...
 They're the humans, but they're kind of more...
 They're like if Texas was to go into space.
 That's kind of how the Terrans remind me.
 So they're pretty rugged.
 Yeah, they're kind of like the Marines from Aliens, the second movie.
 If you've ever seen that, that's what they remind me most of.
 So you play Protoss.
 Yes.
 I'm not too high ranked, so when you're watching all the pro gamers and everything, they put
 me to shame.
 They make me look like a total noob.
 So I just try and play Protoss as best I can.
 I've been playing it since I was 11 years old, so there's no switching now.
 Once you're Protoss, you never go back.
 What do you like about Protoss?
 I kind of like how since their units cost a lot, each unit itself is really powerful.
 So you don't have as much stuff, but they are all really, really powerful.
 So it's about babysitting a few important units rather than...
 The Zerg, for example, they have a bunch of stuff just running everywhere, and that just
 hurts my simple brain.
 So I like keeping my big ball of units that are really good, but very costly.
 And it was kind of like that in StarCraft 1, and I don't know, I just always kind of
 like that play style.
 How is this tournament going?
 Nanawa won the Invitational Championships, which seems pretty great.
 It's actually insane if you look at on paper.
 Basically he beat the two players who had won the GSL three times each.
 And he plays Protoss.
 Yeah, he plays Protoss.
 And so for someone to play Protoss and beat those GSL champions, it's the only two players
 that he beat to win the GSL three times, which is actually pretty insane.
 The GSL is like the biggest, most competitive tournament out there.
 It's held in Korea.
 And for him to win, not being a Korean, as Protoss, it was like hardly anyone would ever
 predict that to happen.
 So for him, he's been training.
 He has a lot of Korean people that he trains with and all that.
 It is definitely paying off.
 So mad props to him.
 That was really great.
 It just confirms what I always thought, but what I didn't, what I couldn't be sure of,
 that I am able to beat the best players.
 So it's good for my mentality.
 So you cast games.
 How do you make, is that your full-time job?
 Yeah, it's been what I've been doing full-time for about three years now.
 And for about half of that, I wasn't making a single penny.
 I wasn't doing any events.
 I wasn't even taking donations or anything like that from fans.
 And I've always had super supportive parents.
 So anytime if there's any trouble at all, they're just always like, well, just move
 back in with us and you can keep doing what you're doing.
 And that was a huge relief because when I was doing it in college and all that, it kind
 of affects your grades when you don't go to class is what I've learned.
 So yeah, so thankfully they were actually extremely supportive.
 I think most parents would have been like, wait, you're playing video games instead of
 getting A's in college.
 What's happened to my son?
 But no, it actually worked out.
 They've been super supportive and I'm just able to do it full-time.
 I travel around a lot to all the MLGs.
 Hey, Mr. Bitter, I couldn't help notice that you're drinking that refreshing NOS over there.
 Did you know that under the tab, there's a code where you can redeem the points to get
 exclusive MLG gear?
 Really?
 Yeah.
 You can get hats, t-shirts, sweatshirts and more.
 You just have to go to drinknos.com and there's going to be a lot more info there.
 You know what?
 There's the code.
 That looks so refreshing.
 I think I'm going to buy one.
 Oh, here.
 Thanks.
 Oh, look, it's already open.
 Outstanding.
 I am ready to be a better gamer now.
 All right, so now my soul is now the devil's.
 We have actually a pretty awesome match.
 Did you just call an MLG sponsor the devil?
 No.
 No, I'm calling how horrible of an actor and how shamelessly I can plug something for
 hours.
 For hours, man.
 Have you seen my Xperia Play phone?
 That's basically what I do and then my YouTube channel is kind of my focus where I have,
 it's like 500, I don't know exactly how many.
 It's about 600,000 followers.
 Those are people who are tuning in to watch StarCraft.
 They like it kind of as a sport.
 It basically is a sport.
 It's kind of taking over bars everywhere.
 There's kind of bar crafts going on.
 Yeah, I attended a bar craft.
 It was so much fun.
 Awesome.
 The stories I love are when the hockey bros come in or rugby or something and they're
 going to their bar to watch the games and there's all these nerds watching StarCraft
 and they're like, what is this?
 That's a really good sign and that's really healthy for StarCraft.
 Yeah, so it's just basically all StarCraft full time.
 It's the best job ever.
 I'm telling you, man, you can make anything interesting.
 So if there's something you like, you should pursue that and just find a way to make it
 interesting and people will watch.
 Thank you so much for your time.
 Thank you very much as well.
 MLG.
 I will, absolutely.
 Thank you.
 Thank you for having me.