Contains events from Counter-Strike, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, and Counter-Strike 2, held between 2005 and 2025. Data is incomplete, especially for older events, due to Liquipedia not listing broadcast talent for all events; the only events taken into account are the ones shown on screen. The distribution by year looks like this. "S-tier" refers to the Liquipedia categorization. "Main Role" is assigned based on the most frequently performed role in S-tier events from the data set.
Sources and tools
- Broadcast talent data: liquipedia: Counter-Strike
- Song: Jens Kiilstofte; Ecstatic Wave
- Visualization tool: Flourish
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I thought Anders didn’t work hard and only cried on the internet
At first I thought English meant like British so I was very confused
Nice data tho!
good video.
Anders and Moses my goats.
I miss Joe Miller 🙁
Was Thorin’s drop off in 2020 just due to him being an insufferable edgelord on broadcast?
[2GD in the SC2 days was my spirit animal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfa-QD9DUig), & his time in Dota 2 was always fantastic, even if GabeN thinks he’s an ass.
I miss that dude.
old boys club confirmed
r/dataisbeautiful material
Slowly but surely, weaving out the toxic ones
Unpopular opinion: I was enjoying the Anders break, i felt like he was forcing the hype voice, yelling all the time at the mildest of plays and he just sounds like a silver to me
Also his banter sucks
Show this to the Serbian bitch so he can stop crying about talent invites on Twitter.
Wow I completely forgot Frankie existed. She was so good !
Top casters for me: anders, sadokist, Moses, machine
Top other talent: Freya, frankie, ynk, sjokz
Ive been following Harry and Hugo since they were casting some tournament in Asia when they just started. I knew they would go far. what a journey
tosspot my beloved 🙁
It’s weird how CS has god-tier casters but most popular analysts are pretty meh
Anders is the fucking GOAT!! I knew it
Pansy moves to Valorant and immediately becomes the best caster the game has lol
only the OGs remember joe miller. best LoL caster too
It was cool to see Harry and Hugo go up exactly together with the same number, versus the other casting duos that weren’t solidified when they first started casting causing a slight disparity in their counts
Also was surprised how little ddk and black ddk (or james and white james) ended up casting overall. It felt like all of 16-19’ was them casting but it may have been all those long-day FACEIT leagues I’m remembering
Shouldn’t machine be double coloured. Also funny and sad seeing who have left the CS scene.
I mean… I’ve done a few at least. Sadge.
It’s a crime against broadcasting that Stunna has more desk hosts than Freya.
I miss Pansy so much, man! She had so much passion for the game. Lauren, if you’re reading this I want you to know that the Creamy Moses meme wasn’t the same after you were gone. Signed, an old time viewer.
wow, had no idea I attended that many events as talent.. surprising to still see me on the list having not done it for several years by now, do miss it sometimes