Typically, casting an eSports game is a serious matter that relies on the caster’s knowledge of the game and the players and their ability to deliver play-by-play information to viewers constantly. But, what happens when they try to do their job using a speech jammer?
For those that don’t know, a speech jammer is an app that will provide a delay on what is being said into a microphone and then output that delayed voice through speakers or headphones (it works best with headphones).
In this video, casters Alex Richardson and Lauren Scott decide to give the speech jammer a go while commentating on a game of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS: GO). For what it’s worth, they do really well to not trip over their own words quickly, as is the case with most people that try this.
Recently ESL made headlines after professional CS: GO player Kory “Semphis” Friesen alleged that he and his former team, Cloud9, “were all on Adderall,” a psychostimulant commonly used to treat symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Since then, ESL has said that they will be working with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA) to implement drug testing procedures to detect performance enhancing drugs (PED) in players competing in ESL events.
