![]() I think it’s partly due to the fact that he was a very important member of the SC2 Community, and of course one of the guys that, I’m sure, helped create the e-sports scene. Still, here I am, writing a heartfelt but ultimately pointless post… I did like him and wished him the best when I heard, a while ago, of his divorce… but having said that, yeah, there is no real reason the news should hit me as hard as they did. I’m also a bit of an older player, probably much older than many SC2 players, and definitely straight, so it’s not like I had any weird gamer crush on him or anything like that I’ll be honest here… I never met him in person, I doubt I ever played him (not that I know of anyways but he played at higher levels so it’s unlikely), and while I did watch some of his casts, or occasionally watched the Pylon Show, he wasn’t really my favorite commentator. I have to say I am extremely saddened by the news. I don’t know if this really serves any purpose, but I’d like to share a few thoughts with you guys…maybe I just need to talk about it a little.Īctually, today I opened a Blizzard email involving some promotion related to InControl… at first, I was just wondering what it was all about and then it hit me: Memorial bundle…įor a few seconds I even thought it was some kind of misunderstanding (like maybe he had retired and moved on to better things, so just a memorial for the end of his SC career, wishful thinking, I know), but google quickly dispelled that notion. I don't think I ever appreciated his casting or his presence as much as it deserved, to be quite honest, and now he's gone.Įdited to add: remembrances from SC community figures are being compiled at the top of this Reddit thread ( continued here) and this thread on Team Liquid.I just learned of his passing, belatedly because I haven’t been following the pro scene much since march (and I haven’t played much either). It really wasn't too long ago that Blizzard e-sports started to look like it was crumbling all around us, and Geoff was one of the steadying voices on programmes like the Pylon Show, reminding us all to cherish what we have and to do what is best for the scene. He was a natural comedian and raconteur, sometimes even in excess, and his voice will be dearly missed. But I don't think anybody was quite prepared for him to pass so suddenly, particularly for health reasons-not something one expects for the biggest fitness freak on the scene. Amazing how well he held up, mentally and physically, under intense pressure and scrutiny year to year. ![]() Geoff had been having a rough go of it in recent years, between a very public divorce and a few miscreants in the fan base who were really quite vicious to him whenever his casting had an off-day, and he was one of those people that you could always tell was very sensitive to strangers picking fights with him on the Internet. ![]() ![]() For some reason I'm thinking back to the time he played DDR on some oddball reality show once years before e-sports celebrity was even a thing. Geoff has been one of the faces of American StarCraft for as long as there has been a scene, going back to the fledgling WCG days of Brood War in the mid-2000s when it was a total grassroots effort outside of South Korea. This is a tremendous shock, especially to a community that just lost another one of its most passionate proponents with TotalBiscuit last year. ![]()
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