The Major is ruined!

Ah, talent announcements. Does anyone actually like them?

They are there to give some shine to the casters, an opportunity for them to put their pretty face on a nice graphic and get a few more Twitter followers.

But what they are also for is the community to dogpile on the people they don’t like, and to have arguments with each other about what they don’t like about them.

And it’s no different with this Major.

BLAST’s talent list does exclude some big names: Two mainstays on the (ESL) desk are absent in the form of YNk and stunna.

And, there is an element of cost cutting here. Professeur, TechGirl, Hugo, and Harry will not be working the playoffs, but then again, why would they?

We only have two games a day by then, do we really need 24 analysts who are all on crazy day rates?

Look, BLAST are catching a lot of heat. Some of that is fair, such as the exclusion of YNk.

But this isn’t ESL. They don’t have millions and millions to throw at a wall.

Does that mean they are out of their depth? Maybe, but it’s also entirely possible to skimp a bit on talent and deliver a banging show.

It’s not like they’ve hired noobs — Prof and TechGirl are both very capable, and only one of them is my boss.

It’ll still be Maniac and Mauisnake on the desk for the big games, and we have four great commentary duos too.

Let’s not panic just yet. If. BLAST drop the ball, we’re not going to give them a break.

But we shouldn’t be rooting for them to fail.

If they do, we’ll be going even further down monopoly road than we are already. And that’s not good for anybody.