Bren and Sideshow to cast in the 2020 OWL season

Snivy

January 4, 2020

Brennon "Bren" Hook and Josh "Sideshow" Wilkinson will be moving from the analyst desk to casting in the 2020 Overwatch League season.

I won't be going far though 😉

I'm VERY happy to announce that I am going to be casting instead in 2020 with the man, the myth the LEGEND @SideshowGaming.

We will be bringing you the commentary LIVE, during the matches.

LETS GET IT. pic.twitter.com/HtrL5kWNBa
— Brennon Hook (@BrenCasts) January 4, 2020

This will be the first time that the duo will cast in the league. They have previously casted in events such as TakeOver 2, and Bren himself also casted 2017 Contenders Season 1: Europe and the 2019 World Cup Preliminaries.

The two were desk analysts in the league since the inaugural season; they will be moving away from the desk, but may feature on there from time to time, according to Sideshow.

The Overwatch League has recently seen multiple changes to the talent lineup. Chris "Puckett" Puckett announced on New Year's Day that he will not longer be the host of the league, and Christopher "MonteCristo" Mykles announced on New Year’s Eve that he will not be returning as a caster in the 2020 season. Retired players Custa and Jake are also joining the talent team as a desk analyst and caster respectively.

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Im disappointed they moved sideshow to casting, not that he's a bad caster but rather due to actually looking forward to the now gone prospect of seeing custa and sideshow do actual analysis something OWL has lacked.

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Actually I do wonder how much of time there even is for analysis while Homestands since there's lots of Homestands with only 2 games per day. As you could imagine each organizing team probably wants to have some extra stuff for the crowd between the matches.

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Monte is out and the Bridowmaker is casting? This cant get any better

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poggg

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bet they got fat contracts

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murasaki

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bet they didnt

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karzahni14

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sideshow just had to do it to 'em

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irishfire

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Didn’t really like them when they commentated they 2018 World Cup. They just looked and sounded really unnatural

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Not sure how I feel about this. I always loved the desk parts more than the actual games mainly because both of them. Especially Sideshow has a perfect balance between joking around and being serious about his analyses, which he does excellent. Compared to Bren who is in my opinion mostly just memeing around mostly of the time and will actually a better caster than analyst. Even though I liked his casting style in TF2 back in the days more.

i don't think Custa and Jake can recreate the same vibe Sideshow and Bren creatin aswell. It'll probably be more serious and I'm not sure if I like that.

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Back when they announced Jake was going to join the talent lineup, they said he would be a caster rather than a desk analyst. Custa would likely be on the desk with someone else.

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Yeah, forgot about that now you mention it. Curious if they add a third or if it's gonna be Custa & Soe.

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Well taken on, what Jake said on stream some weeks ago: That Homestands in China will be casted from LA. I wonder, if we end up having like Asia/West NA being done totally from LA studio for desk section (NA West Homestands would still be at location) and NA East + London would be done with casting done at location (Paris would have french casting in location).

Technically 4 (2 + 2) caster duos and 3 desk duos (host + 2 analyst) should be enough for each Homestand, if we are thinking of English broadcast. But with all the travel do really expect same people to travel for 6 months without any bigger breaks?

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BRING ZP IN SwiftRage

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You were 1 day too early.

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I’m honestly really excited, maybe it’s just a bias from their great tf2 casts. Still, there’s nothing wrong with Bren shouting his brains out and sideshow making sense of whatever bren’s shouting about.

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THE RETURN OF THE BEST CAST DUO EVER

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this gon' be good

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