Listen to the Voice of the Next Generation: 7 Questions for Mona 'Hazelynut' Zhang

Commentator Idol was pretty cool She was one of my favs, we need more female faces in the new growing SC/SC2 community.

 

Personally, I hate the Simon Cowell-spawned shows with a vengeance, but, in this case, I loved what Cholera and the sc2gg-staff had done with the concept. Granted, commentating Starcraft games is not that similar to singing meek pop songs, and the format needs some tweaking before season 2 - but even so it was great fun.

More importantly, it did introduce new talent to the foreing Starcraft-scene. It gave huge publicity to Hazel and CSL-movement, and the winner - KennyCasting - is now hosting his own webbased and Starcraft-centred radio show. It's nice when regular pop culture can be adapted to fit a niche topic such as supreme eSports, and that's why I'm looking forward to more.

And yes, a balanced gendermix is the best way to create a sound athmosphere anywhere, and since eSports is an activity where people could compete equally regardless of anatomy there really is nothing stopping this phenomenon from being all-inclusive - apart from deeply ingrained attitutedes, that is. Which is why I'm happly to publish this interview, whilst also enjoying the fact that Mona 'Hazelynut' Zhang has got a very nice voice

 

omg hazel I YOU i'm your biggest fan!!11