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Esports Earnings
Esports Earnings is a searchable database that tracks prize money and earnings for esports players, teams, and events across major games. It provides up-to-date tournament results, prize pools, and historical earnings data to analyze income trends in competitive gaming.
Liquipedia
Liquipedia is a community-edited esports encyclopedia that documents tournaments, teams, players, and match results across major game titles. Its pages cover event schedules, prize pools, rosters, and historical standings for esports competitions.
The Art of Sportscasting: How to Build a Successful Career
Tom Hedrick's manual on sports broadcasting. It covers play-by-play preparation, describing action, working with an analyst, and self-evaluation, drawing on practical advice from more than 75 broadcasters including Curt Gowdy, Bob Costas and Jim Nantz.
The ReDeYe Guide to Being an Esports Broadcaster: Part 4 (Style and Technique)
The technique installment of Chaloner's ESL broadcaster series. It covers handling dead air, show intros and funnelling, throws between segments, building storylines from a prep sheet, working with a co-caster using hand signals, and letting visuals carry big moments. Most technique-dense part of the series — the on-air mechanics beginner guides skip.
The ReDeYe Guide to Being an Esports Broadcaster: Part 1
Opening article of Paul 'ReDeYe' Chaloner's multi-part ESL series on esports broadcasting. It covers where shoutcasting came from, the difference between play-by-play, colour and host roles, a starter streaming setup, and an outline of the later parts. Most authoritative free practitioner guide to the craft; most alternatives are thin listicles restating his points.
Voice and Articulation
Speech textbook on how the voice is produced and controlled, covering breathing, phonation, resonance, pitch, volume, and the articulation of English vowels and consonants with exercises. Readers learn to diagnose weak vocal habits and build clearer, more sustainable delivery.