Joe Miller (commentator)

Joe Miller
Born Rotherham, England
Nationality British
Occupation Commentator

Joe Miller(born July 29, 1987 in Rotherham, England) is a British commentator. He started his career as an eSports caster at gaming tournaments, working his first event shoutcasting Battlefield 1942 (short: BF1942).[1] The 3D World War II first-person shooter (FPS) video game was coincidentally also the first game Miller played at a competitive level.[1] At age sixteen, he began to commentate BF1942 games at home in the UK, pushing out as many audio commentaries as he could.[1][2] In an interview with JP McDaniel (host of Real Talk on YouTube), Miller revealed that it was a “big jump” from the audio commentaries he initially produced to the audio-video commentaries we are accustomed to today.[2]

Miller's big break came when he joined TsN, through which he cast the Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) World Tour in 2005, arguably the “most definitive moment” of his early eSports career.[1][3] From there he went on to work as a broadcaster for numerous professional video game leagues including the World Series of Video Games (WSVG), Championship Gaming Series, Dreamhack and various Electronic Sports League (ESL) events.[1][2] In amongst these achievements he worked as General Manager for Fnatic back when they were based in Southampton as well as joining the QuadV team, headed by fellow casters Leigh “Deman” Smith and Paul “ReDeYe” Chaloner.[1][4]

Although Miller is known for casting competitive Counter-Strike and Quake Live tournaments, recently he has made a name for himself in League of Legends (LoL). Miller began working for the ESL in 2008 and so secured a regular spot casting weekly LoL LCS, which he does alongside the likes of Leigh “Deman” Smith, Trevor “Qu1ksh0t” Henry, Jason Kaplan, Martin “Deficio” Lynge and Eefje “sjokz” Depoortere. Miller currently resides in Cologne, Germany and speaks fluent German.[2]

Notable recent achievements include casting the Riot League of Legends tournaments at Gamescom 2013 and securing a casting position at LoL World Championships hosted in Los Angeles.[5][6] It was recently announced soon after the European LoL Regionals at Gamescom 2014 that he would also be casting at the 2014 LoL World Championships in Taipei, Taiwan, Singapore and the South Korean cities of Busan and Seoul.[7][8]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "HLTV Video: Joe Miller answering questions". HLTV.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Real Talk with Joe Miller". itmeJP. YouTube.
  3. ↑ "ESL TV's Joe Miller interviewed". ESL TV.
  4. ↑ "CeBIT 2009 - Joe Miller: Gaming is going into the right direction". Mousesports.
  5. ↑ "Gamepedia: Gamescom 2013". Gamepedia.
  6. ↑ "The League of Legends World Championship casters announced". in2LOL.
  7. ↑ "Joe_Miller on Twitter: And since lots of you were asking and didn't click from the show yesterday : Yes I will be casting worlds!". Twitter.
  8. ↑ "World Championship 2014 Preliminary Schedule | League of Legends". League of Legends.

External links

  1. Official Twitter Page: https://twitter.com/Joe_Miller
  2. Official Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/JoeMillerOfficial