Something is strange about this Tournament. First, where is the INA coach? Then, Sigit/Candra looked like they didn't even care about the game. They seem to really enjoy the game tough. I saw Sigit smiling for a numerous time. Plus, after they lost, Cai/Fu were so happy while Candra/Sigit were laughing and imitating Cai/Fu. In conclusion, I hated the whole tournament. Lots of good players were missing. New scoring system sux and crowd sux. They were only cheering for China team. It's kinda understandable but c'mon... I haven't seen any crowd that was so quiet after a good shot from a non-china country. Anywhere else, even in INA, MAL, German.... crowds cheers for other country also but this time it was dead. And for the prize it was hilarious to see Nova and Natsir receiving the trophy vases.
Not to mention the commentators suck. I really hate it when games are played in china including all of the reasons you already mentioned, China also only broadcasts the games where CHINESE players are involved no matter where they stand in the tournament. And another thing is how BIASED the commentators comment on the game. For example, When a Chinese player smashes and the other team manages to return it and results in a point its a LUCKY shot, but when a chinese player gets it in its called skill. Also the way they talk about the calibre of other countrie's players isn't that nice either. Im not trying to spread hate, or anything Im a full blooded chinese guy myself but somethings you just gotta say heh...Unlike the commentators from the China Open where one commentator was from HK and the other was Zhao Jian Hua who really commented the game for what it was.
that's because i am not there ok , next time if i were there i will surely cheer for non chinese player , alright?
Well most commentators are like that. It's the nature of their job to be a bit biased because they are hired by the TV stations for a certain country. So for the same match, you have different versions of commentary for different countries. In Malaysia when the national TV stations bring us live-telecasts, the commentator is a Malaysian who sides Malaysian players. Then if you don't even have your own country's TV crew at the location shooting the matches, unfortunately you have to follow whatever matches that are shown by the hosting nation's TV station. Not to mention if you don't have your country's version of the commentary to listen to. It's the same thing with All-England. I have the recording of the men's doubles final 2005 between Cai/Fu and Paaske/Rasmussen. Commentators were Darren Hall (ex-England top singles player) and Gillian Clarke. It was so obvious that they were siding the Danes (caucasians). They were discussing possible strategies for the Danes to win the match (though eventually Cai/Fu won). They were much less excited when the Danes lost points. Don't tell me that if you were the commentator you will give an unbiased commentary if your country's player is playing, that you will not sound excited when your country's player scores. So it's all the same.
Good post and I agree, it's truly hard to be completely unbiased. So I say just relax and enjoy the ride.
Of course but I will not make reasons such as ''he got lucky'' when the player really worked hard. Plus the comentator mentionned it more than one time. I'm also a chinese but sometimes Chinese comentator are going to far. The english commentator have been very good so far. The French were funny but I don't know about the dutch. Best comentator i've seen so far are Hockey night in canada comentators
Well I didn't watch that part of the match. Maybe what you say is true. But: So? Being Chinese doesn't automatically make your criticisms againt Chinese commentators legitimate. A lot of Chinese living in western countries like to use this argument:" Hey I'm Chinese but I also criticise Chinese. So I am very objective. " Anyway, there is no such thing as Chinese commentators being bad and non-Chinese commentators being less bad. There are only bad commentators and good commentators. I know of some commentators in China which are bad but I also know a lot of good commentators in China. Maybe you happened to listen to the bad one. Did he talk very fast and likes to use A LOT OF redundant proverbs to describe the games? I think the name is Han Qiaosheng or something like that. Now he is a bad commentator. He has very limited knowledge on our beloved game. He talks crap and no substance.
I think you didn't get my point. I didn't say I was chinese in order to make my argument legitimate. I said I was Chinese because I'm proud to be chinese but it was a shame to hear that from my own blood. Wether you think it's legitimate or not, I don't really care. Anyone can have their own opinion. I don't exactly know the name of the commentator, but I guess we are talking about the same guy. You are right, he was using plenty of redundant proverbs that has nothing to do with the game.
Hahaha. It's because I like both. I mean I like Zhang Ning the best, but it's super nice to see Lin and Xie win a tournament together again after a long long time.. Well, just notice it can be used for Zhang Yawen and Xie Zhongbo. Hahaha.
The reporters interviewed all the Winners of each category and asked if they prefered the 21 pt system, XD, WS, MS prefered i. WD said it was terrible and MD did not show the interview... too busy celebrating
