As I have already touched upon, the next step is to find your self a casting station. There is no strict time limit that is imposed on you to find one, but the sooner the better if you are serious about making a career or succeeding at this job. A year of covering a specific game is usually enough to give you the basics of online game commentary. For the next step, you need to be around likeminded professionals so that you build on your skills and adapt to new games.
I am often asked “how do I join QuadV?” by those who have shown a little talent. The answer is simple, send in a demo and a short CV showing what you bring and that you are serious about the role to consider joining a broadcaster. You don’t have to have TV ambitions to join one either, every broadcast station worth their salt needs a wide range of talent on their books. Some who want to fly to the moon and others who are happy to simply cast once a week and are happy to have a server on which to do so. If you get turned down, ask for advice on what you need to improve on. Video game broadcasters are so few and far between and all of those I am familiar with have good people involved who WILL take the time to talk to you about how to improve.
If you get turned down by one company, try others, there are many out there and they are all at different levels. If you aimed high to start with, try a clan radio station or one of the stations that cover online leagues only. There is a list of known stations at the end of this article and although I wouldn’t recommend any in particular they are all worthy of your time and are of varying degrees of establishment and experience. One is bound to suit you, whoever you are. Its also worth remembering that some are location based, so if you live in the USA it might not work out trialling for a European based broadcaster. The same can be said the other way round too, especially due to time zones.
