Nick Plott
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Nicolas Plott (born August 11, 1984) alias Tasteless is an American eSports commentator.
He has appeared on numerous Starcraft and Starcraft 2 tournaments.
He now provides analysis for Global StarCraft II League and AfreecaTV StarLeague games together with Dan "Artosis" Stemkoski.
Early life
Plott and his brother, Sean Plott, who is also an e-sports commentator, grew up in Kansas City, Kansas. He attended Regis University in Denver, studying philosophy and psychology, and was a member of the parliamentary debate team after graduation from high school. He considered law school and philosophy dual Ph.D. degrees, but instead concentrated on StarCraft full-time.
StarCraft career
After learning of the game's success, Plott and his younger brother Sean purchased a copy of StarCraft from a local video game store in 1998. While giving game advice, the brothers will watch each other play. They enjoyed casually online but were hindered by a poor internet connection. They travelled to a nearby Internet café where they encountered players about five years old who would play and defeat them. The brothers' discovery and subsequent trash-talk were an early reminder for them to hone their skills, but they never returned to the café.
With the advent of high-speed internet, the brothers competed on Korean servers. While in high school, they competed and won tournaments. Plott became disinterested in school because it did not allow him to integrate StarCraft into his classes. He played football through high school and college.
Plott watched the remainder of the games as a spectator after losing to his brother early in the World Cyber Games 2005 finals. He became dissatisfied with the tournament's inexperienced handling of in-game specifics and asked to co-host the commentary, which was a success. He has been invited to commentate free in Europe, Japan, and Singapore.
In Plott's last semester of college, Korean broadcasting company GOM TV invited him to comment in English for the competitive Starcraft: Broodwar series as part of their efforts to extend their reach. He dropped out of college and landed in Seoul within a week. Plott slept on couches and worked as a caster in Korea, where he could. This did not guarantee a career or a quick change, but it did give Plott the opportunity to pursue his StarCraft commentary and become the first Western StarCraft commentator, or caster, in South Korea in 2007. Plott served as a host for the Star Invitational, which attracted nearly 75,000 viewers for the finals, and the Averatec-Intel Classic's three seasons. Susie 'lilsusie' Kim, co-caster of the Avertec-Intel Classic, joined Plot for a season of the Avertec-Intel Classic. In 2005, Plott first met Kim at BlizzCon.
Plott and another American commentator, Dan "Artosis" Stemkoski, had personally assembled followings as StarCraft II's launch neared, and was in favour of commercial broadcast networks. The two began casting together and became known as Tastosis, a portmanteau of their names Tasteless and Artosis. The two people knew each other from previous competitive gaming careers, but they became close friends in Korea. Polygon attributed their success to their "magic" energy from complementary personalities, with Plott bold and sociable, and Stemkoski encyclopedic and analytic.
Sons of StarCraft, a crowdfunded documentary about their lives, was released in 2014.
Plott and Stemkoski prepare separately, with Stemkoski regularly watching StarCraft matches and Plott researching non-traditional sports and major StarCraft news, while Plott and Stemkoski develop separately. They weave team histories and their respective tactics into their writing. Plott has said that he considers Tastosis' nuanced research of player tactics and their eventualities as a "gateway" to bringing large audiences into StarCraft. They try to include humour as well as the age of their audience, 15-32.
The 2012 StarCraft II World Championship Series Europe finals, Australian and Oceania finals, and UK nationals, DreamHack Winter 2011, IGN Pro League Season Two, Raleigh, and 2011 Orlando were among Plott and 2011. In 2012, Plott was one of the first groups to commit to the electronics sports company eSports Management Group.
Two in-game characters are named after the casters in a StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm Easter egg.
With the AfreecaTV Starleague, AfreecaTV brought back Starcraft: Broodwar war in 2016. Both Plott and Stemkoski were English commentators.
Plott, as well as his brother and Stemkoski, held an event to celebrate Starcraft Remastered's launch in 2017.
Plott said in a personal interview with the Korea Times, "I always wanted to go to Korea because this is the place where the StarCraft tournaments were held."