lol yea. not that i dont like them screaming or going... hmm whats the proper word... "hyped"? up during happenings, its just that the difference between happenings and low moments are just too huge, and it caused a gap. for the WoW tourneys (or Sc/warcraft3, during blizz invitational, done by different commentators also) they had a lot of those explanations goin on to fill the gap, or some "chatter". it makes people that never knew ANYTHING about WoW (or sc, or war3) feels a little more "natural" and easily able to get engaged with it.
afterall, one of the main purpose of esports going mainstream is to get even nongamers (or gamers that dont know the current game being played/commented on) to be involved as well

and yeah, same here, although i played CS/War3 with my group of friends.
i mean, whats the BEST way to spend HUGE hours to sink on? grind out an mmorpg ROFL
WoW pretty much fits the bill XD
i didnt, cuz:
1) i hate lowbie characters
2) i barely had any alts, or make any lowbie characters, the last alt i made was when TBC came out, and thats a looong time ago lol. unless you count DKs, but they start at 55

3) i dont really feel like wasting time on something i dont have confidence in winning, might as well continue my WoW grind. that said, i joined the CS competition, but thats only cuz my friends are in, so i joined along for the lulz. the competition was MESSED UP btw, and got almost EVERYONE complaining bout it
4) the prize is a WOTLK collector's edition. i got it. and lazy to sell assuming i joined, AND win the contest
it sux..they put us on some unknown RPG server..blackwater raiders if im not mistaken and make us level a gnome char =.="