Pokémon Stadium 2 - R-2 Little Cup - "For Want of a Title"
Channel: SadisticMystic
Date: 2009-06-09

ANNOUNCER CHRONICLES - PART 7

It's the moment you've all been waiting for! Time to find out who the best lightweight tag team in the WPD is! For the first time ever, the score will be settled in a Blitz of Death match, with four teams participating for their shot at the glory!

[OOC: Yes, the setting (and announcer style) for this installment are vastly different than the concepts for previous parts of the series, to the point where I can't properly consider this canonical alongside the other six. Fortunately, "Announcer Chronicles" is simply a label and not a canon universe.

Ever since I created the concept of the Announcer Chronicles, I've always thought of the character as being quite similar to a wrestling announcer (as in WWE). I just figured why not make the spoof incredibly blatant this time?

I knew I wanted Scyther/Cubone to be the "heels," and recorded their section first. The first try with them was just about perfect for building a story around, and after testing the dynamics of other teams with a few practice runs, I ended up going with the first recorded runs for two of the other teams as well. I think the fourth team needed 7 tries to get something that fit in with the storyline. (Which team is that? Just watch the damn video. I'm not going to spoil it that easily, especially not if you don't want me to.)

The gameplay footage for this video was actually recorded all the way back in March, but even back then I knew I wanted the visual effects you see now, and I didn't have any tools capable of that at the time. Kdenlive (http://kdenlive.org ) looked like a promising program to do exactly what I wanted, but the release that was available back then kept crashing on me whenever I tried to do much of anything. Only recently was I able to get my hands on kdenlive 0.7.4, with which I could at least figure out what made it crash and then not do that, and everything fell into place shortly thereafter.

There are a couple of CC-licensed samples added to the audio here:
"Boxing Bell" courtesy of Benboncan
"Metal Door Slam" courtesy of ReWired
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