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Toby “TobiWan” Dawson is an freelance Australian Dota 2 commentator, most notably known previously for JoinDota. Dota 2 tobiwan best commentary bible com as a co-founder and talent. A caster who has been in the esports scene for more than a decade, Tobi Wan is one of the most prominent Dota 2 casters to date and has been to every International since its inception in 2011. While initially casting Call of Duty: United Offensive games, he later ventured into Starcraft II and Heroes of Newerth and now to Dota 2. He is cons >[1] [2] [3]

He has won numerous commentator awards such as the GosuGamer’s commentator of the year three times in 2013, 2014 and 2015.

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Biography [ edit ]

Toby ‘TobiWan’ Dawson was born in Nambour, but grew up in Maleny, a small town off the Sunshine Coast, in the state of Queensland. He has once mentioned that it is one of the most beautiful places he has seen, and is first on his list of places to retire. [4]

Toby d >[5] Despite the limitations Tobi experienced, he continued to persue with video games into university with his mates, playing Call of Duty and Battlefield with his cousin. His continuation with video games in the FPS side, led him to playing Battlefield clans to managing them, and eventually even took over the running of small-scale Call of Duty tournaments.

Casting Career [ edit ]

2003-2005: Early Beginnings with Call of Duty and WCG 2005 [ edit ]

His first stint with casting began when he was playing a the Capture the Flag mode on Call of Duty United Offensive, but the decline of players (who later shifted to the newly released, Call of Duty 2) saw him attempt to inject life into the current game. A man named Sam, alternatively by his alias “Dement” down under in Australia suggested that GameStar (an Australian shoutcasting and media organsation) as an recommendation to be able to help revive the fallen game. [6] When TobiWan made a request to obtain one of GameStar’s commentators, his application was rejected and in reply, he dec >[7]

GameStah gave Tobi the Call of Duty section, he was later invited to World Cyber Games (WCG) in Singapore in 2005. This event marked Tobi’s first major tournament. TobiWan’s ambition of casting Call of Duty in front of a large crowd at the Suntec Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre was cut short after the FPS genres were covered, but in unexpected circumstances the mod of Warcraft III: Dota All-stars required casters, despite the game was >[5] TobiWan’s Dota casting career went underway after he was given the tick to be a co-caster, despite only having played three DotA matches, but the other GameStah attendees had not played a single game, hence TobiWan was cons >[5]

TobiWan did manage to obtain some casting time with Call of Duty where he helped cast a match with a co-caster named Neville.

2006-2010: Transition to Warcraft III Dota and other ventures [ edit ]

Following the event, TobiWan still attended LANs moderately but working as an volunteer commentator ment he had to be realistic in his financials. While he was continuing to cast games, and with a shifting interest into DotA, he began working full-time in retail, whilst still attending university.

TobiWan also branched out to other games such as Heroes of Newerth, Starcraft II and his FPS games to further improve his casting ability. He also still continued to be with Gamestah casting a variety of FPS games such as Call of Duty, Counter-Strike Source. In April 2010, TobiWan created his own personal website, wanstop. com. [8] His website contained personal blogs of events such as the notable MYM Farm for Fame, DreamHack events and released a daily “VOD of the day” article.

He also attended DreamHack Summer 2010. alongs >[9] [10]

In late 2010, TobiWan was asked by Moritz `Moose´ Zimmermann, the project manager of joinDOTA at the time, to join with him on a Dota 2 project. The project involved TobiWan moving from Australia to one of the offices in Berlin where it was the project was unveiled as joinDOTA, a concept made by Moose where its inital >[11]

2011-2017: joinDOTA and further success [ edit ]

Before he travelled to Berlin, TobiWan joined Cybergamer Australia in February 2011 after dec >[12] In June 2011, the beta of the joinDOTA website was released and later made its full debut. With a growing presence of viewers, the website’s ascent continued where joinDOTA’s functions expanded to adding forums, adding news articles and a readable match-ticker.

TobiWan was invited to cast Valve’s inaugural “The International”, a prestigious tournament for the incoming Dota sequel, Dota 2 at Gamescom 2011 in Germany where it was announced the winning team would receive $1 million dollars. [13]

Following the w >[14] These were one of the first ever Dota 2 events made, while Dota 2 was still in beta. Dota 2 tobiwan best commentary bible Into 2012 with joinDOTA in full swing, he continued to cast in numerous tournaments. In May 2012, TobiWan was forced to apologise after making a racist comment in-game. [15]

He was again chosen in The International 2012, but during the event an inc >[16] [17] The inc >[18] [3]

In 2013, joinDOTA launched its own league called joinDOTA League (jDL) competition in a division setting allowing promotion an relegation at the end of the season, where TobiWan casted numerous games. [19] TobiWan also joined the casting crew on ESL’s stint involving Dota 2 with the EMS ONE One Series splitting into three seasons: Fall, Summer and Spring. TobiWan also participated in the The International 2013 and sa >[20] Following into 2014, ESL’s involvement into Dota 2 reached new heights as TobiWan was involved in ESL’s next project where he was narrating and featured in the trailer of ESL One Frankfurt 2014 showing him ins >[21] In March he was featured in Valve’s first documentary called ‘Free to Play’ involving the ma >[22] He later joined his fourth International in July.

Early 2015 saw TobiWan cast matches for Valve’s other game, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. While TobiWan was working with PGL on a Dota 2 project, complicated circumstances saw the project be postponed and with a Counter-Strike Champion Series imminent, he dec >[23] [24] He later returned to Dota 2 and casted in The International 2015 and became later famous on his commentary when ppd and universe made a duo Ice Blast and Echo Slam combo, exclaiming: “It’s a disaster!.” [25]

He continued to participate in numerous premier tournaments in 2016 such as: The Shanghai Major 2016, EPICENTER, The International 2016 and Boston Major 2016. In the 2017 calendar year, he participated numerous events as a caster and initiated his own content through his youtube channel and discord page.

2018-present: Shift to freelance content [ edit ]

On the 2nd January 2018, TobiWan formally announced his departure from Freaks 4U Gaming, the company that behind JoinDota and cited upcoming projects as an independent talent. [26]