I don't think I ever appreciated his casting or his presence as much as it deserved, to be quite honest, and now he's gone.Įdited to add: remembrances from SC community figures are being compiled at the top of this Reddit thread ( continued here) and this thread on Team Liquid. It really wasn't too long ago that Blizzard e-sports started to look like it was crumbling all around us, and Geoff was one of the steadying voices on programmes like the Pylon Show, reminding us all to cherish what we have and to do what is best for the scene. Currently Player Matches Tables are limited to 250 matches due to runtime limitations. We have lost a friend, a colleague, and a member of our family. We grieve deeply for Geoff and those he loved. He was a natural comedian and raconteur, sometimes even in excess, and his voice will be dearly missed. Yesterday, the official Twitter of StarCraft commentator and former pro, Geoff ‘iNcontroL’ Robinson announced that the popular StarCraft 2 personality had passed away at the age of 33. The entire StarCraft Esports team is in shock at the passing of iNcontroLTV. But I don't think anybody was quite prepared for him to pass so suddenly, particularly for health reasons-not something one expects for the biggest fitness freak on the scene. Unlike League of Legends, over which Riot Games practiced near-Mussolinian control, there were very few barriers for entry in StarCraft II, and no publisher-mandated cap on who or how many. Amazing how well he held up, mentally and physically, under intense pressure and scrutiny year to year. Geoff had been having a rough go of it in recent years, between a very public divorce and a few miscreants in the fan base who were really quite vicious to him whenever his casting had an off-day, and he was one of those people that you could always tell was very sensitive to strangers picking fights with him on the Internet. He was ambitious and motivated, always looking for opportunities to learn and improve himself. Geoff was a competitor with unparalleled work ethic. For some reason I'm thinking back to the time he played DDR on some oddball reality show once years before e-sports celebrity was even a thing. When Geoff iNcontroL Robinson passed away earlier this year, the StarCraft community lost someone incredibly special.
Geoff has been one of the faces of American StarCraft for as long as there has been a scene, going back to the fledgling WCG days of Brood War in the mid-2000s when it was a total grassroots effort outside of South Korea. This is a tremendous shock, especially to a community that just lost another one of its most passionate proponents with TotalBiscuit last year.
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