Casting, producing, and 4am starts: behind the curtain of Dazs' Apex Legends broadcasts
Hector 'Dazs' Felix is the general manager of SoaR Gaming, but Apex Legends fans probably know him for another reason. If you've tuned into an English-language APAC North broadcast since December 2020, they'll have been shown live on Dazs' channel as he shoutcasts the action.
It's pretty much a solo effort. He researches the teams, he finds the action, he follows the storylines; you name it, and Dazs does it. While he collaborates and works with Joe Lynch, EA's head of broadcast, and the larger Apex Legends broadcast team, he is largely left to his own devices. Why? Well it's largely because his streams are broadcast in the dead of night, while the rest of America sleeps.
What makes a man get up in the small hours of the morning every other weekend to shoutcast a tournament for a region that he doesn't represent, for no pay? After all, SoaR competes in the NA region, where Dazs lives and works, and in a LAN-less tournament scene it will rarely compete against teams from APAC North or any other region. But when an opportunity came about by happenstance, Dazs was committed to make the best of it.
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