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Il be honest I didn’t enjoy watching him at Regional competitions - not sure what to be honest,
But seeing him live at this weekend he was brilliant!! It was great to see him push and the finish of the final event with Tim Paulson was amazing!!! He’s a real character
@pixey He is a great athlete, and I hope he does too. But when he first came on the scene at regionals a few years ago, it felt like he was this unknown mystery person who could challange for the title. Now we know he is super super fit, but he is not that podium person.
@jonjones229 highly entertaining event hosted by Filthy150. Thoroughly impressed with the programming and the level of competition. Hope the other sanctionals are this successful!
@susan67 I think it was more of a Swedish accent and I was actually pretty impressed with it for Swedish/Danish/Norwegian names. For others it didn’t really work as you said.
@susan67 Mads has been doing that for at least 5-6 years of announcing the European regionals and other stuff overseas. Annoying AF. He's definitely mute-worthy. It's like he's in a competition with himself to pronounce each name as the locals would in the person's home gym.
Competition was incredibly boring anyway. I just came into this thread to see if anyone else was throwing shade his way.
@be_a_light It's not "butchering" to pronounce syllables in the English fashion if announcing the event in English. It's just distracting as hell to switch from pronouncing things in English to trying to ape the neighborhood-perfect dialect for every name in the competition.
@be_a_light I've heard Sara pronounce her own name loads of times and she doesn't pronounce it like that!
He pronounced the German names well to be fair.
Doesn't sound too far off to me, but he definitely adds a sort of swedish accent to it. The thing is, us people from non english speaking/sounding countries often "anglify" our names when speaking to an english speaking audience. That is why you often hear the "Davids-Daughter" or "Sigmunds-Daughter" and so on. But they would never say their names like that back home in Iceland.
He does the Danish, Swedish and Norwegian names pretty good for sure. Finnish, German and French seems ok by my ears, but I'm no expert on those. Spanish/latin names sounds ok as well. Eastern european ones I have no idea.
