HD (commentator) - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Alex Do, better known by his online alias HD or HDStarcraft, is an electronic sports

Electronic sports

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shoutcaster specializing in providing commentary for StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, a video game published by Blizzard Entertainment

Blizzard Entertainment

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and played on the online gaming service Battle.net

Battle.net

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. His YouTube

YouTube

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channel currently has over 390,000 subscribers and over 140,000,000 combined video upload views.

During the beta of StarCraft II, HD collaborated with fellow commentator Husky

Husky (commentator)

Mike Lamond, better known by his online alias Husky or HuskyStarcraft, is an electronic sports shoutcaster currently specializing in providing commentary for StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, a video game published by Blizzard Entertainment and played on the online gaming service Battle.net...

to host the "HDH Invitational", a StarCraft II tournament consisting of sixteen of the top professional StarCraft II gamers from around the world. The tournament was played in an entirely virtual environment over the Battle.net server, and the games were later broadcast on YouTube. The tournament was sponsored and cash prizes were awarded. Neither HD nor Husky actually have a background in casting sports commentary despite the pair's popularity.

HD has been both a commentator and a player in Major League Gaming

Major League Gaming

Major League Gaming , founded in 2002 by Sundance DiGiovanni and Mike Sepso, is a North American professional Electronic sports organization, headquartered in New York City, New York. MLG has held official video game tournaments throughout the United States and Canada. Major League Gaming...

's tournaments in 2010. HD provided commentary for StarCraft II alongside Sean "Day9" Plott, JP McDaniel, and Husky for the Pro Circuit at Raleigh

Raleigh, North Carolina

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on August 2010. Later in the year, HD was a StarCraft II player at the national championships at Dallas on November 2010.

HD and StarCraft II professional gamer Taylor "PainUser" Parsons presented a Google

Google

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Tech Talk in September 2010. The talk itself covered StarCraft II and electronic sports while including a commentary by HD and Parsons on the StarCraft II tournament finals played amongst Google employees.

HD and Husky and other game casters have launched a YouTube channel called The Game Station which is intended to be an ESPN

ESPN

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-like channel for game videos.

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