HomerJ
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Sebastian "HomerJ" Schenck is a German StarCraft II commentator.
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| Background Information | |
| Name: | Sebastian Schenck |
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| Race: | Terran |
| Nicknames: | HomerJ, HDHomerJ |
| Country: | Germany 
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| Birthday: | August 16, 1984 |
| Site: | HomerJ.de |
| Livestream: | TeamLiquid.net own3D.tv |
| Twitter: | HDHomerJ |
| Video archive: | HDHomerJ |
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[edit] Career
Sebastian "HomerJ" Schenck started out doing commentary for StarCraft II during the closed beta in March 2010. He uploaded his first VOD on YouTube, and said that after 12 years in the Brood War scene, he wanted to pay something back to the community. After a short period of time he became very popular in the German community due his unique style, which is focused on entertaining the audience and not deep tactic analysis. He started to do some live commentary, including Go4SC2 Cup and CraftCup US & EU. After a few weeks, some fans offered to help him out, and they started to build up their own homepage and forum for the community. The homepage went online on the 30th of May 2010. Since then the site has grown very popular, and, with nearly 14,000 registered users, it's one of the biggest StarCraft II communities in Germany.
On October 13th, 2010, he announced to his community that he had quit his former job and decided to become a full time caster and that all content he produces will be free for the audience. He founded HomerJ eSport Entertainment in short order to get a professional profile for sponsors and investors, and started a cooperation with the online shop YouWare in order to sell merchandise. In April of 2011, that cooperation was cancelled due the bad costumer service. Shortly after that, he announced on May 22nd his own webshop elbster.de. On top of that, he founded the Schenck Media Group as a parent company for HomerJ eSport Entertainment and elbster.de. On June 22nd, HomerJ.de got its own VOD section where HomerJ uploads all of his VODs. This was done due his problems with getting a YouTube partnership, and he didn't want to depend on YouTube so much.
In February of 2011, he announced that he decided to set up his own office and studio to make his casts more professional and have more space for guests. It will be located in Hamburg, Germany. After several months of planning, he finally went live for the first time on September 25th, when he cast the German MLG Orlando Qualifier.
[edit] Casting and Production
Since Dezember 2010 HomerJ has organized five cups:
- the XMAS Cup 2010 sponsored by Sennheiser
- the Tt eSports Cup sponsored by ThermalTake
- the Call4Kings Cup sponsored by PokerStrategy.com
- the ESET Summer Masters sponsored by ESET
- the XMAS Cup 2011 sponsored by ThermalTake
The ESET Summer Masters cup had an offline Final at the Gamescom 2011 in Cologne. Additionally, HomerJ also casted some cups on a weekly basis, such as the 4Players.de Close Combat Cup by '4Players Liga' and the Cyborg Cup by sc2-inside.com and sponsored by Cyborg Gaming. He also started the Theory Series, in which he explained different tactics with TLO. Due to TLO's participation in the GSL, the series was cancelled after two episodes. HomerJ also casted the showmatches on the official Blizzard Stage at Gamescom 2010 and 2011[1].
He did a documentary of DreamHack Winter 2010 called 'The Road to Sweden'. He is also doing some Let's Play to open up to a wider audience, and he produces a podcasts with some of his team members on a weekly basis.
On September 25th, 2011, he went live for the first time from his own studio with the German MLG Orlando Qualifier, which was organized by Sport1Games.
On October 21th 2011, he casted together with TaKe the IFNG Hamburg, where the quarterfinals of the EPS Winter Season 2011 were held.
His next upcoming event will be the Elbster Cup sponsored by his own webshop elbster.de.
[edit] Trivia
- Often drinks Fritz Kola, a local drink from Hamburg.[citation needed]
- He is known for his unique word creations.[citation needed]
- All casts and productions are free for the audience.[citation needed]
- Has 17 volunteers.[citation needed]
- Produces his own energy drink called EnerJ.[citation needed]
- Owns a studio.[citation needed]
[edit] Key data
- Over 20,000 registered user on homerj.de[2]
- Over 46,000 subscribers on YouTube[3]
- Over 20,000 fans on Facebook[4]
[edit] Notable events casted and organized
- Sennheiser Hear To Win Cup
- Cerberus3D Cup 3rd Edition
- German MLG Orlando Qualifier
- 4Players.de Close Combat Cup
- ESET Summer Masters
- Call4Kings Cup
- Tt eSports Cup
- Sapphire Select Club Cup
- HomerJ XMAS Cup 2010
- Cyborg Cup
[edit] Interviews
- First Video Interview for the Series "Notable Persons on the Internet" for JustStevinho.de (German)
- Video Portrait about HomerJ filmed on gamescom 2011 for netzwelt.de (German)
- Video Interview for the German TV Show GameOne (German)
- Interview on fragster.de about his community and flamers (German)
- Interview on readmore.de after becoming a full-time caster (German)
[edit] Press
- An article about the ESET Summer Master 2011 in the German computer magazin "Computer Bild Spiele"(German)
- An article about the netzwelt.de video portrait "Hero of Gamers" in the German newspaper "taz"(German)
[edit] External Links
- HomerJ.de official website
- HomerJ.de Facebook Fan-Page
- HomerJ.de YouTube Channel
- HomerJ Podcast on iTunes
