Paul Chaloner
Paul "Redeye" Chaloner (born 11 November 1971) is a professional esports and video game broadcast host from Shoreham-by-Sea, England.
Paul Chaloner | |
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 Chaloner (middle) on the commentator's desk at ESL One Frankfurt 2014 | |
| Born | 11 November 1971 |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
| Occupation | former esports commentator |
| Years active | 2002–2020 |
He has broadcast in dozens of countries around the world including China, United States, Singapore, Australia, Denmark and many others on various media forms including mainstream TV channels, Live internet Video via Radio iTG and Global Gaming League (GGL), and also in TV series in the UK. He has also commentated on tournaments on both Live video streams and internet Radio since 2002 and has previously been looked after by Creative Artists Agency of Hollywood.
Redeye commentates on games including Starcraft 2, Quake 3, Quake 4, Quake Champions, Unreal Tournament, Unreal Tournament 2004, Counter-Strike: Source, Call of Duty 2, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Hearthstone, World of Warcraft, Smite, Dota 2, FIFA, Team Fortress 2 and Project Gotham Racing.
Chaloner also started the GGL World Rankings for duel players in esports in 2005.
In 2016, Chaloner co-founded Code Red Esports,[1] an Esports consultancy. He resigned from his position in 2020 for personal reasons.[2]
Commentary history
Chaloner started life as a commentator purely by chance, thanks to Yash, a good friend at ClanBase, asking him as a favour to cover some matches via shoutcast audio in 2002, whilst Redeye spoke English, that was about the limit of his shoutcasting ability.[3] Once into it however, the people tuning in loved the coverage and Paul found something that he could channel his passion and enthusiasm into, gaming commentary.
After a brief spell at ClanBase Radio, mainly commentating on ClanBase EuroCup and ClanBase OpenCups, he began commentating on other leagues, including the prestigious PC ZONE readers challenge and various Jolt leagues. He was mainly into Unreal Tournament games in the early days, but quickly moved on to cover Quake 3, Counter-Strike and Counter-Strike: Source when it was released.
In early 2005, he joined up with Radio iTG and attended many events around the world as one of the top commentators of esports, including WCG 2005 and 2006, ESWC 2005 and 2006 and Quakecon in both 2005 and 2006 respectively. He has also commentated in places as far away as Singapore, Australia and China as well as multiple times in North America and all across Europe.
By 2006, Chaloner wanted to progress and worked on several TV shows, both in the United Kingdom, the United States, Denmark and Australia, eventually teaming up with Creative Artists for gaming TV shows. He also hosted and presented a rock concert (Fuse) in 2006 for Ubisoft and has worked with many of the major companies involved with esports such as Intel, nVidia, Shure, Ubisoft and EA.
In March 2007, he set up and formed QuadV with his long-time friend and technical genius, Oliver "Jester" Aldridge.
Since leaving Heaven Media, Chaloner has stayed away from the esports limelight, but has still appeared as lead commentator at a number of high-profile events including the 2010 and 2011 WCG Grand Finals (in Los Angeles, United States and Busan, South Korea respectively), the AMD Heaven GamExperience (in London, UK) and the 2012 Intel Extreme Masters events in Kiev, Ukraine and Hamburg, Germany.
He has previously worked for Electronic Sports League, hosting Blizzard's Starcraft 2 tournament; WCS Europe, but is currently employed as the Head of Broadcasting at Gfinity[4]
In 2014, he took part at the Dota 2 ESL One tournament in the Commerzbank Arena in Frankfurt, Germany. He acted as the host of the ESL One Cologne 2015 CS:GO tournament in August 2014.
In March 2014, he joined Gfinity as Head of Broadcasting.[5]
In 2015, he helped host Dota 2s The International 2015, which had the largest prize pool in esports history at the time.[6][7]
Richard Lewis and Chaloner hosted the CS:GO Major DreamHack Open Cluj-Napoca 2015.[8]
In 2016, Chaloner returned to host Dota 2s The International 2016.
In 2017, he returned to CS:GO to host the 11th official Valve Major, the PGL Major: Krakow 2017
In 2017, he commented Quake World Champion Final (QuakeCon) in Houston, Texas.
Chaloner changed nickname from ReDeYe to Redeye on 6 May 2017.[9]
In 2018, he and Jorien "Sheever" van der Heijden hosted the China Dota2 Supermajor in Shanghai, China.
In 2018, Chaloner returned to host Dota 2s The International 2018.
In 2019, Chaloner returned to host Dota 2s The International 2019.
In June 2020, Chaloner announced that he would no longer be working in the esports industry following several serious allegations against him of personal assault and workplace bullying.[10]
References
- "New Esports Consultancy Code Red Started by Paul "ReDeYe" Chaloner". 1 December 2016.
- "@CodeRedEsport: "Effective immediately, Paul "Redeye" Chaloner has resigned his position as Managing Director of Code Red for personal reasons."".
- "The voice of esports: Paul 'ReDeYe' Chaloner". ESPN.com. 29 August 2016.
- http://www.gfinity.net/news/details/introducing-redeye
- Leslie, Callum (11 March 2015). "Paul Chaloner joins Gfinity as head of broadcasting". The Daily Dot. Archived from the original on 24 October 2015. Retrieved 10 November 2015.
- "Dota 2 International 2015 prize pool is already biggest in eSports history". 5 June 2015.
- Redeye [@PaulChaloner] (27 June 2015). "I'm thrilled to announce I will be hosting The International 5 this year! Can't tell you how excited and honoured I am to be invited" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- "DreamHack Open- Talent lineup for DreamHack Open Cluj-Napoca". DreamHack. Retrieved 18 November 2015.
- Redeye [@PaulChaloner] (6 May 2017). "I'm not a sport but I understand you're upset at me using ReDeYe and then calling out those who use eSports. From today this will change" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- Stubbs, Mike. "Paul 'Redeye' Chaloner Leaves Esports After Assault Allegations". Forbes. Retrieved 13 July 2020.