Broadcast talent for ECS Season 3 Finals includes Thorin, Machine, ddk & more

Dom Sacco, Senior Editor

Last Updated: 09/06/2017

The Esports Championship Series (ECS) has announced the talent line-up for the Season 3 Finals on June 23rd-25th, taking place at the Wembley SSE Arena.
The line-up includes a mix of well-known CSGO broadcast talent, including Brits such as Machine and Thorin.
Also in attendance are the UK’s very own James Bardolph and Daniel Kapadia, as well as Anders Blume and Henry Greer on commentary, with wCSGO analysts Janko Paunović, Tomi Kovanen and others.
Here’s the line-up:

Casters

• James Bardolph

• Daniel “ddk” Kapadia

• Henry “HenryG” Greer

• Anders Blume

Analysts

• Duncan “Thorin” Shields

• Janko “YNK” Paunović

• Tomi “Lurpis” Kovanen

• Sam “Dazed” Marine

Hosts

• Stage: Rachel “Seltzer” Quirico

• Desk: Alex “Machine” Richardson

• Pala Gilroy Sen

Observers

• Jamie Hall

• Connor Blomfield

The teams

North America

• SK Gaming

• Cloud9

• Team Liquid

• OpTic

Europe

• Astralis

• FaZe Clan

• Fnatic

• G2

 
ECS announced the Season 3 finals would be coming back to Wembley earlier this year.
The tournament will be streamed live on www.youtube.com/faceit.

Dom Sacco, Senior Editor

Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He has almost two decades of experience in journalism, and left Esports News UK in June 2025. As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller in the late '80s, he has written for a range of publications including GamesTM, Nintendo Official Magazine, industry publication MCV and others. He also previously worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation.

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