Drafted

Before they were finalists: Austin Spencer

admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:22:42 +0000

Today we are going to look at this season’s most interesting candidate to become Canada’s next sportscaster. I’m speaking of the VERY enthusiastic Austin Spencer. If you didn’t think he was enthusiastic enough during his interview or audition, then you may need to check out his Twitter account. No man has ever used the word “JACKED” quite like Austin.

You know by now that he was a former professional wrestler, but you probably haven’t seen his signature finishing move. Check it out.

If you’re an MMA fan then you know that the move he is using is an inverse triangle choke. I’m guessing that it was inspired by Toby Imada who pulled it off in a fight last year for Bellator Fighting Championships (which can be seen on The Score). Check out Toby’s submission.

That’s probably the most impressive submission I’ve ever seen, so it’s no wonder that Austin implemented it into his professional wrestling career. Austin is hoping to impress a lot of people in September when Gillette Drafted 2 kicks off on The Score. We know he won’t have any problems getting their attention, that’s for sure.

JTI

Before they were finalists: Kareem Duhaney

admin — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:55:35 +0000

Today we are featuring Kareem Duhaney on the blog and based on his percentage of votes right now, he has to be considered a bit of an underdog going into this season.

I’m sure that doesn’t bother him that much though because Kareem has won a pretty significant competition before. Back in 2008, Kareem was voted as “The Sexiest Man in Canada” as part of a promotion with UMM Magazine. That’s a pretty awesome label for anyone to have attached to them.

So despite his lack of progress in the poll on the website, no one should count out Kareem just yet. He’s been a big winner before and he just might do it again this season on Drafted.

JTI

Before they were finalists: Kacie Hollins

admin — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:57:26 +0000

It’s been a week since we announced our Top 10 so by now you’ve had plenty of time to watch their auditions and their interviews with Paul Brothers. So you’ve got to know everyone a little bit from that and from their bios, but I’m hoping to provide everyone with a little more info on our contestants.

We’re going to start it off with our Calgary representative Kacie Hollins. Here’s a demo reel from Kacie during her days at Carlton when she did some work for CTV Ottawa. The highlight for me was her feature on Movember, which is my favourite month of the year for both charity and comedy purposes.

Check out the early version of Kacie Hollins and you can check out how far Kacie has come in her quest to become a sportscaster when Gillette Drafted 2 airs on September 13th.

JTI

The wait is over! Our Top 10 is here!

admin — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:26:17 +0000

It was a hard process with hundreds of auditions to sort through, but we finally have our Top 10 for the newest season of Gillette Drafted.

We are well represented across the country with our finalists ranging from Vancouver, British Columbia to Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. We even have our very own battle of Alberta with the two ladies in our Top 10 representing Edmonton and Calgary. Check out www.drafted.ca/finalists to learn more about each of them and be sure to go to our video section and watch 5 questions with our Top 10 conducted by Season 1 winner Paul Brothers.

After that you can vote on who you think has what it takes to be Canada’s Next Sportscaster. It’s an interesting group of characters which will definitely make it a fun season. The countdown is over for our Top 10, but another one is just getting started. Catch all of the episodes lives on The Score starting September 13th!

JTI

PPOD compilation

admin — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:05:19 +0000

It’s the last day of auditions on the blog so I thought it would be fun to post a compilation of Paul’s Picks of the Day. It’s a huge honour for Paul to pick somebody as his choice for that day and it will be interesting to see if any of Paul’s choices make the cut for the Top 10. Of course, you can check back on Monday to see if any of them made it.

Enjoy these and enjoy your weekend before the big announcement!

JTI

Coming around the bend

admin — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:32:35 +0000

We are almost at the finish line. At least the finish line for the first race. On Monday a whole new race will begin when the Top 10 is revealed and they’ll all be vying to be the one person who triumphs on season 2 of Gillette Drafted.

With only 2 more days left and so many auditions, it’s going to be impossible to get every audition up on the blog. No need to worry though, the judges have seen every single one of them. With literally hundreds of them to review, they had to put in some serious work to do so. It’s a good thing this is a slow time for sports so they aren’t missing too much.

Hope you enjoy the last two days of auditions.

JTI

5 days left!

admin — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:01:42 +0000

You can now officially count on one hand the number of days left before the top 10 for Gillette Drafted 2 is revealed! I know for most of you Monday can’t come soon enough. Here’s another all request version of the blog for everyone who has been patiently waiting to hear their name called.

JTI

An all request version of the blog

admin — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:04:48 +0000

Yesterday I asked for your requests if you haven’t seen your audition posted yet and fortunately many of you answered. I might not be able to fit them all in, but I’ll try to put as many as I can today and the rest of this week.

Only 6 days left…

JTI

1 week left!

admin — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:15:13 +0000

It’s hard to believe, but there is only 1 week left before the top 10 for season 2 of Gillette Drafted is finally revealed. I’m excited for it, so I can only imagine how excited everyone that auditioned is.

This is the last week that we’ll be posting auditions up on the Drafted blog because the focus will shift to the top 10 and will remain that way until the show airs on September 13. I’ll be taking requests on the Facebook page and on Twitter all week if anyone wants to have their audition up on the blog that hasn’t yet. Enjoy your week and good luck to everyone next Monday!

JTI

Some love for the people who need some promotion

admin — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 18:29:06 +0000

Yesterday I gave some love to those who were getting a lot of views, so I thought the right thing to do would be to give some love to those who haven’t got a lot of eyeballs on their auditions yet.

All of these guys are in the single digits and could use a little bit of a push. Hopefully the Drafted blog helps out their cause. I don’t know if any of them will ultimately end up being Canada’s next sportscaster, but they all stepped up to the plate and auditioned live and they deserve to get their moment in the sun too.

JTI