Paul "Redeye" Chaloner (born 1971) is a British former esports broadcaster.
He has broadcast in dozens of countries including China, United States, Singapore, Australia, Denmark and others on media forms including TV channels, live internet videos, and TV series in the UK. He has also commentated on tournaments on live video streams and internet radio starting in 2002.
Redeye has commentated on games including ''
Starcraft 2
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'', ''
Quake 3
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'', ''
Quake 4
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'', ''
Quake Champions
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'', ''
Unreal Tournament
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'', ''
Unreal Tournament 2004
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Call of Duty 2
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World of Warcraft
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'', ''
Smite
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Team Fortress 2
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'' and ''
Project Gotham Racing
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''.
Career
Chaloner's career in esports started when he provided commentary for an online ''Quake'' game in 2002.
After a brief spell at ClanBase Radio, mainly commentating on ClanBase EuroCup and ClanBase OpenCups, he began commentating on other leagues, including the PC ZONE readers challenge and various Jolt leagues. He mainly covered ''
Unreal Tournament
''Unreal Tournament'' is a first-person arena shooter video game developed by Epic Games and Digital Extremes. The second installment in the '' Unreal'' series, it was first published by GT Interactive in 1999 for Microsoft Windows, and late ...
'' games in the early days, but moved on to cover ''
Quake 3
''Quake III Arena'' is a 1999 multiplayer-focused first-person shooter developed by id Software. The third installment of the ''Quake'' series, ''Arena'' differs from previous games by excluding a story-based single-player mode and focusing prima ...
'', ''
Counter-Strike
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'' and '' Counter-Strike: Source''.
In early 2005, he joined up with Radio iTG and attended events around the world including the 2005 and 2006 iterations of the WCG, ESWC, and
QuakeCon
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. He has also commentated in Singapore, Australia, China, North America and Europe.
By 2006, Chaloner worked on several TV shows, both in the United Kingdom, the United States, Denmark and Australia, and partnered with Creative Artists to work on gaming TV shows. He also hosted and presented the rock concert Fuse for Ubisoft in 2006. In March 2007, he set up and formed QuadV with his long-time friend Oliver "Jester" Aldridge.
Since leaving Heaven Media, Chaloner 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
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, South Korea respectively), the AMD Heaven GamExperience (in London, UK) and the 2012 Intel Extreme Masters events in
Kyiv
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, Germany. He worked for the
Electronic Sports League
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as head of content and media.
In 2014, he took part at the '' Dota 2'' ESL One tournament in the
Commerzbank Arena
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in Frankfurt, Germany. He was the host of the
ESL One Cologne 2015
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CS:GO tournament in August 2014. In March 2014, he joined Gfinity as Head of Broadcasting. In 2015, he helped host the ''Dota 2'' tournament
The International 2015
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, which had the largest prize pool in esports history at the time.
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and Chaloner hosted the ''CS:GO'' Major
DreamHack Open Cluj-Napoca 2015
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.
In 2016, Chaloner returned to host
The International 2016
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. In 2017, he returned to CS:GO to host the 11th official Valve Major, the PGL Major: Krakow 2017. That year, he was a commentator at the Quake World Champion Final (QuakeCon) in Houston, Texas. In 2018, he and Jorien "Sheever" van der Heijden hosted the China Dota2 Supermajor in Shanghai, China. He returned to host ''Dota 2''s
The International 2018
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. He again returned to host
The International 2019
The International 2019 (TI9) was the ninth iteration of The International, an annual ''Dota 2'' world championship esports tournament. Hosted by Valve, the game's developer, the tournament followed a year-long series of awarding qualifying poin ...
.
In 2016, Chaloner co-founded Code Red Esports, an esports consultancy. In June 2020, Chaloner announced that he would no longer be working in the esports industry following several allegations against him of personal assault and workplace bullying. Chaloner has denied most of the allegations. He also announced that he would be resigning from his position at Code Red Esports.