EPTA bit of my Starcraft history: When I was 5-6, I saw my sister's friend (~15 at the time) play Starcraft. I thought this game was awesome, but didn't know what it was. I went 2 years before i went to the east coast, and found one of my parent's friend playing Tree Defense (which I'm surprised hasn't been replicated). I asked my parents for Starcraft, and my world changed.
Now before this time, I had been playing Runescape (level 15 w/ level 40 mining+smithing LOL) and Maplestory. I fell in love with Starcraft, instantly. I first started with the campaign, but not knowing you could have more than 4 workers, i failed epically. I got discouraged, but went to play UMS. I did this for 2-3 years. After that, I watched my friends play at a LAN (for a birthday). I learned many things (like >4 workers is good) and reaver drops. I couldn't pull these off, so I went back to UMS.
Then my life changed as i entered 7th grade. I met my best friend, (NitrOuS, changing to NoOn soon). We played a match of regular BW. Remembering reaver drops, i won that match, and he began to rush turrets (LOL). This was the turning point for my Starcraft: BW time. We probably played 600 games in this time, bolstering my XvT to my only matchup I could play (at a E level).
We found Teamliquid.net. My friend got into the beta ~May 2010 and I had a dry spell from SC. He got bored of all the cheese in SC2, and we went back to BW. My computer could not run SC2, so I persuaded my parents to let me build a computer for $900 as Birthday+Christmas+Learning Experience. It runs Sc2 beautifully now.
After the beta, we played BW again. We frequented Teamliquid and now I visit it for about 45-60 mins a day. I play starcraft for ~2-3 hrs a day.
On the day of the release, I hitched a ride off his mom (which I now knew pretty well), and got Sc2. We played it for 6 hours a day for the next month.
Then 8th grade started. I learned I was moving at the end of September, and was saddened. We continued to play starcraft like nothing was wrong (cause starcraft is awesome)
Now we still play ,and I am 1300 diamond rand and he is 1500 diamond terran. I feel more connected with them than the friends i have made at my current school.
Starcraft: Brood War is the most awesome RTS ever, and even though my roots are rather recent, they are forever embedded in this hell of and awesome game. I still pop in and play a game or 2 on ICcup (losing 3/4 of them lol).
Starcraft 2: WoL is the RTS that I currently play the most. I think this game is MUCH less demanding APM wise, but i liked muta stacking in BW. Micro being my forte, I find hellions, banshees, phoenix, mutas to be my favorite units.
Teamliquid: The most AWESOME FORUM EVER CREATED. If this was a religion, I would be in the top 1000 of the followers (maybe 5000?). I LOVE this site, and its my top visited sites. I close it, and thanks to google chrome, i open my top 3 sites. which happens to be TL. I do this ~5 times before i realize it.
As my 499th post, (substituting as my 500th post, as 500 post is overload on the name change), i proudly announce:
I LOVE YOU STARCRAFT AND TEAMLIQUID.
OK EDIT: by friend is much more awesome than I am.
He just more lurks than posts, every thing he says gets contradicted, he is annoyed at that. (eg. hellion tank counters stalker immortal. immortal shield killed by 12 tanks, tanks own the rest)
