EPTHow I fell in Love with StarCraft
I am currently a freshman at a private university in Oregon. I am currently "Undecided" when it comes to a major, but I am getting a minor in Coaching.
The day I fell in love with StarCraft was January 17th 2010, the day of the 2009 OSL Final between Movie and Flash. The week previous I had my first dose of SC administered to me when browsing a different forum and read something about "pro starcraft" I was intrigued. I have no recollection of what I watched that night but in that same thread I saw something about the "OSL finals" noted the date and marked it on my calendar. My friend Cam had been playing SC from the date it was released and was happy to find that I had discovered the "Pro Scene". The night of the final him, another friend, and I stayed up til the wee hours of the morning to watch this final. This night changed my life forever. I almost pee'd myself at the sight of the stadium; I could not believe that all these people were there to watch 2 guys play SC, a videogame! The games started and I had no idea what was going on but I knew it was epic, I knew that this was the greatest thing on the planet and I knew that I wanted to be apart of it. Now if any of you remember this final the power went out during one of the games, this blew our minds. My friends and I were freaking out not knowing what the heck was going to happen, I can't even imagine a similar scenario happening in a sport like football, can't even imagine.
After this night I just wanted to play SC, and I did for the most part. At some point I stopped, I do not know why, but once I heard that StarCraft 2 was coming out I wanted it more than anything. I went to the midnight release and beat the campaign on my shotty laptop running at 5-10fps. I didn't play multiplayer, because how shotty my laptop was, until I got my mac. But the whole rest of the summer I wasn’t playing I was watching SC2 casts. I must’ve watched 10 hours straight one day, these only fueled my passion for the game. I felt like I knew everything about the game once I started to play on bnet, because of the numerous casts I watched, but sadly I did not. I got rofl stomped because all my brain wanted to do was make zerglings. So I stopped playing 1v1s and played 2s, 3s, and 4s with friends getting my confidence up, while at the same time spending 2-4 hours a day watching casts and live streams, definitely more time a day than I spend studying.
I watched Day[9] a lot… I loved him, I thought he was the greatest human being to ever live, and I still do believe this. I watched his daily religiously, UNIDEN HWATING! I eventually heard about his 100th daily and watched it one daily while running on a treadmill. After that my passion for the game grew exponentially and is still growing at a crazy insane rate. After watching it I began sitting in the lobby of my dorm just watching SC without headphones and people would come up and ask what I was watching, I would tell them and they would hover over my shoulder for a time and leave. Some would say “sounds like a sport” and I would say “because it is”. Almost everyone at the school that knows me knows I play, watch, and love SC2 more than anything. But I’m unable to share my passion as I would like to. I want to be like Day[9]; I want to send a mass email out to my school inviting them to come watch SC with me and have practically half of my school come. This is my goal for next semester, to rent out our auditorium and show a GSL final. This has been my journey so far and I am almost positive I have failed to capture the love I have for the game, pro scene, community, and teamliquid that I possess, but know that SC is my passion.
peace yo gl hf ^^
-Phenom
From Bronze to Diamond: My winter break story
Over my winter break I will be making my quest from Bronze to Diamond in the 22 days I have left. I will be playing a minimum of 10 games a day, and I will be blogging about it.
I started watching SC since Movie vs Flash also. And I even had a friend that 's been playing SC for age also 
