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How I fell in love with StarCraft

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PheNOM_
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States417 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-19 14:55:55
December 19 2010 10:26 GMT
#1
How 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.


*****
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GenesisX
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Canada4267 Posts
December 19 2010 10:32 GMT
#2
Cool
Can't wait for your blogs!
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Zerokaiser
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Canada885 Posts
December 19 2010 10:41 GMT
#3
Jesus wall of text. Please break that up into some pretty paragraphs so I can read it without my head hurting. I *am* interested, but at 3 in the morning with blurry eyes I don't stand a chance.
Lanaia is love.
PheNOM_
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States417 Posts
December 19 2010 10:45 GMT
#4
I hope that helps...
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ArvickHero
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
10387 Posts
December 19 2010 11:12 GMT
#5
minor correction, Movie vs Flash was the OSL Finals. The MSL Finals that season was Jaedong vs Flash (historic power outage rofl)
Writerptrk
ReketSomething
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States6012 Posts
December 19 2010 11:22 GMT
#6
On December 19 2010 20:12 ArvickHero wrote:
minor correction, Movie vs Flash was the OSL Finals. The MSL Finals that season was Jaedong vs Flash (historic power outage rofl)


lol. I was confused as well, all leessangrok <3
Jaedong :3
PheNOM_
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States417 Posts
December 19 2010 11:52 GMT
#7
On December 19 2010 20:12 ArvickHero wrote:
minor correction, Movie vs Flash was the OSL Finals. The MSL Finals that season was Jaedong vs Flash (historic power outage rofl)


lol thank you.
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ProFail
Profile Joined August 2010
Korea (North)81 Posts
December 19 2010 13:22 GMT
#8
Good luck with your GSL final plan, I wish someone would do that near me.
Didnt play Beta, Never played any RTS, straight in plat.
invisible.terran
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States280 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-19 13:38:11
December 19 2010 13:37 GMT
#9
Hey, you and me share a lot of common I started watching SC since Movie vs Flash also. And I even had a friend that 's been playing SC for age also Maybe the only different is I can't play SC2 with my crappy PC
"Until the very very top, in almost anything, all that matters is how much work you put in, the only problem is most people cant work hard even at things they do enjoy, much less things they dont have a real passion for." - Idra
d3athwish
Profile Joined October 2010
United States7 Posts
December 19 2010 13:45 GMT
#10
awww dude glhf

lol!
PheNOM_
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States417 Posts
December 19 2010 13:54 GMT
#11
On December 19 2010 22:37 invisible.terran wrote:
Hey, you and me share a lot of common I started watching SC since Movie vs Flash also. And I even had a friend that 's been playing SC for age also Maybe the only different is I can't play SC2 with my crappy PC


lol!
my friend that has been playing for ages is from vietnam
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blahman3344
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States2015 Posts
December 19 2010 14:13 GMT
#12
That was an interesting read. I didn't watch the Flash v Jaedong finals live, but when I saw the VODs later on, it was truly a spectacular series. I'm not surprised that it made you really interested in SC. =)
I like haikus and / I can not lie. You other / brothers can't deny
Risen
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States7927 Posts
December 19 2010 17:24 GMT
#13
My guess is that you go to L&C. Confirm/Deny?
Pufftrees Everyday>its like a rifter that just used X-Factor/Liquid'Nony: I hope no one lip read XD/Holyflare>it's like policy lynching but better/Resident Los Angeles bachelor
icy112
Profile Joined April 2010
United States10 Posts
December 19 2010 17:27 GMT
#14
Nice man, I actually became interested in SC around the same time as you, the first two Starleague finals I stayed up to watch was the EVER OSL between Flash and Movie and the NATE MSL between Flash and JD. That series between Flash and JD was truly epic, I almost went to bed during the 1hr+ wait after the power outage, but I'm glad I stayed up to watch the end. I think I've watched every Starleague / Proleague finals live since then... really makes me wish I had started watching BW earlier =/.

GL with your GSL plans, let us know how it turns out!
Lightwip
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States5497 Posts
December 19 2010 17:29 GMT
#15
I started about at Flash vs JD finals, but the first game I watched was the WL series between SKT and Khan. That's where I found all my favorite players: Bisu, Best, Stork, Fantasy, and FBH.
Only I never switched to SC2. BW for life.
If you are not Bisu, chances are I hate you.
PheNOM_
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States417 Posts
December 20 2010 00:50 GMT
#16
I do not go to Lewis and Clark...

To all those who are talking about Flash v Jaedong,

I didn't watch that series I only watched flash v movie.
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