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Hi everybody! My birthday is May 25th, and I turn 25 years old. I've lived my entire life up to this point in Summerville, South Carolina, with the exception of four years of college in Columbia, South Carolina and a semester abroad in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
In a couple of weeks, I'll be packing everything into my 2000 Saturn SL and driving 2,800 miles to San Francisco, California, all thanks to StarCraft 2. Here's a quick rundown of events that lead to this impending westward migration.
In January, 2010, my friend Michelle had just gotten a YouTube partnership for her vlogs with her best friend Grace (GraceNMichelle) and she talked me into starting a YouTube channel of my own. Not having any real area of expertise, I decided to just make a channel where people (namely people who followed me on Twitter or Tumblr) could just ask me questions and I would try to do my best to answer them in an entertaining way (AskJoshy). I got over 100 subscribers thanks to some help from Michelle, and made about 15 videos in that first month, but then the StarCraft 2 beta came out.
My job at the time was acting as a spokesperson for a local credit union. I was blogging and making weekly YouTube videos for them, so I already had some familiarity with Adobe Premiere and Final Cut Express. When the beta came out and I got in on day 1, I knew I could get a lot of views by FRAPSing some of the new maps and units and things, and I got to work immediately. I ended up just dropping videos about infestors and motherships onto AskJoshy because I was too lazy and/or didn't think it would be necessary to make a new channel just for StarCraft stuff. In retrospect I probably should have made JoshyStarCraft or something. Oh well. Since the beta, I've picked up 42,000 subscribers and over 9 million views on 700 videos from my clips, casts, and MLG footage.
Along the way I worked with a ton of great people in the community and made a lot of connections with players, managers, casters, and more. I worked with iCCup TV for several months, joined the Machinima network in October, and have been working with them ever since. I helped cover MLG Dallas 2010 for TeamLiquid.net and had a blast with the players for their first time all being together at one tournament. In January 2011, thanks to the recommendation of Ryan Rushia, I started working with compLexity Gaming as their primary caster and live event coverage guy. It's been a great experience casting The V for them each and every week, and I had a lot of fun at MLG Dallas with all of their players and managers.
I'm not moving to California to work for TL, iCCup TV, Machinima, or even compLexity, though. Nope, I seem to have landed a job that is perfect for me. I just signed the contract to become IGN.com's eSports Community Marketing Manager. You'll see posts from me here on TL in the near future for the IGN Pro League as Joshy.IGN, with a flashy icon and everything. I went to college for marketing and have a bachelor's degree to show for it, so my education and my interests are finally meeting in a big way. Their corporate headquarters are in San Francisco, just two blocks away from where the Giants play baseball.
It'll be quite a drastic change from the super-suburban Summerville, but I am confident I'll get used to it and show IGN that they made the right decision by picking me up. I spent my first 25 years living in South Carolina without a real career. Maybe I'll spend my next 25 years in California building one.
To celebrate my 25th birthday, I think I'm going to live stream some StarCraft 2 all day (between noon and midnight most likely) on Wednesday, May 25th (http://www.justin.tv/joshsuth). Come join me in channel AskJoshy on North America if you'd like to play some 4v4's, ffa's, StarJeweled, Nexus Wars, SOTIS, or whatever else we feel like doing. It's a celebration of life and SC2. =)
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Thanks for reading!
 
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welcome to the best state in the union good sir
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Welcome to the Bay Area, fantastic weather, shitty internet.
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congrats and your hair always looks so cuddly, no homo
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Congrats man! Be sure and say hi in Columbus :-)
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congrats josh! I've met you briefly at each MLG of 2010, you worked hard and have done a great job so far, you definitely deserve this. best of luck, and hopefully i'll see you in a future MLG :D
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Well done good sir.
I guess this is the best place to ask, but I am doing a series of articles on careers in eSports, have already interviewed some people, but with your new job, I think you are a great fit too especially the moving to a whole new strange city!
Let me know if interested.
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Just be prepared for uber high prices for everything you encounter! Other than that have fun!!
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Happy birthday Josh! and AWESOME news about IGN!!! I hope the move goes smoothly. I'm sure you will do great working for IGN.
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I <3 Josh Suth
gL yo! Nice blog :D
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Happy birthday and congratulations, Joshy! Huge fan of all the work you've put in, and you've even inspired me a bit. I'm sure that IGN made the right choice in hiring you.
GLHF with the cross-country drive.
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Happy early Birthday Josh. It was nice to read about your career and adventures thus far in the SC2/esports scene. Congrats on your job with IGN, enjoy life on the West coast! Talk to you soon buddy.
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Go and get some In-N-Out when you get here!
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On May 25 2011 06:32 audist wrote:
Go and get some In-N-Out when you get here!
You will be SO FULL if you take his suggestion T_T
Good luck in cali! I was there for a week last spring and it was the best place I've ever been.
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Thanks for the congratulations, guys. LuckyFool, Pokebunny, Hunter, if you guys can stop by the stream/B.net channel tomorrow that'd be cool. =)
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WOOOOOOOOO GO JOSHY congratulations on the job, on how far you've come on the youtube account AND in the starcraft community (: I've been watching you BEFORE I even got sc2. I used to watch games cast by everyone to try to understand the game before I got it. Finally, when I got sc2 I GOT PLACED IN SILVER LEAGUE oh yeah (H) - since then I've been able to work myself up to rank 20 diamond. Still watching every video from AskJoshy.
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Congrats man, hope everything works out for you. Sounds like you might be able to turn a job into a career! Happy birthday too!
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SF is a great city, gl hf
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Wow, congratulations! I'm really proud of you and good luck in your new job/career!
Happy Birthday of course!
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happy b-day joshy live the dream!
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Your hair + CatsPajama's beard = serious pwnage at IPL 
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Wonder if I can get Root or coL or some other pro players to entertain me tomorrow... hmm.
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Congrats, Josh! Pretty big step, and i can imagine you're as excited as you are apprehensive. Definitely wish you the best, and have always liked your coverage of the players as well as the game, ROOT ftw
If you were closer to LA, I'd offer a drink on your arrival!
Gonna make the trip south for MLG anaheim?
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Of course! I'll be attending all of the MLGs as usual, and hopefully Blizzcon as well. =)
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Past midnight, happy birthday!
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Way to go buddy. I look forward to seeing you out here on the west coast! You've worked hard and stuck to your guns. Not many people an say that; and this just shows that its paid off. Congrats!
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Congrats! Still wishing that IGN move their HQ down to SoCal so we can have a real e-sports mecca in the States, though.
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