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Zlasher
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States9129 Posts
June 18 2011 02:06 GMT
#1
I try to make it out to every event that I can, and luckily the past 2 years I've lived in the very tight-knit DC/VA/MD community that is probably one of the best communities within Starcraft in terms of meeting up and hanging out and going to events together. I've had the privilege of going to MLG DC last year, that we all went to together to compete/spectate/do media for. I took a 13 hour bus ride up to Boston for PAX East, and a 7 hour drive to Columbus Ohio for MLG Columbus earlier this month.

If any of you are looking to go to events, take the time off, and don't think about it anymore, just do it. It is absolutely worth it and you will have the greatest time of your life. I've brought my Starcraft 2 poster from release day to every SC2 related event I've been to so far and gotten as many signatures of pros and big name community members on it as possible thus far. So if you guys need an incentive to go to events, you too can have a poster like this some day:

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Names on the poster, from top left to bottom right:
(T)FXO.mOoNan
(Z)ST_July
Day[9]
(T)EG.DeMusliM
Slasher
(T)EG.IdrA
(T)d.SeleCT
(P)d.NaNiwa
(T)EG.LzGaMeR
(Z)Liquid`Ret
(Z)FOX.Moon
(P)Fnatic_TT1
(Z)FXO.Sheth
djWHEAT
(T)d.SjoW
(T)Fnatic_KawaiiRice
(Z)coL.CatZ
(Z)mouz.MorroW
(T)mouz.ThorZaIN
(T)IM_LosirA
(P)White-Ra
(Z)EG.StrifeCro
(Z)EG.Machine
(P)oGs.MC
(P)EG.iNcontroL
(P)EG.Axslav
(T)SlayerS_MMA



I've missed out on a few people obviously (always wanted to get Kiwikaki's specifically but I'm sure I'll have the chance to get his shortly at future events, sometimes its hard to track down some pros, or you don't want to bug them when they're busy or trying to get mentally ready for matches, so I try to just approach them whenever it is appropriate. It's also nice when I've known many of the players online, talked to them on skype or ventrilo or in game regularly. For that its usually simpler to get theirs.

I hope that even more people will show up to future events. I remember MLG DC with the couple hundred people we had there and it was already mind blowing but when a location like Columbus is set in the midwest and a lot more people are able to travel to the event without flights (airplanes are stupidly expensive) then we can see more crowds in the 5000+ range. Cheers to all, and I hope we all get the chance to meet at an event in the future.

****
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lynx.oblige
Profile Joined August 2009
Sierra Leone2268 Posts
June 18 2011 02:09 GMT
#2
many autographs nice
Everyone needs a nemesis.
TheAmazombie
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States3714 Posts
June 18 2011 02:18 GMT
#3
Cool stuff. I love getting a poster or something and getting a ton of signatures.
We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. -Charlie Chaplin
eviltomahawk
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States11135 Posts
June 18 2011 02:23 GMT
#4
I can feel the glow of awesomeness that is emanating from that poster. Each pen stroke contributing to an overall emission of awesome energy infused into the poster by the hands of some awesome people.

I also LOL at how EG.Idra's TLPD link is for his BW profile. Forever Terran, it seems.
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lynx.oblige
Profile Joined August 2009
Sierra Leone2268 Posts
June 18 2011 02:25 GMT
#5
On June 18 2011 11:23 eviltomahawk wrote:
I can feel the glow of awesomeness that is emanating from that poster. Each pen stroke contributing to an overall emission of awesome energy infused into the poster by the hands of some awesome people.

I also LOL at how EG.Idra's TLPD link is for his BW profile. Forever Terran, it seems.


lol what the
Everyone needs a nemesis.
WooChop
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States120 Posts
June 18 2011 02:30 GMT
#6
That is amazing. Haha, did DeMusliM write "I am badass!" on there?
rawb
Profile Joined September 2010
United States252 Posts
June 18 2011 02:33 GMT
#7
How do you pronounce your ID? I always just say zee-slasher >_<

I love the poster though. :D I bought one of the event shirts and had a few guys sign it in Columbus, but I didn't really want to intrude a lot of the time like you said. I'm glad I got ROOT CatZ before he changed to coL though

Zlasher
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States9129 Posts
June 18 2011 02:53 GMT
#8
On June 18 2011 11:30 WooChop wrote:
That is amazing. Haha, did DeMusliM write "I am badass!" on there?


Lol yeah he did, I was surprised to see that as well but I don't really mind

On June 18 2011 11:33 rawb wrote:
How do you pronounce your ID? I always just say zee-slasher >_<

I love the poster though. :D I bought one of the event shirts and had a few guys sign it in Columbus, but I didn't really want to intrude a lot of the time like you said. I'm glad I got ROOT CatZ before he changed to coL though



I don't see how there are two s's in my name o.o Its just zuh-lasher.

CatZ just signed my poster as "Catz" which I guess is nice in that regards as well haha, although having people write down their team tag as well is cool.
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CaucasianAsian
Profile Blog Joined September 2005
Korea (South)11596 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-06-18 02:55:08
June 18 2011 02:54 GMT
#9
my elbows/fingers are so sexy in this picture!
Calendar@ Fish Server: `iOps]..Stark
LuckyFool
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States9015 Posts
June 18 2011 03:19 GMT
#10
Epic poster, so awesome thanks for pics and sharing.
IronMonocle
Profile Joined September 2009
Canada142 Posts
June 18 2011 03:36 GMT
#11
Nice poster dude, but i think it would look nicer without the text obscuring the image.
My armor is contempt. My shield is disgust. My sword is hatred.
hazelynut
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States2196 Posts
June 18 2011 04:20 GMT
#12
i'm so jelly :D yay zlasher!
Zerg | life of lively to live to life of full life thx to shield battery | www.cstarleague.com <3
Zlasher
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States9129 Posts
June 18 2011 05:26 GMT
#13
On June 18 2011 13:20 hazelynut wrote:
i'm so jelly :D yay zlasher!


why ty mona :D you should have come to MLG Columbus though you P-ton nerd you.
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Qzy
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Denmark1121 Posts
June 18 2011 06:11 GMT
#14
Awesome awesome poster - Wish I could go to dreamhack, but don't have people around that are interested in LANs or events .
TG Sambo... Intel classic! Life of lively to live to life of full life thx to shield battery
Zlasher
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States9129 Posts
June 18 2011 08:23 GMT
#15
I'm surprised that Denmark doesn't have a decent sized TL community
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