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xFlyingRussia
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States25 Posts
August 05 2011 06:08 GMT
#1
It's 1:43 AM right now and I've decided to blog about a dream that I had a few months ago, I'm currently 15 years old so don't troll me about my grammer or something. Anyways I bought Starcraft: Brood War around when I was about 11 years old and I always have envied the top tier teams, I was on iccup.com constantly reading any news about these particular teams. I myself have never been a good enough player to compete competitively and was always playing either fastest maps or UMS style games. I was D+ on Iccup and of course thats pretty sad knowing you've had the game for a few years, after meeting a few friends that lived in my area ( Mainly my neighbor and his friend ) I decided to create a competitive team.

We had a few clan wars and we were looking good. My players ranged from D- to C+ so there was a point of which we started to actually appear in the top 250 teams and I was satisfied with myself. I was young and the team started to die slowly after being inactive due to school and such, my friend tried to keep the team alive however we both knew it was pointless. After that I continued to iccup and then soon after Starcraft 2 came out.

Immediately I decided to dedicate all my time to this game. I won all my placement matches and immediately got put into diamond, this was of course when Grandmaster and Master league didn't exist. I was at the top league and I thought I was actually good at the game. Shortly after I got into team games and that somehow threw me off my 1v1'ing. Master league came out soon after and I was stuck in mid diamond and couldn't get past that, I then had an idea to create another team. I was 15 years old and I was googling everything about how to start a team that could possibly prove to be prosperous. There were no channels, I didn't have the slightest clue on how to make a website, and I knew that finding good players would prove to be a nightmare.

However I had a dream of me one day managing a high masters/GM team that proved itself worthy. I asked my friend one day, and he said it wouldn't be possible. I was frustrated at the thought about this being a repeat from my old BW team that I failed to manage properly. I soon found out how to make a website and quickly created it, got the forums running, and I asked my friend what the name should be. After several minutes of tossing names around, he jokingly said "NeO)", a top tier Broodwar clan that died out. I knew it was the perfect name, I set up the channel on Starcraft 2, NeO) and I was glad because this was actually coming true. Me and my friend started recruiting members by spamming team channels and general chats. We've had 20 members within the first week and it was time to set up our very first clan war.

Thanks to the thread made by GGTesomas I was able to challenge his team, and I managed to get it casted. I was excited, nervous, and anxious to see what the final result would be. We managed to win it 4-3 and it was extremely close. After that; merges, recruiting, and more clan wars I stand here proudly announcing we are 17-6 for clan wars and I lead a prosperous team. My name is Anton and my dream is finally accomplished.


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shawster
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Canada2485 Posts
August 05 2011 06:14 GMT
#2
congratulations, sounds like you're hella happy right now and i'm happy for you.

now go find another dream to fulfill
EtherealDeath
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States8366 Posts
August 05 2011 06:26 GMT
#3
grats =)

Now to accomplish more with your team!
Grettin
Profile Joined April 2010
42381 Posts
August 05 2011 06:33 GMT
#4
Good for you! New dreams ahoy!
"If I had force-fields in Brood War, I'd never lose." -Bisu
NrG.NeverExpo
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada2114 Posts
August 05 2011 06:51 GMT
#5
I know how amazing it feels to see something you've created on your own do so well.

This feeling is what makes my drive so strong when it comes to my team. To know I did this on my own makes me have such a rewarding feeling, its something that is very hard to come across. Keep it up dude, you see to have a similar drive to mine. Things will just keep getting better and better as you go. Only thing I have to say is that its probably not the coolest idea to take a name from a pre-existing team, but I guess its too late to change that xD GLGL, hope your team has great succes :D
TwitteR: @NeverExpo follow me, i'll follow back :)
sVnteen
Profile Joined January 2011
Germany2238 Posts
August 05 2011 07:12 GMT
#6
good job dooooooooooooood

MY LIFE STARTS NOW ♥
Artifex
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Belgium189 Posts
August 05 2011 09:37 GMT
#7
Congrats man! :D (although I was under the impression that when SC2 came out you couldn't be placed directly in diamond if you won all your placements, but maybe I'm mistaken)

Best of luck with the team.
Fear. Fear that the zerg are expanding all over the map and there's nothing you can do. The Swarm. Your doom. Now is the time to panic. The terran and protoss are trying to survive. The Zerg are trying to obliterate them. - Stane
Kronos84
Profile Joined August 2011
United States15 Posts
August 05 2011 13:50 GMT
#8
Awesome dude, GL with your team ^_^
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