Wow, its crazy that they can be that good whilst still attaining great grades. It does inspire a good amount of hope in the future of the north american ESPORTS scene. Great blog!

figq

12519 Posts

June 15 2012 21:24 GMT

#23

And a little more on topic:+ Show Spoiler +

hazelynut

United States2195 Posts

June 15 2012 21:26 GMT

#24

LOL wow

i might just... put those in the OP now

shindigs

United States4795 Posts

June 15 2012 22:03 GMT

#25

The CSL meetup last year was like ~10-15 people...crazy growth in just one year!

dAPhREAk

Nauru12397 Posts

June 15 2012 23:07 GMT

#26

met suppy at the ucdavis lan. nice dude.

Chargelot

2275 Posts

June 15 2012 23:13 GMT

#27

On June 16 2012 04:45 Rulker wrote:

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on MajOr (juan)'s stream a bit ago after CSL ostojiy was smurfing and sniped Major bmed the fuck out of major and major calmly beat him a bunch of games in a row and said stop being bm, you suck and you cant back up your shit talk.

Ostojiy is a douche online, basically idra except idra doesnt stream snipe.

Actually, Idra has been well behaved recently. BM but usually only when it makes sense, like saying "Really?" when Terran lifts instead of GG'ing. Ostojiy on the other hand is pretty well known as one of the most BM guys on the ladder. Got to see him telling iNcontroL to get out of a game which iNcontroL was winning by a fairly large margin.

Ingenol

United States1328 Posts

June 15 2012 23:22 GMT

#28

On June 16 2012 05:53 Eifersuchtig wrote:

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Morse. But are you in Calhoun???

I was. Graduated in 2004!

Excalibur_Z

United States12237 Posts

June 15 2012 23:33 GMT

#29

I met Conan aka Superiorwolf at a Mountain View LAN where he got 3rd. He owns, really cool guy. Shoutouts to him and to yourself hazely, good writeup. It's really easy to have players like this fly under the radar because there are already so many big names out there.

Chargelot

2275 Posts

June 15 2012 23:48 GMT

#30

On June 16 2012 08:33 Excalibur_Z wrote:
I met Conan aka Superiorwolf at a Mountain View LAN where he got 3rd. He owns, really cool guy. Shoutouts to him and to yourself hazely, good writeup. It's really easy to have players like this fly under the radar because there are already so many big names out there.

We've been seeing a lot of people care about the little guy recently. iNcontroL trying to get unfeatured people noticed, Hazely's write up here, The E-Sports Manifesto by TakeTV looks like it may be leading that way too, etc.. I'm glad to see the foreigner community actuating to support itself. Everyone should keep it up. I really think it'll start making large differences soon enough.

Rekrul

Korea (South)17174 Posts

June 15 2012 23:49 GMT

#31

Superiorwolf is so happy looking it makes me angry

Noobity

United States871 Posts

June 16 2012 00:02 GMT

#32

I've been talking to Eifer since the intended inception of the national star league that they tried to get going. Very manner, very cool guy, very helpful. It's a shame he's got such an awesome education in the works, I'm sure he'd kick some major ass in the pro scene given a little more time to play.

Course, the education is certainly better for these guys I'm sure

EtherealDeath

United States8366 Posts

June 16 2012 00:15 GMT

#33

On June 16 2012 08:49 Rekrul wrote:
Superiorwolf is so happy looking it makes me angry

I want to punt zerglings sometimes too.

ShinyGerbil

Canada519 Posts

June 16 2012 00:22 GMT

#34

Great writeup! I appreciate all your hard work Mona

I think you should add to the high school list, QuanticIllusion, and potentially QuanticHawk who just graduated afaik

WikidSik

Canada382 Posts

June 16 2012 00:22 GMT

#35

I also want to add another reason why we have baby elephants: pro vods right from the get go. Why does this matter you ask? For me personally sc2 made soo much more sense once I started to watch pro games because they are in english. I mean sure you could analyze those BW vods but its really REALLY helps to get the insight of skilled players. The koreans had pro games to watch and listen to in their own language right from the get go as well, while we only got that for the first time with Tasteless at the GOM Invitational (afaik). Sure there were people on youtube, but they werent as good as commentators because they high ranking players like the Plott bros or Gretorp. Also I know people have been casting the US qualifiers in the stadiums live, but not as many people get to see it at once, and afaik those casters werent good (until tasteless came along) (and im talking about way back in 2001 or something). Honestly I believe having these tournies in english has really helped the NA scene.