EPTA bit about my background. I come from a mixed RTS/FPS background in which I grew up with Age of Empires 2 (although I wasn't very good at it, why need more than one barracks, seriously?) and Counter Strike. So when Starcraft 2 came out, I didn't pay much attention. A lot of my friends bought the game, but I passed.
At some point, I was feeling bored and decided to check out Huskystarcraft and HD. Both are well known youtube casters that my friend said were very solid. So I checked it out, and I thought that SCII looked pretty cool (I watched an Incontrol video where he made a lot of collo, and I thought those units were awesome). It was only later on I bought Starcraft, around August 2011 or so with the intention of just playing team games. I was wrong. However, after opening the box, I instantly hopped into campaign and played my way through Terran. And then my friends told me about famous players such as IdrA.
And thus began my first love, for IdrA. Yes, I used to be an IdrA fanboy. I first started to hate him because of his personality or whatever, wanting him to lose. But then later on I didn't care about his attitude or that he was BM or whatever. What I loved was his play style. A macro-oriented playstyle in which he would take so many bases and just dominate anything any player threw at him. Where he would just drone, and yet have so much stuff which destroyed Terrans alike. Being a bronze level noob, I loved it. Where he would have seemingly that much stuff. So I watched every youtube video I could find of him
But it wasn't to last...
Zerg later started to become monotonous. I felt that Zerg was pretty OP with my epic macro for Diamond level and my abuse of ling/bling/muta against Terrans. I was first amazed at how good Terrans began when I found out about teamliquid.net, gomtv and tournament streams. The first ever stream I watched was IEM, which happened to be Startale'Bomber verses IdrA.
It was on the map metalopolis, in which Bomber lost. But that wasn't what amazed me. I believe it was day9 that was casting, and Bomber decided to go nuts and go mass marine/medivac vs IdrA. He would throw army after army at IdrA, expanding behind it and somehow every single damn time he lost an army, he would have another already waiting at home about to charge. I was in love. I thought it was so freaking awesome that Bomber would have that much stuff, almost unseen from me seeing IdrA pwn Terrans over and over. But Bomber split awesomely well, and threw army after army to no avail. Alas, he perished. But already, I was beginning to see the light.
After two more weeks of playing Zerg, I decided to switch to Terran. It made sense. I had stopped watching Zerg streams, instead watching any and all Terrans that did. Tournaments, I watched guys like MMA, Boxer, NaDa, SelecT, MKP showcase supreme skill in playing Terran. Suddenly it wasn't the Terran getting stomped. It was Terran showing the full range of their arsenal, their versatility and skill in defeating huge amounts of zergs, or the mythical protoss. And I lapped it all up, making the jump that I never could with Zerg. I made GM, on the backs of these awesome Terrans.
But, like all love stories, sometimes your focus shifts. I walked away from Bomber. MarineKing's flashier style drew me in, his quirky unorthodox builds and his amazing control, the way in which he played with such flair and finesse. It seemed like a brighter side to Terran, than the standard Bomber, who seemingly would do the same thing and yet kill his opponents. And then the unthinkable happened. GSL, Bomber vs MKP.
I was torn. Who do I cheer for? The one who first inspired me to be a Terran in Bomber? Or the one who I modelled my playstyle on now in MKP. In the end my love for Bomber won out. And I realised something. No matter what style I play, or what phases I go through. I will always go back to the player who inspired me to switch to Terran. The one who I also choose to model my playstyle on, the one who seemingly does the exact same damn thing every TvP and yet still stomp face. I will cheer for Bomber over anyone. Taeja, MKP, MMA, I would choose Bomber to advance instead of them if they played.
And it's not easy being a Bomber fan. He's inconsistent and hell, streaky. Full of brilliance, yet seemingly crushed the next game. And he just got knocked out of GSL. But it doesn't matter.
Because, as long as he plays, I will cheer for Bomber.
Bomber Fighting!
