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Negative thanks to Epocalypse because WHY ARE YOU STILL HERE?? GO THE FUCK AWAY!!

I first discovered bw in the fifth grade when I went to a summer camp where you could learn computer programming. A fair amount of computer games got played as this camp, as well, and bw was a big new thing. My favorite unit was the scout. Once I played a three-player game, where the other two people attacked each other and ignored me. Luckily, I was terrible. The terran player attacked the other protoss and killed him with nukes. I was happy making my base - I believe I had a handful of zealots and some scouts. The terran attacked with a some battlecruisers, and we traded. My base was in bad shape. The terran had all the map, and was producing battlecruisers out of about 10 starports. He was sending waves of battlecruisers at me on a-move, and I was defending with some scouts and dragoons, but I couldn't keep up. Then I had a master plan! I teched to storm, which I had never researched before, and managed to kill several waves of battlecruisers with the aid of the spell. The terran mined out and I was able to restart scout production, fly over to his starports, and take them out. gg noob. I was extremely pleased with myself for cleverly grasping victory from the jaws of defeat. I showed the replay to the camp counselor.

When the camp ended I decided I needed to have starcraft. My mom took me to best buy or whatever place, and at first she was pretty worried because it was rated "T" for "Teen." She asked the guy who was working there if it was appropriate for me to have. He told her that it was pretty much the best game ever and that she should definitely let me have it. Thanks, best buy guy! you rock!

I didn't have great internet so I couldn't really play online much. I remember playing a lot of "7v1 compstomp" games, but a lot of times the other guys would team up and attack me. Lame. I played the campaign several times through, and I played a lot of customs against the computer. I liked to play island maps, and make a bunch of guardians or carriers and a lot of cannons on my island so I was safe, and then go on the offensive.

What I'm trying to say is that I was basically a master strategist from the beginning.

When I got to college I was sitting around with some guys I met there and we got started reminiscing about starcraft and decided to have a lan party. None of us really knew how to play, although we had fond memories from childhood. We played 2v2 games and I was by far the best, so my team always won (scouts are good yo). Then someone said "did you know that in Korea, people play this game on television?" I had no idea. He showed me a video of boxer scv rushing some zerg on this tiny map. I was totally dumbfounded. The idea of doing such a thing in a game of starcraft had never even occurred to me. I didn't really understand the concept of a "build" or anything other than building up a bunch of units and then moving out when you felt like you had a good posse together.

I went home for winter break that year and was bored. I decided to look for some of this starcraft on television discovered the Avaratec-Intel Classic seasons 1-3, and spent several days straight watching the games (which loaded slowly and could not be advanced beyond the part which had already been loaded, and if you clicked just a bit to far it froze - urrrrgh). I was totally amazed! How could such a thing be?! tasteless and superdanielman's explanations of what the players were doing made me think about the game in a way which was infinitely more complex than I'd ever imagined possible. and of course that's how I found teamliquid.