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Bisutopia19300 Posts
I feel awesome! I'm reaching one of the happiest times in my life. Yesterday I have officially interviewed a person from North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. The experience has been once in a life time. I'm making friends with so many foreign starcraft players from Chile, Bulgaria, Hungary, Germany, Russia, and more. I can't even pick favorites because each one of them has provided me with so much insight!
Last night I spent two and a half hours interviewing a Korean Pro player  Feat whose interview will be on Teamliquid soon. Even though there was a language barrier it allowed me to reconnect with an old korean high school friend who helped mediate the whole thing. Now I have gained two good friends and insight into other peoples lives. I took a guy who I knew and showed him the whole world of starcraft. Now he's asking me who the next player we can interview is. And that's the best part! I have under my list (already confirmed) of people when I get back from my vacation next week, beast,  Killer, by.hero, Soulkey, BeSt, PerfectMan, Jaedong(possibly), Sonic (the caster of SSL), and a few more in the works. This is only happening at the result of not just hard work but extreme passion and hunger to do more for the starcraft community.
Who am I? That's a question the I hope TL-ers have to ask less and less. But here's a break down of what I've done for TL lately
1. I run liquibet Brood War edition
2. I have been the official interviewer of the Teamliquid Legacy Starleague
3. I rebroadcast the Sonic Starleague every weekend at the nearest available time
4. I run as many LR threads as possible for gambit cup and now actualy Live Report every Brood War tournament game I am available for.
5. I donate to news as much as possible through any korean contacts I have
6. I add liquipedia information when I have the time
and the list is goes on! This is a list that I will grow and take on more responsibilities. And even though I feel burned out so often between a full time job and TL and a girlfriend, I watch just a single game of Brood War and start feeling motivated to start getting more shit done.
I'm no where near a quarter of where I want to be. And at the end of every day I say to myself, did I do everything I possibly could to contribute to Starcraft? I can't promise anything in the future because it's hard to meet the kind of promises I want to make, but on days where I start to get lazy I realize that there are so many other staff members on TL that are working as hard if not harder then me. And I can always rely on them to get their part done. I only work closely with the Brood War staff but I mean, they all have jobs or school or something else in their lives that they have to deal with but still continually make sure content is provided in a timely manner and the results are showing.
2k, 2 thousand people! That's the number of people watching the TLS on Saturday. If all 2,000 contribute a single post to the LR threads we spend time making then they would easily compete in page numbers with SC2. But it's not through laziness that people don't talk there. The twitch chatroom is so lively and full of great people engaged in discussion that everyone is having to much fun and distracted to visit the LR thread for anything other then results. But anyone reading this I implore you to make a post so I don't feel so lonely posting in their for 3 pages worth of comments on my own.
The blog is the ultimate "in your face world I'm f-ing happy" block of text I can write. You know I almost get teary eyed when I think about the many hardships this community and this game has gone through to make it this far. And I'm so hopefull. Talking with Feat has reassured me that Starcraft 1 is only in it's beginning stages and that there's so much to expect in the future. Well, I was there in its first beginning and I did nothing but sit by and watch it. But not this time. The 2nd era of Brood War is upon us and I'm going to be every bit a part of making it succeed.
This is just a final thank you to all the foreign starcraft players who have been busting their asses and have been showing some many great games and to the Brood War staff for taking me in and showing me what it takes to be a passionate contributor, you all are amazingly hard workers. Thank you!
  
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Magic Woods9326 Posts
Thanks for doing stuff ^_^
I didn't know you contributed to Liquipedia. Haven't seen you yet o_o
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Bisutopia19300 Posts
On March 13 2013 20:53 Epoxide wrote:
Thanks for doing stuff ^_^
I didn't know you contributed to Liquipedia. Haven't seen you yet o_o
I got my coin! (see bottom right corner  ) It's only been a few things on foreigner profiles. But I have a bunch of content I'm about to add to it on several players. I'm trying to build biographies for players and then I'm going to put them up.
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You and all the other awesome people that are contributing to BW these days (not going to name names because I'm bound to leave out someone - there's so many!) are really making BW's revival a reality. Thanks!
I'm also really enjoying your rebroadcasts of the SSL - please keep it up! :D
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Thanks man for all the effort. Though I'm not a BW fan (not that I dislike it but rather never got involved in it) I can appreciate the work you are doing.
For a second I saw the interviews and was like hmm done that but then saw the other list and felt  . Guess we have to improve ourselves to improve the community.
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I actually wanted to say elsewhere, but you're sure good at what you do. Any chance of negotiating a 1v1 on Tossgirl for me? Or even better, Nada?
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Bisutopia19300 Posts
On March 13 2013 23:40 Stratos wrote:
I actually wanted to say elsewhere, but you're sure good at what you do. Any chance of negotiating a 1v1 on Tossgirl for me? Or even better, Nada?
Haha, you know what tossgirl may be in my network. I'll see if I get to her through by.hero. That'd be pretty ground breaking. Now I have a challenge when I get back next week
edit: lol I actually may be able to contact her tonight! I'll get ahold of my translator this could get cool!
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Tell her to answer Hyeon's community questions first. Dodgegirl 
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Bisutopia19300 Posts
On March 14 2013 01:19 GeckoVOD wrote:Tell her to answer Hyeon's community questions first. Dodgegirl
True that. I'll have the questions translated and send them to her.
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I remember tuning in to one of your casts about 1 or possibly 2 months ago; I had zero expectations when I first clicked on your stream, figuring I'd watch just about anything BW-related for 15 minutes or so while I had a late night snack. I ended up watching till you went off air, and as a direct result of this I got about 4 or 5 hours of sleep that night...
I don't remember the viewer count, I think it was fairly low, but I do remember having lively chat-conversations with 6-7 of the active viewers, with you pitching in your opinion every now and then. It was an absolute blast, I can't even remember what tournament it was or who the players were, but I know for sure that I had a great time watching it
That wasn't strictly related to this blog, but reading through it made me remember the first cast of yours that I saw, so I thought I'd share that with you anyways ^^
OH BY THE WAY, THAT LIST OF INTERVIEWEE'S IS FUCKING AWESOME!! I honestly think it's awesome enough to warrant a whole sentence in caps lock. Like seriously. It's just ... awesome.
I mean, Feat's interview was really interesting, and I hadn't even hard (edit: I swear to god, I meant to type *heard* here) of that guy till his name showed up for the SSL8. I'm thinking since all the other names you mentioned in this blog are in fact well known to me, those interviews have an even greater potential for being fun and interesting to read. Looking forward to seeing those!
I actually need to go shower and take care of other real life-stuff now, but thanks for being awesome. I'm sure I'm not the only one who appreciates all the stuff you've done for the community lately, and a "thank you" from some random dude on the internet might not count for much, but it's still the least I can do.
Thank you.
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Awsome man thank for ur hard work and dedication, communities never really die off, only the junk is filtered with quality peple.
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People like you are keeping our community alive.
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United States11393 Posts
I don't see "Creep Roffles" anywhere in that list.
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Bisutopia19300 Posts
On March 14 2013 09:04 Harem wrote:
I don't see "Creep Roffles" anywhere in that list.
There could be a whole seperate blog for that.
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I see you're not interviewing any terrans .. hurrdurr :D :D :D
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It's very reassuring to see that there are still dedicated, motivated and competent people ready to spend their free time catering to needs of us BW hungry nerds
Thank you!
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