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I was procrastinating and still am when I came across this gem of a story when I got curious about Nick Plott's (Tasteless) starting years in Brood War:
"Plott and his younger brother Sean bought a copy of StarCraft from a local video game store in 1998 after hearing about the game's popularity. The brothers would watch each other play while offering gameplay advice. They played casually online, but were hampered by a slow Internet connection. The Plott brothers visited a nearby Internet café where they would meet players about five years older who would play and beat them. This loss and the ensuing trash-talk were an early inspiration for the brothers to hone their skills, though they never returned to the café."
Just imagine having the same experience as Day9 and Tasteless meeting and playing teenagers who trash talked over starcraft today. I don't think that's a thing. This probably is one of the best leaving in the dust stories because Day9 and Tasteless did go on to be competitive gamers playing at WCG against some of the top players like Xellos and fr0z and Day9 himself grew to be a prominent figure in Brood War and sc2 today as a caster and strategy analyst. Tasteless became a foreign caster providing english commentary for Gom TV on pro Korean matches and is still a recognized caster alongside Artosis casting sc2.
This goes right next to the time Boxer went from an unemployed video game lover to video game professional when e-sports was still very new.. Boxer never ended up getting the number one ladder ranking on the Asia server since the top player was an "abuser" who refused to play any more games to retain his number one ranking. Nevertheless, it's safe to say Boxer was far beyond number one on the asia server.
I haven't had these feelings of old time nostalgia since I last read Boxer's autobiography or the time I read Psyonic_Reaver's autobiography about his life casting and running a successful podcast. I was wondering if anyone else had similar stories?
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I never actually watched that National Geographic documentary until about 2 years ago, and it just brought me wa~y back.
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I dunno if I have the kinds of stories you are thinking of, but I have plenty of good memories of LANs, late nights watching PL/TSL2/etc., and skype calls discussing the awesome game that is BW
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I have some fond memories of the game, but not sure if it'd fit in here. Two revolve one of my oldest allys and what he did when we met up for LANs. First story of his involves hippies, a bottle of Absinth and the rest of the clan desperately trying to find him via mobile phone, text messages and emails, the other one has something to do with the 1 FCN Nürnberg hooligans and his problems to understand Southern German soccer traditions, which very nearly could have gotten our group in serious problems. From more recent history, the meet up with my former ICCup pro-translator Sascha in München and learning how bad I am at playing cards (you are fuck you card gamer!).
There'd also be memories to participate actively in trying to boost Brood War GIGA Rankings during a LAN via mass gaming offline, BWCL Admin NoMaK's statements at a very small LAN explaining why "Prodaktors" suck and the baffled looks he got for it, wuT)Anfall's stories about wuT, Schnibl0r and other incidents when meeting the Brood War fanatics at the Bodensee - and prolly tons of smaller issues of staff funsies at broodwar.de. However, there are also downs, e.g. realizing I was in the same clan and tried to teach one of my allies who later became infamous and is the reason several non-eSport people connect ExVods to German right wing extremists.
It's mostly the small things you remember for a long time. E.g. some freshly registered user thanking for advice (and saying he even printed out guides), or your Dutch clan ally "casting" games at the biggest German LAN - with casting meaning repeatedly stopping to move the screen and instead stare on a girl's ass. Or how I got beaten to a pulp by my favourite caster on the only live casted game of mine with more than 300 viewers. That's when I gave up on training I guess.
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1999 till 2005. Had a really great time and some great memories! I will never forget all the drama being part of the big clan leagues BWCL and WGTCL.
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