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I think I played a game of DoTA 2 with IdrA before

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BreAKerTV
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
Taiwan1658 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-01-25 09:10:36
January 25 2016 09:09 GMT
#1
This is kinda one of those, "Ya know, now that I think of it..." blogs. Or maybe, "Could it have been him?" sorts of blogs.

Alright, so, flash back to the day when IdrA announced he was leaving Starcraft (February 2014). This was about that time that I was casting Starcraft 2 from my family's garage in America.

Oh, right, but let's quote the closing paragraph of that post on TL first:
I'll be going back to school. I have no plans to stream dota, or any other game right now, as I get very few viewers for it and I feel dumb inviting people to watch me be bad at something. It is possible I'll stream other games in the future, or be involved with esports in general if something interesting and practical pops up, but for the time being that's it for me. Thank you all.

I remember CatZ playing DotA 2 with IdrA before on stream.

So, how did this game begin with me and the gracken (assuming this was the real gracken). I heard him open up his voice comms in the game, and then I said, "You sound like a Starcraft 2 pro named IdrA." There was a short silence, then another teammate said on voice, "Who? Me?" Then, assuming it was the real IdrA, he then jutted in saying, "He was probably talking about me." But it really sounded like him all the way through.

I was streaming at that time, but I didn't export the highlight of that days stream. A friend of mine was watching at the time though, and I started trolling this guy who sounded like IdrA as we were losing the game. You know, the old-coined stuff like "On a scale of 1 to IdrA how mad are you?". I could probably go digging through my match history on DoTA 2, but am I going to be able to hear the audio from a game of DoTA 2 played almost 2 years ago now? Can I even play that replay?

I remember when QxC came to Taiwan that summer, I told him about it, And I was just like, "You know, looking back, that could have been the real IdrA. I feel like such a douche now." It didn't occur to me at all at the time I was in that game that it could have been the real IdrA.

This is just something I wanted to get off my chest.

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Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Bearded Elder29905 Posts
January 25 2016 12:26 GMT
#2
I rememeber I've played against CatZ and co in DotA2 long time ago. I've jungled with Furion, had a great vision and read on his movements (he was jungling with Axe) and multiply tp ganked him when he was very low on HP. Called me hacker a lot of times :D

iirc it was CatZ and Drewbie :D
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Cascade
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
Australia5405 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-01-25 12:49:35
January 25 2016 12:48 GMT
#3
Well, it IS possible to figure it out.
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Did he leave without gg as soon as you started to lose?


I played a desert strike against Thorzain at a certain point, and I also assumed it was someone smurfing (although I reacted to how accurate the team-tag and capitalisation was), so I started commenting on it, poking a bit fun. But he reacted nicely and calmly, so I didn't take it too far, as it wasn't fun any more.

After the game I checked his game history, and it was full of custom games with other names from his team at the time, and they were all ranked very high on the ladder. Oops. :o

I tried to send a message to him to apologise, but he had his communication blocked from public of course.
Endymion
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States3701 Posts
January 25 2016 14:15 GMT
#4
way back during the first days of sc2 WOL beta i matched up vs tasteless... we chatted about how awesome his gom bw casts were, as he was fking proxying me on desert oasis... (for those who have forgotten the map, see below)

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Have you considered the MMO-Champion forum? You are just as irrational and delusional with the right portion of nostalgic populism. By the way: The old Brood War was absolutely unplayable
Cascade
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
Australia5405 Posts
January 25 2016 14:48 GMT
#5
He wasn't kidding when he talked about stealing ladder points it seems...
Cele
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Germany4016 Posts
January 26 2016 00:00 GMT
#6
haha desert Oasis, oh my god that map was so ridiculous :D The memories..
Broodwar for life!
danl9rm
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States3111 Posts
January 26 2016 01:15 GMT
#7
I played the crap out of that map...

I remember qxc doing a 1-base banshee rush (when builds like that were unthinkable) vs toss. It worked.

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joshie0808
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Canada1024 Posts
January 26 2016 18:41 GMT
#8
Yo desert oasis.. taking your nat as protoss vs speedling openers (the most common opener at the time) was near impossible. But then again, as protoss, we 4 gated in every match up back then so no need for an expo.
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