EPT1 - Greg Meadows - TeamLiquid Attack with Idra
IdrA's name is Greg Fields. A meadow is somewhat similar to a field. Therefore, Greg Meadows. SuperiorWolf played IdrA in 2008 on TL Attack, which was a variation of the Korean show Battle.net Attack in which a pro player would play a variety of random players. I was on ventrilo with SuperiorWolf as he tried to beat IdrA, and when it became clear he wasn't going to win, he started to spam GREG MEADOWS in chat in an attempt to make IdrA pick me for his next match.
Below is a link to the TL Attack. You can hear Chill's deadpan narration, "SuperiorWolf continually spamming Greg Meadows for some unknown reason."
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Here's another hilarious comment from Chill, "GregMeadows this better be an incredible game for all the people you've had spamming for you all day." SuperiorWolf was the only one who was spamming it at first, but the fact that he did it with such insistence encouraged other people to do it too. It worked out and I got my game with IdrA.
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The match begins and I chose Longinus as the map. I'm a Protoss player, IdrA is a Terran player. Longinus was a unique map in that it didn't have much of a choke into your natural or your main, and both locations were on the lowground. The reason I chose this map is because there was a particular build you could do on some maps called the 10/15 gate - in which you would wind up with a large number of ranged dragoons at a deceptively fast time. You had to cut probes to do it, so it was risky, but on a map where there isn't a small choke or high ground, it was very strong: youtu.be
Long story short - the attack was very successful, I did a good amount of damage and had I micro'd better I perhaps could have won the game, but I was very nervous because there was a large audience and my stupid gambit was actually paying off. I was listening to the stream while I played and at one point IdrA is asked, 'What's the skill level do you think of GregMeadows?' and IdrA complimented me saying that the build was smart and my micro was decent. Upon hearing this I immediately shit the bed and played very poorly - leading to IdrA commenting near the end of the game that it turns out I actually wasn't good at all, haha.
2 - Suppy's Bad Manners - TeamLiquid Attack with InControl
SuperiorWolf was fairly well known as he was a young boy on YouTube that did BroodWar commentaries with a lot of prepubescent enthusiasm - as such, he scored another appearance on TL Attack, this time against InControl. InControl is a Zerg player, but was playing Protoss against Suppy. I'm a Protoss player, and I don't know much, but one thing I do know is some annoying shit that Zerg players can do to Protoss. I was on ventrilo with SuperiorWolf for his game, telling him where InControl's units and buildings were and what to do. SuperiorWolf wound up winning and I told him it would be funny to make a commentary on the win: www.youtube.com
I told Suppy it would be funny if he made a very sarcastic commentary where he bragged about what a great win it was. Of course, the actual game itself is just Suppy making a lot of speedlings and trying to be as cheesey as possible, but that was a charm. After this commentary came out, someone made a post about the video and how Suppy was badmannering InControl. InControl posted in the thread about how it wasn't a great game, SuperiorWolf cheesed him, and he had a lot of nerve making a commentary about it. At that point he hadn't watched the video and later on he did and admitted it was just a stupid video that a 12 year old made for some fun.
The funny thing is between the first and second post of InControl's where he sees it's just a joke, SuperiorWolf was legit pissed off at me because I told him it would be a funny video and now InControl, someone he respected thought he was an asshole. Of course later on when SuperiorWolf became a foreign pro for Starcraft II he was on EG - the same team as InControl.
3 - TeamLiquid vs SC2GG Showmatch
As a perpetual C level Protoss player, TeamLiquid's strategy section was usually out of my depth - I didn't have a lot of valuable information to contribute, even though I wanted to. SC2GG was a fairly new website - it's gimmick was that it was going to prepare for the influx of new players that SC2 would bring, but in the meantime, it catered to Brood War players. I moderated the strategy forum on SC2GG and as such, was considered 'staff'.
Although not much of a rivalry in terms of userbase - I think a lot of people on SC2GG viewed TeamLiquid as elitist, and some at TeamLiquid viewed SC2GG as a joke. At some point a showmatch between the staff at both sites was organized. I can remember the thread in the staff section of the SC2GG forum - going over who TeamLiquid was going to send out. Amount them were Rage and Chill - who I think were both B or B- on iCCup. Psyonic Reaver was going to play versus Rage, but they didn't have anyone to play versus Chill.
The last match was going to be Chill vs a SC2GG staff member on Andromeda - which is a non-standard map in it's layout. Chill was considered by the staff to be the best player and they asked if I would play him - no one else wanted to do it, especially not on Andromeda. I agreed and practiced about 60 PvZ's on Medusa on iCCup versus C+ Zerg's to try and get ready.
The first problem was that PvZ on Andromeda can be difficult. I wasn't a very good Protoss to begin with - C+ at the time - and most of the pro games I watched on the map utilized corsair / reaver - which seemed like a bad idea for a player of my skill. Ultimately I settled on just playing a normal PvZ and seeing where it took me.
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What followed was a total collapse. As odd as it sounds - I had not really ever seen someone play the type of game that Chill did. The games I played on Andromeda, the Zerg would either go for mutalisks or hydralisks - and it was clear which one it was. What Chill did was this type of build: wiki.teamliquid.net
That style of play was new to me at the time - it was either something that was newly developing and hadn't been adopted by C+ Zerg players on the ladder yet, or just C+ players I played weren't using it. I scouted Chill making a spire after three hatcheries and started to prepare for mutalisks by making dragoons - instead, Chill just went into hydralisk. My confusion at what he was doing combined the nerves of playing in front of a large audience resulted in the game I played.
When the show-match happened, Yaqoob was at my house. There was a stream delay, so when I typed 'gg' and left, Yaqoob was still watching on his laptop with his headphones on. I turned around and his back was to me as he watched a few more minutes until he saw that I had conceded on the stream. Yaqoob takes off his headset, turns around and looks at me. Then he says, "Man.. Chill raped you, eh?" Thanks, Yaqoob hahaha.
After the game I got some pretty brutal comments and PMs - the thread of the showmatch is still up and you can see the aftermath: www.teamliquid.net. Later on in a Toronto meet-up I got to play Chill again in a rematch on Chupung-Ryeong. Chill won but it was a good game and I was happy to have somewhat redeemed myself- although no one besides a few Canadians saw it.
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And that's it! With SC:Remastered coming out I hope there will be an influx of new people, both to the game and to the site. For veterans of the site though it's fun to look back - here's to another 10 years.
