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SoupDuJour
Profile Joined April 2008
Netherlands3 Posts
April 08 2008 22:52 GMT
#21
Really fun to read

(commenting on both part 7 and 8 at the same time, as i've just read them in succession)

Kinda scary, just living from day to day, not knowing if you have any cash to live from the next week, but I guess it all adds to the excitement. :D

And tbh (about part 7), I think the western version of progaming (with Counterstrike, CPL and such...you know...) also had its fair share of dodgy managers/scamtastic tournament organizers etc. It's not something that's unique to Korea by any means. Where money is, you'll always find scumbags. But I'm glad that Korea actually seems to be getting "over it" a little, at least at the top level. I guess it's always gonna be up to players to watch out for themselves.

I wonder if it's easier or harder nowadays for talented aspiring Korean progamers to break through into the bigtime TV broadcasted stuff, compared to the time you are describing... (Are there more or less opportunities? I could see stuff being more organized now, but the group of "elite" players is probably pretty established, might be hard to break into it?)

Anyways, keep the stories coming. :D
Dont count your zerglings before they are hatched...
Boonbag
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
France3318 Posts
April 08 2008 23:56 GMT
#22
It's different. I think that life style wise it's easier. Skill and game wise its harder. Pro teams are much more structured and so are the ways and paths that lead to them. Chaotic lifestyle isn't prerequisite any more I guess.

However, burning yourself at Starcraft is even more required than before.

Just think that today's league winners, such as Flash, Bisu, Jaedong prolly started playing Starcraft around 8 to 10 years old and grew up with the game.

These kids are brainwashed and turned into fucking gaming machines. That wasn't the same back then.
GogoKodo
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Canada1785 Posts
April 09 2008 01:46 GMT
#23
These are awesome, like some of the posters above I check every day to see if you have something new!
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kawoq
Profile Joined November 2005
Guatemala357 Posts
April 09 2008 01:56 GMT
#24
I really enjoy your blog, great reading, keep the good writing
"It is not a shameful thing to be unable to reach the goal. It's becoming afraid and running away, even before considering the fact that the road is long and rough, that is truly cowardly." by - Lim Yo Hwan aka SlayerS_Boxer from "Crazy as me"
Tusk
Profile Joined February 2007
Canada427 Posts
April 09 2008 03:12 GMT
#25
You just loved the game and it went from there!
Breavman
Profile Joined September 2004
Sweden598 Posts
April 09 2008 09:40 GMT
#26
This blog might be the best Starcraft-related stuff I've ever read. I love how you describe the old pro gaming with the combination of misery and beauty.
.MistiK
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Netherlands347 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-04-09 15:07:52
April 09 2008 15:04 GMT
#27
I love your blogs man. Already waiting for the next one
teamsolid
Profile Joined October 2007
Canada3668 Posts
April 09 2008 22:01 GMT
#28
Awesome read as always. I have a question. How big was Starcraft in the eyes of the general public at the time? Would any random stranger you find on the street consider it to be a real E-Sport or just a time-waster for kids?
Boonbag
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
France3318 Posts
April 09 2008 22:21 GMT
#29
Neither one thing or another. It was just "starcraft". They knew the game, most knew pro gamers existed. You'd get recognition from youngsters and from 25 to mid thirties men mostly. Rest didn't really care I guess. It was just "popular".
LuMiX
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
China5757 Posts
April 09 2008 22:42 GMT
#30
finally caught up to this blog...very fun to read
snowbird
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
Germany2044 Posts
April 10 2008 07:28 GMT
#31
great read as always

still believe this is the best blog on TL.net, it surely deserves more views
@riotsnowbird
quirinus
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Croatia2489 Posts
April 10 2008 15:55 GMT
#32
10/5

really amazing story, and you write and describe it very well! :D
All candles lit within him, and there was purity. | First auto-promoted BW LP editor.
00Zarathustra
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
Bolivia419 Posts
April 13 2008 22:24 GMT
#33
Such a great blog!!!! I am amazed beacuse i have been following the Starcraft history since the beggining. The firts thing i knew about Starcraft was the KBK and how Slayer won it. I didnt know elky already played in korea those days. You are completing the dark sides of the history "files" i had. Plz continue to write, u already catch me so deep in the history that its like reading a novel.
GW. BTW the year was 2000 not 1999, i know because that was the year Slayer won the KBK and the year the WCG Challenge begun.
Zarathustra "You can't spell aNal_Rape without Nal_Ra"
TheSchwA
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
United States248 Posts
April 14 2008 01:59 GMT
#34
Really enjoying these blogs, keep em' coming.
ArtLu
Last Romantic
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States20661 Posts
April 14 2008 02:12 GMT
#35
Highly entertaining~
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.MistiK
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Netherlands347 Posts
April 15 2008 18:42 GMT
#36
can't wait for the next one
Boonbag
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
France3318 Posts
April 15 2008 19:23 GMT
#37
Tomorrow morning I hope. Been very busy. Sorry lads.
ulszz
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
Jamaica1787 Posts
April 16 2008 02:57 GMT
#38
i love these man, you're great!!
everliving, everfaithful, eversure
Kingsp4de20
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
United States716 Posts
April 21 2008 20:45 GMT
#39
cant wait to hear the next part of your story
foeffa
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Belgium2115 Posts
April 21 2008 22:07 GMT
#40
Awesome read, keep posting.
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