One day my as I was eating a chocolate chip cookie my little brother says to me "You know there are actual Pro starcraft players in korea?"
My first reaction was wait... ACTUAL pros? Like for a living?? And he said yes. Now, about a year and a half later, I am totally into the pro scene.
Anyways I know a bunch of people here have been into SC way longer than me, so...how did you get to know about the korean scene? Were you here from the beginning? did your little brother look up youtube videos?

arb

Noobville17921 Posts

July 07 2008 19:33 GMT

I got shown a video of nal_ra defending a six pool with a probe line i think..

Chef

10810 Posts

July 07 2008 19:37 GMT

My older brother downloaded this program that let you view them like when the scene first started taking off.. many many years ago... That's when I knew it existed.

I started getting into it when I joined a forum for mapping.

DamageControL

United States4222 Posts

July 07 2008 19:40 GMT

On July 08 2008 04:37 PsycHOTemplar wrote:
My older brother downloaded this program that let you view them like when the scene first started taking off.. many many years ago... That's when I knew it existed.

I started getting into it when I joined a forum for mapping.

Oh how long ago was that?

lololol

5198 Posts

July 07 2008 19:42 GMT

I was google searching for starcraft sites.

Chill

Calgary25980 Posts

July 07 2008 19:47 GMT

Slayers vs I_LOVE_STAR on broodwar.com @ KBK Masters

Holylight

Korea (South)460 Posts

July 07 2008 19:48 GMT

Hm I started following progaming in 2002-2003 and around the beginning of 2002 I was watching replays of pros like Nada, TheMarine, Boxer and I had only played fastest up until then and thought "low-money" maps (I love how hardcore fastest map players regarded these maps as inferior to the fastest maps) were silly and retarded lol

for some reason i found teamliquid and the rest is history as they say

DamageControL

United States4222 Posts

July 07 2008 19:48 GMT

pft...oldschoolers

KwarK

United States42685 Posts

July 07 2008 19:50 GMT

I was a gg.net regular and one day Mani posted a guide to some program which allowed you to watch korean tv and therefore progames. I thought it looked pretty cool but I couldn't work out how to make it work. I went to tl to find out and never looked back.

goldenkrnboi

United States3104 Posts

July 07 2008 20:03 GMT

#10

i saw starcraft on tv while i was at korea and thought that was the best thing ever.

i died away from the progaming scene for a bit, and then i went to korea again a few years later and i watched the game where TL members appeared live on TV (I remember it was a nal_ra game. :D)

i've been here since.

Fen

Australia1848 Posts

July 07 2008 20:11 GMT

#11

Clicked on an advertised link to WCG once. Then stumbled across the vods of professional starcraft. First game I ever watched was Foru vs Midas at I think was the 2004 WCG. Blew me away and I went out searching for more.

blabber

United States4448 Posts

July 07 2008 20:13 GMT

#12

I've really only heard of Boxer, nc yellow, nada, and nal_ra in the early days. I knew progaming existed for a long time. It was only until last year's WWI tournament where SC2 was announced that I started following the scene. And yes, when I first saw those games, I had no idea who savior and bisu were

Showtime!

Canada2938 Posts

July 07 2008 20:22 GMT

#13

I got into Starcraft pro gaming right when Grrrr first hit the scene, but it feels like I've been playing for ages. My best friend got me into Warcraft 2. He clicked on all the units about 50 times to show me the funny audio and then I realized there was a lot more to these games other than the comedy! That's what made me a Blizzard junkie. Anyway, I got my first copy of Starcraft when it first came out and haven't turned away ever since :D

trollbone

France1905 Posts

July 07 2008 20:45 GMT

#14

I knew about Boxer ---> when youtube was appearing i typed Starcraft ---> i saw a bunker rush by Boxer (the 1st video of Violetak) --> i watcehd all his videos ---> there was one link to teamliquid so i decided to give it a try --> and now i'm here !

gotwater

United States179 Posts

July 07 2008 20:47 GMT

#15

boxer's pimpest plays

Emptyness

Bulgaria1016 Posts

July 07 2008 20:55 GMT

#16

I found out about SC korean pro scene when I first watched Boxer vs [BG]DIDI8 on LT at some WCG - dunno which though

AcrossFiveJulys

United States3612 Posts

July 07 2008 20:57 GMT

#17

someone showed me a replay of TheMarine tank pushing, and I was like omg, he has 6 factories and he makes so many tanks and vultures! I used to think vultures were useless. Then I became a terran player for awhile and started showing off my skillz to my $map buddies.

Kwidowmaker

Canada978 Posts

July 07 2008 20:59 GMT

#18

I think it was pimpest plays that I really saw first. Some of them were so amasing especially the three marines that killed two lurkers.

Oh, and TL I found through a link to SC stuff on GameReplays. I found GR looking for strategies for CnC ZH. I found CnC ZH competitive play through Pure Pwnage episode 3, I believe. It's the one where he's raping China with a tech rpg (for those that know what that means

)

fusionsdf

Canada15390 Posts

July 07 2008 21:09 GMT

#19

I got starcraft in 2006 and went looking for melee maps

that search led me here (somehow, since tl didnt even have maps)

progaming followed naturally

ii.blitzkrieg

Canada1122 Posts

July 07 2008 21:13 GMT

#20

Myself and a bunch of hs friends started playing for fun again in uhh late 05 early 06, and I wanted to get better so I googled some stuff about sc.

Ended up finding an interview by tasteless with rA at wwi 05 i believe and shortly after found TL/wgt/pgt etc. At first I just lurked and read the strategy forum but I ended up following the proscene and watching live matches shortly after.

It amazed me people were still playing tournaments for money at that time. I had played a lot at my friend's house in 99-2000 and didn't get my own computer until 03 so I had no idea anything like that existed.