I got turned on to it through TL.net. No shit.

Just was looking around for starcraft replays years ago and found some here. Stuck around and now look what happened.

Quesadilla

United States1814 Posts

July 07 2008 22:06 GMT

#22

In 7th grade is when I found out about it.. I think in 2001, but when that Terran kid from Norway beat a Korean Zerg on Lost Temple. It was hosted on sclegacy.com when it still existed (or didn't suck). After that I was like "omg" and ripped off his LT strat because I played Terran at the time; but I didn't really get into the scene more than observing it. I made the stupidest mistake in the world and played Golems and Matrix and UMS crap all the way until about a year ago. I think what held me back is that I thought the pro-scene was unaccessible to foreigners, I used to look for ways to get in tournaments and things all of the time and couldn't find any. I played Quake 3 and CS 1.6 competitively instead.

Such a ridiculous waste. I could have been practicing 1:1 play for 7 years now, and I wasted 6 of them. 1998-2001 I just got owned by my uncle on dial-up in 4th grade, haha.

Mastermind

Canada7096 Posts

July 07 2008 22:28 GMT

#23

One day last october or november I decided to check out a link to a pro sc match just to see what it was like since I had played the game for a couple years when sc first came out. I watched the game and was absolutely blown away. It was shocking to me. What these players were able to do was so much beyond what I had ever thought was possible in sc. After watching that first game I ended up spending an entire weekend watching games on youtube and fell in love with sc all over again. I picked up sc after not playing on bnet for about 6 years and I am finally learning how to play the game properly. I use to think I was really good becasue I pwned at 3v3 BGH!!!! LOL

Elric

United Kingdom1327 Posts

July 07 2008 22:43 GMT

#24

I was in the middle of finals-revision when I procrastinated almost as much as I masturbated. During the former, I tried to Youtube Age of Empires 2 games (used to play that quite hardcore), found nothing. I then tried Warcraft 3... and got a few snorefests with Grubby, Moon etc.. Becoming desperate, I searched for Starcraft, thinking that no one still cared about the 10 year old POS.

I realised how wrong I was when the results page showed hundreds of videos from "VioleTAK" and "wifebeater" and even a couple of english commentary videos (these were golddust) by this dude called "Tasteless" (his WCGs) and a kid called "Superiorwolf"(!?!). Somewhere along here, I found teamliquid (possibly because of some Youtube troll called "teamliquidsucks" lol.)

Plexa

Aotearoa39261 Posts

July 07 2008 22:57 GMT

#25

Pusan!!

il0seonpurpose

Korea (South)5638 Posts

July 07 2008 23:20 GMT

#26

some guy installed sc when I was like 8 years old, then I went to korea, saw how big it was and was hooked. you can watch the videos on www.youtube.com/baezzi.

jimminy_kriket

Canada5525 Posts

July 07 2008 23:26 GMT

#27

I found gosugamers.net after searching for replays of testie.

Ra.Xor.2

United States1784 Posts

July 07 2008 23:38 GMT

#28

I found a couple Boxer highlight videos during a long train ride. I had played Starcraft for about a year before that (not very regularly), and thought, how the hell did he do that? I found a lot more videos and discovered some new commentators like Klazart who improved my love for the game tenfold as i was a newb back then and didn't know what the hell they were rly doing. Saw a couple of old games from progamers like Nal_ra and Garimo (my HEROS) and started playing again. Started actualy following the scene just as Savior's reign was ending.

o3.power91

Bahrain5288 Posts

July 07 2008 23:54 GMT

#29

I remember it very clearly. The video that had made me aware of SC Korean progaming. It was the video that had not only started my interest in progaming, but also my interest in SC.

I had been playing the game only for a short while, treating it like any other game, unaware that my 50 apm was low, when a friend of mine (the friend who had introduced me to the game), showed me a youtube video that would change my view on games.
Here it is:
+ Show Spoiler +

I watched that game wide eyed, not knowing what the fuck was going on. I had to have my friend explain to me what was happening. I was left confused, wondering how my regular games against my friends usually take 30-40 minutes wheras this game only took 5.

Ever since watching that video, I have been interested in SC progaming and started playing the game a lot more seriously than I had been. A while after I started playing UMS games mainly instead of 1v1s (I was never interested in fastest

). A year ago I had started playing 1v1 games again starting with my 50 apm, regreting ever switching to UMS

elias poncho

Canada157 Posts

July 08 2008 00:10 GMT

#30

I just started following it this past October. Came to teach in Korea and saw it was on 2 channels on tv pretty much all day every day. Then two friends of mine took me to see an OSL match last October and I've been watching it every night since.

ScarFace

United States1175 Posts

July 08 2008 00:31 GMT

#31

I watched some Starcraft video my friend set me, of some newbs. On the related tabs there was a pro game, so I watched it. I spent a few months just going from random game to random game, watching everyone play. At the time July was my fav pro gamer, and I mostly watched him. A little while later sc2 was announced, and I googled for a forum. I found team liquid. Kept watching pro gaming for a few months, and learned a few things. Then I dropped off for a long time, and came back. I'm watching more than I ever use too.

Manifesto7

Osaka27162 Posts

July 08 2008 00:39 GMT

#32

found it through broodwar.com, watched some VODs of Niza through that old zerg.kr site. Then found TL.

I remember being completely amazed when I saw the FP view of boxer's keyboard, and that short game vs zerg where he rapes the lurkers at 7 and defends at home as well. I didnt realize BW could be played like that.

NeverGG

United Kingdom5399 Posts

July 08 2008 00:40 GMT

#33

I got into progaming when I moved to S.Korea by watching Real Story progamer (KOR series) on Arirang. Then I went to a match at COEX's old MBC Hero Centre, met the OGN Sparkeyz team (formerly KOR) and got addicted to attending matches/photographing esports.

XCetron

5226 Posts

July 08 2008 01:08 GMT

#34

I been playing sc for years vs my friend who I could never beat, the guy was too ridiculously good all of a sudden. He always mentioned such ridiculous things as how 2siegetanks + dropship can own dragoons, and how 1 vulture could supposedly take out 20 zealots. He then mention something about boxer and then I youtubed some vid and was amazed. A few months later I ended up here.

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