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Last year might have been the start of something bigger than I have yet to realize. After reading Superiorwolf's blog about an "e-sports" club, I remembered what a close friend and I had done at our previous year of High School.
My Web Design teacher, also a PC Support teacher(sort of a PC hardware/Networking class my school offers), being the really great guy he is, allowed me and my friend to take all his spare parts and towers and what not and build him another computer lab. But our end of the bargain was that he HAD to allow us to LAN games if we had any free time(mostly after school), and only 1 game came to mind for me :D
With our 8 semi-shitty computers set up, we installed BW and put all maps on all 8 computers. Took a week of after school time to finish. But shit, it was so worth it.
You'd be surprised at how many people have heard of and played starcraft before at your school. It was so easy to round up some guys to come down after school. I just wished they were better, because they preferred UMS and fastest maps to non-money, and me being a C- protoss did not find that entertaining.
Anyway just wanted to tell people out there that there is hope for e-sports, and you can help spread it just by rounding up kids at school and playing a few games of BW.
My dream is to have Starcraft an actual sport, where you could go to another school and play it vs another team. Such an exciting fantasy... Too bad US is not Korea.
 
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Meh, no luck at my school. Pretty much everyone has either heard of starcraft or played it, just never above 25 APM.
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Hehe, I had something similar going at my school except I installed SC on all the school computers without any teacher's knowledge/consent. It took a damn long time, but a bunch of Koreans started showing up in my school library, it was pretty cool.
Also my school blocks students from accessing program files and using the run command, control panel, basically anything not already on the desktop. I had to find my way around that. But unfortunately, others caught on to what I was doing and installed Counter Strike. So now in the library there were me and the Koreans playing SC, and a bunch of Chinese kids playing CS. But they were too stupid to run it in a window and alt+tab, so they got caught and as a result the school started checking through the program files of all the computers...
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When I had a sub in communications class for a week my friend and I installed SC and just literally played it all class, and this fat old woman was trying to get us to stop, but we told her that part of the curriculum was to design our own game and that's what we made, she totally bought it and we "test played" it for the whole week.
It's amazing how clueless a 50something substitute teacher is about computers.
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On July 28 2008 03:11 DanceCommander wrote:
I just wished they were better, because they preferred UMS and fastest maps to non-money, and me being a C- protoss did not find that entertaining.
Teach them!
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On July 28 2008 03:38 anderoo wrote:
When I had a sub in communications class for a week my friend and I installed SC and just literally played it all class, and this fat old woman was trying to get us to stop, but we told her that part of the curriculum was to design our own game and that's what we made, she totally bought it and we "test played" it for the whole week.
It's amazing how clueless a 50something substitute teacher is about computers.
Haha, that's awesome
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We did that too
except that we only played during the 10th graders ap us history class b/c they never used the computers and the teacher thought it was hilarious
i raped people 1v3
funny how badly a gol/tank army can rape a huge wave of ultra/zeal/dt
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On July 28 2008 03:57 SonuvBob wrote:Show nested quote +On July 28 2008 03:11 DanceCommander wrote:
I just wished they were better, because they preferred UMS and fastest maps to non-money, and me being a C- protoss did not find that entertaining. Teach them!
Oh I tried... But they were just pathetically beyond redemption
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looooooool there was a computer lab with like 10 or so shitty computers in the admin building so a few of us got the mini-sc and installed it on every computer :D fun times while skipping physics until the computers got virus-ridden and we couldnt play anymore :{
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Thats cool, having an sc varsity and jv team, lol and having tryouts. sounds tight
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On July 28 2008 07:45 il0seonpurpose wrote:
Thats cool, having an sc varsity and jv team, lol and having tryouts. sounds tight
that would great lol.
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