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Ghardo
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
Germany1685 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-09-12 16:31:28
September 12 2008 16:28 GMT
#61
uh, ah, .. good question
it's been 4 years now that i registered but i dunno really how i came across this site. prolly i was looking for infos on sc and after the misshappen gosugamers, discovered tl.net. i instantly liked the scene and posters here because of the maturity and knew that it was the real "core" of sc fans here... well, things have changed slightly over the years but one can still be content.
Mastermind
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Canada7096 Posts
September 12 2008 16:46 GMT
#62
I use to play starcraft when the game first came out, but I stopped playing in 2002. When sc2 was announced it rekindled my interest in bw. I started playing the single player a little bit, and I went to the b.net forums. One day someone posted a link to a youtube video of some programers playing. I knew there was people who played bw professionally, but I had never seen it before. The game was absolutely amazing. I was totally blown away. The play was just so incredible. I couldnt believe what I was watching. It was the same game I played, but they were doing things I didnt even know were possible. I cant stress how amazing I thought it was. I then spent my entire weekend watching professional starcraft. I must have watched 50 games that weekend. It was just too good that I couldnt stop. I wanted to see more. I wanted to learn more. I wanted to play this game like a pro, not like the pathetic noob that I suddenly realised I was. I started searchingout sc related stuff and TL.net was the best thing out there. I started lurking on the forums for a few months, then eventually I decided to join.
LaLuSh
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Sweden2358 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-09-12 17:14:09
September 12 2008 16:59 GMT
#63
Too long ago for me to remember.

Think I've been lurking around here ever since late 2002. I was a big Garimto fan back then. Finally signed up on April 27th 2003.

My first post, also related to the legendary Kang Min. A player who quickly rose to become my favourite after Garimto left the progaming scene:

On July 13 2003 16:40 LaLuSh wrote:
NAL_RA DOES BIG GAEM HUNTERS STRAT, HAHA. NADA GETS EMBARASSED.


Stout MBC Starleague back in 2003. Nal_rA vs NaDa. Brings back memories, ohhhhh, the nostalgia. I was a die hard Kang Min fan from the beginning. Nal_rA probably is the only player I have never ever cheered against in a progaming match, regardless of which opponent he faced.

Also, my english back then...
FunFluffyBunny
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
Sweden1696 Posts
September 12 2008 17:20 GMT
#64
I used to play some BGH and fast map games back in 1999-2000 something. Then when I started high school in 2001 some guys in my class were talking about how they had played some LAN games and I mentioned how I had played a bit. So they invited me to come play with them one weekend and it turned out that I was way better (which more or less meant that I went 3-gate zealot which crushed their 1 base forge canon to carriers attempt).
After that we started playing almost every weekend and eventually I found starcraftgamers (probably about 2002) and I still remember the first replay of pro-gamers I ever saw: Elky vs Sync on Vertigo and how amazed I was at the dropship micro and how they didn't just attack move their armies against each other in the center =)
After that I started looking at more replays and I also found Palemans VOD site which introduced me to the emperor himself, and his games vs Yellow in Coca-Cola OSL and Garimto in 2001 SKY OSL.
I still hung around scg though and thought that TL.net was just a bunch of assholes, especially Rekrul =D
However, with toptalents (much love to him) old site I got to see oov vs yellow and oov vs Nada finals as well as oov vs Nal_ra on reqiuem from Gilette OSL. I think that this was about the same time that the old VOD thread started, and since you had to be an active member to get the password for the files I started doing liquibets and semi-spamming the comment thread to get enough posts. I've been stuck ever since...I've actually asked PoP to open liquibets early, just so that I wouldn't miss any bets going on vacation =D
ilovezil
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States4143 Posts
September 12 2008 17:33 GMT
#65
On September 12 2008 15:40 EvilTeletubby wrote:
I just visited more and more until it was clear THIS was the place I wanted to be. The only thing I feel a bit bad about is that I've hardly met anyone from TL.net, and I would REALLY like to go to some meet-ups, I just wish more things happened on the east coast.


East coast? Son, where do you live?
MrHoon *
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
10183 Posts
September 12 2008 17:33 GMT
#66
Well I guess I'll share my store in this conversation

1999. Korea was recovering from IMF and many of my neighbor friends who had office dads failed . Fortunately my dad was a professor so we didn't suffer much from an economic standpoint. However during this time PCbangs became a huge success because

Unemployed Men + Games with payed Time = LOLOLOLOLPROFIT

My friends and I first played some shit ass Korean MMO (which oddly resembled Shining Force) called "DarkSaver." Like every korean MMO, it was a grindtastic game that was total shit. I just played Kingdom of Wind and Darksaver everytime I went there, but everyone else besides me played Starcraft. I was curious to what game it was but I didn't give a shit because My lvl 4 Kraken Knight was one badass Motherfucker. Then one day one of my friends who got "cable tv (note during this time cable TV was a sign of LUXURY in Korea, my dad told me I needed to keep dreaming ) told me Starcraft was played on Tooniverse(cartoon network)! I was like WTF NO WAI, THEY PLAY GAMES ON TV?

Then I went over my friend's house and saw this whole pro gaming scene~ A white dude(giyom) in a space suit using protoss with a crowd. I was shocked and awed. Ever since that day I decided to watch every single game possible!

Then I was sent to the states to learn engrish

It was 2007 when I finally returned to the progaming scene and this time I was even more shocked! Why were there so many new players? What the shit was going on? I was so confused! My Korean was so rusty and I didn't know any English websites. Then I found a certain video on youtube with some white guys holding up a sign during a game that said

"tl.net"

Out of curiosity I typed that up in google and it led me right here! I was so happy I got information in english and people were very active. I lurked for about an year then registered. So here I am
dats racist
iNcontroL *
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
USA29055 Posts
September 12 2008 17:36 GMT
#67
I came here in 2004, got banned at the end of that year and came back in 2005.. a bit more reserved Yeah I know..

At the time if you played bw you posted on TL.net. It was the authority and it was where all the top gamers communicated, networked etc. Now I post here for the hilarity and secondarily for the bw networking!
OrderlyChaos
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States1115 Posts
September 12 2008 18:03 GMT
#68
I remember getting starcraft several years back, losing interest in it and letting it gather dust. Early last year (around the time of Savior's fall) I started to play again. I was searching for Terran guides and was linked here because of the Daze guide. I started lurking and then joined later.
EtherealDeath
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States8366 Posts
September 12 2008 18:05 GMT
#69
I believe I got directed to TL through some VOD on youtube... now that I think of it, it was probably the Bisu vs Savior MSL S3 finals that started it all. I was like DAMNNNN wtf that zerg just got owned. And so I looked for more VODs, and then somehow heard of TL. I'm not all that sure, though my profile says I joined just over a year ago so...I guess I forget things fast :-o

Susie you play WoW? I used to as well, raiding hunter who rolled a tanking/healing/shockadin pally for alt fun on the US Bronzebeard server.
Breavman
Profile Joined September 2004
Sweden598 Posts
September 12 2008 19:21 GMT
#70
I remember surfing around some sites looking for the replay after boxer famously lost to josez in wcg 2002, and I think I found it here. Not sure if this was how I found TL the first time though, it's been so long.
KH1031
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
United States862 Posts
September 12 2008 19:25 GMT
#71
I don't even remember how I found TL.

I vaguely remember that I started browsing on TL.net on late 2002 and finally created an account sometime mid 2003.

Now that I think of it...I might have somehow gotten the link to TL from either sclegacy.com or broodwar.com, because those were the two sc sites that I visit before TL.net
Nightmarjoo
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
United States3360 Posts
September 12 2008 19:41 GMT
#72
I don't remember exactly how I found tl, but it was probably through gg.net. My first sc site was sclegacy.com because of their pimpest plays, and I later moved to gg.net when I discovered their replays and replay packs (I had dial-up which my dad limited at the time, so I spent more time downloading replays than actually playing sc). Even when I had registered on the site I didn't post much. My first post was "Happy Hannukah ~~" in the thread "Merry Christmas from the TL.net staff" lol. I think I realized this site's member base was far superior to gg.net's and became more active through posting maps and stuff from/for broodwarmaps.net. I'd always get good posts from here, and mostly trash at gg.net. I think the vast majority of my posts here are related to mapping.

Now that I think about it, I think I might've found this site through either the TANL, or Rekrul's progaming gossip posts.

So I dunno how it happened, but I visit this site throughout the day, every day now. I think at first through lurking I thought the mods were too strict and decided to not post lol.
aka Lyra; My favourites: July, Stork, Draco, MistrZZZ, TheStc, LastShadow - www.broodwarmaps.net - for all your mapping needs; check my stream: high masters mech terran: twitch.tv/lyrathegreat
funkie
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Venezuela9376 Posts
September 12 2008 20:16 GMT
#73
I needed to learn english.

And these forums were the only ones who could stand my improper use of words and gramatics.

fuck yeah, tl.net rules.
CJ Entusman #6! · Strength is the basis of athletic ability. -Rippetoe /* http://j.mp/TL-App <- TL iPhone App 2.0! */
VIB
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
Brazil3567 Posts
September 12 2008 20:45 GMT
#74
On September 12 2008 14:43 lilsusie wrote:
A community of SC fans... who weren't Korean?! This opened my eyes. I had no idea!
You mean koreans don't even realize non-korean sc communities exist even today?
Great people talk about ideas. Average people talk about things. Small people talk about other people.
Oystein
Profile Blog Joined December 2004
Norway1602 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-09-12 21:00:30
September 12 2008 20:59 GMT
#75
Started coming here in 02 or so I guess, just for reading the Battle reports from the old OSLs and following progaming in general, rarely read the forums until 03-04 or so, and finally registered late 04. Since then I have read a lot on the forums.
I don`t remember how I found the site, think it could have been a link from a Norwegian community site.

So I haven`t been the most active poster, but an avid reader!
God Hates a Coward
Retsukage
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States1002 Posts
September 12 2008 21:47 GMT
#76
Wow that was such a cool story, Thanks for sharing.

I found TL just from links on the internet and youtube videos. Since I kept noticing TL over and over, I decided to check it out, after a week of looking at TL during school, I was addicted.
To change is to improve, to change often is to be perfect - Winston Chruchill
YPang
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
United States4024 Posts
September 12 2008 22:28 GMT
#77
I always found links of Tl.net on gg.net. So then i thought that this site must be pretty big, and then lurked around for a bit, and then finally decided to post.
sMi.Gladstone | BW: B high| SC2: gold T_T
Narrator
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
United States868 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-09-12 23:02:47
September 12 2008 23:00 GMT
#78
I don't really have a huge story. My brothers/cousins played StarCraft back when it came out. I wasn't extremely interested at the time. I was just familiar with the game. My brother (Blind) found TL in 2002 when it was made. I saw a couple VODs when he watched them. Last year, one of my cousins wanted to get into it. My other cousin already knew how to play and is pretty decent (Peter[Deuce]). We are all the same age/grade and hang out together at school so we usually SC together. That's about it.
VIB
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
Brazil3567 Posts
September 12 2008 23:06 GMT
#79
Oh I found TL about 02 or 03 I think? When I was watching some WCG and was trying to figure who the hell was that Liquid.Nazgul guy because HellGhost (brazilian player on that wcg) posted on a brazilian forum a link to here saying something about how good he thought Nazgul were and how bad he thought Grrr was. So I was thinking "wow this might be awesome if he's better than Grrr", but turns out HellGhost was just tripping
Great people talk about ideas. Average people talk about things. Small people talk about other people.
Liquid`Zephyr
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
United States996 Posts
September 12 2008 23:57 GMT
#80
LOL kennigit and susie your stories are great

did you bang him?

o wait i already know the answer to that

as for me:

i've been here since the beginning

cough
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