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I think that everyone has a general story of how they chose their race and continued playing with it. Some people say that they chose terran/zerg/toss because its fun, other say that one race is easier, but im pretty sure if everyone went back in time and tried and dig out other reasons why you picked your race it would be interesting to share.
Around 2003-2004, i was an avid fastest player, my nick name on US west was Yangpan, i started off as a noob and played toss/zerg. My main strategy was to mass cannons, or sunks until i can get carriers... As time progressed i made new friends and explorered more strategies about fastest map possible. It took my about a year to realize that all i did was mass either goons or hydras.
So as a result one day i got terribly bored with FMP, and tried LT. I played Zerg at the time because i was best with it on fastest. As a result of those public 1v1 LT games on west; i got raped.
I continued to play however, because it was a new challenge. I would get raped left and right, from MnM's to protoss imbalanced storms... So then i started looking for strategies online, and came across a Blizzcon. At that time, i saw names like YellOw, NaDa, Nal_rA, and Reach, and many foreigners, the only foreigner i can remember at the top of my head is fisheye. Anyways i looked through all their profiles for the blizzcon, and realized there was ONLY 1 TERRAN, 2-3 zergs, the rest protoss. I wanted to be different, and wondered how good it'd look to rape everyone playing a race that was a minority... I stood up to the challenge, and started looking for NaDa replays. I dle'd a reppack and then saw his infamous tank drops on the LT cliff to kill toss's expo. With that strategy along i was able to win SO many games TvP, and i was really confident with myself...
So basically as time passed, i searched for different sites related to SC, which lead me FIRST from Starcraft.org, to gg.net, and finally to TL.net. I also played PGtour, got raped to D-, and i don't ever think i got D+ on pgtour. When the abyss started i managed to get D+, then like the season before abyss changed to iccup, i got C-. I was at C- for a while, and then got to C, then finally got C+ for 3 seasons consecutively... Now my goal is for B-...
I've tried to convert to protoss because i'd get so frustrated losing to a DT rush, and i wanted to feel what its like to win with something that gay....I've always ended up comign back to terrran because i thought toss was just too boring... My journies and thoughts of dedication of switching to protoss consists of switching for 2 weeks, 1 week, few days, and an hour.
During my SC journey, i've met many folks/rivals to keep me motivated, some of them were Salv, Yaqoob, Dream-joy, Sharp-edge... just to name a few. I was never really in a Clan until like 2 years ago, i always hanged with a small community of SC players that never really created a "clan", but just hung in the same channel known as Op SWBK...
SWBK always had a secret meaning to it, until the host of the bot had to go inactive and gave it to some other peeps, and the meaning was "South west burger king" ROFL... Without the folks from SWBK i prob won't be playing SC now... Then again it might be a good thing considering i can focus more on my studies...
Edit: I want to hear YOUR SC stories....
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How come whenever you and Yaqoob talk about people in SWBK I'm never included ='(
crai
oh yeah you should talk how you got blasted down to C- this season :D those 2 ranks you lost must have been the ones I gained! LOL
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On March 05 2009 13:14 Superiorwolf wrote:
How come whenever you and Yaqoob talk about people in SWBK I'm never included ='(
crai
oh yeah you should talk how you got blasted down to C- this season :D those 2 ranks you lost must have been the ones I gained! LOL
i was nevr blasted down to c-, happy bday btw.
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lol don't deny it! btw why do you use your real name as a "nickname" on Bnet? lulz
just kidding btw, thx!
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On March 05 2009 13:17 Superiorwolf wrote:
lol don't deny it! btw why do you use your real name as a "nickname" on Bnet? lulz
just kidding btw, thx!
i seriously was never blasted down to c-, it came close tho...
I use my real name cuz i thought thats what everyone did at the time, then i had a friend in real life who's nick was Gladstone, and i hijacked it for a few years...
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ya my name is stolen too, i guess that's how all asians get their online names
poor guy on diablo 2 lol
dammit i wasted post 2500 and my birthday post
well maybe i'll just post my experiments on another post
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I started playing in second grade (I saw some older kids play and I was like “OMG must trai!”). I played mostly UMS’s like Sunken Defense and Golems and stuff like that. I stopped playing StarCraft in 5th grade and took up a couple of FPS’s. I went to middle school and realized that other people at my school played StarCraft. I took up StarCraft again, but I had no clue about the pro scene other than knowing this guy called Boxer. All my friends played fastest because they were too lazy to actually think about build orders and stuff. While I got raped on Fastest, I gradually shifted away from that to “normal” maps. I came across Gosugamers first, and then TeamLiquid, and chose TeamLiquid because it looked cleaner. I really chose my race because I couldn’t play the other ones. Zerg macro is just not my style, and I utterly fail at ZvT. My PvZ is pretty good, but my PvT and PvP micro are really lacking, especially because I don’t have enough time to work on it. However, Terran was really the race that came easily to me. The thought process behind the micro and build orders and stuff was easy to take in. That’s my Starcraft story.
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I had started playing Terran when I was very young, before I would consider myself old enough to play online. Eventually I played online, playing UMS and FPM. I found my Terran very shitty, trying to mass an army like my allies off 1-2 barracks going MnM. At this point I switched to toss, where I still played FPM and ums. I eventually met some BGH players through a friend of mine and played BGH with them often. Me and a select friend that I met started to observe 1v1 games on python, eventually playing once or twice a night where we would often get raped. At this point we discovered TL and started to lurk it(I believe he is still lurking), where I found out there was such thing as a BO(O=), and obvious unit counters to standard play. I started to play standard in a way, rather than going cannon rush or DT rush all the time. I started to try FE's, fast goon, etc. At this point I would often still get raped because I had a)no timing, b) no game sense, and c) no mechanics. I then figured that I knew most of what there was to know about toss, and that they just sucked and were not for me. I had begun iccup slightly before I assumed this and did not even get past D. I absolutely dreaded PvT because of playing mech. Siege tanks and mines are so scary! O_O. I remembered my horrible experiences getting raped as Terran though, and decided to try out Zerg. I knew that going into Zerg with no experience or idea how to play it would get me completely owned. I studied the standard BO's of Zerg and went from D to D+ on iccup pretty fast, where I did not go any further. Although I didn't really cheese, most of my games were quite short. I had strong early and mid game, but I never seemed to be able to secure a 3rd expo, or get to hive tech without killing my opponent with(gosu) muta harass, or speedling runby, or 2hatch lurk or whatever. I kept trying but eventually got discouraged and decided to try Terran. I did the same thing for Terran as Zerg, studying build orders, timings, and standard play. After having played Zerg and Protoss before, I felt I really knew how to push a Z or P players buttons, and it turns out I did pretty well at it. I flew into D+ on iccup. I'm still Terran, and I have refined it greatly. I was just about C- last season on iccup but then the season magically ended! D= . I'm improving fast though, hope to get C- this season!
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my story
I played a lot of UMS and then got into other games which included Diablo, Diablo II, Utopia and Counterstrike/Half-life/Team Fortress. My brother got me back into playing some Starcraft and he showed me some Boxer videos. Originally I played Terran and in one of my first games I remember I was raped by some guy on West by pure zealots when I was doing like 2 fact tanks off of like 8 scvs. I copied his build and from then on started playing Protoss, but I still could rarely beat my brother who played Terran; it seemed like an impossible task.
My brother showed me some hacks and told me they were fun to use, I used them and he stopped and he told me the only way I would get better is by not using hacks. So somehow I found a website called warboards and it told me to go on op swbk on East. I went there and immediately I was dubbed "suppy" by Ahzz. I came just as Ventrilo was being introduced to swbk, and when I got on I was mocked but accepted as we played UMS like bounds and Diplomacy. Later we would have weekly UMS Nights but those have ceased by now (since UMS get sooooo old, SC2 UMS will be much better though :D). I tried to learn a lot of strategy by training with the swbk people... and I don't know why but I switched to Zerg at some point (everyone in swbk aside from gladstone was protoss, and ahzz who was zerg, so I decided to go zerg to try and learn from the best player in swbk. I don't even know why ahzz hung out with them, probably just for noob-bashing or something xD).
Later iCCup would start and my first seasons I got D and then D+. This is about the point where I found out about Tasteless and wanted to be a new commentator. February 2007 I believe, it's been over 2 years waaa. I did some commentaries on shitty public obs games, and people suggested I do progamer replays which I soon started to do, and later picked up actual Korean VODs. I found teamliquid in March 2007 right after savior was beat by bisu. People mocked my commentaries and thus the Teamliquid commentary contest was started by yubee. The only two applicants were me and Klazart, and Klazart I thought was an excellent commentator. I was starting to get pretty unencouraged especially when people like Yaqoob made threads like "where is klazart?!" which had 1 sentence about how klazart had gone missing and 5 paragraphs of how I sucked... xD. I signed up with Gamereplays to do some commentaries for them, but then I did like 5 and just stopped. By this time tons of Youtube commentators began to spring up and I had lost a lot of motivation for commentating. Now I am starting to get back into commentating and stuff. At this point I joined SCC which was where a lot of swbk people went, but then SCC died. Next season I got C-, then C. I played in one of the WCG USA regional qualifiers and progressed all the way through the first brackets and beat Louder[Light] 2-1 and iCafe.Moto 2-0, which boosted my confidence a lot. I seem to always have 50+ more apm than usual in serious serious games, for example in the last game vs Louder I had about 230 apm when my average apm at the time was about 160. My average apm nowadays is about 200. Then, I got C+ and made a ZvP guide which really isn't too helpful but got Ahzz to make his guide and smi.lols to help me out in ZvP strategies. I joined sMi. Then this season I got B. That's my storyyyyyyy.
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my story
I remember when I was in the 7th grade and I kept hearing about this supposedly great game named Starcraft. One day, I was at my friend's house working on a project when I realized he had a copy of SC. Turns out, he didn't really play it so I decided to borrow it. All I remember was that I absolutely hated it. I quickly uninstalled it after playing it for a few hours.
flash forward 3 years
I found myself browsing through youtube looking at video games. I searched up Starcraft and stumbled upon Klazart with some video "english commentary." I decided, why the heck not, and watched it. It took me awhile to get over the nerdiness factor and found myself extremely interested. This was before there were other english commentators and Klazart was constantly putting out videos daily. After watching hours of SC, I decided to reinstall SC and give it a try. I would try to copy pros because I had a general idea of what to do, but I never really knew the builds so I would lose because I ddin't have the speed and precision of pros. Frustrated, I remembered that Klazart kept mentioning teamliquid in his videos so I found my way here. From there, I remember looking at recommended guides and kept playing.
After months of playing, I got my friends into SC too and we would play. However, I would always be constantly stomping my friends even 2v1. One of my friends did get really good though so I would always play him for practice. Eventually, I moved to ICCUP and was promptly stomped to D-. I retried again and reached a solid D. From there, I never really played ICCUP because i found it to be too serious for fun.
I started as a zerg player but quickly switched to terran because I hated how zerg units were built via larvae and because I always loved watching TvZ games. MnM armies are so cool when used correctly. Anyways, I eventually hated how lurkers raped marines so easily if you weren't paying attention and I lost so many games becuase of lurkers and 6 pools. So I switched to protoss. I've been a protoss user ever since.
side note: protoss is not easy
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lol im really enjoying reading these...
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i started off with UMS, in the US East server. diplomacy, lotrs (hell yes hahaha), snipers, and cats and mouse ^^
then they slowly got boring and i started 2v2ing, mainly because a) i saw BoxeR highlight videos, and b) didnt want to start 1v1 right away because i'll get raped. so i start 2v2ing, and one day, i meet this guy KoreanAir16. we start 2v2ing together, and after awhile, we went on a 30 something win streak on east, which really seemed special to me at the time (not anymore ;O)
i mainly stopped 2v2ing because of TL - you guys told me to come to to op tl-west i think it was, and i went. from then on, i started mass 1v1ing, joining iCCup as well after a few seasons.
mass 1v1ing was frustrating but rewarding. i must say, PvZ for a beginner must be a pain in the ass and PvT at higher levels must be a pain in the ass. nonetheless, i chose my race because of Nal_rA and AnyTime.
during AnyTime's first So1 run was when i started competitively 1v1ing, trying to choose my race. at this point, i was already sort of leaning towards Protoss because of rA, but after seeing AnyTime, i felt toss was the race for me.
so here i am? haha i dunno how this all fits time-wise, but it's the way i remember it.
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I started playing in 97-98 or so. At the time I was playing Red Alert (C&C), and had this kind of stupid pride about it, telling all my friends who played starcraft how much better Red Alert was. Then I tried Starcraft like once and that was that. I settled for Zerg very quickly because I liked the idea of being able to lose hundreds of units without losing, I love starship troopers and the swarm mentality is very attractive to me. That, and the fact that Zerg was the only race that had anything like MBS with their larvae 
Wotta noob.
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My story is pretty lame. Simplified version: One of my cousins had Starcraft, I played it, bought my own copy, screwed around and quit. Then I went to high school, rediscovered Starcraft, switched from Protoss to Terran and played some more. Quit for a short while, discovered progaming, switched from Terran to Zerg because of Savior and played some more. Eventually I got discouraged from losing all the time and just started making maps from the map editor. Now I just check out replays and watch VODs of progamers duking it out. Life is good~
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I picked Protoss because I realized they were easier than the other two.
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On March 05 2009 14:26 blabber wrote:
I picked Protoss because I realized they were easier than the other two.
I believe that accounts for ~30% of other TL members as well lol
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used to play terran, now, after a very long break, I play toss, because it's the easiest to play
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I play toss because i got carrier spammed too many times as a noob.
also, its easiest to play.
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I'll make it quick:
Played sc fastest 4v4 comps when I was about 9 with step bros. Then stopped for a while. Then in 2006, some buddies from my school got into sc and we all played. One guy was really good, and I really wanted to "get good" (was in grade 10). Started watching korean leagues. Started playing low money, as zerg with about 80 apm. Joined a couple of clans, tried out PGT and played like 5 games which I all lost. Quit playing after about 8 months but continued to follow the korean scene (never got really good btw, I didn't even know what "macro" meant). Stopped following the korean scene after bisu beat savior. Got back into following the korean scene 2 years after (2008, grade 12). Started playing back in the summer. Started off as protoss b/c I watched all of combat-ex vids. Played on east for a while. Then got back on west (I live in west anyway). Played pubs for a few months. Got about D+/C- roughly protoss. Decided to switch back to zerg about 5 months ago. Finally started committing to iccup. Now I am D+ zerg.
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