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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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I started playing Starcraft when I was around 9~10 (I guess this would be in '01 - '02 then). My neighbor got it from somewhere, and I borrowed his CD and installed it one of the various computers we have. My parents wouldn't let me play it at all at first, but settled on not letting me get on Bnet because I was too young. So I just played the missions using cheat codes and whatnot, having fun doing stupid stuff like killing a computer with one worker. Anyway, time passed, and the missions got boring. I started sneaking on Bnet and discovered these wonderful, new fastest map things. I decided to play as Zerg, because it had the coolest name and looked the coolest. I did the whole mass guardians or hydras or whatever, I just played a ton of fastest. Probably a month or two later I quit. I had made no friends because I typed so slowly, and fastest was just getting so boring.
I don't know exactly when I started playing again, but I remember quitting right after I started because Spawning Pools cost 200 instead of 150. I couldn't stay away though, and transitioned into UMS. The only ones I liked were bounds, and there were a ton of them back then. I was just doing the regular noob thing, playing mass UMS with a couple of fastests. I knew about Boxer somehow, and he was god. I remember watching a Youtube video titled "Boxers 4pool", and so up until a couple of months ago (when I started getting interested in the pro scene) I thought Boxer played Zerg. I was fully hooked at this point, but my parents made me quit because of school reasons. I was still addicted, and snuck on time to time, but only for a bound every once in awhile. Time passed and I forgot about Starcraft. Then we were cleaning out our old CDs and stuff, and I found the game (this was about 2 years ago). Unfortunately the Brood War CD was lost, so I was confined to Original. At this point I started getting interested in BGH and LT, but I reverted back to fastest after trying them out. Then I quit again because I was starting high school and needed to focus on grades.
So now we're up to my current stage. In around August/September I started playing again, after uncovering the CD once more. But I wanted BW back, so I downloaded uTorrent and acquired it in a sneaky fashion. I started playing fastests again, but since I could type at more than 10 WPM at that point, I started making friends. These friends recommended that I start trying low money. So I started joining obs games, watching quietly and trying to get a general idea of how they were played. I attempted to play every once in awhile, but failed. Eventually some guy mentioned APM during a game, I asked what it was and what mine was. It was 56, my opponents was 70-something. I thought I was godly for managing nearly an action every second, until the guy said progamers have 250-300 APM. I called BS on that, and he referred me to gg.net, which lead me to TL. I explored around here for a while, and eventually found some BO's, and learned more about the pro scene. From here on out I started watching VODs, learning BO's such as 12 hatch and 9 pool, and discovered that Boxer actually played Terran (  ). I started improving, but it was damn hard to play Zerg. I found the multitasking too difficult, and I tended to almost never expand. So yes, I switched to Protoss. I DT rushed, proxied and cannon rushed, until one game I got utterly crushed by a Zerg player. I started yearning for Zerg again, and set my mind to playing it no matter what. So I've stuck with Zerg, and have improved pretty quickly. I got D+ my first season of ICCup ( last season  ) and have gotten lucky to make some friends who helped me out alot. Been gaming more and more lately, and am permanently hooked on SC.
Yup.
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Just started playing a couple of years ago. I've mained all 3 races at one point. I started with Protoss due to the high tech units and the aesthetics of the race. I moved on to Zerg thanks to being completely obliterated by them on Bnet.
Now I'm Terran because of:
1) how the units physically move (like mnm walking across a map, or science vessels flying across). I like it; it's art.
2) I liked the Terran BG music, though I never listen to it now.
3) My APM increases by 40 when I play terran =x.
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At first I played whatever race I felt like at that moment. However, I got into SC seriously after the GOM Star Invitational. It was through that tournament that I fell in love with zerg. I watched sAviOr's game against FlaSh on Blue Storm and was just so impressed with savior...even though he eventually lost that game.
After that, I watched Jaedong play with an intense fascination. I was just totally blown away.
That, and Terran seemed disgustingly overpowered against zerg that tournament, and toss seemed boring (the impression Anytime and Much gave me bugged the hell out of me). Zerg just seemed heroic and awesome.
Now that I know more about the game and have been following the pro scene for quite some time, I still feel similarly, strangely enough. Zerg gets shafted quite a bit, and you find very few good top zergs around.
I've played zerg so much now that it feels too natural for me to switch to anything else, though I do really want to learn terran properly as well.
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I didn't have a comp when SC came out so I played a lot at my neighbor/friend's house on and off for like 2 years. Mostly bgh/fastest/comp stomps and shit.
Then in like 2002? I got it for n64 (lol) and since that obviously has no online I'd play 1vX comp games or 1v1/2v2 (4 way split screen is super gay not to mention you can see exactly what everyone is doing...) with friends. At this time I was a Z player most of the time and did 1 hatch lurker rushes like every game iirc.
Stopped playing for a long time but in like march? 06 a bunch of highschool friends started playing for fun so we'd do some 3v3 or 4v4 or sometimes fastest/bgh. Anyway we were all like 50 apm noobs so I thought there must be some kind of guide or something to give me some tips on the web. Ended up finding some tasteless interview with Ra from blizzcon 05 I believe. I didn't think a lot of people still played let alone for money or professionally. Somehow found TL and I remember just reading the strategy section for a few days and being really confused with all the new terms I didn't fully understand.
Then started playing pub games and a couple on pgt getting my ass raped. Started reading other parts of tl and eventually started watching live games/vods in like summer 06. At this time I was still a random/protoss player and after watching WCG 2006 I fell in love with oov's play and that lead me to becoming a full terran player. Played some of the smaller ladders after pgt went down and still played with P a little since I was still better with them but that stopped pretty quickly. Now just play the odd iccup game or some fun/practice games with friends.
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I just remember loving tanks as a kid and when I played fastest years ago and then came back for low money recently I played Terran. They're just the coolest.
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Started out as Zerg because who doesn't like Zerg?
Then switched to Terran to get a feel for a new race.
Switched to Protoss because its gameplay is just so damn fun.
Back to Terran, because I want to build up on a "harder" race
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My story
I only discovered sc early last year. I used to be an avid css player and was actually quite good, i started playing cs in year 6 which was about 5 years ago and had been playing till around early 2008, i stopped playing cs due to my pc dying and not being able to play so i didn’t have anything to play for a while until i discovered gomtv invitational through pure pwnage. I watched that whole tournament and although i had no idea what was going on terran just stood out as the cool race, and seeing flash rip through stork was sweet, after discovering tl and iccup I’ve just been playing terran and watching flash's career unfold so ever since I’ve been trying to play like flash because hes gosu :D
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Played Vanilla campaign a few months after it came out, failed miserably, had to cheat.
Got BW as gift the year it came out, had to cheat to beat campaign.
Started UMS when i was 11, quit for AoE2.
Came back 14ish played fastest as Z, realized storm drops were king here. Switched to P, tried VGT, didnt like it.
Eventually transitioned into regular maps as T after being inspired by boxer micro videos.
Realized TvT as the worst possible MU known to man.
Back to my original Zerg. Started iccup about year ago.
Still going strong
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Oh right, I also picked zerg because I had a crush on Kerrigan. Seriously coolest character ever. Then I played WC3 The Frozen Throne and had another crush on Sylvanas Windrunner. Actually I've been in love with videogame characters more often than real women. Maybe I should... No lets not acknowledge that.
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I started about 7 years ago. I often went to a friend's who had a cracked copy on his laptop. It was the first year I didn't live with my parents so I had no limit to how long I could play and loved that.
I played the campaign and as Terran against computer since battle.net wouldn't accept me. I enjoyed massing tank lines surrounded by bunches of MnM and watching ennemy come suicide into it =D
About a year later I got my own computer and bought my own legit copy at the beginning of a 1 week holiday. I spent literally all week getting owned on B.net
I don't really know why but I played Protoss at that time.
I got tired of getting pummeled by Terran slow-push so I switched to Terran.
I got tired of getting owned by carriers so I figured I might as well build some myself and switched back.
I played mostly Protoss and a bit with other races sometimes though. Never really became solid or really had an idea of what I was doing with any.
I then quit for War3. I liked the fact that I could actually win more than half of my games and reach high ranks. I wasn't under the impression that 2/3 of the people I played against were just to good for me =D
That was a motivation to setting guidelines to my own play, build orders that would make me feel comfortable.
TSL made me switch back and got me on ICCup. I tried to apply the same principles to BW and concentrated on playing Toss only since that's the race I'd played most all in all.
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Ypang why are you so sexy? I mean I play random for a reason. So I can get raped.
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On March 05 2009 13:11 YPang wrote:
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
omfg i always pestered ixi about but he'd never tell me
thanks!
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Allow me to add something to your story Suppy:
On March 05 2009 13:37 Superiorwolf wrote:
I played in one of the WCG USA regional qualifiers and progressed all the way through the first brackets and; unfortunately for everyone I talk to on ventrilo, I beat Louder[Light] 2-1 and iCafe.Moto 2-0, which boosted my confidence a lot.
Your ego has soared to new heights!
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On March 05 2009 23:13 Kennelie wrote:
Ypang why are you so sexy? I mean I play random for a reason. So I can get raped.
u must like rapes... I can be the rapist...
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I can't tell exactly the time I played Starcraft for the first time. Must have been somewhere around 2000 on a lan. Were some FFA games, where I would just turtle as a Terran with a lot of siege tanks and then proceed to get a battle cruiser fleet. Other than those few matches, I never touched the game, and it didn't interest me further.
Fast forward to about spring 2007. I had quit WoW from endgame raiding a few month ago and I was browsing the WCG site, being curious of how those games (apart from CS and WC3, where I knew it) look on a competitive level. I did not watch more than one vod from those games. Fifa, yeah... Dead or Alive 4, well I don't really like fighting games, AoE3&C&C3 seemed rather dull too.
However, I came across one game. I remembered playing it a long time ago. I barely remembered what unit does what, but I could clearly see what is going on. It had a caster, whose dedication to the game immersed me too. There were action packed segments alternating with more calm moments. There were 3 players from Korea raping everyone else, leaving me asking why they were so good. Weaker opponents seemed chanceless. The one whos play I liked the most, was a player playing my race. He eventually went on to win the whole thing. Yes, iloveoov got me into Starcraft.
Well, a part of it was the game itself, a part was the casting and the last part was contributed by the players.
+ Show Spoiler +![[image loading]](http://images2.ggl.com/images/tasteless_red.jpg) I swear, they told me to play this game
After watching basically every vod of Starcraft the WCG site had to offer, I ordered the game in a neat Blizzard oldschool pack, containing SC+BW, Diablo and WC2. I played the campaign, then played against a few computer opponents, trying to copy the builds I saw online. Then proceeded to go onto Battle.net and so on.
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I played starcraft very casually, just playing ums maps and stuff and 3v3 bgh and some LT/ luna. It didn't take a genius to know that fastest was for the complete noobys while bgh was for the lazy, nooby like me. I played terran and protoss, terran for my love of mech units and 3 factorying every single game and protoss for sheer easiness of gaying out a win against people who i knew were better than me.
It's funny how I managed to beat people way better than me with Protoss in Luna when they are Terran by doing a 3 gateway zealot rush every game. Thanks Battle.net lag
I looked up starcraft in youtube, found some Violetak vids. I saw boxer/nada microing stuff and I gave up my Dt dropping/ 3 gateway rushing ways and switched to Terran for life.
I then saw Klazart vids and it was his first, Savior vs Firebathero. Even though Savior lost he became my favorite player after that series and seeing Firebathero dance that gay way after he CHEESED his way out of the 5th game got me even more hooked into korean starcraft. Even though I used and still play Terran, Zerg became my favorite race.
Klazart, despite being completely wrong sometimes in his knowledge is a very entertaining commentator and like most of the commentators on youtube nowadays, isn't boring/ homo. An Irish Indian who speaks 500 WPM and his funny random comments, at that time, it was too good.
I got into ICCUP, hover around D+ barely C- now. I'm at the level of raping friends but getting raped by actual starcraft players. Sometimes, I enjoy bming people for no reason when I lose, saying stuff like "U dam korean" even though I have no rage
It's too bad I watched Korean starcraft too late , people are just so damn good now
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