Starcraft Players - Accomplishments, info - Page 3

On November 04 2005 13:12 QuietIdiot wrote:
Sir@soni? T_T

On November 04 2005 11:45 pubbanana wrote:
The difference between SSamJang and [B_Blade]Leader and TheBoy and Honest and all of the other old progamers is that SSamJang made the game alot more popular in general. He was the one who showed the world that Terran could be played at a high level at a time when everyone considered it to be the weakest race. He was also the first progamer to get his own commercial on TV, and to appear on various game shows doing commentaries and such. He really was the first superstar of progaming. He was also the first to publish his own book about SC, even before Boxer and the one written by NaDa, TheMarine, and JinNam

On November 04 2005 16:32 [-Bluewolf-] wrote:
I thought of one more player unlisted to add, [9]Everlast. This is perhaps the best description of him, from: http://www.shacknews.com/docs/press/030101_o3progame.x

"Victor Martyn ([9]eVERLAST) was awarded 1998 world champion of the StarcraftT official ladder. Victor pioneered professional gaming by being the first gamer ever moving to South Korea (from Sweden) to play as a full time professional."

He was quite good for his time, and I remember the official battle report Blizzard did on his game against Agent911 at the ladder season close way back when. He was also caught in the PGL cheating incident - Tillerman played for him on his account (as Everlast claimed he lacked the time to qualify legitamately and would have done so easily anyway). Ended up causing clan 9 (yes, the same clan 9 Thresh founded, only their SC division) to fall apart as Agent911 and others quit when the incident became public (cheating was viewed more harshly in the past). I do have respect for however - unlike some people *cough*Elky*cough*, he actually apologized and admitted it was wrong.

For his style, there's a battlereport here I found on a search engine: http://www.battlereports.com/viewreports.php?reportnum=1623 - but he was simply a top zerg player at the time that played consistantly well that did dominate for a short while.

On November 04 2005 16:32 [-Bluewolf-] wrote:
I thought of one more player unlisted to add, [9]Everlast. This is perhaps the best description of him, from: http://www.shacknews.com/docs/press/030101_o3progame.x

"Victor Martyn ([9]eVERLAST) was awarded 1998 world champion of the StarcraftT official ladder. Victor pioneered professional gaming by being the first gamer ever moving to South Korea (from Sweden) to play as a full time professional."

He was quite good for his time, and I remember the official battle report Blizzard did on his game against Agent911 at the ladder season close way back when. He was also caught in the PGL cheating incident - Tillerman played for him on his account (as Everlast claimed he lacked the time to qualify legitamately and would have done so easily anyway). Ended up causing clan 9 (yes, the same clan 9 Thresh founded, only their SC division) to fall apart as Agent911 and others quit when the incident became public (cheating was viewed more harshly in the past). I do have respect for however - unlike some people *cough*Elky*cough*, he actually apologized and admitted it was wrong.

For his style, there's a battlereport here I found on a search engine: http://www.battlereports.com/viewreports.php?reportnum=1623 - but he was simply a top zerg player at the time that played consistantly well that did dominate for a short while.

On November 04 2005 16:44 pubbanana wrote:


I remember this guy, but not for anything positive

I seem to remember him trying to be faster than his really is with his keyboard and mouse and had to keep trying over and over again to lay down a pylon