Day[9]: 'From the bottom of my heart, thank you'

Day[9]'s Letter to Reddit
Hey guys! Day[9] here! Although I read reddit regularly, this is my first ever post on /r/starcraft! :>.

A while back, approaching my 200th episode, I told everyone I wanted to do a special: a day in the life of Day[9]. Even though my time constraints forced a delay, I noticed a thread on reddit trying to organize a mass donation drive to coincide with the special. I was deeply flattered to see people actually offering to send money my way.

Sadly, traveling on the road to a million and one tournaments caused delay after delay after delay of the 200th episode special, so I felt a tad guilty for letting people down. However, I promised myself that it WOULD happen eventually: I spoke to a videographer and an editor to ensure that the episode would have fancy production values and really give people a sense of my day to day existence :D.

As I organized everything for that episode, answered my slews of daily e-mails, prepped for the daily shows, and traveled to tournaments every weekend, I didn't have much time to do much else. In particular, I didn't check my paypal donation page very frequently. As much as I love the image of me F5-ing paypal every 15 minutes while fist pumping and screaming "SHIP THE MONEY BITCHES," I actually derive my happpiness from doing the show, the warm community, and hearing people say things like "you helped me get into diamond!" I'm always blown away by how insanely nice and supportive the SC2 community is.

However, I underestimated how nice you guys really are. My schedule cleared up and I finally got the chance to log into my paypal.

Before my eyes were thousands of dollars. THOUSANDS. And not thousands of dollars donated by a handful of generous individuals. The donations were in small increments: 1$, 4$, 10$, and a couple of 15s and 20s. In other words, an astounding amount of people voluntarily donated enough money so that I don't have to take out another gigantic loan for my last semester of grad school.

I was so happy I didn't even know what to do. Student loans have always been a point of stress for me, and that giant burden was lifted from my shoulders in an instant. I made a thank you in one of my dailies, but that absolutely doesn't do justice to the amazing gift you've provided me. I saw people from gosugamers, teamliquid, and other communities provide donations. But, I know that the reddit community orchestrated the entire drive, and that it would have never happened without you guys. From the bottom of my heart, thank you so much.

I'm more motivated than ever to keep making as much content as I can. I'm even expanding the daily so that I can do more than 5 a week! (doing 2 on tuesdays and wednesdays hopefully!). As expected, I'm still traveling to tournaments to cover those (Dreamhack Nov 25-28th!).

At the end of the day, whatever you think would be fun on the daily, let me know, because the Day[9] Daily is YOUR show. I might use my face and voice, but the daily has been and always will be about YOU. Thank you thank you thank you thank you for being so awesome and supportive. I can't express my gratitude enough :>.

With that said, let there be eSports! Cheers guys!

<3333333 Seananananananan

Name:
Sean Day[9] Plott
Style: Educational
Age: 24
Day[9] is a Starcraft 2 strategist and commentary on competitive matches from an 11-year veteran and top Diamond player. He is a has been rated A+/A on ICCUP/PGT on multiple accounts over multiple seasons, has qualified for the WCG USA finals 7 times, has qualified for the WCG Grand Finals 3 times, and won the Pan American Championship in 2007. In Starcraft 2 Day[9] is a top rated diamond player as random.

Live Starcraft II Casts:
The Day[9] Daily is streamed live every Sunday through Thursday night at 7pm PST
http://www.ustream.tv/day9tv

About Me:
I grew up playing Starcraft with my brother, Nick (Tasteless). With the launch of Starcraft 2, I'm dedicated to helping the eSports movement grow in popularity around the world.

Country: United States
Occupation:Starcraft 2 Player and Commentator
Schools:Harvey Mudd College, USC
Interests:Starcraft 2