Day[9] Daily #100 "My Life of Starcraft" Subtitled - Page 4

If you have any friends or any family that's absolutely something that you should do. I mean that's why in this last few... in this last year... You know, I haven't got the chance to play as much but I still need that fixed, and I just want to do as much commentary on the games and just share everything of 12 years of playing Starcraft, about all my thoughts and everything and, and you know, just interact with this unbelievably kickass community.

I mean, some of the things that, that people were asking is, you know, "How do you deal with juggling school and work and all this stuff with Starcraft?" and the answer is that: I just... love Starcraft so much... and I love that I love Starcraft so much. So I'll go to school, I'll hang out with friends, but I have no shame if there's a Friday night and I just want to hang in and play Starcraft. I went to LAN parties non-stop in highschool. And now in college, you know, I don't have that much work I have to do after tonight, and you know what, I'm gonna play Starcraft 2. I don't need to go out, I don't need to follow any sort of weird social norm, like: "Oh, you're at College, you don't go to parties?" You know? Like: "Well, not this weekend. I wanna play Starcraft!" and I think that's awesome.

And you know what? I'm gonna host an event on the weekend and bring everyone in. I'm gonna host an OSL down on the mainscreen auditorium, that's a 15inch projector and everyone's gonna show up and realise why that's so cool.

So, you know what, I... I think I... I think I've just about hit most of what it's like been a starcraft player. I've learn... There's so many lessons that I've learned that have been so valuable to me, for instance: losing. A loss in not a bad thing. Failure is not something to be scorned or avoided, or something you should reassure someone on and say: "No, no, no! It's okay. The russian judge was just in a bad mood". Those losses, those games that you did not play well... that you lost, that is not you, that is not a reflection of you, that game is completely external to you. And if you just look at it, all that loss is, is an arrow that points you in the wrong direction.

In the worst case scenario, if I lose a hundred games, I have a hundred different sources of information I can review in order to become a better player. So now I have such a small fear of failure, because you know what? If I completely botch a tournament in the 2005 finals against a player, because I choked, no big deal. I'll be back again next year and I will learn from that mistake, and I will be clutch in the future.

You know it's helped me realise, you know like getting... If I screw up an assignment it's not that big a deal, if I end losing up a relationship, you know, it doesn't end up working out... I can deal with it a lot better now. I know that, because you have to make decisions so quickly in Starcraft, I now have very little issue just making decisions. and I realise the importance of being able to decide now and figure out if that's better later. Too often I think people spend all this time waffling on various issues, they say "Should I do A or should I do B?" and they're too scared to make a decision. Starcraft makes you proud to be a decision maker and makes you love being a decision maker, all these situations you can end up in... are so much easier if you have that experience.

And I mean, the last thing I wanna say is that... I mean, you learn the importance of community. No one in Starcraft hold themselves up, played by themselves, and then came back and was better than everyone. Players played with each other, and discussed with each other, and formed really tight friendships overseas. Some of my best friends just live in Europe, thanks to Starcraft. That community aspect is just so dear to me.

So I'll finish with this last question that someone said "What do you wanna do with Starcraft 2? Do you want to become a professional player? Do you want to become a commentator?" My life dream is for eSports to be big in the west. I want it to be huge. So I would so dearly want to be the ambassador to eSports. I wanna be the person who you can show your mom to, and say "Look at this guy! This guy isn't homeless! He didn't turn out horrifically awful, right? He played this game and it has brought him far in life. And listen to how he describes this game. That great feeling that he's able to talk about, that is what I feel. That is, you know, something that I think is so important, just to be able to spread it to as many people as possible and I just want the love and the passion for eSports to just, never die. And, and it would be... It would be a life well spent if I could do that.

So... It's been about two hours! Thank you so much to everyone who tuned in live, and for any of you who have a drink, I'd like to make a toast to 12 years, to my dearest friend, the Starcraft community. It's been with me with ups and downs, through everything, always remember to believe in yourself and dream big. Cheers. - 1:50:00