I got humiliated in the Semi-finals of an online tournament in the hands of HwangSin, and it was casted. I didn't see the cast (for obvious reasons) but friends told me afterwards that it was pretty brutal (of course I was already super nervous for playing HwangSin with cash on the line). Learning experience though

Archontas

United States319 Posts

August 06 2011 23:05 GMT

#223

I'm a mid level diamond player, not close to Masters League. My usual way of warming up for a ladder session is to jump in some random 2v2s and just play out a couple build orders just to get my hands moving, not going tryhard mode.

So, open up Star2 one evening, hit the random 2v2 queue, and I get matched up against... Sen and White-Ra. o_0

http://www.twitch.tv/duckloadwhitera/b/290291470?id=290291470&channel=duckloadwhitera

Part 4, 1 hr and 35 minutes.

My random partner was a tool, but other than that, it was incredibly cool just to play a match with pros and get decimated in front of a stream of ~5000 people. :-)

BluePanther

United States2776 Posts

August 06 2011 23:13 GMT

#224

Similar experience, got matched up in 4v4 against nrgsteve, dde, and vibe. Quite a shock for someone who's not even masters. I got slaughtered. I did get entertainment out of being "favored" though.

darkscream

Canada2310 Posts

August 06 2011 23:15 GMT

#225

Best I had was in some random Z33k tournament. I ran into sixjaxCocoa, a ZvT. he killed me.

Inertiaddict

United States126 Posts

August 06 2011 23:22 GMT

#226

So far, I have a couple modest achievements, but they make me happy.

1. I am a moderator for Trump's stream chat.
2. I played a 2v2 with 4K.Warden (though he was xiWarden, at the time) because I answered a trivia question correctly in his stream chat.

Edit: 10/29/2011
3. Recently become a mod for Liquid'Jinro and TSL_Polt!!!

It's my way of trying to help them for helping me (by just being awesome!).

GMonster

686 Posts

August 06 2011 23:29 GMT

#227

i played Orb infront of my Idol, Tyler on incontrol's stream
was too nervous that i couldn't even make scv's

VATO_Gandair

United States232 Posts

August 06 2011 23:45 GMT

#228

A few months ago I started doing amateur media work with Starcarft 2. I went to MLG Columbus and local LANs and met a lot of players. However at this last MLG in Anaheim I saw TLO and approached him. After introducing myself again he asked, "Are you coming to all the MLGs?". He recognized me from when we met in Columbus and that was super-awesome.

SilentShout

686 Posts

August 06 2011 23:46 GMT

#229

I said good luck to Ret before one of his games once. Crazy story, I know.

Aegeis

United States1619 Posts

August 07 2011 00:08 GMT

#230

On my way to MLG anaheim in the morning I passed by the Fnatic team and tried to control myself. Saturday I went to go get pizza and Kiwikiaki/Slush were in line so I held in my inner fan girl.

Leeoku

1617 Posts

August 07 2011 00:14 GMT

#231

i once checked psy starcraft before his stream became huge and i talked to him for 5 mins while he was setting up our stream =p

drdreggor

Sweden207 Posts

August 07 2011 00:18 GMT

#232

Talked to the guy who made the Dignitas video of MLG (always forget his name lol), at dreamhack and complimented him on a job well done, he was thankfull and tired as hell I believe

Also talked a bit with Thorzain at Dreamhack and said he was providing great games, he was kinda down and said he hoped to show some better games etc. He looked so startled

epidGoaty

United States219 Posts

August 07 2011 00:25 GMT

#233

I suppose I have a small contribution... I am the reason slayersdragon has a banner and background for his stream channel lol xD

No pants, fighting!

Echuu

Sweden42 Posts

August 07 2011 00:26 GMT

#234

My best moments of meeting pro gamers were at Dreamhack summer 2011. Me and my brother volunteered for Dreamhack as interviewers in the Arena section. We interview LaLush and MorroW among others in SC2 and other games, and had a long chat with morrow after his interview. Around the event i didn't wanna bother the gamers for pics / signings cause they always looked so busy

Right after the finals in the arena we hung out back stage and day9 walks in, so we talked to him about the finals and he was ecstatic, jumping around couldn't believe that 6pool in the final game. But the best moment must have been to get to film my brother interview HuK minutes after his win. The video is below.

Skopey

United Kingdom70 Posts

August 07 2011 00:31 GMT

#235

Artosis made me a soundbite:

Oh and White-ra was going to come on my stream when I did a 24 hour charity marathon, but ended up not doing so. I think he was too busy but was way too mannered to say no at the time. I still love him.

slmw

Finland233 Posts

August 07 2011 00:38 GMT

#236

Just met NaDa at Assembly, took a picture with him and he signed my Terran shirt. <3
The best tournament ever.

Saicam

262 Posts

August 07 2011 00:38 GMT

#237

I played vs select and idra :D

Inkarnate

Canada840 Posts

August 07 2011 00:41 GMT

#238

I want to a SSBM/SSBB tournament at HungryBox's house in Orlando.

Then I met the koreans at Columbus ^.^

Katvin

Canada12 Posts

August 07 2011 00:42 GMT

#239

Not irl experiences, but Grubby has tweeted me back a bunch of times and always seems to make an effort to respond to his fans. Very small gestures from him like that mean a lot to fanboys like me. Also, Wolf was spoiling GSL games in his twitter so I tweeted him and told him it was bad. He didn't reply but he stopped spoiling as much so I guess he's OK.

PikQ

Finland9 Posts

August 07 2011 00:44 GMT

#240

At Assembly summer last friday, I was watching the Asus ROG tournament live and was reserving a seat for my friend when out of nowhere Dimaga comes and asks if he can take the seat. Then I utterly pwn him by telling him that it's reserved.Then he takes the one next to it. :D