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At Dreamhack summer a couple of months ago my computer broke down for like a day so since I couldn't play in the open tournament I went around watching games, collecting autographs and chating with some pros.
The most memorable ones were HuK, whom I approached after his games against Moon, I asked him if he won, he said yes and I asked for his autograph. He joked about if I would still have wanted it if he had lost.
I also think I really cheered up Machine, he had just been knocked out and was laddering and did pretty poorly and looked overall sad so I went up to him, asked for his autograph and said he was a great player/wished him luck. He seemed genuinely cheered up! 
I also spoke to HasuObs a couple of times, wishing him luck etc, he seems like a really cool guy! And at the end of all of this I came away with a piece of hard paper with a sick collection of autographs, I'll upload a picture later if I remember it!
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I got to thank Day 9 for getting me out of bronze once :D
Oh and also, I was the only person in the pool with the koreans (MC, Zenio, PuMa) on the last day of the nasl finals, and I just sat there watching them play like little kids, having so much fun.
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Used to talk with Gretorp a bunch, but since NASL got started he's been pretty busy. I still mod his stream chat though.
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I went to MLG Columbus and I was looking around the player stations when the doors first opened. I was setting up my keyboard etc to get a practice game in, and Day9 walks up. I get an autograph and am very happy to be able to talk to him in person.
Then Gretorp walks up, I get a picture with both, and then Day9 insists that I get a massage (IDK WHY), so both Day 9 and Gretorp begin to massage me. Never washing my shoulders again.
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Day 9 answered my question once in the daily mispronouced my name though (he said no-b-bob its really nob-bob) thats about all. living in canada sucks for meeting pro-gamers
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Honestly, nothing outside of my dreams. I don't get out enough/post enough to get noticed by the pros.
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Meeting X'Ds~Grrrr... in person along with the rest of the X'Ds~ team back in 2000 when Grrrr... was at the top of the game. Spent a week with them in Quebec. Great time.
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CatsPajamas repeated my chat joke to the 30 people watching DoA's jtv stream during a Code A broadcast that the most surreal part of watching and listening to DoA's free form MS Paint art session was having Moletrap talk over DoA again. Also the one about Huk being 6'3" with the pillow.
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I remember I met a bunch of people at PAX East this year, there was a fairly big chunk of EG there, and JP, Wheat, Day9, Pokebunny, etc. Also I just randomly saw Torch and was like, wait why's he at PAX?
Also, this is kinda funny I think. I apparently met Artosis when he went to my old house once, but I didn't know at the time lol. He was friends with my bro in high school, and my bro had a birthday party. This was back in maybe 2002-2003 ish, and I didn't really know much about BW until like 08 when my bro told me about scforall haha.
Edit: Oh and coLRyan too from NESC2League, I guess people in NH will run into everyone else in NH eventually haha.
Oh and someone at my college knew Milkis, and I played him (and got wrecked) one time. It was pretty sad how bad D- is compared to D+...
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At MLG Anaheim, I was one of the first in line to meet BoxeR, MMA, MVP, and DRG. After BoxeR finished signing my copy of SC2, I bowed to him and said "Kamsa hamnida, kwan jang nim" (Thank you, master). He pointed to himself and was like "kwan jang nim?!" MMA agreed with me and laughed:
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Not long after that, I spotted TLO and wanted to get a picture with him. When I was next, he got pulled away to the player area, but he pointed at me and said "I'll get you, I promise." Found him at the Sony Ericsson autograph signing and got this:
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I also got to meet Day[9] with my girlfriend, and we told him that our second date was watching his Valentine's Day Funday Monday (truth). He laughed and called that "erotic" while he signed my SC2 (the same one the Koreans signed!!). Then I thanked him for getting me into platinum and he fist bumped me. For the picture, there was probably a couple of inches in between us, so he was like "get in here" as he pulled us in closer:
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Definitely the best weekend of my life so far!!
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On August 06 2011 05:23 VeryAverage wrote:
I hugged JulyZerg.
Holy crap I'm jealous. Was he like a big teddybear?
On August 06 2011 05:26 Qumquat wrote:Sorta hard to meet progamers when living in Israel 
I think Osho is from Israel right? He is a pretty damn good Zerg player, he's been in a few big Euro tournaments, perhaps you can get to meet him? Organise something with the SC2 community there. You never know what could happen. For example the only really notable Australian progamer is Moonglade but I am travelling here in a Germany and I had the crazy luck of bumping into a pro. It's a small Tarsonis.
On August 06 2011 05:04 zarepath wrote:
At MLG DC I wanted a picture of IdrA, so I grabbed him and got a photo -- just of him, though, not with me. I wanted to use it for a local news blog I was going to write. So, it was kind of a weird request, and then later, on the Live on Three MLG edition, he admitted that he wondered if I'd just taken a picture of his crotch.
So my esports claim to fame is taking a picture of IdrA's crotch (even though I didn't.)
Hahahaha that's hilarious, what a great claim to fame.
On August 06 2011 05:32 Primadog wrote:
Congrats on #200!
Thanks! It's only taken me like 3 years of lurking and 1 year of posting to get there 
Great stories in here, a lot of laughs too, I'm glad people are enjoying talking about their experiences.
Lots of good publicity for Huk in here by the looks of it! He sounds like a real champ, I never know what to think of the popular pros, people online can be far different to how they are in person and sometimes people just keep up appearances to not deal with too much shit.
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On August 06 2011 05:30 eYeball wrote:Show nested quote +On August 06 2011 05:18 masterbreti wrote:
I once played in a tournament agains sheth and incontrol. incontrol cannon rushed me. Sheth was very manner and played a fun game. But destroyed me completely.
I have spoken to 2 TSL players on skype. That was fun. I regularly speak with aLive. I've spoken with Killer twice.
I've had various conversations with Koreans pros on bnet. Like.
YoDa
Happy
asd
Sickness
Bomber
I'll stop there and just say a lot. lol
Also I got coaching from Rainbow once. It was so much fun.
What did Bomber say?
I auctally was chatting with YoDa and Happy at the time. I had metioned that they both are 2 of my favourite Terrans. He chimed in and said "what about me?"
I didn't know who he was (he was using Koreans id) so I asked him and he said bomber. I check his profile and it was #2 GM at the time. So I told him I loved him (as a fan) and he thanked me. We talked about the GSL afterwords for like 10-15 mins or such until GSL came on.
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I'm such an e-fanboy (no real life experiences ;/). I had Morrow and Kellymilkies reply to posts of mine. TLO answered one of my questions on IRC and Jinro just recently replied to one of my PMs about race wars. ;x
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I went to my first ever lan event because the venue was literally 5 minutes walking from my house. I had found out the night before right after my exams at uni and you could enter at the door. First round I'm against ROOTDdoRo and I think to myself this can't actually be someone from ROOT. He was. I got owned by an inbase proxy 2gate on Scrap followed by a voidray rush on Lost Temple. If I ever make it to top Masters he's enemy number 1.
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My First Brush
I'm the guy who came up with the GSL Drinking Game idea (although I probably wasn't the first). Glad to be able to contribute to the community.
My Second Brush (shameless self plug)
I guess this kind of counts.
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This was at the NASL Gives Back event. Friends and I drove down to Santa Monica Pier to meet Gretorp, White-Ra, Sen, and Primadog. We played video games at the arcade (Gretorp stomped some noob at Street Fighter, I played an air rifle game with White-Ra, and my other friend played House of the Dead with White-Ra). Primadog took this photo so unfortunately he isn't in it
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My friend and I stood here over his shoulder and watched his game against Moon (I think it was Moon) at MLG Anaheim. It was awesome to watch him play in first person.
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Taken at MLG Anaheim. Day[9] signed my chest because my friend (who bailed on us the day before) is a huge Day[9] fan and was begging for an autographed photo. Well, he did get his autograph in a photo.
Also played Orb once in a 4v4. Got stomped :D
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I guess I have 2 claims to fame
1. Jinro replied to a PM I sent him. ^.^
2. I played against TLO/Chill/Wheat in the first 3v3 TL attack. Chill cannon rushed me. T.T
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I met and have pictures with QXC, inControl (and his hot wife), and Grubby from Dallas MLG.
I had my baby strapped to my chest, carrying him around all day. He loved it, that little nerd is going to be so spoiled!!!
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At MLG Anaheim, I was this close to Boxer (and MVP as well):
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I was pretty star struck.
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played Debo a few times while he was streaming. one time i went for FE and he went all-in and after i lost i quickly switched on his stream only to hear him say: "what an idiot, you can't FE on that map"
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