Back in early beta I got matched against the likes of iNcontrol and ViBE and a few others quite frequently, I talked to them and was all giddy while playing. For some reason I specially remember ViBE, because I played him so many times in both 1v1 and 2v2, he ALWAYS destroyed me.

edit: I will be at Blizzcon 2011 (2 days after returning from Iraq for the past year) hopefully I will have many more PRO stories

Triscuit

United States722 Posts

August 05 2011 21:16 GMT

#62

I met every progamer that went to MLG Dallas 2010 (Ret, IdrA, Jinro, and iNcontroL were notably fucking nice although all of them were really nice people), as well as djWHEAT, JP, and Day[9]. Actually djWHEAT and Day[9] hung out with me and a few other fans from the Texas eSports Association (a University of Texas at Austin student organization) for maybe half an hour? (maybe more like 15 minutes, I don't remember) the first night we were there.

Needless to say MLG even a few events ago was vastly different from the MLG we just had last weekend. At MLG Dallas 2010 there were basically a few hundred fans and when we were sitting on the floor watching games I looked around and Day9, Gretorp, IdrA, and Tyler were all like within arms reach of me. That probably wouldn't happen again at an MLG, lol.

nemui

United States17 Posts

August 05 2011 21:16 GMT

#63

I passd by White-ra in the bathroom at MLG Anaheim

Got a pic with MMA, Alicia, Jinro, and Huk

Jinro, Huk, and MMA were super nice about getting pictures and general fan interaction.

I felt bad asking Milkis to take a pic with Alicia. He seemed pretty annoyed and said "You know you can do it at 10" and refused to help take a pic with a friend and I.

Shellshock

United States97276 Posts

August 05 2011 21:18 GMT

#64

My friend randomly invited Liquid Ret to our party just to see how he would respond. He ended up joining and was like 3v3 gogogogogo so we played some 3s with him :D 3-0

DarkPlasmaBall

United States44376 Posts

August 05 2011 21:21 GMT

#65

At MLG Columbus, I met most of the pro-gamers and got to talk to them for a bit. I was surprised at how easy it was to get a hold of them between matches. I got pics with everyone I talked to, but my brother messed up a bunch of them

I'll post the good ones.

At Columbus, my brother and I shared a room that was right across the hall from Root- our favorite team. Pics ensued:

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Also, we literally shared the hotel elevator with all the Koreans. It was so amazing

They were so nice- especially MMA and Losira. I think MC's game face is permanently stuck on him though:

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I also talked to- and got pics with- all of EG, who was perhaps the nicest team I had gotten the chance to have discussions with that day. Every person on EG (iNcontroL, idrA, Axslav, LZ, Machine, etc.) introduced themselves by their first name and asked for my first name, and then some small talk occasionally ensued.

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I was fortunate enough to, of course, find a lot of the Team Liquid players (although, interestingly enough, never with my TL shirt on). I also saw Hot Bid running around, and I got to shake his hand

TLO had a wonderful night the previous evening, by the way...

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I also got to chat with Naniwa, Thorzain, and Morrow about how well they thought they would do (but unfortunately, those pics were epic fails). I then got to meet Tasteless, Artosis, Day[9], and DJ Wheat, (and my younger brother messed up my pics with Day[9] x.x), talked with Day[9] about mathematics and Day[9] Dailies, I got several compliments from Tastosis regarding my shirt (I was labeled as quite the Handsome Nerd

), and I talked with Artosis about going chargelot-archon in PvP

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The supercaster and ambassador of e-sports, however blurry he may be...

Gettin' nerdchills:

My TL profile pic:

MLG Columbus was fucking amazing ♥ I can't wait for MLG Providence.

Strike_

Netherlands704 Posts

August 05 2011 21:25 GMT

#66

I've been intimate with a picture of day9 once...

PaperLuigi

United States95 Posts

August 05 2011 21:27 GMT

#67

On August 06 2011 05:03 LeglessPuppy wrote:
Back in March we had a little tourney here in Arizona and EGIdrA and SirScoots (along with Gatored, SKU, and a few others) were all there. Before I had met idra irl I had only known him through the BM games that HD and Husky casted of him. After meeting him he really is a nice guy and I got to play a match vs him just so I could say I played vs IdrA. He just played normally while I just fooled around (ended up crushing me lol).

2 months later I went to another one we had here and I got to meet Machine and Inka.

Hey I was there too :3
I was the nerd that won the eg mousepad.

DeltruS

Canada2214 Posts

August 05 2011 21:32 GMT

#68

http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=220932
Brush with SC2 fame...?

^_^
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Zbrush at least.

XazXio

United States356 Posts

August 05 2011 21:36 GMT

#69

Played 2 games vs Day[9] in sc1
Played a few games vs Louder in sc1 (Extra points if you know who he is)
Played Kawaii too many times in sc1 too :p thats about it
Asked idra for a game and called stork a chobo.

DoubleZee

Canada556 Posts

August 05 2011 21:36 GMT

#70

I told incontrol to storm the hydras instead of the roaches when he asked the stream why he lost a game. He raged pretty hard, so naturally I trolled him by saying "u mad?"...He banned me from the chat...then ranted about how he only was constructive criticism and not trolling, using my first and second comments as examples for both...lawl

ptrpb

Canada753 Posts

August 05 2011 21:37 GMT

#71

I admined a clan war for wbc and Capoch!
Yeah not much, being in Northern Ontario sucks.

RedJustice

United States1004 Posts

August 05 2011 21:38 GMT

#72

Huk posted in my boy blogs?

Also I managed to get on the phone with Sheth's friend TWICE the night they were all really drunk and Sheth gave his number out, lol.

Lastly... I knew CatsPajamas before he had e-fame... his voice is cheesecake, and he will always remember me for playing on my trackpad. XDD

GoSh4rks

United States11 Posts

August 05 2011 21:39 GMT

#73

Was on Skype with FXOwolf last week together with a few of my friends for two hours. Ended up laddering some 3v3s with him and a friend.

DuckS

United States845 Posts

August 05 2011 21:42 GMT

#74

Not much really

unless you count playing a lot of very strong players, or pros, in tournies

ReturnStroke

United States801 Posts

August 05 2011 21:42 GMT

#75

On August 06 2011 05:08 Probe1 wrote:
I once posted in the same thread as Hot_Bid.
..
...
Yeah i'm legit.

Yeah, this is about the extent of my esports fame

I used to play pros a lot online in my halo days, but that's it.

EDIT: Fixed grammatical error.

Inschato

Canada1349 Posts

August 05 2011 21:42 GMT

#76

I did some funday monday stuff with Socke (It didn't make the daily) one time

http://www.sc2replayed.com/replays/87884-4v4-terran-protoss-zerg-lava-flow

iiifated

United States76 Posts

August 05 2011 21:48 GMT

#77

I was walking into the bathroom at MLG Anaheim right before the WhiteRa and Drewbie match. WhiteRa walks out and passes me. I turn and yell, "WhiteRa, good luck!" and do the double thumbs up. He turns around, yells "Thanks!" and does the double thumbs up.

I washed my hands next to TLO in the bathroom right before his match against InControl. I was so nervous I asked him if he was still in the tournament even though I knew he was playing next.

I saw Tyler and his wife walking towards my direction and I said "OMG It's Tyler!" I think he probably heard me and I was going to ask for a picture but judging from his facial expression he didn't want to be bothered so I just awkwardly watched him walk pass me.

I didn't take any pictures with progamers but I took many creepy secret pictures of progamers.

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branflakes14

2082 Posts

August 05 2011 21:51 GMT

#78

I held a 4gate from a the mouz coach, Bumblebee, on the ladder.

In a PvP!

cYaN

Norway3322 Posts

August 05 2011 21:51 GMT

#79

I once stood next to Trek. Beat that with a stick^^

That was pretty awesome, but I guess it was when I played Sven and Slayer in the 2v2 tournament at TG i dunno... 10 years ago? Or when I was in Korea during MBC vs SKT in PL and I held up a sign saying 'Sea fighting' and the camera shifted to him.. then he waved, but then got embarrassed and the camera just stayed on him. lol.

hmmmz... i guess they are all bw people..... oh well

Qumquat

Israel353 Posts

August 05 2011 21:52 GMT

#80

On August 06 2011 05:54 Mr.Brightside wrote:

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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.

Damn, just looked at his record on Liquipedia O.o . Weird that I never heard about him. Finally have a proplayer to look for here