Last year I was in a journalism class and I wanted to write as many ESPORTS related articles for my school's paper as my teacher would allow (turns out that number is quite a lot). My first article had something to do with casters and to get an interview I sent emails/youtube messages to Day9/Husky/HD/Psy. Psy was the only one to email me back and he was mad chill. Answered all of my questions and stuff.

Few months later my friend ran into him during an FFA and they started talking after.

Thobrik

Sweden1120 Posts

August 05 2011 23:37 GMT

#122

A friend and I decided to go TLO-gaming-house-hunting as we had a vague idea of where the place was located. Before, we had looked at google maps for over 3 hours (not even kidding) without finding a house that matched the pictures we found on TL.com.

We grabbed our bikes and found the house hardly believed our eyes when the 10th or so house we looked at turned out to be it! We didn't dare to knock as it'd feel a bit stalkerish, stood and felt stupid for like 5 minutes until we decided that we'd come back later with a gift of some sort.

I kinda forgot about the whole thing until my "friend"(!) told me he went there with another guy, and they were the first ever fans to be let into the house!!! Damn him to hell!

I guess it wasn't really a close encounter for me in that sense but it counts for something

Talin

Montenegro10532 Posts

August 05 2011 23:40 GMT

#123

Uh, Nazgul replied to my forum post. That's pretty much it.

(hi Nazgul!)

tok

United States691 Posts

August 05 2011 23:40 GMT

#124

Before CellaWeRRa was on slayers and he was streaming on NA I had him as a friend and we played 3 games on his stream, I lose all 3 but I had a blast. Holy check.

Adrenaline Seed

United States194 Posts

August 05 2011 23:42 GMT

#125

One of my co-workers I work with every day heard I was into SC and he just happens to mention that his son is Artosis. Small world, especially since I live in Cali.

Demidyne

United States110 Posts

August 05 2011 23:43 GMT

#126

NASL... red shirt.. photobombed... reddit... fml

Westabizzle

Canada45 Posts

August 05 2011 23:43 GMT

#127

I played a random custom on Xel'Naga and got matched with Gretorp.

He 2rax SCV all-in'd me.

r4pture

United States397 Posts

August 05 2011 23:47 GMT

#128

I've called into Destinys stream a few times, and called djWHEAT on Weapon of Choice a few times. Discussed (rather, ranted about) language with Steven on stream and with djWHEAT I brought up the "possible bias" from the EG/Milkis drama and had a nice discussion. Thats about it.

geno

United States1404 Posts

August 05 2011 23:49 GMT

#129

I got a cool SC2 poster signed by savior, nada, and yellow back when they competed in Blizzcon for BW!

Who would have known at that time one would be disavowed by the community, one would switch over to SC2 full time, and the third would ... well we'll see!

DueleR

United States207 Posts

August 05 2011 23:49 GMT

#130

I played SC and then BW from 1998 to 2001 or so at a decent level. Hung out in all the really old school channels that were around back then (nohunters, x17, etc) and then moved on to Kali when all the pros migrated there. You would see people like elky, rekrul, grrr, 1st~tsunami, tillerman, eVERLAST, (orky)asmodey, lots and lots of old school pros I can't remember, hanging around in those channels and on Kali.

Played against fairly high level old school players, xDs guys back when they were one of the top foreign clans, SuperCondomUser (wonder what ever happened to him?)...others I can't remember. Lots of fun memories.

Nothing really in SC2 except taking games off low GM players occasionally on ladder...I'm too old now, not enough time to play as much as I would like.

rolfe

United Kingdom1266 Posts

August 05 2011 23:50 GMT

#131

only via twitter but i've been tweeted by cliiiiiiide, byun and huk. ballers all

laLAlA[uC]

Canada963 Posts

August 05 2011 23:51 GMT

#132

I met this guy whos ID is laLAlA[uC]. He's pretty famous and I was pretty amazed.

I j/k.In all seriousness, I have Huk on facebook. That's about it :D

wah00

United States25 Posts

August 05 2011 23:52 GMT

#133

I had a great conversation 2 times with Qxc during MLG Anaheim on day 3. The first conversation was during the hour long boxer vs rain match and he gave me a full analysis, the second conversation I asked him if he could beat MMA in a mixed martial arts match (I asked because he stated previously he's studied jiu-jitsu and MMA has used to be a mma fighter).

More details on my blog
http://www.teamliquid.net/blog/wahoo

MaFFGeeK

United States47 Posts

August 05 2011 23:53 GMT

#134

I had to play FXOz in the first round of a TL Open. He just 3 gate/stargate all ined me and my 2 rax was crushed

FliedLice

Germany7494 Posts

August 05 2011 23:54 GMT

#135

On August 06 2011 08:40 Talin wrote:
Uh, Nazgul replied to my forum post. That's pretty much it.

(hi Nazgul!)

he even temp banned me once! :|
HA!

katzby

United States110 Posts

August 05 2011 23:55 GMT

#136

I was part of White-Ra's entourage for MLG Anaheim, sorta helping him out. He's super chill and he loves his Korean BBQ. On his last day in California, I picked out a great place for all of us to eat, but traffic was heavy so we didn't make it

I shook hands with IdrA at a tourney, got his autograph, and told him I loved his stream and that I almost failed studying for my final exam when he finally got to streaming for the first time in a long while. He's so polite and he's got the most piercing blue eyes, I was like @______@

I also spoke with the some of the rest of EG, EGDeMuslim and Lz I think. So mannered~

Met a lot of Team Reign members at MLG Anaheim, they were fun

Kiwi remembered my battle.net name at the TL lounge kickback thing, but I don't think he remembered my name haha.

I hung out with most of the FXO Koreans like Slog, Oz, Moonan even though my Korean is bad, they were hilarious though a bit drunk haha.

SigmaoctanusIV

United States3313 Posts

August 05 2011 23:55 GMT

#137

Pretty cool stories, kind of weird to think how celebrity Starcraft pros are nowadays. I have met with all of Quantic gaming, Talked with Sen, MC, Ret, at NASL. Met Geoff 3 times now, Sean 4 times and he even has the sign my fiance made for him in his room still. Talked with Machine a couple times. The most famous player ever CFTrident is a buddy of mine

Soulish

Canada1403 Posts

August 05 2011 23:57 GMT

#138

I played a GM called JediGameR or something offracing in custom. I was stomping him quite hard and he said something like "Are you mad you'll never be in GM?" lol

hunts

United States2113 Posts

August 05 2011 23:59 GMT

#139

On August 06 2011 08:57 Soulish wrote:
I played a GM called JediGameR or something offracing in custom. I was stomping him quite hard and he said something like "Are you mad you'll never be in GM?" lol

lol thats syndicate, he's basicly known for being a very mediocre cheesy player who BMs like no other.