Brushes with SC2 Fame...

Got TLO to sign the top of my laptop at the GSL.
Got a picture with Fruitdealer.
Had dinner and interviewed Torch and Seltzer.
Interviewed Tastosis and Idra.
Walked behind Tastosis in Shinchon. (>.> Not creepy stalker like I promise. Friend and I were coming out of the subway and we were heading back to our dorm. Halfway there, we realized the people in front of us were Tastosis. Chickened out and didn't say anything though

Took pictures for my friend Gimble of him and Jinro and Huk.

Tl:dr; What do you do when you study abroad? Starcraft stuff.

Kazeyonoma

United States2912 Posts

August 06 2011 00:12 GMT

#146

hung out with entire FXO team, as well as kiwikaki, TT1, and all of team Dignitas, and their manager. and got into the IPL Pro lounge.

Had a few drinks with Kiwi and team FXO, TT1, SeleCt, and others, before management came and took our booze away.

Also witnessed Choya mistake a can of Burner Fuel (the stuff they use to keep food trays hot) for dip, and dip his nacho chip into it, AND eat it before I could slap it out of his hand. I felt terrible, and tried to warn him what he just did, but he realized (in what seemed like super slow motion) what just happened, and he began to dry heave, we rushed him to the restroom but the IPL lounge was a closed set for recording, and they had locked us in. We ended up having to open the door anyways because he was feeling really sick, and he got out but we got yelled at by the IPL recording staff.

Also got to hang out with milkis and many others, and he helped us get Ganzi's autograph!

Also met: Liquid Jinro, Liquid TLO (who knows me now because i stalked him at blizzcon!), Liquid Ret, Liquid Haypro, EG.Incontrol (we both got ice cream at the IPL lounge at the same time and we briefly talked), Alicia, MMA laughed at me when I asked if I could take a picture of him while he was warming up as he was being rather shy, Moletrap, PeanutSC, White-Ra, Rain, DRG, and Sheth!

There's probably a lot more from what happened at MLG Anaheim, but it was awesome, and all thanks to my friend who knew all of the pros and introduced me to them. Awesome friend, and awesome pro players for being so chill. Shoutouts to :

Milkis, SloG, Optik, Oz, Moonan, qxc, tgun, unstable, Choya, Steak/Stalife/Steaklife, Slush, Kiwi, TT1, SeleCT, Naniwa, SjoW (It's sjowtime!), Merz, and their team manager Odee who was SUPER awesome (but a billiards shark!) who hung out with us all weekend!

SlapMySalami

United States1060 Posts

August 06 2011 00:12 GMT

#147

i msged day9 and said i whip my hair grack and forth and it is forever archived in a daily

i say on incontrols stream "turn ur keyboard down its too loud" and hes like wow i love how people demand things when you're streaming

i told artosis he made a typo in his post once AND he messaged me back

i tried to tell day9 in one of his dailies he said you could select literally infinite units with this engine but i went to fastest map and its really only like 500 overlords max.. i didnt even get a response from the sean himself tho

CameronJ

United States57 Posts

August 06 2011 00:12 GMT

#148

Talked to Day9 multiple times IRL.
Destiny and I talked for like 10 seconds.
Met Tastosis (I was probably blushing the whole time)
Sheth is awesome
Ret is also awesome
Took a group photo with Boxer, so handsome
IdrA's quite mannered IRL. I was surprised
Puma autographed my mouse pad, cool guy
Incontrol is super mannered. Awesome dude.
Machine is super cool, same with Spanishiwa

Tablespoon

Norway223 Posts

August 06 2011 00:14 GMT

#149

I've stood in line for the toilet with Sjow and Thorzain once at a lan.

phiinix

United States1169 Posts

August 06 2011 00:18 GMT

#150

I got beat by kiwikaki in a customs game on lost temple back in season 1

NoMicroWin

United States688 Posts

August 06 2011 00:19 GMT

#151

Got a game casted of mine on PsYStarcraft's Youtube channel (not quite a "pro" persay, but its cool to have a Youtube video of you playing and 28k views on it)

Got iNcontrol to respond to a private message I sent to him, with him simply saying "Erotic :D"

Megakenny

Canada829 Posts

August 06 2011 00:20 GMT

#152

I met Huk at Blizzcon, he signed my shirt.

justindab0mb

United States213 Posts

August 06 2011 00:27 GMT

#153

I played against "liquid travis" I think his name was? He's a mod here on TL but at first I thought he was actually someone from "team liquid"

fail haha. He seemed like he was really pissed off and he BM'd me though

But afterwards he apologized

Sc2ggRise

United States607 Posts

August 06 2011 00:57 GMT

#154

firebathero sent me a message back on twitter :D

agtemd

Canada362 Posts

August 06 2011 01:02 GMT

#155

I've congratulated Huk on wins and cheered him on on his facebook more than once and i've got replies for everyone

Also met Optikzero in a 3v3 with some friends, we didn't think it was the real one and happened to decide to early pool. We also happened to gang up at optik's base in which me and my other friend decided to do the hatch cancel creep trick and make spines there. He quickly ragequit

muffley

United States280 Posts

August 06 2011 01:04 GMT

#156

Second day of release I played Kiwikaki on Delta Quadrant.

NostalgiaTag

Canada508 Posts

August 06 2011 01:04 GMT

#157

So here's my brush with fame. Last year July before there were too many tournaments out I hosted and ran a tournament with a bunch of big names, one of which was Huk before he blew up with fame.Here's the interview. This is just before release so its interesting to listen to the strategies pre release and now a year after.

Skip to 8:10 for the start of the interview.
http://www.livestream.com/nostalgiatag/video?clipId=pla_ba25a588-e1df-4897-9fba-e3e7edaf8ea0

Enderbantoo

United States465 Posts

August 06 2011 01:05 GMT

#158

I had sushi with day9 some random spring break. i got a picture with flash (hell ya bw). And im going to PL finals today =]

NintendoStar

United States217 Posts

August 06 2011 01:06 GMT

#159

I met Day9 at IEM New York, but my camera didnt work so I couldn't get a picture. Then I played him on 4v4 ladder while I was playing with some friends. I played JP on ladder a few weeks ago while he was streaming. I also went to a lan event with slog, moonan, and pokebunny. My friend also met White-Ra at complete random in the subway while he was in New York, and got his autograph and talked for about half an hour.

sylenazeur

United States10 Posts

August 06 2011 01:23 GMT

#160

Met and had Husky commentate the 2v2 Tournament in the PAX 2010 BYOC event (managed to even get 2nd place with a random on the spur partner I didn't know lawl)...

Got to go to a Starcraft 2 Design Presentation by Dustin Browder at GDC 2011, and managed to ask him why the Design team chose the Dark Shrine as the only building in the entire game without an Upgrade-able ability (while we all scurried onto our next Talks/Presentations). To which he replied... "We couldn't find an upgrade that would have been suitable, and not all buildings had to have an ability upgrade."

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