Hello

It is well known that many Starcraft 2 players did indeed play Brood War before they jumped into Blizzards next big RTS title. I've scanned through the forums and I cannot find a post about this yet, neither can I find one on [image loading]

Liquipedia.

I recently found out that (Wiki)

MMA used to play in SKT1 under the name (Wiki)

1988. Similarly a few weeks ago I understood that (Wiki)

Rain (Korean Protoss), a rather new player in the SC2 spotlight, used to be (Wiki)

By.Sun. With the kespa invasion, I found it interesting to make such a post to have a place to refer to, when in doubt. But also because nostalgia is incredibly awesome and to gather all the info/memories regarding this topic from forum people in one place seems mighty fun.

The idea is simple. I'll list all the replies in this post, starting with the two mentioned. Let the info hail!

Brood War Starcraft 2

Killer (Korean player)

Rain (Korean Protoss)

Names unchanged:

Brood War Starcraft 2

Warcraft 3

Warcraft 3 Starcraft 2

Demuslim

Happy (Russian player)

Titan (Russian player)

Other games (if some games outgrow this consolidation it'll get it's own list!).

Dawn of War

Select

Supreme Commander

TLO

DotA

BabyKnight

Company of Heroes

HuK

Command and Conquer

Apollo

There are no restrictions what so ever. Players swapping games during SC2 beta or kespa invasionists? Just as equal!

Any game will be listed.

Instead of asking "Why is not player X and Z on the list?", post info about the player stating game (race for brood war and warcraft 3) and name changes.

Best
Kim

Game

3191 Posts

October 29 2012 10:02 GMT

Rain also used to be Fs.Rain

Ero-Sennin

United States756 Posts

October 29 2012 10:06 GMT

Nestea = zergbong

Glioburd

France1911 Posts

October 29 2012 10:16 GMT

TSL

Killer was eSTRO (P)

SangHo.

red4ce

United States7313 Posts

October 29 2012 10:27 GMT

This is gonna be a long list, 70% of the best players in the Korean SC2 scene came from BW. It'd be easier to do a list of players who didn't come from BW.

lookfirewood

1212 Posts

October 29 2012 10:37 GMT

On October 29 2012 19:27 red4ce wrote:
This is gonna be a long list, 70% of the best players in the Korean SC2 scene came from BW. It'd be easier to do a list of players who didn't come from BW.

A long list is a good list. The goal is not to gather everyone like so (even though that'll be a product of this thread), but merely to know who's who. If they changed name or not. Making a list witheveryone NOT coming from Brood War or Warcraft 3 is not helping in this cause.

But I see your concern!

But I stick to it: A long list is a good list!

best
Kim

Hetairoi

Sweden508 Posts

October 29 2012 10:38 GMT

IrOn -> MC

lookfirewood

1212 Posts

October 29 2012 10:40 GMT

On October 29 2012 19:02 Game wrote:
Rain also used to be Fs.Rain

No it's not. Fs.Rain's birthdate on 1988, the By.Sun version of Rain came to life 1992. Seems unlikely

Eventho it could be I typo on tlpd.

best
Kim

silent_owl

Philippines3098 Posts

October 29 2012 10:43 GMT

Seriously?

silent_owl

Philippines3098 Posts

October 29 2012 10:44 GMT

#10

What is this song? This metal song with the lady singing.

EDIT: Sorry, wrong thread.

sluggaslamoo

Australia4494 Posts

October 29 2012 10:48 GMT

#11

We should do ones where the names actually changed. Otherwise we'd have about 200. T_

BaskinRobbins/Clare/EllenPage = MKP
Iron = MC

501TFX

Austria345 Posts

October 29 2012 10:49 GMT

#12

Wasn't MarineKing known as Clare back then in MBC Game Hero?

Damnit, got sniped

Shana

Indonesia1814 Posts

October 29 2012 10:55 GMT

#13

M18M is

Sson

Ribbon

United States5278 Posts

October 29 2012 10:58 GMT

#14

I feel like this thread belongs in the SC2 forum.

Nevertheless, before it's moved, all the GSL finalists in chronological order, from Liquipedia.

Fruitdealer used to be called Cool

Hopetoture used to be Rainbow (he since changed his name back to Rainbow, to the joy of the foreign scene. This led me to presume Starcraft players needed girly names, and to change my ID to Ribbon)

MarineKing used to be Claire, a B-teamer

Nestea was Zergbong, a 2v2 player turned joke 1v1 player.

MC was Iron

Rain (the Terran) was apparently never a BW player, according to Liquipedia? That seems wrong.

MVP was on Stars, and a legit A-teamer, but I'm not sure what his ID was

July was kind of a big deal in BW

No idea about Inca, but does anyone care?

Polt was a WC3 pro

MMA was an SKT1 B-teamer

Losira was Thunder, a B-teamer on Oz.

I don't know about TOP

Leenock was A rank in ICCUP, but never joined a team

Don't know about Jjakji

DRG "played BW competitively", but wasn't a pro.

Genius is endless and forever

Don't know about Seed

Life was literally in diapers during the first OSL, and might seriously have never played BW competitively at even an amateur level.

killer1nz

New Zealand164 Posts

October 29 2012 11:03 GMT

#15

Mvp = Mvp

fold

Australia665 Posts

October 29 2012 11:17 GMT

#16

On October 29 2012 19:40 lookfirewood wrote:

Show nested quote +

No it's not. Fs.Rain's birthdate on 1988, the By.Sun version of Rain came to life 1992. Seems unlikely

Eventho it could be I typo on tlpd.

best
Kim

They have different korean names too.

501TFX

Austria345 Posts

October 29 2012 11:19 GMT

#17

On October 29 2012 19:58 Ribbon wrote:
Genius is endless and forever

... what?

red4ce

United States7313 Posts

October 29 2012 11:29 GMT

#18

Taken from what I know of last season's code S players, excepting people already mentioned earlier in the thread.

(Z)

Symbol was a b teamer for Hwaseung Oz known as (Z)

Neel

Bomber was a b teamer for estro known as (T)

Fancy

Squirtle was a b teamer on WeMadeFox. No idea what his id was.

(T)

Heart was a b-teamer for Hwaseung Oz known as link.

Liquid (P)

HerO was a Lecaf Oz b teamer, kept his id.

(P)

PartinG,

Ryung,

YoDa were all BW b teamers but I don't know for what teams or what their handles were.

red4ce

United States7313 Posts

October 29 2012 11:50 GMT

#19

Some more

Oz was called Haksoo and Secret. Breif A teamer for OGN/Hite Sparkyz.

(P)

CranK was a b teamer on SKT, dunno what his id was.

(T)

PuMa was an A teamer for Estro and Sparkyz, kept his id.

(P)

First was briefly on KT Rolser's A team. Known as (P)

Anyppi

Kespa players who switched names

(T)

Ty was known as (T)

BaBy. Actually he's still known as Baby in the foreign scene despite specifically expressing his desire for people to use Ty.

(P)

sOs was known as (P)

sHy. Plays for Woongjin Stars

Epoxide

Magic Woods9326 Posts

October 29 2012 11:59 GMT

#20

On any notable player on LP2 there is a link at the top saying something like: "To see x Brood War career check y(link to x's LP1 article)"

Clare was Protoss in bw