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KingkOng: STX Soul, Startale, Straya
 

Back in June, I recorded a few videos with Sam about how he started playing StarCraft and the crazy things that occurred once he got good at it. It was highly illuminating for me, especially since I only knew very basic outlines of his career prior to this.

He talks in depth about training hard to get his progamer license, then joining a legendary team STX Soul (that is sadly now defunct). He also talks about what happens inside Korean Gaming Houses: the jealousy, the players who didn't train very hard etc. Of course there's the transition into SC2 when it came out and his time on Startale, and all the way to what he's doing now and why he came to take our jobs :P

Please watch and share the videos, hope you enjoy them

[sorry for my silly way of talking... i don't know why i just can't help emulating his accent >.<]

Re: KingkOng: STX Soul, Startale, Straya
 

It was fun for me and Ryan to actually learn about Kingkong's past, pretty cool to hear he was the number 1 ranked amateur and got to pick which KeSPA team he could join!

Re: KingkOng: STX Soul, Startale, Straya
 

this was really good and really interesting to learn about Kingkong

Re: KingkOng: STX Soul, Startale, Straya
 

Yeah really respected his brood war career a lot after listening to him. So interesting to hear about his time with STX and as an amateur.

Re: KingkOng: STX Soul, Startale, Straya
 

Awesome interviews. Sam is such an interesting guy

I remember when I was talking to him about SC2 in StarTale house and he was always #1 in the internal rankings and practice and finished iGM on Korean Server rank 1 three seasons in a row!! But even tho he was so good, he couldn't control his nerves in GSL qualifiers and never got into GSL. I'm sure if he did, he would have been one of the best eSF players!!

Always cheering for you Sam!

Re: KingkOng: STX Soul, Startale, Straya
 

Great Interviews. Good to hear more about Sam's past! Hopefully he can soon show the world what we have been lucky to view all the time