[JaggerZerg]

When was the first time you wanted yo play Sc2 more than a game? (odd question, but i would like to see some odd answers :P) I will go first

I use to be a crappy silver player but for some reason i got Gold and then i knew that i was good enough to go EVEN HIGHER!!! So now i play all the time and fell in love with Sc2



You guys probably think i am odd.....If you were at the Melbourne lan a couple of weeks ago you would have seen me play Up town girl full blast while playing

[Phek]

Hahahahha. SC2 Is amazing with the way you can fall in love with it and have such a strong passion about it.

[ToRMaverick]

This thread is weird!

Cant say I have ever cuddled up to this game, but if it puts out... i want to know.

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Trinion:

You mean you never got tucked into bed by your copy of Starcraft ? :O

[Malice]

My answer is pretty weird too. The day I played in the Dox Cup #2 qualifiers, as just a lowly sea mid masters player, I went through the day pretty much crushing face, and the people who qualified were the top 8 from the winners bracket, and top 8 from the losers bracket, I made it to the ro8 in the winner bracket, then fell to the losers bracket and lost again, but it didn't matter, I qualified.

I didn't know many good players back then, and I wasn't really a part of sc2sea, I was more a lurker, kind of...
Anyway, the next day was a bunch of invited players + others that qualified, and at the time, I thought half the people that qualified were kinda scrubby like me. I got owned by PiG in the winner bracket, then in the losers bracket I won against a mid GM 2-0, when I was just a masters player. This is the time when I realised I can play this game, and things like doing well in tournaments gave me this amazing feeling of achievement. The next round I got 2-0'd by Incontrol, which I didn't mind. I went back and looked at the brackets a few weeks ago, and realised that I was the odd one out in the premier bracket. Everybody else I know, and I know they are very good players, and I was there, just an average masters player, made it into the premier bracket.
I don't think I had an easy run in the qualifiers either, I beat some GMs as a masters player, which made me pretty happy at the time. I guess I was just on my game for those two days.

http://challonge.com/doxcup2open
http://challonge.com/doxcup2
Those were the two brackets, and even to this day, like ten months later, I'm still proud of my noob effort :P

[VB_Inter]

I never played SC1 or BW, only ever played Red alert 2 as a RTS when i was younger, A mate got me into sc2 and i wasn't really that excited but i went with it. We only ever did 2v2 and were trying to get out of bronze when i saw a Archon. My self playing protoss and this big blue glowing thingy killing our armys. i had to google how to make it but it was a eye catcher.

[Legionnaire]

sc2 hasn't happend. But i'll do my story.

I was overseas in Europe in the Netherlands i believe, and I was at someones house and i saw a game with such incredible graphics. Not only that, when i selected a unit and told it to do something, it moved in real time. It was incredible. Mind blowing in fact. I spent the next 2 days playing it non stop. That game was Warcraft 1. (i was a little kid)

I forgot about it. Many years passed. I was in high school, i was at Harvey Normans one day and saw a pretty looking game box with an orc on it. (yes i judge things by their covers) The game was WarCraft II, and the memories flooded back. I bought the game and enjoyed it. I was the best of my friends but nothing beyond that (no bnet back then). It was lots of fun, and the graphics were so good. But it was only soso (orcs overpowered), as there was nothing to strive for i guess. Still lots of fun in it.

Along came Starcraft. I bought it immediately. I loved it, the constant battles, the macro, the micro, it was the perfect blend of strategy, game choice and your own personality mixed together.

Also seeing Carriers in one of my first FFA's helped... what a cool unit! And then (the same game) the tanks changing into, and out of siege mode! OMFG. Then it had 3 unique playing styles for the races!!@#$!!. That game gripped me like nothing else. I played it all i could, - not with the intention on doing anything like progaming, but just to be the best i could be at it.

Its a remarkable game, in the fact, that its so damn easy to see what areas in the game are letting you down (something sc2 really lacks) -- ie you scroll to a new base, and theres 6 probes sitting there doing nothing. This all gives you a drive to try and improve those areas and become better.

I stopped playing when i went to Uni, and broodwar was released, but i never bought it. Then i went home during the holidays, and a friend was playing broodwar, and then the ascent began.

A billion years later, and Blizzard release sc2, i bought it.

SC2 doesn't have the same effect unfortunately. The game mechanics (no high ground advantage - limiting strategies) / units (no real harass abilities, only deathballs - compared to the constant small battles in sc1 which made that game so entertaining to both play and watch) make it a mildly duller game. Much more warcraft 3 style. Still awesome and better than anything else on the market. But still.

Mild downer to end this writeup, but thats my thoughts.

I suppose, that since i had no intention in going pro from the get-go, that it probably makes my opinions on any future game less than what it would be if i did intend to go pro.

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	inFeZa:	lyk if you cry everytym
	Snx.FigJig:	@infeza good effort, better luck next time. Good post though legion! Agree with what you've said.
	AssyrianKing:	Broodwar <3 :(

[AxSGRiM]

The first time I fell in love with SC2 was watching HuK win DreamHack Winter and having the whole Liquid team just go absolutely mental. That was when I was like "**** man, this foreigner beat a korean. I hope I can do that" (Hopefully) ^^

[FS.Kezz]

The day I bought the game. I got it on the way home from Uni in October of last year, installed it and did not sleep that night as I was so immersed in the Wings of Liberty campaign.

[ToRSpookToR]

i feel in love with sc2 for a couple of reasons firstly it was BSGCL2 i had played competitively in games before but i never watched those games esports wise, BSGCL2 was awesome you had the full support of your team and i would cheer out loud when one of our guys won a game that still happens now there is nothing better then getting emotionally involved in a game of sc2 when its a great player i want to win like lucifron or SEA vs the world even when a ToR guy does well in a tournament. Another thing is getting good enough at the game to actually understand why stuff is amazing and appreciating the beauty in other peoples play i cant play any other game now sc2 is the best!

[Dox]

Holy shit, seeing those Dox Cup 2 brackets made me cringe, hahaha. Draining weekend. >_<

My story is gonna differ from most people. I'd been playing the beta almost every day since February, anticipating the July release. Finally the game launched, I got home and watched it install. Then the intro played through... and I just sat there at 2:00AM smiling like a retard before getting started on the single player campaign. My housemate sat and watched with excitement for an hour or so, but had to get up for work at 8:00AM. He woke up and I hadn't moved, still playing. When he got home from work the next night, I was still there, with 2 missions to go. I slept for 4 hours before starting the final mission and finished it the next morning. Then I played through again to get the achievements I missed. Then I did the speed run achievement. Then I finished it on Brutal. 100% of the campaign had now been completed, so I queued for my first ladder game.

It was the first and only time in my life I'd taken time off work for a game. I took off a whole month and just lived/breathed SC2 every single day. Was pretty ******* sweet. I'm anticipating the single player campaign for HOTS immensely, but most of all, I can't wait to see the new units flourishing in the GSL.

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	Malice:	So when's Dox Cup #3? :D
	FS.Kezz:	Best story of them all.

[AuXCoolpuff]

It was a cold winter day, I was flicking through youtube videos and Starcraft 2 was always the "most viewed", I was like hmmm must be good *clicks* and loved the way husky casts, the excitement and the game how hard it was to play! Happened to be a match of IdrA

Always forever in my heart.

[|Erasmus|]

For me, it was the first GSL finals...

I'd pre-ordered the collector's edition of the game, and played a few games vs. my other friend who did so with the beta, but that was about it. I enjoyed the campaign as a followup to BW. I played a few team games with my irl friends, and did my placements and got silver (the only one of said friends to do so). They all got bored of team games kinda quickly, but I still enjoyed myself and watched a few random youtube casts. There was a single thread on another forum I was on discussing starcraft, and I started reading it and replying, until one day someone mentioned this korean tournament called GSL and the finals that had just occured.

I followed the link and watched fruitdealer take down the first GSL and win ~$100k in front of a huge crowd, and was hooked... I had no idea about esports really before this (beyond the BW being south korea's national sport stereotype) and had no idea it could be this awesome. I just hope that one day I can experience something even remotely like the atmosphere at that first GSL finals live...

[Zaltias]

Ok so I was first introduced to Starcraft by one of my dad's friends actually. Would've been around 1999-2000 because I think I was 7 or so. I think before that I had only really played Command and Conquer in the realm of RTS. Anyway, the campaign was honestly one of the best things I'd ever seen in a PC game at that time (most of what I played then was standard stuff on the N64, Mario, Zelda, Donkey Kong, Star Wars Rogue Squadron haha). Another thing that really sold me was the backstory and description of all the units in the manual, I remember reading that thing for hours. There were so many cool moments, that first mission where you get ghosts and nukes, that first battlecruiser mission, Tassadar's sacrifice.

So eventually I beat the campaign and started playing multiplayer. And by play multiplayer I mean playing against the ai as I had no idea that you could play online at all. I played Protoss back then because I thought Carriers and Archons were amazing. Actually one of the biggest revelations I had as a kid was discovering that probes could actually just throw down a building and it'd finish itself. Usual strat to try beat that dastardly ai was to build mass cannons to defend until the carriers were out, with the occasional cheat or two thrown in because why not.

Eventually my love for SC was replaced by newer shinier games like Red Alert 2 and Age of Empires 2 (I mean really, I was like 7 or 8, shiny stuff is always better right?) which pretty much took up most of my spare time in custom games against ai's for the next few years.

I guess I got into the online starcraft scene with SC2 really. I started playing SC2 with a couple of friends after we finished school and decided to look up some good builds to use. Found Team Liquid right off the bat and from there found streaming and tournaments. I think it was Tasteless and Artosis that really got me to love SC2, it's just I don't even know if I have words to describe the excitement that those two are able to create. Seeing them at WCS Oceania kinda ignited a passion to try play a lot more, started going to/participating in a few uni starcraft things which have been really awesome, went to my first lan meetup about a month ago and it was really fun, so shoutout to SCS if anyone reads this haha.

One of the most amusing things to me was just how big Broodwar was, it turned about to be something much more than building cannons and carriers against the ai. It pretty much became an institution. And that's brilliant.

Blimey this was longer than I intended hahahahahahaha

[Hunter999]

I started at "BroodWar" long time ago, then I start to play WarCraft 3, and Dota, and when StarCraft 2 came out, I continue my journey with StarCraft. I played Diablo 3 as well.

Man.. I was all into Blizzard, not just StarCraft :P

But I still think StarCraft 2 is the best game for me and for everyone else.

It just won't get old.

Cheers guys!

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nirvAnA:

lol that signature!