[sc2australia]

Hey everyone, I'm creating this thread primarily looking for advice as to how I can make Starcraft as big a part of my life as I would like it to be. I feel so passionate about the game and feel that the eSports scene is greatly lacking in, I’d say most of Australia, but in particular Perth. Not only is eSports greatly competitive and fun to watch/compete in, but as we can see from overseas SC2 leagues attracts big name sponsors over and over again. This leads me to believe that companies that are putting their names to highly skilled teams and leagues are definitely getting their monies worth and this needs to start happening in Australia.

Now, a little about myself. I’m currently 20 years old, living in Perth and studying chemical engineering at Curtin university. With all the SC2 content currently out I feel as though I could watch SC related content from the countless highly competitive leagues going on such as the GSL, NASL, TSL 3 all the way to well known casters such as Husky, HD and to the educational (I guess?) side of the game with Day[9] and JP’s State of the Game & SC centre, not to even mention the huge amount of pros that stream! I feel I could watch this 24/7 and still be missing soso much. The point is that I want to share the joy I get from watching all these things with everyone else.
I’ve shown a lot of my friends some of the more exciting aspects of the game and on occasion host a viewing party at my house of a game that I was really looking forward to (GSL – sC v NesTea game 5 was f***ing insane, my house was so tense when both players had essentially stopped mining) and even inspired some to just casually play the game. But I want to share this with an even bigger audience. The problem is I just don’t know how, and chemical engineering definitely will not help me.

The thing is, I’m not a particularly good player with study restricting a lot of my time but I don’t think it so wise to drop my study to try and be a professional gamer. But I also feel like not having the in depth understanding of the game (primarily the intricacies of builds and such) would also restrict my commentary so I’m not all that keen on exposing people to my uneducated ramblings on high level players when there is a whole level to the game that I just can’t put into words with my current level of knowledge of the game (perhaps with SC2 being the center of my every day my knowledge will develop and I may eventually cast games). So what I’m really looking for is for advice to work with the game. There is not much that I can think of except to help with the behind the scenes of in game events such as leagues (perhaps you guys can offer some more scenarios where an in depth understanding of the game isn’t required) - which is why I am here.
I want to ask you guys where do you guys think I could put my passion and hard work to further the progression of SC2 in SEA - in particular Australia?
Just to be clear, if there is something that anyone thinks might be helpful in terms of a degree from university, I’m happy to put in the 3-4 years to get it as well as perhaps working with some of you in the mean time to help the eSports scene in Australia grow.


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TL;DR – I want to share my passion and further the eSports community in Australia and don’t know how. Any suggestions on courses at uni I could take to assist the growing community or is there any work out there now that I could jump on board with right away and share my passion and with any luck eventually make a living from eSports?


**Note: I feel like this perhaps wasn’t as well constructed as I would like it to be and I may get off topic a fair amount. But hopefully you guys get the jist of it and have some advice for me anyway =)
***Apologies for the wall of text