Lazy blogger is lazy!
Seriously tho, I’m turning into a real Starcraft Esports addict, I keep watching the games from the Korean leagues. I’m even watching a game as I’m writing this, Fantasy vs. Mind.
Where did this all start? Starcraft was never popular around my gaming buddies, when we did LAN Parties we never even played it once, only RTS I can remember us play was Age of Empires/Mythology and that kind of thing, but most of the time we used to play FPS games like CS, battlefield, COD etc.
When BlizzCon 2007 went live I started watching the Stream of the events of the Con, mostly to catch some panels and just stuff like that (being a WoW player ;)), however, I kept the stream running on my other screen and after a while they started to show the tournaments, first WC3. Tournament wise its “ok”, but it feels to slow for me, and to hero based. Lose your hero, lose the game :<
Then after those games they showed the StarCraft tournament with shoutcaster Nick ‘Tasteless’ Plott, this guy is crazy when casting StarCraft and he’s really good at it. Currently he’s in Korea shoutcasting for GomTV as the english part of the show, together with a Korean female known as lilsusie.
This got me interested, but not enough to look around for games to watch, it wasn’t until WWI08 I got really into the watching of the games and wanting to watch more and even learn to play the game (Of course the announcement of StarCraft 2 gave a little boost in this :D). I started looking around and I found sites like TeamLiquid and SC2GG who had some nice info about where to find replays, vod’s and even english casted games by both amateurs and people like Tasteless.
At first I only watched games of players that interested me, like: boxer, this guy is f*cking king, too bad his in the army now and doesn’t play as much as we want him too. (Its funny tho, the Air Force in Korea has their own team in the Leagues :D).
After a while I ended up catching up to the preset games which actually made things a lot more interesting looking at results and the current standings in the leagues and stuff :D
I used to watch football and stuff like that, but tbh, this is a lot more interesting and fun to watch. At least for me :D