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So I live in the Etobicoke area of Toronto and I work part time at McDonalds on weekends. This morning, a random guy comes up to order some food and as I'm getting his stuff he just blurts out that he's been winning some Starcraft tournaments. I don't know how he knew I played SC, I'm Asian but still... I thought he was someone famous so I asked him what his SC name was and he said str8ball(sp?). He then complained about how he couldn't use his iCCup name anymore because there's a number in it, which makes sense with the Battle.net naming system. He also mentioned that he was going to enter or maybe is in WCG this year. I didn't really hear everything he said because we were fairly busy this morning so I was running back and forth. Anyway, after he got his food he finished it in like a minute and was out the door so I couldn’t even talk to him some more.
After getting home I did some digging and I think I found him but he doesn’t seem like a very active TL user.
He says he’s been winning some tournaments but I haven’t seen his name in any of the ones I’ve been following but maybe you guys have heard of him before?
In any case, I just found it interesting that there are SC players everywhere. Sometimes on the subway or just any place that’s crowded, I wonder how many people would laugh if I shouted mutalisk micro haha.
On a side note TL, have you ever had any interesting/random starcraft encounters?
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United States24342 Posts
Winning sc2 tournaments doesn't necessarily mean much. I have won one but I'm not very good.
Don't assume he means something on par with the GSL lol.
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I was wearing my shirt from handsomenerd.com, "real men proxy gate", one day while buying coffee and the guy who made my coffee was like "yes they do!" Then I I found out he plays sc2 and we've played a few team games since, and also we have good chats every time I drop by for a cup of coffee
Also I directed him to TL so he could find tourneys to play in and organize a team, so if you're reading this Chris, what up!
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I was just watching Flash v Kal play WCG finals in my school's computer lab and someone from a Software Engineering group watched a few minutes next to me! Then he declared starcraft the greatest game in the history of games.
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at uni, i spotted someone with the sc2 collectors edition dog tag, initiated conversation. i forgot to wear mine that day. wouldve been even more epic
this happened to a friend. he was talking in lecture about his winning games last night (he plays terran), and random guy from row in front turns around and yells, "terran OP", then turns back around.
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Me and a buddy were talking about StarCraft 2 at work and some guy approached us. Unfortunately almost everybody I've randomly encountered who plays SC2 is lower than diamond D:
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On October 04 2010 08:47 Ronald_McD wrote: Me and a buddy were talking about StarCraft 2 at work and some guy approached us. Unfortunately almost everybody I've randomly encountered who plays SC2 is lower than diamond D:
Lower than diamond does make up like 95% of SC2 players hehe.
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I was sitting on the bus one day from toronto to kitchener watching vods and near the end of the trip the guy sitting next to me asked me if I played and we got talking about the scene, it was fun times. He said he went to TL And had the sc2 strategy forum as his homepage or something, so if you're reading this dude, what's up?
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On October 04 2010 08:19 crc wrote: this happened to a friend. he was talking in lecture about his winning games last night (he plays terran), and random guy from row in front turns around and yells, "terran OP", then turns back around.
ahaha thats great
I have not had any random SC encounters other than harassing my RL friend's stream (hes a terrible zerg) when he doesn't know I play sc ^^
i do have a WeMadeFox token on my lanyard with my keys, I secretly hope someone will recognize it in passing and spark up conversation .
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Korea (South)11558 Posts
my friends drug dealer plays SC. i was playing BW the day SC2 came out and he starts talking about how fun the game was, and that he is good at SC2. Apparently he was amazed that I got diamond the first day the game came out.
afaik he's still some scrub, but my friend wants me to play him soon.
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I'm diamond and I'm terrible.
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i havent had any random encounters, but i have been surprised by some of my friends on fb. some of them keep up with the proscene when i had no idea they even played sc. but i think most gamers have played sc at one point or another in their lives (not the very young ones, though)
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On October 04 2010 11:44 CaucasianAsian wrote: my friends drug dealer plays SC. i was playing BW the day SC2 came out and he starts talking about how fun the game was, and that he is good at SC2. Apparently he was amazed that I got diamond the first day the game came out.
afaik he's still some scrub, but my friend wants me to play him soon.
Yeah I don't know why but all my IRL friends sucks at starcraft. I think out of my 10 closest friend who play starcraft 8 are in bronze and 2 are in silver or gold.
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I was smashed a few nights ago crouching/spewing on the wall of a street in the middle of the city (clubs and stuff on the street) with my friends around me. A group of huge buff wogs(? can't really remember) walk by and we're Asian right, and then they're like "EY HAD A GOOD NIGHT? TAKE CARE OF YOUR FRIEND BRO" and then one of them say "too much starcraft 2 ey?"
My friend tells him I'm ranked in Australia then I get hi5'd by all of them. Weird night.
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I was sitting down at the hotspot and not really paying attention to what's going on around me until I had a coworker ask:
"Are you all playing together?"
I looked up and the 3 guys next to me were all playing SC2. I shifty-eyed.
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