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endy
Switzerland8966 Posts
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Artanis[Xp]
Netherlands12912 Posts
Initially joined a clan called (gol) as Lion(gol). I don't think I ever saw another clanmate again after joining, so I quickly started my own clan, The Dark Terror Tigers (TDTT). After a ten year old-crush on one of the members of a clan called number 1 players (n1p), TDP was formed which actually got a lot of players in. People mostly played UMS and everyone sucked really, really badly. It was amazing to see someone show up with the (TDP) clan sometime in around 2008. Couldn't believe the clan stuck around that long given no one really knew each other all that well. By 2005, a friend called erNci told me of the pro-gaming scene, and that there were two top players: BoXeR, which was number one, and NaDa, which was number two. Being the ever hipster and never having seen either of them player before, I started cheering for NaDa. Watching him beat Anytime on Tau Cross in the finals years later on stream was awesome. erNci told me there were two main sites for Starcraft: Teamliquid.net, and GosuGamers.net, and that the latter was superior. Naturally, I joined the events crew for the latter and went to three WCG events with my sister as press which was neat. Met Mondragon, Testie, Draco and co. One of the most cool moments was in a group with Stork, Ex, and White-Ra. Given the placements of the other koreans in different groups, the winner of the group would have to face off with another Korean. The three were in a tie-break and Stork would start. He would beat Ex, then miraculously lose against White-Ra with some bullshit, hoping White-Ra would defeat Ex. Seeing through the plan, White-Ra lost to Ex on purpose himself. This went on for a few rounds until Stork just got too tired and decided to beat them both. Koreans would not top 3 this year. For my first WCG in Monza, Italy, we stayed over at Shun's apartment in Monza, Italy. Shun had a pretty large apartment and decided to use the occasion to share it with, well, just about everyone. Every night it was a fight to actually get in to one of the beds. Every subsequent night, more people were invited and more people would be forced to sleep on the floor. Each morning, we'd be served the same breakfast: Pre-packaged chocolate croissants and mandarins. Artosis, whom was also staying at the apartment, was always an incredibly happy face at the breakfast table no matter how little sleep he'd had, which to this day I do not understand. To get to the venue from Shun's apartment, there were two options: The car, which would take you there in about 30 minutes, or public transport, which would be about 3 hours. Note: It rained all. the. fucking. time. That's about it for my Starcraft history. Still need to go to Korea sometime, which I'm hoping to do within the next two years. Would be a pretty awesome thing after 20 years of being involved in the game. | ||
odeSSa
Sweden198 Posts
Also remember me having a "clan" with this 13/14 year old called "sortof", he was tired of school but I said he should forget about pro career and focus on studies, but now I guess it worked out well for him anyway I have very fond memories of following the pro scene in the good ol' days, betting on gosugamers and following different nation wars and such. Also torrenting all pro games I could get my hands on since there where no streams really back then. | ||
Breach_hu
Hungary2431 Posts
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[GiTM]-Ace
United States4935 Posts
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Golgotha
Korea (South)8418 Posts
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DSK
England1106 Posts
I borrowed the game from him one day. Upon seeing the intro I crapped myself, got scared and immediately uninstalled. Think it was a few months after I found the demo for SC1 with a gaming mag. I installed it and loved it. Bought it and only played skirmish/SP (no internet). Didn't learn therr was a pro scene until 2005-7. Never followed it or played competively. | ||
Alpha-NP-
United States1242 Posts
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Celial
2602 Posts
The BW4eVeR cups, with Welpenhund casting back when that was more black magic fuckery than anything else. Later on managing the mTw team and beating ToT for the third place in our final iCCL. Horror, infernal, pidgin, Gan, kAra, jae, Naruto, Darkgamer. Strongest single-nationality team ever assembled (foreigner obv). Oh and of course the three DbBW LANs I attended. Shit those were the best. Even the Dutch and French players showed up to those... All of the stuff that was before Skype. Everyone was on ICQ or MSN. Made two kinda friendships almost 15 years ago that last to this day. | ||
NukeTheStars
United States275 Posts
Six people would work together to kill extremely strong, individual units who would walk on a straight road from the left side of the map to the right. It required a lot of coordination and some wacky strats to cause as much damage as possible. I played the UMS so much that I became an expert. I mostly played Terran for the OH-so-amazing feeling of timing a nuke to land on a unit as it walked by, which for some of the units was your only chance of killing them. Some of them had maximum shield that would instantly regenerate. I still remember the thrill of telling one of my zerg teammates "Don't ensnare that zealot... I got this," flying my ghost down the map in a dropship, launching the nuke, and having it land at the perfect time as two full control groups of battlecruisers fired their Yamato cannons in unison. Everyone would always freak out in chat like I had saved the world. In recent years, I've tried and failed to find the exact version of that map I loved, but it lives on as a collection of awesome memories. | ||
NoS-Craig
Australia3078 Posts
I loved the strats and different units/abilities you had to use in that map. | ||
HerbMon
United States456 Posts
This was my childhood from the day my older brother showed me this game on our family computer. I just remember booting up the pc during my summer breaks from school and loading up Limewire and SCBW in the morning, and next thing i know i turn around and see what was once Cartoon network playing is now Adult Swim. This is pretty much the only game where I can phase it out of my life then in a few days, months, years later i can pick it up again and have it feel like i never left. | ||
nukkuj
Finland403 Posts
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Drake
Germany6146 Posts
On December 12 2017 06:48 Incomplete..ReV wrote: I was wondering if many of us have some shared fond memories of BW. Or simply something specific to you, that you'd want to share? Stuff that makes us love the game. One such memory would have to be when we kept losing our CDs, but still wanted to play on LAN. So we'd have like 1 CD to share on 4-5 guys, where one would fire up BW, get to the Multiplayer-thingy, then the next and the next until the last one had the CD and made the game. And of course, sometime we'd forget that we didn't have the CD, made it crash, then ran to the next room (dormitory) to get the CD back. Maybe not really the most fun, but it was one of those things that made BW what it is. Like how retarded the Dragoons are. And listening to your friend scream in frustration when coming over, due to a Dragoon stuck on his ramp. why u didnt burn ur cd ? | ||
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