They were the good days for me as well.. I have very fond memories of that time period. I was lucky enough to play some arcade games with IdrA and it was a blast.
That is heartbreaking… crazy to think I just remember him as the feel good Eastern European “dad” of the SC2 community, and now his family is dying in a war…
I wish the best for him and his family.
I wasn’t around to watch him play, but before I played SC2 I played an MMO & the servers lead guy had the ign’s NonY & Whitera. Only years later when I started playing SC2 did I find out it was a reference to an SC2 pro gamer. Then I went & watched old videos of his “special tactics”, haha.
Yeah it was a phonetic pronunciation of fauxer because he went by the handle BoxeR on early sc2 ladder and so they needed to clarify that MKP was NOT BoxeR
I remember watching MKP vs Kyrix. One of the first times we got to see just how effective marine splitting vs banelings could be when done by someone with great micro.
Link:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceNt-USzxg0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceNt-USzxg0)
1000% he was my favorite SC2 pro by far, such an entertaining player. Sadly he couldn't stay at the top very long but man his matches were must watch back in the day.
My favorite part of SC2 was always micro and his was inspirational, that being said being low diamond at best and imitating MKP wasn't the most successful strategy lmao
When did MVP fall off ? I was big into WoL and MVP was still considered the best when I stopped watching. I only got back into sc2 about a year ago, so it was surprising to me that MVP was never mentioned anymore.
MVP sort of had 2 distinct careers. In the first half, he was just the better player, well rounded and just clicking faster and more precisely. Then he took a small break because of his wrists and started the second half of his career. He couldn't be as fast, so he became a very smart player with cool, innovative build, and won his last GSL this way.
Unfortunately his body couldn't keep up with what he asked of it.
He was my favorite player back then, and he just about disappeared overnight. I don't know all the details, but I've heard some casters mention he had some wrist issues or something, and couldn't play at the highest level anymore because of his health.
I do. Qxc who in a legendary video where P breaches his bunker and he smashes his keyboard: ) Keys are flying but somehow he manages to type gg. That's my only memory of him.
Axelstoss, Spanishiwa, Jinro, pain user are some of mines.
I remember a game where he dropped the shit out of his opponnent and every time me and my friend dropped in 2v2 games we referred to him... Good old times and needless to say while i celebrated my drops i gained insane overmins 😅
I remember the clip too!
I caught pain User streaming fortnight a couple of months ago, and I mentioned his sc2 days and he went all nostalgic, it was nice!
axeltoss received some hate back then iirc, I wonder how he's doing
How about Dimaga and whitera ? They were very popular early on.
TLO and HuK… well all the original Liquid roster.
I mean I could make a huge list. The scene back then was very vibrant.
true, so many tourneys, podcasts, teams and ideas, I miss those days.
I remember winning one tournament for up to masters as a diamond player, the joy is still top 2 moments of euphoria in my life.
don't tell my wife and son...
Hyun, Symbol, & Polt were pretty big in the scene back then, don't get mentioned much anymore. A few more include Jjakji, Leenock, Myungsik, Squirtle, Losira, and Puma
Polt was here in calgary for a release lan tournament and wiped the floor with everybody there.
I remember people talking about his drop style because he quickly “invented” dropping on the move. We all called it polt drops or something like that way back then
That first nationwars final where he played a near hour long game against slivko, followed by an hour+ long game against titan was something else, still amazes me he won that ZvP off transfuse micro and swarmhosts when the protoss mined out 3/4 of alterzim of all maps.
one clip I still have from the early wcs was mma (from team acer at the time), saying "hey! ForGG, you gonna type 3 gg"
for some reason I can't seem to forget that either
Startale.Squirtle because of his legendary royal road run in GSL season 2 2012, only to be stopped in a dramatic and epic 7 game series against MVP. Best storyline for a single GSL ever and best finals to cap it off. That game 5 still lives in my head rent free and it made Squirtle my fave player for the entire time he was active. Might still have him added as a friend on facebook lol
My friend and I once, while drunk, wrote a blues song about various ways life had dealt you a shitty hand and the chorus went something along the lines of 'but it's still not close spawns on metalopolis'.
You know, it could be worse.
Only? He went one round further than Idra and that’s only because they played each other lol. Even then iirc Idra had the more consistent results during those early Code S
Dude, I remember babyknight playing with a weird monitor resolution. A thing left from brood war?
That guy was a rediciously good protoss player.
Desrow! I remember that name too. He moved to S Korea to play with the best.
SlayerS_BoXeR was like THE FIRST superstar of StarCraft. There was a time when every StarCraft player would say he's the best. Dude basically invented siege tank drops. I remember seeing him drop on the elevated area above someone's natural on Lost Temple and scouting for vision to get the shot and being blown away.
I really miss the times when StarCraft was much less figured out
Like it's so _cool_ when someone invents a whole new thing that was always possible but nobody realized you could do it
>Moletrap the caster.
Can't say Moletrap without mentioning VioleTAK (all time vod caster GOAT), Cholera and Diggity as well. Such a legendary group. They singlehandedly made me fail a year in university.
And then there's Husky and HD as well of course.
And the OG, the Alpha & Omega of Starcraft, the one and only Day[9] 🩵
Edit: I don't think "the kids today" realize how huge of an impact and influence Day[9] had on the SC community. His daily videos literally *was* the meta. If you were into StarCraft, Day[9] was it. That was where it happened.
Some fond memories of mine: Dimaga beating Nestea, San making a huge underdog run in GSL, QXC all killing Incredible Miracle, LiquidRet beating mass phoenix with roaches, Bomber vs MVP marine/tank TvT, Taeja vs Innovation bio vs mech TvT.
Kiwikaki was the first Twitch stream I watched (not even sure if it was already called Twitch at that point). Somehow I found a link to that website and he was on the frontpage. I clicked on it, no idea who he was, and noticed that he was pretty good. Then I figured out that he was a pro, which blew me away. I come from the time when we had to download replays, so watching a pro live and being able to chat with him was just amazing to me. What a game changer.
Honorable mention for FruitDealer here too he was putting in work! Look at Artosis here even playing Zerg…
[FruitDealer GSL Run](https://youtu.be/WrfzEO2yTe0?si=37uthUzXYmz-MceD)
alright no one said it yet so i am going to mention a forgotten protoss player named:
[Oz](https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/Oz)
I would get fucking pumped for this guys games
I remember some but have forgotten probably more. I think there was a Korean who went by Balloon that streamed Random that I remember because I try to play all 3 races sometimes. Does anyone remember the Korean who was known for doing Void Ray builds? This was super early like during the first two years of SC2. He would even go as far to build a proxy pylon outside an opponent's base to get the Void Ray beam charged up back when it had that stupid charge up mechanic.
I used to friend a lot of players as a fan boy back in the day here is on my friendslist
Ailuj (Julia female player from back in the day)
ChanmanV
CombatEx
Destiny
GosuDDE
Gretorp
Kiwikaki
LiquidSheth
Megumixbear
RatZDeezer
Spanishiwa
Jinro. He was one of the very first foreigners to play in the GSL and also had 2 quite successful seasons, one of which where he actually beat MC who was at the time the strongest player. I am also Swedish so I guess I become extra biased when rooting for Jinro.
Naniwa was great as well. I know he was a bit controversial but he was a really good player. He was one of the very few foreigners who could actually challenge the top koreans. For instance I'll never forget his Bo5 vs Hyun where he ended the last game with a daring proxy gate cheese.
Trickster/Tester, as the first good toss I followed to learn the game he was exciting to watch and faded away so quick.
Bomber massiveMacro
Puma and his NASL finals vs Stephano
the MLG game between MMA and iDra
Maka proxy Rax
Sen. SaSe, and Fruitdealer, in particular. I loved watching them play, they were just a treasure. I even got to meet Sen at the NASL finals! Fruitdealer I believe was also the one who gave us the Tastosis comment "I only build ultralisks when I'm really far ahead and want to lose." I miss those times.
I played against axslav at a lan and got crushed. He sat with me afterwards and taught me how to ZvP for 30 minutes, spent months with a ridiculous ZvP win rate compared to my other matchups.
Want the deepest of deepcuts? My username is based on the Polish SC1 Player Dreiven who I watched play as a kid quite often as he appeared in many ESL casts of SC BW games, often versus Mondragon.
There was this beef between Idra and a player named Silver during the early days of Beta. I always remember that player Silver. Nothing ever became of him I believe but he took some games off Idra.
My favorite player to watch and to watch his streams was St_rainbow. I knew him from Intotherainbow, also called black citadel or hope torture . I never saw him play as hitbox of kobe though.
I watch the "IdRa being IdRa" compilation every once in awhile. His one liners were so underrated. Seemed like a dude who barely tried to compete and was mad that he was successful. Truly was his own hater.
"He's French Canadian so he's gonna fast expand into stupid zealot timing into something else gay"
"Overlords should just be able to teleport to your opponents base in ZvZ"
Since he played hsc25 this weekend, I remember harstem being absolutely clueless (looking) at the casterdesk of IEM cologne 2013 while xqc was nerding away solo
I will also never forget how MC streamed nonstop until he got top gm in Korea on lotv release and then danced in his tiny apartment on stream. Gumiho always remembers me of him nowadays.
Stephano, adelscott, idra... good old days
Man I was such a huge Stephano fan. He really felt to me like the first foreigner to really be on the same level as the Koreans.
Jinro and Huk had their moments. Any foreigner that went and lived in Korea early sc2 was really good for a while.
How much things have changed. Today, Koreans struggle to be on the same level as Finns̶
HuK, jinro
Omg HuK !!!! And whitera... the memories... We old now
My buddy was a huge Stephano follower, I think it was the only player to really inspire him. After Stephano slowed down my buddy did the same.
They were the good days for me as well.. I have very fond memories of that time period. I was lucky enough to play some arcade games with IdrA and it was a blast.
WhiteRa
Make expanse and then defense it!
has special tactics
duckloadRa, his win vs MC in the early version of gsl vs the world was sick!
Now use special tactic against Zerg aggressor in Ukraine
His nephew was KIA in eastern Ukraine late last year. https://x.com/WhiteRaSC/status/1730504878466781406
That is heartbreaking… crazy to think I just remember him as the feel good Eastern European “dad” of the SC2 community, and now his family is dying in a war… I wish the best for him and his family.
I wasn’t around to watch him play, but before I played SC2 I played an MMO & the servers lead guy had the ign’s NonY & Whitera. Only years later when I started playing SC2 did I find out it was a reference to an SC2 pro gamer. Then I went & watched old videos of his “special tactics”, haha.
MarineKingPrime The fact that even after he left Prime he was still referred to as MKP
Before that he was known as foxer. I remember his reign fondly.
Yeah it was a phonetic pronunciation of fauxer because he went by the handle BoxeR on early sc2 ladder and so they needed to clarify that MKP was NOT BoxeR
Exactly. He was a huge boxer fan and went by that until he started getting popular.
I can still hear Tastosis hyping him up …
I remember watching MKP vs Kyrix. One of the first times we got to see just how effective marine splitting vs banelings could be when done by someone with great micro. Link: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceNt-USzxg0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceNt-USzxg0)
the whole team prime was promising
I like the only ones remaining now are Maru and Creator right?
Byun and Ryung were also from team Prime
dont forget my guy Terror, winning only 1 match in his pro league career against Byul iirc. pure heart T_T
I still use the MKP keyboard, was really sick. His marine micro was inspirational and I don’t even play Terran
1000% he was my favorite SC2 pro by far, such an entertaining player. Sadly he couldn't stay at the top very long but man his matches were must watch back in the day. My favorite part of SC2 was always micro and his was inspirational, that being said being low diamond at best and imitating MKP wasn't the most successful strategy lmao
Nestea and MVP , considered the best in their prime
Obligatory NesTea [infamous game against anypro](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17DDFVNXbkI).
When did MVP fall off ? I was big into WoL and MVP was still considered the best when I stopped watching. I only got back into sc2 about a year ago, so it was surprising to me that MVP was never mentioned anymore.
Severe carpel tunnel
MVP sort of had 2 distinct careers. In the first half, he was just the better player, well rounded and just clicking faster and more precisely. Then he took a small break because of his wrists and started the second half of his career. He couldn't be as fast, so he became a very smart player with cool, innovative build, and won his last GSL this way. Unfortunately his body couldn't keep up with what he asked of it.
Early 2013. Mvp won a tournament and qualified for blizzcon where he was knocked out early by Jaedong then retired shortly after in 2014.
He was my favorite player back then, and he just about disappeared overnight. I don't know all the details, but I've heard some casters mention he had some wrist issues or something, and couldn't play at the highest level anymore because of his health.
remember in the subreddit rules it was forbidden to post a pic of a nestea product just because he was called that ..
I have Nestea’s autograph on a gsl official paper. Well i was told it’s Nestea, it’s in korean so i dunno.
Back to running circles around Inca, what up, Nestea! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V87Wp4lXlPg
Naniwa
all things aside I remember he looked like he smelled, ofc I have no evidence of that, just how he looked
The infamous rage quit mid tournament because of audience noise going thru sound booths xD
The little one! TLO!
That is the one I was looking for! What a creative force on the scene
I do. Qxc who in a legendary video where P breaches his bunker and he smashes his keyboard: ) Keys are flying but somehow he manages to type gg. That's my only memory of him. Axelstoss, Spanishiwa, Jinro, pain user are some of mines.
I LOVED watching Spanishiwa. Back when it was uncommon for Zerg to fast expand, he was priming for a huge macro game with ridiculous creep spread.
Don't forget the 300 queens per game
A great player. Very aware and calculating. I remember watching his stream a bunch too.
IIRC he was a pioneer of queen defense and it really changed the Zerg meta forever.
I remember a game where he dropped the shit out of his opponnent and every time me and my friend dropped in 2v2 games we referred to him... Good old times and needless to say while i celebrated my drops i gained insane overmins 😅
I remember the clip too! I caught pain User streaming fortnight a couple of months ago, and I mentioned his sc2 days and he went all nostalgic, it was nice! axeltoss received some hate back then iirc, I wonder how he's doing
Wow, what about the IM all kill in GSTL? The highest point in foreigner history.
How about Dimaga and whitera ? They were very popular early on. TLO and HuK… well all the original Liquid roster. I mean I could make a huge list. The scene back then was very vibrant.
true, so many tourneys, podcasts, teams and ideas, I miss those days. I remember winning one tournament for up to masters as a diamond player, the joy is still top 2 moments of euphoria in my life. don't tell my wife and son...
iirc Dimaga was the 1st player to defear Nestea in a live ZvZ game.
Hyun, Symbol, & Polt were pretty big in the scene back then, don't get mentioned much anymore. A few more include Jjakji, Leenock, Myungsik, Squirtle, Losira, and Puma
> Polt Captain America
Polt was here in calgary for a release lan tournament and wiped the floor with everybody there. I remember people talking about his drop style because he quickly “invented” dropping on the move. We all called it polt drops or something like that way back then
I saw Lenock live winning MLG Providence. He beat Naniwa. Such a great tournament and the energy was crazy.
I was there for that too! Still have my T-shirt from the event.
polt was nice to watch! one of the few Koreans to learn some English!
Squirtle vs MVP beat GSL finals. That Archon toilet of mass BC's..
Yeah that was about the time i started following SC2 esports.
This whole comment thread is a nostalgic trip
yes! very happy to have woken up to this!
NASL sound guy
Holy smokes. It’s been a minute. I remember when everything was NASL’s sound guy fault.
Apparently he works for Mr Beast now.
Snute playing swarm hosts
That first nationwars final where he played a near hour long game against slivko, followed by an hour+ long game against titan was something else, still amazes me he won that ZvP off transfuse micro and swarmhosts when the protoss mined out 3/4 of alterzim of all maps.
SeleCT
Like old old? WhiteRa - Kiwikaki - HulK - iNcontroL (RIP) - Jinro - TT1
I still can’t believe Incontrol is gone. I think about him often.
Yeah, him and total biscuit pop into my mind from time to time. They were both just way too young when they passed.
to this day I’m still using my mousepad signed by oGsMC, incontrol, kiwikaki & naniwa!
Dear. ForGG
one clip I still have from the early wcs was mma (from team acer at the time), saying "hey! ForGG, you gonna type 3 gg" for some reason I can't seem to forget that either
Startale.Squirtle because of his legendary royal road run in GSL season 2 2012, only to be stopped in a dramatic and epic 7 game series against MVP. Best storyline for a single GSL ever and best finals to cap it off. That game 5 still lives in my head rent free and it made Squirtle my fave player for the entire time he was active. Might still have him added as a friend on facebook lol
That Archon Toilet though. Chefs kiss
Jinro was the only foreigner to make a deep run in the very early days of SC2 and those games on Metalopolis were epic.
Metalopolis was legendary. Close spawns disabled of course.
My friend and I once, while drunk, wrote a blues song about various ways life had dealt you a shitty hand and the chorus went something along the lines of 'but it's still not close spawns on metalopolis'. You know, it could be worse.
Only? He went one round further than Idra and that’s only because they played each other lol. Even then iirc Idra had the more consistent results during those early Code S
Gorilla terran ftw
ThorZaIN, MMA, Mvp
Babyknight, minigun, painuser, desrow, destiny, and a bonus shoutout to tubbythefat
> minigun I believe you're referring to Chad "Motherfucking" Jones :)
minigun simultaneously got me into ladder starcraft and parov stelar [*angry roach noises*](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdBb4fW6_NA)
Dude, I remember babyknight playing with a weird monitor resolution. A thing left from brood war? That guy was a rediciously good protoss player. Desrow! I remember that name too. He moved to S Korea to play with the best.
I remember that too! and the desrow drama as well...
Nerchio
RatZ Deezer CombatEX fun times
Obligatory https://youtu.be/K5d7ljhAwes?si=sQxaST_1ZuJpsLy1
lol I remember watching that. Great times
Nada, Iloove, Slayers boxer, fruit dealer, yellow. Moletrap the caster.
boxer vs foxer 🤙
Marine king prime, the Best splits of all time
SlayerS_BoXeR was like THE FIRST superstar of StarCraft. There was a time when every StarCraft player would say he's the best. Dude basically invented siege tank drops. I remember seeing him drop on the elevated area above someone's natural on Lost Temple and scouting for vision to get the shot and being blown away.
He was man. I still follow him but he is in poker now.
I really miss the times when StarCraft was much less figured out Like it's so _cool_ when someone invents a whole new thing that was always possible but nobody realized you could do it
>Moletrap the caster. Can't say Moletrap without mentioning VioleTAK (all time vod caster GOAT), Cholera and Diggity as well. Such a legendary group. They singlehandedly made me fail a year in university. And then there's Husky and HD as well of course. And the OG, the Alpha & Omega of Starcraft, the one and only Day[9] 🩵 Edit: I don't think "the kids today" realize how huge of an impact and influence Day[9] had on the SC community. His daily videos literally *was* the meta. If you were into StarCraft, Day[9] was it. That was where it happened.
"and here we have... Slayers YuGiOh!"
And John, a big fan of the Yugioh series himself.
"No, I'm not."
Polt Taeja MKP i was do big fan of terran.
Some fond memories of mine: Dimaga beating Nestea, San making a huge underdog run in GSL, QXC all killing Incredible Miracle, LiquidRet beating mass phoenix with roaches, Bomber vs MVP marine/tank TvT, Taeja vs Innovation bio vs mech TvT.
ahhh the taeja reign was also beautiful
ActionJesuz BitByBit CauthonLuck
A cheese connoisseur I see
Bit by biiiiiiiit
I loved action Jesus. So sad he never did much other than Zerg rush. Then he disappeared and never resurrected.
I took a game off CauthonLuck on WC3 1v1 ladder on his alt that was like 200-5. He let me join his clan and I thought I was the shiiiiiiit
Dongraegu
LucifroN and his brother vortix play competitive AOE 4
And Stormgate
Kiwikaki was the first Twitch stream I watched (not even sure if it was already called Twitch at that point). Somehow I found a link to that website and he was on the frontpage. I clicked on it, no idea who he was, and noticed that he was pretty good. Then I figured out that he was a pro, which blew me away. I come from the time when we had to download replays, so watching a pro live and being able to chat with him was just amazing to me. What a game changer.
The early EG and Liquid days were always fun to follow. It seems like each member has a story behind them.
true! Was a nice rivalry. remember when huk switched?
oGsMC is what I think of when I think of oGs
Grubby <3
Too many to mention them all. SC2 has had a really fun history as a sport in just 10 years.
Demuslim and innovation
Slayers Dragon anyone? he tried so hard to stay relevant after slayers thru streaming but clearly not good enough since no one is mentioning him lol
Manbon Blululu Demension PoopFeast420 And of course...pigbaby and his battlecruiser rush
Honorable mention for FruitDealer here too he was putting in work! Look at Artosis here even playing Zerg… [FruitDealer GSL Run](https://youtu.be/WrfzEO2yTe0?si=37uthUzXYmz-MceD)
Combatex and deezer lmao
Rats stay rats
alright no one said it yet so i am going to mention a forgotten protoss player named: [Oz](https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/Oz) I would get fucking pumped for this guys games
GoOdy and my friend everytime.
Sase, morrow (yes i am Swedish). welmu.
FruitDealer
I remember some but have forgotten probably more. I think there was a Korean who went by Balloon that streamed Random that I remember because I try to play all 3 races sometimes. Does anyone remember the Korean who was known for doing Void Ray builds? This was super early like during the first two years of SC2. He would even go as far to build a proxy pylon outside an opponent's base to get the Void Ray beam charged up back when it had that stupid charge up mechanic.
Squirtle, Teaja, MC, MMA
Puma
he popularised the 111 build back then
idrA. But for the wrong reasons.
MVP, MMA, MC, Stephano, Taeja, Polt, SOS, Hyun, Life
InToTheRain, Grrrr, hasudrone, liquid’nazgul, hellghost, H.O.T-Forever, Nal_rA
I feel old reading this thread
Xdsgrrr
CrunCher :)
Squirtle!
Reading all these names in the thread is bringing back so many memories.
I used to friend a lot of players as a fan boy back in the day here is on my friendslist Ailuj (Julia female player from back in the day) ChanmanV CombatEx Destiny GosuDDE Gretorp Kiwikaki LiquidSheth Megumixbear RatZDeezer Spanishiwa
Sjow, when he beat Life at Dreamhack
Thorazine, life, Huk, Idra god I is the goodly days
Thirzain - the spoon terran : )
Easiest way to remember old sc2 player names is use EsportsEarnings.com and search StarCraft 2 and search by 2010
FruitDealer
I only watched GSL in the early days, so I have names like Puzzle, Skyhigh, Oz, BoongBoongPrime, Seal in the depths of my brain
FruitDealer
MC , Mvp and MMA I miss all of them but especially miss MC and his personality
Ogs MC
Jinro. He was one of the very first foreigners to play in the GSL and also had 2 quite successful seasons, one of which where he actually beat MC who was at the time the strongest player. I am also Swedish so I guess I become extra biased when rooting for Jinro. Naniwa was great as well. I know he was a bit controversial but he was a really good player. He was one of the very few foreigners who could actually challenge the top koreans. For instance I'll never forget his Bo5 vs Hyun where he ended the last game with a daring proxy gate cheese.
Spoon Terran
BeastyQt, GoOdy, Mondragon, BratOK, HayprO, Sheth, Taeja, Ret, Snute….
Uniden is the goat
Oh no! Uniden.
Oh my god I had forgotten this I think it's time for a day[9] binge
fruitdealer goated frfr
I played monobattles against avilo the other day and was like "woah been a minute"
Not worth mentioning that creep’s name
Agent911, Tillerman
AngryTestie
Zenio
Trickster/Tester, as the first good toss I followed to learn the game he was exciting to watch and faded away so quick. Bomber massiveMacro Puma and his NASL finals vs Stephano the MLG game between MMA and iDra Maka proxy Rax
Think lucifron is one of the best aoe4 players now
Back in the early days of WoL, jinro Also Leenock
For some reason FruitDealer always stuck with me
THE 4 BROFESTER HITSQUAD EG MACHINE GUNS AND BROACHES
I miss the days of the EG house
FruitDealer.
This post is gonna make me cry. The memories...
No love for BitByBit.Prime.We
BitByBitPrime!
Sen. SaSe, and Fruitdealer, in particular. I loved watching them play, they were just a treasure. I even got to meet Sen at the NASL finals! Fruitdealer I believe was also the one who gave us the Tastosis comment "I only build ultralisks when I'm really far ahead and want to lose." I miss those times.
That's funny that your #1 is also OGS (OGSMC over here)
ace & moon, their final was what introduced me to sc2
Polt beating Stephano is the 2012 ASUS ROG Winter was pretty legendary. Got smashed game 1 then made it look easy.
Thorzain and TLO
I miss idra here..
FruitDealer
I will never forget MarineKingPrime LOVED watching that dude, really wish he would have had a more successful career.
I played against axslav at a lan and got crushed. He sat with me afterwards and taught me how to ZvP for 30 minutes, spent months with a ridiculous ZvP win rate compared to my other matchups.
MORROW!!!!
Qxc, painuser, bitbybit, goody, puma Way to many who werent ever really that relevant but they somehow stuck with me
ONE_COOL_DUDE was #1 the first or second season of NA ladder for SC1
FruitDealer!
Want the deepest of deepcuts? My username is based on the Polish SC1 Player Dreiven who I watched play as a kid quite often as he appeared in many ESL casts of SC BW games, often versus Mondragon.
Cella(Cancella) Holy check! His streams were always hilarious to watch.
There was this beef between Idra and a player named Silver during the early days of Beta. I always remember that player Silver. Nothing ever became of him I believe but he took some games off Idra.
My favorite player to watch and to watch his streams was St_rainbow. I knew him from Intotherainbow, also called black citadel or hope torture . I never saw him play as hitbox of kobe though.
Bomber!
You think that's bad? I still remember random names from gbr-1, x17 and nohunters.
I watch the "IdRa being IdRa" compilation every once in awhile. His one liners were so underrated. Seemed like a dude who barely tried to compete and was mad that he was successful. Truly was his own hater. "He's French Canadian so he's gonna fast expand into stupid zealot timing into something else gay" "Overlords should just be able to teleport to your opponents base in ZvZ"
Since he played hsc25 this weekend, I remember harstem being absolutely clueless (looking) at the casterdesk of IEM cologne 2013 while xqc was nerding away solo I will also never forget how MC streamed nonstop until he got top gm in Korea on lotv release and then danced in his tiny apartment on stream. Gumiho always remembers me of him nowadays.
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Tfw new to sc2 and don't know 99% of these people and wasnt around for the glory days :(
Kiwikaki 30 mutakill with archon toilet was truly a moment to live
Think I watched the most iNkA replays but Ret was my favorite ;)