![]() ![]() The first time I actually experienced professional gaming life was when I joined eSTRO as a practice member. I thought the only thing that mattered was winning, so I mostly used semi-all-in builds. Until that point, I thought all-ins were the only strategy that existed. About specific builds, macro, all-ins, etc. I joined clans and guilds to learn how to practice and found out how much real gamers study about the game. That’s how I started to look for ways to become better. I thought I was the best among those that are my age. That was the first time I felt that there is a world beyond my sight and that I was just a big fish in a little pond. As much as I was extremely confident with myself, I thought I’d win, but I was completely demolished. Īround that time, one of my friends said that there was this monster in his school. All I thought was, ‘Since I’m the best, I can do it.’ I was arrogant and cocky like that. Looking back now, the 8th grade me didn’t know anything and was really cocky. So I started to practice to become a pro gamer from about 8th grade. As much as I was always winning, people recommended that I should go pro. I really beat everyone, kids of my age, even those that were older than me. From that point, I went around, playing against the best kids from other schools, winning. When I played Terran or Zerg, I lost, but when I played Protoss, I beat him. One day, a friend challenged me to a Starcraft game. I mostly played Get Amped, but I was confident in my gaming skills, and I thought I was gifted in this area. I think it was around 6th grade when I really started playing Starcraft. That was the first time I realized BoxeR was an incredible person. You see, my brother’s name is Won Yo-han, and BoxeR’s name is Lim Yo-hwan. The first time I found out that playing games for a living was possible was when my brother’s friend talked about BoxeR. I didn’t immediately think that I should become a pro gamer I didn’t even know that was a job. That was when I first started to fall into the game. My brother usually played Starcraft, and we mostly played those maps with unlimited resources - money maps. At the time, the games that were popular were Starcraft, Diablo 2, and Get Amped. I still remember - back then, nobody really had two computers at home. My mother was afraid that my brother and I might go astray, so it was her that actually made me start gaming. When I was a boy, I was kind of a brat, you know, one of those kids that you want to smack once in a while. I wanted to give him a sendoff he deserves, and a chance for him to say more than what he wrote in his twitlonger announcement. When he announced retirement last month, I decided to track him down. When he was back, I was one of the first to be excited to have him back. When he left the scene for a while, I stopped playing. His brilliant strategies followed by his keen macro sense taught me more than I needed. He was my god back in the days when I played Starcraft 2 as I was a Protoss player. PartinG was a player that stuck in my mind for a long period of time. Among them, there are players like Won “PartinG” Lee-sak, who won his share of tournaments. Some players have been at the top for a long period of time, some were forgotten before any fans started to really know them. There have been amazing players over the long history of Starcraft 2. ![]()
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