At this point I regret the gallon of ice cream I consumed because while I could never match these guys in actions-per-minute, I think I could probably, as a 5'4" woman, literally snap them in half.

i am more interested on the chicks on page 2

second left looks delicious 

I like how you name this thread wrongly 

High 5 man I wonder what it takes in korea to get those chicks, diamond top 10? 

You can probably see now why Koreans and other StarCraft pros are so nervous about StarCraft 2. After almost 12 years of playing the same exact game and working out their little strategies and gambits, it feels almost as set in stone as chess. Imagine becoming a chess grandmaster and suddenly being told to throw it all away because they've come up with a Chess 2. Backwards-moving pawns! Bishops that can teleport! Elevated squares! Cats and dogs living together! Mass hysteria!

well enlighten me then? wwwwwwww

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Added on September 19, 2010, 8:54 pm

im gonna guess that, and licensed/contracted pro

Its actually starcraft broodwar facts if you didn't notice, the writer is actually a lady from teamliquid that decided to write on her passion on brood war pro-gaming.

If you didn't know that in starcraft 1, you need to take a test called courage if you are new to the scene (and its whopping hard cause all the players are at least somewhere above TLO's broodwar standard which is B+ and a regular 1000 point diamond player is actually only D+ on ICCUP) just to get a license. Without a license, you'll never get to go pro.

Despite being known as the otter terran, nada is actually....

go to article, ctrl + f starcraft 2.

and quite honestly, you need to l2humor. but hey, who am i kidding right? sc = srsbisnes and sc1 > sc2 aye?

what ctrl + f starcraft 2, its pretty darn obvious this article is a brood war article even the picture of Idra which shows that he was training broodwar at Korea at the time (wearing the estro uniform), and I'm pretty sure that I'll never lose a 1 v 1 to you neither in broodwar and SC2, then again the sucky battle.net 2.0 does not allow us to play with each other  .

First of all, StarCraft came out in 1998, and StarCraft 2 just came out--mildly interesting to you or me, but a life-changing event for a bunch of Koreans.

You can probably see now why Koreans and other StarCraft pros are so nervous about StarCraft 2. After almost 12 years of playing the same exact game and working out their little strategies and gambits, it feels almost as set in stone as chess. Imagine becoming a chess grandmaster and suddenly being told to throw it all away because they've come up with a Chess 2. Backwards-moving pawns! Bishops that can teleport! Elevated squares! Cats and dogs living together! Mass hysteria!

After trying his hand as a poker pro, Patry got a real job or something, and now has come full circle to throwing his hat back in the ring with StarCraft 2. He's a creaky old 28 now, so this is probably going to go the way of Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler.

Ermm ni point argue here?

By the way i do think the article is about starcraft 2, the article is still new, the author is not going to write an article on BC while there is sc2 rite?

The Koreans have 12 professional StarCraft teams with top players making fat six-figure salaries. Even the average pro gamer makes more than the average Korean.

Not only do Korean pro gamers rake in the dough, but also national attention. [b]120,000 people gathered live in a stadium to watch a 2005 StarCraft championship--over 40K more than attended the Super Bowl that year.
Do SC2 progamers earn six figure salaries?

And if you had any doubt that Korea as a nation takes this seriously, note that the Korean Air Force actually started their own gaming team  so that top players wouldn't have to stop playing when the joined the military for their compulsory two-year service. The team doesn't usually do very well in the leagues since most of the players are ancient greybeards at an average age of 27, but I bet they'd still kick most non-Korean asses.

The first big star to go East was Grrr (Guillaume Patry), a Canadian. He moved to Korea at age 18 in the early years of StarCraft, and was a pioneer in developing strategies and whatever, winning things left and right, until time passed (like one year) and this new generation of damn kids studying the strategies of the old schoolers rose up and usurped their elders.

They get up to that speed by first being born with a Rain Man-like perfect storm of genetics and then training for a minimum of 10 hours a day, six days a week. Teams actually live together in barrack-like quarters, though of course they separate Protoss, Zerg and Terran players into separate rooms. Naturally.

So, if you think you know some crazy StarCraft players, consider there are millions of Koreans whiling away all their free time in PC baangs playing match after match of StarCraft and they're not good enough for the pros. Only 300 lucky nerds are licensed pros--yes, you have to be licensed. They have a draft too, seriously.

Don't get me wrong, I've got a thing for scrawny game-playing nerds myself. I'm just saying--and I'm sure you'll agree--that maybe they should show a little skin to earn that heartthrob status.

I mean, look at that. It's like every player has to be buttoned right up the neck every time they take a photo. Grrr on the right there is even wearing a damned parka. (Canadians.)

Despite all that, top players like Lim Yo-Hwan come back from matches to find their team van covered with messages from girls (hopefully) saying things like "Lim Yo-Hwan, I'm yours, I belong to you," and "Marry me, Lim Yo-Hwan."

This somewhat disturbing blog post about a player named Bisu (Kim Taek Yong) is probably not unique, and is likely a direct result of him showing a little skin as I advised:

I know, what is wrong with these girls, right?

Reach (Park Jung Suk) is clearly much more handsome.