I came across it, and as a RTS fan I loved it, he told since when he was a noob till he became pro and after...
btw, Boxer is the guy who won two consecutive WCGs on Starcraft :D
http://web.archive.org/web/201107250840 ... peror.html
It's very long, so some quotes:
"Ever since that moment, I began to play all night in the PC bangs. It was fun that I could play with new people, but another interesting point was that the strategies that I used against my friends no longer worked on Battle.net."
"Until then, I was only focused on winning, but I never thought of how to win. I beat the computer and my friends, but my formulated actions never worked against the cho-gosus (experts) on Battle.net. My opponents knew exactly what I was doing and how they could beat me"
"At the time, on the television, a gamer by the name of Lee Gisuk appeared on a commercial. There was also news about the ‘Progamer No.1’ Shin Juyung. Of course, I was envious, but it seemed like a dream. ‘How good do you have to be to be like that? If one plays that well, he wouldn’t need anything else.’ With this childish jealousy, I stirred myself up. But I also had discouraging thoughts, probably because of my timid nature: ‘How can a person who hasn’t even defeated a town become a professional gamer?’ "
"Because there were so many people that played better than me, I had a quaint feeling of jealousy. I think it was since then, when I felt that the person to envy the most was the one who played the game well."
It was when I suppressed my surroundings and began to spend more time playing on Battle.net than with my friends. They were the times when I began to receive more GGs than when I typed GG. One day, while I was looking for some friends to play with on Battle.net, a golden badge caught my eye.
“What is that? Whoa! So does that mean that person is number one in the ladder?”
I was excited. Does this not mean that the person is the best in the Starcraft world? How good does one have to be, to become first place? I wanted to play just one game with this person. And so I requested a game. But I received a cold response, “I cannot play against a person with a low score like you.”
“What, does it break your fingers to play one game against me? What’s so hard about it, that you’ll refuse? So, you’re that good? Fine! I’ll just have to be first as well.”
"I also wanted to be a progamer that was acknowledged by others. To do that, the first thing was to practice, and the second thing was also to practice. I practiced relentlessly."
"My first championship prize money was 3 million won. When one thinks about it now, it may not be a large amount, but to me it was more valuable than 30 million or 300 million won. "
"My receiving a salary of a hundred million gave hope to the junior gamers that they too could be hundred-millionaire. And I was also happy that I was the first to have achieved it."
http://web.archive.org/web/200906160713 ... erran.html
"Where there’s a will, there’s a way – the opportunity to receive the recognition from the world as a progamer came quite easily. On October of 2001, the WCG – World Cyber Games, that was called the Olympics of Games, opened in Seoul. "
"As the game progressed, it only became more disadvantageous for me. It was because after losing all of my units, the situation had developed to where I continued to unfold a precarious strategy with units being produced from my remaining resources, while my opponent defended well and continued to expand." "The moment I saw the zealot troops that had accumulated, I could truly experience the feeling of being pushed to a bleak condition. But this was something I could not give up on. If I typed GG, I would not be able to enter the round of 16 and I would be eliminated" "After the match was over, I was completely exhausted. Though the match was an hour long, I was being dragged along from the start, and because the conditions were bleak throughout the entire match, my strength was depleted even more. While I sat there absent-mindedly, I suddenly heard a sound of a crack. The opponent had broken his keyboard and left. The player afterwards received a warning. How wronged he must have felt, giving away a game that he had won. If I placed myself in his position, I would also have wanted to smash it all, whether it was the keyboard or the computer. If I were to give away a game that I had already won, more than anything else I would have been angry at myself. "
btw, Boxer is the guy who won two consecutive WCGs on Starcraft :D
http://web.archive.org/web/201107250840 ... peror.html
It's very long, so some quotes:
"Ever since that moment, I began to play all night in the PC bangs. It was fun that I could play with new people, but another interesting point was that the strategies that I used against my friends no longer worked on Battle.net."
"Until then, I was only focused on winning, but I never thought of how to win. I beat the computer and my friends, but my formulated actions never worked against the cho-gosus (experts) on Battle.net. My opponents knew exactly what I was doing and how they could beat me"
"At the time, on the television, a gamer by the name of Lee Gisuk appeared on a commercial. There was also news about the ‘Progamer No.1’ Shin Juyung. Of course, I was envious, but it seemed like a dream. ‘How good do you have to be to be like that? If one plays that well, he wouldn’t need anything else.’ With this childish jealousy, I stirred myself up. But I also had discouraging thoughts, probably because of my timid nature: ‘How can a person who hasn’t even defeated a town become a professional gamer?’ "
"Because there were so many people that played better than me, I had a quaint feeling of jealousy. I think it was since then, when I felt that the person to envy the most was the one who played the game well."
It was when I suppressed my surroundings and began to spend more time playing on Battle.net than with my friends. They were the times when I began to receive more GGs than when I typed GG. One day, while I was looking for some friends to play with on Battle.net, a golden badge caught my eye.
“What is that? Whoa! So does that mean that person is number one in the ladder?”
I was excited. Does this not mean that the person is the best in the Starcraft world? How good does one have to be, to become first place? I wanted to play just one game with this person. And so I requested a game. But I received a cold response, “I cannot play against a person with a low score like you.”
“What, does it break your fingers to play one game against me? What’s so hard about it, that you’ll refuse? So, you’re that good? Fine! I’ll just have to be first as well.”
"I also wanted to be a progamer that was acknowledged by others. To do that, the first thing was to practice, and the second thing was also to practice. I practiced relentlessly."
"My first championship prize money was 3 million won. When one thinks about it now, it may not be a large amount, but to me it was more valuable than 30 million or 300 million won. "
"My receiving a salary of a hundred million gave hope to the junior gamers that they too could be hundred-millionaire. And I was also happy that I was the first to have achieved it."
http://web.archive.org/web/200906160713 ... erran.html
"Where there’s a will, there’s a way – the opportunity to receive the recognition from the world as a progamer came quite easily. On October of 2001, the WCG – World Cyber Games, that was called the Olympics of Games, opened in Seoul. "
"As the game progressed, it only became more disadvantageous for me. It was because after losing all of my units, the situation had developed to where I continued to unfold a precarious strategy with units being produced from my remaining resources, while my opponent defended well and continued to expand." "The moment I saw the zealot troops that had accumulated, I could truly experience the feeling of being pushed to a bleak condition. But this was something I could not give up on. If I typed GG, I would not be able to enter the round of 16 and I would be eliminated" "After the match was over, I was completely exhausted. Though the match was an hour long, I was being dragged along from the start, and because the conditions were bleak throughout the entire match, my strength was depleted even more. While I sat there absent-mindedly, I suddenly heard a sound of a crack. The opponent had broken his keyboard and left. The player afterwards received a warning. How wronged he must have felt, giving away a game that he had won. If I placed myself in his position, I would also have wanted to smash it all, whether it was the keyboard or the computer. If I were to give away a game that I had already won, more than anything else I would have been angry at myself. "