Oh and, if you say the subject of your video is one thing, I'd like that to start being addressed within minutes, instead of talking about rivalry for so long.
You missed (or maybe omitted) a great moment, when it was announced that IdrA and HuK are going to be in the same team, EG released an ad with both players and phrase "this is not a hallucination" written on it. It was epic.
Dude, I was talking to a work buddy and SC2 partner like a week or two before that happened. Even though I was a Zerg player I disliked Idra due to the bm. Yeah, I actually brought up the hallucination strategy before it happened because Idra was known to quit games when ever he saw an engagement he would get smashed in. When it happened I couldn't breathe for half an hour.
I love those bizarre boomer statements, neithe rpart of any fo thsi makes any sense He just had an emotionally unhealthy relationship to the agee and competition, anger issues. He's studying materials science now
@@mareksicinski3726 He's just a turd that comes off like he's never been punched in the face. Smart, and amazing at a video game no doubt, but the real world doesn't suffer fools like this.
I don't know how to play StarCraft but this is a very interesting story. Kudos to the team who clearly put a lot of hard work for this video and to Daniel Rosen as well! Looking forward to more stories and videos like this!
The Real Pleb I mean I suck at the game in terms of competitive due to just not playing games that api intensive but it's still fun with friends or to play the custom maps on the game, which there are a lot off.
@Anthony Keen yeah, Starcraft is one of the most underrated f2p games right now imo. The custom games give you so many options, including gamemodes like FPS, MOBA, board games, mario party, pictionary, "2D" platformers, etc. One of the most powerful custom game engines.
IdrA says it best when it comes to his shortcomings as a competitor, but I'll be damned if he wasn't one of the most entertaining figures this scene had to offer
The way I see it, a good story always has a villain. You can hate the guy but he sure did make it enjoyable to watch. Props to both players for bringing back cherished memories.
That was MMA, a very good Terran player back in 2011. He blew up his own command center by accident, then Idra rage quit without realizing he was miles ahead and about to win.
Wow it’s huk, this is why history is so cool. I didn’t realize him and idra were contemporaries. The only thing I hear about idra is he was extremely talented and just as prone to quit.
i mean "Starcraft was just a way to beat people" is a sentence that shoudl make him shunned by the gaming community. I mean, it does imply that he doesn't care about the game, the community, or anything except winning. He was good at something and used it to fell better than other people. I'm glad he managed as a person to realise why he was doing that and moved on to something (liffting/fitness) that bring him the samefullfilement without having to stomp other.
@@khanzy. There is a difference between "being competitive" and being an arse. If you main kick for doing something is to feel superior and to make people rage, you are not competitive, you are a bully.
This channel is so good. I've always heard of starcraft in regards to the beginning of e-sports but never followed the scene. It's really cool to get a glimpse of the past even tho I've never played or followed the game.
It's an awesome game. Check out Winter (WinterStarcraft on TH-cam, WinterGaming on Twitch). His stream/videos are very friendly to the newcomer, where he does tutorials and build guides, and casts bronze league games and stuff. Watching those bronze league casts really helps give you confidence to ladder, because you can see there are other people around your skill level still playing the game, and there are people out there who you can beat, even though the game has been going for so many years. Once you're more comfortable in the game, and are looking for more skilled high level games/commentary, I highly recommend PiG (x5_PiG on twitch, PiG on TH-cam). Though his stream kinda assumes you know what's going on, so you might be lost without background knowledge on the game. Hope to see you in the SC2 community. It's recently gone free-to-play, so there's nothing to lose just checking it out. :)
Danielle Spargo you forgot that PiG also covers the maybe most detailed series of introductions into starcrafts, covering simple openers, macro cycles and most important mechanics like how to gain map vision.
ConditionalUK you’re so full of yourself I’m not sure how you can function. Do you ever take a step back and realize this? Im sure the people around you do. It’s never too late to stop being someone no one likes.
Was a huge fan of both of them back in the SC2 days. It was kinda cute how they actually seemed to become genuinely good friends on EG together; not just saying so for the cameras. In the end, I think Idra accepted the role of the pantomime villain in a way.
Eventually it backfires though, because I'm sure it can be demoralizing when 80% of the fanbase hates your guts. That's probably why he doesn't even own a PC anymore, and Huk is still in the scene
I don't think so. He's been pretty open about how he felt competition in that sense was unhealthy for him, and he's just chosen to direct that feeling into something more positive, namely weight lifting and finishing school.
Oh my god the nostalgia. I was digging for old memories when I searched this, wasnt expecting such a recent video. The SC2 scene in its hay days was more exciting than any sport or e sports scene I ever followed
This was a beautifully put together video that complimented both players, my SC2 memories, and the growing e-sports community. I'd watch more of this. Well done.
aah the best idra moment I remember was when he was playing some korean and was just brutally annihilating the dude's units but then right before victory he just "gg'd" in the chat and left the game so the dude won and the dude's face as it happened was priceless! XD
Not 100% sure but I believe it's the one against MMA? I actually thought this video would be about that since that was such a surreal moment where everything looked perfect and then.... he rq'd.
The Idra/MMA game is perhaps the perfect summation of Idra as a player: he has too much confidence in his reading of the game state, and if his read is wrong, he looks silly and then rages about how terrible the opposing player was to win in that way. He scouts MMA's third command center building in the base, doesn't see MMA make one of the most baffling blunders in pro SC2 history, but *does* see MMA building a new command center at the gold base: at that point he assumes without evidence that MMA has flown the 3rd down to one of the south bases and is now building his 4th. So he shoves his army across the map in an attempt to crush MMA before he gets the 4th up, gets an okay but not crushing trade, and believes (wrongly) that he is a base behind and therefore screwed.
I was one of the 2010's Starcraft 2 players back in the day. Met and played with some incredible people and have yet to experience such an amazing time as back then. Miss those SC2 days!!!
Early WoL was the peak of eSports. Objectively, yes, BW is a better game and more entertaining to watch as a purely mechanical eSport but WoL had such a collection of personalities that made every tournament a real experience - even among the Koreans. That was a great time to be an eSport fan.
I feel there was another peak when Byun rose to dominance in LotV a few years back. Such a dominant performance and with a heartwarming story behind it. It hit right when the scene was starting to lose hope too.
My favorite Idra's theory is that he claimed he lost cuz his opponent was trash, and he complained repeatedly that his opponent was so trash that made him lose the game. (From some prespectives perhaps true. It's like you destroyed AI's mineral line but AI doesn't care. It base trades you while the program tells it to rebuild workers and lost structures. And finally you lose.)
Omg. It’s Day9 back when he still had his chipped tooth! He looks so young in that clip! I love that guy, he’s such a sweetheart. I started watching his analysis videos after seeing some matches he casted even though I barely played Starcraft, wasn’t good at it, and didn’t play ranked much at all. Even when I moved on from Starcraft I still watched all his videos because he was just really entertaining. Funday Monday was always fun to watch. He even turned me on to a book series that became one of my favorites. He’s a good dude.
This video was much more interesting than the title implies. I’d seen that replay of the hallucinated army/rage quit, and there’s obviously much more to this than just that. But because I’d already seen it, I put off watching this video for some time because of the title. For what it’s worth I think a title referring to their rivalry in general would be more enticing
Title was a disappointment for me. I came for an interesting analysis of the game play and mind games, and ended up sitting through a bunch of drama instead.
Idra once exited a pro game when he had 200 supply. I never forgave him for that. He said he had no chance to win because of unit comp, but he wouldn’t even play it out to see.
I fucking miss Starcraft esports so much, on god bro. State of the Game, Day9 Daily, 4am GSL and Kespa games, all of it bro, Destiny, CombatEX, CatZ, Deezer, Incontrol, Nony Tyler, Scarlett. Why does it feel so far away bro, I love these kinds of videos that showcase that past. Thank you and please make more.
4 major blunders in that void ray game: -no detection to reveal cloaked or hallucinated units. -not noticing the zero damage his corruptors were taking from the fake void rays. -no hydralisk + infestor, to protect his expensive broodlords. -not playing it out to the end.
Seeing how big esport have gotten and the continued push more money and sponsorship I can see these events being similar to Jordan's free throw dunk Mayweather's 50-0 record Michael Phelps golden streak
Greg wasn't really that bad, he just had a tendency to get salty when he lost, which isn't really unique in the gaming community. He shit talked a lot but overall, especially once he started playing team games, he was super chill. Source: was friends with and played with Greg for about a year in between his SC2 / HotS careers, taught him DotA2 with a couple others. Before becoming friends with him I thought he was just a toxic BM piece of shit. Just figured I'd throw it out there since people really hyper focus on his (admittedly) cocky attitude and shitty behaviour from earlier in his SC2 career.
Tuna Empire but you have to include Bisu and the other Protoss guy which name I always forget as well, since they all became Bonjwas at practically the same time which didn't happened before/after it again.
Incredible blast from the past! It was a crazy time for E-Sports and SC2 in particular. Even it might not as big as it was years ago, the fact that SC2 is still around and even in a better state, balance wise than ever before is amazing and a testament of its glory! And also its so funny to see all the old footage of the SC2-personality's! DAY9, JP, DJ Wheed, Rachel Seltzer #nerdcrush and the lesser ones. I would love to see a small video wrap up something like 10 years of SC2 with footage of the important moments, profiles of important personality's, events, Drama, Teams.... and so on. It would be amazing!
Huk and Stephano! I used to watch MLGs TV show on Australian paid TV even though I'd seen all the recent games just cos it was cool to see my favorite players on the TV
I don't know if you've watched the current tournaments but let me just say the games now are just crazy good. Lots of action, crazy micro-plays, more diverse playstyles (except ZvZ) clashing, and lastly a foreigner just won a premier Korean tourny.
@@ALLAHwithdaughterALLAT i don't think that if the 1v1 game on an avarage skill level takes 10 to 20 seconds to find you can call something a dead game. I mean, sure, it's an extremely high skill cap game, unlike mobas and fps' but hey, being bad at the game does not mean the game is bad/dead, right?
Usually there are. In some Korean starcraft leagues the rules were really strict, and players weren't allowed to use chat for anything other than typing "g" to surrender and "p" to request a pause. Some players even got disqualified for typing the wrong number of gs or ps (most famously Leta, for typing "pp" instead of "ppp"), or typing it in Korean characters.
i think there was instance where there was talk of rape to a female player on twitter or something and got disqualified. www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/2n5hdp/sc2_pro_tweets_out_his_is_going_to_rape_his/ dotesports.com/general/news/starcraft-mykhailo-gaida-961 but there is some shit talk that is allowed in professional sports, too.
One part of the story that didn't get explained in this video is that Idra was infamous for rage quitting. He consistently quit games before final battles were actually fought if he thought he was at a disadvantage. It really was a form of arrogance on his part when he did it. That part of his personality absolutely played a role in him not playing out that battle and realizing that those were hallucinations.
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Dude! I joked about how you could do that to him a week before I saw the video where it happened.
Could you drop your exaggerated music in the background which makes it hard to hear what is going on while doing other things.
Oh and, if you say the subject of your video is one thing, I'd like that to start being addressed within minutes, instead of talking about rivalry for so long.
You missed (or maybe omitted) a great moment, when it was announced that IdrA and HuK are going to be in the same team, EG released an ad with both players and phrase "this is not a hallucination" written on it. It was epic.
Dude it's in the vid lol
May be I missed it. What is the timestamp?
9:50 +
Yeah, but where is the ad that I'm talking about? I don't think it's in the video
miniUsername The ad you’re talking about isn’t in the video.
“Not only is it a mental game but it’s psychological as well”
Speech 100
meh by mental he meant reasoning
Big Brain 🧠
i read the title and just smiled from the memories
Saaaaaaaaaaaaame.
Wanna kiss?
The best part was Day9's and DJ wheat's reactions.
@@nathanhardy7698 hell ya
@@Asdayasman :)
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I wasn't in the StarCraft scene but this was still very entertaining and well put together. I wasn't lost at all during the video
Exactly, I know nothing about Star Craft but I wasn't lost at all which says a lot of how well they did this video
Same
they still havent nerf void rays.
@@wiceorc5105 void rays are so easy to counter...
@@toasty22554 no they arent, just mix them with mothership and carriers. and make early rush with it. easy gg, especially in 2on2.
HuK actually has fun with the game, which I sadly feel like is really rare in pro players.
Agressive Pigeon fun rarely wins
Fun gamers dont get paid anymore
Well they do practice on the same game for up to 12 hours per day 7 days a week. I doubt pretty much anyone would enjoy a game after that
Panu Tikkala competitive gaming pays less than streaming deerppppppp
nah not that rare
That EG poster of Huk n Idra
"this isnt a hallucination" is honestly an amazing marketing piece.
google didn't give me shit. What poster?
Ashcandy i googled “huk idra this isn’t” and it was like the 4th image
now I see it. But it's the sixth image ;)
@@Drunkledore Google search results are extremely personalized.
you guys really can tell a story.
With a lisp.
wr
kinda
Why does IdrA avoid mushrooms? Because hes afraid of hallucinations.
LOL
HOH
HOH
HOH
Wow does that take me back.
HyperionSc2 CUZ HES A LIL BIIIITXH
Man as an Avid Huk fan in the day I remember that joke very fondly
See "idra" and I immediately remember the brood lord vs void ray hallucination.
It's one of the most memorable (in a funny way) match of SC2 for me!
It is straight-up one of the most memorable moments in e-sports, in general. As long as Starcraft is a thing, it won't be forgotten.
You know you fucked up when you're remembered for a loss.
Dude, I was talking to a work buddy and SC2 partner like a week or two before that happened. Even though I was a Zerg player I disliked Idra due to the bm. Yeah, I actually brought up the hallucination strategy before it happened because Idra was known to quit games when ever he saw an engagement he would get smashed in. When it happened I couldn't breathe for half an hour.
Hi đồng hương.
Remembered for the loss and the crappy attitude.
Idra seems like a very talented control freak, an emotionally fragile genius - incredibly skilled, but with no grit.
@Qimodis There are plenty of geniuses. And plenty of them don't give up when the first thing goes wrong. Call me what you want. I'm 26.
he was neither emotionally fragile a control freak or a genius.
Plenty of grit needed.
Absolute boomer arcmchair psychologist
@@mareksicinski3726 Then how would you describe what you just saw?
I love those bizarre boomer statements, neithe rpart of any fo thsi makes any sense
He just had an emotionally unhealthy relationship to the agee and competition, anger issues. He's studying materials science now
@@mareksicinski3726 He's just a turd that comes off like he's never been punched in the face. Smart, and amazing at a video game no doubt, but the real world doesn't suffer fools like this.
I know what you're looking for, yw
6:59 The infamous battle we're here to see
6:42 IdrA middle finger
8:28 HuK brags about his hallucinated army
I don't know how to play StarCraft but this is a very interesting story. Kudos to the team who clearly put a lot of hard work for this video and to Daniel Rosen as well! Looking forward to more stories and videos like this!
It was a great time to have been into the scene and watching every casting on their games, leading up to the tournament.
The Real Pleb I mean I suck at the game in terms of competitive due to just not playing games that api intensive but it's still fun with friends or to play the custom maps on the game, which there are a lot off.
@Anthony Keen yeah, Starcraft is one of the most underrated f2p games right now imo. The custom games give you so many options, including gamemodes like FPS, MOBA, board games, mario party, pictionary, "2D" platformers, etc. One of the most powerful custom game engines.
just wanted to ask who is the girl on your pp??
Idra might've been right on Protoss, but the jokes still on him. He plays Zerg.
Do you know, why Idra didn't play Terran? 'Cause he had self respect... ;P
This is a great story. IdrA was able to move on from something weighing him down. Huk, just kept spreading the love. I like.
Really brings back all those memories of SC2 Beta and early WoL
Early WoL was something special.
Most people remember halluc but the most iconic phrase was "u werent loss"
The fact that they are both Americans makes that even funnier
@@miguelpereira9859 Huk is Canadian
IdrA says it best when it comes to his shortcomings as a competitor, but I'll be damned if he wasn't one of the most entertaining figures this scene had to offer
I remember I flew to MLG to witness Huk take the trophy. Best event in my life, never met so much others as well.
Fav part for me was seeing Idra admit he was angry a lot, and actually making moves to help himself. Good stuff overall.
The way I see it, a good story always has a villain. You can hate the guy but he sure did make it enjoyable to watch. Props to both players for bringing back cherished memories.
This is almost as bad as the time idra left a won game vs a korean terran.
Carl Lilleng “Did Idra just leave another won game?”
That was MMA, a very good Terran player back in 2011. He blew up his own command center by accident, then Idra rage quit without realizing he was miles ahead and about to win.
@@Doncroft1 was this game even important for him?
i know nothing about starcraft or w/e but i really liked that the video ended in a good note. From rivals to team mates
Wow it’s huk, this is why history is so cool. I didn’t realize him and idra were contemporaries. The only thing I hear about idra is he was extremely talented and just as prone to quit.
DorjeDriftwood he was a great player. He was just so toxic. He was mean and just overall a sad person.
i mean "Starcraft was just a way to beat people" is a sentence that shoudl make him shunned by the gaming community. I mean, it does imply that he doesn't care about the game, the community, or anything except winning. He was good at something and used it to fell better than other people.
I'm glad he managed as a person to realise why he was doing that and moved on to something (liffting/fitness) that bring him the samefullfilement without having to stomp other.
@@shorebreakers96 It's a competitive game. You think he should be shunned for being...competitive?
@@khanzy. There is a difference between "being competitive" and being an arse. If you main kick for doing something is to feel superior and to make people rage, you are not competitive, you are a bully.
This channel is so good. I've always heard of starcraft in regards to the beginning of e-sports but never followed the scene. It's really cool to get a glimpse of the past even tho I've never played or followed the game.
It's an awesome game. Check out Winter (WinterStarcraft on TH-cam, WinterGaming on Twitch). His stream/videos are very friendly to the newcomer, where he does tutorials and build guides, and casts bronze league games and stuff. Watching those bronze league casts really helps give you confidence to ladder, because you can see there are other people around your skill level still playing the game, and there are people out there who you can beat, even though the game has been going for so many years. Once you're more comfortable in the game, and are looking for more skilled high level games/commentary, I highly recommend PiG (x5_PiG on twitch, PiG on TH-cam). Though his stream kinda assumes you know what's going on, so you might be lost without background knowledge on the game.
Hope to see you in the SC2 community. It's recently gone free-to-play, so there's nothing to lose just checking it out. :)
Danielle Spargo you forgot that PiG also covers the maybe most detailed series of introductions into starcrafts, covering simple openers, macro cycles and most important mechanics like how to gain map vision.
a video about idra in 2018?? he truly left a great legacy after he left the scene . miss those days
in huk we trust.
@ConditionalUK yeah sure thing
r/thathappened
ConditionalUK you’re so full of yourself I’m not sure how you can function. Do you ever take a step back and realize this? Im sure the people around you do. It’s never too late to stop being someone no one likes.
He may very well be lying, but it's not unreasonable to think he could have played them at some point, there's many very good players not playing pro
Are you sure that was the real HuK? Lots of fakes out there, and HuK was a Protoss, especially in late 2011 when he joined EG.
Was a huge fan of both of them back in the SC2 days. It was kinda cute how they actually seemed to become genuinely good friends on EG together; not just saying so for the cameras. In the end, I think Idra accepted the role of the pantomime villain in a way.
Yeah i think he was just playing a character and it worked bscause he was pretflty famous
Eventually it backfires though, because I'm sure it can be demoralizing when 80% of the fanbase hates your guts. That's probably why he doesn't even own a PC anymore, and Huk is still in the scene
I don't think so. He's been pretty open about how he felt competition in that sense was unhealthy for him, and he's just chosen to direct that feeling into something more positive, namely weight lifting and finishing school.
@Qimodis ...what?
'back in the sc2 days'? SC2 didn't leave, it was not a set time period, just a different era- so more like 'WoL days'
RIP Geoff, you are dearly missed by many.
Oh my god the nostalgia. I was digging for old memories when I searched this, wasnt expecting such a recent video. The SC2 scene in its hay days was more exciting than any sport or e sports scene I ever followed
This was a beautifully put together video that complimented both players, my SC2 memories, and the growing e-sports community. I'd watch more of this. Well done.
aah the best idra moment I remember was when he was playing some korean and was just brutally annihilating the dude's units but then right before victory he just "gg'd" in the chat and left the game so the dude won and the dude's face as it happened was priceless! XD
Not 100% sure but I believe it's the one against MMA? I actually thought this video would be about that since that was such a surreal moment where everything looked perfect and then.... he rq'd.
The Idra/MMA game is perhaps the perfect summation of Idra as a player: he has too much confidence in his reading of the game state, and if his read is wrong, he looks silly and then rages about how terrible the opposing player was to win in that way.
He scouts MMA's third command center building in the base, doesn't see MMA make one of the most baffling blunders in pro SC2 history, but *does* see MMA building a new command center at the gold base: at that point he assumes without evidence that MMA has flown the 3rd down to one of the south bases and is now building his 4th. So he shoves his army across the map in an attempt to crush MMA before he gets the 4th up, gets an okay but not crushing trade, and believes (wrongly) that he is a base behind and therefore screwed.
I think that was his MutaLingBane against Marine Marauder Medivac of MMA
"Some Korean"
And those Koreans are shitting on NA
I remember this. so long ago.....watched it live. it was amazing.
I remember aswell! Starcraft was a different time back then!
“has successfully transitioned” got me so good at the end lol
I was one of the 2010's Starcraft 2 players back in the day. Met and played with some incredible people and have yet to experience such an amazing time as back then. Miss those SC2 days!!!
Omg Day 9 and DJ Wheat.. haven’t seen these guys in ages too
iamdihan day9 is dead now
He's still streaming.
That’s what I call dedication
Is he the same day9 in dota scene?
He's been in the last e3 as an announcer, he's also been in the hearthstone scene and mtg as well
IdrA quit SC2 in 2013?! Holy moly, time flies.
Early WoL was the peak of eSports. Objectively, yes, BW is a better game and more entertaining to watch as a purely mechanical eSport but WoL had such a collection of personalities that made every tournament a real experience - even among the Koreans. That was a great time to be an eSport fan.
@Dimitri Raymondo Jadong's dream run in the WCS BlizzCon finals was peak starcraft for me.
love Has so much
Yeah I miss some of the old players.
I feel there was another peak when Byun rose to dominance in LotV a few years back. Such a dominant performance and with a heartwarming story behind it. It hit right when the scene was starting to lose hope too.
WoL had me transition from only watching boxing and MMA to watching esports. That and SSB4. So many characters
My favorite Idra's theory is that he claimed he lost cuz his opponent was trash, and he complained repeatedly that his opponent was so trash that made him lose the game.
(From some prespectives perhaps true. It's like you destroyed AI's mineral line but AI doesn't care. It base trades you while the program tells it to rebuild workers and lost structures. And finally you lose.)
never thought i’d see another idra video get uploaded to youtube 7 years later since his sc2 days. nostalgia
This brings tears to my eyes, I was there that year and when HUK pulled off that finesse, we all went fucking wild, the memories 🥲
Imagine being at the finish line but a giant dragon stood in the way, so you walk away and then you are told that the dragon was halluc
Brings back memories! I remember watching the game live and was left stunned. Great storytelling and video
advertising the merch with the most wrinkled shirt i've ever seen lmfao
Man I cant believe how long ago this was it was a great time to see new shout casted videos of all these great players
Wouldn't be a score video without that faker clip
Justin Healy faker is THE pro player
yea that's why he's gonna win worlds again! O wait...
@@Dissonance556 sadly its a team game
Léo Vinicius NA>KR
"Ginna win Worlds again"? Not this year, SKT T1 disbanded. Fnatic are favourites to win now.
Omg. It’s Day9 back when he still had his chipped tooth! He looks so young in that clip! I love that guy, he’s such a sweetheart. I started watching his analysis videos after seeing some matches he casted even though I barely played Starcraft, wasn’t good at it, and didn’t play ranked much at all. Even when I moved on from Starcraft I still watched all his videos because he was just really entertaining. Funday Monday was always fun to watch. He even turned me on to a book series that became one of my favorites. He’s a good dude.
This was honestly one of the greatest trololol moments in all of eSports... good for Huk. IDRA was his own worst enemy...
Such a classic story and thank you for bringing it back :)
This video was much more interesting than the title implies. I’d seen that replay of the hallucinated army/rage quit, and there’s obviously much more to this than just that. But because I’d already seen it, I put off watching this video for some time because of the title. For what it’s worth I think a title referring to their rivalry in general would be more enticing
Idk, I took the video length as a clue that it would be a lot more fleshed out than a simple retelling of that particular story
Title was a disappointment for me. I came for an interesting analysis of the game play and mind games, and ended up sitting through a bunch of drama instead.
Quality video that tells a story you can understand no matter how much you know about SC and it’s history
I love the hallucination trick! I love tricking people into conceding to 8 laser chickens lol
Idra once exited a pro game when he had 200 supply. I never forgave him for that. He said he had no chance to win because of unit comp, but he wouldn’t even play it out to see.
I fucking miss Starcraft esports so much, on god bro. State of the Game, Day9 Daily, 4am GSL and Kespa games, all of it bro, Destiny, CombatEX, CatZ, Deezer, Incontrol, Nony Tyler, Scarlett. Why does it feel so far away bro, I love these kinds of videos that showcase that past. Thank you and please make more.
then watch it. it aint dead.
4 major blunders in that void ray game:
-no detection to reveal cloaked or hallucinated units.
-not noticing the zero damage his corruptors were taking from the fake void rays.
-no hydralisk + infestor, to protect his expensive broodlords.
-not playing it out to the end.
Seeing how big esport have gotten and the continued push more money and sponsorship
I can see these events being similar to Jordan's free throw dunk
Mayweather's 50-0 record
Michael Phelps golden streak
Great video! Loved the story, excellently put together. Voted for you guys in the esports awards, great job!
I'm just here for Day9!
I love Daniel's videos. Narration is on Point.
nice, finally my favorite story in esports ever!
the video felt like it was put together by someone who experienced it at the time and loved it, big thumbs up
Idras losses always were highlights, even though there was no shortage of them. Screw him.
Greg wasn't really that bad, he just had a tendency to get salty when he lost, which isn't really unique in the gaming community. He shit talked a lot but overall, especially once he started playing team games, he was super chill.
Source: was friends with and played with Greg for about a year in between his SC2 / HotS careers, taught him DotA2 with a couple others.
Before becoming friends with him I thought he was just a toxic BM piece of shit. Just figured I'd throw it out there since people really hyper focus on his (admittedly) cocky attitude and shitty behaviour from earlier in his SC2 career.
Was never into StarCraft so it was really cool to see all the casters who have now transitions to Twitch and TH-cam.
Lmao as soon as I subscribed to Day9 I just start seeing him everywhere...
Very entertaining video. Thanks a lot!
i loved seeing idra rage quit and lose back in the day.
I don't have a single clue what happened in-game but you really did a nice job with this vid. It was really entertaining!
Never played sc or followed its scene but very interesting video regardless!
That EPIC chat "u realize .... fuck off...lol" has been burnt into my memory for years. I died laughing while I was watching the game!!!
Please Please Please Please Please Please keep making more starcraft content
dead game
It's definitely not dead, and the esports side seems to be way healthier now than say 2 years ago.
Imagine the headache Idra would get over Maru’s proxy play.
LOVE IT PLEASE PLEASE MORE SC2
Great video dude, brings back memories!
More starcraft stories pls!
IdrA and his dubstep streams full of disrespect and rage. So good
Asian competitive is at another level!
When it comes to esports, yeah.
@@okthen270 Petty sure it applies to more than just Esports. The pressure on education can be insane.
@Pudge korea got nothing on us in football baby LETS GO GIANTS
TBF many Korean's aim in overwatch is very good.
CSGO Tips and Tricks what does that make Overwatch?
I honestly don't even know most of the players featured on this channel, but I legit love this channel's storytelling.
Do a video on Flash-Jaedong rivalry!
That would take hours. I'd still watch it.
Tuna Empire but you have to include Bisu and the other Protoss guy which name I always forget as well, since they all became Bonjwas at practically the same time which didn't happened before/after it again.
Razer did make a documentary about it. If you didn't watch it you should, it's pretty good
@@asmylia9880 Stork was the other Protoss.
Mik Luna ah thanks, maybe I should pin a note on my forehead or such...
Oh my god, I remember watching this live. What a wild game!
Esports was never better than prime Starcraft 2
Great recap. Wish you had mentioned HuK's MLG Orlando win though, for many of us HuK fans that was the defining moment of his career.
Too bad I don't even know how to play Starcraft
pfp matching the comment so hard rn
its f2p now, you can always hop on and try the tutorial
Incredible blast from the past! It was a crazy time for E-Sports and SC2 in particular. Even it might not as big as it was years ago, the fact that SC2 is still around and even in a better state, balance wise than ever before is amazing and a testament of its glory!
And also its so funny to see all the old footage of the SC2-personality's! DAY9, JP, DJ Wheed, Rachel Seltzer #nerdcrush and the lesser ones.
I would love to see a small video wrap up something like 10 years of SC2 with footage of the important moments, profiles of important personality's, events, Drama, Teams.... and so on. It would be amazing!
Damn they super old looking now... feels bad man
I really enjoyed this recap!
I was there when the first video came out about this
lmao
This bring back a lot of memories, watching SC's competitive scenes with my brother.
Wondered how long it would take you to make a video on this
Woohoo this was a classic moment good shit. This channel is quality god damn
Miss playing Starcraft and watching matches with Idra, Huk, Stephano and Boxer. Reminiscing better days
Huk and Stephano! I used to watch MLGs TV show on Australian paid TV even though I'd seen all the recent games just cos it was cool to see my favorite players on the TV
I don't know if you've watched the current tournaments but let me just say the games now are just crazy good. Lots of action, crazy micro-plays, more diverse playstyles (except ZvZ) clashing, and lastly a foreigner just won a premier Korean tourny.
better days? dude, the current SC tournaments are still amazing!!
well put together. you guys can really tell a story.
STARCRAFT MASTER RACE
dead game
@@ALLAHwithdaughterALLAT i don't think that if the 1v1 game on an avarage skill level takes 10 to 20 seconds to find you can call something a dead game. I mean, sure, it's an extremely high skill cap game, unlike mobas and fps' but hey, being bad at the game does not mean the game is bad/dead, right?
lol starcraft is like racing game so boring
I have no idea where that comparison came from, but ok.
Again, your opinion of the game does not make it dead though.
@@ALLAHwithdaughterALLAT bronze league hero :^)
Idra basically embodied the idea that not everyone is a role model. Fun to watch, fun to hate, good for the sport.
Do a video on skadoodle
Bandito_Shibe Vodka_Printer no i am not crying your crying
me too i am not crying you are the ones crying!
If they do, they need to include his many gaming accomplishments pre-csgo.
I remember when this happened, i couldn't believe he tapped out of that, then laughed for about 30 minutes :))))))
Dat moment when I realized that this guy was Day9, he's so much better now XD
Tsihoarana Randimbivololon day9’s yt channel seems dead. Makes me sad for him. Does he atleast get a lot of twitch viewers?
@@velocity1146 he's got an average of 1 to 3k viewers sometimes get 6k or more just by streaming various game like hearthstone mtg arena and dota2
This channel is AWESOME.
Aren‘t there any rules on sportsmanship in eSports like there are in real sports? This all seems super childish.
Usually there are. In some Korean starcraft leagues the rules were really strict, and players weren't allowed to use chat for anything other than typing "g" to surrender and "p" to request a pause. Some players even got disqualified for typing the wrong number of gs or ps (most famously Leta, for typing "pp" instead of "ppp"), or typing it in Korean characters.
Mätzle You mean like in UFC or boxing?
Erfajer cannot offend is an unfortunately broad term :/
i think there was instance where there was talk of rape to a female player on twitter or something and got disqualified. www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/2n5hdp/sc2_pro_tweets_out_his_is_going_to_rape_his/ dotesports.com/general/news/starcraft-mykhailo-gaida-961
but there is some shit talk that is allowed in professional sports, too.
One part of the story that didn't get explained in this video is that Idra was infamous for rage quitting. He consistently quit games before final battles were actually fought if he thought he was at a disadvantage. It really was a form of arrogance on his part when he did it. That part of his personality absolutely played a role in him not playing out that battle and realizing that those were hallucinations.
This and Dendi's DotA Fountain Hook are my favorites esports ever!