But it's just that you can actually focus 100% on what you are doing, and it makes it a lot easier. I don't think I'm putting too much more time in now than I was when I was in school, I'd say I'm putting in a bit more. Is having more time the biggest advantage of going full-time? Like, probably when my brother already took one year off from school, that was around the time I knew I wanted to do that as well. How long did you know you wanted to give full-time progaming a shot? It was a pretty big turning point for your career when you finished school and were able to go full-time. So I knew that I was at least top 20 in Finland, right? But, I mean, there was the StarCraft2.fi, they had all the Finnish ladder players there, and I was top 20 there all the time. Like, I think I played like five events before this, it was more like Finnish LAN's, where you brought your own PC. But these aren't the first events actually, now that I'm looking. Well, you have to know you're some kind of good to even try to compete at something like the WCG Finnish nationals. Well, I mean, I don't know, how do you know that? *laughs* I don't think I was amazing, my first tournament-I'm just looking at my Aligulac, I lost all three matches. How soon did you realize you were good at the game? But SC2 I was only playing one-on-one's from the start. Obviously I played some one-on-one on Brood War-I mean, I was playing arcade, it was more like 50/50, but I was pretty bad at it. I didn't really play any other games in SC2, only the one-on-one mode. So, when SC2 came out, it was just a natural transition? And that's when you started really playing 1v1? Or did you start off by playing arcade games and other modes. Was it a pirated copy of BW? That game was super easy to pirate. I don't think Blizzard is going to ban you now. Our dad got a lot of games from one of his friends, so we had like million of different games, like Xbox games, some PC games as well. But then we just remembered we actually had this game, and we just kind of picked it up from there.ĭid your dad just find it in the bargain bin somewhere? I mean, we had the game way before already, but we never really played it. And it was like "what's that game," then he remembered that we have the game as well. He just found a video of a tournament, I think it was the World Cyber Games? It was one of the Stork games, I can't remember who he was playing against. How did you end up playing Brood War back then? At that time it was already an old-ass game, so I wonder how some kids started playing I mean, I didn't really play, I just played arcade games, but I still played the game, I guess. Yeah, because my brother picked up the game. I was playing Brood War back then and studying in primary school, but other than that I wasn't doing much.Īnd you got into Brood War because of your brother ? Serral: I was probably around twelve years old? I think so, around 12. Wax: How old were you when StarCraft 2 came out, and what were you doing around that time? *This interview has been edited and condensed. With StarCraft II's 10th anniversary in mind, TL.net's Wax decided to catch-up with his favorite progamer Serral to talk about his beginnings as a twelve-year-old StarCraft II player, reminisce about the days when he was just a regular ol' Jaedong fan, and how he definitely wasn't crying after he won BlizzCon 2018.
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