INcontroL: We met each other at the 2007 finals. But a lot of times, after a few of those TvTs, I’d have to have talks with the other team’s captain, because Dan might have had a few choice words for his opponent. . . . If I could get him a TvT, Dan was happy. INcontroL: Online, because we ran in different circles, Dan seemed very quiet to me. My whole life was shaped by the sacrifice my mom made for something I was really passionate about.ĭo you remember your first impressions of each other? From there I was qualified for Mexico, and then for New York they wanted me to be on a reality show, signed me, and the rest is history. I won the national championship there, and that basically started my entire life. They wanted you to fly to LA, and I couldn’t do it!Ī couple years later, in 2007 . . . This is a story that makes me cry every time, but my mom skipped rent so I could go to Florida. INcontroL: I qualified in 2004 to go to the finals, but I was a broke student at the time. What was your story during that era, iNcontroL?
I guess it stopped hurting so much, and I was like, alright, time to start practicing again! Because they thought I was gonna win WCG, and I thought I was gonna win WCG, and it was just such a disappointment. I was so caught up in it . . . I had a small sponsor that year and they had a cameraman come down, that’s why that footage existed. When I was training back in the day, man, I would train 12 to 16 hours every single day. It just really hurt, and . . . I think I needed a break. INcontroL: StarCraft players always come back.Īrtosis: (Laughs) Yeah, I didn’t have any notion that I was not going to come back. It was hard for me to log on at that point, because I had put everything into it and failed. 2005, I trained even harder, and then lost to Day-that’s that famous footage you can see-and the disappointment was so soul-crushing that, afterwards, I just kinda didn’t look at StarCraft for one or two months. INcontroL: Well, he trained so hard for this thing, and for so long, that when it didn’t happen, he needed to take a break.Īrtosis: In 2004 I trained so hard for, and made it. The longest I’ve ever been away from StarCraft-I believe there was like a month or two where I didn’t play, in 2005 or something like that. I’m not quite there, but I started playing it right away. I know Geoff even played the beta of StarCraft I. They came in and out, life took them away, or whatever . . . but we’re able to talk about it and make it real for them.ĭan “Artosis” Stemkoski: StarCraft has been out for 20 years, and Geoff and I have been there basically since the beginning. StarCraft has this “legacy” feeling for a lot of people who weren’t necessarily there the whole time. Geoff “iNcontroL” Robinson: There’s something cool about the guys who have been around throughout StarCraft's entire history, and are able to throw it back, and make everybody feel included. We caught up with Geoff and Dan to find out more. Four episodes have already been recorded, with new broadcasts every Wednesday at 5 p.m. Now they’ve started The Pylon Show, which focuses on the competitive scene of both StarCraft games.
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In the early 2000s, they competed in StarCraft: Brood War later, they became professional StarCraft II players, shoutcasters, and expert denizens of the analyst desk. Geoff “iNcontroL” Robinson and Dan “Artosis” Stemkoski are two of the StarCraft community’s most beloved personalities.
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