Introducing Tasteless

Greetings GameRiot! My name is Nick Plott, many of you may know me better as Tasteless, the Starcraft competitive gamer and shoutcaster. If you’re not familiar with me let me briefly introduce myself.

 

 

I’ve been playing Starcraft since the day it came out. I always had a huge passion for the game and started out as a random player mostly gaming on US East and US West. Initially I was a BGH player but very quickly decided that playing normal maps was much more fun. My brother (Day[9], former best American Zerg) had already entered the competitive scene at this point in time and after seeing his success in the competitive realm I realized I too wanted to be part of the action. It was then that I saw random was nearly impossible to play with on the competitive level; thus I opted to switch over to Protoss which I felt was my strongest race at the time.

 

During my college years I participated in many events online and occasionally skipped classes to travel to American tournaments whenever they came up. In the summer of my sophomore year I managed to qualify for the WCG USA Southern Finals which was held in Texas where 16 other players qualified. There I managed to defeat Nony (also currently residing in Korea as a ProGamer on Estro) in the grand finals and this ultimately landed me a seat at the WCG USA finals in New York with 12 other gamers from around the country. To my shock I was paired against my brother who I had been training with for the previous month, we both knew all each others strategies and styles which boiled down to both of us having to come up with something on the fly to knock each other out. He beat me 2-0, but that turned out to be one of the best things that could ever have happened to me.

 

Because I was eliminated 1^st round I had free time to check out the WCG venue and took notice of the commentator on stage. Between rounds I spoke with the MC and he confessed that he wasn’t a starcraft player at all and the game was rather confusing to him. I offered him my help on stage playing the role of color commentator; he was happy to accept. From there a company called ITG took notice of me and requested that I broadcast at the WCG World Finals in Singapore. At the time I never expected this to be a career move; I was really more interested in seeing progamers play in person and meeting the other top non Koreans who I had been training with for some time. I took the offer up without hesitation and from there I kept receiving job offers from other lan events such as WWI, the Seoul Estars Festival and other events all over the world.

 

I remained in college during all of this attempting to finish up my degree. During this time I managed to achieve a rank of A- on iccup and lead the team RSGaming to victory in the World Game Tour Division 1 Clan League more than once. My plan was to finish up college and then go to graduate school to get my PHD or masters in philosophy. However, right before my last semester I was offered a full time job in Korea working for GomTV as a Starcraft commentator. Obviously college is important but opportunities like this don’t come up all the time. I decided I can finish college another time and I agreed to move out to Korea and take this chance. It was well worth it.

 

GomTV in Korea is the equivalent to Windows Media player in the United States. So in a country like Korea, with Seoul being the most wired city in the world, this makes GomTV a pretty big deal. While you can watch any video you want with the GomTV player they also host many shows which can only be viewed through their program. The GomTV Classic, the starcraft tournament I broadcast, is the first attempt to have a show that can be viewed in both Korean and English on an international level. It’s also the largest tournament in korea with the biggest prize purse. You can watch all the games at gomtv.net. We host many other gaming tournaments as well and plan to keep expanding. Definitely tune in!

 

While there’s a lot of stuff I could talk about in this blog involving Starcraft and Starcraft 2, I’m mostly interested in talking about strategy. I want to help educate people about how to improve in Starcraft and many of the tricks I’ll be showing you guys will easily translate into Starcraft 2. The stuff I’ll be teaching will range from very basic to very very complex. Iccup, the world’s largest and most competitive Starcraft ladder, is starting a new season very soon. My goal is to help you climb the iccup ranks. Whether that be to climb half way past D at 1500 pts or to help you bump from B- to B I want to help in that process. Nice meeting you guys! I look forward to spilling my brain in the upcoming months ahead.

 

links:
http://www.gomtv.com/
http://www.gomtv.net/classic/live/

RSS feed:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/starfeeder

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Starcraft, StarCraft 2, eSports

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