i've watche this like 4 times already, can keep watching over and over.... everything about this documentary is amazing, even the soundtrack is perfect
Very interesting documentary! Really enjoyed it. It's especially intriguing to see how fast Xellos moves in comparison to average players. Really unique talent.
The entire idea of a documentary is to be as accessible to the audience as possible, in this regard EVERYTHING that is approached, whether it is APM, Salary, Teams, etc, must be approached as though the audience has no idea what it is, otherwise people that aren't already interested in e-sports will be confused and instantly turn off the program. This documentary isn't for people that already know a lot about e-sports, but for people that are looking to learn more, that's a good thing!
Respect to these people, for I wouldnt be willing to make the sacrifices that they made even though I do enjoy playing games. For me they are a hobby which I enjoy for fun. If I had to deal with pressure and stress that comes with it it would lose its charms for me.
damn I'm old. I still remember Boxer was THE best. I think the last that I seriously played was when Nazgul made his first appearance in the Korean pro scene.
400k in 2005, and in 2014 The International 4, price pool was ower 10 million! and for winning the whole dota 2 tournament, you get 5,028,121 USD! just amazing hove far we have gotten!
Plusy professional comp is always far from being a real profession, most people never get good enough to compete. But the VERY few that do get very rich.
@@Plusimurfriend Now it is. And streamers are making insane money too. I remember back in 2014 (when you comment) streamers were lucky to replace their real job, now they are making 7-8 figures.
Looking at this in 2021, brings back a lot of nostalgic feelings, even though I was a baby at that time. The feelings of 2000s... They were the best. I wish I could feel it once again as an adult. Ji-Hoon Seo(XellOs) is one of my all-time favorite SC1 progamers along with Seong-Eun Lee(firebathero). Recently I've gotten into the world of SC1, I found this documentary... And it's really nice to watch this, seeing him here was quite unexpected. Happy to see GO(CJ), which is also my favorite team... except for sAviOr. Early gen progamers used to be paid small or none while they were still new. They would be paid properly, have a nice facility when they have a spaonsor. GO wasn't sponsored until it became CJ- so the players had to cope with poorer conditions. As these early progamers shaved the way of E-Sports of Korea, later gamers can now play in a much better environment, with higher pays and general respect. Salute to all those SC1 progamers, specially the ones in early and mid 2000s. In Korea, there used to be a rumor that the National Geographic mainly focused on XellOs because he was well-looking. I agree to that idea, but who konws? x)
@glitcher999 They sign long term contracts, with pro teams, with guaranteed yearly salaries (sometimes over $100.000). They actually spend most of their time playing in team vs. team games, not in individual tournaments. The individual tournaments and the prizes from them are just a bonus, not their main income.
Fast forward to today, WCS2 Europe, Starcraft 2, everyone except 4 koreans eliminated, and StarDust is the winner in the finals. wcs.battle.net/sc2/en What an incredible flashback!
It is funny that Broodwar players were considered old and ready to retire at 21 and 22 years old back then and now you have pros in South Korea a decade older. Zest just won Super tournament for SC2 and he is 29.
E-sports grew so much since then. Last WCS was 100k dollars for a winner, and that wasn't that big tournament. And it can only get bigger. I wish natgeo would do another documentary and take a look for modern comunity.
VERY good noob analysis at the end! (23:00+) This is how people who don't game could get a slight tip of an idea of what Starcraft is about, and how GENIOUS those pro players are!!
Still insane to me how we got this doc of the Koreans and the doc of the Americans (Artosis, Day9, Tasteless, etc.) at the same year. So cool to compare them.
Who is to define what "living a life" is? I'd suppose that is relative to what fulfills your personal needs for happiness. These guys seem pretty happy to me.
Masterbate is in the tabs because XellOs is known as the DDR terran -- DDR in korean basically means masterbate (not to be confused with dance dance revolution).
@DonMega187 Lol, they're not just spamming commands, look at their replays, they can command multiple units to do their specific tasks in just a fraction of a second. They lose only in positioning, harrassments and mineral/vespene deficit. If you look at their replays, in a clash, can you see units stuck up on traffic congestion? NO! In early minutes, let's say up to 5 minutes. If you have that 300+ apm and you use it accordingly, you can be ahead of your enemy having only less than 300 apm.
@ThisNameIsBanned I think you're missing my point that APM isn't based on reflexes. I wasn't even commenting on whether or not APM is important to the game. SC just isn't reflex based. Speed is not the same thing as reaction time.
@cebuanoguy thats because PC is respected a lot more in the pro gaming community. It takes a lot more skill to master a PC game due to the huge amount of buttons and twitch reactions needed for it
@QuickfleX1990 XellOs earned his moniker of the "DDR Terran" from an Ongamenet program that visited the training houses of the progamming teams. When GO was visited, written on a whiteboard was the comment "If XellOs refrains from DDR, he wins OSL." While foreigners may interpret the acronym DDR as the famous game Dance Dance Revolution, Koreans also use DDR when referring to masturbation or "Ddal Ddal Re."
He got destroyed by xellos, he's done a daily on those games. He did however win the regionals for NA i believe and went to the grand finals - where he lost to xellos.
After this documentary it was downfall of XellOS, he never reached those heights again. I wonder if those brain X-Ray tests affected his brain cells which affected his gameplay.
What happens? Either go back to school while using your earnings to live off of and help pay for school or you get a jobs in e-sports, coaching or managing a team, organizing major tournaments etc. As far as becoming a pro goes, most people drop everything (school, work, etc.) for a couple months and practice and play in tournament and try to get noticed and invited to teams. Very few people just perminatly quit everything with absolutely no fall back
guys once i watched a documentary at nat geo it was about gaming , i did a reaserchs but i didn't find it , it was about a man who meet his wife on game and a kid addict to gaming and runs away from school just to play an fps game , pls i need the name
@fujitsi I think it has something to do with hight speed Internet becoming widespread about the same moment the game was released. Starcraft quickly became very popular because nothing better was available at the time and never really lost it popularity because Starcraft progamming is way to awesome and to lively to act like a fade. something like that.
Bro the scene at 8:57 had me dead 😂😂😂😂😂 This nigga wearin a navy outfit like a legit military Commander. Then when he cries all the girls go crazy! 😂😂😂 Planet Earth is gettin interesting as fuck these days lol
Amazing. Been to WCG 2006 in Italy, 2008 in Germany, 2009 in China and I will be at the WCG 2010 in L.A in about two weeks. Awsome to see mainstream cover eSport!
@DaFizz22 Henry Sokolski, head of the Non-proliferation Policy Education Centre in Washington, who stated, “LWRs could be used to produce dozens of bombs’ worth of weapons-grade plutonium in both North Korea and Iran. This is true of all LWRs." “These reactors are like all reactors, they have the potential to make weapons. So you might end up supplying the worst nuclear violator with the means to acquire the very weapons we’re trying to prevent it acquiring,” said Sokolski.
its more like protoss are strong but expensive. 1 zealot cost 100 M and for the zerglings its 2 for 50 M. but the main use for the zealot once a toss get higher tech is to absorb damage to protect the even more expensive hight tech units. the zergling are of course also use like that but less efficiently it's more of an offensive unit, thats why they have the ultralisk C (cost 100 M 100 G but it get 100 HP vs zerglings 35 and a better armour.)
@cragfrag That is true. Since keyboard and mouse is like the grand father, pc games get praised, hence the fact that older joysticks were not online. Likewise, the world of games will soon evolve to joystick, soon voice command thanks to Ubisoft's Tom Clancy's Endwar. It will take a long time though, right now everyone is focusing to better the internal stuff, but not the external inputs like joysticks, mouse and keyboards.
Yea bro what better fulfillment in life must it be to do what you love to do and what your really good at and make a ton of money in the process, not everyone is that lucky this guys are geniuses to be the best at what they do !!! you have no idea of what it is to game :)
The vibe of years 2003-2006 was the best
For real
Yesss!
i've watche this like 4 times already, can keep watching over and over....
everything about this documentary is amazing, even the soundtrack is perfect
"Only if you get past the best of the best. The Koreans." LMAO
this documentary was the first real esports documentary 15 years later esports is a billion dollar industry
Very interesting documentary! Really enjoyed it. It's especially intriguing to see how fast Xellos moves in comparison to average players. Really unique talent.
After all these years and revisiting this video, the best part is still 18:14 when he hits the car.
Hes just like ali a
The entire idea of a documentary is to be as accessible to the audience as possible, in this regard EVERYTHING that is approached, whether it is APM, Salary, Teams, etc, must be approached as though the audience has no idea what it is, otherwise people that aren't already interested in e-sports will be confused and instantly turn off the program.
This documentary isn't for people that already know a lot about e-sports, but for people that are looking to learn more, that's a good thing!
Respect to these people, for I wouldnt be willing to make the sacrifices that they made even though I do enjoy playing games. For me they are a hobby which I enjoy for fun. If I had to deal with pressure and stress that comes with it it would lose its charms for me.
damn I'm old. I still remember Boxer was THE best. I think the last that I seriously played was when Nazgul made his first appearance in the Korean pro scene.
Absolutely amazing documentary, the visuals and the sound track are great 👍
400k in 2005, and in 2014 The International 4, price pool was ower 10 million! and for winning the whole dota 2 tournament, you get 5,028,121 USD! just amazing hove far we have gotten!
ye too bad professional gaming is still far from being a real profession.
Plusy professional comp is always far from being a real profession, most people never get good enough to compete. But the VERY few that do get very rich.
@@Plusimurfriend Now it is. And streamers are making insane money too. I remember back in 2014 (when you comment) streamers were lucky to replace their real job, now they are making 7-8 figures.
It is amazing to see what gaming is today compared to back then and how much money gamers make today.
Looking at this in 2021, brings back a lot of nostalgic feelings, even though I was a baby at that time. The feelings of 2000s... They were the best. I wish I could feel it once again as an adult. Ji-Hoon Seo(XellOs) is one of my all-time favorite SC1 progamers along with Seong-Eun Lee(firebathero). Recently I've gotten into the world of SC1, I found this documentary... And it's really nice to watch this, seeing him here was quite unexpected. Happy to see GO(CJ), which is also my favorite team... except for sAviOr.
Early gen progamers used to be paid small or none while they were still new. They would be paid properly, have a nice facility when they have a spaonsor. GO wasn't sponsored until it became CJ- so the players had to cope with poorer conditions. As these early progamers shaved the way of E-Sports of Korea, later gamers can now play in a much better environment, with higher pays and general respect. Salute to all those SC1 progamers, specially the ones in early and mid 2000s.
In Korea, there used to be a rumor that the National Geographic mainly focused on XellOs because he was well-looking. I agree to that idea, but who konws? x)
@glitcher999 They sign long term contracts, with pro teams, with guaranteed yearly salaries (sometimes over $100.000). They actually spend most of their time playing in team vs. team games, not in individual tournaments.
The individual tournaments and the prizes from them are just a bonus, not their main income.
Xellos , omg, they showing Old Starcraft. Thats like 12 - 13 years ago.
Everyone always talked about Slayers Boxer, I've never heard of Xellos b4.
i cant remember for sure but if u watched day9s daily 100 i think he talks about xellos he was very good but i think more known in the wcg world
i knew about xellos 14 years ago and i dind't even know that starcraft had such a big professional scene
Xellos ez win SlayerBoxer
Don't know why, but I've watched this documentary like 6 times. Usually while awake with insomnia and playing some game.
I'd love how National geographic demonstrates the game matches. They should create their own game channel lol.
And today the year 2018!
>Serral wins WCS Global Finals as the first foreigner ever in StarCraft History!
cant believe I found this gem..thats crazy!
taken from 41:38
"the russian builds a massive airforce and storms in with a gazillion fighter planes"
THAT'S SOME TOP NOTCH COMMENTARY
"A gazillion fighter planes" still the best line of this whole documentary lol
Meanwhile, North korea just released a driving simulator that resembles an atari game..
Fast forward to today, WCS2 Europe, Starcraft 2, everyone except 4 koreans eliminated, and StarDust is the winner in the finals. wcs.battle.net/sc2/en What an incredible flashback!
It is funny that Broodwar players were considered old and ready to retire at 21 and 22 years old back then and now you have pros in South Korea a decade older.
Zest just won Super tournament for SC2 and he is 29.
"They are handsome, and very cute and so beautiful". I think I may have an idea as to what motivate this fan :D
i wanna know what happened to those carriers behind the supply line.
E-sports grew so much since then. Last WCS was 100k dollars for a winner, and that wasn't that big tournament. And it can only get bigger. I wish natgeo would do another documentary and take a look for modern comunity.
it was a big tournament
This is the future!
@Mauz1 I never mentioned anything about APM between the two. I merely corrected someone who said White Ra is 27.
I love the beginning... "and he jsut turned 20."
VERY good noob analysis at the end! (23:00+) This is how people who don't game could get a slight tip of an idea of what Starcraft is about, and how GENIOUS those pro players are!!
omg XellOs is such a badass Terran Player right up there with FlaSh and NaDa
Wow... imagine a world where playing games is not something you do for leisure but out of survival. This kids really had to be great.
Still insane to me how we got this doc of the Koreans and the doc of the Americans (Artosis, Day9, Tasteless, etc.) at the same year. So cool to compare them.
Who is to define what "living a life" is? I'd suppose that is relative to what fulfills your personal needs for happiness. These guys seem pretty happy to me.
Masterbate is in the tabs because XellOs is known as the DDR terran -- DDR in korean basically means masterbate (not to be confused with dance dance revolution).
Its kinda horrible to think past 25 you wont be able to compete :(
love these fans how they're so dedicated ;)
Yay! SC I/ BW is such a classic
@DonMega187 Lol, they're not just spamming commands, look at their replays, they can command multiple units to do their specific tasks in just a fraction of a second. They lose only in positioning, harrassments and mineral/vespene deficit. If you look at their replays, in a clash, can you see units stuck up on traffic congestion? NO! In early minutes, let's say up to 5 minutes. If you have that 300+ apm and you use it accordingly, you can be ahead of your enemy having only less than 300 apm.
The lady doing the voiceover sounds familiar. Is she Vicky Butler-Henderson from Fifth Gear?
one does not play vs Korea.. only Korea plays vs Korea
what's the music right in the end of the video?
@diekontrolleure
Actually, he just finished military service and is now back on the scene.
is the male translator / english voice in this video from the age of empires II campaign? sounds exactly like him..
33:35 young Savior.
ah, so innocent back then... who knew he would go on such a legendary run, and then fall to match fixing?
I like the clear bias with the statement "A parent's worst nightmare"
2018 still here
@MajinVegeto89 I KNEW that was Tasteless! Glad I'm not the only one to spot him. Was kinda hoping to see Day[9] though :)
holy shit the pantech training house actually looks really really good...
damn i wouldnt mind slaving on a game in that type of place lol
24:34 GG - The universal sign of surrender LOL MY SIDES
"The universal sign of surrender in the gaming universe" context
it's not wrong?
LMAO I LAUGHED SO HARD WHEN I WATCHED IT XDDDDDD
21:32
Wrong timecode
Nijisanji
@miikhailov the translator was trying to copy the way Xello told the story. You don't watch carefully enough.
Good documentary :) Seems like a nice guy!
@KenjiMedia Huk, in sc2, is around 30 if i remember right:D
@ThisNameIsBanned I think you're missing my point that APM isn't based on reflexes. I wasn't even commenting on whether or not APM is important to the game. SC just isn't reflex based. Speed is not the same thing as reaction time.
@Coldjinseng He won the USA qualifiers. He lost to xellos is the round of 16
@cebuanoguy
thats because PC is respected a lot more in the pro gaming community.
It takes a lot more skill to master a PC game due to the huge amount of buttons and twitch reactions needed for it
i want to know what brand/model is androide's keyboard
@QuickfleX1990 XellOs earned his moniker of the "DDR Terran" from an Ongamenet program that visited the training houses of the progamming teams. When GO was visited, written on a whiteboard was the comment "If XellOs refrains from DDR, he wins OSL." While foreigners may interpret the acronym DDR as the famous game Dance Dance Revolution, Koreans also use DDR when referring to masturbation or "Ddal Ddal Re."
@iThaosTM They're not ashamed. Lots of them are skipping school and don't want to be broadcast on TV.
He got destroyed by xellos, he's done a daily on those games. He did however win the regionals for NA i believe and went to the grand finals - where he lost to xellos.
After this documentary it was downfall of XellOS, he never reached those heights again. I wonder if those brain X-Ray tests affected his brain cells which affected his gameplay.
That's Tasteless and DJWheat casting around 37:15, right?
thanks for speaking for everybody
wait...2005??? im pretty sure sean day9 plott won wcg in 2005. i remember watching games of him against xellos :P
i love artosis casting at the end. "KOREA WINS. KOREA WINS STARCRAFT".
35:55 tasteless "the commentator" of following game :D and part of the casting archon.. 1. time appearance in video xD
they really take their losses to heart. Imagine being the general of a real war and losing because your strategy was flawed.
@Ghetto Peasant holy fuck. Almost ten year old comment. Don't remember this at all lol. Ty
What happens? Either go back to school while using your earnings to live off of and help pay for school or you get a jobs in e-sports, coaching or managing a team, organizing major tournaments etc.
As far as becoming a pro goes, most people drop everything (school, work, etc.) for a couple months and practice and play in tournament and try to get noticed and invited to teams. Very few people just perminatly quit everything with absolutely no fall back
Wasn't that at the US WCG?
I didn't know that happened in Singapore.
guys once i watched a documentary at nat geo it was about gaming , i did a reaserchs but i didn't find it , it was about a man who meet his wife on game and a kid addict to gaming and runs away from school just to play an fps game , pls i need the name
back in the day when Monitors were huge boxes compared to today's monitors
+Engineer Diep Least they'd less irritating to carry, no?
+Lester Ramos they're heavy as fuck
Least they last forever, no?
Artist: Enigma, Song: Gravity of Love
@fujitsi I think it has something to do with hight speed Internet becoming widespread about the same moment the game was released. Starcraft quickly became very popular because nothing better was available at the time and never really lost it popularity because Starcraft progamming is way to awesome and to lively to act like a fade. something like that.
@Bomber0907
You can probably make that game in the SC2 map editor :)).
@DeMitrix9435 No, he's pretty young. Nestea is 30 and White-Ra is 31.
@mzrealm you're not alone. This documentary killed all my dreams of ever being a pro gamer :(
60% is a very good win-rate in Brood War, actually.
the CJ Entus practice house is every Starcraft nerds dream :D
Bro the scene at 8:57 had me dead 😂😂😂😂😂 This nigga wearin a navy outfit like a legit military Commander. Then when he cries all the girls go crazy!
😂😂😂 Planet Earth is gettin interesting as fuck these days lol
Amazing. Been to WCG 2006 in Italy, 2008 in Germany, 2009 in China and I will be at the WCG 2010 in L.A in about two weeks. Awsome to see mainstream cover eSport!
Nice, i hope you will enjoy the WGC 2010 in L.A
@@budgetking2591lol
@DaFizz22
Henry Sokolski, head of the Non-proliferation Policy Education Centre in Washington, who stated, “LWRs could be used to produce dozens of bombs’ worth of weapons-grade plutonium in both North Korea and Iran. This is true of all LWRs."
“These reactors are like all reactors, they have the potential to make weapons. So you might end up supplying the worst nuclear violator with the means to acquire the very weapons we’re trying to prevent it acquiring,” said Sokolski.
@rodneyrodneypiper Citation?
@fujitsi SC is also very popular in USA. I'm looking forward to SC2's release.
lol, Savior just makes a random cameo with no mention.
Timestamp?
33:42 ^^
Well, I expected much more technical things, like keyboards, mouse, mouse pads, etc. ... from where they get strategies, how are they training ...
its more like protoss are strong but expensive. 1 zealot cost 100 M and for the zerglings its 2 for 50 M. but the main use for the zealot once a toss get higher tech is to absorb damage to protect the even more expensive hight tech units. the zergling are of course also use like that but less efficiently it's more of an offensive unit, thats why they have the ultralisk C (cost 100 M 100 G but it get 100 HP vs zerglings 35 and a better armour.)
@cragfrag That is true. Since keyboard and mouse is like the grand father, pc games get praised, hence the fact that older joysticks were not online. Likewise, the world of games will soon evolve to joystick, soon voice command thanks to Ubisoft's Tom Clancy's Endwar. It will take a long time though, right now everyone is focusing to better the internal stuff, but not the external inputs like joysticks, mouse and keyboards.
Very good documentary. Ten times better than CNN's
gibts die doku auch in deutsch? oder zumindest deutschen untertitel?
What is this doc, literaly the Lady talking sounds like she was born yesterday
born yesterday?
+Georgo Zuwe
No, can you explain what you mean, because doesn't that mean young?
lunasam9 no It sounds like this a documentary for parents, and that she is kind of backward thinking.
Can anyone explain to me why people are covering their faces at 2:50
Asian thing
Mh , well , most of them are quitting class to watch their idols . If they catch them , the punishments are pretty painful ...
because they like "OMG" cant wait till he come out
DorutzuDragutzu Ahh I see.
DorutzuDragutzu lol remember when we used to skip classes to play starcraft haha good old days
Very cool. Any idea what this guy does now?
86hours nonstop gaming in an internet caffé? Sorry for the stupid question, but doesn't the shops, need to close down sometimes?:)
Who did the medical
studies of this player?
Yea bro what better fulfillment in life must it be to do what you love to do and what your really good at and make a ton of money in the process, not everyone is that lucky this guys are geniuses to be the best at what they do !!! you have no idea of what it is to game :)
4:08
Did she just say Zerg is weak!?!?!?
Jae Dong should slap her mouth for sayjng that.
Jae Dong should slap her mouth for sayjng that.
Jae Dong should slap her mouth for sayjng that.
Where is day9?
Where's IDRA?
"Killer of Koreans", that is the best line eva!!