From Champion to Criminal - The Story of Life in StarCraft 2

Timecodes:
00:00 Who's Life
00:55 First steps in StarCraft 2
02:00 Life's road in GSL
09:11 Life's path to becoming the World Champion
13:09 Back to back Global Finals
18:02 The Downfall
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#starcraft
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[RTSStoryteller]

Timecodes:
00:00 Who's Life
00:55 First steps in StarCraft 2
02:00 Life's road in GSL
09:11 Life's path to becoming the World Champion
13:09 Back to back Global Finals
18:02 The Downfall

[jmgutierrez]

Life is like the voldemort of Starcraft2..because it is he who shall not be named, .even mentioning him is banned in the SC2 scene

[EverythingEvo]

Game 7 of the global finals vs sOs is still in my opinion of the best Protoss holds I've ever seen in a tournament of this magnitude. Such an epic game.

[joshdanielsjr]

Let me save you all 25 minutes of life; he was caught match fixing and got banned for life—you’re welcome.

[davidnighten]

Im just so glad that this channel exist. Seriously

[BennyWe]

It's such a shame he did this. It was just a joy watching this guy play on the height of sc2 popularity

[gillbates]

I followed Life's professional career very closely. This was a devastating piece of news when it hit. All those times when I jokingly said "he's throwing!" weren't as funny in retrospect. Thinking back, he's had more suspect games than the ones he's been found guilty of. I remember him losing against Sjow in one of the first tournaments of HoTs by running group after group of lings over the same widow mines placed in the same spot. I chalked it up to new game, bad day for Life but who knows now. This is so shitty. Life leaves an bad taste in my mouth, especially after preventing Mvp from getting his G5L trophy and then going down the path he did.

Great video though. Made me feel very nostalgic of the great days. I miss so many of the players seen in this video.

[ZbNimble]

Wow. Thanks for the video. I remember cheering for Life years ago. He was really fun to watch. Then he seemed to vanished. I never heard the story until now.

[Hanclok]

I will keep saying it over and over watching Life play was something magical he really was something else man.

Life finds a way.

[Fillekille]

Doing Reynor things before Reynor, always enjoyed watching this guy, quick nimble, agile play with unmatched multi tasking, especially in that era

[js]

Sos is actually the best. He’s the only one who managed to be creative and entertaining with original builds and gameplay while everybody else played meta. Massive respect for the guy! And Biggest thank you with it.

[Fanaro]

It's kind of bizarre that we socially punish this type of thing more than many crimes.

[mcbrite]

23:11 I think I remember that footage from back in the day! Was that at a GSL qualifier?

[cadetlaventure]

Bro there's no way, I had so much good memories of these times and I remember being a big fan of Life. Kinda sad

[dbertarelli]

This one broke my heart. Life was my favorite player. The scandal broke during the first LOTV tournament. There were so many “what if’s”. How good could he have been?

[Kromatikeys]

Damn, I remember all of this. He was so fucking sick and I was really sad when I found out that he was rigging matches. Seeing these matches also make me remember how OP infested Terran was. lol

[sedan_dad]

LIFE WAS THE GREATEST…. so sad he threw it all away.. sad no one speaks of how his coaches who were much older than him guided him down the wrong path. he was a minor when all this was happening.

[lil----lil]

Life today would probably be the ONLY player that can go toe-to-toe with Serral. A pity...what killed me was that he didn't even need to do it as he was already one of the most skilled SC2 players ever then. His lifetime prize money earned would've EASILY exceeded the ONE TIME cheat money he received. Unbelievable. Unreal.

[KkawaiiPotato]

Life was simpler back then in times with Life. There was still access to WoL and HoTS ladder and I was just climbing WoL as that's what I was used to since release. Life made tournaments worth watching. Everyone clapped and cheered for "Life's lings" with what felt like a stadium full of people. The absolute peak of the game with Blizzard's support and a community that shared near top spot in streaming on twitch. Starcraft 2 has been my first real PC game and my favorite game of all time. Every starcraft broadcast I would watch live just for Life. After his finals best of 7 with sOs I nearly cried after his loss because I was so invested and idolized this man as a hero to zerg. Then it all came out. I cried for a different reason then. To have one of your only role models turn into this... inhumane puppet for money drove me away for a long time. I still tuned in to some streamers, played the game a little, but slowly it all faded away until I stopped playing for years. I've recently begun to start playing and enjoying myself again! I can't really get into watching the pro scene again but I must admit I was reignited by Oliveira yet I just feel like the top Zerg players like Reynor or Serral don't have that life that Life brought. Perhaps it was because the time was younger so optimization wasn't the best and the overall skill level is much higher. God was it fun to live back in those times. Sometimes I wished Life would come back but realistically what he did is unforgivable and shattered the trust of the playerbase and love of the game to a point it still struggles to return to

[steveyboi]

I remember a good friend of mine used to play SC2 religiously. He introduced me to SC2 and showed me Life and his accomplishments.
I used to go round to his place and watch him play (he was a zurg player) and we would watch Life games and he would show me the level of his talent.
was quite sad to hear when he got caught for match fixing :( so sad to see such talent go to waste