{"id":4651,"date":"2026-03-24T21:48:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T20:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/?p=4651"},"modified":"2026-03-26T12:35:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T11:35:53","slug":"getting-back-into-starcraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/4651","title":{"rendered":"Getting back into StarCraft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have been playing and watching StarCraft since it first came out. When its successor StarCraft 2 came out, I also increasingly watched matches and big tournaments. It was a great time. JustinTV became Twitch, the Day9 dailies were \u2026 daily and there were a number of iconic players, as well as casters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the years I&#8217;ve had favorites, mostly Protoss players such as MC, HuK, sOs and Classic, but also many others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the last decade, the spark has somewhat fizzled and I quit playing myself and only sometimes watched tournament finals, mostly cast by Tastosis, which was the defining casting duo. When they quit GSL, I also did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until recently, when in my boredom Youtube suggested I watch Harstem&#8217;s channel. I only knew him as a pro player from the Netherlands who sometimes came up in tournaments. I did not know much about him. I seem to have missed out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His Youtube channel posts daily. Mostly a curated few games of high-level SC2 play, narrated by himself, and boy is he hilarious! I am totally hooked and usually start my evenings by watching him play delicious cheeses against grandmaster opponents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have nostalgic feelings for StarCraft 2, be sure to <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/JYra40zRZGA?is=NeuRitluhNyvlwf2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pay his channel a visit.<\/a> I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll enjoy it as much as I do. Hashtag not sponsored ofc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been playing and watching StarCraft since it first came out. When its successor StarCraft 2 came out, I also increasingly watched matches and big tournaments. It was a great time. JustinTV became Twitch, the Day9 dailies were \u2026 daily and there were a number of iconic players, as well as casters. Over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,859],"tags":[180,184,868,861],"class_list":["post-4651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-thoughts","tag-starcraft","tag-game","tag-twitch","tag-videogame"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4652,"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4651\/revisions\/4652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}