"I challenged a 12-year old kid to a starcraft game and WON" - Dan Artosis Stemkoski

You know a story is fire when it's called "Vegas Kid" and the word *Vegas* isn't even uttered until 9 minutes into the 16 minute story.

It would be great if that kid grew up to be be some diabolical Protoss mastermind with a bunch of dummy accounts. Every time Artosis freaks out about Protoss, imba, and goes off on a rage induced rant… it’s always Vegas Kid he was playing.

An expanded explanation on the Day9 Daily 100 story, very nice.

God this content is the *exact* reason I Day9 is my favourite youtuber.

Reminds me of the old SC2 Funday Monday stories

According to Liquipedia Vegas Kid's name was just "StarCraft" and he managed to take a game off someone. Imagine losing to Vegas Kid.

I don't think I've laughed harder in ages, love this story.

When he brings up The Revenant i lost it right there

The Vegas Kid's name? Greg "Idra" Fields.

I love Day9's starcraft stories. It reminds me of all the SC remastered events with Geoff, Dan, and Nick that were the best

Great story, would have been even better if the Vegas kid was some gaming prodigy and spanked Artosis over his knee though

god i wish Sean played some SC2 at any point, i'd watch immediatly...we miss you bud. happy you're doing great

I remember laughing this hard with the story about his car

This was my favourite story tangent and made me cackle

Microsoft's Zone was the scene back in the day. The "official" ladder was like 5 separate independently run websites tracking 1v1 vods submitted to GameNoob. The Zone lobbys were password protected, and the only way you could get invited into a lobby was by trying out with any of the handful of professional clans, and actually getting your vods reviewed by pros. Otherwise, you'd just wander around the unlocked lobbys and play cbt or 4v4 black forest random, (of which everyone would end up losing to the one guy who rolled britons lmao). Good times.

I'll be damned, Nazgul the founder of Team Liquid was a contender in the WCG 2004 as well. That was one legendary tournament.

"But we take those wins"

Can someone PLEASE find this KID right now, and have DAY9 talk to him about this experience?! PLEASE!!!

I remember this story from Daily 100, loved it then, love it now

I never thought I'd hear the origin story of IdrA on this channel.

This rant is an instant classic.

I just wanted to say that I already heard this story a LONG time ago in some other stream/video but by golly I want to hear it again.

Every day9 rant has a cat cameo everytime its part of the script

the history is hilarious but day9 is really good narrator as well, he made it sound funny AF 😂

I just love Storytime with Sean : D

If I had played starcraft competitively those days, the Vegas Kid would have owned me. Felt like a pro just by owning the campaign

The qualifier got announced a day or two before it happened so since I lived in the area I was one of the only two people who showed up for bw (other guy was warming up on fastest and ended up taking the travel voucher money instead of attending). Ended up playing vs sadist (not Artosis) in the first round and then rekrul in losers bracket. I'd never played on LAN latency so I miscontrolled a lot in the beginning and ended up throwing my prep out after that and tried some weird proxy build that slog4 was warming up with before the tournament on korhal. I felt bad at the time because I thought I could have played a lot better but it's always fun reminisicing with my brother (who took me to long beach for the event) about the time that I was "one of the best starcraft players"

Day9 talked about this story very briefly back in story 100 as well lol; albeit back then the kid said something about vultures killing your workers instead of DTs kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hLCqp8mkvbHHgIU.html

And that kid's name? Sean Bouchard.

I'd pay such good money to watch a VOD of that game

[Edit***] If USA finals was in Long Beach, that was definitely 2004 lol, I was there playing Halo - I was also at the Vegas regional qualifiers obv, what a beautiful gringy disgusting LAN Center it took place at

so this is the same kid in your "my life of starcraft daily 100" :D

I want the replay of that game so bad.

Why can’t I like this 1000 times

Storytime with Uncle Sean is best time ;)

plot twist, las vegas kid is artosis

"...but we'd take those wins." lmao

underquotes is cursed.

i remember going to one of the last magic PTQ's in spokane washington (usually just a local crowd) and running into GerryT, Rich Hagon, Jesse Hampton

”Parenthases free beer” 😂😂

Well I did go to my state colleges StarCraft 2 tounoment as a bronze. Puck was there.

I miss Day9's starcraft stuff.

Real ones will know this from Daily #100

This story reminded me of the wild wild west the internet used to be. Ah good times.

I never tire of this story. XD

First time ever playing paintball... probably Vegas kid's age. Get dropped off at this place with my brother and a friend. Jeans, t-shirts, that sort of thing. Rent crappy guns that barely function... All of us placed on a team against grown men wearing full camo, ghillie suits, etc. with 1000+ dollar paintball guns using compressed air, etc. It was a lot of fun.

Good memories

More starcraft content!!!!! I'm still playing broodwar to this day

I love tasteless, I could listen to him describe paint drying

That kid? He later grew up to be Greg "IdrA" Fields.

let's gooooo Day9!

Wonder where Vegas Kid is today

I haven't watched Day9 in months, but first? Thanks, algorithm.

Story time wooooooooooo!

I give you props for feeling emasculated when that cat ran up. +1 like, and comment.

Now I know why Artosis gets his bad Karma from…all the stream snipers and smurfs are revenging the “Vegas Kid” 😄

This feels like an origin story.

Wow I was there for the 1v1 no rush 15min days !! ❤❤

Golden times

Some OG shyt right here, my sweet summer children ;)

Did Dan confirm the story?

wasn't WGTOUR a thing in the US ? I remember using it a lot ! Good times :) with The All Seeing Eye for CS and DOD :D And Gameee for hardcore SC :D

aw i was hoping you were gonna bring back billy lol

How dare you Sean, I still use my Yahoo email address!

im a simple man..... i see day 9 and starcraft in the title i click

Vegas Kid story's awesome. Artosis matchup lol.

I rewatched the 100th daily like 2 weeks ago, I can't wait to hear more about this

I have to know where you got that shirt!

Aww poor Vegas Kid.

Airquottasaurus Rex

I played a bunch of WC3 in 2004 and remember resources like SK-gaming having news about tournaments, replays etc. Didn't Starcraft have ANYTHING back then? :P

I feel old and depressed because I can relate to your memories and I am lucky to not have gray hair at my age.

I bet the Las Vegas Kid could take some games off Artosis

sick T-Shirt Day9. Love it :D

Wonder where Vegas kid is now.

Is that card real? It's weird that it ends with "in a random order." instead of "in any order". Am I really supposed to shuffle 3 cards and not remember their order? Should I offer the 3 cards to my opponent so they can cut them?

I refuse to believe that back then people played above 100 APM.

What's the opposite of an Artosis pylon? (also what episode did you tell that joke on - gotta share it on Artosis's Twitch).

i think.. u should write a book XDD

Mmmmm, Chrono Trigger

Day9 daily 100 gives us a glimpse

Oh God. How has so much time passed since SC2 came out? I don't like this.

Any way we can get the replay of that match?

Man, I’m 40 this is a total walk down memory lane from playing SC1. How the hell did this card get you going on this rant?

Meanwhile WoW PvP in 2021 still doesn't have a ladder. Still a craiglist..

I miss the Day9 Daily series so badly :( Hilariously story though, I can totally imagine Artosis absolutely mauling any competition no matter who it was lol

@day9 dude, i am older than you, wtf??? this is the story that i am gonna tell my kid soon...and LT was best map!!!

Tho saying the gaming content was banned till 2012 is cute

reminds me of this moment kzfaq.info/get/bejne/irCFa9hilazMfWQ.html where round 1, a 12 year old played against a tour points leader in street fighter. at least it was fast, aye.

Just gotta know someone. Where's the koreans at? op 3.33? Then hope they wanna play lol

"We take those. We take those kids!" Hold up...

waiting for day9 to just do a littttttttttttttttttttttle revisit of starcraft brood war

When Despy walks across the desk: "i feel so emasculated when she does that." Wow! That explains so much! Ranting about kids games in that emo whiny voice makes him feel masculine! That is backwards! Hahaha!

I'm loving that trans flag ice cream shirt

Trans rights ice cream 🍦🍨

Got to love gatekeeping nerds judging a kid. Hahahah

Are you gonna get on the post Malone cash wagon too? Seems like everyone wants to sellout now days.