SearchNTT returns to competitive scene, joins Serious Gaming
Posted by Patrik "Raistlin" Hellstrand 1 year ago
Jacob "NTT" Scharn is a legend. He is one of the few non-Koreans to have ever won a medal in World Cyber Games. But due to a lackluster professional scene outside Korea he retired from competitive gaming. Now he returns for StarCraft 2, by joining the Dutch organization Serious Gaming.NTT, bronze medalist in StarCraft: Brood War at the World Cyber Games Challenge back in 2000, quickly made a name of himself during the StarCraft 2 beta already, and is now one of the top ranked players on the European server.
The Dutch Terran player brings up Robertson Davies' written piece that says "the world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, infact, a return to the idealized past" and considers himself as one of those people.
- "I've certainly idealized the time I spent playing Brood War. Hopefully I'll be able to achieve a level of skill high enough to compete with the best in the world and recapture some of my lost gaming glory. On my path to gaming excellence I plan on bringing success, acclaim and ultimately great riches to Serious Gaming," says NTT on the team's web page.
The said philosophy of Serious Gaming is converting young players into champions, which places the seasoned RTS gamer in some of a "teacher" role, despite the new game.
- "Having someone in the team that is still eager ten years after his first successes should be a inspiration to the entire team and will hopefully have a positive impact on everyone," says team manager Jos "Zerter" Buijvoets.
Jacob "NTT Scharn's two biggest achievements should feature the third place at World Cyber Games Challenege and placing Top 16 in the third season of the Battle.net ladder.
He also played under the nickname Hasudrone, but for the Koreans he is more known as 하수드론.
NTT was one of the players who back in the day relied heavily on macro management, known for making an insane number of SCVs.
SERIOUS GAMING.SC2
Jacob “NTT” Scharn
Dong Hwan "viOlet" Kim
Alexander “iNSoLeNCE” Hein Kevin “RotterdaM” van der Kooi 
Nikolaus “SonKiE” Cassidy Lennart “SushiLicious” Roest Dlovan “Dlovan” van den Bosch | Links |
| Serious-Gaming.com - Source |
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Never heard of him. Was a stupid kid in these years  GL to him  |
| NTT <3!!!!! |
where is Ret?  |
| #3 in LLL |
| "known for making an insane number of SCVs" haha I obs'ed a game of him the other day in Starcraft 2 and he had 112 SCVs at one point. |
| lol@viOlet ... |
| he is so oldschool that even i didnt hear about him ! : O :P #3 yeah didnt hear about him for a looooong time ... |
| after Grrrr, NTT! nice :) Elky cooooooooooooooome onnnnnnnnnnnnn!!! :D what happened to GG99.slayer? |
| Marvelous. One of the best RTS minds has returned. GL NTT. |
| Planetary fortress turtle,massmarine, massair |
| is battle.net offline? |
| LOL , I didn't know RotterdaM plays SC2 , I remember RotterdaM vs Grubby was always hilarious in WC3 . GL to this team . and I didn't play SC , but I guess it's good news for everyone |
| haha in 2000 i didn't even have an internet connection |
| Legend? :l and a terran?.... Iv been here since beginning and i never even heard of this guy :p Lets hope he shows teh legendary skillz then |
| <3 NTT by the way he has the best name ever and a legendary scv production :D |
| NTT was by far one of the most fun players to watch replays of in my opinion. His play was just insanely weird sometimes and very creative. Didn't he also always quit the game at start if he spawned at 6 on LT (before the map was fixed)? That was just hilarious :D |
| guess the whole wc3 squad went sc2. interesting how that will work out.. |
| OMG AWESOME ! Slayer Tsunami Legionaire Elky anyone else missing ? |
| GL Jacob |
| I completely dont know him doesnt matter as long as he will freshen the scene :) |
| Welcome back NTT :) So nice to have you back! NTT was always music to my ears and i have huge Memories of the first WCG's. Your playstyle was just so amazing during this time beside boxer of course ;) Jacob, i wish you all the best to compete again against the best in the world! I'm very confident, that you can do it! |
| If you dont know who NTT is, your not "oldschool" or whatever you would like to call yourselfs. Nice to see him back, saw some sick replay on lt with massair. Dident really think it was the "real" NTT. gl hf. |
| #22 +1 |
| who is Dlovan ? ô.Ô |
| FYI for those of you who havent heard of him. Your probably too young but during the early days of starcraft where guys like grrr.. and all the cop guys like pillars etc, and agent911, tillerman everlast were playing, NTT was always in the mix. Infact, at one point he was probably considered top foreigner. An example of a crazy strat he created was pvz nexus before pylon then 5 gate zealots to hold off ling rush... very creative. |
| NTT is awesome, very creative player ^^ i still remeber some of his TvT games vs Sven and Slayer |
 NTT in action ^^ (Paris lan arena 2000) |
| well i did like NTT more for introducing the most bad mannered jokes ever made to people. :) Slayer did play sc1 2 years ago sven convinced him to play some games ;) he actually stil had a great hand speed and micro and played well vs some korean people who stil where kinda good. But hes pokering and in that time he choose money over sc1 so probably stil now.. greets, iG.BinGBonG |
| This is great news. It was so fun to watch Hasudrone's replays. Defeated a bunch of Korean Progamers. ah and, how can some have "been here from the beginning" and never heard of NTT ? |
| Bingbong, I remember a picture from a channel. A random guy asked ntt for a 1v1. and ntt replied with; sure go make. The other guy made a game and waited in the game. meanwhile ntt was hanging in the channel typing something like: "haha, its so cute he actually think im going to join(or play him or smtn)" |
| LOL Dlovan penis, i never u knew u were any good in sc2 :p |
| sup shad :D |
| Still hate him for bullying on me being a bottomfeeder 12 years ago :) |
| NTT FIGHTIIIIIING |
| Good ol' NTT :) |
| #8 Slayer plays poker. I love how NTT plays.. Hes so innovative. |
| when grubby switches to scII the netherlands will have a pretty strong lineup |
| Haha, NTT is such a troll. |
| NTT wellcome back :)) from the past , [pG]DIDI8BG-) vs [GG69]NTT epic games :))) T vs P |
| Oh and the way NTT plays T in SC2 is just hilarious.. Mass fortresses everywhere! |
| its normal some kids never heard of NTT. he was ages ago. yes he was legend those days. there was some reps showing he hacked on some games vs pj back in the day, anyways everybody in scene who is old enugh knows about his crazy style. |
| If you haven't heard of NTT and have BW installed, go to Google and look up the NTT Replay pack (there's a decent sized one out there, I know, I have it on my other computer) and watch it. He was the BoxeR of non-Korean BW. |
| #42 yes i also know this guy,,, a non-korean pro-gamer terran that can play with boxer back in 2000,,, if you're really want to be good in the future, you also need to know the past,, i know this guy even back in 2000 i was just like 7 (borned: 1993)... i tell you,, this NTT guy is good |
| He is smart, good and a big sarcast, good for the new scene ;) New interview of him: http://sc2.replayers.com/article/25-an-inter view-with-ntt |
| @lfunk: hi. Someone told me about your comment and I felt compelled to create an account and reply. I never map hacked against PJ. In fact, I don't even really know who PJ is. I can't say with absolute certainty that I never played him, what I can say with absolute certainty however, is that I never map hacked against anyone, and therefore not against PJ either. To clarify, I quit playing Brood War in 2001/2002. Any game played more recently under any of my aliases (hasudrone, NTT, etc) are fake. |
| lol in 1999 or 2000 i got a 32k modem and dowloaded replays of him amongst others like Dalailama mmmbop wishmaster kosh kalaschni korn fisheye anyone remember them? |
| NTT >> scv production 8D |
| #41 NTT never hacked against PJ lol. You must be confused with someone else. NTT was always a legit player with tons of skill to back it up. |
| well ok. my bad |
| NTT is my slut. |
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