In the illustrious history of clubs at the University of Alberta, where does Starcraft University rank?

I wouldn’t say we are up there with something like the Student Distress Centre, but we’re somewhat of a presence I like to think. The best way to put it is, we’ve only done one Clubs Fair in our two and a half years as a registered club and during that Clubs Fair we had the second highest number of new members. We were beat out only by the dance club.

So how many members do you currently have?

We have 52 members on our current list and we actively get about ten to twelve people out to our events every Friday at Dewey’s .

I’ve heard that this Starcraft game is incredibly popular in Korea. How many of those members are Korean?

Technically the club is mostly Koreans, but many of them don’t show up to our events. Sometimes one of our Korean members will stroll in and mop the floor with us and disappear into the balmy afternoon.

Don’t they have massive Starcraft competitions in Korea? Its almost a sport there isn’t it?

They fill stadiums full of people to watch two guys play Starcraft. It’s a part of the culture. The guys that play look like they’re wearing a Nascar jacket because the are so heavily sponsored.

Is that your goal, to be sponsored to play Starcraft? Or did you have other reasons to start this club?

We really just wanted an excuse to drink beer, eat paninis and play Starcraft. It’s pretty much that simple. I’m not even doing anything computer related in school. I’m a philosophy and drama double major. Contrary to the pictures you took for this interview, I am not the king of the basement nerds.

I might join your club, if only for the beer and paninis. That’s something I can support.