IPW Guest Article: From Fan to Fanatic – The Welcoming World of Gaming

[Editor's note: This guest article from Trevor "Scan" Scanlon of GLHF.tv gives thanks to the competitive gaming scene in general - RTS and fighters alike - for being so accepting and, well, awesome. A great read for fans of any competitive gaming scene, be it fighting games or otherwise. Enjoy! -Kumo]

For the majority of my life, I lived on the East Coast.  My childhood was spent in Connecticut, my college years in Boston.  Neither of these places are particularly known for their gaming communities.  Sure, there were small CoD4 tourneys in Boston every now and then, but there was no fighting/arcade scene at all to speak of.  I was a typical gamer, spending time between RPGs and fighting games and, yes, I even used to like Halo.  While I loved video games, they were still a recreational activity between myself and some of my friends.

Two people changed that.

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