Sean Plott

Sean Plott
Born	June 27, 1986 (1986-06-27) (age 25) Leawood, Kansas
Residence	Los Angeles, CA
Nationality	American
Other names	"Day[9]," "Day[J]," "THE THOUGHTHAMMER"
Occupation	Caster
Known for	Netcaster Former Professional Starcraft Brood War player
Relatives	Nicolas Plott (brother)
Website
day9.tv

Sean Plott (born June 27, 1986^[1] in Leawood, Kansas), commonly known by his computer nickname Day[9], is a former professional StarCraft: Brood War player as well as an e-sports commentator for StarCraft II, known for his Daily netcasts. Sean qualified for the World Cyber Games in 2004, 2005 and 2006 and won the 2007 Pan-American tournament. He qualified for the American finals a further three times^[2] and was recognized as the PC Gamer gamer of the year in 2010.^[3] He regularly appears as a commentator at StarCraft tournaments worldwide, including Blizzcon in 2010 and 2011, the Major League Gaming professional circuit, the Dreamhack and the Team Liquid Star League.

Biography

Plott grew up in Leawood, Kansas, where he played Starcraft: Brood War professionally with his brother Nicolas "Tasteless" Plott. He received an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California, and a masters degree in interactive media from University of Southern California in Los Angeles. After the Day[9] Daily on May 11, 2011, he announced that he would be pursuing Starcraft II full time. Whether he also intends to commentate full time, or play competitively was not clear. On May 31, 2011, during an appearance on State of the Game, Plott announced that he intends to eventually stream himself playing games, as soon as he is not "embarrasingly terrible".

StarCraft: Brood War Career

Plott was a high rated player in the Western scene, participating in many tournaments. Plott's first major results came in 2004 where he was able to take the 2nd place spot in the WCG USA 2004, Plott was then able to represent USA in the grand finals in which he was able to get into the top 16. Plott was able to take out the Czech player Dark_Caleb but lost to the korean player XellOs who went on to win the event without dropping a single game.

Plott was able to take 1st in WCG USA 2005 and 2nd in 2006, Plott showed some great knowledge in the game and deep strategic analysis, he was a frequent poster on the TeamLiquid strategy forum and in 2009 he started the "Day[9] Daily".

The Day[9] Daily

The Day[9] Daily is a daily webshow where Plott talks about professional Starcraft games under the tagline: "Be a Better Gamer". Initially, the Day[9] Daily was a webcast in order to analyze high level Starcraft: Brood War play. With the release of the Starcraft II beta, the show's focus moved away from Starcraft: Brood War and became fully focused on Starcraft II. The show is currently presented as an edutainment webcast in which Plott editorializes and analyzes replays of Starcraft II. "These shows help both new and experienced players understand the game better and even showcase hilariously and deliberately crazy games on his 'Funday Monday' shows."^{[4] [5]}

StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty Career

Plott continued to make the daily a focus of his life and career, but, unlike with Brood War, made his role in the community that of a caster. Since the advent of StarCraft II, he has become the most popular StarCraft II caster outside of South Korea, especially in North America. He is a staple member of the casting team for the Major League Gaming Pro Circuit (MLG), arguably the most popular North American e-sports tournament franchise featuring StarCraft II, as well as a frequent caster of the international Intel Extreme Masters Cup. He is also very widely respected as a pundit of the game and its ever-changing strategic nuances, sharing his knowledge regularly on the daily. In addition, Plott is one of the stars of MLG's State of the Game, where he discusses notable current events within the StarCraft community with other high-value members of the community, such as the show's caster J. P. "itmeJP" McDaniel, co-stars Geoff "iNcontroL" Robinson, Dan "Artosis" Stemkoski, Tyler "Tyler" Wasieleski, and various guest stars who also tend to be important contributors and/or figures in the StarCraft community. Plott has not played StarCraft II professionally since 2010's HDH Invitational, nor has he expressed a solid intent to do so, but did once say he might go back into playing seriously once he is no longer "horrendously bad" at the game, leaving ambiguity as to what his intentions may be.

Casting

Day[9] has casted his fair share of events and started a few for his Day[9] Daily webshow like the "After Hours Gaming League" and the SC2 Beta tournament, "King of the Beta". Some of the events that he is a regular host of are the Intel Extreme Masters, Dreamhack, Major League Gaming and Blizzcon.

See also

• Electronic sports
• Starcraft 2
• Husky (commentator)
• HD (commentator)
• John Bain (TotalBiscuit)

References

1. ^ http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/Day(9)
2. ^ Plott, Sean (2010-04-13). "Day[9] Daily #100 - My Life of Starcraft". http://day9tv.blip.tv/file/3486428/. Retrieved 2011-01-17. 
3. ^ McCormick, Rich. "Sean ‘Day[9]‘ Plott – PC Gamer UK’s Gamer Of The Year 2010". PC Gamer. http://www.pcgamer.com/2010/12/24/sean-day9-plott-pc-gamer-uks-gamer-of-the-year/. Retrieved 25 December 2010. 
4. ^ Reimer, Jeremy (2011-3-31). "The Dawn of Starcraft: e-Sports come to the world stage". http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/03/the-dawn-of-starcraft-e-sports-come-to-the-world-stage.ars. 
5. ^ http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2011/04/11/135316299/beyond-cute-babies-how-to-make-money-on-youtube

External links

• Day[9]'s official website
• The Day[9] Daily on Twitch.tv
• Day[9]'s main page and episode archive on blip.tv
• Episode archive for Australian viewers
• A popular fan site with textual summaries of each daily episode

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Name	Plott, Sean
Alternative names	Number J, Day9
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Date of birth	June 27, 1986
Place of birth	Leawood, Kansas
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