I talked about how people play starcraft on TV in Korea. Here is the Youtube group for all the
http://youtube.com/group/StarCraft
What's amazing is that there is a huge crowd, a huge fanbase. The players are called "programmers." Lots of Korean chickies with heavy makeup. All Koreans of course. There is one guy who is white in the uploaded videos that I saw (though maybe they only upload their favorite players.) a player named Boxer seems to be a favorite because he is creative and unpredictable.
Some starcraft trivia from wikipedia: Sometimes Actions Per Minute (or APM) is used as a quantitative indicator of one's ability to micro- and macromanage. A player's APM rating is determined by calculating the average number of actions that a player performs during each minute beyond the first 80 seconds of a game. An action in StarCraft is defined as selecting a unit or building, giving an order to a unit or building, or designating a target for an order (for example, ordering a marine to attack, and then selecting a supply depot would be three separate actions, while selecting a marine and right-clicking on a supply depot would be two actions).