In which patch did you start playing Warcraft 3 ladder?

And what race were you playing? and which was the strongest race during that patch?

Just kind of curious since we see so many people complaining about Orc imbalance and I really want to know the "Warcraft age" of the members in this forum

1.14 For me and I was playing Orc, atm UD was the strongest race due to the destroyers since Orcs didn't know how to use grunt rader to counter fiends (before Zacard showed up), and Humans didn't camp and mass towers during the old days. Of course by the time Orc players and their moms play FS as first hero (although I still play FS 1st nowadays)

I played plenty of WC3 but was never heavily into the community aspect and had no way of knowing what the flavors of the day were. I know that on our LAN at work, programmer Steve used to annihilate me by massing hippogryphs, so I figured that was the game's major imbalance. Then I realized that ghouls love poultry marinated in crypt fiend webbing, the balance was totally switched, and soon after, we moved on to Dawn of War. :)