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2011 Homestory Cup II win over NaNiwa. - 1st place: +1750 euro ~ $2330 USD
SCReddit Invitational win over Morrow. - 1st place: +$1200 +$600 charity
DreamHost Root Gaming WARZONE win over Sen. - 1st place: +$2000
3 MAJOR tournament wins all in a SINGLE WEEKEND is wickedly impressive and deserves to be talked about. Nobody should overlook this insanely impressive feat. Anyone who plays this game knows how hard it is to win especially at top level. These were not easy wins these were fucking hard earned well deserved wins for this guy over amazing opponents in top tier tournaments. To win 3 premiere tournaments in a single weekend, best single weekend performance by anyone in foreign starcraft to date in sc2? Seriously... He's probably the best overall foreign protoss right now. If not the best top 5 easily in my book. He was my favorite foreign protoss in broodwar and this weekend was just insane, I don't watch alot of tournaments but I track alot of results and generally keep up with whos winning big tournaments. Man it's always worth it watching whitera play. Good decision making, amazing timing, crazy smart and strategic play in entire series vs top level players...it's a joy to watch honestly and should be for any starcraft fan of any race. I play terran and this guy alone makes me want to switch races... I'm sure he's going to qualify for TSL 3 and probably go deep.
He is so sick good and just gets the game. He got broodwar too he was easily one of the best foreign protoss players for years. He beat Boxer in a televised match in broodwar in IEF in 09. I remember watching that stream live and it was insane. He was always a contender in huge broodwar tournaments, wcg grand finals... knocked idra out of a handful of big shit in the last few years (TSL1 and other tournaments in korea/china)
I was fortune enough to meet and spend time with him during MLG DC last october and he is such an awesome guy, his English is hysterically bad but he's so sociable and always eager to talk to anyone.
I drove him from a hotel we were staying at to the venue during day 1 of MLG DC and he gave me a pin he got during one of his visits to Korea. This little pin has become a little bit of a charm for me, I always keep it next to my keyboard when I play at a lan or in an online tournament as my little reminder and inspiration from honestly my favorite foreign player...This guy is just too awesome and is a great inspiration for esports period and the growth of starcraft. white-ra keep doing your thing dude you are an inspiration to all. Your gameplay helps evolve this game and puts on an amazing show that anyone and everyone should tune in to watch. Watching you makes me want to work harder and keep improving at this game and I don't even play protoss!! lol!
Always a total class act and is just so sick, sick, sick, sick, sick GOOD at starcraft I'm so jealous... <3 duckloadRA
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you should put a spoiler tag in the title. on topic though, white-ra played like a beast. he looked unstoppable.
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I thought Naniwa was having a good week when he won TLO and got to homestory cup finals
Then this shit happened.
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Duckload-Ra is so freaking amazing, but who is this White-Ra you guys are talking about?
Heh but no really he played insanely well.
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ever since he got married he became more godly,he almost won the blizzcon tournament too.
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It's pretty fantastic, ya.  I actually had doubts recently that he was gonna be able to keep up with all these hard working youngsters, and he didn't really deliver that great results, but yesterday made me feel ashamed of those thoughts.  White-Ra is awesome.
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GrandpaToss still the Beast from the East
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On January 17 2011 15:33 Holgerius wrote:It's pretty fantastic, ya. I actually had doubts recently that he was gonna be able to keep up with all these hard working youngsters, and he didn't really deliver that great results, but yesterday made me feel ashamed of those thoughts. White-Ra is awesome.
YA! It's totally awesome to see him doing so well, shows the game isn't just for 16 year olds with no lives, he's a married guy doing great playing sc2... so sick. :D
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yeah was thinking the same white-ra is performing crazy good lately, I remember early release when he was in his big slump thinking that maybe it was over for him, I couldn't be more wrong, respect, especially when he just rolled those tournaments. I didn't even follow it was just when I was taking a break or something tuning in some stream just to see him rolling someone 3-0 in finals every time
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white-ra is the best
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Sweet. Wouldn't have noticed otherwise since I don't watch much anymore. Seems like such a cool guy too
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United States10774 Posts
white ra is just pure awesome. im happy he's performing so well
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It baffles me really how hes just so consistent and whenever he needs to he plays amazing e.g blizzcon, im glad hes back from his minislump that happened a bit after release i personally love watching his replays and emulating some of his styles.
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Anyone know off the top of their head how much money White-Ra made for those three wins?
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nothing like winning 6k in a weekend of starcraft!
so epic.... ^_^
edit: wow I didn't see the post above when I went to post this, freaky lol.
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On January 17 2011 17:04 LuckyFool wrote:
nothing like winning 6k in a weekend of starcraft!
so epic.... ^_^
edit: wow I didn't see the post above when I went to post this, freaky lol.
Haha, it's all good. Thanks for doing the work for me
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Every time I read about something like this, I just imagine White-Ra's face when he beat BoxeR at WCG. You gotta love the guy.
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So happy for him, he seems like a really nice guy!
And i would rate him top 5 overall easily, would only place MC, NSP.Genius and tester above him.
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On January 17 2011 17:22 Cedstick wrote:
Every time I read about something like this, I just imagine White-Ra's face when he beat BoxeR at WCG. You gotta love the guy.
![[image loading]](http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/3421/whitera.jpg)
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Upgrade to Pro today! Bandwidth Exceeded photobucket
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WTF wat a ninja. WHITE RA FTW!!!!
Luckyfool, u sure are lucky to meet one of the most epic sc2 players in the world.
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On January 17 2011 17:22 Cedstick wrote:
Every time I read about something like this, I just imagine White-Ra's face when he beat BoxeR at WCG. You gotta love the guy.
http://www.scforall.com/sctv/sc_tv01.asp?mNum=s03&movNum=372
whole 2nd half of that video is whiteras win, probably the best moment in 2009 for a foreigner in broodwar.
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I've been a fan since the HDH 1 (unfortunately wasn't paying attention to the foreign scene earlier) glad to hear he's doing so well, those are some pretty beast results.
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White-Ra is everywhere!
Pretty awesome for him; I don't follow any SCII myself, but I always loved him during the BW days.
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On January 17 2011 17:25 LuckyFool wrote:Show nested quote +On January 17 2011 17:22 Cedstick wrote:
Every time I read about something like this, I just imagine White-Ra's face when he beat BoxeR at WCG. You gotta love the guy.
Hehehe looks like he's trying sooooo hard not to break into a shit-eating grin or trollface grin!
Go whitera!
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Definitely a good weekend, the warzone grind final before was quite entertaining. Hope he keeps up the great work.
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Man .. White-ra just made my weekend, it does make me happy to see him owning like a badass again!!! Btw why isnt there still no fanclub for him?
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Great post, I am also a huge fan of White-Ra, and that little item he gave to you sounds like awesome charm!
Also one thing that I really hated was how people were writing him off for a while after the beta but true fans always believed in RA, and he proved his doubters wrong at Blizzcon!
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Zurich15355 Posts
What a champion.
So basically he won a year's worth of BW pro gaming on a single weekend. GG.
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White-Ra is like the Old master Jedi showing the young Padawans how its done.
Keep fighting GrandpaToss. You're the boss
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I've always been a fan of White-Ra ever since the beta, Then i thought that he's going to get married so he wont be as good anymore, wow he proved me wrong  Great job White-ra !!!.
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I really hope White-Ra manages to get around to more major SC2 tournaments this year (even though hes married and has a day job!), a few MLG's perhaps aswell as hoping he goes deep in IEM! Grandapa Toss hwaitin'!!!!
Also hes so manner and friendly, he is literally the perfect "progamer".
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Awesome! Congrats White-Ra, you're a true inspiration for us "seasoned" gamers
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Bosnia-Herzegovina439 Posts
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I started to lose my faith... then this happens. <3 <3 <3 whitera!
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I was fortune enough to meet and spend time with him during MLG DC last october and he is such an awesome guy, his English is hysterically bad but he's so sociable and always eager to talk to anyone.
:O Brag much? Did you get to shake his hands to?
On a serious note, I'm also amazed by his recent performance and seeing his score three tournament yesterday (despite not all being life), it was just incredible.
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On January 18 2011 02:39 GenoZStriker wrote:Show nested quote +I was fortune enough to meet and spend time with him during MLG DC last october and he is such an awesome guy, his English is hysterically bad but he's so sociable and always eager to talk to anyone. :O Brag much? Did you get to shake his hands to? On a serious note, I'm also amazed by his recent performance and seeing his score three tournament yesterday (despite not all being life), it was just incredible.
heh I kept the bragging mild in the op...
I could have also said I crashed with him first night of mlg dc, drove him around dc, had lunch with him (and a bunch of other tl nerds) warmed up next to him during warmups and before I play one of my rounds at mlg he came over to me and wished me luck... LOL... :p
btw I didn't even realize the IEM european championship is next weekend. http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=185275
white-ra def the favorite there. Hope he wins it ^_^
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On January 17 2011 21:10 CuttyFlam wrote:
Man .. White-ra just made my weekend, it does make me happy to see him owning like a badass again!!! Btw why isnt there still no fanclub for him?
We don't need a fan club to determine who is a fan of White-Ra, because we are all born fans of White-Ra by default.
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and it seems like just a month or 2 ago that he was in a massive slump and everyone was saying how he wasn't even a top foreigner anymore -.-
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He has to bring home the dough... certainly showed us he can this weekend
^^ travis I know what you mean 2 mo ago he seemed distracted, slow response time etc. but everyone slumps from time to time and I bet with constant practice he worked right to the top again.
Congrats White-Ra
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I rubbed shoulders with White Ra while conversing with White Ra with his broken english, it was awesomeee lol
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On January 18 2011 05:49 travis wrote:
and it seems like just a month or 2 ago that he was in a massive slump and everyone was saying how he wasn't even a top foreigner anymore -.-
I was indeed one of those nay sayers, but I guess it was due to his wedding? how was I to know!
Please forgive me Aleksey!
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So impressive! Where is the White-Ra fanclub?
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I'll make one in the next couple days when I get the chance.
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broken english? what broken english?
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bad grammar, I meant whitera's english was broken not yours slog lol, just realized how i have an epic dangling modifier
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Had some good time with this awesome guy in IEF2009 Korea and WCG 2009 China back then. Definitely the most friendly foreign pro I've ever met. No one has / will ever come close. Me and Sen fucking fell asleep on his shoulder (due to us not sleeping on the day before) when we were in a taxi behind at the passenger seats from Suwon to Seoul and he didn't even want to wake us up until we arrived at the destination and fucking hell it was more than an hour trip. I was terribly terribly touched by his politeness and gentleman act.
Sen was saying WHAT THE FUCK all the way when we talked about how awesome this guy is, it was a non stop talk the whole journey until we parted in the airport. WHITE-ra FIGHTING!
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lol Ash I love it! If anyone else has whitera stories to share please post!
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Ahaha Ash that's a really nice story to hear
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White-Ra's a major baller I gotta catch some of his SC2 play.
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Mayor baller right there. White-ra will always be an inspiration. That match he won against boxer you could see how happy and surprized he was that was so awesome to watch.
White_Ra FTW
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He deserves it for being such an amazing player. He inspired me to play protoss. (that and archons are freakin sweet looking)
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White_Ra is easily my favorite foreigner, never heard anything but good of him here on TL.
I just hope he qualifies for GSL someday
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i wonder how many hours he plays a day? Would be surprising if he played as much as the koreans.
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time for back to back kickass weekends, this time for a measly 7.5k.
white-ra ready to rape sjow in a couple minutes here in IEM EU grand finals:
http://www.own3d.tv/live/3633
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Wow . That's a lot of hard work, but it pays off!
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EPT
