MBCGame HERO Update 5 (11th May '11)

Ryo

8787 Posts

May 10 2011 17:54 GMT

Let's start off with a more serious issue before moving on to the fun stuff...

Jaehoon’s Situation

I mentioned this before but I thought I should put this in the MBC updates blog…
Toward the end of last season, Jaehoon had decided to quit progaming. But when Mumyung took over in August, he had a talk with Jaehoon and persuaded him to stay on for another year to give progaming one last shot. At the end of this season, Jaehoon’s contract with MBC runs out and he becomes a Free Agent. Hopefully there will be a new contract offered and Jaehoon will decide not to retire. But we’ll see what happens. So MBC fans, just be mentally prepared. 주장님 가지마세요!

A Tribute to Zerg[kal]

Zerg[kal] won on his debut Proleague appearance and against his former team, no less! See the joyful pictures here:

The whole team was really excited for him. Jaehoon couldn’t even sit down during the game.

Too bad MBC didn’t win the SKT match so Zerg[kal] didn’t get an interview on his debut. However, less than a week later he backed it up with his second win in 3 appearances! It’s been a rough season for Zerg[kal] because his father passed away in a car accident in winter.

Although Tiny, Sang, Check and Lazy didn’t manage to get wins on their debuts, I hope they learn from their experiences and get more chances to prove themselves.

MBC rookies fighting!

These past 10 days...

Does Tyson not like the rain?

Tyson doesn’t like rainy days much, he frequently makes comments about the weather on twitter. According to Hyun, Tyson’s hair also gets very poofy when wet so he tries to avoid going out when it’s raining, as much as possible.

Bonus picture of Hyun

Hyun getting his make-up done before a match. What did the make-up noona do to you, Hyun?

MVPZerg’s visit

MBC players got the night off on 30th March, so MVPZerg came to visit. He was on a short break from the army. He’s aged a lot since entering the army, MVPZerg. In March, Koala also came to visit when he was on a break from the army. MVPZerg and Koala were former MBC players who left during the last off-season, they can be seen in some episodes of "Hyungjoon Becomes a Progamer".

Mother Zerg

According to Sea, Hyun cooked ramyun for Sea and Saint again last week. And that’s where Sea’s nickname for Hyun came from, because he takes care of his teammates like that.

Yoga Mat

Besides gaming, the other passions in Hyun’s life are reading and sports/exercising. He jumps rope regularly and some time ago, he bought a yoga mat too. Perhaps he was inspired by the yoga session MBC took part in during their workshop?

Jaehoon’s friend

The Fomos caption read “the two players seem close”. Apparently one went to spy on the other team to see which players were looking at the maps. So I guess Jaehoon is friends with Calm. This was something I didn’t know before because Calm rarely mentions players from other teams.

Godians

Hyun sounded confident the night before his game against Bogus. He told Light: “watch my winning appearance tomorrow ~^___^v”. And Hyun certainly didn’t disappoint. He had another interesting build planned and this time it worked. And so a new word was coined- Godians. That’s what you call Hyun’s Guardians, according to MBC Caster Kim Chul Min. So far, from MBC commentators, we have: Goberman, Go Chuno (slave-hunter), Godian, Go-drunked and Go Bonjwa.

Hyun, the orange shuttle?

Shark bought some oranges and gave Hyun a ring, asking him to bring them up to the hostel. So Hyun said he became “an orange shuttle”. A journalist noona, who is friends with the team, tweeted Hyun: "I need an orange shuttle too~~~~~~~~" [T/N: what?]. Hyun replied: "ㅋㅋㅋ oranges are expensive, expensive ㅡㅡㅋ".

A "Pink man"?

Well that’s what Hyun calls Tyson. Pink earphones, pink iphone case and he likes the girl-group A Pink too. Tyson listens to music often and quotes lyrics on twitter.

Sang’s Birthday and The Black Hole

It was Sang’s birthday on the day of the STX match and Hyun tweeted: 내 이름은 하재상 오늘은 내생일이다 ㅇㅅㅇ! (My name is Ha Jae Sang, today is my birthday) After the match ended, some of his hyungs treated Sang to a chicken meal. Hyun tweeted some photos from their supper.

Hyun called Tyson a “black hole” because after eating the chicken meal, Tyson went shopping at Homeplus and then came back to the hostel to eat ramyun at 2am.

2 days later, Hyun said Tyson ate spaghetti for dinner and then donuts during the break time, followed by supper later.

When he went on “User’s Taste” (an MBCGame variety show) in winter, Hyun also mentioned that Tyson and Jaehoon really eat a lot. Hmm… but I also recall Hyun himself eating for 4 straight hours when he went for dinner with Sura in April. lol

Supper Time at MBC House

MBC players mostly eat quite often. They usually have supper around 9-10pm and some snacks in between their other meals too. Here are some pictures of them having supper on different days that Hyun tweeted over the past several days…

HERO vs Stars Post-Match

MBC might not have as many fans as the bigger teams, but the players are pretty accessible to fans.

Here are some pictures from a fan meeting after the Woongjin match, courtesy of HERO Gallery. They turned out quite well. Check is smiling more these days.

According to fans… this is Hyun’s “seonbae (senior) pose”...

This one is nice... the Go Seok Hyun MBC fans know and love...

A short report from HERO gallery about the fan meeting:
This was the first HERO fan meeting Mumyung attended. Mumyung was like a celebrity and many HERO fans wanted to meet him. He seemed tired but he still friendly and signed autographs and took photos with the fans… Wow was very talkative, Sang was well-spoken and Check was very quiet.

Players are often given the rest of the day off after a Proleague match, certainly if they win their match. So after the Woongjin match, Tyson and Tiny went to Times Square to watch a movie. To their surprise, when they got there they saw Hyun, Zerg[kal] and Sang in front of them!

The Roommates

Other than Light and Saint, who were roommates for 5 long years, players usually change rooms once in a while. In the past, Hyun, Ruby and Shark were roommates and Pusan once roomed with Jaehoon and then Sea etc. This season, the two funniest MBC players are roommates. That’s right, Tyson is rooming with Hyun. This has resulted in lots of laughter for fans.

Tyson and Hyun often tweet about each other at night, sometimes before they sleep… even though they’re roommates. lol Tyson once said “Seokhyun hyung is my roommate and he’s always so funny. Such happiness!”

Tyson also made similar statements like these:

"Seokhyun hyung ah so funny… his expressions change like an actor… joker yah joker…"

"ㅋㅋㅋ Ah Seokhyun hyung is really funny…….ㅋㅋㅋㅋ a real gagman…"

And THE gem thus far...

“I think the smell of Seokhyun hyung’s fart has paralyzed my nostrils.” lol lol

Finally...

The Best Moment of the Week...

MBC fighting!

Kipsate

Netherlands45349 Posts

May 10 2011 18:01 GMT

ugh, It would be a Shame if MBC wrtr to lose Jaehoon, he is currently actually doing quite well(Destroying many FPL teams in the process), hell MBC is doing quite oke even without Light currently.

They have alooooooooooooooooooooot of pizza tho,I want :>.

Btw, who is that rookie giant?(the guy is both taller and larger then even (P)

Kal I think), third picture, youl know.

Crunchums

United States11144 Posts

May 10 2011 18:04 GMT

i really love these posts; thanks

(french fries, all mine)

Ryo

8787 Posts

May 10 2011 18:08 GMT

On May 11 2011 03:01 Kipsate wrote:
ugh, It would be a Shame if MBC wrtr to lose Jaehoon, he is currently actually doing quite well(Destroying many FPL teams in the process), hell MBC is doing quite oke even without Light currently.

They have alooooooooooooooooooooot of pizza tho,I want :>.

Btw, who is that rookie giant?(the guy is both taller and larger then even (P)

Kal I think), third picture, youl know.

Is it Sang? He's quite a big guy but not as tall as Kal. Sang is around 183cm. We had a really tall rookie called Gwak (same height as Kal) but he left MBC recently.

Lucumo

6850 Posts

May 10 2011 18:12 GMT

Nice update but didn't you promise us some Light Girl pictures?

Rinrun

Canada3509 Posts

May 10 2011 18:13 GMT

Yeaaaah- love these posts. Thanks~

I'd kill for some of that delicious food... I'm so hungry; should have a warning about that at the top.

Ryo

8787 Posts

May 10 2011 18:15 GMT

On May 11 2011 03:12 Lucumo wrote:
Nice update but didn't you promise us some MBC Girl pictures?

I couldn't find any that weren't already posted before.

But here is my favourite MBC Girl picture...

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Tomken

Norway1144 Posts

May 10 2011 18:21 GMT

Wohoooo! Tytyty very much :>:>

Edit: :/ Hope (P)

Jaehoon stays forever!

XsebT

Denmark2980 Posts

May 10 2011 18:40 GMT

Fantastic post! <3

Ryo

8787 Posts

May 10 2011 19:09 GMT

#10

On May 11 2011 03:21 Tomken wrote:
Wohoooo! Tytyty very much :>:>

Edit: :/ Hope (P)

Jaehoon stays forever!

Yes, yes, I hope Jaehoon signs a 3 year contract with MBC after this season and then when Pusan goes off to the army in 3 years time, Jaehoon can sign another contract to become a coach for MBC!

trexbqs

Malaysia1731 Posts

May 10 2011 19:10 GMT

#11

Jaehoon doing well now.Hope he will stay with MBC. and the last picture..been chose as today MVP which is awesome imo for Jaehoon. I saw a new Jaehoon now.

Myumyung smile = how precious is to see his smile :D

Check seem shy and zerg(kal), see he doing good now ( His win vs s2 was awesome) :D
He grew a lot since become part of MBC. that was MVPzerg? cz when I see the pictures ( cz I almost not recognize him at all), wonder who and yes, i remember he from KHJ become progamer.

Great post Ryo. Thanks again and happy news cz MBC win vs Khan yesterday.

Ryo

8787 Posts

May 10 2011 19:15 GMT

#12

On May 11 2011 04:10 trexbqs wrote:
Jaehoon doing well now.Hope he will stay with MBC. and the last picture..been chose as today MVP which is awesome imo for Jaehoon. I saw a new Jaehoon now.

Myumyung smile = how precious is to see his smile :D

Check seem shy and zerg(kal), see he doing good now ( His win vs s2 was awesome) :D
He grew a lot since become part of MBC. that was MVPzerg? cz when I see the pictures ( cz I almost not recognize him at all), wonder who and yes, i remember he from KHJ become progamer.

Great post Ryo. Thanks again and happy news cz MBC win vs Khan yesterday.

Recently, when I watch Jaehoon's games, it really feels like MBC acquired a totally new player. So many things have changed about Jaehoon this season.

MVPzerg said on cyworld that army life is really hard but he is surviving.

Check and Wow have very different personalities, one is very shy, the other one is talkative. It's a nice contrast. In time, I believe they will become the backbone of MBC's zerg line.

Crais

Canada2136 Posts

May 10 2011 20:03 GMT

#13

I love these! Makes it much easier to be an MBC fan

I hope Jaehoon stays, hes been doing so well lately

KRaver

Canada1264 Posts

May 10 2011 21:39 GMT

#14

This was a good read . . .Thanks Ryo as always for the update <3

sixfour

England11062 Posts

May 10 2011 22:23 GMT

#15

holy shit that chicken meal looked immense, i'm now really hungry as a result

Thrill

2599 Posts

May 10 2011 22:36 GMT

#16

Really enjoyed the reading and pictures. I still feel close to MBC after watching Hyung Joon's visit. Hope they continue to do well!

MinoMino

Norway1103 Posts

May 10 2011 22:41 GMT

#17

Ah, I'm so hungry after reading this blog.

Thanks a lot for these updates! I'll be crossing my fingers for Jaehoon.

ellerina

Philippines452 Posts

May 11 2011 02:56 GMT

#18

Thanks Ryo! Hyun seems to be quite the twitter addict. I also hope MBC renews its contract with Jaehoon, he has stepped up in the last few games. MBC is getting along okay with Light gone but if Jaehoon goes too I think they'll have a really hard time. It's great to see their rookies being fielded in games. MBC Fighting!

I shouldn't have read this one hour before lunch, now I want pizza.....

zulu_nation8

China26351 Posts

May 11 2011 03:24 GMT

#19

Nice blog, thanks for these.

matjlav

Germany2435 Posts

May 11 2011 03:40 GMT

#20

Wow, I'm so glad that Jaehoon decided to stick with progaming since he's had a much better run this season. Now, even if he does decide to retire, he won't have to retire in shame. It would have been sad if he left on the note of his last season...

soujiro_

Uruguay5195 Posts

May 11 2011 05:08 GMT

#21

another awesome blog

keep em coming ^_^

Ryo

8787 Posts

May 11 2011 07:37 GMT

#22

On May 11 2011 12:40 matjlav wrote:
Wow, I'm so glad that Jaehoon decided to stick with progaming since he's had a much better run this season. Now, even if he does decide to retire, he won't have to retire in shame. It would have been sad if he left on the note of his last season...

I agree. Mumyung and Pusan saved his career. I think he can still achieve more things if given the chance.

amethyst

United States98 Posts

May 11 2011 08:01 GMT

#23

All the noonas want a piece of Hyun haha.

And I'm glad Jaehoon is doing well too, even if I do have him on my anti.

Thanks for continuing to write these amazing blogs!!!

Souma

2nd Worst City in CA8938 Posts

May 11 2011 08:39 GMT

#24

Great blog. Always a nice read! ^^

pathy

Taiwan619 Posts

May 11 2011 08:57 GMT

#25

hoooly shit calm's eyebags are enormous o-o

Caladbolg

2855 Posts

May 11 2011 16:10 GMT

#26

Much love to MBC. Sometimes I wish Bisu (and Light) had stayed there. Would've been a great lineup with him, Light, Sea, Hyun, and Jaehoon. They also seem to be so down-to-earth (T1 always felt a bit too professional). And they never fail to make me hungry.

Addendum: Jaehoon is everyone's best friend.

Ryo

8787 Posts

May 15 2011 19:04 GMT

#27

A taste of what's coming up this week...

a report on yesterday's table drop for the players, courtesy of the fans at HERO Gallery:

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