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After today's Proleaugue match in Ongamenet ended with
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Ace's victory
and after the winner's interview, nal_ra proclaims that he will participate in next Starleague Preliminary!!
When today's match was about to wrap up and go to commercial,
caster Jun Yongjun asks nal_ra whether he has something to announce to the fans.
(The whole thing was obviously planned ahead by ongamenet.)
nal_ra hesitating at first, brings out the fact that he still has a 'progamer license', stuttering a bit.
Then he goes on to say that he will comeback as a progamer in the next Starleague final.
He says he will continue to be a caster while trying his shot at qualifying the preliminary.
He says although he had several occasions where he did not pass the preliminary in the old past,
he had never felt that it was out of his reach. He says he has a 'small but profound confidence'
in participating and passing the preliminary.
He knows that it is not gonna be an easy road, but he will try his best to make it happen.
(Upon asked whether his goal was to merely participate in the preliminary by the cater Jun Youngjun)
He says "No. Of course not. My goal is not to just participate in the preliminary. I want to qualify the preliminary and advance to the next stage. I want to spur some things up."
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Merely a month ago in an episode of 'Dwitdamhwa',
(An ongamenet program where four ongamenet caster meet up and talk about various behind stories of Korean starcraft progaming scene.)
nal_ra hinted his strong desire to become a progamer again by light-heartedly saying that he and the other 'old progamers' are still able to advance to starleague.
Other casters expressed their usual thoughts on the subject;
-how they are dying to see those old gamers comback and make history once again in Starleauge
-how realistically it is nearly impossible because of the skill gap that exists between the old gamers and the newly hardcore trained young guns.
-how despite its unlikelihood, it will rock this whole progaming scene altogether if say for example boxer/yellow/nada (and so on) advance to Starleague
It was then nal_ra hinted that he might participate in the preliminary.
(This program aired just few days before current Starleague's preliminary, probably filmed 10 or 15 days prior)
Kingdom responding to nal_ra's desire with playful mockery,
Um Jaekyung(the overmind) says that he will sincerely support nal_ra if he is seriously thinking about it.
nal_ral then goes on to say how difficult it is for an individual progamer to find multiple practice partners because all the teams and their every team members(from top runners to online semi-pros) are jam packed with their daily routine match schedules within the team.
Um Jaekyung then says, he will seek out appropriate practice members for nal_ra as long as he is seriously considering it.
Then the program went on to discuss about other issues.
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I was so shocked that I screamed "ah~~~~~~!" in my chair and almost fell off.
This is about all I can share about nal_ra's comeback as progamer,
and his personal thoughts as he expressed in recent ongamenet program 'Dwitdamhwa'
Yes of course. I root for him so much,
and I just had to spread the news out of the blue. (as I did way back in the past for garimto)
TL's always a fun place to comeback with SC news stuff =)
I am expecting fomos will soon post an interview about it.
