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[News] Effort announces his retirement

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Milkis
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
5003 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-09-20 03:22:12
September 20 2010 03:03 GMT
#1
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Effort, a progamer belonging to CJ Entus, has announced his sudden retirement before the start of the 2010~2011 season.

CJ, on the morning of the 20th, has announced that Effort has retired through materials, announcing that "We weren't able to overcome the differences in opinion during the salary negotiation process. Effort has chosen to pursue another path unrelated to gaming as his goal"

Effort made a statement, saying that "It's not a sudden decision. I've wanted to challenge myself to a different road for a while now", and said that he'd be taking a break while he thinks about what he wants to do with the rest of his life.

CJ's Manager Kim Dong Woo said that "Effort has been struggling with this for a while now", and said that "He has made this decision to take himself up for a new challenge". He revealed that Effort, after winning a Starleague, decided that he has achieved the goal he wanted to do as a progamer and made his decision because he wanted to try something new.

The manager however said that the new challenge will not be Starcraft 2. "It's not a decision he has made to play a different game", commenting that "He retired because he thought that he wouldn't be able to try anything else when he gets older. He'll probably start by catching up on his studying"

Effort has come out of CJ's dormitories on the 19th and went home. Manager Kim said that "He'll be sorting out his thoughts over Korean Thanksgiving and will be available for interviews with the media after"

Source: http://fomos.kr/board/board.php?mode=read&keyno=110640&db=issue
http://fomos.kr/board/board.php?mode=read&keyno=110641&db=issue
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moopie
Profile Joined July 2009
12605 Posts
September 20 2010 03:04 GMT
#2
Yeah saw this earlier, was waiting for someone to do a proper translation (thanks btw).

Sad month for bw.
I'm going to sleep, let me get some of that carpet.
TheAngelofDeath
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States2033 Posts
September 20 2010 03:04 GMT
#3
WHA?!??? :'(
"Infestors are the suck" - LzGamer
NotJumperer
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
United States1371 Posts
September 20 2010 03:04 GMT
#4
--- Nuked ---
Kyuukyuu
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Canada6263 Posts
September 20 2010 03:04 GMT
#5
what the f
Boblion
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
France8043 Posts
September 20 2010 03:05 GMT
#6
o,O
fuck all those elitists brb watching streams of elite players.
Graham
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
Canada1259 Posts
September 20 2010 03:05 GMT
#7
Jesus wtf
Count9
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
China10928 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-09-20 03:05:34
September 20 2010 03:05 GMT
#8
s-c-2???? can't wait for trasnlation
nbtnbt5
Profile Joined March 2009
232 Posts
September 20 2010 03:05 GMT
#9
What? T.T
Yellow: "Well boxer's kind of a tool like that, wanting to bunker rush me all the time but hiding it behind all that deception."
Lebesgue
Profile Joined October 2008
4542 Posts
September 20 2010 03:05 GMT
#10
WTF!?

I guess he moves to SC2...

Ciddypoo
Profile Joined July 2010
United States11 Posts
September 20 2010 03:06 GMT
#11
savior gone, then effort... All that's left is Jaedong for me now.
SlayerS_BoxeR: The fans that continue to cheer me on regardless of my inability to produce good results, are the reason I can’t quit progaming
rasnj
Profile Joined May 2010
United States1959 Posts
September 20 2010 03:06 GMT
#12
wtf.... Has he elaborated on why? Studies, military, sc2, family, whatever?
Lucid90
Profile Joined September 2008
Canada340 Posts
September 20 2010 03:06 GMT
#13
oh wow = (

Effort is one of my favorite programmers too
I really think when he pushes himself he is one of the most intelligent players in sc and I honestly believe that he can beat or push the limits of flash/JD playing their best.
Hopefully he will play sc2
My sc2 account: http://www.sc2ranks.com/us/1296221/LuciD
zenMaster
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Canada761 Posts
September 20 2010 03:06 GMT
#14
It's slowly becoming reality!!!!
Jaedong vs Flash forever.
phosphorylation
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States2935 Posts
September 20 2010 03:06 GMT
#15
holy crap this is not good
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Heyoka
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Katowice25012 Posts
September 20 2010 03:07 GMT
#16
Interesting
@RealHeyoka | ESL / DreamHack StarCraft Lead
orgolove
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
Vatican City State1650 Posts
September 20 2010 03:07 GMT
#17
The fuck? Effort is still an S-class, isn't he? I don't understand the reasoning behind this.
초대 갓, 이영호 | First God, Lee Young Ho
Floydian
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United Kingdom374 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-09-20 03:15:55
September 20 2010 03:08 GMT
#18
What the... O_o
Wish I could add more but until there's a translation...
o_O

Edit - translation up. Oh well, sad news, but good for him. If he was getting restless then it was the right thing to do.
seRapH
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States9808 Posts
September 20 2010 03:08 GMT
#19
i was in a good mood, too. dammit.
boomer hands
shurgen
Profile Joined October 2009
350 Posts
September 20 2010 03:08 GMT
#20
Awaiting translation >.>

Doesn't look good for BW.
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