When I read the title I literally when "whaaaaaaaat?" out loud, but reading the article he does seem to be sensible. If his heart's not fully in it anymore then it's better to get out of it quickly so he can resume his studies. Then he'll always have the fact that he beat Flash for an OSL Gold, so quite a nice way to go.

But shit, there are way too many retirements lately

writer22816

United States5775 Posts

September 20 2010 08:32 GMT

#323

Flash and Jaedong paid Effort to retire

MinoMino

Norway1103 Posts

September 20 2010 08:37 GMT

#324

My favorite alien, nooooo! Damn it, Effort. D:

Aesop

Hungary11305 Posts

September 20 2010 08:49 GMT

#325

My eyes went "O.O" when I saw this thread. He has won that starleague, so I guess he can say he had nothing left to prove. But still, such a talent gone.

unionbank

Australia666 Posts

September 20 2010 08:54 GMT

#326

i have lost all interest in Zerg

Ikonn

Netherlands1958 Posts

September 20 2010 08:58 GMT

#327

On September 20 2010 14:00 TwoToneTerran wrote:

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That can't be the only issue. He didn't negotiate wages with any other team who might've been more willing to pay out for a high tier zerg (KT WHO LOST LUXURY'S EXPENSES COUGH :o ).

Even with poor pay he obviously thought of this a long time coming.

No they're reserving that money for Action...

...one can only hope

anyway, it's always a huge blow when a top 5 player retires. I just hope this is for purely personal reasons

Rainmaker5

United States1027 Posts

September 20 2010 08:59 GMT

#328

Man, without Cho and Effort, the scandal around Savior and Iris and Much being in ACE....
I don't know if I have it in me to be a CJ fan anymore...

On_Slaught

United States12190 Posts

September 20 2010 09:00 GMT

#329

This is very very suprising. He's so young! It feels like he was a rookie just a short while ago (b/c he was >.<).

I wish him the best but damn does this suck.

Heimatloser

Germany1494 Posts

September 20 2010 09:01 GMT

#330

awesome carreer:
rooke of the year 2009, best new player of proleague 09/10 season, beat the best player of the world for a gold in the highest ranking tournament 2010, retire 2010.

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only way to top this would be to win maybe next proleague season. but theres not enough credit for that

edit: And suddenly kwanro was the second best zerg in the world

sixfour

England11061 Posts

September 20 2010 09:08 GMT

#331

wtf is this

action to CJ?

disciple

9070 Posts

September 20 2010 09:09 GMT

#332

Actually I'm not that surprised at all. If SC2 represents salvation to old progamers and B-teams at the moment, BW offers no certainty about one's career future. I'm pretty sure the only two progamers that really cared about BW in the last month, or basically after the end of PL, were Jaedong and Flash lol. The real problem I see is with the top players who are under contracts with big salaries, say Leta, Bisu etc. I dont think they have another choice but to wait for BW to completely die out, which apparently will happen sooner than most of us expected