as long as flash and jaedong are there bw will be alive.. as soon as the top two players leave, it will all come crashing to hell. PLEASE DONT LEAVE JVF

Grettin

42381 Posts

September 20 2010 10:07 GMT

#343

On September 20 2010 18:42 Pedo.Bear wrote:
as long as flash and jaedong are there bw will be alive.. as soon as the top two players leave, it will all come crashing to hell. PLEASE DONT LEAVE JVF

I would say that it will be dead if players like Stork, Bisu, Sea, Light etc leaves the game. I rather watch something different than JD & Flash all the time.

Elroi

Sweden5599 Posts

September 20 2010 10:10 GMT

#344

SLDKFJLKG,MVSDFG? WTF???? why?????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FUCK

FUCK

effort

this is horrible, horrible news. Must be the first time ever an in form s-class payer quits BW. My beloved CJ...

pR0gR4m3R

Spain1446 Posts

September 20 2010 10:12 GMT

#345

Im so sad, as he is my fav zerg player, got the chance to interview him in BlizzCon09, and I was so happy the day he became an OSL champion

And now, CJ is lacking of a leader as EffOrt was

Ranshin

7 Posts

September 20 2010 10:13 GMT

#346

Damn this sucks.

wikked

Germany12 Posts

September 20 2010 10:15 GMT

#347

Respect to retire and go for studying.

Hope more koreans will realize that there is a other life out there.

He sure can play a little SC2 and make a little money in the GSL seasons.

ComusLoM

Norway3547 Posts

September 20 2010 10:18 GMT

#348

I quite liked Effort, but good for him that he wants to continue his education.

Nemesis

Canada2568 Posts

September 20 2010 10:18 GMT

#349

On September 20 2010 18:01 Heimatloser wrote:
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

Zero

ARRGH, I don't really like effort as a player, but still less competition = bad. It always makes the game more interesting to watch some competition.

But still, he is an S-class zerg retiring in his prime. Also, effort is my friend's favorite player. He'll be sad to see this thread.

It's just a really sad month for broodwar.

Anyways, good luck to effort in whatever he chooses in life.

Black Gun

Germany4482 Posts

September 20 2010 10:20 GMT

#350

very sad day for bw, but i think for effort personally its a clever decision. he wouldnt have had the chance to win another SL with flash and jd around, and the pl will be skt vs kt anyway. by retiring now, close to his peak, he can conserve his legend forever and he is still young enough to still go to college and continue with a normal life, unlike other retiring pros who are too old for this path.

gl to him

JL13

United States1384 Posts

September 20 2010 10:21 GMT

#351

Craziness... I still remember him getting 2-0'd by TossGirl in his debut at a GomTV tournament and then beginning to watch a lot of his games (including an epic ZvP against Bisu on Medusa, ZvT against Flash on HBR both in ProLeague) culminating in his OSL title, which really made me go: oh-my-god what just happened.

It's so sad that he is leaving, although not as crushing as Coach Cho's resignation for me. I wish him the best of luck in whatever he does.

Yodo

Russian Federation327 Posts

September 20 2010 10:30 GMT

#352

I can understand him. Also there is no way that any good BW player will move to SC2, it like quit Manchester U, Real or Milan and join some FC in Turkish league.

Corrupted

United States1255 Posts

September 20 2010 10:34 GMT

#353

On September 20 2010 19:30 Yodo wrote:
I can understand him. Also there is no way that any good BW player will move to SC2, it like quit Manchester U, Real or Milan and join some FC in Turkish league.

lol, interesting insight. thanks for that.

[DUF]MethodMan

Germany1716 Posts

September 20 2010 10:40 GMT

#354

wow fuck, i dont even like effort, but the rate players and coaches are dropping out is insane.

GiftPflanZe

Germany623 Posts

September 20 2010 10:49 GMT

#355

This is huge D:

Ordained

United States779 Posts

September 20 2010 10:51 GMT

#356

On September 20 2010 16:43 ilj.psa wrote:
all that effort for nothing?

I would hardly call it nothing. He was pretty inspiring to me.

GrayArea

United States872 Posts

September 20 2010 10:53 GMT

#357

Pretty surprised to see he is retiring. Didn't expect the top players to be heading out, but I suppose the "sinking ship" feeling sc1 is going through right now is providing the incentive for progamers to branch out.

Liquid`Nazgul

22427 Posts

September 20 2010 11:05 GMT

#358

I don't actually think this is for SC2. Probably just tired of gaming. If he wanted to stick with gaming BW would be his best option by far since he is guaranteed a top salary and guaranteed to be a top player if he practices.

oBlade

United States5920 Posts

September 20 2010 11:05 GMT

#359

EffOrt is really lucky. For a while there he was a good proleague zerg, but being something of a rookie, had no individual accomplishments. Then he gets an OSL title over Flash, reverse sweeping at that. There's no better time to be able to say "I did alright in progaming," and throw in the towel.