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Taku
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Canada2036 Posts
September 10 2011 02:59 GMT
#81
Jangbi should be stormtoss :<
When SC2 came for BW, I cried. Now LoL/Dota2 comes for SC2, and I laugh. \o/
mwry
Profile Joined June 2010
Korea (South)25 Posts
September 10 2011 03:43 GMT
#82
Flash's nickname in Korea

GOD (when he's doing very well)
DOG (GOD in reverse, when he makes mistake)
Ggom Ding (Ggom-su means cheese in Korean. Jung Ding is middle school student. Flash was famous for cheese strategy in his early days)
L_Master
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States8017 Posts
September 10 2011 04:44 GMT
#83
forGG - Time Attacker
EffOrt and Soulkey Hwaiting!
Ideas
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
United States8170 Posts
September 10 2011 05:19 GMT
#84
kal is also known as the Acrobat Toss (for how he "juggles" shuttles) and Goojilla (which he eventually changed to his actual screenname).
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white_horse
Profile Joined July 2010
1019 Posts
September 10 2011 05:54 GMT
#85
Hyuk is known to Koreans as "Lord of Survival" or "King of Survival" because of his jin air OSL run and endurance as a progamer for a long time
Translator
eNtitY~
Profile Joined January 2007
United States1293 Posts
September 10 2011 06:13 GMT
#86
Xellos - Perfect Terran, DDR Terran

In Korea, doesn't that mean Masterbate Terran? Awkward nickname...
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zenMaster
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Canada761 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-09-10 06:52:50
September 10 2011 06:52 GMT
#87
Shine, also known as ToiletZerg after cheesing out someone in the OSL because he needed to go to the toilet really bad.
djbhINDI
Profile Joined June 2011
United States372 Posts
September 10 2011 07:38 GMT
#88
Emporer is spelled wrong (BoxeR's nic)
You can't emphasize enough how much you need to be a paradigm shifter. - Savior
Neo7
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
United States922 Posts
September 10 2011 15:06 GMT
#89
I remember iloveoov being called "Bus Driver" as well (no idea how he got that nickname).
It takes an idiot to do cool things.
LinkinPork
Profile Joined April 2008
Canada223 Posts
September 10 2011 15:27 GMT
#90


On January 12 2007 16:58 rinizim wrote:

Tour Bus Driver - Choi Yungsung. oov
Now, I am not sure how many people know the origin of this nickname.
It all starts from progamers, obviously.
Progamers, in private, use profane words. Swearing words, describing certain strategies and sorts. Among them was the word "gang gan", meaning rape. The progamers use the word "gang gan", just as we use the word 'rape' to describe one-sided matches. However, you have to understand that in Korea, the use of such word is generally much more frowned upon. You know, culture difference. So, the word 'gang gan' transformed into a word 'gwan gang' which sounds similar(though really not), but has a totally different meaning. 'gwan gang' means tourism. And the one who leads people into "tourism" by a "tourist bus" would be named the "bus driver". This idea came right out after the match between oov and goodfriend in nostalgia, where oov led goodfriend into "tourism" with 200 wraiths, when goodfriend was defending with goliath and turrets. There came to be many photoshopped images, where oov is driving a bus, and goodfriend as one of the passengers. (We all have seen that picture once or twice).


A couple nicknames shown here, not sure if you have them already:

Guamshin
Profile Joined January 2011
Netherlands295 Posts
September 10 2011 15:58 GMT
#91
Why is Modesty called Zerg Technician? Because of his passive play?

Also Jangbi's nickname is also storm toss.
Weeeee
hacklebeast
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States5090 Posts
September 10 2011 16:18 GMT
#92
On September 10 2011 15:13 eNtitY~ wrote:
Xellos - Perfect Terran, DDR Terran

In Korea, doesn't that mean Masterbate Terran? Awkward nickname...


It comes from there once was a picture of the CJ house and the whiteboard in the background said, "If xellos stops DDR he would win 3 OSLs." So yea, awkward.
Protoss: Best, Paralyze, Jangbi, Nal_Ra || Terran: Oov, Boxer, Fantasy, Hiya|| Zerg: Yellow, Zero
emveepee
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
4 Posts
September 10 2011 16:38 GMT
#93
On September 11 2011 01:18 hacklebeast wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 10 2011 15:13 eNtitY~ wrote:
Xellos - Perfect Terran, DDR Terran

In Korea, doesn't that mean Masterbate Terran? Awkward nickname...


It comes from there once was a picture of the CJ house and the whiteboard in the background said, "If xellos stops DDR he would win 3 OSLs." So yea, awkward.


That is what Gorush said in an interview. He probably meant DDR as Dance Dance Revolution, but DDR is also a slang for masterbation and netizens have been making fun of it ever since
kdgns
Profile Joined May 2009
United States2427 Posts
September 10 2011 18:15 GMT
#94
On September 11 2011 00:58 Guamshin wrote:
Why is Modesty called Zerg Technician? Because of his passive play?

Also Jangbi's nickname is also storm toss.


Modesty is the zerg technician because his zvz is so much better than his other matchups, so he specializes in beating zergs, in fact in china he has the name zerg betrayer since he only beats zergs. Similarly, skyhigh used to be the terran betrayer for his super good tvt, and pure was the toss betrayer (this is chinese nicks)

Hwasin used to be called princess i believe, for his girlish looks
Flash= when he first entered the scene he was the little monster, and he earned the nickname chedder terran when he cheesed out bisu early on
Iris= Sexy terran, also note that berserker is not only his nickname but also his former ID
nada=otter terran
Reach=hero toss
Stork's full nickname should be "commander in chief with no weak points" (it sound better in asian languages i guess)
c3rberUs
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Japan11286 Posts
September 10 2011 18:41 GMT
#95
Chojja - Cowboy Zerg
Kingdom - Green Tea Toss
Garimto - Zealot
Reach - Mudang (shaman in korean) Toss
Mind - Rommel
WriterMovie, 진영화 : "StarCraft will never die".
LuckyMacro
Profile Joined July 2010
United States1482 Posts
September 10 2011 19:49 GMT
#96
On September 10 2011 15:52 zenMaster wrote:
Shine, also known as ToiletZerg after cheesing out someone in the OSL because he needed to go to the toilet really bad.


was going to post this as well. toiletzerg!
Whisperkill
Profile Joined December 2010
Canada76 Posts
September 10 2011 20:27 GMT
#97
Horang2 - Tigertoss
Sea - L'enfant terrible (or enfant terrible)
Jaehoon - Sweattoss
Oversky - Pretty boy zerg
RIP 우정호, best broodwar player.
HaruHaru
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States988 Posts
September 10 2011 21:08 GMT
#98
Not sure if this is mentioned, but I remember Nal_ra being called snot toss for that one game where he had to pause to blow his nose and Bisu also called hair toss and pretty-boy toss lol
Long live BroodWar!
DoctorHelvetica
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States15034 Posts
September 10 2011 21:15 GMT
#99
forgg - time attacker? had some nickname related to timing attacks
mind - rommel terran (named after nazi commander who was well versed in tank warfare)
RIP Aaliyah
FlaShFTW
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States10397 Posts
September 11 2011 00:10 GMT
#100
LMAO!!!!!!!!!! savior = holy shit im not listing that lol. very nice for savior xD

flash's other nickname can also be just plain god.
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