On 23rd February, the Military Manpower Administration confirmed that Guemchi has been accepted by Airforce ACE.
Having had few opportunities to play this season due to the Bo5 format, Guemchi decided to apply to ACE and he has passed the final evaluation. Since the beginning of February, he has been on vacation and is currently staying at home. He will enter the Airforce and begin 5 weeks of basic military training on 5th March. Guemchi will likely only make his appearance for ACE next season.
Former Woongjin player, Really, will enter the military to do his mandatory military service on 6th March.
Really announced his retirement in August 2011, having been drafted by Woongjin from Estro in October 2010. Since his retirement, Really has gone on holiday and has also acquired his driver's license. Although he declared his intention to enter the military last year, this was postponed due to a surgery to remove his wisdom teeth. Really is expected to visit the Woongjin Stars hostel again before he enters the military.
Sea was overheard at a fan-meeting saying that Shark will enter the military (not ACE) in April and Saint in September. This is just a fan account so it's not official news yet.
thats said, the new format is backfiring in every possible way, with BO5 without ace instead of BO5 with ace or BO7 nobody is getting playing slots in proleague and everyone is applying for ACE so that they can get playing time
before you know it u have shitloads of players entering ACE
I know BO5 couldn't be helped due to timeslot but BO5 without ace is worst compared to BO5 without ace because you can't test players out and rely on ace match to take it back (hint:KT) or have a dumb coach like hwaseung's coach sending killer every ace match during 10-11 season and losing it.
ace match also allows players with prepared builds to snipe players, like snow sniping flash with his fake allin ninja expo(i think it was an ace match, correct me if im wrong here) so newer players can actually come out unlike now where i THINK every coach has to decide beforehand who to send
He's always had so much potential, but he was never really comfortable playing on live TV so he was inconsistent. Then the whole retirement thing and resurgence, here's hoping he fucks shit up in proleague on ACE!
Much respect to the Korean military and I hope these guys stay safe! It's interesting to see that BW teams are still recruiting, I guess it makes me wonder what's really going to happen over the next couple of the months. I don't know what this says about the rumors.
happy to see that bw is not dying just yet. it will be interesting though to see when the teams start to transition. hopefully just in time to have a military team ready for nada.
Aww, it seems only just yesterday that Guemchi came back to BW from a brief stint with SC2 and some soul-searching. Then again, 2010 in general seems like only yesterday.
I hope he finds more play-time in Ace. The team has been getting quite an influx of decent players recently.
i pretty much expected gchizzle/bonjwa comments entering the thread but i dont think Guemchi is really going to bolster the ACE lineup like when Kal joined. i hope he gets more play time than he was on Woongjin.
On February 24 2012 22:55 Subversive wrote: Ah so annoyed ACE never took Pure (along with Kal). He was waaay better than Guemchi and more consistent than Really . Happy for those two though.
Any other Pure fans miss him and wish he'd ended up on ACE?
wasnt a huge fan of Pure (i recall a deep starleague run) but ACE is sort of an enigma.
you have guys who apply Orion, PianO and are accepted on the roster (Piano is doing quite okay) but IIRC Kal and Pure had to play a match to see who gets on ACE.
While we are on the topic of Ace, I have a feeling that the sole reason why they are making the playoff is that they didn't try hard enough. FBH haven't been playing for so long when he should definitively be a stable player for TvZ and TvT.
On February 28 2012 09:18 Xiphos wrote: While we are on the topic of Ace, I have a feeling that the sole reason why they are making the playoff is that they didn't try hard enough. FBH haven't been playing for so long when he should definitively be a stable player for TvZ and TvT.
I thought that his TvP wasn't as abysmal as before.
On February 24 2012 01:29 Ryo wrote: Sea was overheard at a fan-meeting saying that Shark will enter the military (not ACE) in April and Saint in September. This is just a fan account so it's not official news yet.
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