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2012 Rookie Draft (First Half)

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Ryo
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
8787 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-13 00:00:51
April 12 2012 10:56 GMT
#1
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The 2012 First-Half (there are 2 drafts every year) Starcraft Draft was held on 12th April at Seoul Yongsan-gu iParkmall stadium. 9 players were drafted by pro-teams and thus qualified to become progamers. This is the smallest number since the draft was first started. At the 2011 Second-Half draft, 10 players were drafted. 22 of the players who qualified for this draft, by finishing within the top 40 placings in Rookie League, registered to take part in the draft. However 3 did not turn up, leaving 19 actual participants.

The first player to be chosen was terran By.Yourosia (류다운), a former SKT trainee and the number one ranked rookie based on the Kespa Rookie League rankings. (Edit: the draft proceeded in the order of the lowest to highest ranked team in the previous Proleague season. None of the teams before SKT picked anyone in round 1. There are 5 rounds in a draft.) He was chosen by SKTelecom T1 but instead personally requested for this appointment to be canceled and was subsequently drafted by STX in the next round. (Edit: according to Fomos, Coach Park said that the reason is because Yourosia could not adapt well to SKT or harmonize well with the players.)

The team that drafted the most players was Samsung Khan. They drafted zerg BBatta_Lt (강민수), protoss Beach_Lt (박진석) and (T)By.BigTiger (유태호). STX drafted By.Yourosia and protoss By.comet (신혜성), Woongjin drafted terran Shout[ScM] (서현후), KT drafted zerg PenguiN (남윤석) and protoss MyuNgSiK[WHITE] (김명식), while SKT drafted protoss By.ReQuiem (강기훈).

In total, 4 protosses, 3 terrans and 2 zergs were drafted. ACE and Team 8 did not take part.

After finalizing their contracts, these 9 players will attend the Progamer Education Seminar on 17th April.

Source: http://esports.dailygame.co.kr/news/read.php?id=59150

For more info on these players and their rankings going into the draft, please refer to this thread:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=326425
kjwcj also found this replay of Shout[ScM] from when he was about 13:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=81652




Summary

STX Soul - terran By.Yourosia (류다운) and protoss By.comet (신혜성)

Woongjin Stars - terran Shout[ScM] (서현후)

CJ Entus - None

KT Rolster - zerg PenguiN (남윤석) and protoss MyuNgSiK[WHITE] (김명식)

Samsung Khan - zerg BBatta_Lt (강민수), protoss Beach_Lt (박진석) and (T)By.BigTiger (유태호)

SKTelecom T1 - protoss By.ReQuiem (강기훈)


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More pics here: http://esports.dailygame.co.kr/news/album.php?id=59135&seq=1

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blubbdavid
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Switzerland2412 Posts
April 12 2012 10:59 GMT
#2
Shout[ScM]'s glasses go good along Zero and Soulkey.
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BLinD-RawR
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
ALLEYCAT BLUES50118 Posts
April 12 2012 11:02 GMT
#3
Sigh only 9 this time....
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GTR
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
51437 Posts
April 12 2012 11:03 GMT
#4
interesting how the guy requested not to be on skt.
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Kiett
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States7639 Posts
April 12 2012 11:04 GMT
#5
It's like we picked up Afrotoss #2 lol
Writer:o
Ryo
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
8787 Posts
April 12 2012 11:07 GMT
#6
Poor Pigbaby. He finished second in the rookie rankings and noone chose him. That sucks.
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ImbaTosS
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United Kingdom1685 Posts
April 12 2012 11:09 GMT
#7
On April 12 2012 20:03 GTR wrote:
interesting how the guy requested not to be on skt.

Yeah this made me a little curious too. Any backstory?
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Ryo
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
8787 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-12 12:16:20
April 12 2012 11:10 GMT
#8
On April 12 2012 20:09 ImbaTosS wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 12 2012 20:03 GTR wrote:
interesting how the guy requested not to be on skt.

Yeah this made me a little curious too. Any backstory?

No idea why. He was an SKT trainee. Anyway, this has happened before at drafts.

Edit:
Okay, according to Fomos, Coach Park said that Yourosia could not adapt well to the team or harmonize well with the players so that's why he requested to give up his nomination by SKT.
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Hyde
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
Australia14568 Posts
April 12 2012 11:15 GMT
#9
We could have used another Terran player like Yourosia. Wonder if his experience as an SKT trainee had anything to do with his decision.

So the 3rd, 4th, 10th, and 15th ranked Protoss gets picked, but not the 2nd? Why? Poor guy
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Kipsate
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Netherlands45349 Posts
April 12 2012 11:16 GMT
#10
That SKT pickup

Wtf Afrotoss #2?
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S2Glow
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Singapore1042 Posts
April 12 2012 11:16 GMT
#11
because stx have better chances for him to succeed? since skt lineup is so strong.
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Too_MuchZerg
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
Finland2818 Posts
April 12 2012 11:32 GMT
#12
If I would be great rookie I would hope to be picked by weaker team so that I would get playtime faster.
risk.nuke
Profile Joined May 2010
Sweden2825 Posts
April 12 2012 11:36 GMT
#13
Shout[ScM]! Go stars!

Feeling bad for pigbaby, that's just harsh :/
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bgx
Profile Joined August 2010
Poland6595 Posts
April 12 2012 11:40 GMT
#14
He was Nada fan
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Ryo
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
8787 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-12 11:48:36
April 12 2012 11:42 GMT
#15
So apparently Coach Ju turned up at the draft but did not take part.

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Ribbon
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States5278 Posts
April 12 2012 11:47 GMT
#16
On April 12 2012 20:02 BLinD-RawR wrote:
Sigh only 9 this time....


Look on the bright side, 9 new BW players = long-term investment. That's actually really good news, that the BW teams expect to have these BW rookies long enough for them to pay off.
Hazzyboy
Profile Joined January 2012
Estonia555 Posts
April 12 2012 11:56 GMT
#17
Another Protoss to be trained by Kingdom and Bisu
figq
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
12519 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-12 12:59:36
April 12 2012 12:58 GMT
#18
I don't quite understand these drafts. For example, does T8 & ACE not picking anyone mean they simply don't have the money to pay for another progamer or what? In theory, usually the weakest teams should get the biggest advantage in drafts, right? And here they offer the #1 player to the #1 team, which seems so weird.
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Soap
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Brazil1546 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-12 13:01:52
April 12 2012 13:01 GMT
#19
Why the PL champion is the first to pick?

Not sure how much it helps his career prospects though since he'll be behind Last and Bogus rather than just Fantasy.
KenNage
Profile Joined May 2009
Chile885 Posts
April 12 2012 13:02 GMT
#20
why didn't cj pick up anyone? oo
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