When Flash first was recruited to kt rolster

On July 30 2019 07:32 ii.blitzkrieg wrote:
Lol thanks for the translation. It's crazy how in a lot of things the greatest are really insanely skilled from a young age.

I don't remember there being much hype behind Flash before he debuted on tv though? Maybe they kept this under wraps to not embarrass the team? What time period would this have been like late 2006 or early 2007? I remember he started out in tv matches something like 16-2 in proleague/starleague qualifiers only losing to bonjwa Savior and then a game to Boxer.

I can't remember the story behind Flash transfer from Pantech -> KTF but I don't remember it being a big deal. I guess Pantech didn't see his potential and let him go for cheap

On July 30 2019 07:54 jinjin5000 wrote:


I believe he was highly regarded even before whole kt and he was offered contract much better than regular recruit would get

On July 30 2019 12:04 Ideas wrote:
Damn were any other pros just instant fire like flash was? I guess oov right? JD/Stork/Bisu all took a while before they hit their strides IIRC. Not really sure about the earlier eras though.

On July 30 2019 12:30 Highgamer wrote:


Really makes you wonder how the hell Flash became that good before he joined KT, apart from genuine talent.
Of course thousands of hours of practice, his mechanics were praised to be insane from the beginning of his career. But how did he develop that understanding of the game that is just one level above everyone else? As a middle schooler or even earlier.
I think, in an interview he said that he was crazy about BW as a kid, thinking about it all day, in school, in the shower, before sleep or s.th. like that. Not just "thinking about", but pondering about every possibility, strategy, counter etc.
But I assume he must have also had just the right environement around him, online and irl (friends, PC-bangs), at the time or shortly after he stumbled across the game. Before joining a sponsored team [liquidpedia says "Drafted by Pantech and Curitel in 2007"] he was in By-clan, wasn't he, on Fish or where they played at the time? Thus his aka by.Flash. I think I read somewhere that that clan was know for collecting talent and breeding monstrous rookies at some point - but maybe that is mainly because it brought forth Flash (?).

On July 30 2019 07:32 ii.blitzkrieg wrote:
Lol thanks for the translation. It's crazy how in a lot of things the greatest are really insanely skilled from a young age.

I don't remember there being much hype behind Flash before he debuted on tv though? Maybe they kept this under wraps to not embarrass the team? What time period would this have been like late 2006 or early 2007? I remember he started out in tv matches something like 16-2 in proleague/starleague qualifiers only losing to bonjwa Savior and then a game to Boxer.

I can't remember the story behind Flash transfer from Pantech -> KTF but I don't remember it being a big deal. I guess Pantech didn't see his potential and let him go for cheap

On July 30 2019 13:02 jinjin5000 wrote:


I belive korean clans did a lot to help these aspiring progamers

For example, Lee young-ho(FlaSh) was originally in FlaSh clan and went with name www[FlaSh], but the clan leader disbanded and transferred FlaSh to by. clan (that focused more on transitioning gamers to pro-level) to try to help Lee to take the next step to being progamer as the clan leader felt Lee outgrew the clan.

FlaSh relunctantly went to by clan but instead took on the username of "FlaSh" to honor the old clan name that became defunct for him to become by.FlaSh, and rest is history

Idk the details since i only really began to play 1v1 bw after starcraft remastered and only watched little bit when younger