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knyttym
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States5797 Posts
June 25 2007 14:35 GMT
#21
Like many have said already Canata.
He was though of as the next big T1 Terran and he has not shown the results that we expect of one.
As the next big T1 Terran he would have to follow the footsteps of Boxer, Oov, and even Midas. Two of those names were the most dominant players in their era and Midas was perhaps the only Terran that was shown capable of rivaling sAviOr in his early stages of dominance.
Canata is not weak by any means but he has not shown that he can be called the T1 Terran ace which I just made up right now.
pOOwarrior-
Profile Joined January 2007
United States518 Posts
June 25 2007 14:44 GMT
#22
I'm not really sure if the likes of, say, Casy, Midas, GF can be considered prodigies since all three were around for a couple years before they started making their greatest accomplishments (and are thus fairly "old" by progamer standards). Does it matter how long a progamer has been playing in the big leagues with unspectacular results before actually turning some heads with great play? I think it does, but I'm not sure. That said, I agree with the assessment that Sea is probably a "disappointing" player for someone who is/was considered a prodigy, but of course he still has plenty of time to make a name for himself.

After all, Flash probably just barely got into KTF and then got to where he is now in the OSL.

I guess we'll have to wait for that 12 year old By.Baby (By.Sun?) guy to post some results and see what we get out of that.
FatRine
Profile Joined May 2007
406 Posts
June 25 2007 15:05 GMT
#23
sea is damn amazing, i'd say canata is something of a failed prodigy perhaps
VioleTAK
Profile Joined July 2006
4339 Posts
June 25 2007 15:07 GMT
#24
On June 25 2007 22:40 sonoL wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 25 2007 22:18 GoOdJo wrote:
But that being said i havent heard about that 12 year old kid who is like an apprentice to Pantech or whatever, you know what happened to him?


he just entered middle school.. got his progamer license in elementary
i think its Siz)Sun

Yeah Siz)Sun, his real name is TaeYang Jun, birth date: 21/01/1994, he won the "Elite-School League" :-)
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KizZBG
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
u gotta skate8152 Posts
June 25 2007 15:11 GMT
#25
He played this week's Starbrain btw.
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red.venom
Profile Joined October 2002
United States4651 Posts
June 25 2007 15:17 GMT
#26
On June 26 2007 00:05 FatRine wrote:
sea is damn amazing, i'd say canata is something of a failed prodigy perhaps


However Canata has been one of the key players this season for SKT1 in proleague. His record is pretty decent. Its hard to call him a failed prodigy when no one had seen him much in televised matches until about a year ago. Though i guess its down to how one interprets failed and prodigy.

Sea totally doesnt count to me, the dude is still qualifying for leagues and has one of the biggest pl records and is tied for most wins. Maybe he didnt end up storming OSL and MSL but so few ever have, with so many pl games being played i think its only a matter of time before a good pl record carries as much weight as a top 8/4 finish in osl/msl.
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Piano
Profile Joined June 2007
Korea (South)401 Posts
June 25 2007 15:34 GMT
#27
On June 25 2007 22:40 FakeSteve[TPR] wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 25 2007 22:27 Piano wrote:
On June 25 2007 22:18 GoOdJo wrote:
a majority of the players are young now and days anyways, sea is like 15- or 16 and flash is 15. i'm pretty sure bisu is only like 16 or 17, so its kind of hard to say "prodigy" since alot of the good players are really young anyways. But that being said i havent heard about that 12 year old kid who is like an apprentice to Pantech or whatever, you know what happened to him?


i think sea is 18..

and i think bisu is older than 16/17. not too sure though.

taeyang was seen next to nada at the recent pantech vs. samsung proleague match, dunno what he does for pantech though, the story is he trains with NaDa


Sea is 16 right now, Bisu was 17 when he won MSL and probably still is


oops, thanks for the correction ^^
oshibori_probe
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States2934 Posts
June 25 2007 15:38 GMT
#28
nobody is going to mention Draco? he was thought to be a foreigner prodigy, i guess thats getting to group stages?
the whole tl community was behind him until rekrul ragged on him and he gave up and went over to china

btw while pusan and stork have had troubles in individual leagues, both are gods of proleague

pusan just needs a nice island map like 815 to nock some more sense into him
Fuck KeSPA.
GTR
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
51507 Posts
June 25 2007 15:45 GMT
#29
Wait until I come to Korea when StarCraft II comes out :D
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Plexa
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
Aotearoa39261 Posts
June 25 2007 15:54 GMT
#30
On June 25 2007 23:02 HaXxorIzed wrote:
Daezang left for the army didn't he?.

Ahhh please tell me its not true!! T.T
If he is, is he going to join Ace? when did he go?
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GTR
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
51507 Posts
June 25 2007 15:56 GMT
#31
Anyway, not really prodigies, but I'd like to name a few sorta's.

Junior (Na Gyung Bo) from SouL. He was IMO the original ZvT killer (Junwi was the 2nd). He managed to knock Boxer out of the NATE OSL. Too bad he was in some contract disputes and dissapeared from the pro scene (rumoured he was going to SKT after he left Soul).

ArtOfTerran (Kim Dong Jin) who used to be in Hexatron (now eSTRO), I'm sure someone expert in Daniel Lee's teams like Leg or Rek can fill me in, he was Hexatron's star Terran player. He had a pretty wicked TvZ, and infact he made it to one of the early MSL's if my memory serves me correctly. Unfortunately he couldn't develop his other match-ups and thus lagged behind and dissapeared quickly .

Max (Shin Jung Min) was said up to be the next big Zerg, qualifying in 2 OSL's. Having good training partners in KOR (OGN Sparkyz now), he managed to make these OSL's. Unfortunately, he never made it past the group stages, and I suppose KOR lost faith in his talent, so they shipped him off to Hanbit. Now he's the best Teamplay player currently in this season's proleague currently going on.

As much as I don't want to say this, Silent_Control (Na Do Hyun) was a great Terran player, despite critics criticising (thats what they do, right?) him that he cheesed his way to the semi finals of the NHN Starleague, eventually getting beaten by Jeon Tae Kyu-chicken (Zeus). He did though managed to own JJu in superb fashion in the 3/4 place matches. Next Starleague (Gilette), he also made the Semi-Finals, and out of luck, lost to Mantoss (though it was kind of unlucky, seeing that zealot bomb, OMG). He did though, prove his critics wrong by going through this starleague with no cheese or minimum cheese at all. After that, he just drowned down to be a washed up progamer.

That's all I can think of atm :>
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GTR
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
51507 Posts
June 25 2007 15:58 GMT
#32
On June 26 2007 00:07 VioleTAK wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 25 2007 22:40 sonoL wrote:
On June 25 2007 22:18 GoOdJo wrote:
But that being said i havent heard about that 12 year old kid who is like an apprentice to Pantech or whatever, you know what happened to him?


he just entered middle school.. got his progamer license in elementary
i think its Siz)Sun

Yeah Siz)Sun, his real name is TaeYang Jun, birth date: 21/01/1994, he won the "Elite-School League" :-)


Yes, but seeing his play in the Star Brain games, I think I nearly cried seeing how terrible he played.
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Piano
Profile Joined June 2007
Korea (South)401 Posts
June 25 2007 16:19 GMT
#33
On June 26 2007 00:54 Plexa wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 25 2007 23:02 HaXxorIzed wrote:
Daezang left for the army didn't he?.

Ahhh please tell me its not true!! T.T
If he is, is he going to join Ace? when did he go?


Daezang will be joining Airforce Ace, along with Oversky.
SuperJongMan
Profile Blog Joined March 2003
Jamaica11586 Posts
June 25 2007 16:26 GMT
#34
Junwi... Now there is a failed Prodigy.
T.T.
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Guybrush
Profile Blog Joined December 2002
Spain4744 Posts
June 25 2007 16:28 GMT
#35
Canata is the prime example here. 2 SL apperances in 3-4 years simply doesnt cut it. His PL record has been good yes, but not amazing(his 2v2 play with Rumble was close though).

Fofy[gm] was the player I thought about in my post about mind-control being used in progames. Rock killed him with tanks & arbiters on Luna in a game that lasted more than an hour. Anyway fofy was touted as a new prodigy, but he never reached a SL.

Sea however is the only terran except OOv in his earlier days that makes me go "holy shit he's so fucking good" when I see him play. Imo he's one of the best players and even though he hasnt reached semis in the SLs he has carried mbc in proleague. Give him more than a year before you call him "failed".

Doesnt handle pressure ? M&M Scvs against Boxer in the round 2 PL finals on 815 ? Winning the final decider in the PL grand final against GoRush ? Along with countless other ace matches.
Not only his mechanics are terrific, but his sense is also magnificent.

About Flash though. What excites me with Flash apart from his similar mechanics isnt his game sense, but his timing. As for comparing Sea to Oov(amazing macroers&good sense) and Flash to Nada Ive had the thought several times, and the way Flash now burst into the scene with a terrific timing&micro/macro oriented TvP does indeed remind me of the first sight of Nada back in 2002.

However there is a long way to go for both Sea and Flash to justify it ( look at Casy for example who turned out to be a Neo-Sync instead of a Neo Emperor ). If I were to pick two youngsters who look the most like the two of the three terran legends Id pick these two though.
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dementus
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
Singapore1151 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-06-25 22:16:33
June 25 2007 17:55 GMT
#36
casy/really[alive]/ioi[alive]/whatever he's called now. when he arrived as a high schooler on the by-then macro focused scene, people were hailing his low econ, micro intensive play. everyone knows about the comparisons to boxer, and the neo-emperor nickname. however, as has been said before, casy has twice the strengths of boxer and thrice his weaknesses. boxer's tvp may be his weak point, but for casy it is a CRIPPLING flaw. in fact, from the ro16 in shinhan 1 onwards (getting there was a very rocky road for him), he faced 3 zergs (yellow, zergman, chojja), 1 terran (cloud), 0 tosses.

he shows sparks of brilliance once in a while, (that fake expo move in shinhan 3 vs july we've all come to love) but his tvp (oh, those har har casy tvp autovote liquibet jokes), and his somewhat inconsistent form will keep him from living up to that initial hype.

edit: as for canata, i'd like to wait a bit longer before passing judgement. t1 has churned out oov, and midas with boxer at its helm, that may explain the overrated hype over canata's abilities. he performs quite well in the proleague when his teammates are around him, but he seems to have suspect nerves in starleagues. perhaps with time and experience, he might be able to play to his supposed full potential.
"I couldn't stop myself from having unreal macro and sick timing senses."
FakeSteve[TPR]
Profile Blog Joined July 2003
Valhalla18444 Posts
June 25 2007 17:59 GMT
#37
On June 25 2007 22:49 Plexa wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 25 2007 22:24 Locked wrote:
LOTS of progamers are hyped up (by other pros or by some early results) and don't make a smash hit because of nerves or not enough practice or not enough time yet or some other factor

a short list that i can think of is like...

T: sea, canata (hyped by SKT1), kos (so extremely hyped as best mechanic terran), hery, arguably midas or goodfriend (if only GF had beaten july), savior's terran (lol)

P: pusan or stork maybe (haven't won a big league yet), tester, terato for sure,

Z: rumble?, aqua (or was it magma)?, sigamari (when he was zerglee with SKT1), zergman (amazing online right), yellow[arnc],


then again some people really come through with it like bisu, nada, oov, NALRA, july!
PuSan and StorK are definatly NOT failed prodigies...
both have a series of results (albiet not firsts) which are quite formidable. And i think both are on the top 30 pros of all time? iirc


ok first of all Stork has NEVER capitalized his ID like that so what the fuck are you doing there

second, if you think stork doesn't qualify as a 'failed prodigy' then you really havent followed his career. he's doing all right now but half a year ago he was the best example of this
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FakeSteve[TPR]
Profile Blog Joined July 2003
Valhalla18444 Posts
June 25 2007 18:06 GMT
#38
On June 26 2007 00:56 GTR-2-Go wrote:
Anyway, not really prodigies, but I'd like to name a few sorta's.

Junior (Na Gyung Bo) from SouL. He was IMO the original ZvT killer (Junwi was the 2nd). He managed to knock Boxer out of the NATE OSL. Too bad he was in some contract disputes and dissapeared from the pro scene (rumoured he was going to SKT after he left Soul).

ArtOfTerran (Kim Dong Jin) who used to be in Hexatron (now eSTRO), I'm sure someone expert in Daniel Lee's teams like Leg or Rek can fill me in, he was Hexatron's star Terran player. He had a pretty wicked TvZ, and infact he made it to one of the early MSL's if my memory serves me correctly. Unfortunately he couldn't develop his other match-ups and thus lagged behind and dissapeared quickly .

Max (Shin Jung Min) was said up to be the next big Zerg, qualifying in 2 OSL's. Having good training partners in KOR (OGN Sparkyz now), he managed to make these OSL's. Unfortunately, he never made it past the group stages, and I suppose KOR lost faith in his talent, so they shipped him off to Hanbit. Now he's the best Teamplay player currently in this season's proleague currently going on.

As much as I don't want to say this, Silent_Control (Na Do Hyun) was a great Terran player, despite critics criticising (thats what they do, right?) him that he cheesed his way to the semi finals of the NHN Starleague, eventually getting beaten by Jeon Tae Kyu-chicken (Zeus). He did though managed to own JJu in superb fashion in the 3/4 place matches. Next Starleague (Gilette), he also made the Semi-Finals, and out of luck, lost to Mantoss (though it was kind of unlucky, seeing that zealot bomb, OMG). He did though, prove his critics wrong by going through this starleague with no cheese or minimum cheese at all. After that, he just drowned down to be a washed up progamer.

That's all I can think of atm :>


Hmm.... Junior was a little nuts. Hard to classify cuz I don't remember him as well as I should.

ArtOfTerran yeah you hit the nail on the head there.

Max was always a third-rate zerg, he bumbled around in ODT and shit for a long time before making OSL, and he never got anywhere.

Silent_Control was fucking insane in Gillette OSL. He went 5 super close games with Reach, who had the best PvT at the time, and then went 5 super close games with iloveoov, the best player on earth at the time. He was really never the same player after those two series.. the faint against GoRush in the round of 8, then two super close matches against incredibly strong opponents.. it just seemed to wreck the guy.
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FakeSteve[TPR]
Profile Blog Joined July 2003
Valhalla18444 Posts
June 25 2007 18:07 GMT
#39
On June 26 2007 00:38 oshibori_probe wrote:
nobody is going to mention Draco? he was thought to be a foreigner prodigy, i guess thats getting to group stages?
the whole tl community was behind him until rekrul ragged on him and he gave up and went over to china

btw while pusan and stork have had troubles in individual leagues, both are gods of proleague

pusan just needs a nice island map like 815 to nock some more sense into him


no one gave Draco a snowball's chance in hell of winning an OSL or anything remotely comparable, come on now

it was even debatable that he was the best foreigner when he went over there
Moderatormy tatsu loops r fuckin nice
GTR
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
51507 Posts
June 25 2007 18:18 GMT
#40
On June 26 2007 01:28 Guybrush wrote:
Fofy[gm] was the player I thought about in my post about mind-control being used in progames. Rock killed him with tanks & arbiters on Luna in a game that lasted more than an hour. Anyway fofy was touted as a new prodigy, but he never reached a SL.


I remember fOfy during the PmanG Proleague while he was playing for Hanbit. He was 16 at the time I think, and had practice partners of the like of Reach, Sync etc. After that Proleague though, his career just fell down the drain.
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