EPT"Failed" progaming prodigies? - Page 4
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SuperJongMan
Jamaica11586 Posts
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Sadist
United States7322 Posts
On June 26 2007 07:15 RowdierBob wrote: Meh I don't know if Crystal ever really showed much promise. He was like Sinji_NT, Jinsu and Mumyung. Always making Starleagues but proving themselves to just be making up the numbers. thats why hes failed theres a difference between bein a respectable pro, and having finishes in tournaments but never winning, but crystal[inca] made it through prelims a bunch and then was whooped in the starleague. | ||
GTR
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ApollyoN
United States1297 Posts
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RowdierBob
Australia13297 Posts
On June 26 2007 11:05 Sadist wrote: thats why hes failed theres a difference between bein a respectable pro, and having finishes in tournaments but never winning, but crystal[inca] made it through prelims a bunch and then was whooped in the starleague. Hrmm, you could add so many people to the list though if Crystal[Inca] is the qualifying standard. Sinji, Jinsu, Mumyung, TheWind, Crystal, Oversky, Qoo)Max, [Oops]Cloud, Oddysay etc etc are but a few examples of guys who made it through the prelims a bunch of times only to get badly beaten again and again when it came to the crunch. Nothing much was ever really expected of these players. I think failed prodigies implys they had a seemingly big future ahead of them in progaming and showed some promise (Canata, Junwi, Terato) only to never really reach the heights they were capable of achieving. | ||
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cravy
United States525 Posts
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Plexa
Aotearoa39261 Posts
On June 26 2007 01:19 Piano wrote: Excellent Daezang will be joining Airforce Ace, along with Oversky.  Ace is rapidly becoming my third fav team (behind mbc and khan) No wonder hanbit is not doing that great/daezang hasnt been seen in a while Should be good to see Ace with a proficient protoss More failed pros; Think players likeee... Hooney!! omg wtf happened to him.. he was hyped up to be as good as stork and advanced into a SL with him.. then like.. disappeared? Wtf? Pantech cant train p's! Shine? He was so determined to get far, but like.. nothing has eventuated.. poor guy; read his ygclan interview too... What about sync? Never got to recover from his curse the poor guy =[ who didnt like spark terran! Free? This guy is so talented, but like.. never makes it in the individual leagues... whats up with that? Jy; broke out onto the scene dominating for while; even taking down light... but then kinda faded away.. failed prodigy anyone? | ||
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Cambium
United States16368 Posts
Stork has done absolutely nothing up to this point, I guess we'll judge him after the current MSL and OSL. (Keep in mind that Stork was originally eliminated from the MSL being eliminated by Savior, only coming back because OverSky left for army) It's interesting that Sea was mentioned in the original post, because both him and Stork were named by the Emperor to be the next best thing in progaming history (along with Savior). | ||
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Cambium
United States16368 Posts
Same thing with Canata, who was supposedly the second best thing after Sea, but he too, never got anywhere. Zergman? YellowA? I don't know if they qualify, but at one point in their career, a lot of people believed in them =) | ||
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Hovden
Bulgaria29 Posts
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Pressure
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just saw his match against forgg  WIN PLZ | ||
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Plexa
Aotearoa39261 Posts
On June 26 2007 22:42 Cambium wrote: Okay, stork wasnt doing well in 06 however...What about Stork? Stork has done absolutely nothing up to this point, I guess we'll judge him after the current MSL and OSL. (Keep in mind that Stork was originally eliminated from the MSL being eliminated by Savior, only coming back because OverSky left for army) It's interesting that Sea was mentioned in the original post, because both him and Stork were named by the Emperor to be the next best thing in progaming history (along with Savior). In ever 2 osl he was the winner of the ODT making him the 4th seed Went 1-2 tied in his group; 3 way tie braker between Xellos/Stork/Yellow happened, Xellos advanced (GF went 3-0) In So1 he made osl but lost 0-3 (reach goodfriend and oversky in group) In Shinhan 05, he went 1-2 along with iris (boxer/july in his group as well) Didn't make Shinhan 1 Didn't make Shinhan 2 Didn't make Shinhan 3 And thats his history since ever 2 w.r.t. OSL And now that i look at it.. its actually kinda crap o.O;; i remember him being so much more fearsome than those stats reflect Actually, thats probably because his strength was PL, and well... carried his team (with jju and siga) through to the finals with T1.. | ||
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Hovden
Bulgaria29 Posts
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Make7UpYours
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I think the real busts are those players who've been hyped up but have really done NOTHING. People have mentioned Terato and Canata and I think they're the best examples. I think at one point mensrea was talking about Terato as the next big thing. There were anecdotes of complaints being made at an amateur tournament that Terato must be a pro because he was just too good. His speed was supposed to be unreal. But all he's done is make one decent run in a MSL. Seems an awful short list of accomplishments for someone who was supposed to be the next savior of toss. EDIT: Also I feel what defines a lot these failed prodigies is the obscene amount of attention they received before they had won anything or even played a starleague game. The expectations for players such as Junwi or Sync were fueled more by what they achieved in the starleagues than pronouncements made by superstar teammates or exuberant coaches/managers. No one expected Sync to win NATE, but when he did people prepared to crown a new Terran star that never quite emerged. That's way different from someone like Canata who was put in the spotlight by Oov's comment about him as the next great SKT1 terran before he had made so much as an OGN dual league appearance. | ||
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Tensai176
Canada2061 Posts
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XCetron
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On June 27 2007 00:19 Tensai176 wrote: Holy shit Bisu's 17?! he should be 18 this year if I remember correctly. By korean standard hes 19 though. At least it says so in an article I saw last week somewhere. The part where hes 19. | ||
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RebelHeart
New Zealand722 Posts
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GTR
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On June 27 2007 01:11 RebelHeart wrote: Savior You've gotta be fucking kidding me. | ||
KizZBG
u gotta skate8152 Posts
On June 27 2007 01:11 RebelHeart wrote: Savior, Sea, Stork Yeah...should have put Nada in there too. /sarcasm | ||
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PanoRaMa
United States5069 Posts
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