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emperorchampion
Canada9496 Posts
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Timebon3s
Norway771 Posts
On October 15 2021 19:26 TMNT wrote: BW can end tomorrow and it's not the end of the world. You're wrong though, in that no new (exciting) players have come through despite all these years. Also if you don't have something decent to say, then don't. For posting like this you have proved yourself to be more of a dick. He said "new players will come through". | ||
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Sok211
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Timebon3s
Norway771 Posts
Stork was a really good player though, no denying that | ||
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outscar
2832 Posts
On October 15 2021 23:35 emperorchampion wrote: I'll never forget the stork vs ggplay dark archon game I almost forgot but that game on Andromeda must be one of the BEST games in BW history. | ||
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Temporary-Ad-1531
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Temporary-Ad-1531
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On October 07 2021 05:06 Woosixion wrote: i hate to sound like an ass but im ready for bw AND sc2 to die at this point once that happens hopefully the powers that be can focus on a starcraft 3 that's universally accepted by both communities Blizzard views it too risky. When all the former BW pros banded together and quit SC2 to return to BW they realized BW is just too good to have a successor. I find it more likely in 20 years there will be ASL 32 than starcraft 3 | ||
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Temporary-Ad-1531
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On October 05 2021 05:37 Sonic_md wrote: This is the beginning of the end of SC:BW?? There are so few old-school players left, and there are no new interesting ones. I think our favorite game will last a couple of years, and then the end of more or less large tournaments (such as ASL) will come and they will play less and less. sry for my bad english Remastered barely came out a few years ago and there was a huge gap. No one trained or played competitive from 2012-2016. I'm hoping give the new players a few years and they can get there. | ||
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TheGreatOne
United States534 Posts
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Baddieko
Singapore855 Posts
Stork is my favourite progamer, followed him since the long game against gorush in requiem and GGplay in Andromeda, then the heartbreaking losses against jd and flash, then winning incruit osl finally. Although sometimes he is being a douche and bm in games, his humour is great and control is clean. Most solid in build order timings out of many progamers. Often he win games by economy and catch opponent mistake/weaknesses fast, expanding when his opponent don't know yet in Bo5 he isn't so strong as progamers prepare specifically against him. His macro game is weak against timing push, could have been bonjwa level if he had more APM to micro. Logged in his stream and saw his reactions were not as good before causing him to lose ASL against the young progamers, probably that's the reason retiring. 30+ with kids and wife as well. Nevertheless, its only worth to be top at the right moment which was 10+ years ago. SC1 is dying in a couple of years for sure, have not seen TBLS dominating in recent years. But given the lack of $$$ and motivation its normal. By playing in casual streaming, they probably made more than progamer days. This seems the ex-progamer's motivation to stream nowadays. We will never know whether baby, mini, last, larva are really better than prime TBLS, probably not but i hope SC1 return with sponsors one day. Wish Stork best of luck in his future career! | ||
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oxKnu
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Baddieko
Singapore855 Posts
On February 21 2022 21:01 oxKnu wrote: Didn't he play in the ASL qualies a month ago? Did he come back in the end? only released retirement statement last year due to being in a slump? | ||
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prosatan
Romania8925 Posts
 But he is still streaming!  Just right now he is playing on the ladder !! | ||
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oxKnu
1260 Posts
There is no point to this thread really. I guess it's fine if you want to somehow celebrate his career and achievements and the memories that came with it but these guys hardly ever go away unless life really calls for it: family or just getting old (40+) I, for one, am happy that I managed to witness Stork having a minor-resurgence two years ago and going toe to toe with Flash on the new maps at the time. Now THAT was fun. | ||
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Baddieko
Singapore855 Posts
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TMNT
3231 Posts
Btw this is his wife video explaining Stork's "comeback" for the last ASL qualifier: | ||
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