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How Rain Became ProGamer in Just 3 Months

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jinjin5000
Profile Joined May 2010
United States1481 Posts
Last Edited: 2025-12-14 20:07:01
December 14 2025 20:03 GMT
#1


Rain's story afterwards:
+ Show Spoiler +
Vasoline73
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States7833 Posts
December 15 2025 08:05 GMT
#2
Thank you for the translation jinjin you are the best!
moktira *
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Ireland1546 Posts
December 15 2025 09:16 GMT
#3
Very interesting watch, thanks so much for translating!
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prosatan
Profile Joined September 2009
Romania8542 Posts
December 15 2025 09:25 GMT
#4
many thanks jinjin !!
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zimp
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Hungary958 Posts
December 16 2025 15:55 GMT
#5
it's hard to believe that he consistently played until 7am and went to school after.
ocasionally, sure.
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ImbaTosS
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United Kingdom1707 Posts
December 16 2025 18:12 GMT
#6
There's so many backstories to everything that are interesting in their own right. Rain might never have got a second chance!
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FinalGame
Profile Joined March 2013
Canada16 Posts
December 16 2025 22:35 GMT
#7
On December 17 2025 00:55 zimp wrote:
it's hard to believe that he consistently played until 7am and went to school after.
ocasionally, sure.


I dunno, I did it all the time back in high school. Granted I'd be trying to sleep whatever chance I had cause I didn't care much at that time.

Difficult? For sure but not impossible.
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TonDan04
Profile Joined October 2025
14 Posts
December 17 2025 17:16 GMT
#8
On December 17 2025 00:55 zimp wrote:
it's hard to believe that he consistently played until 7am and went to school after.
ocasionally, sure.

He said he slept at school though so he's only sleeping and playing starcraft. I don't know how well he did in school or if he even graduated
PurE)Rabbit-SF
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States681 Posts
December 17 2025 23:04 GMT
#9
On December 17 2025 00:55 zimp wrote:
it's hard to believe that he consistently played until 7am and went to school after.
ocasionally, sure.


I did that myself, lol. sleep during classes.
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Ilikestarcraft
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
Korea (South)17733 Posts
December 18 2025 00:16 GMT
#10
On December 17 2025 00:55 zimp wrote:
it's hard to believe that he consistently played until 7am and went to school after.
ocasionally, sure.

When I went to middle school in Korea (like 20 years ago lol) some students did most of their learning and studying outside of school through tutors and afterschool academies so some of the teachers just gave up and let students sleep in their classes. Then there would be students like Rain who took advantage of that. One of my friends was like that where he would play starcraft all night and would literally sleep in class all day and this was not occassionally.

If I think about it now the teachers probably didn't want to deal with parents calling the school and complaining about waking their kids up.
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TonDan04
Profile Joined October 2025
14 Posts
December 18 2025 00:56 GMT
#11
On December 18 2025 09:16 Ilikestarcraft wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 17 2025 00:55 zimp wrote:
it's hard to believe that he consistently played until 7am and went to school after.
ocasionally, sure.

When I went to middle school in Korea (like 20 years ago lol) some students did most of their learning and studying outside of school through tutors and afterschool academies so some of the teachers just gave up and let students sleep in their classes. Then there would be students like Rain who took advantage of that. One of my friends was like that where he would play starcraft all night and would literally sleep in class all day and this was not occassionally.

If I think about it now the teachers probably didn't want to deal with parents calling the school and complaining about waking their kids up.


Yeah, but 'going to school' is implied that he actually studied and take notes. It seems like he only went to school to sleep and played starcraft outside. So when did he have the time to study?

PurE)Rabbit-SF
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States681 Posts
December 18 2025 17:50 GMT
#12
On December 18 2025 09:16 Ilikestarcraft wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 17 2025 00:55 zimp wrote:
it's hard to believe that he consistently played until 7am and went to school after.
ocasionally, sure.

When I went to middle school in Korea (like 20 years ago lol) some students did most of their learning and studying outside of school through tutors and afterschool academies so some of the teachers just gave up and let students sleep in their classes. Then there would be students like Rain who took advantage of that. One of my friends was like that where he would play starcraft all night and would literally sleep in class all day and this was not occassionally.

If I think about it now the teachers probably didn't want to deal with parents calling the school and complaining about waking their kids up.



That's quite interesting insight. Yeah, tutor culture is kind of insane in Korea it seems.
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brainban
Profile Joined December 2025
United States1 Post
December 18 2025 19:26 GMT
#13
sads
Jealous
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
10288 Posts
Last Edited: 2025-12-18 19:47:20
December 18 2025 19:47 GMT
#14
On December 18 2025 09:56 TonDan04 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 18 2025 09:16 Ilikestarcraft wrote:
On December 17 2025 00:55 zimp wrote:
it's hard to believe that he consistently played until 7am and went to school after.
ocasionally, sure.

When I went to middle school in Korea (like 20 years ago lol) some students did most of their learning and studying outside of school through tutors and afterschool academies so some of the teachers just gave up and let students sleep in their classes. Then there would be students like Rain who took advantage of that. One of my friends was like that where he would play starcraft all night and would literally sleep in class all day and this was not occassionally.

If I think about it now the teachers probably didn't want to deal with parents calling the school and complaining about waking their kids up.


Yeah, but 'going to school' is implied that he actually studied and take notes. It seems like he only went to school to sleep and played starcraft outside. So when did he have the time to study?


Going to school does not, in fact, imply that he actually studied and took notes. The implication is that he basically never studied at all and barely scraped by.
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ImbaTosS
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United Kingdom1707 Posts
December 19 2025 16:43 GMT
#15
On December 19 2025 04:47 Jealous wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 18 2025 09:56 TonDan04 wrote:
On December 18 2025 09:16 Ilikestarcraft wrote:
On December 17 2025 00:55 zimp wrote:
it's hard to believe that he consistently played until 7am and went to school after.
ocasionally, sure.

When I went to middle school in Korea (like 20 years ago lol) some students did most of their learning and studying outside of school through tutors and afterschool academies so some of the teachers just gave up and let students sleep in their classes. Then there would be students like Rain who took advantage of that. One of my friends was like that where he would play starcraft all night and would literally sleep in class all day and this was not occassionally.

If I think about it now the teachers probably didn't want to deal with parents calling the school and complaining about waking their kids up.


Yeah, but 'going to school' is implied that he actually studied and take notes. It seems like he only went to school to sleep and played starcraft outside. So when did he have the time to study?


Going to school does not, in fact, imply that he actually studied and took notes. The implication is that he basically never studied at all and barely scraped by.

Yeah that very clearly is the implication! Speaking also as someone who absolutely FUCKED school because I hated it with all my passion, and only had the night time to actually live my own life.
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jinjin5000
Profile Joined May 2010
United States1481 Posts
December 19 2025 18:19 GMT
#16
On December 19 2025 02:50 PurE)Rabbit-SF wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 18 2025 09:16 Ilikestarcraft wrote:
On December 17 2025 00:55 zimp wrote:
it's hard to believe that he consistently played until 7am and went to school after.
ocasionally, sure.

When I went to middle school in Korea (like 20 years ago lol) some students did most of their learning and studying outside of school through tutors and afterschool academies so some of the teachers just gave up and let students sleep in their classes. Then there would be students like Rain who took advantage of that. One of my friends was like that where he would play starcraft all night and would literally sleep in class all day and this was not occassionally.

If I think about it now the teachers probably didn't want to deal with parents calling the school and complaining about waking their kids up.



That's quite interesting insight. Yeah, tutor culture is kind of insane in Korea it seems.


most of my friends schedule was something like school-academy-tutor to 2am-homework-sleep
my schedule in highschool was in US so it wasn't that hard, but it was still school-academy-tutor to 10-11pm/homework-sleep
korean academic attitude in general were pretty common to be like this
Metallicaz01
Profile Joined December 2025
United States7 Posts
January 16 2026 09:33 GMT
#17
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