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infinity21
Canada6683 Posts
Luxury, Stork, & Jaedong, meets with foreigner fans
A new experience for Korean pro gamers.
In the WCG 2008 Grand Finals held in Cologne, Germany, Park Chan-Su (Luxury -KTF), Song Byung-Gu (Stork - Samsung), and Lee Jae-Dong (Jaedong - Lecaf) attends a meeting with foreigner Starcraft fans.
The meeting, started at 8 pm, was hosted by a foreign Starcraft community – Team Liquid – and approximately 120 fans gathered from around the world.
Notably, this fan meeting included the 3rd place finisher ‘strelok’ (Eugin Oparyshev.MYM) from Ukraine, a former pro gamer from Poland, ‘Draco’, as well as China’s ‘Legend’. With the inclusion of all the players who participated in WCG 2008, this truly became a global Starcraft meeting.
The meeting that went on for about 1 hour gave an opportunity to meet the Korean Starcraft players in real life which people appreciated.
To cherish this memory forever, people requested photos with these famous Korean pro gamers that they could only see on VODs before. They didn’t want to miss a single story that the Korean pro gamers told.
Foreigner fans differed slightly in the types of questions that Korean fans tend to have. Foreigners were curious about the mechanics of the game and how their practice regimen is structured.
In Jaedong’s case, people said, “I watched Jaedong’s Tektonic dance on YouTube”, and for Stork, “I shed tears when I saw him win this StarLeague”, telling all the stories they know.
Foreigner fans commented that it was a big honour for them to meet with the players that they’ve been admiring and expressed their wish to go to Korea in order to meet more Korean pro gamers.
As for the three players that participated in the meeting, they all agreed that it “was a new and memorable experience. We didn’t know that foreigner fans were this numerous and passionate. In the future, we will play our best games for the foreigners”.
Article taken from Fomos
+ Show Spoiler [Original Article] +독일 퀼른에서 열리고 있는 WCG 2008 그랜드파이널 스타크래프트 부문에 출전한 박찬수(KTF), 송병구(삼성전자), 이제동(르까프)이 해외 팬들과 함께하는 팬 미팅에 참석했다.
현지 시간으로 8일 오후에 열린 팬 미팅은 해외 스타크래프트 커뮤니티 팀리퀴드(Team Liquid) 주최했고 전 세계에서 약 120명의 팬들이 모였다.
특히 이번 팬 미팅에는 WCG 2008 스타크래프트 부분에서 3위를 차지한 우크라이나 출신의 'strelok' 유긴 오퍼레이셔브(Eugin Oparyshev.MYM)를 포함해 한국에서 프로게이머 활동을 경험했던 폴란드의 'Draco' 크리스토퍼 날리예프카와 중국의 'Legend' 루오시안 등 WCG 2008에 출전한 모든 선수들이 참여해 스타크래프트의 세계 모임으로 활성화 됐다.
약 1시간 동안 진행된 이번 팬 미팅에는 그 동안 해외 팬들이 만나보기 힘들었던 한국 스타크래프트 선수들을 눈 앞에서 만날 수 있었다는 점에 매우 반가워했다.
VOD로밖에 볼 수 없었던 한국 유명 프로게이머들을 만난 것을 평생 간직하기 위해 사진 촬영을 요청하는가 하면 그 동안 궁금해 했던 한국 프로게이머들의 이야기를 하나도 빠짐없이 들으려 한 모습이 역력했다.
외국 스타크래프트 팬들의 궁금증은 한국 팬들의 궁금한 점과는 조금 달랐다. 외국 팬들은 어떻게 컨트롤을 하는지, 어떤 방식으로 연습을 진행하는지를 물어보는 내용으로 이뤄졌다.
또한 이제동의 경우 "JaeDong(이제동의 ID)의 테크토닉을 유투브에서 봤다"는 이야기부터 송병구에 대한 질문은 "이번 스타리그의 우승을 했을 때 내가 눈물이 났다"며 자신이 알고 있는 모든 이야기를 앞에서 털어놨다.
해외 팬들은 이번 팬 미팅에 대해 "동경하던 선수들을 만날 수 있었다는 것이 나에겐 큰 영광"이라며 "다음에는 더 많은 한국 프로게이머들을 만나기 위해 한국을 꼭 방문하고 싶다"며 팬 미팅의 소감을 밝혔다.
한편 팬 미팅에 참여한 3명의 선수들은 이구동성으로 "매우 새로운 경험이고 좋은 추억이었다"며 "외국 팬들이 이렇게 많고 열정적인 줄은 미처 몰랐고 앞으로도 외국 선수들을 위해 최선을 다하는 경기를 펼치겠다"고 짧은 팬 미팅 후기를 이야기했다.
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jaedong seems like such a cool guy
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United States17042 Posts
Thanks for the translation. It's good to see that the people at wcg are making the most of their time with the progamers.
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jaedong is so cool luxy looked epic in that pic.
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Belgium6767 Posts
I'm the guy wearing the CJ shirt! SICK BRAG!
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awsome! Did they use translators to talk or did they really speak in english or w\e language?
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i wonder what the comments say
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Belgium6767 Posts
Jaedong's english is pretty damn good
jaedong and me!
stork and luxury were mostly getting translations by susie
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u gotta skate8152 Posts
I didn't know Klazart Xeo looked like this! :D
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Xeofreestyler, awesome shirt. Care to share where you got it? Looking for it as a gift for Christmas this year.
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Belgium6767 Posts
Sorry buddy, got it from teamliquid =)
and lol kizzbg I was actually trying to trick a guy into thinking I was klazart the first night hahah I wonder if he actually believed it
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Dknight!!! You cool b*st*rd!!! xDDD
You didnt come to Blizzcon, and made it to Germany from Boston?? xD LoL
Must be a nice experience for the pro players, so they get to know in some other way how do we admire them, cos they must be so tired of screaming girls and similar..
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(THANKS SO MUCH FOR TRANSLATING ALL MY QUESTIONS AND SHITTALK SUSIE!!!!)
Thanks so much for that awesome time everyone!!!
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I'm jealous as always.
Thanks for all the translating and cool pics <3
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Calgary25974 Posts
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omgomgomg post more pictures, pls! D:
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who is that scary guy with the beard?
He seems like one of those 60's hippie guys!
Shave the beard man, seriosly!
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On November 10 2008 05:20 SlickR12345 wrote: who is that scary guy with the beard?
He seems like one of those 60's hippie guys!
Shave the beard man, seriosly! isnt that Dknight? someone correct me if im wrong.
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Nice pictures, whats that last one though? Just a picture of a gothic church?
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it's the kølnerdome, a big fucking amazing church. must visit in this live for sure. (i've been there !!!)
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Germany / USA16648 Posts
On November 10 2008 05:26 GinNtoniC wrote:Show nested quote +On November 10 2008 05:20 SlickR12345 wrote: who is that scary guy with the beard?
He seems like one of those 60's hippie guys!
Shave the beard man, seriosly! isnt that Dknight? someone correct me if im wrong. Yes, that's Dknight
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1584 Posts
lol amazing pictures :D
baller outfit by Luxury
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On November 10 2008 05:20 SlickR12345 wrote: who is that scary guy with the beard?
He seems like one of those 60's hippie guys!
Shave the beard man, seriosly! Can't be dissing Dknight like that, bro! Dknight is the man! Nice nose piercing! :D
Great pictures. Not really digging JD but Lux and Stork are cool.
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Dang another WCG missed~~But awesome pics.
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Belgium6767 Posts
On November 10 2008 05:37 Narrator wrote:Show nested quote +On November 10 2008 05:20 SlickR12345 wrote: who is that scary guy with the beard?
He seems like one of those 60's hippie guys!
Shave the beard man, seriosly! Can't be dissing Dknight like that, bro! Dknight is the man! Nice nose piercing! :D Great pictures. Not really digging JD but Lux and Stork are cool.
wowowowow what
you havent seen enough yet
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Belgium6767 Posts
THey're coming just have to wait because a lot of people are still there
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Looks like great fun, I wish I would have been there.
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More pictures are coming tomorrow or so, if you wish Have to edit some of them a little bit (red eyes and shit) :D
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I don't know how I missed this. I got my pictures with the players too, but I had no clue about this TL meeting (I don't think any of the SC2GG guys knew, how cruel to not share this just because of an upcoming grudge match!)
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I swear draco is like the coolest looking person ever
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also can someone translate some of the comments on fomos please?
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Germany2762 Posts
this picture is so cool!
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Hong Kong20321 Posts
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On November 10 2008 06:54 fusionsdf wrote:I swear draco is like the coolest looking person ever
this pic is my fav
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United States13896 Posts
/jealousy
seriously awesome stuff, sounds like everyone had a lot of fun.
btw i put the fomos page through a translator to see what the comments said, and I think everyone on fomos thinks that xeo is IdrA because of the CJ shirt. lol
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ahhhhhh stop posting pics i'm so jealous i'm dying!! o.o and yeah someone has to tell what fomos thinks about this
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Im not gay but draco looks so handsome
in this particular picture ..
maaan T_T !?
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Can someone plz translate the comments from under the fomos article?
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More pics!!! 
with Trust from BW.de - Drinking on our unforgetable ZvZ !!!
Sorry Mondi xD
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Belgium6767 Posts
I'm trying to communicate with them in crappy korean lol
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On November 10 2008 08:10 Xeofreestyler wrote: I'm trying to communicate with them in crappy korean lol
right nao?
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Belgium6767 Posts
In the comments on the fomos page
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lol @ background
JEALOUS ! ! ! !
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Germany / USA16648 Posts
On November 10 2008 06:46 stevethemacguy wrote: I don't know how I missed this. I got my pictures with the players too, but I had no clue about this TL meeting (I don't think any of the SC2GG guys knew, how cruel to not share this just because of an upcoming grudge match!) http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=80891
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Where are the blogs, videos and pictures from TL? I'm dissapointed in the coverage :E
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On November 10 2008 05:26 GinNtoniC wrote:Show nested quote +On November 10 2008 05:20 SlickR12345 wrote: who is that scary guy with the beard?
He seems like one of those 60's hippie guys!
Shave the beard man, seriosly! isnt that Dknight? someone correct me if im wrong.
Yes.. thats him!!
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United States3824 Posts
That's pretty fucking cool man congrats
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NeverGG
United Kingdom5399 Posts
It's cool that fomos covered some of the non-game related stories. I think it'll be really great for Byungu, Chansoo and Jaedong's confidence to know that they have fans so far away from their home country. I'm wondering if they'll come back here to Korea with a different attitude now.
Oh and yeah - I didn't realise until I met him properly, but Jaedong's english is pretty good - he just doesn't use it that often. It's a shame Chalrenge or Gorush couldn't have hidden in one of the other players' luggage - you guys would have had fun with their (crazy in Chalrenge's case.) command of the english language.
I think JD stole that Thrasher cap from Lomo he was wearing it to the MSL prelims earlier this year.
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Belgium6767 Posts
On November 10 2008 09:18 nevergg wrote: Oh and yeah - I didn't realise until I met him properly, but Jaedong's english is pretty good - he just doesn't use it that often. It's a shame Chalrenge or Gorush couldn't have hidden in one of the other players' luggage - you guys would have had fun with their (crazy in Chalrenge's case.) command of the english language.
Hahah kennigit should read this he wants to meet him so badly because you just KNOW he's gotta be a funny awesome dude
but yeah I was really impressed by jaedong's english
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NeverGG
United Kingdom5399 Posts
On November 10 2008 09:29 Xeofreestyler wrote:Show nested quote +On November 10 2008 09:18 nevergg wrote: Oh and yeah - I didn't realise until I met him properly, but Jaedong's english is pretty good - he just doesn't use it that often. It's a shame Chalrenge or Gorush couldn't have hidden in one of the other players' luggage - you guys would have had fun with their (crazy in Chalrenge's case.) command of the english language. Hahah kennigit should read this he wants to meet him so badly because you just KNOW he's gotta be a funny awesome dude but yeah I was really impressed by jaedong's english
Chalrenge is CRAZY. We did our second photo shoot by a toilet because he insisted it was the best place. He also traumatised Chansoo and Myungsoo into having their second shoot with me there too. He used to speak random konglish to me and ranted on a lot about Draco, but now he speaks more Korean to me because he knows I can follow it if he lowers the volume. Always posed for my shoots, always bowed to me afterwards (o.O;) and we once had a conversation about his foreign fans whilst riding an escalator backwards - he's brilliant. Shame he won't be coming to PL for a while -.-
Jaedong made me laugh at our shoot together. I'd had a bad relationship with him until then based upon his behaviour at pl, but having met him he's a pretty cool guy. I asked him in Korean to do a cute photo and in English he mumbled back, 'I'm not cute.' Endearing as heck.
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Ah....I'm so jealous right now
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Belgium9945 Posts
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On November 10 2008 10:12 RaGe wrote: It was awesome.
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On November 10 2008 10:00 nevergg wrote:Show nested quote +On November 10 2008 09:29 Xeofreestyler wrote:On November 10 2008 09:18 nevergg wrote: Oh and yeah - I didn't realise until I met him properly, but Jaedong's english is pretty good - he just doesn't use it that often. It's a shame Chalrenge or Gorush couldn't have hidden in one of the other players' luggage - you guys would have had fun with their (crazy in Chalrenge's case.) command of the english language. Hahah kennigit should read this he wants to meet him so badly because you just KNOW he's gotta be a funny awesome dude but yeah I was really impressed by jaedong's english Chalrenge is CRAZY. We did our second photo shoot by a toilet because he insisted it was the best place. He also traumatised Chansoo and Myungsoo into having their second shoot with me there too. He used to speak random konglish to me and ranted on a lot about Draco, but now he speaks more Korean to me because he knows I can follow it if he lowers the volume. Always posed for my shoots, always bowed to me afterwards (o.O;) and we once had a conversation about his foreign fans whilst riding an escalator backwards - he's brilliant. Shame he won't be coming to PL for a while -.- Jaedong made me laugh at our shoot together. I'd had a bad relationship with him until then based upon his behaviour at pl, but having met him he's a pretty cool guy. I asked him in Korean to do a cute photo and in English he mumbled back, 'I'm not cute.' Endearing as heck.
lol
what did he say about draco?
Im really curious
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Kennigit
Canada19447 Posts
yeah nevergg what did he say bout draco?
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Korea (South)17174 Posts
THAT THE MTOHER FUCKER SHOUL?D HAVE JUST SCRUBBED SOME TOILETS AND MAYBE HED BE PLAYING ON PROLEAGUE RIGHT NOW
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On November 10 2008 10:00 nevergg wrote:Show nested quote +On November 10 2008 09:29 Xeofreestyler wrote:On November 10 2008 09:18 nevergg wrote: Oh and yeah - I didn't realise until I met him properly, but Jaedong's english is pretty good - he just doesn't use it that often. It's a shame Chalrenge or Gorush couldn't have hidden in one of the other players' luggage - you guys would have had fun with their (crazy in Chalrenge's case.) command of the english language. Hahah kennigit should read this he wants to meet him so badly because you just KNOW he's gotta be a funny awesome dude but yeah I was really impressed by jaedong's english Chalrenge is CRAZY. We did our second photo shoot by a toilet because he insisted it was the best place. He also traumatised Chansoo and Myungsoo into having their second shoot with me there too. He used to speak random konglish to me and ranted on a lot about Draco, but now he speaks more Korean to me because he knows I can follow it if he lowers the volume. Always posed for my shoots, always bowed to me afterwards (o.O;) and we once had a conversation about his foreign fans whilst riding an escalator backwards - he's brilliant. Shame he won't be coming to PL for a while -.- Jaedong made me laugh at our shoot together. I'd had a bad relationship with him until then based upon his behaviour at pl, but having met him he's a pretty cool guy. I asked him in Korean to do a cute photo and in English he mumbled back, 'I'm not cute.' Endearing as heck. Haha im not cute
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Jaedong speaks fluent english?
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jaedong did an english interview? awesome...link?
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United States17042 Posts
On November 10 2008 14:26 yrag89 wrote: Jaedong speaks fluent english?
Sounds like his english is just better than you would expect.
I wish I could have been there.
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omg u guys got drunk with programers LOL that musta been fuckin epic
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MrHoon
10183 Posts
did you guys talk with the lecaf coach too lol? I don't see any other KTF/samsung coach so that sucks
Would've been cool to see HOT Forever and January
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Looks really fun =) hope yall had fun
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United States11637 Posts
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God I'm so jealous, maybe next year if some miracle happens I'll be able to go, besides, China is just above us, haha.
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Awesome, I'm jealous...
in just a word: EPIC
pd: Susie as always its the masterkey.
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yep, the meetup was really, really sick! the progamers were too nice lol, i got their signatures + photos
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Yeah it was really a nice atmosphere and many great people! Especially Tasteless was so awesome!
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damn you got the progamers to get the asian glow. how cool is that
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What's everyone sipping on in that first pic? Strawberry-tinis?
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Zombie.
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haha chalrenge sounds like he's the man.
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United States42255 Posts
Those zombies were painfully bad lol
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United States42255 Posts
Jaedong was kinda pissed at me when I asked Susie to ask why Backho is so good but plays like an idiot. I think my fanboyism for Backho was lost in the translation.
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how did you konw jaedong was pissed? Did he look at you in a glaring way meaning he wanted to send ultralisks to rape you or something?
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On November 11 2008 05:17 Kwark wrote:Jaedong was kinda pissed at me when I asked Susie to ask why Backho is so good but plays like an idiot. I think my fanboyism for Backho was lost in the translation. 
I think your question was way too specific, like asking about one certain game that BackHo has played etc. Jaedong just replied that he simply doesn't know about every game BackHo plays. I don't see any pissed reaction in that 
EDIT: And we enjoyed the Zombies ;D
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Click on spoiler for the pics + Show Spoiler +Prof. Protoss OH WAIT that's stork, luxury..then Prof.Protoss and Decay from BW.de Who's the guy on the right? Mondragon not aware he's on camera with the guy his girlfriend was very attracted to: lilsusie and my obviously excited sidekick decay germany represented by broodwar.de admin General Mensk, Justafanatic, Decay and Ip.trust. What a great team for that job! The guy on the right claimed he was the best Guitar Hero III Player in the whole wide world. Can anyone confirm? wigzig or so was his nick.
It was such a nice trip to cologne, I really appreciate all of the starcraft ppl showing up. I hope germany was a good host, you surely were nice guests.
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;-) NP I actually didn't recognize you were Gregsen, I watched some of your casts. Your voice didn't sound familiar. Prolly because it was high due to excitement ;D
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Netherlands13554 Posts
On November 11 2008 07:03 Prof. Protoss wrote:Who's the guy on the right?
Nazgul
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On November 10 2008 13:59 Rekrul wrote: THAT THE MTOHER FUCKER SHOUL?D HAVE JUST SCRUBBED SOME TOILETS AND MAYBE HED BE PLAYING ON PROLEAGUE RIGHT NOW
Your posts full of bull shit about me are seriously starting to piss me off. You know almost nothing about my case so stop acting like you know how did it look. Another Spunky.
BTW. Chalrenge was known for being the most bad manner player in SparkyZ and in fact not only there - just from some official issues I quess I don't have to remind anyone the situation when he typed "fuck" in the official TV game. At the beginning he used to be really nice and for some time he was my best "friend" there, but after few months I realised that he is like the biggest false dick I have ever met in my life. His words for my words, fuck him.
Even though my post is not full of love I'd like to say that the tl meeting and the previous night were so awesome that I even don't regret that much that I was out of the tournament to be free to drink with you guys. Looking forward for more stuff like this in the future.
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I think I didn't mention my balls to ask Luxury for a 1on1? I'm pretty sure NOBODY did this before ;( Oh and Rage seemed pretty excited about a TL-Attack episode with me, so prepare ppl! He said I had to beat him first ZvP bo3
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Every time I see progamers in normal clothes they look so...mortal. Lol~
It must have been awesome, wish I could have met them...
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how much did the pro gamers drink?
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MrHoon
10183 Posts
wow it seemed like the foreigner/progamer connection bond is growing stronger than ever! TL is teh shizz
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Wow, very sweet atmosphere there! Nice to see such things to happen
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빨간모자 누구지...정말 제대로 간지 =ㅅ=b
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On November 11 2008 13:10 KOFgokuon wrote: how much did the pro gamers drink?
Well, from what I gathered at least two drinks, the shot and the Zombie. And I'm not trying to sound like a dick here and generalize, but I have a couple korean friends who are pretty much wasted after 3-4 drinks.. Not sure how strong those ones were though. Curious if that affected Luxury + Stork at all. Stork seemed to play a pretty bad game (temps getting picked off etc) but I forgive him.
Luxury on the other hand played pretty well and I'm glad he finally got a big championship of some sort.
On November 11 2008 23:06 Sanzenin wrote: 빨간모자 누구지...정말 제대로 간지 =ㅅ=b
Someone translate pls!
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3861 Posts
sanzenin wants to know who's the one in teh red hat?
and the boys were fine. they both didn't drink much at all.
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On November 12 2008 01:21 Racenilatr wrote: whos DKnight?
A unshaved crazy Kebabmonster (WGTour admin, WCG referee)
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On November 12 2008 03:35 Ilvy wrote:A unshaved crazy Kebabmonster (WGTour admin, WCG referee) ?
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Belgium6767 Posts
On November 12 2008 01:21 Racenilatr wrote: whos DKnight? ..the guy in the red hat
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nono i mean is he like a foreign progamer, part of TL staff, etc..
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Belgium6767 Posts
He's sortof part of the TL crew but mostly part of WGTour staff
other than that he is very furry and has a broken whistle
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On November 10 2008 03:48 Xeofreestyler wrote:Jaedong's english is pretty damn good jaedong and me! stork and luxury were mostly getting translations by susie
Holy crap, Jaedong looks like a baller in this one.
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how to create a topic?
User was warned for this post
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LOL WHAT? WHY... I DON'T UNDERSTAND...
Go to a forum thread, and on the top, there should be an icon of a red folder that says "Create New Topic".
Type in a title and some content, and there you go.
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at least he bumped a cool thread :/
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Anything that has to do with a wife beater is never cool.
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