[Q] oGs.StC AKA TheSTC

dybydx

Canada1764 Posts

September 14 2010 04:26 GMT

Apparently there isnt any thread about this guy.

I've seen him play and he is awesome. Being in the oGs clan by itself already says something about his skill. He also defeated some well known SC2 players like FruitSeller and had some really long winning streaks in live cast matches.

Some of us expected that a gosu player like him would qualify for the GSL but rumor has it he got drafted for military service.

So anyone got more info on this StC guy?

Here is a clip of a match played by him.

kTwo

United States16 Posts

September 14 2010 04:28 GMT

He didn't qualify for GSL, he's pretty amazing though

GTR

51497 Posts

September 14 2010 04:29 GMT

On September 14 2010 13:28 kTwo wrote:
He didn't qualify for GSL, he's pretty amazing though

he didn't bother participating at all because of his plans to have military service soon

SnowFantasy

4173 Posts

September 14 2010 04:31 GMT

He's one of my favorite terran players right now. I download all of his reps from sc2rep.com

He will get shoved aside almost instantly though once NaDa starts playing SC2.

kTwo

United States16 Posts

September 14 2010 04:31 GMT

ahh, what a shame he's hands down one of the best terran

dabom88

United States3483 Posts

September 14 2010 05:40 GMT

I agree, from what I've seen, he's the best Terran in the world at the moment.

SupremeJD

United States42 Posts

September 14 2010 06:06 GMT

Yeah I was wondering why I didn't see him at all in the GSL lineup, and I knew he was too skilled to not qualify.

kTwo

United States16 Posts

September 14 2010 06:07 GMT

I think ensnare is better

epik640x

United States1134 Posts

September 14 2010 06:21 GMT

In Cella's opinion, the top players in korea are Tester, Gon, TheSTC, and Fruit.

Tachion

Canada8573 Posts

September 14 2010 06:25 GMT

#10

Who's Gon?

Grachuus

United States57 Posts

September 14 2010 06:30 GMT

#11

I'm guessing that puts STC around 18 if he's doing his military service. When it's over he'll have plenty of crazy reflex years left.

Roffles

Pitcairn19291 Posts

September 14 2010 06:32 GMT

#12

On September 14 2010 15:30 Grachuus wrote:
I'm guessing that puts STC around 18 if he's doing his military service. When it's over he'll have plenty of crazy reflex years left.

Nah, he's 21. He's been around BW for a few years now.

Elegy

United States1629 Posts

September 14 2010 06:37 GMT

#13

Easily one of the best Terrans around.

Hope he goes competitive after his military service, the guy's got insane skill.

Subversion

South Africa3627 Posts

September 14 2010 06:37 GMT

#14

shame, this 2 years of army really screws up their plans hard =/

shannn

Netherlands2891 Posts

September 14 2010 06:38 GMT

#15

On September 14 2010 15:30 Grachuus wrote:
I'm guessing that puts STC around 18 if he's doing his military service. When it's over he'll have plenty of crazy reflex years left.

Doesn't have to be around 18. I'm sure that some koreans like Nal_Ra are NOT 18

and they are doing their military service. It seems it's more like 26-ish ?

Grachuus

United States57 Posts

September 14 2010 06:45 GMT

#16

On September 14 2010 15:38 shannn wrote:

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Doesn't have to be around 18. I'm sure that some koreans like Nal_Ra are NOT 18

and they are doing their military service. It seems it's more like 26-ish ?

Having not been to Korea I guessed based on what a friend of mine from there has said. Most take it early on so they can go to school afterward. Allows for that introspection time many end up wasting college dollars on. Also means you're actually ready for the world when you're done school.

Grachuus

United States57 Posts

September 14 2010 06:47 GMT

#17

On September 14 2010 15:32 Roffles wrote:

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Nah, he's 21. He's been around BW for a few years now.

Good stuff. Still early in the window of greatness. Though on reflection I peaked around 17. Of course that had more to do with no car or life I'd imagine

figq

12519 Posts

September 14 2010 06:48 GMT

#18

Shame he can't be in GSL now. Currently in GSL by race the best are probably Cool, Tester, Ensnare... and Dario as random. (:

On September 14 2010 15:25 Tachion wrote:
Who's Gon?

oGsGon in Top 10 KO bnet and 1.5k diamond

Nexic

United States729 Posts

September 14 2010 07:18 GMT

#19

Wow that's quite depressing actually

I remember seeing him in that GOM showmatch vs Inca, he had insane multitasking/micro.

TitleRug

United States651 Posts

September 14 2010 07:22 GMT

#20

This guy is good. sad about military service

Manimal_pro

Romania991 Posts

September 29 2010 07:44 GMT

#21

wow i didn't know he was up for military service... i remember i saw an early replay of his on blistering sands where he was playing vs a zerg who has doing ling baneling and some roaches and he was like, what you are making banes, why don't you check out how i insanely split marines - zerg got owned in the face

huyNh

Canada366 Posts

September 29 2010 08:39 GMT

#22

he also has an invisible 3rd hand.

kirkybaby

Korea (South)781 Posts

September 29 2010 08:39 GMT

#23

edit: thestc is the man, many replays out there (e.g. takedown tournament in korea) of him beating ensnare.. awesome stuff

.kv

United States2332 Posts

September 29 2010 08:49 GMT

#24

HopeTorture is the better Terran in the GSL but oGsEnsnare is really solid

bokchoi

Korea (South)9498 Posts

September 29 2010 09:22 GMT

#25

I was wondering what happened to him too, and didn't know the reason he didn't even try to qualify for GSL. He definitely would've been a favorite to win the GSL. Best of luck to him and hopefully he'll be able to play at a high level when hes done with his military service. He could try to apply for ACE, haha

Noxie

United States2227 Posts

September 29 2010 09:39 GMT

#26

Didnt know he was going to military soon.

Good thing he will not get too far behind after he gets out.

Antoine

United States7481 Posts

November 20 2010 02:51 GMT

#27

I have somewhat good news! Inspired by plu.cn casting TheStC vs SKS replays before the all-star matches began today, i wandered over to playxp where the man himself revealed that he's done with his military service on 25 May 2011, which is sooner than I think most of us were anticipating!

Sein

United States1811 Posts

November 20 2010 03:01 GMT

#28

I think he's doing his service right now? I'm not 100% sure on that though. It sounded like his duty type was one that actually lets him come back home every day, but he doesn't have much time and he's also not allowed to enter tournaments while he's still doing his army duty. I'm not too familiar with how it works though. He is still considered the best terran player by many of the Koreans in any case.

Antoine

United States7481 Posts

November 20 2010 03:10 GMT

#29

On November 20 2010 12:01 Sein wrote:
I think he's doing his service right now? I'm not 100% sure on that though. It sounded like his duty type was one that actually lets him come back home every day, but he doesn't have much time and he's also not allowed to enter tournaments while he's still doing his army duty. I'm not too familiar with how it works though. He is still considered the best terran player by many of the Koreans in any case.

Yes, he actually has just over 6 months left in his service.

zzaaxxsscd

United States626 Posts

November 20 2010 04:19 GMT

#30

lol he so funny

hi me 2011.5.25 end oh shit T_T thx ㅋㅋ;

TelecoM

United States10682 Posts

November 20 2010 04:27 GMT

#31

TheStC is awesome, I met on broodwar during the beta, I was in Op SeaClan @ USWest talking with some koreans about StarCraft 2, then TheStC[GnH] popped in the channel, apparently he is friends with some people in SeaClan ( not a surprise ), I hadn't heard of him before, or seen him play SC2, I met him and we talked a little about SC2, he then told me he was in oGs, sure enough next thing I know, I saw TheStC win something like 17+ games in a row on the korean KOTH stream (forget what its called right now)

This guy was probably the most consistent / amazing terran i've seen still, such a solid player. I'm sure once his army time is done he will be back to own SC2!

SubPointOA

United States183 Posts

November 20 2010 04:27 GMT

#32

On September 14 2010 13:29 GTR wrote:

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he didn't bother participating at all because of his plans to have military service soon

the only downfall of Korea (yes i know its an honor, but from a foreigner fan's point of view >.>)

Alphaes

United States651 Posts

November 20 2010 04:30 GMT

#33

Wonder if he'll still be able to keep up after his hiatus. He did seem pretty sick in those games in the beta.

zzaaxxsscd

United States626 Posts

November 20 2010 04:32 GMT

#34

On November 20 2010 13:30 Alphaes wrote:
Wonder if he'll still be able to keep up after his hiatus. He did seem pretty sick in those games in the beta.

i'm pretty sure he still plays/practices a lot on his own, he just can't compete in tournaments

Liquid`Jinro

Sweden33719 Posts

November 20 2010 04:33 GMT

#35

On November 20 2010 13:32 zzaaxxsscd wrote:

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i'm pretty sure he still plays/practices a lot on his own, he just can't compete in tournaments

Yep, hes still sick good. Also very nice.

rift

1819 Posts

November 20 2010 04:39 GMT

#36

does he have a gong ik position that allows him more recreational activity than the average military personnel?

United States1056 Posts

November 20 2010 04:57 GMT

#37

On November 20 2010 13:33 Liquid`Jinro wrote:

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Yep, hes still sick good. Also very nice.

Wow, do you guys see him on the ladder often? I would love to see some recent replays of him. He was my favorite beta Terran, it sucks that he's all but disappeared recently. I haven't seen any replays of him for over a month.

Antoine

United States7481 Posts

November 20 2010 05:00 GMT

#38

On November 20 2010 13:57 GP wrote:

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if you don't mind slow-buffering vods with 3 or 4 ads between each game, you can still see him play on Gisado's recent vods over here.

United States1056 Posts

November 20 2010 05:12 GMT

#39

On November 20 2010 14:00 Antoine wrote:

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if you don't mind slow-buffering vods, you can still see him play on Gisado's recent vods over here.

When I click play a Korean message comes up and it tries to install something. What is it trying to install? I already have GOMPlayer.

Antoine

United States7481 Posts

November 20 2010 05:17 GMT

#40

Yeah, from what I can tell (so this might all be BS) it doesn't automatically detect the english version of the gom player. If you just run the installer you shouldn't have any problems afterward on either the English or Korean gom sites. I haven't found a way to skip straight to the 13th game in the series, so I'm just clicking to the end of each of the 1st 12 games. Takes a while but it's worth it for stc imo ^^

United States1056 Posts

November 20 2010 05:33 GMT

#41

Thanks man!

Legat0

United States318 Posts

November 20 2010 05:55 GMT

#42

On November 20 2010 11:51 Antoine wrote:
I have somewhat good news! Inspired by plu.cn casting TheStC vs SKS replays before the all-star matches began today, i wandered over to playxp where the man himself revealed that he's done with his military service on 25 May 2011, which is sooner than I think most of us were anticipating!

I can't wait for this! He is going to easily be one of the top players out there once his military service is over.

Gooey

United States944 Posts

November 20 2010 06:04 GMT

#43

I think one of the most insane things I have seen him do was a wicked 4 pronged attack on metalopolis against another terran player. He dropped the main, 3rd, and 4th while pushing the front door of the second. He took out nearly 3/4 of the terran workers and only 1 of his drops didn't get away, and most of his push at the natural went virtually uncontested. My jaw hit the desk when I saw him do it. If military service wasn't knocking on the door, I would expect him to be challenging for best terran player in the world at the moment. And I see Jinro has already confirmed that he is, in fact, still good as hell :D

Dajibjaw

Canada83 Posts

November 20 2010 09:44 GMT

#44

Also there is a game of him vs cool aka FruitDealer during one of those Gisado's KoTH tourneys. I watch that replay on Metalopolis from time to time because its so awesome. Pretty sick multitasking on TheSTC's part. Gonna be exciting when he comes back!!

Logros

Netherlands9913 Posts

November 20 2010 10:45 GMT

#45

His multi-dropshit plays are just amazing, he's my favorite Terran by far! It's good to hear that he'll be competing again as soon as next year :D.

maybenexttime

Poland5656 Posts

November 20 2010 11:04 GMT

#46

On November 20 2010 18:44 Dajibjaw wrote:
Also there is a game of him vs cool aka FruitDealer during one of those Gisado's KoTH tourneys. I watch that replay on Metalopolis from time to time because its so awesome. Pretty sick multitasking on TheSTC's part. Gonna be exciting when he comes back!!

That would be in Heart of the Swarm. ;p

silentreality

Korea (South)222 Posts

November 27 2010 03:09 GMT

#47

Hmm I'm guessing he's gong-ik, (basically if you meet certain conditions, such as physical disability) you can exchange your military service for working in the public sector (such as in subway or the post office - gong-ik is literally "public good"). Generally the length of service is still the same, but I know there are also some other criteria to get a shortened 6 month service - such as if someone in the family is a 국가유공자, (decorated by the government).

In any case!! If he's stil a regular on Gisado, so check it out if you want to see his play! (I'm watching him right now on the November 25th cast, towards the end he is playing against some member of the slayers clan.

[edit] actually Gisado says that theSTC is the leading in wins on his KOTH cast for November.. so.. he's a lot more regular than I thought

rO_Or

United States306 Posts

December 11 2010 10:43 GMT

#48

The Korean Military saw his games with Terran and offered him a commanding position...

DNB

Finland995 Posts

December 11 2010 10:50 GMT

#49

On December 11 2010 19:43 rO_Or wrote:
The Korean Military saw his games with Terran and offered him a commanding position...

I hope that is real if you bumped this.

thesmoosh

113 Posts

January 19 2011 15:51 GMT

#50

Mods should feel free to delete this if it's considered necroing but I didn't feel I had enough to start a new thread.

Apparently oGsTheStC is playing again. He just stormed through the FXOpen invitational, never dropping a series. You can watch some vods of his games here:

http://sc2casts.com/player249-oGsTheStC

You can also download replays from that tournament here, either the whole thing or just StC's replays:

http://twitter.com/#!/FXOpeneSports

He seemed a little rusty in a few of the early games (for example in game 1 against Sen) but boy did he fall back into rhythm fast. He was showing the same amazing play I remember. Macro style, mutli-pronged terran play full of aggression and harassment, but at the same time methodical with positioning, upgrades, production and man I just can't wait to see him in the GSL.

Part of the reason I wanted to bump this thread to see if anyone had any new info on his status. Is he done with his military stint and if he was playing fulltime again.

In GSL interviews people keep mentioning him as their practice partner and thanking him. I mean he's clearly around and follows/plays enough to be able to coach these guys and help them prepare for their matches. So if you have any more info, spill it already before I go crazy with anticipation (Yes I'm aware that I'm sounding like a fangirl, I'm not like this about any other player btw).

ChuckJagoda

United States27 Posts

January 19 2011 16:14 GMT

#51

I was soo happy when i went onto sc2rep and saw replays of theSTC... I thought he wasnt supposed to be off military duty until may? Regardless, its awesome he's back. I can definitely see him challenging for best terran in the world in the near future.

Liquid`Jinro

Sweden33719 Posts

January 19 2011 16:16 GMT

#52

Hes not rusty, he was never gone - hes just doing his military service, same as he has been for the last 1.5 years. He will be back to full time playing once he gets out in approximately 4 months.

And yes he will be a beast =) Whenever hes got free time this guy grinds them SC2 games HARD.

zerious

Canada3803 Posts

January 19 2011 16:18 GMT

#53

didn't he play in the Gainward Tourney?

Rawenkeke

Norway350 Posts

January 19 2011 16:19 GMT

#54

On January 20 2011 01:16 Liquid`Jinro wrote:
Hes not rusty, he was never gone - hes just doing his military service, same as he has been for the last 1.5 years. He will be back to full time playing once he gets out in approximately 4 months.

And yes he will be a beast =) Whenever hes got free time this guy grinds them SC2 games HARD.

Oh wow, this is great news, remember back in BETA days when there were replays out of him, smashing nerds left and right as Artosis would say!

philly5man

United Kingdom356 Posts

January 19 2011 16:22 GMT

#55

In the first few weeks of the game coming out, TheStC was showing us all what Terran could do. Can't wait to see more of him, especially when he can go full time if what Jinro says is right.

GypsyBeast

Canada630 Posts

January 19 2011 16:23 GMT

#56

ya man he was beast mode in the beta. To bad too he was very creative and entertaining to watch play

Asha

United Kingdom38257 Posts

January 19 2011 16:29 GMT

#57

On January 20 2011 01:18 zerious wrote:
didn't he play in the Gainward Tourney?

He did, lost 2-0 to MVP.

His games at FXOpen were awesome, love how he always seems to have the right units in the right place at the right time.

thesmoosh

113 Posts

January 19 2011 16:56 GMT

#58

That's great news Jinro. I was hoping it would be less than 4 months but I'm counting the days. You said he was never gone, but I just hadn't seen any replays of his posted since October of last year so I didn't know.

He wasn't any of the GSLs. Is that because of his schedule with the military? Does he play in random tournaments from time to time or does he just play practice games?

I've also noticed from your recently released replay pack that you're focusing a lot on double pronged banshee hellion harass (and of course mech vs P like in the games vs axslav and MC). I'd love to hear you elaborate more, and who your collaborators are if any

Antoine

United States7481 Posts

January 19 2011 17:05 GMT

#59

Yesterday I was looking through the old results for the Zotac Team Invitational season 1 at the end of October, where they did first to 7 (so bo13) and he had a 6-kill in the semifinals and 5-kill in the finals. What a beast!
Semifinal vs NEX (he beats Destination, Bleach/Byun/Excrement, Taeja, Line, and 2 non-gsl players Sikari and Skit): http://ch.gomtv.com/4006/28140/390312
Final vs Prime (he beats DayFly, MarineKing, HongUn, Junwi, and Check): http://ch.gomtv.com/4006/28140/390603

BennyTurner

Australia49 Posts

January 26 2011 01:44 GMT

#60

I've always rated this guy from the beta, was so looking forward to seeing him in gsl when it was announced, then I find out about the army, shattered... In my opinion the best player from the beta...

Gentso

United States2218 Posts

January 26 2011 01:55 GMT

#61

TheSTC was the best Terran during the beta imo. I remember him like a Korean QXC, abusing dropships like whoa : D

CrazyCow

United States308 Posts

January 26 2011 01:58 GMT

#62

I thought theSTC was one of the ones that left oGs with Tester and Cool to go to TSL, but then went into the military? Maybe I'm just confused.

LittleZ

United States1 Post

February 07 2012 22:31 GMT

#63

just ran into this guy in platinum league. He was showing as a bronze but I could see his practice matches against top masters players as well as well as straight victories filling the entire queue... do these teams have a policy of making smurf accounts just to crush us little guys when we're just trying to have fun? I personally think it's BS.

Seeker

Where dat snitch at?37043 Posts

February 07 2012 22:33 GMT

#64

On February 08 2012 07:31 LittleZ wrote:
just ran into this guy in platinum league. He was showing as a bronze but I could see his practice matches against top masters players as well as well as straight victories filling the entire queue... do these teams have a policy of making smurf accounts just to crush us little guys when we're just trying to have fun? I personally think it's BS.

I'm not sure if this warranted a bump or not. Feels like this kind of statement could be taken in to his fan club so that people could answer your questions there.