- Aside from Anytime himself, the one person who eagerly awaited Anytime's return to OZ the most is none other than the one who took over ggaemo's captain spot, Jaedong. - It is reported that on the 1st, when the Death God Anytime returned, Jaedong rushed out without even putting on shoes to meet him in the practice house. - After ggaemo left for the army and ACE, the new captain Jaedong immediately began to feel the pressure. As captain, he had to unite the team completely show strong leadership to both the players and coaches [T/N unsure]. However, as he also had to worry about being the team's ace, Jaedong had little time or energy left over to be the captain. Even though he was captain in name, he was hardly able to carry out the role due to the pressure. - Now, Jaedong has finally gotten a reprieve. Anytime, who was the oldest on the team when Jaedong was the youngest, has returned to OZ. Jaedong can now reassuredly hand over the captain's position to Anytime. - Anytime understands the situation well. He said, "Jaedong is the gamer who plays the most for our team. If he could handle being the ace player and being the captain, then he would be a superhuman. I'll be the captain so Jaedong can have a load off his shoulders and be an even stronger force for our team." Anytime stated that his objective was to build the best circumstances for Jaedong to focus on practice. - Jaedong said, "being the captain but being unable to perform the role for the team made me very embarassed. Now that the Death God is back, I feel much more comfortable. I'm confident that Anytime will lead our team well, so that I can work foremost on practicing."
I forgot that Coach Cho had left OZ, I thought Anytime would have switched to SC2 since afaik there has been no official reconciliation or anything between them.
Also Jaedong really needed someone to keep this weight off of him, good for him.
excited to see anytime back in action. before he left for airforce, he was a regular contributor to wins. he helped OZ win a proleague championship before he went to military (crushing stork on katrina with that sick reaver control)
It's good to have an experienced older guy leading the team, while the pressure is off JD a little. Hopefully he can focus all his might into beating Flash (though I hope Bisu destroys both).
God I love Anytime so much my favourite Protoss ever. Oz used to be my second favourite team back in the day with JD and Anytime. Forgg was ai lol. Damn I can't waittttttttt. Hope Anytime goes back to his old form, or at least somewhat. Sexyyyyy pictures~
On November 05 2010 09:53 yeti wrote: Anytime + PerfectMan + BackHo Oz protosses = best protosses
Lol, KT or SKT1 definitely better than Oz toss.
After reading Jaedong's winner interview, I had a feeling this would happen. I honestly can't blame him, he has so much shit to do with the entire team on his back, a man can't carry, lead, get to OSL finals, MSL finals, and take a couple games off Flash. Being Jaedong is hard.
i wonder what a captain's responsibility is ... jaedong and anytime make it sound like being a captain give you a butt load of pressure ... anyone care to enlighten?
- Jaedong said, "being the captain but being unable to perform the role for the team made me very embarassed. Now that the Death God is back, I feel much more comfortable. I'm confident that Anytime will lead our team well, so that I can work foremost on practicing."
Is he really calling him "Death God"? On that note, how often do players really call their peers by their nicknames? And under what circumstances? Perhaps when speaking publicly to emphasize a player's skill, and to imply that the speaker respects the player in question? Or did you, infinitestory, throw that in yourself? I'm genuinely interested.
Edit: Even if Anytime doesn't get too much playing time, I'm sure the team's overall performance will increase, I'm glad he's back.
On November 05 2010 11:20 nayumi wrote: i wonder what a captain's responsibility is ... jaedong and anytime make it sound like being a captain give you a butt load of pressure ... anyone care to enlighten?
Hwanni from estro answered this in a thread a while back. From what I recall, the team captain is like an assistant coach who's close to the players. Basically because the head coach is usually so much older then the actual players, it's hard for them to really be on the same level as the players. The captain is supposed to fill this gap and support and help the players more as an equal and inform the coach if a player is having problems.
Fun fact, when OZ went 18-4 and won the 2nd round of proleague in 2007, Jaedong, Anytime, and Hiya combined for a record of 37-13, or 74%. fOrGG, on the other hand, went only 4-2.
Oh yeah, glad to see Anytime returning to Oz to bolster up their line up (and provide some relief to JD). Was sad to see my second favourite team at the bottom of the barrel, but not anymore!
- Jaedong said, "being the captain but being unable to perform the role for the team made me very embarassed. Now that the Death God is back, I feel much more comfortable. I'm confident that Anytime will lead our team well, so that I can work foremost on practicing."
Is he really calling him "Death God"? On that note, how often do players really call their peers by their nicknames? And under what circumstances? Perhaps when speaking publicly to emphasize a player's skill, and to imply that the speaker respects the player in question? Or did you, infinitestory, throw that in yourself? I'm genuinely interested.
The Korean to Chinese translator did that himself. It was actually 영종 hyung (Yeong Jong hyung) in the original article. The Chinese guy wrote 死神哥, or death god hyung, so infinitestory is pretty accurate.
If Oz stop failing, doesn't mean we won't have a new season of Hwaseung House ? I'm glad for JD though. Perfectman may befome perfecter after Sashin gives him some advice !
badass name, badass nickname, badass haircut; just doubled the badass level of Oz. (though it's a bit suspect on how fast he'll get back into shape after ace stint)
Yeah it never made sense to have the ace player be the team's captain if they could avoid it. Good for Jaedong getting some help with his schedule and a good friend back.
This is good news. I don't think we're gonna get to see Anytime play for a while though, as I don't think he got to play much sc at all in the past 2-3 years.
I still found it funny that Oz was just dumping all the responsibilities onto Jaedong and was under the assumption that Jaedong is somehow able to handle all that without breaking a sweat.
Couldn't be happier! This is just the boost OZ needs. I feel like this also helps PerfectMan and BackHo. The idea of OZ being protoss deep is kind of making my head spin.
so great to see Anytime back in OZ. He is my favourite player in broodwar since I started watching korean SC, with my first match I've watched was Anytimes win over Yellow (the real one) with purely dark templars on r-point. Since dt are my favourite unit, he instantly became my hero =) and btw, Sokar (my nick I use since I started playing online ~ 2000) is an ancient egyptian god of death, coincidence?
Anytime has always been my favorite player. That guy is so badass. Anyone remembers him trashing Stork and then storming out the booth shirtless at the Proleague finals? That was the epitome of badassness.
Time to change my "favorite team" icon from ACE to Oz (again) I guess.
On November 05 2010 12:09 Waxangel wrote: Thank god, now they don't have to play perfectman or backho EVERY game. I don't think it's possible to make the playoffs under those conditions
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Perfectman is 5-0 or such so far and taking his game better than usual.
On November 05 2010 15:01 dukethegold wrote: I still found it funny that Oz was just dumping all the responsibilities onto Jaedong and was under the assumption that Jaedong is somehow able to handle all that without breaking a sweat.
I find it funny that you are under the assumption that Oz was under that assumption.
On November 05 2010 12:09 Waxangel wrote: Thank god, now they don't have to play perfectman or backho EVERY game. I don't think it's possible to make the playoffs under those conditions
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Perfectman is 5-0 or such so far and taking his game better than usual.
Backho's been failing though
And with Anytime having his back, Perfectman for bonjwa imo
SASHIN
If he does another shirtless celebration at some point in the season like he did after Lecaf won the 07-08 Proleague, we need an Anytime's Body thread.
Awesome News indeed. Anytime looks great in those pics, he really does. Pretty sure we'll see better games from Jaedong now that he's got more time to focus on practicing. "Anytime Captain" we might see a better OZ this season. OZ HWATING!!!^^
On November 05 2010 20:58 Sok4R wrote: so great to see Anytime back in OZ. He is my favourite player in broodwar since I started watching korean SC, with my first match I've watched was Anytimes win over Yellow (the real one) with purely dark templars on r-point. Since dt are my favourite unit, he instantly became my hero =) and btw, Sokar (my nick I use since I started playing online ~ 2000) is an ancient egyptian god of death, coincidence?
"I would hate to fight jaedong, but if I meet Backho I will beat his ass. I even told him "You better practice if you want to beat me in a live match"" LOL
What if Anytime starts groping Jaedong and OZ has to break up, like in the Werra incident? AND THEN WHAT IF EVERYTHING TURNS OUT LIKE THIS?! + Show Spoiler +
Sweet! Anytime is back on Oz! I really hope that I'll be able to see him play in some matches again, because he was super awesome before he went to ACE. Did I mention that he looks like a total baller in that picture with the Oz uniform and not-as-short hair? =P
In the past year and a half, every time I get inspiring or hopeful thoughts about someone performing well in the proleague or starting to become very good, a picture of Flash appears in my mind and my happy thoughts die immediately after that. Make it stop...
On November 06 2010 00:55 danbel1005 wrote: Awesome News indeed. Anytime looks great in those pics, he really does. Pretty sure we'll see better games from Jaedong now that he's got more time to focus on practicing. "Anytime Captain" we might see a better OZ this season. OZ HWATING!!!^^
you sound like a true anytime fan
do you remember in the same OSL, where he raped iloveoov after losing his nexus with the 3 reaver, 3 dragon drop all in?
that osl... my favorite ever iloveoov vs anytime, boxer vs anytime, and all the people they stepped over to get there. it was awesome im glad anytime is back, he is the true master of dark templars, not bisu
the reminds me, remember on route to proleague finals, anytime vs bisu on what was the map.... the map nal_ra and upmagic had the epicccccccccccccccccccccc bionic vs toss game.... nemesis
EPT
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