oGsTheWinD (Park Sang-Ik) has been appointed to become the new head coach of the Starcraft 2 team oGs (Old Generations).
oGs is a premiere Starcraft 2 pro team with most of amount of players (9) qualifying for the GSL Season 2 and currently houses NaDa, MC, Gon, Hyperdub, Cezanne, Zenio, InCa, Ensnare, TOP and others.
The coaching staff lineup change comes as Spunky focuses on business side of the team. Spunky has left TheWinD in charge of the team as he will now be shifting his focus from daily team management to Starcraft 2 and eSports related businesses.
The newly appointed TheWinD is a ex-broodwar player from team SOUL (later became STX) and has experience playing in both individual and team leagues as key Zerg player for the team. He has recently been discharged from the military and has joined team oGs to resume his pro gaming career.
TheWinD has stated “I will be participating in GSL Season 3 Qualifiers both as a player and a coach. However I have yet to decide on whether to continue being a player.”
With TheWinD heading the team, Gon has also been appointed to become part of the oGs coaching staff. As a result, Gon will not be participating in GSL Season 3 Qualifiers.
Gogo oGs. Good to appoint a coach that can spend more time actively looking after the players. Does this mean TheWind will be stepping down as a player?
I'm sure Spunky will still be doing all of the interactions with English communities. I think it's a good decision to put thewind as the coach. I'm curious if this means that wind will be stepping down as a player as well. I don't think he will, but who knows.
I won't even pretend to know enough about oGs or the team house to understand if this is good or bad. Good luck, however, anyone supporting the scene is cool with me.
Yeah, one of the coaches from one of the teams played, I do think it was Prime. He did pretty well against gracken, disproved the stereotype that coaches can't play well haha
TheWind is a superawesome guy. Him and Gon usually ran the day to day stuff in the house already even without the official switch. Regarding players and coaching the SC2 scene is a much more simplified version of how the BW scene was. In BW a coach needed to know which player was good at which matchup, which player was good at which map, which player should be used for overall wins and which one for sniping. Players had a lot of qualifiers going on as well as PL constantly running. Maps would be newly created each season and so on.
In SC2 pretty much the only thing that matters is GSL. There are some small teamleagues but they are super minor and people just play them because they exist not because or the prize money or the viewers. For a coach not to be fluent in English is actually not as big of a deal as our BW based intuition tells us. Spunky won't disappear or anything so if there are actual big issues he can be phoned and asked to help out. For basic stuff TheWind and Gon are great help.
This is definitely good for oGs because it basically means they are growing big enough to fill all these positions.
Mr. SOOOO MANY BANELIIINGS himself I think he'll be a great influence on the team, this is pretty awesome news I was feeling a bit down on oGs because they got eliminated from GSL final 4 and all their players look kind of beat up and pissed in general, so hopefully this change will do them some good
Am I the only one who's a little saddened by this news? I mean, Spunky came up with so many great strategies, and TheWinD is one of my favorite zergs to watch. I think he was on the precipice of a big breakthrough, but now with coaching responsibilities, will he ever reach his potential?
Anyway, I'm very happy for TheWinD if this is what he wants, and I hope he continues to pursue victory!!
nice! I'm sure Spunky will still try and help a little bit, but I like TheWind, and I feel like he should be a good coach for this ballin team.. he better still play a lot though.
On November 12 2010 08:17 Cyanocyst wrote: Hey Where did OGSTheSTC go??? He is my favorite Terran.
And Isn Cezanne a Zerg player? or did he switch?
Oh Well i hope the Wind does decide to continue his playing career, Hes probably one of the Top10 Zergs in the world.
stc is currently going through his mandatory service, so he can't participate in any tourneys
Wow really thanks for the information. Kinda of an inopportune time for time for him to have to serve that. I mean with Sc2 really starting to kick off, its a great time to make a name for your self.
On November 12 2010 08:22 Klamity wrote: so ogs is down to 1 zerg now?
Ret and Haypro are in the house so there wont be a lack of practice partners.
That's true, but there will still be a language barrier when it comes to discussing strategy. I don't really know if that's something that regularly occurs or not anyways, so maybe it won't have an effect?
On November 12 2010 12:49 sjschmidt93 wrote: I thought Gon was terrible? I'm not saying you need to be good to be a good coach, but it seems like it would help.
Grats to TheWind big fan! It's so interesting to hear whats happening inhouse with my favorite players! Maybe they can start selling some legit merch now that oGs is making so much money. oGsJersey = win
Can't wait to see how dominant Ret becomes with a Zerg like TheWind coaching him. Ret has the potential to be the best foreigner by far if he refines his play a little.
Last night I played a random guy on ladder named oGsDaKay. I have yet to see/hear anything about him anywhere, is he really a member of oGs? He was ~1600 Zerg player, I managed to beat him despite him having like 150 higher APM lol so I was curious to see if this guy was for real a member of oGs.
On November 14 2010 06:03 kmillz wrote: Last night I played a random guy on ladder named oGsDaKay. I have yet to see/hear anything about him anywhere, is he really a member of oGs? He was ~1600 Zerg player, I managed to beat him despite him having like 150 higher APM lol so I was curious to see if this guy was for real a member of oGs.
I had the same question. Just played him a few minutes ago. I'm a ~1700 platinum player and went on a 30 minute game with him. So I think he's posing as a member of oGs as I shouldn't have even been matched up against him. Although...I think being #1 in my platinum division is equivalent to being 30th-40th in a diamond division, and he was ranked 11th in diamond so we weren't that mismatched. I'm on the US server. oGs players are not, generally, no?
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oGsTheWinD (Park Sang-Ik) has been appointed to become the new head coach of the Starcraft 2 team 
oGs (Old Generations).
NaDa, 
MC, 
i mean why would he? 
