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On September 14 2012 01:11 Naniwa wrote:Show nested quote +On September 14 2012 01:08 niteReloaded wrote:
I didn't have the chance to catch the latest Code S games, but from the exposure from Naniwa I've gotten recently, I have the feeling that he's lost his desperate wish to be the best. Like, life has kicked in and he's switched focues/realized other things are more important.
I wish Naniwa would be kind to respond to this even if it's just "nope, you're wrong". ur wrong  i do have problem with my motivation for the last couple of months tho, because of the breakup with startale / EG taking back their contract they offered me.. its been very stressful for me and i guess somewhere in between i broke down. I need time to catch my breath and just focus on me for a while not thinking about anything else. I am still as hungry to win but it will take some time for me to get my head straight again and find the right conditions for me to perform at my best again thanks to everyone who still supports tme, i didnt expect it
Please keep fighting Naniwa, I think you're the best foreigner and you're really inspiring to me. All the Korean players can just take a train or bus back to their families, but you're thousands of miles away from home fighting a harder fight than anyone else in Code S. Remember you're not fighting in GSL despite the difficulty, you're fighting there because of the difficulty!
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On September 15 2012 17:52 fourColo wrote:Show nested quote +On September 14 2012 01:11 Naniwa wrote:On September 14 2012 01:08 niteReloaded wrote:
I didn't have the chance to catch the latest Code S games, but from the exposure from Naniwa I've gotten recently, I have the feeling that he's lost his desperate wish to be the best. Like, life has kicked in and he's switched focues/realized other things are more important.
I wish Naniwa would be kind to respond to this even if it's just "nope, you're wrong". ur wrong i do have problem with my motivation for the last couple of months tho, because of the breakup with startale / EG taking back their contract they offered me.. its been very stressful for me and i guess somewhere in between i broke down. I need time to catch my breath and just focus on me for a while not thinking about anything else. I am still as hungry to win but it will take some time for me to get my head straight again and find the right conditions for me to perform at my best again thanks to everyone who still supports tme, i didnt expect it Please keep fighting Naniwa, I think you're the best foreigner and you're really inspiring to me. All the Korean players can just take a train or bus back to their families, but you're thousands of miles away from home fighting a harder fight than anyone else in Code S. Remember you're not fighting in GSL despite the difficulty, you're fighting there because of the difficulty!
"All the Korean players can just take a train or bus back to their families, but you're thousands of miles away from home"
That's very true! I don't think many koreans actually think about the fact that foreigners coming to their country to play Code-S are very much left alone and can't just visit family or girlfriend for love and support.
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Hmm, then I think we wont see Nani in code s next season. After reading his post, I cant see hime finding his motivation
to climb back through code A.
Just hope he can find it as soon as possible and start to show result again
We belive
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Keep fighting, for king and country! 
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bah, joining EG? you're too good for them!
just keep fighting Johan, you can do it. We all believe in you
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Cheers for you, Naniwa, we are looking forward to some more spectacular wins from you. You still hold the throne of best non-korean.
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Nani 
But seriously, get out of your comfort zone and start playing without mouse accel already! 
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Yeah, it could've been better. I think that Tove Bengtsson would've done it better because of her RadioGamer experiance. But it's nice pro-gaming isn't talk about negatively.
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I have nothing to do and since I love NaNi I translated the article for everyone here who doesn't speak Swedish.
Johan is a pro-gamer.
Gamer professional -- When the European Championships in StarCraft will be decided in the Ericsson Globe today Swedish Johan Lucchesi is fighting as one of few non-koreans in the most prestigious league in South Korea. SvD (Svenska Dagbladet) met him at his home in Seoul -- where StarCraft is a national sport, with league games aired on TV every week.
SEOUL 22 year old Johan Lucchesi is the only swede living in Korea to play StarCraft. At the moment that's a position that doesn't make him especially chosen. When I ask him what he's done during the day I notice that he's spent in in the shadow of yesterday.
– What I've done? I woke up and asked myself: "Why do I live?"
– It feels like this everytime I lose, he adds.
Every match is dead serious in the best Korean league, where Johan Lucchesi plays. And it doesn't get easier since you can get demoted during the current season if you lose too many games in a row.
StarCraft is a real time strategy game which in South Korea has achieved the status of somewhat of the football (soccer) of eSports. A game everyone knows where it's been possible to become a progamer since more than 10 years.
A couple streets away from Johan Lucchesis home is a PC bang, a chain of arcades that are considered to have been deciding for StarCraft to achieve the popularity it has in Korea. Johan Lucchesi doesn't play there very often but practices at home instead, in the boy room smelling (?) apartment he shares with 5 guys from Poland, Germany and Korea. All of them are gamers trying to be successful with StarCraft.
PC bangs got popular during the end of the 90's, during the financial crisis that then affected Asia and in particular South Korea. Unlike a sport as football, where the investment costs for a professional league are astronomous, it was doable to start a league for StarCraft, Johan tells us.
Other factors that are usually mentioned about the breakthrough of SC in just Korea is the country's high amount of Internet users and that there was a general acceptance for games as a TV-aired form of competition.
During middle school and high school Johan played WarCraft but when the sequel SC2 came out in the summer of 2010 he immediately switched over to SC.
After having competed in competitions in both Europe and the US he moved to Korea. The first time he lived there with his team mates of that time, but it was a pretty harsh experience. He didn't speak any Korean, and they didn't speak English. At one time Johan Lucchesi woke up and realized that the house was empty. Not until 3 weeks later did the other get back, with one single comment -- "Vacation".
-- Noone said a word about it before they disappeared. It was really rough being here as a non-korean. A couple other swedish players have tried, but they've all went back home after a month or two.
This weekend the European Finals in SC will be held in Stockholm. How big do you think this game is in Sweden compared to South Korea?
-- It doesn't exist in comparison. Here every person knows what it is, and being a SC progamer is seen as a normal job. In Sweden it's more associated with being 14 years old and going to Dreamhack in Jönköping.
Although now the SC competitions fill up the Globe two days in a row. That's what Lady Gaga can do.
-- Yeah. The interest is there but it's still like people sit at home playing SC as a way to relax, even if Dreamhack in particular has done alot to get people to watch StarCraft games aswell.
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On September 17 2012 04:34 whereismymind wrote:![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/DJwNr.png)
This guy speaks for me.
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On September 17 2012 04:54 Lazzi wrote:+ Show Spoiler +On September 17 2012 04:34 whereismymind wrote: This guy speaks for me.
Me too. 
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I hope naniwa is watching the stream, seeing how much support he has Even if he is not at an event :D
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On September 17 2012 05:31 Fizzy wrote:I hope naniwa is watching the stream, seeing how much support he has Even if he is not at an event :D
pretty late in Korea though :/
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[Images of NaNiwa signs]
I totally miss those because of sickness (I went to bed before the grand finals).
But you will be back NaNiwa, don't worry.
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On September 17 2012 05:11 nebula. wrote:Me too.
And me.. WCS EU certainly wasn't the same with no Naniwa there.
Next year though! Naniwa will be there to win it all WE BELIEVE!
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IF E-Sport SM decides to continue with Sc2 next season (Which I really hopes), is there a chance that you might try out that competition when you're in Sweden NaNiwa?
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EPT![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/4loH7.jpg)
