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IdrA's stream chat brought this up but I think it's worth saying here - Stephano is barely practicing right now. I don't know what's going on with him in the UK, but this isn't looking good. He lost in MLG because - in his own words - he didn't practice that much before the tournament, and right now he's Rank 100+ on EU and hasn't played a single game in three days.
Epic mind games with a different account? I don't know, but with the line-up at IPL, I don't think he's going to get away with not practicing before the tournament this time.
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On April 02 2012 11:27 Redox wrote:Show nested quote +On April 02 2012 11:20 ETisME wrote:On April 02 2012 07:57 mahO wrote:On April 01 2012 19:09 ETisME wrote:On April 01 2012 06:44 NOOBALOPSE wrote:On April 01 2012 06:24 eXeHephaistas wrote:On April 01 2012 06:05 Ronski wrote:On April 01 2012 06:01 eXeHephaistas wrote:He's very good but best zerg in the world as some people are saying? no... DRG and Nestea are just better. But yeah he's the best foreigners for sure  Why bother coming to this forum to speak about an arbitrary subject. -DRG dropped out of Code S last of his group. -Nestea hasnt been showing any results as of late. If you want to praise DRG or Nestea do it at their fanclubs, if you want to praise Stephano for being the best foreigner, do it without taking as much glory away from the statement as possible. So u say I should not give my opinion? lol. I'm not bashing anyone here, I'm just not mindlessly saying he's the best zerg in the world after one offday of DRG.. I really like Stephano and will support him in all his games but I'm just being objective. Stephano has been the best Zerg in the world for a damn long time. No one wants to recognize it because he is a foreigner so they think "the koreans must be better!" Name one person he can't and hasn't beaten who is a pro. You can't. EDIT: NesTea is gone. Stop saying he has a place as any of the best Zergs anymore. He's lost it for some time now. Doesn't practice enough I think. Also, DRG may be equal to Stephano. I think he was having a bad day as someone mentioned. Although, it may be possible he's getting back nerves (which is gonna suck for damn sure). lol guess I should put something in context. How long has he been the "best zerg in the world"? DRG just won the GSL awhile ago, even if Stephano is the best zerg now, it isn't "a god damn long time" lol Frankly, I dont give a f**k about the fact that he is, like me, french, and I dont really like the guy, but as a player, he clearly is "the one", that one non-korean kid, that clearly has the potential to stomp some koreans, and he already does while training in EU and not even devoting that much time to it. So yeah, saying that he's the best zerg doesnt make sense (yet, let him go to Korea I think many would be surprised, question is does he want to go), but I can understand the guys that over hype Stephano, because his level of play is clearly Code S, and he never trained with koreans, it is impressive and he might be the next best zerg on the planet if he trains hard and evolves. I do also see he has a huge potential, he is really really good. But people seriously need to stop over hyping, there is a huge difference between potentially the best and actually being the best. I guess for people who wants to see foreigners winning against koreans, then yea, stephano is probably one of the few who can do it consistently in foreign tournaments. Why exactly do people need to stop hyping? What is so bad about calling your favorite player best player in the world? People do it all the time, in every sport I know. And as an example in sc2, many were calling DRG best zerg in the world after he had won a few games in the GOM team league. He had not won a single tournament, was not even in code A, yet he was hyped like crazy. And strangely noone was butthurt about it like now with Stephano.
because you don't have to hype the player to be the best player to show how much you love him and how much potential you see in him.
what's next? Stephano is the best zerg in the whole fricking universe in all dimensions across time and space above all possiblity? lol
These fans are just like those who hyped like spanishiwa like he was Code S level zerg back then.
and DRG wasn't called the best zerg back then, everyone just expected him to do really well in Code S because he was the terran killer and code S was T heaven, yet he couldn't get into Code S.
Nestea had always been called the best zerg all those times when he won the GSLs, read some interviews.
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On April 02 2012 16:25 Azarkon wrote:
IdrA's stream chat brought this up but I think it's worth saying here - Stephano is barely practicing right now. I don't know what's going on with him in the UK, but this isn't looking good. He lost in MLG because - in his own words - he didn't practice that much before the tournament, and right now he's Rank 100+ on EU and hasn't played a single game in three days.
Epic mind games with a different account? I don't know, but with the line-up at IPL, I don't think he's going to get away with not practicing before the tournament this time.
Stephano wouldn't play from a smurf account I think; so I dunno what's up, I don't think he has played more than 30 games since MLG, and if he doesn't practice this week I fear that he will get crushed @ IPL4 
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On April 02 2012 16:53 ETisME wrote:Show nested quote +On April 02 2012 11:27 Redox wrote:On April 02 2012 11:20 ETisME wrote:On April 02 2012 07:57 mahO wrote:On April 01 2012 19:09 ETisME wrote:On April 01 2012 06:44 NOOBALOPSE wrote:On April 01 2012 06:24 eXeHephaistas wrote:On April 01 2012 06:05 Ronski wrote:On April 01 2012 06:01 eXeHephaistas wrote:He's very good but best zerg in the world as some people are saying? no... DRG and Nestea are just better. But yeah he's the best foreigners for sure Why bother coming to this forum to speak about an arbitrary subject. -DRG dropped out of Code S last of his group. -Nestea hasnt been showing any results as of late. If you want to praise DRG or Nestea do it at their fanclubs, if you want to praise Stephano for being the best foreigner, do it without taking as much glory away from the statement as possible. So u say I should not give my opinion? lol. I'm not bashing anyone here, I'm just not mindlessly saying he's the best zerg in the world after one offday of DRG.. I really like Stephano and will support him in all his games but I'm just being objective. Stephano has been the best Zerg in the world for a damn long time. No one wants to recognize it because he is a foreigner so they think "the koreans must be better!" Name one person he can't and hasn't beaten who is a pro. You can't. EDIT: NesTea is gone. Stop saying he has a place as any of the best Zergs anymore. He's lost it for some time now. Doesn't practice enough I think. Also, DRG may be equal to Stephano. I think he was having a bad day as someone mentioned. Although, it may be possible he's getting back nerves (which is gonna suck for damn sure). lol guess I should put something in context. How long has he been the "best zerg in the world"? DRG just won the GSL awhile ago, even if Stephano is the best zerg now, it isn't "a god damn long time" lol Frankly, I dont give a f**k about the fact that he is, like me, french, and I dont really like the guy, but as a player, he clearly is "the one", that one non-korean kid, that clearly has the potential to stomp some koreans, and he already does while training in EU and not even devoting that much time to it. So yeah, saying that he's the best zerg doesnt make sense (yet, let him go to Korea I think many would be surprised, question is does he want to go), but I can understand the guys that over hype Stephano, because his level of play is clearly Code S, and he never trained with koreans, it is impressive and he might be the next best zerg on the planet if he trains hard and evolves. I do also see he has a huge potential, he is really really good. But people seriously need to stop over hyping, there is a huge difference between potentially the best and actually being the best. I guess for people who wants to see foreigners winning against koreans, then yea, stephano is probably one of the few who can do it consistently in foreign tournaments. Why exactly do people need to stop hyping? What is so bad about calling your favorite player best player in the world? People do it all the time, in every sport I know. And as an example in sc2, many were calling DRG best zerg in the world after he had won a few games in the GOM team league. He had not won a single tournament, was not even in code A, yet he was hyped like crazy. And strangely noone was butthurt about it like now with Stephano. because you don't have to hype the player to be the best player to show how much you love him and how much potential you see in him. what's next? Stephano is the best zerg in the whole fricking universe in all dimensions across time and space above all possiblity? lol These fans are just like those who hyped like spanishiwa like he was Code S level zerg back then. and DRG wasn't called the best zerg back then, everyone just expected him to do really well in Code S because he was the terran killer and code S was T heaven, yet he couldn't get into Code S. Nestea had always been called the best zerg all those times when he won the GSLs, read some interviews.
But still, if somebody gets chills out of hyping his/her favourite player it is totally fine. If you can't stand that you're just intolerant.
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On April 02 2012 11:27 Redox wrote:Show nested quote +On April 02 2012 11:20 ETisME wrote:On April 02 2012 07:57 mahO wrote:On April 01 2012 19:09 ETisME wrote:On April 01 2012 06:44 NOOBALOPSE wrote:On April 01 2012 06:24 eXeHephaistas wrote:On April 01 2012 06:05 Ronski wrote:On April 01 2012 06:01 eXeHephaistas wrote:He's very good but best zerg in the world as some people are saying? no... DRG and Nestea are just better. But yeah he's the best foreigners for sure Why bother coming to this forum to speak about an arbitrary subject. -DRG dropped out of Code S last of his group. -Nestea hasnt been showing any results as of late. If you want to praise DRG or Nestea do it at their fanclubs, if you want to praise Stephano for being the best foreigner, do it without taking as much glory away from the statement as possible. So u say I should not give my opinion? lol. I'm not bashing anyone here, I'm just not mindlessly saying he's the best zerg in the world after one offday of DRG.. I really like Stephano and will support him in all his games but I'm just being objective. Stephano has been the best Zerg in the world for a damn long time. No one wants to recognize it because he is a foreigner so they think "the koreans must be better!" Name one person he can't and hasn't beaten who is a pro. You can't. EDIT: NesTea is gone. Stop saying he has a place as any of the best Zergs anymore. He's lost it for some time now. Doesn't practice enough I think. Also, DRG may be equal to Stephano. I think he was having a bad day as someone mentioned. Although, it may be possible he's getting back nerves (which is gonna suck for damn sure). lol guess I should put something in context. How long has he been the "best zerg in the world"? DRG just won the GSL awhile ago, even if Stephano is the best zerg now, it isn't "a god damn long time" lol Frankly, I dont give a f**k about the fact that he is, like me, french, and I dont really like the guy, but as a player, he clearly is "the one", that one non-korean kid, that clearly has the potential to stomp some koreans, and he already does while training in EU and not even devoting that much time to it. So yeah, saying that he's the best zerg doesnt make sense (yet, let him go to Korea I think many would be surprised, question is does he want to go), but I can understand the guys that over hype Stephano, because his level of play is clearly Code S, and he never trained with koreans, it is impressive and he might be the next best zerg on the planet if he trains hard and evolves. I do also see he has a huge potential, he is really really good. But people seriously need to stop over hyping, there is a huge difference between potentially the best and actually being the best. I guess for people who wants to see foreigners winning against koreans, then yea, stephano is probably one of the few who can do it consistently in foreign tournaments. Why exactly do people need to stop hyping? What is so bad about calling your favorite player best player in the world? People do it all the time, in every sport I know. And as an example in sc2, many were calling DRG best zerg in the world after he had won a few games in the GOM team league. He had not won a single tournament, was not even in code A, yet he was hyped like crazy. And strangely noone was butthurt about it like now with Stephano.
I hope you don't mind me calling Idra the best foreign Zerg then. And Nerchio and Ret sharing the 2nd and 3rd spots. But Stephano makes for a nice 4th spot.
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On April 02 2012 16:25 Azarkon wrote:
IdrA's stream chat brought this up but I think it's worth saying here - Stephano is barely practicing right now. I don't know what's going on with him in the UK, but this isn't looking good. He lost in MLG because - in his own words - he didn't practice that much before the tournament, and right now he's Rank 100+ on EU and hasn't played a single game in three days.
Epic mind games with a different account? I don't know, but with the line-up at IPL, I don't think he's going to get away with not practicing before the tournament this time.
He didnt even play a lot of games when he was in Korea, he used to play 2-3 per day sometimes more. He doesnt practice much and definitely not smurfing, guess he's bored nowadays.
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He's young and prefer to have fun with bling than practice, that's all, he just can't change his mind and focus more on the game.
If he stops the game to begin university, he's fine, if he can play one more year at Starcraft 2, being successful while playing 3-4 hours a day, he's fine, but he will not play 10hours a day just to have more chance to continue his career in Sc2 even if he knows that IPL4 is the most important tournament for his future in Sc2.
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On April 02 2012 18:13 Ryps wrote:Show nested quote +On April 02 2012 16:25 Azarkon wrote:
IdrA's stream chat brought this up but I think it's worth saying here - Stephano is barely practicing right now. I don't know what's going on with him in the UK, but this isn't looking good. He lost in MLG because - in his own words - he didn't practice that much before the tournament, and right now he's Rank 100+ on EU and hasn't played a single game in three days.
Epic mind games with a different account? I don't know, but with the line-up at IPL, I don't think he's going to get away with not practicing before the tournament this time.
He didnt even play a lot of games when he was in Korea, he used to play 2-3 per day sometimes more. He doesnt practice much and definitely not smurfing, guess he's bored nowadays.
wrong. He streamed for about 3 hours everyday when he was in korea, so that alone are much more than 2-3 games, + he said in several interviews that he practiced for 8 hours a day in korea because he had nothing else to do. The last thing is a bit strange since he also said that he didn't have a second korean account and the one account he used didn't really have any games played on besides the streamed ones, but either way, it was more than 2-3 games a day 
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On April 02 2012 18:16 KainiT wrote:Show nested quote +On April 02 2012 18:13 Ryps wrote:On April 02 2012 16:25 Azarkon wrote:
IdrA's stream chat brought this up but I think it's worth saying here - Stephano is barely practicing right now. I don't know what's going on with him in the UK, but this isn't looking good. He lost in MLG because - in his own words - he didn't practice that much before the tournament, and right now he's Rank 100+ on EU and hasn't played a single game in three days.
Epic mind games with a different account? I don't know, but with the line-up at IPL, I don't think he's going to get away with not practicing before the tournament this time.
He didnt even play a lot of games when he was in Korea, he used to play 2-3 per day sometimes more. He doesnt practice much and definitely not smurfing, guess he's bored nowadays. wrong. He streamed for about 3 hours everyday when he was in korea, so that alone are much more than 2-3 games, + he said in several interviews that he practiced for 8 hours a day in korea because he had nothing else to do. The last thing is a bit strange since he also said that he didn't have a second korean account and the one account he used didn't really have any games played on besides the streamed ones, but either way, it was more than 2-3 games a day
He didnt stream every day, and I said he played sometimes more. Its more of a fact, Im just saying Stephano never did practice a lot.
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On April 02 2012 18:11 Squeegy wrote:Show nested quote +On April 02 2012 11:27 Redox wrote:On April 02 2012 11:20 ETisME wrote:On April 02 2012 07:57 mahO wrote:On April 01 2012 19:09 ETisME wrote:On April 01 2012 06:44 NOOBALOPSE wrote:On April 01 2012 06:24 eXeHephaistas wrote:On April 01 2012 06:05 Ronski wrote:On April 01 2012 06:01 eXeHephaistas wrote:He's very good but best zerg in the world as some people are saying? no... DRG and Nestea are just better. But yeah he's the best foreigners for sure Why bother coming to this forum to speak about an arbitrary subject. -DRG dropped out of Code S last of his group. -Nestea hasnt been showing any results as of late. If you want to praise DRG or Nestea do it at their fanclubs, if you want to praise Stephano for being the best foreigner, do it without taking as much glory away from the statement as possible. So u say I should not give my opinion? lol. I'm not bashing anyone here, I'm just not mindlessly saying he's the best zerg in the world after one offday of DRG.. I really like Stephano and will support him in all his games but I'm just being objective. Stephano has been the best Zerg in the world for a damn long time. No one wants to recognize it because he is a foreigner so they think "the koreans must be better!" Name one person he can't and hasn't beaten who is a pro. You can't. EDIT: NesTea is gone. Stop saying he has a place as any of the best Zergs anymore. He's lost it for some time now. Doesn't practice enough I think. Also, DRG may be equal to Stephano. I think he was having a bad day as someone mentioned. Although, it may be possible he's getting back nerves (which is gonna suck for damn sure). lol guess I should put something in context. How long has he been the "best zerg in the world"? DRG just won the GSL awhile ago, even if Stephano is the best zerg now, it isn't "a god damn long time" lol Frankly, I dont give a f**k about the fact that he is, like me, french, and I dont really like the guy, but as a player, he clearly is "the one", that one non-korean kid, that clearly has the potential to stomp some koreans, and he already does while training in EU and not even devoting that much time to it. So yeah, saying that he's the best zerg doesnt make sense (yet, let him go to Korea I think many would be surprised, question is does he want to go), but I can understand the guys that over hype Stephano, because his level of play is clearly Code S, and he never trained with koreans, it is impressive and he might be the next best zerg on the planet if he trains hard and evolves. I do also see he has a huge potential, he is really really good. But people seriously need to stop over hyping, there is a huge difference between potentially the best and actually being the best. I guess for people who wants to see foreigners winning against koreans, then yea, stephano is probably one of the few who can do it consistently in foreign tournaments. Why exactly do people need to stop hyping? What is so bad about calling your favorite player best player in the world? People do it all the time, in every sport I know. And as an example in sc2, many were calling DRG best zerg in the world after he had won a few games in the GOM team league. He had not won a single tournament, was not even in code A, yet he was hyped like crazy. And strangely noone was butthurt about it like now with Stephano. I hope you don't mind me calling Idra the best foreign Zerg then. And Nerchio and Ret sharing the 2nd and 3rd spots. But Stephano makes for a nice 4th spot.
Obviously I mind as a Stephano fan, but I don't feel the need to list arguments why this is not true in the Idra fanclub, because I know how much fun it is to glorify a player in his fanclub.
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On April 02 2012 18:19 Ryps wrote:Show nested quote +On April 02 2012 18:16 KainiT wrote:On April 02 2012 18:13 Ryps wrote:On April 02 2012 16:25 Azarkon wrote:
IdrA's stream chat brought this up but I think it's worth saying here - Stephano is barely practicing right now. I don't know what's going on with him in the UK, but this isn't looking good. He lost in MLG because - in his own words - he didn't practice that much before the tournament, and right now he's Rank 100+ on EU and hasn't played a single game in three days.
Epic mind games with a different account? I don't know, but with the line-up at IPL, I don't think he's going to get away with not practicing before the tournament this time.
He didnt even play a lot of games when he was in Korea, he used to play 2-3 per day sometimes more. He doesnt practice much and definitely not smurfing, guess he's bored nowadays. wrong. He streamed for about 3 hours everyday when he was in korea, so that alone are much more than 2-3 games, + he said in several interviews that he practiced for 8 hours a day in korea because he had nothing else to do. The last thing is a bit strange since he also said that he didn't have a second korean account and the one account he used didn't really have any games played on besides the streamed ones, but either way, it was more than 2-3 games a day He didnt stream every day, and I said he played sometimes more. Its more of a fact, Im just saying Stephano never did practice a lot.
Are you sure that he didn't stream everyday, because I think I am remembering that I watched everyday about 3 hours :D
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On April 02 2012 18:20 KainiT wrote:Show nested quote +On April 02 2012 18:19 Ryps wrote:On April 02 2012 18:16 KainiT wrote:On April 02 2012 18:13 Ryps wrote:On April 02 2012 16:25 Azarkon wrote:
IdrA's stream chat brought this up but I think it's worth saying here - Stephano is barely practicing right now. I don't know what's going on with him in the UK, but this isn't looking good. He lost in MLG because - in his own words - he didn't practice that much before the tournament, and right now he's Rank 100+ on EU and hasn't played a single game in three days.
Epic mind games with a different account? I don't know, but with the line-up at IPL, I don't think he's going to get away with not practicing before the tournament this time.
He didnt even play a lot of games when he was in Korea, he used to play 2-3 per day sometimes more. He doesnt practice much and definitely not smurfing, guess he's bored nowadays. wrong. He streamed for about 3 hours everyday when he was in korea, so that alone are much more than 2-3 games, + he said in several interviews that he practiced for 8 hours a day in korea because he had nothing else to do. The last thing is a bit strange since he also said that he didn't have a second korean account and the one account he used didn't really have any games played on besides the streamed ones, but either way, it was more than 2-3 games a day He didnt stream every day, and I said he played sometimes more. Its more of a fact, Im just saying Stephano never did practice a lot. Are you sure that he didn't stream everyday, because I think I am remembering that I watched everyday about 3 hours :D
Yes im positive, because I watch all hes vods especially when he was in korea ^^ I even checked his profile daily cuz thats the kind of stalker I am.
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i remember a guy who know stephano said me he has something like 3 account in EU, so he is maybe training on smurf,
i know this account is his smurf http://eu.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/1229243/1/Stephano/ because he played with it on millenium tv sometimes but there is no game played since 1 month : s
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Well, if he's already bored with SC2 I really don't see him making it long in medicine... long hard boring hours of study everyday and it seems all Stephano wants to do is party...
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On April 02 2012 18:16 Nelz wrote:
He's young and prefer to have fun with bling than practice, that's all, he just can't change his mind and focus more on the game.
If he stops the game to begin university, he's fine, if he can play one more year at Starcraft 2, being successful while playing 3-4 hours a day, he's fine, but he will not play 10hours a day just to have more chance to continue his career in Sc2 even if he knows that IPL4 is the most important tournament for his future in Sc2.
Playing 3-4 hours a day is one thing, playing 15 mins a day something else. Dunno if he's bored or what's up, but this doesn't smell good
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On April 02 2012 18:59 Black17 wrote:Show nested quote +On April 02 2012 18:16 Nelz wrote:
He's young and prefer to have fun with bling than practice, that's all, he just can't change his mind and focus more on the game.
If he stops the game to begin university, he's fine, if he can play one more year at Starcraft 2, being successful while playing 3-4 hours a day, he's fine, but he will not play 10hours a day just to have more chance to continue his career in Sc2 even if he knows that IPL4 is the most important tournament for his future in Sc2. Playing 3-4 hours a day is one thing, playing 15 mins a day something else. Dunno if he's bored or what's up, but this doesn't smell good
Well, i know it's really frustrating as a Stephano's fan but he is with bling and enjoy the life in england. The week before MLG he was also with Bling, so it's totally Bling's fault ! :>
More seriously, he said in his interview with Slasher that he doesn't need to practice a lot to keep playing at his real level, the disappoinement from MLG does not come from a lack of practice but too much confidence versus Polt and Inori.
And look at Idra, he's playing so much games per day, that does not make him better than Stephano ( just take Idra as an example because i know he's playing a lot, no offense here ).
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On April 02 2012 18:42 Seldentar wrote:
Well, if he's already bored with SC2 I really don't see him making it long in medicine... long hard boring hours of study everyday and it seems all Stephano wants to do is party...
he's young and has a lot of money what do you expect?
it looks like he is done with sc2 tbh, which is a shame but understandable, he's probably made his mind up about studying > gaming and hence isn't practicing for IPL as it doesn't matter either way to him - if he wins he wins if he loses so what
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This reminds me of Creolophus in the wc3 days with 4 kings. A fantastic norwegian night elf that came back after 2 months of inactivity (also due to studies) to win both the Blizzard Invitational and some other tournament. He was an amazing night elf and stephano is an even more amazing zerg!
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Maybe he has already made his decision and is soon to quit. His recent twitter messages sure sound like he's already preparing for his studies. Whether he quit's or not he sure as hell has made some huge impact on the scene in the short time he had.
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Does anyone know how common it is for students to defer a year after being accepted to a university in France? I deferred a year after I was accepted to law school (in the U.S.). At least where I went to school at least 1/4 of the incoming class would typically opt to defer a year. Deferrals were almost always granted as long as you had a decent reason for requesting the deferral (e.g., you wanted to publish a paper or finish serving as an aide for a Senator). If I had been in Stephano's shoes and requested a deferral to play SC2, they definitely would have granted it -- it's all how you frame the request that counts. I'm not saying that he plans to do this, but just that this may be an option for him.
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