Today I hanged out with Leenock. Went eating lunch and then to a PCbang to play overwatch. Had a good time, fun to play games with friends.

Anyway he's planning on quitting pro gaming at the end of this year and start a more streaming route. He's quite tired of Starcraft at this point which is quite understandable considering how much he has played the game to this day. The idea is to stream different games (but primarly Overwatch) on both twitch and afreeca at the same time. He will still attend GSL qualifiers and see how he does but he won't try as hard anymore.

2017 will be like a different type of gaming year for him and then after that he will quit gaming as a profession probably.

Hope it was an informative update.

Silvana

3713 Posts

October 08 2016 09:26 GMT

#1324

Nice you had a good time with your idol! ^.^

Sad to hear the news about him being burn out, but as you said it's totally understandable. I'm not sure if the streaming thing will work out tho... it seems you have to be very famous in advance, or have some personality trait that gets people's attention, or looks, to be successful... Wishing him the best of luck nonetheless!!!

Elentos

55550 Posts

October 08 2016 09:30 GMT

#1325

On October 08 2016 18:26 Silvana wrote:
it seems you have to be very famous in advance, or have some personality trait that gets people's attention, or looks, to be successful...

Leenock's hair has got all of those covered.

Philozovic

France1677 Posts

October 20 2016 14:55 GMT

#1326

On October 08 2016 18:08 Rocket-Bear wrote:
Today I hanged out with Leenock. Went eating lunch and then to a PCbang to play overwatch. Had a good time, fun to play games with friends.

Anyway he's planning on quitting pro gaming at the end of this year and start a more streaming route. He's quite tired of Starcraft at this point which is quite understandable considering how much he has played the game to this day. The idea is to stream different games (but primarly Overwatch) on both twitch and afreeca at the same time. He will still attend GSL qualifiers and see how he does but he won't try as hard anymore.

2017 will be like a different type of gaming year for him and then after that he will quit gaming as a profession probably.

Hope it was an informative update.

:'(

I can't believe he will retire without a single GSL Do you know if he got paid for IPL 5 ?

Edit : I just check apparently yes, good news !

Rocket-Bear

3070 Posts

December 19 2016 14:55 GMT

#1327

Hey if you haven't checked out Leenocks stream I recommend doing so. He talks English in his microphone if you write in chat. And he seem to stream pretty much every day as well so if you have some time over check it out!

verecunda

Korea (South)121 Posts

December 20 2016 14:18 GMT

#1328

Yeah, I dropped by his stream and I was surprised how good his English is. He enjoys talking to the chat, too, it's an entertaining stream.

Rocket-Bear

3070 Posts

December 21 2016 19:24 GMT

#1329

Recently moved home from Korea and made a short last video of my final weeks there. Anyway Leenock makes a short cameo ~2.43. Was fun playing games with him.

aMEkaRmy

Canada633 Posts

December 22 2016 08:04 GMT

#1330

Does Leenock still play? Damn

Rocket-Bear

3070 Posts

March 31 2017 17:50 GMT

#1331

It's Leenocks birthday today He will stream around in 10 hours from this post if you want to wish him a happy birthday

DieuCure

France3713 Posts

September 14 2017 09:09 GMT

#1332

He will retire after GSL Super Tournament he said it on stream.

I hope He will be the only retired player after GSLST.

Rocket-Bear

3070 Posts

September 14 2017 20:24 GMT

#1333

I hanged out with him last year and he said that he will start his military service in 2018. So that's why he's retiring and Starcraft is not as lucrative as it was 5 years ago.

Philozovic

France1677 Posts

September 14 2017 21:39 GMT

#1334

He brought me so much joy in 2011-2012

I will always remember the day I lost my shit when he defeat First in MLG final after losing a weird shitty nydus all in.

Vutalisk

United States680 Posts

September 14 2017 22:03 GMT

#1335

That is too bad but everyone has to go military service at some point in Korea. It is just matter of time.

Leenock is always a fun Z to watch. I guess this year doesn't yield any good results for him so he decided to go to military and move on.

Best of luck to him though!

FrostedMiniWheats

United States30730 Posts

September 15 2017 05:16 GMT

#1336

NOOOOOOO ;;

Never gonna got that GSL title. One of the most entertaining players to ever touch the game