Editor's Note: This is completely unedited and in pubbanana's original words. It provides great insight into Yellow's history and the bittersweetness that so characterized his career. I really enjoyed reading this and I learned many things about an era before I became a fan. Thanks, pubbanana!
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The Storm Zerg by pubbanana (Guest Writer) TeamLiquid: Final Edits
"Actual happiness looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn’t nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamor of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand."
– Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Many people would describe Hong Jin Ho's career as tragic. Coming so close so many times only to be met with defeat can only be seen as heartbreaking to the thousands of people who cheer and adore him.
But this is not a tragedy.
This is a love story.
Because the game is his whole world, it reciprocates his love. His hands produce and position units that pour over into his opponent's defenses like a whirlwind. Slowly, his intense stare changes into an affectionate gaze as the game rewards him with a moment of meaning in a meaningless world.
No matter who types GG in this moment, he will experience a joy which is the essence of his existence as a progamer.
A joy because he created a storm.
This is the Storm Zerg. This is Hong Jin Ho.
“I want to be famous.”
For two years, the Terran Emperor Lim Yo Hwan existed in this world without a rival. It wouldn't be until 2 years later, in 1982, when Hong Jin Ho would be born in a small city in Daejeon known for it's cherry blossom festival. Without a father, his older brother and himself were raised by his mother. Long before he was [NC]...YellOw, long before the Lim Jin War, he was a boy with his father's face and his mother's ambition. However, he didn't share her visions for his future.
“I want to be famous.”
Studying and school weren't important to him. He was driven by different motivations. Though he has a warm personality, he can't be forced into something that he doesn't like. Likewise, he won't waste time on something he doesn't love.
When he first saw StarCraft in a PC room, his path in life took a sudden turn. Sacrificing everything, he walked down that different road in life that every progamer takes, but very few ever find the will or motivation to continue down. His mother thought he was out studying or cramming for school when he'd come home late at night. He was beaten when she found out what he had really been devoting his time to, but it didn't stop him. Nothing could. A genuine affinity had been formed. It was a bond that was never meant to be broken.
Risking his future and enduring his mother's disappointment, he left for Seoul to make it as a progamer.
“He looks like a thug.”
His life wasn't easy at this point. Living in an apartment with two other gamers, he practiced day and night and only lived off of one meal of ramen a day. Their winnings from local tournaments were barely enough to allow them to survive on their own.
Coach Song Ho Chang was having trouble sponsoring a pro team. He was in the middle of negotiations with an urban clothing company about sponsoring his team, but the deal fell through. They were barely making enough money to survive. Coach Song had to sell his car so that his kids would have a place to stay. By a stroke of good luck, he convinced a local PC room to offer their services to his team for free. Just as good things were beginning, the PC room closed it's doors and his team was once again left without a sponsor. Out of desperation, he went to the Gamei headquarters and pleaded with them to sponsor his team. While they didn't get an official sponsorship, they did get a place to stay and a PC room to use.
Soon, these two people with the strength to never accept the conditions as they were presented would cross paths.
“He looks like a thug.” was Coach Song's first impression of Jin Ho's appearance. Not expecting much of anything, he agreed to give him a test to be apart of the Gamei team. Though the result was less than spectacular (in that he lost every single game), it was the way that he lost that intrigued the coach. Particularly, in his games against the team ace Kim Jong Sung (SalMoSa), Coach Song noticed that Jin Ho had a kind of organization and sense for his units that he hadn't experienced in a player before.
Watching him lose, Coach Song was charmed by his play which could only have been born out of a pure devotion to the game. And with that, he recruited him. The first step towards a progamer was marked by the very action that signified his career – losing. It was then solidified by the very thing that had started him down this path in life – his love for the game.
“Drop! Drop! Drop!”
Hong Jin Ho had found something in Coach Song that had been missing in his own life. While he doesn't explicitly state it, his coach was a sort of father figure to him during their time together. Coach Song gave him lectures about maintaining the mindset of a professional. He also helped him change the way he dressed and presented himself. Jin Ho had matured with the help of his coach, for it was with this team that he became a man.
And it showed in his game. He swept the first 3 tournaments his coach signed him up for. While Coach Song was known for his passive coaching style, even he could not resist the spectacle that was developing into what is now known as the Storm Zerg. Cheering behind Jin Ho, he could be heard yelling out to his fleet of Overlords “Drop! Drop! Drop!”
During his next tournament, the first Gamei Open, he would lock eyes with a boy who would become his greatest rival and deny him victory again and again for the first time.
But not on that day. On that day, he would be the one watching Jin Ho grasp first place.
“You were made to do this.”
The Gamei team was once again coming under sponsor troubles. Despite this, Jin Ho continued to crawl his way through every preliminary round he could find. Sensing that something drastic was needed to help support the team, he switched his attention to 2v2 play. His decision paid off as he and SalMoSa swept several televised 2v2 tournaments. But their efforts were not enough. Despite their good intentions, the Gamei team lost sponsorship and Jin Ho was forced to part ways with the team that had raised him.
Coach Song had no worries. Jin Ho had impressed him with his performances, even in the televised leagues which new players generally don't fare well in due to nerves. But he was different. The stage was his home. For the little boy who wanted to be a star, doing what he loved in front of a crowd was a dream come true.
“You were made to do this.”
The coach's words would ring even more true months later when he would watch Jin Ho grasp the trophy in iTV's King of Rookies of tournament. His star was shining. There was no looking back at this point. The Storm Zerg had arrived.
"I even had to try my first kiss twice."
The year of 2001 was magical for the young Storm Zerg. While working under contract for any team that would house and feed him, he qualified for all three Starleagues. His hungry spirit was shown through his waves of Hydralisks and his bundles of Mutalisks that moved in a way that had never been seen before. It was almost cinematic to watch a Jin Ho army clash with the enemy from both land and air.
HanBit Soft Starleague Round of 8.
Coca Cola Starleague 2nd Place.
SKY Starleague 4th Place.
He had posted an impressive record and triumphed over an impressive number of veteran players in his first year as a progamer. The Storm Zerg was also responsible for the first case of distorted audio in a broadcasted match due to the hell-hollering of his female fanclub. In comparison with making it to the big leagues so early in his career, Jin Ho replies "I even had to try my first kiss twice".
"I never wanted to stay without Yo Hwan-hyung."
Lim Yo Hwan and Hong Jin Ho. Their fated meeting in the 2001 Coca Cola finals held no particular significance to either one of them at the time, but they have since come to realize that they were guiding an entire generation of progamers. He admits he held a shallow view of their rivalry back then, but has since understood his role as a veteran progamer and as a rival.
Jin Ho would find his next home in early 2002 with Yo Hwan on the Ideal Space (IS) proteam. Living together with Yo Hwan and being the veterans on the team, he saw how their personalities were polar opposite of each other. Yo Hwan would push the practice partners until they would beg him to stop. Jin Ho would push them until they asked him to stop. Though he teased him for it, Yo Hwan understood that his soft approach was needed to balance the otherwise brutal training sessions.
After the SKY 2002 Starleague, Yo Hwan's father had been angered by the fact that IS didn't provide his son with what he thought were "adequate" Protoss training partners. His contract with IS would expire a week later, and with that, he was gone. Though Jin Ho and Lee Yun Yeol were shaken, they still tried to keep IS together.
But, by December, Jin Ho had signed a deal with the KTF MagicNs. When asked why he was leaving IS when he was one of their main pillars of support, he simply said "I never wanted to stay without Yo Hwan-hyung."
"The title of 'King of Second Place' stops today."
Jin Ho's NC clan mates had crowned him the King of Second Place during his time with the Gamei team. Placing in the top 3 of over 10 tournaments, but never placing first had caught their attention. Though it was a title he didn't at all care for, it would follow him to his professional career and become his most distinguishing characteristic.
Coming close, but never finishing.
Losing to Lim Yo Hwan in the Coca-Cola finals and then to Prince of Zerg, Sung Hak Seung (MuMyung) in the KPGA Winner's Championship within months of each other had given him a strong desire to shed his second place image.
He set his sights on the KT OnGameNet King of Kings tournament.
Garimto, SlayerS_`BoxeR`, TheMarine, JinNam, V-Gundam – They were all ships sailing towards the same port.
And Hong Jin Ho was the storm that destroyed them.
Before the final match with Dynamo Terran Jo Jung Hyun (V-Gundam), he made his intentions very clear: "The title of 'King of Second Place' stops today."
V-Gundam's units looked almost pitiful. Forced to lift his last expansion and watch his remaining SCVs bunch together like a herd of cattle, the situation was hopeless. Jin Ho's Lurkers burrowed with a certain vigor, his Hydralisks attacked with an intimidation that he certainly had never seen until he encountered the ID of [NC]...YellOw.
Yet, Jin Ho looks oddly serene. Sweating from head to toe and presenting a vicious display of his skill, he watches his units with a sincere expression of a child. The constant affection exchanged between Jin Ho and his units produce but two simple letters:
"gg"
And with that, the King of Second Place had grasped his first major trophy.
"When I wake up tomorrow, I don't want all of this to be a dream."
Was it really happening?
Hong Jin Ho vs Lim Yo Hwan. 2003 KTEC KPGA Winner's Championship.
"He's using such bizarre strategies."
The nightmares of the KPGA Tours.
The failure to advance to the finals in the Panasonic Starleague.
Even losing in special event games.
Second place.
The King of Second Place.
The Yo Hwan Jinx.
His mind was clouded. The mental battle between himself and Lim Yo Hwan was almost more than he could handle.
"Everyone is expecting me to lose."
Last year, they were under the same roof, training for the same Starleague. This year, they're rivals again. Two boys who chased the same irresponsible dream are meeting in the finals once again. The real battle that is going on is invisible to the audience, for it is being held in their minds.
What is taking place is something very pure. Ambition, devotion, hope, all of it is being poured into the keyboard and the mouse. It is, in some ways, like witnessing the most selfless of all actions.
Because those who fall in love with themselves have no rivals.
On that day, Hong Jin Ho emerged as the winner. Overcoming the Yo Hwan Jinx and once again pushing aside the title of 'King of Second Place', he struggled to find words to describe his feelings.
"When I wake up tomorrow, I don't want all of this to be a dream."
For Jin Ho, it would prove to not just be a dream, though it may as well have been. In fact, it was only a taste of things to come. With a new team and a new victory, he would make his presence felt on a deeper level to all who would continue to cheer for him.
"He doesn't even keep one hour to himself."
Defeating his own team mate, Lee Yun Yeol, in the final of the GameTV Challenger Open Starleague after their return from ClikArena in France was just a glimpse of the Hong Jin Ho who wore the KTF uniform with a kind of pride that he didn't show before. Normally very sensitive about playing against members of his own team, he showed a zeal that was very unusual for him.
Hong Jin Ho, a man who prided himself on his compassion for others, was now showing a dear friend no mercy.
But it was in the most compassionate way. Rather than lose to someone due to his own useless pride, he would now rather give it everything he has. If he loses, he loses doing something that he loves. On the most basic principles of sport and the human character, he had found himself.
And as long as you and I are breathing in this world, he would work to make us proud of saying "I cheer for Hong Jin Ho."
He won the iTV StarCraft Ranking League and MBCGame's Big 4 Tour and placed 2nd in the TG Sambo MSL and the Olympus OSL. He also helped KTF reach 3rd place in both the MBCGame Proleague and the OGN EVER Proleague.
The KTF team was making a good showing, but it was Jin Ho who was truly making a commotion. The MagicNs were known to have the longest and most strict practice routine at the time. Their coach, Jung Soo Yung, was a character all his own. Banning Han Woong Ryul (Oddysay) for telling a lie so that he could leave practice to go see a girlfriend, cursing at JinNam and JinSu and threatening to not let them participate in the Premier League, hitting players with baseball bats to help them concentrate, the list goes on. He was a true maniac about his player's discipline.
Yet, even he was amazed by Jin Ho's work ethic.
"He devotes himself entirely to the team. He doesn't even keep one hour to himself."
"After the games today in Daegu, I won't put the KTF uniform back on."
During the KT-KTF Premier League, Jin Ho would meet a ghost from his past. His former coach, Song Ho Chang, had finally found solid financial backing for his team and they were reborn as Toona SG. Lee Yun Yeol and Jin Ho both wasted no time in going back home to their old team.
"After the games today in Daegu, I won't put the KTF uniform back on." announced Jin Ho on his fan site.
However, it was a pact that would only last 4 months. Because of their relationship, both Coach Song and Jin Ho had overlooked the business end of their deal. It was doomed to fail from the start.
He was a man now. He wasn't the same kid who was struggling just to be able to eat by playing StarCraft. He was a superstar. This was his living. This was his life. To be able to continue his career, he needed money. Though it hurt both of them, Jin Ho eventually accepted KTF's invitation to return to the team with an increased salary. Lee Yun Yeol, who was unhappy at KTF, decided to stay with Toona. He had also taken a shine to Lee Byung Min (GoodFriend) and had hopes of leading the team to glory with him. Though there were salary problems due to Neowiz not being able nor having the knowledge to properly sponsor or market a progame team, they survived.
Though Coach Song was not a rich man, he had left Jin Ho with a most priceless gift.
"Today, I was just a Zerg."
The Lim Jin War. Lim Yo Hwan vs Hong Jin Ho. This is, without a doubt, the most glamorous match-up in progaming.
When these two are facing each other on the stage, they are the only two people in the world.
But within this world, there exists one small detail: Maps. Everyone always agrees that a match between Jin Ho and Yo Hwan will ultimately be decided by how well they prepared for the maps. In the TG Sambo MSL, Jin Ho had said that he was confident with every map and that he wasn't worried about them at all. The only thing that worried him was the fact that he was playing a student of Lim Yo Hwan.
In return, Yo Hwan says that he knows him better than anyone else and he can tell what strategies will or will not work against him. But, no matter what, if you ask each of them who their favorite opponent to beat is, they're going to say each other's name. This is why a Lim Jin War is such a special thing, and not just for the audience.
Ever Starleague 2004 Semi-Finals. Another Lim Jin War was beginning. The commentators gave their opinions about which player had better chances on which maps and prepared a little statistics fiesta for the viewers. The crowd was expecting the most epic event ever in the history of progaming.
But this Lim Jin War wasn't decided by maps. Three bunker rushes and it was done.
Jin Ho knew he would be criticized for not reacting to the bunker rushes and adjusting his strategy.
Yo Hwan knew he would be criticized for using a bunker rush three consecutive times.
On this day, like every day, there was a winner and a loser. But on this day, neither one of them were smiling.
With his world crumbling around him, Jin Ho ran away to a PC room to write a letter to his fans.
"Today, I wasn't Hong Jin Ho. Today, I wasn't the Storm Zerg. Today, I was just a Zerg."
The shards of those words cut through his fans like a knife. It was a tragic turn of events that no one saw coming.
But this was not a tragedy.
The most tragic thing that could happen to him would be if he were to stop trying.
To stop playing. To stop being the Storm Zerg. To stop hearing the cheers of his fans. To not play StarCraft.
No, this is not a tragedy.
This is a love story.
No matter how many times he fell, the number of times he got back up was always one more than that.
He'll win and he'll lose. That's what progamers do.
Because the game is his whole world, he'll live with his back against the wall until he experiences that certain joy which is the reason for him sitting on that stage.
Wow, I used to not like YellOw at all, not that I disliked him, but I actually never got excited when he was about to play or anything and I always wondered why he was so famous if he was just a runner up every single time? After reading this it makes a lot of sense and now I really know who
Awesome stuff pubbanana, it's really interesting reading about the history of players. Although he never won a StarLeague, he did win a lot of tournies back when SLs weren't everything it seems. But hopefully he can capture one someday.
He won the iTV StarCraft Ranking League and MBCGame's Big 4 Tour and placed 2nd in the TG Sambo MSL and the Olympus OSL. He also helped KTF reach 3rd place in both the MBCGame Proleague and the OGN EVER Proleague.
I see what you did here.
But seriously, that was amzing article, i miss the stormzerg, highlight of hte last year was when he thrashed NaDa, when he was semi inform.
On October 25 2007 06:20 pubbanana wrote: Last year, they were under the same roof, training for the same Starleague. This year, they're rivals again. Two boys who chased the same irresponsible dream are meeting in the finals once again. The real battle that is going on is invisible to the audience, for it is being held in their minds.
What is taking place is something very pure. Ambition, devotion, hope, all of it is being poured into the keyboard and the mouse. It is, in some ways, like witnessing the most selfless of all actions.
Because those who fall in love with themselves have no rivals.
I haven't read it yet, but I will say I love the old school but hate Yellow. All my memories of Yellow are him losing everything. Now to read and see if my mind gets changed.
On October 25 2007 12:42 anch wrote: you missed the blizzcon stuff, he won something.
Well, I never intended to cover it, so I didn't really "miss" it. It would have been more of a shock if he didn't perform well in special event games.
This wasn't intended to be a complete overview of his career and every game he's ever played. This was intended to show that although he's known for losing, it's not a tragic story. As such, I tried to stay as far away from "SC language" as possible and just stick to Yellow as a person. It was a bit awkward at times and resulted in me scrapping entire sections (such as his status among July and Savior) because I felt they were too focused in the context of StarCraft as a game, but I think in the end, it all turned out well.
Actually, it turned out better than I expected after reading all of your replies. I've never considered myself to be a good writer (or a writer, period), so it's crazy to read that something I wrote moved someone or even produced tears. Especially since this was just something I wrote out of a random burst of inspiration.
On June 10 2008 11:21 Equinox_kr wrote: Holy crap that's quite a big step, a TLFE translated into other languages ...
Did anybody notice while reading it that it should say "Lim Hong War" instead of Lim Jin War? Was that intentional?
It's always been called the Lim Jin War in Korean. I guess it sounds better than 'Lim Hong'
And someone showed me the Hungarian version quite a while ago and I was going to ask for translations of the comments on it, but I never got around to it.
Edit: And I didn't even see the Chinese version. That's amazing. So many people all over the world love Yellow
On June 10 2008 11:21 Equinox_kr wrote: Holy crap that's quite a big step, a TLFE translated into other languages ...
Did anybody notice while reading it that it should say "Lim Hong War" instead of Lim Jin War? Was that intentional?
It's always been called the Lim Jin War in Korean. I guess it sounds better than 'Lim Hong'
And someone showed me the Hungarian version quite a while ago and I was going to ask for translations of the comments on it, but I never got around to it.
Edit: And I didn't even see the Chinese version. That's amazing. So many people all over the world love Yellow
I'll attempt it, but my hungarian is not perfect and although I can speak pretty well, I'm a second generation immigrant so i have a lot of trouble reading and my vocabulary is a little lacking (and even if i know the word i misread it), any italics is a note about translation:
Nagyon jó cikk, gj! Egészen elérzékenyültem
Very good article, gj! I totally (not sure of the meaning of the last word, i think it means something like "got lost in it")
jaja nagyon jo, thx fire thx antares
yeah this is really good, thx fire thx antares
nah végre úgy tunik kész. olvassátok népek, nagyon f*sza fordítás és nem a hétköznapi cikk
this finally seems that it's finished. read this everybody, very fucking difficult translation and it's not the weekday article
Nagyon jó fordítás!
very good translation!
szép cikk, erre érdemes idot forditani
beautiful article, it would be nice to translate time (idot should be time, not sure why it doesn't make sense, i might just not know the words. I have the problem of not knowing the alphabet very well even though it's a phonetic language, I always misread vowels as other vowels.)
jó cikk, mégjobb fordítás
good article
gj nagyon jo cikk nekem mindigis yellow volt a kedvencem
gj very good article, for me yellow was always my favorite
nemrossz a fordítás, bár néhol a szórendre kéne figyelni. de mindenképp megköszönendo, hogy fire ezzel tölti az idejét!
a cikkel kapcsolatban: szerintem tele van nagy szavakkal, szépítéssel. az írónak túlteng a lírai vér a vénájában (lol). nemtom ha megkérdezné valaki yellowt hogy - nem zavart hogy olyan k*rvasokszor vesztettél fontos meccseken? - nem, egyáltalán nem, mivel nekem csak a játék élvezete számít. szerelmes vagyok a hydráimba. szóval nem hiszem hogy ezt mondaná. fel lehet javítani szavakkal bármit, csak az nem lesz reális. ettol függetlenül szerintem nem kudarc. igenis nagyon sikeres volt, szép karriert futott be, keresett egy csomó pénzt blabla. az ilyen "nem sikerül" helyzeteknél jut eszembe az a mondat ami a száll a kakukk fészkére címu klasszikus filmben volt: "At least I tried!"
egyébként van valamilyen interjú vagy bármilyen dokumentumfilm ahol hétköznapibb információkat osztanak meg? ami szerintem mindenkit jobban érdekel, pl bemutatják egy pro napját a szálláson, kikkel, hogyan gyakorol, hogy melyik pro-nak ki a haverja, milyen az életük, kurváznak e team szálláson, stb. hallani ezekrol egy-két dolgot, hogy tényleg egész nap gyakorolnak de ettol nem tudja az ember reálisan elképzelni (legalábbis én nem).
the translation isn't bad, but sometimes the order needs to be paid attention to. but in any case, it's very thankable that fire took his time to do this translation. in connection with the article: It's filled with big words, details and prettifications (not sure how else to translate that). the writer's veins must be filled with lyrical blood (lol). (this sounds like a weird as hell construction to me even though i'm a hungarian speaker...) I don't know if someone would ask yellow if - it didn't bother you that so many fucking times you lost on an important match? - no, not at all, because to me just the game's fun matters. i love my hydras so i don't think he'd say this. you can improve with words anything, but it won't be real. despite this i think it's not a setback. yes he was very successful, had a beautiful carrier, and got a lot of money blabla. (it actually says blabla). but this kind of "not succeeding" situations, it reminds me of that saying from the classic movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: "At least I tried!". (not sure if that's the exact movie he's referring to but it roughly as it translates is probably that, but i haven't seen it) By the way, is there some interview or documentary where more weekdayish knowledge is distributed? i would like to appreciate everything more, for example they show a pro's day in the progamer house, with who, and how does he practice, which pro is friends with who, what is their life like, do they bitch in the progamer house (my knowledge of hungarian cursewords and their usage is very limited, as i grew up speaking it as a 2nd generation immigrant in the house since i was a young child, and they were not used by my parents. this is the literal translation, i have no clue what what was intended), and so on. do they really practice all day, but i can't really imagine that ..
érdemes volt idot szakítani rá hogy elolvassa az ember szép cikk
it was worth it to break my time so that i read this article
angol nyelvu national geographic kisfilm xellosról és a 2005-ös WCGrol.
KTF_YellOw - Life of a Progamer: ez koreaiul van, de a descriptionben van egy kis angol szöveg.
in response to the guy that was asking about documentaries/interviews: there's an english language national geographic movie about xellos and the 2005 wcg.
KTF_YellOw - Life of a Progamer: is in korean but in the description is a little english writing
after this one i stopped translating the ones not about the article but about the documentaries/etc, this is a little difficult for me because i have so much trouble with the vowels
Nagyon jó
very good
Szép fordítás, de a cikk semmit sem ér. Nyálas nyavajgás végig.
Dumak!
Good translation, but the article is worthless. Crying and crying to the end.
just talk!
Egyetértek mindettotökkel. A fordítás tényleg jó, viszont az eredeti cikk túl patetikus lett, mintha nem is yellow lenne szerelmes a hidráiba, hanem a cikkíró yellow-ba...
i agree, the translation is very good but the original atricle is a little pathetic, like it's not yellow loving the hydra but the author loving yellow
Azért azzal mindenki egyetért, hogy Yellow mindig csak egy hajszálnyival csúszott le az elso helyekrol...azért ez már durva volt.
Egyébként nagyon jó cikk és nekem is Yellow a kedvenc playerem!
Well, everyone agrees that Yellow always was just sliding a single hair's width away from the first places... your responses were a little harsh.
This is a very good article and my favorite player is Yellow as well
Nem rossz, bár én nem tenném fel az életem arra, hogy reggeltol estik uljek a gép elött minden egyes nap, és kb ne csináljak semmit, csak ezt...
not bad but i bet they don't REALLY practice from morning to night for everyday all day....
amúgy a cikk szerintem is nyálas lett kicsit, de ettol független, a mufajban nem olyan rossz amúgy meg az itt is kiderült, hogy azért o jópár versenyt megnyert, és igazából csak boxer volt az, aki mindig elkente, az meg nem szégyen. Boxer mondta azt, a hadseregbe vonulásakor, hogy Yellow nélkül o soha nem jut el még a közelébe se ennek a szintnek...
in connection with the article, yeah it's a little emotional at times, but despite this, it's not bad in the facts, i found that he won a lot of tournaments, and he's just always beaten by boxer. that's nothing to be shameful of at all. boxer said that in the time of his draft into the army, that without yellow he never would reached even close to his level.
Mi ez a rakas fos? Ezt vki vegig birta olvasni? na ne...
what is this pile of shit? who could bear to read all this? seriously
ebben a pillanatban, egy olyan élvezetet fog megtapasztalni, ami az o progamerként való létezésének a lételeme.
asszem ez tette be a kaput.
*translated quote from the article about this being the moment of his enjoyment that told him he should be a progamer*
I think this really closed the gate (not sure in what sense this is meant, again i'm not familiar with this kind of saying... jeez i never realize how bad my hungarian is despite me being fluent)
nagyon jóóóó
add ki könyvben is
very gooooooooooood it should be published
Látom fireknight unatkozott hétvégén , szép kis cikk, bár én mchamival értek egy aki ezt irta az kicsit gay...
Nah , mindegy nem rossz a story amugy hami ,meg biztos jo a pályája , csak aki ezt irta, tul lirai fos... pl az uccsó 5 6 sor , nagyon sz*r!
i see that fireknight was bored on the weekend, pretty little article but i think who wrote it was a little gay
well... it's not a bad story... and Yellow is a good player.. but whoever wrote this, it's too emotional crap. very crap
pro akinek nemteccik az a gay sztem.
pro whoever the fuck doesn't like this article is gay i think
hát a kevésbé romantikus vagy milyen arcoknak nyílván kevésbé jön be
well if you're a little less romantic it comes in a little less
Már a koreairól angolra való fordítása is ilyen b*zis lett a szövegnek, szóval ez nem a magyar fordító hibája Amúgy meg érdekes cikk
keep in mind whenever we translate from korean or english into hungarian it starts to sound very dramatic and a little gay and it's not the translator's fault but it's a very interesting article
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well. some of the last ones, these sound very negative and they are, but the last post there kind of nailed it. hungarian writing is never this dramatic or romantic, it sounds very weird to a hungarian. don't listen to them.
Haha, that Yellow documentary is the same one I uploaded here a few years ago. I haven't seen it in a while.
As for the negative comments, I take no offense to them. I think it's just that they don't really know Yellow's personality. He was a very passionate person and I tried to convey that as much as possible. Guys playing a computer game for a living probably seems like a very shallow kind of life, but that's not the case at all. That's what I wanted to show with this.
Also, since I wanted this to be about Yellow as a person, I left out parts that were very SC-specific (like his standing among Savior and July, his first MSL qualifiers, his games against Xellos, ect) and I also stayed as far away from "SC language" as possible. Maybe this was a mistake and if I had left it as it was, they wouldn't have felt it was so "dramatic"
On June 21 2009 00:56 Bifur wrote: It is the best time for Yellow to finish his career. This impressive win over Bisu would be the ideal "last game" of this famous progamer.
Holy shit, that was so awesome, I kept thinking that it would be amazing if Yellow would really beat Bisu...and when he finally killed the reavers, he's really winning and the screams when Bisu gged. Best game I've seen lately
On June 21 2009 00:56 Bifur wrote: It is the best time for Yellow to finish his career. This impressive win over Bisu would be the ideal "last game" of this famous progamer.
The fact that he is committed to another 12 months in ACE or whatever it is makes that difficult.
On June 21 2009 00:56 Bifur wrote: It is the best time for Yellow to finish his career. This impressive win over Bisu would be the ideal "last game" of this famous progamer.
The fact that he is committed to another 12 months in ACE or whatever it is makes that difficult.
well its a great start for ace just to bad his team couldnt follow up
On June 21 2009 00:56 Bifur wrote: It is the best time for Yellow to finish his career. This impressive win over Bisu would be the ideal "last game" of this famous progamer.
dont want him to leave ever >_<
Let's just hope that he plays SC2 and beat the shit out of David Kim.
On June 21 2009 00:56 Bifur wrote: It is the best time for Yellow to finish his career. This impressive win over Bisu would be the ideal "last game" of this famous progamer.
dont want him to leave ever >_<
Let's just hope that he plays SC2 and beat the shit out of David Kim.
ChRh's successes were always overshadowed by Boxer, that's why many people don't know about him. But I still remember watching reps of ChRh owning Boxer on 'Plains to Hills'. He was so gosu.
Lol @ what got out of this thread. Please give this great thread a rest instead of discussing about nerds like Chrh who are clearly anything but not Kong. Thanks.
On June 23 2009 10:18 iNfeRnaL wrote: Because I think a thread about Yellow should be about Yellow? Smart yea. Thanks for your opinion. And thanks TL that his opinion doesn't matter.
Because you are a douche and called ChRh a "nerd."
On June 23 2009 10:18 iNfeRnaL wrote: Because I think a thread about Yellow should be about Yellow? Smart yea. Thanks for your opinion. And thanks TL that his opinion doesn't matter.
you are getting way too emotional about this.
ChRh was one of my favourite pro-gamers. He's certainly not a scrub and he certainly deserves a mention whenever Yellow is talked about. They are players of the same era. When ChRh was tearing it up, Savior was just a scrub, Bisu and Flash were still suckin' on a baby bottle and the starcraft scene was NOTHING like it is today. Charismatic players like ChRh are what made starcraft the most competitive pro-game ever!!!!
Nice write-up. I had to read it after I read the essay on KTF. Very nice style you had in this essay. I liked the way with the quotes and how they were incorporated. :D
Such an epic article. Gave me chills. I remember one of the earliest games of Pro BW I ever watched was an epic Yo Hwan/Jin Ho match on some island map I forget. Although Jin Ho lost, he amazed me. I had never seen such a mobile zerg as Yellow. His meer overlord and scourge usage was mind-blowing at the time.
On April 11 2010 04:51 TheTeamLiquidTiger wrote: all of these old veteran gamers sacrficed so much for starcraft same goes for boxer, nada, iloveoov
Yep.
This new generation doesn't realize how fortunate they are. Boxer has said repeatedly that they don't realize that all of these institutions and team dynamics which are currently in place didn't exist when he first started and that they're extremely lucky.
No kidding, we are constantly reaping the benefits of not just the great game but the great players who made the game beyond great, more to the legend it is now. I mean hell, are there any other countries that could claim to have almost their entire population (if not THE entire population) follow one sport, one game so closely? And not only that, but to have players constantly trying to find ways to make themselves faster, to be better, to find new strategies. I honestly believe that if it wasn't for all the progamers and all the fans, we would not even be playing the SC2 beta now. We probably wouldn't even have hope of a SC2... Storm Zerg was who inspired me to give Zerg another chance, I always just foolishly though that since they were the cheaper units they were therefore the weaker race. Now, I love Zerg, and would be hard pressed to choose any other race. (tried it once, unfortunately marines don't burrow, haha)
Loved the article, I am now saving this if I ever need an inspirational read. I can only hope that the love of the game continues into SC2, but if it doesn't, I can't help but think people will keep the SCBW tradition alive and kicking as long as the old battle.net continues to work. Still, I am loving SC2, and I can't wait to see some amazing matches in it as well!
Now that he's retired I think it would be apt to bump this. People need to know the Storm Zerg and how he was just as important as The Emperor for e-sports in South Korea. The Zerg with the greatest legacy, in my opinion (JD will likely go down as the best Zerg of all time, but greatness is not measured just by gold, but by blood, sweat, and tears, and no one spilled more than Hong Jin Ho).
EDIT: This was the first FE I read and the inspiration for all my dedication, passion, and love for BW.
It's hard to believe that he's finally gone... Now that I think about it, BW's just dropping like flies. Soon, Reach and AnyTime will retire and that'll be it for me. t__t
Having never followed BW or really playing it at articles like this make me so happy that gaming communities like this exist, it's really awesome aswell to get such insite into the old game too and really makes you appreciate how much progamers have to sacrifice.
I only hope that sc2 can match the amazing stories that BW has
one of the best articles about a certain player I've read to date....since I wasn't following the scene during the BW days I love to read up on all the "old" legends, really nice job
Too bad i couldn't translate your language as best as you wrote it. This was really emotional sometime in english and i kind of failed to translate the emotions. But for French people that can't speak english. (friends or people you want aware). You have a translation;
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aka Storm Zerg is
