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gumbum8
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States721 Posts
August 27 2009 01:19 GMT
#21
Entertainment industry my ass
Jaedong is by far my favorite player (first player i watched and was like O M G), and this shit is ridiculous. This is the definition of greed.
Even though jaedong wants to play with Oz, he deserves money for his work. I say he should just throw all his proleague matches. *again
but really, has anyone REALLY been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
29 fps
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States5725 Posts
August 27 2009 01:24 GMT
#22
at this point in his career, i dont think he wants to go to the military. ACE seems like a place for progamers to go when they feel like they aren't contributing/doing anything/going anywhere with their team and want to get some play time while getting military service out of the way.

JD would want all the practice time he can get, especially while he's still young and on top of the sc world. ACE would not help him in that manner, but it's better than JD retiring.
4v4 is a battle of who has the better computer.
Noxide
Profile Joined July 2009
United States2870 Posts
August 27 2009 01:26 GMT
#23
Bullshit by kespa. Grats to JD for getting the golden mouse, one good thing out of this whole season.
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x89titan
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
Philippines1130 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-08-27 01:33:09
August 27 2009 01:29 GMT
#24
parents just dont understand.

why cant jd just throw all the proleague games, just dont practice for them? just concentrate on the osl and msl. thatll force his teammates to practice more and depend less on jd.
Heaven came down and glory filled my soul, when at the cross the Savior made me whole
darktreb
Profile Joined May 2007
United States3019 Posts
August 27 2009 01:33 GMT
#25
On August 27 2009 10:16 AzureEye wrote:
So what about the option of Jaedong going to the army and joining ACE? Is that not possible? Since everyone has to go to ACE at some point, why not do it now?


Makes no sense - if JD is going to keep playing, why not at least max out his money? If JD's going to not get paid, he should be going to college. If he goes to ACE he both doesn't get paid (who knows if he's still this dominant in a year) and doesn't get to go to college ... lose lose if you ask me.
Warrior Madness
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Canada3791 Posts
August 27 2009 01:34 GMT
#26
This is by far the saddest I've felt since Savior fell from grace. I can't believe we're even entertaining the notion of Jaedong retiring. He was playing in the FINALS of the OSL not a week ago. This is surreal!
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Avidkeystamper
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States8556 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-08-27 01:40:39
August 27 2009 01:35 GMT
#27
Yay JD!
Yay JWD!
On August 27 2009 09:29 JWD wrote:
Edit to your edit!

Rofl, isn't this familiar.
What happened to OSL awards =[?
Jaedong
Dagobert
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Netherlands1858 Posts
August 27 2009 01:38 GMT
#28
A strike in baseball negotiations? I smell irony.

Poor JD. He should come to NL, not USA.
Crunchums
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States11144 Posts
August 27 2009 01:45 GMT
#29
"One More Thing" is a bit of a misnomer as the section is longer than your finals writeup, but your coverage is proportional to how big the story is. What a lame OSL finals hahahaha
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AzureEye
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States1360 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-08-27 02:07:40
August 27 2009 01:53 GMT
#30
On August 27 2009 10:33 darktreb wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 27 2009 10:16 AzureEye wrote:
So what about the option of Jaedong going to the army and joining ACE? Is that not possible? Since everyone has to go to ACE at some point, why not do it now?


Makes no sense - if JD is going to keep playing, why not at least max out his money? If JD's going to not get paid, he should be going to college. If he goes to ACE he both doesn't get paid (who knows if he's still this dominant in a year) and doesn't get to go to college ... lose lose if you ask me.


Hello? JD needs to go ACE sooner or later. Why not sooner when he is in a bad situation than go later when he gets a better contract? Yes he needs to max out his money but I'm just saying if he gets ACE over with now, he'll open himself up for better opportunities for the future when this FA thing ceases to exist

I don't know if I'm getting through to you or not

EDIT:
Let me simplify things for you.

He's in a shitty situation right now. So if he goes to ACE now, and he loses that $60 mil contract with Oz but going to ACE is a requirement for every progamer so its okay

Lets say that we took things from your point of view and delayed Jaedong going to ACE as long as possible. In that time, FA will probably cease to exist, and even if it still did exist, things wouldn't be in a bigger shithole than now. We might see him on the brink of signing with a bigger name team with a fat check for a contract. Now, if he went to ACE at this point, he's going to miss out on the fat lump sum of money compared to if he just went to ACE earlier.
Terrans who whine: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=107788
iamho
Profile Joined June 2009
United States3347 Posts
August 27 2009 02:18 GMT
#31
On August 27 2009 10:53 AzureEye wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 27 2009 10:33 darktreb wrote:
On August 27 2009 10:16 AzureEye wrote:
So what about the option of Jaedong going to the army and joining ACE? Is that not possible? Since everyone has to go to ACE at some point, why not do it now?


Makes no sense - if JD is going to keep playing, why not at least max out his money? If JD's going to not get paid, he should be going to college. If he goes to ACE he both doesn't get paid (who knows if he's still this dominant in a year) and doesn't get to go to college ... lose lose if you ask me.


Hello? JD needs to go ACE sooner or later. Why not sooner when he is in a bad situation than go later when he gets a better contract? Yes he needs to max out his money but I'm just saying if he gets ACE over with now, he'll open himself up for better opportunities for the future when this FA thing ceases to exist

I don't know if I'm getting through to you or not

EDIT:
Let me simplify things for you.

He's in a shitty situation right now. So if he goes to ACE now, and he loses that $60 mil contract with Oz but going to ACE is a requirement for every progamer so its okay

Lets say that we took things from your point of view and delayed Jaedong going to ACE as long as possible. In that time, FA will probably cease to exist, and even if it still did exist, things wouldn't be in a bigger shithole than now. We might see him on the brink of signing with a bigger name team with a fat check for a contract. Now, if he went to ACE at this point, he's going to miss out on the fat lump sum of money compared to if he just went to ACE earlier.


because he'll probably get worse as time passes? if he joins ACE now then he will probably spend less time at the top, esp. since practice time is probably extremely limited while he's in the military
pripple
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Finland1714 Posts
August 27 2009 02:27 GMT
#32
thanks JWD for your writeups through the whole OSL, too bad the finals were so onesided and now overshadowed by this slavery -thing :<
Jaedong! <> Team MVP <> Mouz.
Tom Phoenix
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
1114 Posts
August 27 2009 02:38 GMT
#33
On August 27 2009 11:18 iamho wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 27 2009 10:53 AzureEye wrote:
On August 27 2009 10:33 darktreb wrote:
On August 27 2009 10:16 AzureEye wrote:
So what about the option of Jaedong going to the army and joining ACE? Is that not possible? Since everyone has to go to ACE at some point, why not do it now?


Makes no sense - if JD is going to keep playing, why not at least max out his money? If JD's going to not get paid, he should be going to college. If he goes to ACE he both doesn't get paid (who knows if he's still this dominant in a year) and doesn't get to go to college ... lose lose if you ask me.


Hello? JD needs to go ACE sooner or later. Why not sooner when he is in a bad situation than go later when he gets a better contract? Yes he needs to max out his money but I'm just saying if he gets ACE over with now, he'll open himself up for better opportunities for the future when this FA thing ceases to exist

I don't know if I'm getting through to you or not

EDIT:
Let me simplify things for you.

He's in a shitty situation right now. So if he goes to ACE now, and he loses that $60 mil contract with Oz but going to ACE is a requirement for every progamer so its okay

Lets say that we took things from your point of view and delayed Jaedong going to ACE as long as possible. In that time, FA will probably cease to exist, and even if it still did exist, things wouldn't be in a bigger shithole than now. We might see him on the brink of signing with a bigger name team with a fat check for a contract. Now, if he went to ACE at this point, he's going to miss out on the fat lump sum of money compared to if he just went to ACE earlier.


because he'll probably get worse as time passes? if he joins ACE now then he will probably spend less time at the top, esp. since practice time is probably extremely limited while he's in the military


That is a popular myth, but that is nevertheless still wrong. Boxer, in an interview soon after he was discharged from the military, stated that it was not the lack of practice time that ACE suffered from, but from the lack of practice partners.

In any case, this FA controversy has proven one thing clearly. The players themselves must step up and form a union, so they can defend their rights. Considering KeSPA`s attitude, it is obvious they have no intention of doing so.
You and your "5 years of competitive RTS experience" can take a hike. - FrozenArbiter
citi.zen
Profile Joined April 2009
2509 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-08-27 02:41:58
August 27 2009 02:40 GMT
#34
[B]On August 27 2009 08:56 JWD wrote:

The Finals overall game quality was disappointingly low considering its high-powered matchup — an embarrassment for me and my (now-obviously-) over-optimistic preview article.


No worries, many people (myself included) agreed with your initial article: zvz can be a pretty exciting match up. Yellow just didn't really show up it seemed, while JD was solid.

We'll see how the FA stuff works out. A one year contract with Oz would perhaps not be the end of the world, hopefully by its end new rules will be in place so he can get something remotely close to the recognition he deserves. In the meantime, congrats for the golden mouse, we'll be waiting on the platinum!
Aut viam inveniam, aut faciam.
AzureEye
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States1360 Posts
August 27 2009 02:53 GMT
#35
On August 27 2009 11:18 iamho wrote:
because he'll probably get worse as time passes? if he joins ACE now then he will probably spend less time at the top, esp. since practice time is probably extremely limited while he's in the military


As the other guy said:


On August 27 2009 11:38 Tom Phoenix wrote:
That is a popular myth, but that is nevertheless still wrong. Boxer, in an interview soon after he was discharged from the military, stated that it was not the lack of practice time that ACE suffered from, but from the lack of practice partners.

In any case, this FA controversy has proven one thing clearly. The players themselves must step up and form a union, so they can defend their rights. Considering KeSPA`s attitude, it is obvious they have no intention of doing so.



The ACE lineup has changed dramatically since Boxer first got there. If you look at ACE today, they have a decent lineup made up of GoRush, Reach, Casy, Xellos, Anytime, Oversky

I'd say those players are better than Oz's current lineup without Jaedong and make better practice partners.

Therefore, if Jaedong goes to ACE, he can save himself from this lose-lose situation
Terrans who whine: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=107788
Avidkeystamper
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States8556 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-08-27 02:54:08
August 27 2009 02:54 GMT
#36
Yes, but Oz 3-0'ed ACE in 4 out of the 5 rounds.
Jaedong
JWD
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States12607 Posts
August 27 2009 02:55 GMT
#37
On August 27 2009 11:40 citi.zen wrote:
Show nested quote +
[B]On August 27 2009 08:56 JWD wrote:

The Finals overall game quality was disappointingly low considering its high-powered matchup — an embarrassment for me and my (now-obviously-) over-optimistic preview article.


No worries, many people (myself included) agreed with your initial article: zvz can be a pretty exciting match up. Yellow just didn't really show up it seemed, while JD was solid.

I still stand by my main claim that modern ZvZ is an exciting matchup. The over-optimism I was referring to was on Yarnc's skill...as you said, he just didn't show us S-class ZvZ in this match
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GHOSTCLAW
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States17042 Posts
August 27 2009 03:15 GMT
#38
very nice article. JD is awesome in zvz
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Captain Peabody
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States3135 Posts
August 27 2009 03:26 GMT
#39
Player's Union, anyone?

While it's ultimately out of our hands, there's got to be something that we as fans can do to facilitate such a union--send letters to KESPA, bring the topic up to progamers, send letters to team-houses, etc. Anything better than sitting on an internet forum complaining about it...

(Oh, and Jaedong is awesome, of course. Who seriously though he was going to lose a Best of 5 Z v Z against Yarnc?)
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ShaperofDreams
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada2492 Posts
August 27 2009 03:41 GMT
#40
On August 27 2009 10:53 AzureEye wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 27 2009 10:33 darktreb wrote:
On August 27 2009 10:16 AzureEye wrote:
So what about the option of Jaedong going to the army and joining ACE? Is that not possible? Since everyone has to go to ACE at some point, why not do it now?


Makes no sense - if JD is going to keep playing, why not at least max out his money? If JD's going to not get paid, he should be going to college. If he goes to ACE he both doesn't get paid (who knows if he's still this dominant in a year) and doesn't get to go to college ... lose lose if you ask me.


Hello? JD needs to go ACE sooner or later. Why not sooner when he is in a bad situation than go later when he gets a better contract? Yes he needs to max out his money but I'm just saying if he gets ACE over with now, he'll open himself up for better opportunities for the future when this FA thing ceases to exist

I don't know if I'm getting through to you or not

EDIT:
Let me simplify things for you.

He's in a shitty situation right now. So if he goes to ACE now, and he loses that $60 mil contract with Oz but going to ACE is a requirement for every progamer so its okay

Lets say that we took things from your point of view and delayed Jaedong going to ACE as long as possible. In that time, FA will probably cease to exist, and even if it still did exist, things wouldn't be in a bigger shithole than now. We might see him on the brink of signing with a bigger name team with a fat check for a contract. Now, if he went to ACE at this point, he's going to miss out on the fat lump sum of money compared to if he just went to ACE earlier.




This is the worst idea ever, Jaedong going to ACE would accomplish nothing, he would just be an out of touch progamer and an out of touch student after he gets out.

His only real choices are to stay in progaming or to study. He is of age right now to go and study so studying after he's done with ACE would be stupid.
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