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I would like to apologize the mass rambling that goes on here, but i highly recommend that EVERYONE reads this one! It may very well make your teamliquidian day!
The rules of how gamers are ranked have been changing fairly frequently. Less then a year ago it was really hard to become semi pro, and fairly easy to take the next step to become a full progamer. Then it changed to where it was both easy to become semi pro and easy to become progamer. (minor note, during this period i missed out on becoming full progamer twice by a single game, while brian also missed out on becoming semi pro by a single game)
From there the rules have changed again, it become very easy to become semi pro, but for full progamer status you had to actually reach the Starleague! Now the latest rules that have reached us, it is fairly easy to become semi pro, and those semi pros who will be participating in the next OGN pro league will be bumped up to progamer status along with some others.
This in my opinion isn't quite as good, as it is creating a large influx of fairly average gamers (i checked the list some people are ranked below the likes of sven and ntt!, which i might add is a fairly hard feat to accomplish)
Getting back on track, with the notice of the easy way to gain entry into the rosters of the progamers, there was one last quick fix for those gosu korean progamer wannabes!
That was a tournament we have talked about before (rekrul and assem both played last time) called "Courage". Which puts a lot of amateurs together and the 4 winners get both jun pro and a chance to make it into the next OGN challenge league.
Now for amateurs, the new rules provided a golden opportunity to not only gain their semi pro licence, but to then gain the easy access to become a full pro within a week! All that must be required is to get top 4 in one event full of other like minded amateurs.
Now the following list includes some of those amateurs from the previous few courage tournaments along with all other semi pros who have been lined up waiting. But nevertheless i bring you the latest wave of fully licenced progamers.
1. canata skt1 -- Entry From Courage (defeating the monstrous rekrul 2-1 T_T)
2. ??? goak dong hun ???
3. bejjezerg Hexatron
4. sasin[child] Soul
5. ]Min][Gu] KTF
6. B_blade Toona SG
7. usa
sunny Ganbit8. tobecontinued Soul
9. ??? kim yun hwan ????
10. luna[alive] Hanbit
11. ipxzerg[gm] SumaGO
12. junitoss POS
13. [mgw]bluesky skt1
14. daezang[gnh] noteam
15. yellow[name] Kor
16. pro.nt)fantasy POS
17. zergman
18. oops)autumn Hanbit /OR/ much[gm] SumaGO
19. stay[hyo] Hanbit
20. soo[s.sir] Soul
21. pusan[s.g] Plus
22. breeze[akuta] Soul
23. iris[gm] SumaGO
24. Assem/Brian Hexatron --Entry From Courage
25. pos_shark POS
26. tester[gm] Toona SG
27. siva Hexatron
28. ever)t(sayoo Soul
29. anytime[gm] Plus
30. fofy[gm] Hanbit
31. rumble[hyo] skt1
32. dongrae Plus
33. ggon Samsung
34. [soul]gyuntae Soul
35. cuteboy[gm] Samsung
36. lottozerg KTF
37. artofniza Toona SG
38. gwanro[gm] Samsung
39. sm_clon Hanbit
40. hwasin[s.sir] Soul -- Entry From Courage
41. Peter Hexatron (5th highest ranked after gyuntae, ggon, july and siva (in no order))
only missed 2 and 9 anyone know who they are? only know of 3 who advanced from this latest courage out of the 4. And why was i listed LAST!!!! T_T
So as you can see the mighty Assem has come through and done his part for the foreign progaming scene (i'll try and get him to do a little write up but dont hold your breath T_T, dan/rekrul should be doing one soon for his PG reporting so stay tuned for that)
So congrats to him, and me, and all the other new progamers out there.
Sorry again for the mass amount of rambling that went on here.
