On October 11 2004 08:33 Dangster wrote:
btw....isnt xellos[yg] xellos? on bnet? cause i saw him not too long ago playing some guy which i got booted from the game

so if it is him xellos is lying about not playing on bnet :D

Yep I think so too, but I just wrote down what he told me :p

Flytothesky

United States591 Posts

October 11 2004 00:10 GMT

#67

nice inside report by uhjoo too hope u stop by sometimes thanks

ObsoleteLogic

United States3676 Posts

October 11 2004 00:32 GMT

#68

Xellos does play on Battle.net; and he would find competition there plenty. Most of the pros smurf and play various servers to stay incognito. Very understandable with all of the fanboys they have, and with the level of play they have to maintain. They can't waste their time playing a bunch of newbs who are clamoring for games, you know? ( :

dohmoto

Korea (South)1 Post

October 11 2004 01:33 GMT

#69

On October 10 2004 19:50 Flytothesky wrote:
hey mani do u have any other pics? post it if u have it

his pic
http://image.fighterforum.com/SplashImage.asp?realFile=FFPHOT20041007020056002.JPG4
http://image.fighterforum.com/SplashImage.asp?realFile=FFPHOT20041007020056002.JPG

SuperJongMan

Jamaica11586 Posts

October 11 2004 02:01 GMT

#70

Don't forget guys that Ggon shares the Xellos[YG] account too so it could possible be Ggon who isn't in as much as Xellos is so he might have more Bnet time. Who knows?

comabreaded

United States2166 Posts

October 11 2004 02:30 GMT

#71

thx for the insight uhjoo!

fenixdown

Colombia320 Posts

October 11 2004 02:38 GMT

#72

Nice work and nice interview. Enjoy while he is the king, Reach vs Xellos gonna be cool.

Elvin_vn

Vietnam2038 Posts

October 11 2004 02:54 GMT

#73

uhjoo, how do you pronounce your name ? ^^:

uhjoo

Korea (South)1740 Posts

October 11 2004 04:05 GMT

#74

hello again folks,

thanks for the kind words and welcome to teamliquid.net. it's nice to see a sense of community here despite the anonymity of the internet (which often results in antisocial behavior ^^;

. i also should say right up front that i myself have no personal importance-- i'm just a fan like the rest of us and got lucky enough to get to know some of these gamers and the related personalities (like the G.O. team coach, who is the coolest guy ever). but in any case, i will try to come to this site as much as time allows to try to give whatever little insight i do have whenever appropriate. at the least, i think i might be able to do simple translations and culture lessons for those interested. o_O oh, and Elvin_vn, my id is pronounced "uh - jjoo," which roughly translated means something like "whoa! you think you're hotsh*t?" ^_^;;

xellos and other progamers DO play on bnet, but obviously not publically and only with other pro or semi-progamers. i think xellos answered "no" to the question meaning that he doesn't play public games on bnet. i also suspect they enjoy their privacy for very practical reasons. they have a very limited amount of time to even practice for even one tournament and some of them are in like 3 tourneys at the same time. if you think from their perspective, imagine how much you'd practice if you knew you had to play iloveoov, yellow, nal_ra, and nada, each time for money, and each time on different maps. you probably wouldn't want to be bothered either. but nevertheless these guys get bothered ALL THE TIME about sc (we can walk away from the computer whenever we get sick of playing but everyone who meets these guys just wants to talk sc) and some of them literally get stalked on bnet. thus, i think it would be good manner on our part to not take offense and to fully understand if they don't reply to pms or refuse to play games. it would be like being offended that tracy mcgrady doesn't want to play in your neighborhood pickup game. >_<

a final scoop: during wcg, i spoke to quite a few reporters from korea and also expressed (accurately i hope) that there is a market for non-koreans watching korean VODs from mbcgame, ongamenet, iTV, etc. they are aware of this interest, and the ongamenet team leader told me they are working on making it easier for foreigners to register to watch VODs online on the ongamenet website-- in fact something might be in place within the next few months, so keep your fingers crossed ^^;;

good luck and have fun!

MPXMX

Canada4309 Posts

October 11 2004 04:28 GMT

#75

Most of the foreign community plays starcraft only occasionally, I think and may not even know about vods. We are quite a hardcore group here, I'd say

It's good news though, if OGN decides to make vods more easily available to the public they will find a large amount of viewers. Thanks for the heads up, "whoa! you think you're hotsh*t?"

ChApFoU

France2982 Posts

October 11 2004 05:01 GMT

#76

thx for all the info and welcome on board, i think this year wcg was very good for the promotion of competitive starcraft outside korea. We got plenty of gamers with great potential and i hope some of them will be able to play and train in korea just like GiyoM and ElkY did back in the days.