Fucking shit this is the most beautiful and touching read ever.

Jinro, Nazgul, Liquid - we all love you. You guys make eSports bigger than just competition.

kittensrcute

United States617 Posts

August 07 2012 02:22 GMT

#522

Good luck with everything Jinro! It was a pleasure to meet you at MLG Providence.

squanzo

68 Posts

August 07 2012 02:22 GMT

#523

Is Jinro going back to poker?

sGs.FroZen

United States38 Posts

August 07 2012 02:22 GMT

#524

My favorite player's fall. Nothing I say will express the emotion I'm going through. I'm sitting at my desk with my hand on my head and my other hand on my mouse. No one is looking, yet I still rub my eyes to prevent my emotions from leaking out. ESports will miss you. Teamliquid will miss you. And most important to me... I will miss you. Best wishes for your future Jinro. Your name will never be forgotten.

Adr4melecH

Thailand667 Posts

August 07 2012 02:22 GMT

#525

Good luck in whatever you do Jinro

IcedBacon

Canada906 Posts

August 07 2012 02:22 GMT

#526

Saw it coming given the lack of results for over a year. Was a good run early though, and wish him luck for the future.

eviltomahawk

United States11135 Posts

August 07 2012 02:22 GMT

#527

My roommate never knew anything about Starcraft. He just sat on his bed playing retro games and browsing Reddit. Meanwhile, I was staying up at 4 am to watch GSL, fucking up the rest of my day and destroying my general sleep schedule to watch my favorite players play. Especially Jinro.

And when Jinro kept making deep runs into GSL, I was ecstatic. These were some of the most exciting, historic games that I have ever watched.

And the strangest thing happened. My roommate, despite knowing almost nothing about Starcraft, started asking how Jinro was performing. I was excited about Jinro. Reddit was excited about Jinro. Even Notch and Mojang were excited about Jinro. And now my roommate was excited about Jinro. He was the man that the rest of us non-Koreans could connect to. That man who could walk among the Korean gods and make history with his exceptional and consistent performance.

Jinro is a legend and hero, and I am glad to have witnessed this legend form live on the GSL streams in the most inconvenient hours of the morning.

RedMorning

Canada117 Posts

August 07 2012 02:23 GMT

#528

Nooo! I remember watching his GSL run...he inspired me to play T and continue playing T even on the days I raged and wanted to throw out SC2. I will miss Jinro and wish him the best of luck for his future.

Zynar

United States51 Posts

August 07 2012 02:23 GMT

#529

You will always remain the first "best foreigner in the world" to me, Jinro. Goodbye, and good luck in the future! =)

SgtCoDFish

United Kingdom1520 Posts

August 07 2012 02:23 GMT

#530

How many people can truly say that they did their dream job? Not many, I bet.

My favourite game of Starcraft 2 remains Jinro vs. MC on Scrap Station, where Jinro went mech and won after MC made carriers and phoenix. It was a silly game; by rights, MC should have won, but I'll never forget that feeling when I stifled my cheers so I didn't wake anyone up but inside I was fucking jumping up and down.

I'm sad to see Jinro go, of course but I can only wish him utmost happiness in whatever he does for the rest of his life, and hopefully he'll Jinroll people in poker too

gg Jinro, wp.

Nocha

Germany15 Posts

August 07 2012 02:23 GMT

#531

wish you best of luck whatever you going to do

PersonDudeGuy

Canada47 Posts

August 07 2012 02:23 GMT

#532

Sad...

I wish Jinro was still as good now as he was before, it seems like all the good foreign terrans are dying out

Celimas

United States75 Posts

August 07 2012 02:23 GMT

#533

Jinro, when I started watching starcraft you were my idol. The first epic game I ever saw was when you beat MC with mech on Scrap Station. Wow, that was a long time ago.

You still have the love of my friends and I.

gg gl hf for whatever you decide to do.

MrChupee

Australia161 Posts

August 07 2012 02:23 GMT

#534

You inspired me to keep playing Terran as a macro player, and watching you grind out the games really gave me hope to keep up getting better.

No matter what the event, I always yelled at my friends for not believing in you

.
In my eyes they were never right.

I will miss you Jinro!

;_;

Bellygareth

France512 Posts

August 07 2012 02:23 GMT

#535

A 2 year career seem awfully short and sad

. However I guess in a competitive environment, if you don't feel like competing anymore you're not gonna last. Hope your poker luck will be good.

Jedclark

United Kingdom903 Posts

August 07 2012 02:23 GMT

#536

This is both a surprise and a shock, I know the results were not there but I never thought you would retire.

Good luck in the future, Jinro, or perhaps you should now be known as Jonathan.

kingNothing42

United States42 Posts

August 07 2012 02:23 GMT

#537

Jinro you were the only player I woke up at 2am on work nights to watch in GSL. I enjoyed watching and cheering. I was so sad when you didn't make the CodeA qualifier in such a close game (partially selfish -- I couldn't watch anymore!). Good luck in the future!

Philo

United States337 Posts

August 07 2012 02:23 GMT

#538

Thanks for the games man. In high school, I woke up early to watch every one of Jinro's GSL matches, then I'd think about them all day in class. Thanks for the memories.

All the best wishes. for one hell of a Swede!
Good Luck Jinro, in all your future endeavors!

lobsterblock

United States6 Posts

August 07 2012 02:24 GMT

#539

Jinro was the reason I took an interest in the professional SC2 scene; watching his match-up against Idra meant more to me than even watching my Olympic countrymen. I wish you the best of luck and thank you!

Finlux

Norway35 Posts

August 07 2012 02:24 GMT

#540

Take care Jinro, best of luck in the future.