OMG O_______o;;;;;;;;;;

NaDa, then Boxer then Elky ? This is a conspiracy right ? You bastards want me to spend my whole time in front of Teamliquid and streams ? You're happy ruining my social and professional life ?

Whiplash

United States2928 Posts

October 20 2010 16:31 GMT

#47

Elky and Giyom playing is very cool, 2 great players to look up too full of talent.

Sewi

Germany1697 Posts

October 20 2010 16:32 GMT

#48

Great great news!!
Wish him best of luck and hope to see him play on screen soon :p
In the picture he looks really old now... I guess he is ~30 now?!

Dantelew

Canada63 Posts

October 20 2010 16:41 GMT

#49

The more I think about this, the more I'm thinking that Poker Stars has as much to do with ElkY coming back as ElkY did. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure ElkY enjoys playing SC2, and by no means had his hand forced, but this is seriously a great marketing tool for Poker Stars.

It's evident that a lot of people have already said "omg he made 6 million dollars after being a starcraft pro? I need to get into poker".

If he makes the GSL, or any big tournament, I'm willing to wager that PokerStars would pay him more to wear the Pokerstars logos then the winner of the tournament will make.

Malinor

Germany4727 Posts

October 20 2010 16:45 GMT

#50

Random comment:

Thank you for linking the french source. I have started to learn french again and I wouldn't have had the idea to search for a french esport site. But reading up on stuff I am interested in (and is not scientific difficulty) and trying to translate it will probably help me a ton.

Now I'm happy

Kyhol

Canada2574 Posts

October 20 2010 16:48 GMT

#51

I don't think he has what it takes.

SwEEt[TearS]

Canada1575 Posts

October 20 2010 16:53 GMT

#52

btw he's in pool D, facing SarenS, BenSen & Stephano (I have no idea how good BenSen & Stephano are since well, the only french players I've seen play are Adel and SarenS).

He's playing vs Stephano first.

Tourney's double elimination so he might have a chance

edit: just realized, lolfrance wtf, they say "poule" instead of pool. while phonetically it's approximately the same, a "poule" is a hen.

...........

Toads

Canada1795 Posts

October 20 2010 17:01 GMT

#53

On October 20 2010 16:18 GTR wrote:
Liquid`ElkY? :D

I this happen Liquid' will be the scariest team ever now :O

Boblion

France8043 Posts

October 20 2010 17:04 GMT

#54

On October 21 2010 01:53 SwEEt[TearS] wrote:
btw he's in pool D, facing SarenS, BenSen & Stephano (I have no idea how good BenSen & Stephano are since well, the only french players I've seen play are Adel and SarenS).

Tourney's double elimination so he might have a chance

edit: just realized, lolfrance wtf, they say "poule" instead of pool. while phonetically it's approximately the same, a "poule" is a hen.

...........

Bensen and Stephano are two decent zerg players.

Frem

France13 Posts

October 20 2010 17:10 GMT

#55

BenSen is "quite ok" but "only" 12th in the French ESL Pro series.
Stephano I think has made some good results in french Lan Events and recently joined Millenium team (Adel's team, and previous HuK's team).
Not really knowing ElkY actually SC2 level I would say that he will have to fight hard for the 2nd place.