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Right so I have Elky's page on my FB and I saw there was an interview with http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/Elky about him playing SC2 in a tournament "seriously". There was mention of this here but no translation so here goes:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xfa567_bertrand-elky-grospellier-a-l-eosl_videogames
the article above the video just retraces his SC career with Guillaume "Grrr…" Patry then his switch to poker, holding the Guinness World Record for most Single Table Sit & Goes played in one hour (62) and world first Supernova/Supernova Elite on PStars which netted him a place in the french PStars team. The interview however only focuses on SC2.
Hey Elky!
A lot of old players are coming back for SC2.
Did you feel like doing it too?
Obviously SC2 is different because SC1 has been out for what, 12 years, and I played a lot of games in between with friends but SC2 is the first game where old progamers come back to play and of course I have a lot of korean friends that are starting, like one of my best korean friends created oGs
Spunky?
Yeah Spunky...and his team is dominating quite hard so next time I meet him I think I'll spend a few days with him so I can practice because they have amazing players. And of course it's a lot of fun to play with guys you know well and respect a lot... It's quite different from playing with strangers
You coming back to SC2 fulltime?
Well the problem is with poker and PokerStars taking a lot of my time, my biggest issue is since I'm very competitive I don't want to come back just for fun, I want to be able to practice to have a chance to win it all, I don't want to play tournaments just to get destroyed so it's quite difficult. I love playing poker and I love SC2 so I try to have time for both but if there are some tournaments that don't take a lot of time, i.e. online tournaments I might be able to play more. I definitely don't want to be around just for show haha.
What's your current level?
I played around 400 games quickmatch 1v1, mainly random (TL Note: think he's 1718 diamond?). The biggest problem is since I play random I have to learn a lot of matchups and well, there's a new patch out haha. I think I'm doing well with Terran, not as much with Protoss & Zerg, they really aren't simple matchups. I saw they were helping Zerg but I still don't know if I'll stick to one race or keep playing random I'll have to think about it.
What made you want to play in eOSL?
I've played quite a lot of SC2 and I wanted to face the best French players to see where I'm standing since I haven't really played against them. It makes me happy to go back to competitive gaming, it's pretty motivating.
What kind of results are you expecting?
To be honest I have no idea how good they are so we'll see, I love surprises so we'll see how that goes, I'm pretty confident and I have the amazing opportunity to have a lot of friends that happen to be good SC2 players like Nazgul the TL team manager and Spunky the oGs manager so I think I'll be able to practice against them, it might be very helpful.
edit: there's probably a ton of mistakes, 3am translating is pretty lol
edit2: french source
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Just wow, amazing news. I hope he will grow a hair and turn it to Orange again.
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first the rumors of this, then rekrul's post, then this... man, it's all so crazy
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On October 20 2010 16:20 iCCup.Raelcun wrote:
SHIIIIIIIIIIIIT ELKY?
raelcun u dont even know who elky is .
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NO thats me going OMFG Elky is playing? That's amazing
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lol. sc2 is like an old school SCBW renaissance. Really cool to see.
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Elky playing SC2. Why? He earns a lot more playing poker. Maybe he is doing it for interest and not for money.
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On October 20 2010 16:20 iCCup.Raelcun wrote:
SHIIIIIIIIIIIIT ELKY?
yes he plays starcraft raelcun
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ive heard giyom aka grrrr.. was suppose to join oGs too? as he failed to qualify for 1st GSL. anyone know anything new?
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I'm desperate to see Elky play.
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On October 20 2010 16:26 LunarDestiny wrote:
Elky playing SC2. Why? He earns a lot more playing poker. Maybe he is doing it for interest and not for money.
Oh really? -.-
ofcourse just for the interest! he has millions of dollars...
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On October 20 2010 16:28 NovemberZerg wrote:
ive heard giyom aka grrrr.. was suppose to join oGs too? as he failed to qualify for 1st GSL. anyone know anything new?
really offtopic but uhh
I was trying to find new info on this (Giyom joining oGs) and hmm
http://www.facebook.com/giyom1
Relationship Status: In a Relationship with Bertrand 'Elky'
I lol'd.
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Original Message From iCCup.Realcun:
oh ok i didnt want to look like fail on this thread
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Original Message From hero33:
old starcraft 1 pro i think
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Original Message From iCCup.Realcun:
who is elky?
User was banned for this post.
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On October 20 2010 16:37 hero33 wrote:
Well
Original Message From iCCup.Realcun:
oh ok i didnt want to look like fail on this thread
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Original Message From hero33:
old starcraft 1 pro i think
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Original Message From iCCup.Realcun:
who is elky?
hahaha
oh raelcun, where have you been...
http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/Elky
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Interesting, thanks for translating. Seems lots of the oldies are coming back to check out the game.
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On October 20 2010 16:26 LunarDestiny wrote:
Elky playing SC2. Why? He earns a lot more playing poker. Maybe he is doing it for interest and not for money.
Yeah. There is a lot in life worth more then money and i'll guess starcraft 2 is one of them :D
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On October 20 2010 16:37 hero33 wrote:
Well
Original Message From iCCup.Realcun:
oh ok i didnt want to look like fail on this thread
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Original Message From hero33:
old starcraft 1 pro i think
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Original Message From iCCup.Realcun:
who is elky?
you're joking right?
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