I hope he makes the most of this opportunity to live without any regrets since his time window is limited.

I will not be cheering for him to advance in the qualifiers, but I wont wish him ill either; cheating is serious business, but it's not my tournament to deny him entrance into.

btw this is my second chance attitude and is as positive as I forsee being unless he decides to promise any earnings to cancer research or something.

FXOTheoRy

United States519 Posts

January 21 2011 01:55 GMT

#222

GL Spades, practice hard! It'll be hard but I believe you can make code A

On_Slaught

United States12190 Posts

January 21 2011 01:57 GMT

#223

Lol guys don't pick a fight with FakeSteve. You will not win; trust me.

SiguR

Canada2039 Posts

January 21 2011 02:24 GMT

#224

I don't think a lot of people realize how tough it's going to be to qualify for code A. It's not going to be as easy as qualifying for a GSL in the past. The competition will be a lot thicker I think. Everyone and their dog is going to be competing for what, 16 slots?

RaGe

Belgium9947 Posts

January 21 2011 02:32 GMT

#225

On January 21 2011 08:52 FakeSteve[TPR] wrote:
As far as I know he was caught once "officially", that is, in relation to an organized event. Beyond that there's always wild speculations on either end of the spectrum. Spades tried to make a comeback in Brood War, playing at offline events and such, but was not well-received. Since he's overhauled his manners and dedicated a ton of time to improving and streaming SC2, and is now (and rightfully so) heading to Korea to try out for Code A, some people have forgiven his past transgressions and some people haven't. It isn't much more complicated than that, there are legitimate reasons for each individual's opinions I'm sure.

I'm ok with the forgiving and all, but don't downplay what he did cause you're friends now. He got caught with the flag method for hacking in almost all his games, denied everything even though it was 100% confirmed.

A couple of months later he got caught again in the next wave. No public apology or anything. It was painfully obvious in the interview that he didn't want to mention it in the interview when Artosis asked him about his past.

I don't believe he hacks in SC2, but I personally won't be rooting for him at all.

terranghost

United States980 Posts

January 21 2011 02:45 GMT

#226

I was wondering why his stream wasnt up recently. GL spades

Warrice

United States565 Posts

January 21 2011 03:03 GMT

#227

Holy shit, john candy is going to korea.

Good luck spades

ehalf

408 Posts

January 21 2011 03:05 GMT

#228

Enjoy his stream a lot. Spades is a very solid terran. If he have time to adjust to the Korean ladder, he can definitely make it.

TheEmulator

28089 Posts

January 21 2011 03:07 GMT

#229

Gl Spades

desRow

Canada2654 Posts

January 21 2011 03:19 GMT

#230

i love spades i wish i was alberto and could cuddle with spades

SunDevil

United States353 Posts

January 21 2011 03:19 GMT

#231

I'm a little biased but Spades absolutely has what it takes. Go Spades! Spades fighting!!!

Spades

United States249 Posts

January 21 2011 03:31 GMT

#232

Thank you everyone who is supporting, as well as those criticizing me. I dont want to let my fans down, and i want to prove the haters wrong, so my motivation is about as high as it gets.

I know i made bad decisions in the past, but I'm doing my best to atleast make up for it to an extent. I know It will follow me forever, but i want to make sure my successes greatly outweigh my downfalls. If i could take it all back i would, but i cant turn back time, so i will just make sure my future exceeds everyones expectations and hopefully earn some of the skeptics' respect.

I'm training hard, and hope to make you guys proud.

Thanks again for the support!

KevinIX

United States2472 Posts

January 21 2011 03:53 GMT

#233

On January 21 2011 12:31 Spades wrote:
Thank you everyone who is supporting, as well as those criticizing me. I dont want to let my fans down, and i want to prove the haters wrong, so my motivation is about as high as it gets.

I know i made bad decisions in the past, but I'm doing my best to atleast make up for it to an extent. I know It will follow me forever, but i want to make sure my successes greatly outweigh my downfalls. If i could take it all back i would, but i cant turn back time, so i will just make sure my future exceeds everyones expectations and hopefully earn some of the skeptics' respect.

I'm training hard, and hope to make you guys proud.

Thanks again for the support!

I'll be cheering for you!

crms

United States11933 Posts

January 21 2011 04:20 GMT

#234

more foreigners the better. past grudges and decisions aside I hope he has success in korea and motivates more players to go for the gold. With some of the Code A play we've seen thus far I see no reason he can't make it excluding an incredibly difficult RNG bracket.

Moonling

United States987 Posts

January 21 2011 05:00 GMT

#235

Ehh I have watched his stream i'm don't think he has the greatest chances but regardless GL; I didn't know the specifics about his past but i did know he had a bad history hopefully he will represent vT good, so this is not what them sending their first player is known for

Edit: Torch is ST? now correct

MassHysteria

United States3678 Posts

January 21 2011 07:39 GMT

#236

awesome response to all this stuff on this thread

Goodluck in Korea man! Hope you enjoy your time out there as well.

SmoKim

Denmark10305 Posts

January 21 2011 07:59 GMT

#237

best of luck Spades, give them hell in Korea

Ryuu314

United States12679 Posts

January 21 2011 08:09 GMT

#238

On January 21 2011 10:24 TheBanana wrote:

Show nested quote +

Wow, you get to call someone a retard and then ban them for saying "get over yourself"?
That's not showing good integrity on the behalf of TL at all, if you don't mind me saying.

When does the actual qualifier-matches start?
Does anybody know?

I'm pretty sure the ban wasn't just 'cause he said "---" It's mostly 'cause the guy was an idiot and was mouthing off like an arrogant douche starting from his first post in that convo.

On topic, I personally won't exactly start cheering straight up for him just yet, but I'm more than willing to give the guy a second chance and let him prove himself to us. He seems like a much better guy and willing to admit for his mistakes. That last part is something a lot of people can't/won't do and that should be noticed at the very least.

Good luck to Spades in Korea and here's to hoping he'll show us some good games.

dahornnn

United Kingdom395 Posts

January 21 2011 08:24 GMT

#239

Any chance of streaming ladder from KR spades?

DuFFmAn69

United States78 Posts

January 21 2011 09:17 GMT

#240

Dear FakeSteve, you are win.