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I am writing this post for a fellow player and friend cArn
cArn is a player who has put everything on the line, moving to Korea last September, alone and without the support of a team, with one goal in mind: participate in the GSL.
I met cArn last October at the GSL. Being the only 2 francophone there we started talking. I learnt about his ambition to participate in the GSL. This came as a shock to me as Starcraft 2 was the first RTS game he ever played, and coming to Korea meant he was to compete against players that have been playing e-sports for several years. For the first few months cArn was living in a boarding house, his only place to train was in a PC room, with no Korean account and no practice partners, getting ready for the GSL qualification was not an easy task.
cArn didn’t give up and was eventually offered a room at the GOM house. He now had a place to stay, a Korean account of his own, and a few training partners. This is when his skill level started to increase rapidly, making it further and further in the code A qualifiers until last qualifications where he was 1 best of 3 away from code A, he had made it further than any other foreigner for those qualifiers. With the arrival of team FXO, cArn lost his place in the GOM house and is once again living in a boarding house. This does not only dramatically increase his cost of living, but also takes away his training atmosphere. Once again, despite all of this cArn remains faithful to his goal of participation in the GSL.
After all cArn has been through GOM is still hesitant in offering him the “foreigner spot” in code A. GOM is offering this spot to non-Korean players who have proven themselves in tournaments outside of Korea. I do not judge GOM in their way of choosing who will play in code A, I am just hoping this will help people realise what a player like cArn had to sacrifice (family, friends, job and even a stable place to live) so that he could have a chance of playing in the biggest Starcraft 2 tournament in the world. This letter is in no way to pressure GOM into offering a spot to cArn in code A, because I think that it would be more rewarding for him to finally make it through the qualifications. But if luck is not on cArn’s side for the qualifications, I am asking GOM to consider offering this dedicated and deserving foreign player a spot in code A, before he must return to France.
I know not everyone will share the same view as me, but I believe that players that put this much effort into the game deserve support from the community.
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too bad he didnt manage to get into a korean team. :/
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Wow, I knew cArn was in Korea, but I didn't know he was so close to Code A and still there. I wish we could help in some way. A foreigner spot in Code A might be a little too much because he didn't produce results, but he should get in a team or something.
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effort doesnt equal results nor being good.
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Thats a really good idea /sarcasm. Not to be mean, but I'd rather GOM give the spot to someone deserving rather than someone out of pity. I'd much much much rather see DRG in Code A (A ZERG that is one of the best players in the world) than Carn (A TERRAN). Just because he's a foreigner, doesn't mean he should get a spot in Code A.
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On July 16 2011 05:42 DeLoAdEr wrote:
too bad he didnt manage to get into a korean team. :/
I remember at one of the first qualifiers in an interview with I think Artosis he said he was in talks with fou, but obviously that didn't work out
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Wow, i didn't know this about carn. All i knew was that he played on the korean ladder and that he was streaming.
Nice read  (Altough, it was a big wall of text in the middle there)
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On July 16 2011 05:43 Naniwa wrote:
effort doesnt equal results nor being good.
Being away only one Bo3 from qualifiying for Code A is a result that many other foreigners cant achieve.
You have to be good to come that far.
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he doesn't deserve a spot in Code A but I definitely believe they should try to make room for him in the foreigner house, even if he slept on the floor in a sleeping bag. He deserves another shot and I hope he dosen't return to France. I hope the outcome was worth it for him though.
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I remember seeing a video with carn a long time ago, shocked he's still there plugging away after all this time.
maybe FXOBoss can help him by letting him stay in the GOM house with the rest of the team? He seems like a cool enough guy, I'm sure he could work it out.
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Heard his name a few times, i think he's just not incredibly well known and that definitely hurts his chances for code a seed. I think it was already quite incredible of Gom to offer him a place at the gom house while its was vacant.
This is an incredible story though and I will definitely be rooting for him and watching for his name. If I were you, i'd say the best way to help him is to try and get his name noticed in anyway possible. this thread definitely made me aware of him. Maybe post a replay so I can have reason to root fort him 
once again, gl to him on code a
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Carn is really good now, if only qualifying wouldn't be one of the hardest things in all of sc2...
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On July 16 2011 05:44 kcaz wrote:
Thats a really good idea /sarcasm. Not to be mean, but I'd rather GOM give the spot to someone deserving rather than someone out of pity. I'd much much much rather see DRG in Code A (A ZERG that is one of the best players in the world) than Carn (A TERRAN). Just because he's a foreigner, doesn't mean he should get a spot in Code A.
what does the players race have to do with anything??..
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Sometimes you have to give it all up and try to realize it may not be for you. If he hasn't gotten trough yet, I am very sorry for that and hope he gets trough on the next try I really do. But offering him a spot, feels just not the correct thing to do. I wish this becomes the cinderella story and he gets into code A and gets in to code S as well, and from there on gets a team and so forth.
But well. dont know, just wishing him luck is all we can do really.
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sad that he had to leave the gom foreigner house D:
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I didn't know he made it that far in the last qualifyers, it must have been heartbreaking to loose so close from his goal. However, despite all his effort I don't see why Gom would offer him a code A spot over people like DRG , PUMA etc. You could say that it's unfair because some "less deserving" foreigners can get code A spots through code A ... Well I guess there is a bit of truth in that, but GOM has good reasons for that ( give some incentives for foreign players to come and play in Korea), but it's not the same as giving a code A spot who failed to qualify..
I hope Carn will make it though! Too bad you couldn't enter in a team , I know Slayers was scouting for foreign players, i guess i didn't work out as well.
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If he doesn't win the qualifier, then he's not entitled to enter Code A. Lots of people have come close, but do they all deserve Code A spots? No.
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I am a Fracophobe of the highest order. That said, I've casually followed cArn's time in Korea. I applaud his dedication and work ethic. If Sheth can be gifted a Code A spot, why not cArn?
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EPT
