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Grubby to Korea for 1 month and Code A qualifiers - Page 8

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RoyGBiv_13
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States1275 Posts
September 02 2011 18:59 GMT
#141
I guess if you're going to make it your life, you shouldn't be screwing around in the foreign arena. If you're serious about sc2, then get to korea! Go Grubby!
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SetStndbySmn
Profile Joined August 2010
United States657 Posts
September 02 2011 19:04 GMT
#142
great news, he's improved so much since he started, and going to Korea definitely can't hurt. gl!
"He doesn't operate under some divine shroud that lets him determine what is or is not valid culture. He cannot rob you, retroactively, of wholly valid experiences; he cannot transform them into worthless things." - Tycho
Vul
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States685 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-09-02 19:14:28
September 02 2011 19:06 GMT
#143
On September 03 2011 02:43 Mattchew wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 03 2011 02:23 lizzard_warish wrote:
On September 03 2011 02:20 babylon wrote:
On September 03 2011 02:12 lizzard_warish wrote:
A month will improve his play but its not like its going to change his career around. Hes a mediocre foreigner in a time where the best foreigners are comparable to mediocre koreans. I dont get these pilgrimages players have been doing lately, qxc, drewbie, grubby etc. Either go to Korea and stay so you can compete, join one of the two pro houses outside of korea, or resign yourself to the irrelevance and low pay of being an amateur, which is what you are.

*facepalm*

Grubby won a tournament qualifier and was invited to Korea to compete in it. Now that he'll be there, he's going to stop by Code A qualifiers along the way because, hell, why not? Do you get why he's there now? People have known about this for a month already.

Additionally, qxc has school, and Grubby has a wife. Are you going to ask them to stay in Korea full-time now?

Grubby will improve while he's there. Getting Code A would be nice, but unrealistic, and he probably knows this. As long as he's there though, why the hell not?
*facepalm* I didnt know why he was there, whats with the unbridled hostility?

And no, as I said- last post- if you arent willing to go to a prohouse or live in korea permanently you my as well give up on starcraft. Going for a month is an immature adventure, at least in grubbys case its an adventure with minor potential for profit due to a tournament. If a person isnt willing to join a pro house or live in korea, they arent taking sc2 seriously, there being immature and short sighted. Basically "playing" around as a progamer, as they have no chance in accomplishing anything.


This is a lot of starcraft life wisdom being dropped by someone who joined TL less than 3 months ago. (insert "I've been lurking for years" response in reply).

I think the hope of this community and outside korea is that we CAN keep up with the Koreans. These extended trips to the "mecca of ESPORTS" help teach forgeiners why and how the Koreans stay so far ahead. I just hope that more and more forgeiners take the korean method to their own team houses and practice schedules.


If you correlate length of time on TL with anything related to life wisdom, even if you call it "starcraft life wisdom," whatever that means, then you're proving you don't have much of it either.

edit: If I had to guess, I would say that Grubby would see real, appreciable results if he spent 6 months in Korea. And by that I mean, the ability to make it deep into Code A Qualifiers, possibly qualify, and to be very competitive at all foreign tournaments, probably a top foreigner.

So to hear that he'll be there for only 1 month, well it's positive, but I don't know if we'll see much of a difference or if he has a shot to qualify for code A. Also it's possible that I don't have an accurate idea of his current skill level, because I hear he got better. Best of luck to him though.
Firkraag8
Profile Joined August 2010
Sweden1006 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-09-02 19:07:50
September 02 2011 19:07 GMT
#144
Grubby has the talent to rise to the top for sure, it's only a matter of time if he keeps working as hard as he have. Hopefully his trip to Korea will speed things along, wish him all the best and hope I get to see him in Code A!
Too weird to live, too rare to die.
Sacro
Profile Joined April 2010
Norway237 Posts
September 02 2011 19:08 GMT
#145
Cool, Think grubby will do decent at best, but it's awesome for practice and i don't see him not improoving from the experience.
RusHXceL
Profile Joined August 2010
United States1004 Posts
September 02 2011 19:10 GMT
#146
No,this wasn't posted before

more protoss is good.
Malinor
Profile Joined November 2008
Germany4755 Posts
September 02 2011 19:23 GMT
#147
At this point in the game, one month is not going to do much. Sadly I don't expect much improvement.
"Withstand. Suffer. Live as you must now live. There will, one day, be answer to this." ||| "A life, Jimmy, you know what that is? It's the shit that happens while you're waiting for moments that never come."
SgtPepper
Profile Joined November 2010
United States568 Posts
September 02 2011 19:24 GMT
#148
GL Grubby. Time to become a champion again
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espMisio
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
Poland143 Posts
September 02 2011 19:30 GMT
#149
Grubby is a shadow of what he was back in w3 times, I don't see him doing well at all.
apanloco
Profile Joined September 2011
2 Posts
September 02 2011 19:31 GMT
#150
Grubby will redefine pro in sc2 (fanboy) Just to remind everybody:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=208992
Xeris
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
Iran17695 Posts
September 02 2011 19:31 GMT
#151
I think one needs to spend more time in Korea than 1 month to see significant results. 3-4 is ideal imo!
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NoMicroWin
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States688 Posts
September 02 2011 19:33 GMT
#152
Anyone know what team he will be training with?
If she pulls out her stalkers, you pull out your mauraders and concussive all over her tits
magnaflow
Profile Joined August 2011
Canada1521 Posts
September 02 2011 19:34 GMT
#153
On September 03 2011 04:31 Xeris wrote:
I think one needs to spend more time in Korea than 1 month to see significant results. 3-4 is ideal imo!



1 month in Korea may not be much, but 1 month in Korea = 6-7 months in EU/NA
Mattchew
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States5684 Posts
September 02 2011 19:36 GMT
#154
On September 03 2011 04:06 Vul wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 03 2011 02:43 Mattchew wrote:
On September 03 2011 02:23 lizzard_warish wrote:
On September 03 2011 02:20 babylon wrote:
On September 03 2011 02:12 lizzard_warish wrote:
A month will improve his play but its not like its going to change his career around. Hes a mediocre foreigner in a time where the best foreigners are comparable to mediocre koreans. I dont get these pilgrimages players have been doing lately, qxc, drewbie, grubby etc. Either go to Korea and stay so you can compete, join one of the two pro houses outside of korea, or resign yourself to the irrelevance and low pay of being an amateur, which is what you are.

*facepalm*

Grubby won a tournament qualifier and was invited to Korea to compete in it. Now that he'll be there, he's going to stop by Code A qualifiers along the way because, hell, why not? Do you get why he's there now? People have known about this for a month already.

Additionally, qxc has school, and Grubby has a wife. Are you going to ask them to stay in Korea full-time now?

Grubby will improve while he's there. Getting Code A would be nice, but unrealistic, and he probably knows this. As long as he's there though, why the hell not?
*facepalm* I didnt know why he was there, whats with the unbridled hostility?

And no, as I said- last post- if you arent willing to go to a prohouse or live in korea permanently you my as well give up on starcraft. Going for a month is an immature adventure, at least in grubbys case its an adventure with minor potential for profit due to a tournament. If a person isnt willing to join a pro house or live in korea, they arent taking sc2 seriously, there being immature and short sighted. Basically "playing" around as a progamer, as they have no chance in accomplishing anything.


This is a lot of starcraft life wisdom being dropped by someone who joined TL less than 3 months ago. (insert "I've been lurking for years" response in reply).

I think the hope of this community and outside korea is that we CAN keep up with the Koreans. These extended trips to the "mecca of ESPORTS" help teach forgeiners why and how the Koreans stay so far ahead. I just hope that more and more forgeiners take the korean method to their own team houses and practice schedules.


If you correlate length of time on TL with anything related to life wisdom, even if you call it "starcraft life wisdom," whatever that means, then you're proving you don't have much of it either.

edit: If I had to guess, I would say that Grubby would see real, appreciable results if he spent 6 months in Korea. And by that I mean, the ability to make it deep into Code A Qualifiers, possibly qualify, and to be very competitive at all foreign tournaments, probably a top foreigner.

So to hear that he'll be there for only 1 month, well it's positive, but I don't know if we'll see much of a difference or if he has a shot to qualify for code A. Also it's possible that I don't have an accurate idea of his current skill level, because I hear he got better. Best of luck to him though.


a. Your using the wrong definition of wisdom in my post.
b. I never claimed anything that would require an extensive knowledge of Grubby, Pro SC2 or the SC community.
c. I am simply claiming that the opinions lizzard were so matter-of-factly stated that only one with an extensive knowledge of pro-gaming could say accurately
There is always tomorrow nshs.seal.
Bedrock
Profile Joined October 2010
United States395 Posts
September 02 2011 19:40 GMT
#155
I've watched Grubby play a few days ago and compared to his play a few weeks back, he's improved a ton. I can't wait to see how he does.. gogogo!
eSports or die tryin'
itkovian
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States1763 Posts
September 02 2011 19:41 GMT
#156
On September 03 2011 01:20 VENDIZ wrote:
Grubby is going to Korea for a month and will try to qualify for Code A in November!

How do you guys reckon he will do? Will he improve as much as e.g. Fenix?

Source: http://twitter.com/#!/followgrubby/status/109623416293834752
Show nested quote +
Thanks sponsors @SteelSeries @EGS_inc : Going to Korea for a month to train thx to u guys btw anyone know when GSL Code A Nov Quals are?


PS; Sorry if this was posted earlier, couldn't find it when searching for it!


It's actually IM Fenix, not eg fenix. trololol

Anyway, I think anyone who plays dedicatedly would improve in Korea. Its only a month though, so I don't know how lagre the improvement is gonna be in that time.
=)=
zoLo
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States5896 Posts
September 02 2011 19:43 GMT
#157
Great news to see Grubby going to Korea to train. He was not good when he started, but he is continuing to improve. Grubby is obviously no stranger to Korea and he should have a great amount of players that he will play with.
tensionz
Profile Joined October 2010
United States130 Posts
September 02 2011 19:44 GMT
#158
Nice, gl Grubby.
ChatimentZ
Profile Joined December 2010
Belgium227 Posts
September 02 2011 19:46 GMT
#159
Gl Grubby, you can make it
sup son
marttorn
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Norway5211 Posts
September 02 2011 19:47 GMT
#160
Aaahh so gosu! I fucking LOVE grubby. If MKP, Losira and Grubby all became kittens I would take all of them home and snuggle.

Anyway, we've seen what this time has done for SaSe (watch his stream, he's a beast) Fenix and everybody else in the world who ever went to korea for any reason (yes, they all became gosu).

Also, Grubby is known around those parts somewhat I'd imagine from his WC3 days, even though WC3 is more of a china thing. I know that there will be people who say "well he's not already the best player EVAR, why would he botherlol??" (amended version). And it's obviously that he wants to get better. He wants to go SC2 full-time (at least it looks like it) and this is an excellent start.

Grubby fightiiing! Bladmaster imba.
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