A former Korean BW semi-pro. Why am I supposed to be interested in this guy again? I don't mean to be rude but from the OP I could not garner the history of this player with respect to his importance to the community. Was a Beta star like oGstheSTC? Or is this news simply because he's joining a foreign team... This is my first time hearing about them btw.. So maybe I'm not attuned with the community as much as I should be.

Strange interview to highlight. Anyway I thought StC's interview was kind of random too a while back but he's definitely a prominent face nowadays.

Djagulingu

Germany3605 Posts

October 27 2011 10:20 GMT

#72

On October 27 2011 18:55 thepuppyassassin wrote:
A former Korean BW semi-pro. Why am I supposed to be interested in this guy again? I don't mean to be rude but from the OP I could not garner the history of this player with respect to his importance to the community. Was a Beta star like oGstheSTC? Or is this news simply because he's joining a foreign team... This is my first time hearing about them btw.. So maybe I'm not attuned with the community as much as I should be.

Strange interview to highlight. Anyway I thought StC's interview was kind of random too a while back but he's definitely a prominent face nowadays.

Reasons for getting interested in this guy:

1- He's totally nuts and totally lives up to his nickname.
2- His macro is unmatched by anyone in the code a and his ZvT muta/bane/ling control is enough to kill a maxed Terran army of marine/tank/medivac with 140 supply a few times.
3- He is a past courage finalist.
4- Why am I bothering with this one? Just watch MvP clan games from Gisado Clan #1 where he plays and decide to like the guy or not.

Note: Courage tournament is the tournament that you need (or rather needed because now it's replaced by Rookie League) to win to become a BW progamer and is something that a big amount of SC2 progamers didn't have the courage to even enter. Also from today's TL roster, only Ret and Tyler played in courage with Ret peaking at top8 in his 3rd attempt and Tyler peaking at #2 in his first attempt (not to downgrade his achievement even a little bit but getting into finals would be significantly more challenging for him if most of his opponents weren't Terran players with the second map being Longinus, where he 10-15 gated in most of/every single one of his PvTs in that tournament).

Yomi-no-Kuni

Germany333 Posts

October 27 2011 11:06 GMT

#73

IS being sponsored by deviantArt? gotta check that team out now :D

Cobbbler

United States60 Posts

October 27 2011 11:46 GMT

#74

It's exciting to see iS rising so fast! It seems like all their players are doing well everywhere I look.

GL to all iS players and congrats Jinn!

Copymizer

Denmark2107 Posts

October 27 2011 12:32 GMT

#75

grats and good luck Crazymoving! Funny, i know Shakiel personally and he just told me about him yesterday on Skype!

FreudianTrip

Switzerland1983 Posts

October 27 2011 13:11 GMT

#76

On October 27 2011 18:35 w1nter wrote:
I am really wondering how Koreans count age? can anyone tell me that?

In Korea when you're born you're 1 year old. In the West, you're 0 years old. So a 21 year old in Korea is actually 20 in the West.

aebriol

Norway2066 Posts

October 27 2011 13:28 GMT

#77

On October 27 2011 18:35 w1nter wrote:
I am really wondering how Koreans count age? can anyone tell me that?

Koreans count age like this:
- In how many calendar years have I been living?

So if you are born november 1st. you are 1 year old until december 31st, and on the 1st of January, you are 2 years old.

You could be 2 korean years old and in reality be 1 day old

EAGER-beaver

Canada2799 Posts

October 27 2011 13:33 GMT

#78

5 games of practice a day? I think I can manage that, I'm going pro guys, watch out gold league!!