• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EST 01:06
CET 07:06
KST 15:06
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
RSL Revival - 2025 Season Finals Preview8RSL Season 3 - Playoffs Preview0RSL Season 3 - RO16 Groups C & D Preview0RSL Season 3 - RO16 Groups A & B Preview2TL.net Map Contest #21: Winners12
Community News
Weekly Cups (Jan 5-11): Clem wins big offline, Trigger upsets4$21,000 Rongyi Cup Season 3 announced (Jan 22-Feb 7)15Weekly Cups (Dec 29-Jan 4): Protoss rolls, 2v2 returns7[BSL21] Non-Korean Championship - Starts Jan 103SC2 All-Star Invitational: Jan 17-1833
StarCraft 2
General
SC2 All-Star Invitational: Jan 17-18 Stellar Fest "01" Jersey Charity Auction Weekly Cups (Jan 5-11): Clem wins big offline, Trigger upsets When will we find out if there are more tournament SC2 Spotted on the EWC 2026 list?
Tourneys
OSC Season 13 World Championship SC2 AI Tournament 2026 Sparkling Tuna Cup - Weekly Open Tournament $21,000 Rongyi Cup Season 3 announced (Jan 22-Feb 7) $25,000 Streamerzone StarCraft Pro Series announced
Strategy
Simple Questions Simple Answers
Custom Maps
Map Editor closed ?
External Content
Mutation # 508 Violent Night Mutation # 507 Well Trained Mutation # 506 Warp Zone Mutation # 505 Rise From Ashes
Brood War
General
[ASL21] Potential Map Candidates BW General Discussion BGH Auto Balance -> http://bghmmr.eu/ A cwal.gg Extension - Easily keep track of anyone Potential ASL qualifier breakthroughs?
Tourneys
Small VOD Thread 2.0 [Megathread] Daily Proleagues [BSL21] Grand Finals - Sunday 21:00 CET [BSL21] Non-Korean Championship - Starts Jan 10
Strategy
Soma's 9 hatch build from ASL Game 2 Simple Questions, Simple Answers Game Theory for Starcraft Current Meta
Other Games
General Games
Awesome Games Done Quick 2026! Beyond All Reason Nintendo Switch Thread Mechabellum Stormgate/Frost Giant Megathread
Dota 2
Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion
League of Legends
Heroes of the Storm
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Deck construction bug Heroes of StarCraft mini-set
TL Mafia
Vanilla Mini Mafia Mafia Game Mode Feedback/Ideas
Community
General
US Politics Mega-thread Russo-Ukrainian War Thread Things Aren’t Peaceful in Palestine European Politico-economics QA Mega-thread Trading/Investing Thread
Fan Clubs
White-Ra Fan Club
Media & Entertainment
Anime Discussion Thread
Sports
2024 - 2026 Football Thread
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
Computer Build, Upgrade & Buying Resource Thread
TL Community
The Automated Ban List
Blogs
My 2025 Magic: The Gathering…
DARKING
Physical Exercise (HIIT) Bef…
TrAiDoS
Life Update and thoughts.
FuDDx
How do archons sleep?
8882
James Bond movies ranking - pa…
Topin
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 1297 users

Taeja Leaving Slayers? - Page 20

Forum Index > SC2 General
Post a Reply
Prev 1 18 19 20 21 22 24 Next All
Goldbullet
Profile Joined August 2011
United States88 Posts
March 12 2012 22:38 GMT
#381
koreans want to get out of korea. Foreigners want to go to Korea. T_T
may your plans be as dark and impenetrable as night, and when u move, fall like a thunderbolt.- Sun Tzu
Burns
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States2300 Posts
March 12 2012 22:43 GMT
#382
it would be really easy for him to go to EG! =D
What do you mean you heard me during the night, these are quiet pants!
skatblast
Profile Joined September 2011
United States784 Posts
March 12 2012 22:44 GMT
#383
Please go EG
Luepert
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States1933 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-12 22:53:14
March 12 2012 22:47 GMT
#384
On March 12 2012 22:27 whiteLotus wrote:
whats with all the koreans "go foreign team" ? do they imagine that foreign teams have gold mines and can pay them 10k$ month?


Its true thought that foreign teams are offering more than Korean teams especially for a player of taeja's caliber.

Edit: Please for the love of God don't go to EG.
esports
Keone
Profile Joined April 2011
United States812 Posts
March 12 2012 22:48 GMT
#385
On March 12 2012 22:27 whiteLotus wrote:
whats with all the koreans "go foreign team" ? do they imagine that foreign teams have gold mines and can pay them 10k$ month?

Inevitable. Two main reasons why.

1. Salary & Quality of Life. Most Koreans don't even get paid a basic salary, nothing; they have to live off their own earnings. Life is difficult, housing is difficult, eating is difficult... basically, it's a really tough life. Look at the EG house; it's like a Korean progamer's dream.

2. Tournament exposure. Koreans are exposed to what? Basically, only the GSL, because they simply can't compete in international tournaments (no invites, no money to fly, no connections, etc.). They look at people who compete internationally (MC, MMA, Puma, even Hero & Zenio) and they see huge amounts of opportunity to compete and win against "easier" foreigner fields. Which to them, is probably true. How many tournaments would Zenio be in if he stayed in OGS? What about Hero? Did anyone really know about the guy before his Liquid switch?

Simply put, they see their struggling friends move to foreigner teams, and then earn both a salary and a lot of tournament winnings, as well as a ton of travel.

Quality of life is something you can't ignore, or blame them for. The Korean SC2 scene is still bad and underexposed.
BW Forever. Flash is the Ultimate Bonjwa.
MugenXBanksy
Profile Joined April 2011
United States479 Posts
March 12 2012 22:50 GMT
#386
On March 12 2012 22:34 AlternativeEgo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 12 2012 22:32 Cokefreak wrote:
On March 12 2012 22:31 AlternativeEgo wrote:
C'mon Empire, you know you want to!

I think it's EG's turn at a Korean again, been a while since they accuired PuMa. ;D
On March 12 2012 22:32 FrostedMiniWheats wrote:
hope this doesn't incur another Jessica shitstorm =/

You can almost count on it.


My god, it's the cold war arms race all over again. O_O





Hello? ITS JYP WE BACK
we all hope to be like whitera one day
GhandiEAGLE
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States20754 Posts
March 12 2012 22:54 GMT
#387
Liquid needs Terrans!

Just kidding, Liquid don't pick up just anybody
Oh, my achin' hands, from rakin' in grands, and breakin' in mic stands
emc
Profile Joined September 2010
United States3088 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-12 23:13:55
March 12 2012 23:12 GMT
#388
not sure why he would leave, an amazing terran on a team with some of the best terrans. I think he's making a big mistake unlike other players like Puma or Zenio because Slayers is an excellent team (not to take away from TSL or OGS) and I feel like he might be making this decision based on the fact that he thinks there is more money in the west which isn't completely true or false.

I guess it depends on what team he joins. If he gets on a super rich foreign team then good for him, but I feel like he still needs to be with slayers until he hits a true Code S level on par with other terrans like MvP or MMA. We've all seen what happens to some koreans who were boss then go to foreign teams (like puma?) and just don't have the same practice regiment or nearly as good training partners and don't do well in Code S or even Code A

just an opinion, he can do whatever he wants but I think more korean training for mid-level korean is necessary until he hits that S class and can dominate everywhere.
Bagration
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
United States18282 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-12 23:18:45
March 12 2012 23:13 GMT
#389
On March 13 2012 07:54 GhandiEAGLE wrote:
Liquid needs Terrans!

Just kidding, Liquid don't pick up just anybody


Taeja is definitely not just anybody. If Liquid had picked up Taeja instead of Hero last year and gave him the same opportunities that Hero had, I would wager that Taeja would have made 6 figures by now. He is that good, and he could really bolster Liquid's roster.
Team Slayers, Axiom-Acer and Vile forever
Takuna
Profile Joined April 2011
Germany332 Posts
March 12 2012 23:16 GMT
#390
I like Taejas working attitude, he seems to be playing a lot and at least his online results are somewhat consistent, he is winning the weekly Taeja allowance cup every week after all.
He reminds me a bit of Huk in his mass ladder days, cheese won't touch him (I'd like to have that link where he defeated 6 pool with CC first ^^), although he lacks still a bit in "prepared" matches.
I wouldn't mind seeing a LiquidTaeja, nor would i freak out if he chooses another team.
The spirits move me.
Greggle
Profile Joined June 2010
United States1131 Posts
March 12 2012 23:18 GMT
#391
Screw foreign teams, they don't contribute to the GSTL =(
Life is too short to take it seriously.
scarper65
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
1560 Posts
March 12 2012 23:21 GMT
#392
Someone needs to tell Taeja and the rest of these koreans that moving to foreign teams probably isn't the best idea.
Gheed
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States972 Posts
March 12 2012 23:22 GMT
#393
On March 13 2012 08:18 Greggle wrote:
Screw foreign teams, they don't contribute to the GSTL =(


I think Zenio played a game for oGs after joining liquid. Nada could foreseeably play for MVP next season.
cvt
Profile Joined November 2011
United States192 Posts
March 12 2012 23:23 GMT
#394
On March 12 2012 22:26 Mementoss wrote:
WHY?? QQ

Money, as always.
rauk
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States2228 Posts
March 12 2012 23:26 GMT
#395
On March 13 2012 07:48 Keone wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 12 2012 22:27 whiteLotus wrote:
whats with all the koreans "go foreign team" ? do they imagine that foreign teams have gold mines and can pay them 10k$ month?

1. Salary & Quality of Life. Most Koreans don't even get paid a basic salary, nothing; they have to live off their own earnings. Life is difficult, housing is difficult, eating is difficult... basically, it's a really tough life. Look at the EG house; it's like a Korean progamer's dream.
Quality of life is something you can't ignore, or blame them for. The Korean SC2 scene is still bad and underexposed.


wat. the housing/food might be true for zenex who charges for their players to stay at their team house but certainly not true for all the other pro houses.

Big-t
Profile Joined January 2011
Austria1350 Posts
March 12 2012 23:28 GMT
#396
Would be a shame for TL, if they really pic him. Not that Taeja is bad, but TL has some high requirements.
monchi | IdrA | Flash
Dandel Ion
Profile Joined November 2010
Austria17960 Posts
March 12 2012 23:31 GMT
#397
On March 13 2012 08:28 Big-t wrote:
Would be a shame for TL, if they really pic him. Not that Taeja is bad, but TL has some high requirements.

lol
Taeja is a friggin monster. ANY team would get better by having him in the roster.

No comment about TLs requirements...
A backwards poet writes inverse.
Apollo_Shards
Profile Joined February 2011
1210 Posts
March 12 2012 23:36 GMT
#398
On March 13 2012 07:13 MasterKang wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 13 2012 06:10 Cokefreak wrote:
On March 13 2012 06:08 fourColo wrote:
On March 13 2012 05:54 synapse wrote:
Time for Jessica to go on another rant huh....

Damn you must really hate Jessica huh... Cheap shot at the smallest opportunity.

Yeah terrible terrible cheap shot considering how she has acted in the past when a player left SlayerS... How dare he post like that!


You have absolutely no knowledge of the situation involving dragon, so how on earth would you know if her reaction was justified or not? Exactly you don't


Dat shining white armor...
Jaedong, sOs, avilo, MaSa, Oprah
VillageBC
Profile Joined January 2011
322 Posts
March 12 2012 23:38 GMT
#399
EG needs to bulk up more.

Taeja/Puma
Huk/JYP
Idra/???

Pick up another top Zerg and they are set. Then they just need to fill in the practice partners with some potential up and comers. =)
ptrpb
Profile Joined March 2011
Canada753 Posts
March 12 2012 23:42 GMT
#400
On March 13 2012 08:38 VillageBC wrote:
EG needs to bulk up more.

Taeja/Puma
Huk/JYP
Idra/???

Pick up another top Zerg and they are set. Then they just need to fill in the practice partners with some potential up and comers. =)

They got Machine man, he's a god in the works.
I'm not even joking, Machine has been workin pretty hard and making improvements.
MBAACC | SG | shit at fighting games
Prev 1 18 19 20 21 22 24 Next All
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
Next event in 5h 55m
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
WinterStarcraft481
RuFF_SC2 189
Nina 103
Livibee 16
StarCraft: Brood War
Noble 248
Shine 94
Shuttle 77
ZergMaN 67
soO 59
Larva 40
Sharp 35
Bale 15
Icarus 7
Dota 2
monkeys_forever382
NeuroSwarm132
League of Legends
JimRising 752
C9.Mang0579
Super Smash Bros
hungrybox380
Other Games
summit1g6812
ViBE45
minikerr33
Organizations
Other Games
gamesdonequick2528
StarCraft 2
Blizzard YouTube
StarCraft: Brood War
BSLTrovo
sctven
[ Show 15 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• practicex 50
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• intothetv
• Kozan
• IndyKCrew
• LaughNgamezSOOP
• Migwel
• sooper7s
StarCraft: Brood War
• RayReign 61
• iopq 3
• BSLYoutube
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
League of Legends
• Lourlo1092
• Stunt444
Upcoming Events
OSC
5h 55m
SKillous vs ArT
ArT vs Babymarine
NightMare vs TriGGeR
YoungYakov vs TBD
All-Star Invitational
20h 10m
INnoVation vs soO
Serral vs herO
Cure vs Solar
sOs vs Scarlett
Classic vs Clem
Reynor vs Maru
uThermal 2v2 Circuit
1d 5h
AI Arena Tournament
1d 13h
All-Star Invitational
1d 20h
MMA vs DongRaeGu
Rogue vs Oliveira
Sparkling Tuna Cup
2 days
OSC
2 days
Replay Cast
3 days
Wardi Open
3 days
Monday Night Weeklies
3 days
[ Show More ]
The PondCast
5 days
Replay Cast
6 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

Proleague 2026-01-14
Big Gabe Cup #3
NA Kuram Kup

Ongoing

C-Race Season 1
IPSL Winter 2025-26
BSL 21 Non-Korean Championship
CSL 2025 WINTER (S19)
Escore Tournament S1: W4
OSC Championship Season 13
Underdog Cup #3
BLAST Bounty Winter Qual
eXTREMESLAND 2025
SL Budapest Major 2025
ESL Impact League Season 8
BLAST Rivals Fall 2025
IEM Chengdu 2025

Upcoming

Acropolis #4
IPSL Spring 2026
Bellum Gens Elite Stara Zagora 2026
HSC XXVIII
Rongyi Cup S3
SC2 All-Star Inv. 2025
Nations Cup 2026
BLAST Open Spring 2026
ESL Pro League Season 23
ESL Pro League Season 23
PGL Cluj-Napoca 2026
IEM Kraków 2026
BLAST Bounty Winter 2026
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2026 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.