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tassblaster
Profile Joined March 2011
Canada47 Posts
May 07 2012 22:10 GMT
#81
Tabernak Tabernak!
Props to Kiwikaki for his sc2 skills. and amazing builds

best of luck to you.
e4e5nf3
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
Canada599 Posts
May 07 2012 22:11 GMT
#82
Retired from the pro-scene but I'm sure he'll play for fun every now and then. Hope he streams some games.
King takes Queen
Diavlo
Profile Joined July 2011
Belgium2915 Posts
May 07 2012 22:14 GMT
#83
On May 08 2012 06:13 chriZqq wrote:
The only NA Player ever taking a Map of Stephano is retired, sad day for the american guys


Sheth is 2-0 against Stephano.
Also Axslax and chance both took a map from Stephano since he lost that famous IPL game by not remembering the hotkey of Vortex
"I don't know how many years on this Earth I got left. I'm gonna get real weird with it."
IMHope
Profile Joined February 2011
Korea (South)1241 Posts
May 07 2012 22:14 GMT
#84
Kiwi posted on his fan club page that he retired a while back. Still sad to see him go as he was a good foreigner and had creative strategies.
Jessica Jung, Kim Taeyeon, Kwon Yuri <333
nooboon
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
2602 Posts
May 07 2012 22:16 GMT
#85
Never forget. The old Root gaming clan.

Best of luck to his future endeavors. Who knows, maybe he'll win a world series of poker bracelet.
Oreo7
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States1647 Posts
May 07 2012 22:18 GMT
#86
Sad to see Kiwi retire. I still remember that first MLG final him vrs HuK PvP and being amazed by high ground warp in when 4gating. <3


On May 08 2012 06:24 Disposition1989 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 08 2012 06:14 Torte de Lini wrote:
This is beyond old news.

thanks for contributing to the thread


How else will he get 30k posts?!?!
Stork HerO and Protoss everywhere - redfive on bnet
Noocta
Profile Joined June 2010
France12578 Posts
May 07 2012 22:19 GMT
#87
Sad news.
He was always a fun guy to watch play. The first and still only one who used offensive recall in offical games.
" I'm not gonna fight you. I'm gonna kick your ass ! "
Farmer Poopy
Profile Joined October 2011
258 Posts
May 07 2012 22:22 GMT
#88
I knew no one was picking him up after reign disbanded but i wasn't sure if he was still playing or not. Well, best of luck to him in all his other endeavors
JOJOsc2news
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
3000 Posts
May 07 2012 22:24 GMT
#89
This has been rumored for a while now. It's really sad in my opinion. I remember watching and learning a lot from Kiwikaki replays and VOD's. The crazy mothership tactics will always be remembered. I guess it makes sense to retire before HotS. Kiwi goes together with the mothership.

Kiwi, yo mommaship so fat and yo mommaship play so good, it'll leave a huge empty space in my Protoss heart.

✉ Tweets @sc2channel ⌦ Blog: http://www.teamliquid.net/blog/JOJO ⌫ "Arbiterssss... build more arbiterssss." Click 'Profile' for awesome shiro art!
Dumboprime
Profile Joined March 2011
985 Posts
May 07 2012 22:24 GMT
#90
wow that sucks
legaton
Profile Joined December 2010
France1763 Posts
May 07 2012 22:26 GMT
#91
Didn't TT1 announce this like two weeks ago?
No GG, No Skill - Jaedong <3
daxile
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada829 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-07 22:27:53
May 07 2012 22:27 GMT
#92
On May 08 2012 06:13 StarStruck wrote:
He was an incredibly skilled poker player before even breaking into SC2. He went where the money is. Juggling both isn't an easy task and he did it for long enough.

I'm sure with HotS we'll see a bit more of him again. o;

You completely forgot to mention he was amazing at WarCraft 3 before he was any good at poker.
to live is to suffer
JOJOsc2news
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
3000 Posts
May 07 2012 22:27 GMT
#93
On May 08 2012 07:26 legaton wrote:
Didn't TT1 announce this like two weeks ago?


Yup, he mentioned it.
✉ Tweets @sc2channel ⌦ Blog: http://www.teamliquid.net/blog/JOJO ⌫ "Arbiterssss... build more arbiterssss." Click 'Profile' for awesome shiro art!
redDuke
Profile Joined March 2011
Australia207 Posts
May 07 2012 22:32 GMT
#94
oh no kiwi!!! so sad to hear dude. GL with the career change
vile | FXO | Liquid | EG | coL
FiWiFaKi
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Canada9859 Posts
May 07 2012 22:33 GMT
#95
Now my name wont have the meaning I want behind it ): Old-school protoss were the best...
In life, the journey is more satisfying than the destination. || .::Entrepreneurship::. Living a few years of your life like most people won't, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can't || Mechanical Engineering & Economics Major
Apollo_Shards
Profile Joined February 2011
1210 Posts
May 07 2012 22:33 GMT
#96
On May 08 2012 06:37 An2quamaraN wrote:
He didn't even care to announce it himself. That's some display of respect for his fans.


Good thing people who arent morons are his fans and arent offended.
Jaedong, sOs, avilo, MaSa, Oprah
Hollow
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
Canada2180 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-07 22:42:32
May 07 2012 22:39 GMT
#97
On May 08 2012 06:13 StarStruck wrote:
He was an incredibly skilled poker player before even breaking into SC2. He went where the money is. Juggling both isn't an easy task and he did it for long enough.

I'm sure with HotS we'll see a bit more of him again. o;


This is the type of comment that comes up all the time and that I find baffling. I don't understand why people make these assumptions. "He went where the money is." I'd almost find this insulting if I was him. If he is so money-driven, why did he ever take SC2 so seriously at all? You think he had the stupid belief that he would make more money in a video game than in poker after he just had a $200,000 year? Are you for real? How about choosing to do what you enjoy the most?

He's more than comfortable, he doesn't need to make money. I think the truth is his passion for the game diminished. I haven't asked him myself, but I know this is what happened to a lot of StarCraft players/poker players (myself included). A passion simply exhausts itself. There's no reason to stop doing something you enjoy tremendously, unless you absolutely need to, and Kiwi doesn't absolutely need to play poker, so this assumption is very silly to say the least.
iYiYi
Profile Joined March 2011
United States489 Posts
May 07 2012 22:39 GMT
#98
He's been inactive forever. I am sure he will pop up at few tournaments here and there, it's not like things will be any different from the past year.
JOJOsc2news
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
3000 Posts
May 07 2012 22:41 GMT
#99
On May 08 2012 07:33 FiWiFaKi wrote:
Now my name wont have the meaning I want behind it ): Old-school protoss were the best...


The old and wise will always recognize it.
It's retro.
✉ Tweets @sc2channel ⌦ Blog: http://www.teamliquid.net/blog/JOJO ⌫ "Arbiterssss... build more arbiterssss." Click 'Profile' for awesome shiro art!
Nuclease
Profile Joined August 2011
United States1049 Posts
May 07 2012 22:44 GMT
#100
That's kind of a bummer. But it's cool that he's making dat BANK!

GLHF KIWI!
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