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Please stop with the jokes/posts that speculate something sexual or scandalous is at play here. They do not contribute to discussion and are generally of very poor taste.
GTPGlitch
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
5061 Posts
July 17 2012 04:12 GMT
#221
We all know what happened here.

Eve, jessica's daughter, had a crush on Boxer's son (mma obviously~). However, MMA was secretly in love with Crank, who loved Ryung, who loved Eve. Eve asked MMA out and Ryung heard, and he was like OMGWTF and decided to steal MMA's skill for a game to impress Eve (vs DRG). MMA didn't go out with Eve and tried to see Crank to go watch OSL, but Crank was in GOM studio watching Ryung's sexy play. Crank went to OSL after Ryung's matches with Ryung, where MMA was sitting by himself crying in a corner. MMA saw crank with ryung, challenging ryung to a duel for crank's heart in the greatest of challenges.

And so, after hours and hours of a bo9 all MU BGH games, MMA emerged victorious after beating ryung in set 9 when he drew protoss against ryung's terran. When Ryung's marine range-expand into stim firebat drop with proxy wraiths failed to MMA's 5gate goon 1star scout, Crank realized that he really loved MMA. Eve, heartbroken, decided that she would make love to the forgotten son to spite MMA, which caused Boxer to break free of Jessica's brainwashing and realize that other terran players actually existed. Shocked at the extent of Jessica's ploy to put Eve and MMA together, Boxer decided to stop playing because Jessica was actually crazy. Angry that MMA's non-eve love broke her plan, Jessica declared that MMA would be paid less than the janitor that works at NSH academy.

MMA was really upset, and declared that no foreign team would ever treat him this badly. Crank, in search of true love, declared his support for the son of Boxer, while Ryung was wondering why Jessica was such a bitch because hey boxer actually remembered his name once and he got laid and Eve was being emo and began to only play squadron TD.

The end :D
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Antares_
Profile Joined October 2011
Poland269 Posts
July 17 2012 04:13 GMT
#222
On July 17 2012 12:56 pdd wrote:
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On July 17 2012 12:55 DMKraft wrote:
Forget MMA we need to get MKP's wallet back! Internet Detectives, get out your oversized magnifying glasses and search for clues. Internet Tough Guys start telling us about how you would shake people down if you ever saw them in real life for information.

And Internet Trolls, blame JESSICA!

Maybe MMA stole MKP's wallet and SlayerS are punishing him for it, but MMA doesn't want to accept the punishment because it's his form of retribution for MKP stealing his early 2012 Terran bonjwa status?


It has to be it. Considering all facts revealed, it makes a perfect sense.
If you make no mistake, yet still lose - you don't understand the game. Spiral out, keep going.
OpTicalRH
Profile Joined June 2011
147 Posts
July 17 2012 04:13 GMT
#223
Hey I think I found the cause for all this drama!

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... maybe??
Daehlie
Profile Joined September 2010
United States43 Posts
July 17 2012 04:13 GMT
#224
Damn, and I just picked him over hero in liquibet in Code A. Damn, Karma is fast in returning me voting against TL. T.T
SK.MC ftw
ikh
Profile Joined May 2010
United Kingdom251 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-07-17 04:14:25
July 17 2012 04:13 GMT
#225
On July 17 2012 13:07 J1.au wrote:
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On July 17 2012 13:03 ikh wrote:
On July 17 2012 12:59 J1.au wrote:
On July 17 2012 12:49 ikh wrote:
On July 17 2012 12:42 J1.au wrote:
These kind of demotions were common in BW. The only thing controversial here was MMA's supposed reaction to this move. A player of his calibre would've made the A-team again in a little while.

yeah, true, but i think the context is slightly different as we're apparently talking about a punitive demotion. were there really notable, publicized cases of such in BW? can't really remember one.

I've already linked one, but sAviOr was another big one. He was temporarily demoted to the B-team in 2008 as well. You can find many, many more reading the BW roster change threads over the years.

The only reason I bring it up is because BoxeR is a huge proponent of the BW house system, and when I first read about the demotion I thought it would've been similiar to all these other ones from BW. Maybe it was some kind of punishment though?

uhh, my post was asking for punitive demotes, not demotes. unless i'm missing some weird cover-up story/theory, savior was not demoted for match fixing, he was permanently banned from playing for doing that, much like all other progamers involved in the scandal. he got demoted for slumping badly, no?

unless you meant he did something else to be punished for, which i can't really connect to his name at the moment.

I thought you were asking for more examples of B-team demotions, not punitive demotions. Those are actually pretty unheard of.

that's kind of the reason that makes me want to speculate MMA might've had it coming. boxer's been around the block and i don't think a simple dispute over who gets the last slice of pizza at lunch could end up in slayers snap-demoting the player who arguably has the most star power in their team. (after boxer anyway <3)
r4pture
Profile Joined May 2011
United States397 Posts
July 17 2012 04:14 GMT
#226
Nooo MMA, you were supposed to be the prince! The heir to the throne of Emperor of Terran! You can't leave SlayerS!
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Dalmatica
Profile Joined March 2011
United States39 Posts
July 17 2012 04:15 GMT
#227
On July 17 2012 13:14 r4pture wrote:
Nooo MMA, you were supposed to be the prince! The heir to the throne of Emperor of Terran! You can't leave SlayerS!

Queue "You were the chosen one" gif?
MVega
Profile Joined November 2010
763 Posts
July 17 2012 04:15 GMT
#228
On July 17 2012 13:13 OpTicalRH wrote:
Hey I think I found the cause for all this drama!

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[image loading]





... maybe??


Yeah I'd kick a guy out of my A-Team for posing with a pink phone too. And revoke his man card. But I do love MKP in his cute pink hoodie.
bumkin: How can you play like 50 games per day... I 4gate 2 times then it's nap time
canikizu
Profile Joined September 2010
4860 Posts
July 17 2012 04:16 GMT
#229
Maybe MMA is in love with MKP. I know a lot people go gay for him anyway.
lisward
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Singapore959 Posts
July 17 2012 04:16 GMT
#230
On July 17 2012 13:05 pdd wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 17 2012 13:00 CarpetmoOse wrote:
On July 17 2012 12:49 pdd wrote:
On July 17 2012 12:42 J1.au wrote:
These kind of demotions were common in BW. The only thing controversial here was MMA's supposed reaction to this move. A player of his calibre would've made the A-team again in a little while.

It's strange though, because as far as I know (well we don't know about practice ranks and stuff), MMA still is a better Terran than Clide, and then you've got players in the house who haven't been performing very well at all for ages and still stayed in the house (*cough*Alicia*cough*). Think about it, with MMA gone, Clide and Ryung (and Puma and Thorzain) are the only Terrans left in the SlayerS house. Meanwhile they've still got 5 Zergs (KDY, Miya, CoCa, YugiOh, Min). It just doesn't equate that he was demoted due to a fall in internal rankings.

I don't think this demotion is purely due to results/practice p
erformance. It's probably a disciplinary issue or something, money, lack of practice, other issues.


Are you freaking stupid or did you just fall on your head? Have you not seen Alicia finish runner up twice within the last month? MLG he got second to DRG, and this time he got second to Stephano at the NASL3 finals, yesterday at that as well (which face it, most P lose to Stephano anyways, all other imba, OP, ect talk disregarded). At least know how the team members are doing before you call them out.

I was talking about Alicia prior to his recent resurgence, dude got eliminated by Select in Code A and virtually disappeared off the face of the earth for a couple of months. No need to get worked up over one phrase in my argument.

The guy you replied to is a classic case of an idiot not knowing what he's talking about. Last thread I posted in about this I said the same thing, Alicia slumped way longer and had less results, so MMA shouldn't be kicked out due to results. People starting waving their fingers in the air screaming NASL TOP 2! If you followed GSL since last year you would know that Alicia was hyped up to be the next coming of Protoss only to drop out of GSL altogether for like more than half a year? I think he attended an MLG or two but didn't make it past the open tournament.
Opinions are like phasers -- everybody ought to have one
Benjamin99
Profile Joined April 2012
4176 Posts
July 17 2012 04:16 GMT
#231
On July 17 2012 13:09 bucckevin wrote:
SlayerS is my favorite team because of Boxer and MMA is my favorite SC2 player because of what he did while on SlayerS. MMA has been on huge huge slump and it wasn't uncommon for BW teams to demote their players or send them home. I think it happened to Bisu and Fantasy.

I'm really sad to hear this news but I'm not surprised. I thought it was strange that MMA didn't volunteer to come out in their last GSTL match. After Ryung won the match, everyone on the SlayerS bench was really happy, got up and started clapping, everyone except MMA. After attending the IPL event, MMA probably got approached by a foreign team and when he got back to Korea, he told SlayerS of his intention to join a foreign team. Because he was still under contract, SlayerS probably got mad and sent him home. MMA probably didn't take it too well and more than likely won't come back...... every single time someone changes their twitter name, they've pretty much decided they want to leave. I can't think of anyone who changed their twitter name and then remained with the team.. not a single one.


I'm sick and tired of foreign teams pooching top talents from Korea.... when will it stop?


It wont and its not pooching its just business just like any other sport in the world. You better get used to it
Stephano & Jaedong <-- The Pain Train. Polt and Innovation to EG plz
GhostLink
Profile Joined January 2011
United States450 Posts
July 17 2012 04:17 GMT
#232
This hurts SlayerS much more than it does MMA. I'll still be a fan of MMA no matter what team he joins, however, I only liked SlayerS because of MMA. Now, i don't particularly like any players from there..
Let a man play chess, and tell him that every pawn is his friend. Let him think both bishops holy. Let him remember happy days in the shadows of his castles. Let him love his queen. Watch him lose them all.
Whitewing
Profile Joined October 2010
United States7483 Posts
July 17 2012 04:17 GMT
#233
On July 17 2012 13:12 GTPGlitch wrote:
We all know what happened here.

Eve, jessica's daughter, had a crush on Boxer's son (mma obviously~). However, MMA was secretly in love with Crank, who loved Ryung, who loved Eve. Eve asked MMA out and Ryung heard, and he was like OMGWTF and decided to steal MMA's skill for a game to impress Eve (vs DRG). MMA didn't go out with Eve and tried to see Crank to go watch OSL, but Crank was in GOM studio watching Ryung's sexy play. Crank went to OSL after Ryung's matches with Ryung, where MMA was sitting by himself crying in a corner. MMA saw crank with ryung, challenging ryung to a duel for crank's heart in the greatest of challenges.

And so, after hours and hours of a bo9 all MU BGH games, MMA emerged victorious after beating ryung in set 9 when he drew protoss against ryung's terran. When Ryung's marine range-expand into stim firebat drop with proxy wraiths failed to MMA's 5gate goon 1star scout, Crank realized that he really loved MMA. Eve, heartbroken, decided that she would make love to the forgotten son to spite MMA, which caused Boxer to break free of Jessica's brainwashing and realize that other terran players actually existed. Shocked at the extent of Jessica's ploy to put Eve and MMA together, Boxer decided to stop playing because Jessica was actually crazy. Angry that MMA's non-eve love broke her plan, Jessica declared that MMA would be paid less than the janitor that works at NSH academy.

MMA was really upset, and declared that no foreign team would ever treat him this badly. Crank, in search of true love, declared his support for the son of Boxer, while Ryung was wondering why Jessica was such a bitch because hey boxer actually remembered his name once and he got laid and Eve was being emo and began to only play squadron TD.

The end :D


You need to right books for teenage girls, you'd make millions.
Strategy"You know I fucking hate the way you play, right?" ~SC2John
lisward
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Singapore959 Posts
July 17 2012 04:18 GMT
#234
On July 17 2012 13:17 GhostLink wrote:
This hurts SlayerS much more than it does MMA. I'll still be a fan of MMA no matter what team he joins, however, I only liked SlayerS because of MMA. Now, i don't particularly like any players from there..

Fuck I started watching sc2 because my friend got me to, but MMA made me fall in love with esports and I will always be rooting for him!!!!
Opinions are like phasers -- everybody ought to have one
ladyumbra
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
Canada1699 Posts
July 17 2012 04:19 GMT
#235
MMA needs to stay with Slayers, Ryung needs him for cute rivalry purposes. My heart broke once already when Polt left Prime ( and thus MKP), don't do that to me again

MCXD
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
Australia2738 Posts
July 17 2012 04:19 GMT
#236
On July 17 2012 13:17 GhostLink wrote:
This hurts SlayerS much more than it does MMA. I'll still be a fan of MMA no matter what team he joins, however, I only liked SlayerS because of MMA. Now, i don't particularly like any players from there..


Again, unfounded speculation but:
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I feel that MMA knows that, and that's why he disagreed with the decision publicly. It may have even been the cause of the issue in the first place. He is one of the most important players to SlayerS, so he MAY feel he has some leeway to cause trouble because he's too valuable to just kick out.
Mindflow
Profile Joined November 2010
Korea (South)320 Posts
July 17 2012 04:19 GMT
#237
Holy crap, shits hitting the fan on that team.
Alryk
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
United States2718 Posts
July 17 2012 04:19 GMT
#238
I can't imagine a Slayers without MMA... MMA -IS- slayers. It would be like slayers without boxer
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The Final Boss
Profile Joined February 2011
United States1839 Posts
July 17 2012 04:19 GMT
#239
I'm curious just what team he would plan on going to.

  • If EG wants to remain with SlayerS I would assume that they would be unable to pick up MMA.
  • Liquid might not just because they already have Taeja--a better performing Korean Terran--and if this thread is any indication of what is going on I am sure there will be a bit more controversy regarding a team's acquiring MMA (Liquid never seems to get into the middle of big player/team drama situations).
  • Fnatic is hardly even a "foreigner" team any more, as it seems they are focusing a lot of their efforts on training Korean players to play in Korea. Perhaps I am discounting them a bit, but I would be really surprised if a Korean player searching to play for a foreigner team chose to play for Fnatic.
  • Empire/the rest of Russia and Eastern Europe seems to be more concerned with acquiring foreigner talent rather then pursuing Koreans.
  • Millenium certainly does not need any more Terrans, and since they already recently acquired fOrGG and they are probably trying to hold onto Stephano, they will be more focused on other matters/players.


Obviously any of the teams above probably could pick up MMA, but seeing as he has not been performing well recently, there is some sort of controversy between him and SlayerS, and the fact that Terrans are just not in high demand right now, him getting a position on a foreigner team might be more difficult then I one might think. Plus I am sure that MMA would expect a huge price tag to go along with his being traded to another team. So the major foreigner teams that that leaves us with include: coL, Quantic, mouz. As a big mouz fan, I can honestly say that mouz.MMA would actually be an incredible sight to see. It still doesn't have quite the ring of SlayerS_MMA, but I think I could eventually learn to accept it. coL already has two Korean Terrans who are performing as well if not better then MMA. Granted, GanZi's relationship with MMA could possibly be a key factor in helping MMA get a position, but seeing as coL just invested a ton of money into their foreigner's training house, acquiring MMA might require funds that seem a bit too much. And finally you have Quantic, a team that does not mind its controversial players, has no connection with SlayerS, clearly has money, and they could use more Code S Terrans. Perhaps Quantic could pick MMA up, but I'll be honest, I won't be a fan of Quantic.MMA and I will never be able to get used to that name.

Of course, if MMA gets back into Code S and starts to play well there, literally everything I just said goes out the window. If he starts playing like MMA back when he won the GSL, then he can get a position on literally any team that can afford him.
NHY
Profile Joined October 2010
1013 Posts
July 17 2012 04:19 GMT
#240
On July 17 2012 13:14 r4pture wrote:
Nooo MMA, you were supposed to be the prince! The heir to the throne of Emperor of Terran! You can't leave SlayerS!


Maybe he tried to pull Arthas from Warcraft III.

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