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On July 31 2012 09:20 Wingblade wrote:Show nested quote +On July 31 2012 09:19 Silentenigma wrote:
There is no way a korean team getting him instead of a random grandmaster korean player.There are too many talented players in korea teamless.He might be a star in foreign community but in korean community he is nothing special imo. He finished top 8 in the GSL two seasons in a row. He's far better than some random grandmaster korean. That is impressive and far better than a majority of Koreans.
Except that if he wasn't a seeded foreigner, he would've never made it into / past the first round of code A 
Wonder why he left, there can't be many teams interested in someone with his personality & history.
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wow.... i really really didnt see this coming, im assuming sase and him have a plan or something... crazy news
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On July 31 2012 09:51 speknek wrote:Show nested quote +On July 31 2012 09:20 Wingblade wrote:On July 31 2012 09:19 Silentenigma wrote:
There is no way a korean team getting him instead of a random grandmaster korean player.There are too many talented players in korea teamless.He might be a star in foreign community but in korean community he is nothing special imo. He finished top 8 in the GSL two seasons in a row. He's far better than some random grandmaster korean. That is impressive and far better than a majority of Koreans. Except that if he wasn't a seeded foreigner, he would've never made it into / past the first round of code A Wonder why he left, there can't be many teams interested in someone with his personality & history.
That doesn't mean getting Ro8 Code S isn't impressive.
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There's pretty much zero chance of him joining a Korean team, so one of the European teams is a likely bet. Fnatic, Millenium, Mouz, Acer(pretty sure they're European), etc. One of those. i still don't understand WHY he left Quantic though.
Except that if he wasn't a seeded foreigner, he would've never made it into / past the first round of code A
Makes it to the Ro8 two seasons in a row taking DRG to game 5, yet he can't make it through Code A??
Something doesn't sound right there.
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Acer is a good guess also imo.
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On July 31 2012 09:55 unbaal wrote:
Acer is a good guess also imo.
But NaNiwa isn't zerg...
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On July 31 2012 09:51 speknek wrote:Show nested quote +On July 31 2012 09:20 Wingblade wrote:On July 31 2012 09:19 Silentenigma wrote:
There is no way a korean team getting him instead of a random grandmaster korean player.There are too many talented players in korea teamless.He might be a star in foreign community but in korean community he is nothing special imo. He finished top 8 in the GSL two seasons in a row. He's far better than some random grandmaster korean. That is impressive and far better than a majority of Koreans. Except that if he wasn't a seeded foreigner, he would've never made it into / past the first round of code A Wonder why he left, there can't be many teams interested in someone with his personality & history.
considering he's 90% surely one of the five most valuable foreigner players in the whole sc2 scene, i find the latter part hard to believe. he's got some of the best face recognition, a well-known personality and best recent results (arguably best overall results) as a foreigner in korea.
oh and the first part is kind of hard to swallow as well unless you're suggesting code A is harder than code S these days, in which case i should really get back to watching code A games :o
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other than the whole wonder where he's going thing, it's impressive how quantic's management is willing to give him the kind of freedom to leave if he isn't feeling like it
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This is quite shocking and unexpected news. I am quite curious to see what Naniwa plans to do since he was the one that requested the release.
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On July 31 2012 09:54 Havik_ wrote:There's pretty much zero chance of him joining a Korean team, so one of the European teams is a likely bet. Fnatic, Millenium, Mouz, Acer(pretty sure they're European), etc. One of those. i still don't understand WHY he left Quantic though. Show nested quote +Except that if he wasn't a seeded foreigner, he would've never made it into / past the first round of code A Makes it to the Ro8 two seasons in a row taking DRG to game 5, yet he can't make it through Code A?? Something doesn't sound right there.
Well his logic makes sense if you think a bit.
If he never got the seed would we have seen him in those 2 GSL code S top8? Nobody knows since it wasn't like that it happened.
Alltough you can play this silly game for everything 
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On July 31 2012 09:25 jnt404 wrote:
ICA.Naniwa incoming!
I lol'd
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i seriously love this guy. gl wherever you go. nomad
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People keep saying MC has an issue with Nani.. Didn't seem like MC had a problem when he thanked Naniwa for congratulating him
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On July 31 2012 10:04 dangerjoe wrote:
People keep saying MC has an issue with Nani.. Didn't seem like MC had a problem when he thanked Naniwa for congratulating him
MC has publicly stated that he doesn't like Nani because he considers him very BM. And of course he would thank Nani cause if he didn't that would be BM.
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He tweeted just the other day that he'd just returned home to Sweden, so I doubt a Korean team is really an option at this stage.
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On July 31 2012 09:56 ikh wrote:Show nested quote +On July 31 2012 09:51 speknek wrote:On July 31 2012 09:20 Wingblade wrote:On July 31 2012 09:19 Silentenigma wrote:
There is no way a korean team getting him instead of a random grandmaster korean player.There are too many talented players in korea teamless.He might be a star in foreign community but in korean community he is nothing special imo. He finished top 8 in the GSL two seasons in a row. He's far better than some random grandmaster korean. That is impressive and far better than a majority of Koreans. Except that if he wasn't a seeded foreigner, he would've never made it into / past the first round of code A Wonder why he left, there can't be many teams interested in someone with his personality & history. considering he's 90% surely one of the five most valuable foreigner players in the whole sc2 scene, i find the latter part hard to believe. he's some of the best face recognition, a well-known personality and best recent results (arguably best overall results) as a foreigner in korea. oh and the first part is kind of hard to swallow as well unless you're suggesting code A is harder than code S these days, in which case i should really get back to watching code A games :o
Top 5 in terms of skill? Absolutely. Top 5 most valuable? Definitely not. He doesn't travel much to foreign tournaments. He does average/poorly when he does travel. He doesn't have that good of an attitude. He doesn't really stream. He doesn't cast or contribute to the community. And a hell of a lot of people hate him, pros and koreans included. Plus the cons involved when dishing out the money for a foreign player in the GSL when you are a foreign team with foreign sponsors.
Considering all of those factors, I'd say he's one of the least valuable top players out there. The only draw for him being the possibility of being the first foreigner to win a GSL, which would be rather huge for any team and sponsor, regardless of where the sponsors are located.
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On July 31 2012 10:09 Slider954 wrote:Show nested quote +On July 31 2012 10:04 dangerjoe wrote:
People keep saying MC has an issue with Nani.. Didn't seem like MC had a problem when he thanked Naniwa for congratulating him MC has publicly stated that he doesn't like Nani because he considers him very BM. And of course he would thank Nani cause if he didn't that would be BM.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure MC stated that a long time ago..
MC also praised Nani's new build vs Zerg in the same tweet.
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god.. Imagine if he went to EG lol Suppy/idra/naniwa in one room, who gets out alive? lol
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On July 31 2012 09:51 speknek wrote:Show nested quote +On July 31 2012 09:20 Wingblade wrote:On July 31 2012 09:19 Silentenigma wrote:
There is no way a korean team getting him instead of a random grandmaster korean player.There are too many talented players in korea teamless.He might be a star in foreign community but in korean community he is nothing special imo. He finished top 8 in the GSL two seasons in a row. He's far better than some random grandmaster korean. That is impressive and far better than a majority of Koreans. Except that if he wasn't a seeded foreigner, he would've never made it into / past the first round of code A Wonder why he left, there can't be many teams interested in someone with his personality & history.
Didn't DRG need a seed to get into Code S? It's been a long time, but if I remember correctly, he won a seed through an MLG. Not that DRG doesn't deserve Code S, but discounting Naniwa's achievements in Code S because of a seed is pretty lame.
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People are surprised? O_o
On July 31 2012 06:18 Retgery wrote:
How many times now has Naniwa switched teams?
I didn't see this coming either, but come on, guys. m-D
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