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Canada16217 Posts
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It’s been a little over a year since we welcomed jEcho to our team. Previously with LagTT, Joseph Lopez showed a new kind of potential and atmospheric confidence that we had never seen before as he came aboard.
During his run in the recent ESEA season, he performed the most out of the entire team with a record of 10 wins and 1 loss. Beyond that, he was invited recently to participate in WCS Canada, coming close to defeating HuK in the lower bracket and is a constant participant in Playhem Opens coming in second place three times, only to have lost to some of the best Zergs around: TSL4 qualifying player, Hyun, and TSL player Revival.
jEcho has represented both Canada and Infinity Seven in the best way possible during his time on the team, his stream was a constant source of calm and tactile play, but also displayed knowledge and strategy before, during and after every match whether he was winning or losing.
About leaving the team jEcho had the following to say:
“I’ve been with Infinity Seven since the start and loved every second of my time there. As time progressed some players left and new players joined but no matter what it always felt like a family, B teamers and management included. I’m proud to have been a part of the journey to becoming a top 5 North American team. Unfortunately with my final year of school coming up goals for the future had to be changed. I’ll miss everyone on the team and wish them the best of luck in the future.”
It’s with a heavy heart that we say farewell to jEcho as he moves on to bolder endeavors and wish him the best of luck in whatever he does."
Article:http://infinityseven.net/our-canadian-zerg-jecho-says-goodbye/
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Good choice, have to respect it.
EDIT: it's a damn shame though
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Hmm, interesting. Wonder why he left, quite a good zerg player, but I'm not sure if he's quite noticed enough to get something better than iS, which is pretty solid. GL to JEcho in the future.
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Canada16217 Posts
On August 03 2012 03:24 Pokebunny wrote:
Hmm, interesting. Wonder why he left, quite a good zerg player, but I'm not sure if he's quite noticed enough to get something better than iS, which is pretty solid. GL to JEcho in the future.
Sounds like you didn't read the post lol.
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On August 03 2012 03:24 Pokebunny wrote:
Hmm, interesting. Wonder why he left, quite a good zerg player, but I'm not sure if he's quite noticed enough to get something better than iS, which is pretty solid. GL to JEcho in the future.
Im assuming he left because of how busy he will be with school as said in the post. Maybe he doesn't feel right staying on the iS roster if he's incapable of giving 100% due to other commitments.
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He made the right choice.
Best of luck to him.
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On August 03 2012 03:31 Monochromatic wrote:
He made the right choice.
Best of luck to him.
why do you say that?
also gl jo-lo
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On August 03 2012 03:24 Pokebunny wrote:
Hmm, interesting. Wonder why he left, quite a good zerg player, but I'm not sure if he's quite noticed enough to get something better than iS, which is pretty solid. GL to JEcho in the future.
He said it's going to be his last year of school which probably means hard classes and more workload so I think it's more of a priorities thing than being unsatisfied with iS.
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On August 03 2012 03:26 NovemberstOrm wrote:Show nested quote +On August 03 2012 03:24 Pokebunny wrote:
Hmm, interesting. Wonder why he left, quite a good zerg player, but I'm not sure if he's quite noticed enough to get something better than iS, which is pretty solid. GL to JEcho in the future. Sounds like you didn't read the post lol.
I did read the post.
I'm pretty sure a team like iS doesn't require you to play xx hours a day to stay on the team. Unless teams are paying you a salary on top of events, they're alright if you go inactive, you just won't go to events. I may be wrong, but I have a feeling JEcho didn't have a salary on iS.
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What a shame, pretty sick zerg too
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It's always sad when a player leaves a team. Best of luck to jEcho i hope we'll see more from him in the future!
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Great player and great stream. Always commentates and is great for learning from. Wish him the best in whatever is next for him.
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Does this mean he won't join another team most likely in the near future? Maybe he'll stop playing completely? That's really a shame, he improved quite a lot over the last time.
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Sad to see him go, hopefully when school is over in a year he'll be back to be a part of the HotS squad.
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On August 03 2012 03:44 Pokebunny wrote:Show nested quote +On August 03 2012 03:26 NovemberstOrm wrote:On August 03 2012 03:24 Pokebunny wrote:
Hmm, interesting. Wonder why he left, quite a good zerg player, but I'm not sure if he's quite noticed enough to get something better than iS, which is pretty solid. GL to JEcho in the future. Sounds like you didn't read the post lol. I did read the post. I'm pretty sure a team like iS doesn't require you to play xx hours a day to stay on the team. Unless teams are paying you a salary on top of events, they're alright if you go inactive, you just won't go to events. I may be wrong, but I have a feeling JEcho didn't have a salary on iS.
He wants to focus more on school... It's not unheard of to quit gaming for real life things.
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Hmm, his reason makes sense however he also did not say he was retiring, which leaves the door open to joining another team.
I have to say, there have been some interesting excuses by players recently for getting out of contracts. Like Crank leaving Slayers due to injury, but then continuing to play lots of Starcraft while publicly shopping himself to foreign teams (unless I am misunderstanding the situation).
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Shame to see his go, but it looks like he is going to focus solely on school, so good for him. Maybe he can come back to the scene when he finishes school up.
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jEcho is one of the biggest talents in the NA scene and was a always a bit underrated I feel. Hope to see him back after he finished school!
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On August 03 2012 04:01 ridethecatbus wrote:
Hmm, his reason makes sense however he also did not say he was retiring, which leaves the door open to joining another team.
I have to say, there have been some interesting excuses by players recently for getting out of contracts. Like Crank leaving Slayers due to injury, but then continuing to play lots of Starcraft while publicly shopping himself to foreign teams (unless I am misunderstanding the situation).
you would be misunderstanding the situation, my contract has been up for a couple weeks so i wasn't getting out of anything. Also i dont intend on quitting starcraft.
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Jecho was one of the coolest guys in all of MLG. Super cordial...super talented, made me feel like I was his friend, even though I had never met him before. If there is justice in the universe, he will EASILY join any team he wants.
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