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United States23455 Posts
On December 24 2012 05:24 derpface wrote:
I think its more than just going there to learn pure English to be honest.
Seems kind of farfetched to just travel to the USA to learn english.
Ofcourse you can move to USA to learn english but to me it sounds rather odd, the language barrier isnt huge for him (rather say its almost non-excistant since he speaks it well). For a foreigner its usually harder to speak english than read it. And to be able to read it is what he needs to be able to do if he wants to study there. And thats what I think he will do. He believes he has enough english skills to study his main courses there but he also wants to improve on his english skills while just studying his main stuff.
Or Polt just wanted to kill two birds with one stone: join a foreign team, get an actual salary, and go to foreign events, but also go to an American university and get better at English. Polt only has one year left to go to finish his major, so he can go back whenever he wants when his progaming career is done. He's 24 and probably has 2-3 years of being a very good player, especially since he has never been known for his hand speed. I don't see this as a semi-retirement, but more of a chance to win lots of money in 2012 and have a less hectic schedule.
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The way I see it, Polt is milking what is left of his progaming career to earn as much money as possible and learn some English along the way. From what I remember from an interview, his parents prefer him studying in SNU rather than gaming, and he probably respects the decision and doesn't want to delay his education too long. Considering Polt is fairly old for a progamer, he is at the peak of his popularity and skills, so why not join a foreign team, gain more recognition, travel, master a language and play in easier foreign tournaments? I doubt Polt will stay until LotV, so a long-term SC2 career isn't his goal, its taking the opportunity to maximize his gains while doing his passions.
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Polt at more foreign tournaments, I love it!
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On December 24 2012 05:53 PhoenixVoid wrote:
The way I see it, Polt is milking what is left of his progaming career to earn as much money as possible and learn some English along the way. From what I remember from an interview, his parents prefer him studying in SNU rather than gaming, and he probably respects the decision and doesn't want to delay his education too long. Considering Polt is fairly old for a progamer, he is at the peak of his popularity and skills, so why not join a foreign team, gain more recognition, travel, master a language and play in easier foreign tournaments? I doubt Polt will stay until LotV, so a long-term SC2 career isn't his goal, its taking the opportunity to maximize his gains while doing his passions.
As a carrier plan, you gotta agree the 2 / 3 years of playing SC2 really paid off for him.
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On December 24 2012 06:53 Noocta wrote:Show nested quote +On December 24 2012 05:53 PhoenixVoid wrote:
The way I see it, Polt is milking what is left of his progaming career to earn as much money as possible and learn some English along the way. From what I remember from an interview, his parents prefer him studying in SNU rather than gaming, and he probably respects the decision and doesn't want to delay his education too long. Considering Polt is fairly old for a progamer, he is at the peak of his popularity and skills, so why not join a foreign team, gain more recognition, travel, master a language and play in easier foreign tournaments? I doubt Polt will stay until LotV, so a long-term SC2 career isn't his goal, its taking the opportunity to maximize his gains while doing his passions. As a carrier plan, you gotta agree the 2 / 3 years of playing SC2 really paid off for him.
For sure. When he won the Super Tournament he was still studying and that was only the point where people realised that he wasn't just the other Terran in Prime that wears glasses and uses bio. In his year off he's improved so much as a player and he consistently proves that he's one of the best Terrans in the world. He's also one of the most popular Korean players in the foreign community and he's done that without being on a foreign team or being Mvp.
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On December 24 2012 00:25 X3GoldDot wrote:Show nested quote +On December 23 2012 23:54 Elroi wrote:
Isn't this going into semi retirement? Or can you study and stay relevant in the sc2 scene at the same time? (It wasn't possible in BW at least...) as stated previosly, Life still attends school and just won a gsl, and he already has 2 GSLs, i believe flash did attend school too back when he was godmoding everyone
He attends compulsory school for kids, it is not really comparable. Flash only slept in school to be able to practice during the nights.
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On December 23 2012 17:36 Tushig wrote:
EG!
:D
Nope... EG is not picking him up 
TL probably won't pick him up either
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English is a pretty hard language to learn. Good luck to him but knowing how good at English he already is he'll probably do just fine. I hope for the best for him!
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The more I marinade on the possible choices for Polt, the better TL sounds. But I do think a big turn off is Polt deciding to move to the US to focus on language.
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fnaticRC.Polt !
actually i d like to see whole TSL join fnatic incl. Coach Lee, haha
seriously aLive, Polt, Oz, HyuN and SymboL would not only revive the fnatic koreans to old strength, but also look pretty damn oldschool. 
well one may dream...
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no nazgul or TL management posts, pretty obvious!
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On December 24 2012 10:28 GreyKnight wrote:
no nazgul or TL management posts, pretty obvious!
The secret is out!
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On December 24 2012 07:46 Elroi wrote:Show nested quote +On December 24 2012 00:25 X3GoldDot wrote:On December 23 2012 23:54 Elroi wrote:
Isn't this going into semi retirement? Or can you study and stay relevant in the sc2 scene at the same time? (It wasn't possible in BW at least...) as stated previosly, Life still attends school and just won a gsl, and he already has 2 GSLs, i believe flash did attend school too back when he was godmoding everyone He attends compulsory school for kids, it is not really comparable. Flash only slept in school to be able to practice during the nights.
Is that really true about Flash? Or was it exaggerated to show how much he practiced. No offense, if it was only a few days, then it was ok. But if he was consistently allowed to sleep in class just because he was a top progamer, that is pretty irresponsible of the school. Kids should at least finish high school before they decide to stop their education.
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I am not sure how he will be a full time student and a full time gamer. I understand he needs to think about his future but it would really suck if we lost the Polt we know...
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On December 24 2012 10:20 Inzan1ty wrote:fnaticRC.Polt ! actually i d like to see whole TSL join fnatic incl. Coach Lee, haha seriously aLive, Polt, Oz, HyuN and SymboL would not only revive the fnatic koreans to old strength, but also look pretty damn oldschool. well one may dream...
Yeah but Polt said that he wants to go to US, and Fnatics teamhouse is in korea.
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On December 22 2012 20:57 AnYvia wrote:
:O WHAT?!
Polt to EG or TL. Who's with me ?
He's from TSL, so of course it'll be EG 
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United States97276 Posts
FXO.NA Polt. He'd be a good fit
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EPT
