Nothing is "up" They all came to this decision themselves, remember they all have spent 2 years practicing and doing so at a very stressful level and still not seen success after that long you start to wonder if you will ever do well on a global scale, how long would you continue with that before you thought about career change?

bokchoi

Korea (South)9498 Posts

January 31 2013 10:40 GMT

#25

Sad to see. Definitely talented players, but hard to make it big in such a competitive scene/environment. Best of luck to them in the future.

dabom88

United States3483 Posts

January 31 2013 10:44 GMT

#26

I personally think it'd be cool to see if they go on to play LoL.

Windows 7

United States236 Posts

January 31 2013 10:56 GMT

#27

oops wrong thread, sorry :[

LeLfe

France3160 Posts

January 31 2013 10:56 GMT

#28

good luck to them! a bit disappointed that Whale never really managed to break through, I thought he had the potential

Locke-

499 Posts

January 31 2013 10:57 GMT

#29

Damn, I liked them.

Goibon

New Zealand8185 Posts

January 31 2013 11:00 GMT

#30

I remember seeing some pretty good games out of asd in the past. A shame.

Grettin

42417 Posts

January 31 2013 11:17 GMT

#31

People come and go. Good luck!

Sumahi

Guam5609 Posts

January 31 2013 11:17 GMT

#32

Sad day for FXO. Good luck to the players!

SHOOG

United States1639 Posts

January 31 2013 11:26 GMT

#33

Ah, very unfortunate. Always sad to see players retire, but I completely understand why. I can imagine how tough it must be to play for that long without ever seeing many results.
Especially sad to see asd go. I enjoyed watching him play quite a bit.
GL to all of them.

Olli

Austria24422 Posts

January 31 2013 11:29 GMT

#34

On January 31 2013 18:58 PulseKane wrote:
You can't be....

Serious...

YEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!

Lol, so evil

Good luck to the guys, hope they find something soon

SlixSC

666 Posts

January 31 2013 11:30 GMT

#35

I think with all the kespa players playing sc2 now for a while, most of the lower tier esf players will either have to step it up alot or retire. there is just an oversaturation of pro players in the sc2 scene.

Ace1123

Philippines1187 Posts

January 31 2013 11:31 GMT

#36

GGWP. GL on your future lives!

blackbrrd

Norway477 Posts

January 31 2013 11:34 GMT

#37

Probably a good decision if you can't get out of Code B. Two years should be enough to either get some results or see that you won't go anywhere.

NotoriousBig

Germany301 Posts

January 31 2013 11:54 GMT

#38

Not really unexpected, but good luck to them.
I am curious what´s about FXO Kong, because he doesn´t play in teamleagues nor GSL and is still in the roster.

Cauldron

Finland125 Posts

January 31 2013 11:56 GMT

#39

All the best for the future!

Darrkhan

Finland1236 Posts

January 31 2013 11:57 GMT

#40

On January 31 2013 19:07 PixelNite wrote:

Show nested quote +

I think so, FXOTear said in his interview he would have retired if he didn't pass those preliminaries

PHEW I would have been really sad if Tear retired

I don't really know whale and sirius (only remember whale playing really weird in some FXO vs X team match, most likely was really nervous :DD) asd was quite cool guy sucks that he retired.
Well good luck to all of them