aw man, sad news. i watched asd streaming quite often. while he was no gumiho, he definitely entertained with his play. best of luck to all of them in their future endeavors.

Eskiya23

Netherlands105 Posts

January 31 2013 22:21 GMT

#144

Was an avid watcher of asd's stream, sad to see them go. Is it because of the ever growing skillcap with all these KeSPA players joining, or is it the harsh nature of running eSports bussinesses? Leenock is the Zerg variant of MarineKingPrime, very skillfull and entertaining to watch games.

RDaneelOlivaw

Vatican City State733 Posts

January 31 2013 22:40 GMT

#145

Bound to happen. The wheat and the chaff are being separated. Still sad to see though, my friend and I were just wondering what happened to asdfou the other day

t e a C h e r

Canada151 Posts

January 31 2013 22:41 GMT

#146

This sucks, I liked asd sometimes, was a decent terran

revoN

Japan804 Posts

January 31 2013 23:06 GMT

#147

Good luck to them in the future. I only knew of asd but forgot about his existence.

Some people have been pointing out that they quit because the scene is over-saturated with good players (even more so since the Kespa have returned to claim their birthright). I mean if you gamble your entire career on qualifying for just ONE tournament (GSL) then good luck and have fun. This is why the Proleague format is the best. You don't see players quit just because they fail to qualify for individual leagues since there's always the PL to fall back on (that plus a stable salary). If anyone is even to blame then it should be GOM since they had 2+ years to make SC2 progamer a viable career (and they kind of failed).

Brace yourselves because we'll see a lot more players retiring in the near future as well (with majority of them being non-Kespa, that's for sure).

Bippzy

United States1466 Posts

January 31 2013 23:31 GMT

#148

Whale whale whale, it seems these three players are siriusly considered asdone with their careers.

I enjoyed really only asd, but good luck in life to all 3!

negativedge

4279 Posts

February 01 2013 01:10 GMT

#149

On January 31 2013 19:07 PixelNite wrote:

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

really makes you want to cheer for Tear in Code A

Xiphos

Canada7507 Posts

February 01 2013 02:12 GMT

#150

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

Serious...

YEAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!

User was warned for this post

Hey why was this guy warned? This post was appropriately funny.

kochanfe

Micronesia1338 Posts

February 01 2013 03:06 GMT

#151

awww... Whale recently beat Creator in IPTL if i'm not mistaken, and asd and Sirius were always pretty alright. Too bad, but GL to all three.

sunglasseson

United States145 Posts

February 01 2013 03:16 GMT

#152

its just all over this guy retires that guy retires except you never hear of them outside of them retiring...

lessQQmorePEWPEW

Jamaica921 Posts

February 01 2013 04:46 GMT

#153

Not surprized. I expect to see alot more players retiring especially in Korea. Alot of the middle tier players are gonna get shoved out of their places by the kespa dudes. No matter what said and done, gotta give it to the kespa guys for catching up so damn quickly.

mango_destroyer

Canada3914 Posts

February 01 2013 05:26 GMT

#154

darn

I liked watching asds games. I hope theBest is still motivated.

zERG_bONG

United States4 Posts

February 01 2013 05:51 GMT

#155

Good luck to these guys. asd was really fun to watch

DeadCell

Canada256 Posts

February 01 2013 07:16 GMT

#156

I'll be honest I really didn't know much about Whale or Sirius; But asd I really did enjoy your games and you will be missed.

GL in whatever you three decide to pursue now.

mYiKane

Canada1772 Posts

February 01 2013 07:32 GMT

#157

On February 01 2013 11:12 Xiphos wrote:

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Hey why was this guy warned? This post was appropriately funny.

haters gonna hate

Terranist

United States2496 Posts

February 01 2013 07:48 GMT

#158

with hots on the horizon i think a lot of the has-beens of WoL will be in the same position as these guys were.

boxerfred

Germany8360 Posts

February 01 2013 13:41 GMT

#159

Well, they reached the point where they realized that Code B players cannot pay a home if you see it on a long term. So they moved on to earn money. E-sports is still a sport where only the best can live from - not every player makes 300k USD in 2 years, such as MC did (don't blame me if I misstook 10k or 20k dollars

.

We as fans know that, sponsors and teams know that, and the fact that people stop playing esports on a professional level should be another motivation for organizers, team managers etc. to work even harder to push e-sports to even higher levels!

A german football player, playing in the "Dritte Bundesliga" which kinda would be code B in SC2 can still live from is salary without too hard problems. I'm so hoping we will get this status also into e-sports among the next ten or twenty years...