In order to compete and challenge in the world of tanks, Team AZUBU Last Pride (Guild Wars2) and Starcraft Terran Genius NADA( Eun Yul Lee) will be working together as a team.
Not a great combination at the first sight, but they have one thing very important in common, “strategy”. AZUBU Last Pride has the reputation in Guild wars 1, winning several major tournaments. The LP is well-known for playing with the new strategy and the build, adapted to their team play in each tournament. That is why they had the most fans in Guild wars because they were fun to watch.
NADA (Eun Yul Lee) is also a player, who was very well known with the nick name “Genius”. His strategy in the game has shown the breaking play in the StarCraft history. Another tactic was controlling of many Cease Tanks at once, making it as one of his trade mark in the game. Now he is bringing his tanks with LP to the world of tanks’ battle field.
The world of tanks, the game in need of the best team work and strategy make us to crave the excitement that the new team will bring to us once and for all. The official date of their appearance in the league has not been decided yet, but you will be able to watch them through AZUBU TV. The process of the creation of a new team, their game play, and finally their appearance in the world of tanks league will be shown on AZUBU TV.
Stay tuned and cheer for their progress in the new gaming world.
So the legend of Brood War and a very good starcraft 2 player will now play World of Tanks , this is big news .... so bad nada didnt returned to starcraft 2 HOTS (
Edit: This is nice we will see NADA on GOMTV again because of their world of Tanks tournament
Not surprising. AZUBU posted a picture of him on reddit playing world of tanks a week or two ago and made it sound like he plays quite a bit. Good luck NaDa. We will miss you in starcraft
Oh man, I feel that people who have accomplished so much in their respective games in their time should just be remembered for that. Just like theBALLS said, it's like michael jordan playing baseball. But whatever floats your boats NaDa. GL.
Can't believe World of Tanks is successful. I remember playing it at Gamescom year before last and thinking it was really crap and would never succeed due to the density of the market. The devs seemed like cool guys though so I'm glad they're making movements.
I've watched a match of World of Tanks on YouTube and I just don't understand Nada's switch. I don't see any excitement in it at all, but to each their own I guess.
Having seen much of Nada's career unfold I could only wish the best for him.
Between 2001 and 2009 he had some great results at times setting records early on etc. Then even coming out of retirement for all intensive purposes to play SC2 he had a pretty decent run in GSL.
Just can't help but feel like in the twilight of his career (he's almost 30 which is rough for competitive play) that switching to world of tanks will be more akin to Michael Jordan playing baseball then anything.
Still it would be nice to see him be successful if he can manage it.
It looks like to me that WoT's developers are using NaDa's name to promote the game in Korea. I've played the game and it boggles my mind how this can be eSport material.
On March 04 2013 01:26 TurboMaN wrote: World of tanks is an eSports game? I know the game from a review but the skill required is nowhere near SC2.
The only reason I see him doing this is for money (maybe a sponsor contract or sth)...
Theare doing this because A) he probably enjoys the game B) their other team needs help, and lets be honest I think NaDa can help them C) WoT doesn't require the skill of sc2 is an opinionated statement because the two don't require the same skills at all. Now, no most games don't require the skill for sc2, that doesn't make or break a game as an esport.
On March 04 2013 01:26 TurboMaN wrote: World of tanks is an eSports game? I know the game from a review but the skill required is nowhere near SC2.
The only reason I see him doing this is for money (maybe a sponsor contract or sth)...
"X Game does not have the skills that sc2 has, therefor it is not an esport!"
Boy, its a good thing you are a minority, otherwise LoL, CS, Halo, etc would never be esports and the ONLY thing we would have is starcraft.... how disgusting that could be.
This guy is just doing everything these days. Don't like it though
Boy, its a good thing you are a minority, otherwise LoL, CS, Halo, etc would never be esports and the ONLY thing we would have is starcraft.... how disgusting that could be.
I gotta admit, I'd be entirely content if SC was the only game around. But then again I also don't care, because other games don't affect me.
On March 04 2013 00:51 DavoS wrote: You can go pro in Guild Wars 2?!
A surprise for me too...
Well, I guess I have to wish good luck to NaDa, but I feel kinda sad about this news.
The game have 0 features for competition. I have friends who play pro in this game for Curse but it's basicly " let's wait for ArenaNet to put the features" for now.
I thought it was some kind of trolling when I saw the title... Damn,, a lot of things happening to the starcraft scene today.. Nony leaving liquid and Nada playing world of tanks...
Seen the advert for world of tanks manny times and always have been curious about it. Didnt realise it was so big. Now that nada plays it i might give it a go soon,the game cant be to bad if he plays it.
On March 04 2013 01:03 Nerski wrote: for all intensive purposes
Back to primary school with you.
Maybe his purpose to play sc2 was intense?
Meh I'd like to think I generally grammar and spell check myself but alas on a forum it's not always the case. Not to mention that whole problem of verbally being influenced by the common mistakes those close to you make routinely ><.
by the way this is my cop out :D
For all intents and purposes is the usual form of the phrase meaning in every practical sense. For all intensive purposes is a fairly common eggcorn derived from the original phrase. It’s often heard in speech, but it’s rare in published writing because it generally doesn’t pass through the editorial process.
On March 04 2013 02:03 Rassy wrote: Seen the advert for world of tanks manny times and always have been curious about it. Didnt realise it was so big. Now that nada plays it i might give it a go soon,the game cant be to bad if he plays it.
There is plenty of games that were terrible that were also popular for one reason or another. Take WoW arena for example, the whole premise in itself was not the greatest of esports. It was however wildly popular for a time given the enormous amount of people who played/play WoW, and would follow anything related to it. So as an esport it did alright not because the arena in itself was amazingly well done, but because it had a huge following.
From Wikipedia
As of 2012, there are 45,000,000 registered players worldwide.[11] On October 4th, 2012, the game reached a record-breaking 500,000 concurrent players online on one server based in Russia.[12] Within two weeks of the launch of the South Korean server, the number of concurrent users in Korea reached 10,000.[13]
With that much of a following for a freemium based game it's no shock someone would try to capitalize on it as an esport.
Hmm. I may need to investigate this world of tanks. Although from what I understand, it's free to play but a little bit of pay to win.
No matter, I hope Nada enjoys it. And it's a different game than StarCraft, so it may be less intensive on the wrists and mechanical skills and more about the tactical and communications skills. So, less Jordan to baseball, and more Jordan to golf.
Still, Nada's body is going strong, and that's the important thing.
Anyway that's interesting, so WoT has an active proscene? I've heard about this alot and it's been getting really popular. Interesting, maybe I should try it out.
Cute that people are saying stuff like "he was a legend, he should return to SC2". He wasn't a legend in SC2.
I've heard "World of Tanks" about a million times but I don't think I've seen any gameplay footage. I used to play the shit out of a browser game called Battlefield though, that was a tank game. Then they made Battlefield 2, which everyone hated, and shut down the original. Then they went bankrupt.
On March 04 2013 01:26 TurboMaN wrote: World of tanks is an eSports game? I know the game from a review but the skill required is nowhere near SC2.
The only reason I see him doing this is for money (maybe a sponsor contract or sth)...
"X Game does not have the skills that sc2 has, therefor it is not an esport!"
Boy, its a good thing you are a minority, otherwise LoL, CS, Halo, etc would never be esports and the ONLY thing we would have is starcraft.... how disgusting that could be.
You got me wrong man. The more eSport games there are the better. I also played CS for a long long time.
I understood this thread that he is going to play WoT competitively and I haven't heard of a WoT Pro scene yet. Maybe I wrote it in the wrong words. Imo NaDa has the skills to play competitively in many games.
I grew up with players like Lee Yoon Yeol, so it's just hard to see a guy like him (insane mechanical RTS skills) playing an MMO where less clicks more strategy is needed :D
Best of luck to NaDa! Hope to see him back in HotS though
Wow. Like is it just me or does Nada really look like he's selling out everywhere he can? Like since sc2 he's done random e-sport ads here and there, become a manager and then moved into another game.
Well uhh good luck to him and all. Hopefully he'll find another game soon after to put his name to as well.
Was really hoping to see him start with heart of the swarm. It feels a bit weird to see my all time favourite starcraft player switch to the most boring game i've ever played in my entire life, how can nada go fulltime pro? isnt he in the military?
On March 04 2013 09:42 bittman wrote: Wow. Like is it just me or does Nada really look like he's selling out everywhere he can? Like since sc2 he's done random e-sport ads here and there, become a manager and then moved into another game.
Well uhh good luck to him and all. Hopefully he'll find another game soon after to put his name to as well.
Was hoping for him to play hots...instead he switches to the most boring game ive ever played in my entire life, well gl to him i guess, my favourite terran guess ill have to root for some1 else now
On March 04 2013 10:23 peekn wrote: Not going to lie, I didn't know that this was a thing. I've seen a couple of my friends playing it, but I didn't know that it was an eSport.
Everything is an esport! (And arguably nothing, too.)
woooooooooooooooooooah this is quite literally the last thing I'd expect Nada to do. I hope he streams his games. Now all my friends HAVE to acknowledge the existence of World of Tanks -- gg!
On March 04 2013 12:11 Antisocialmunky wrote: So like the Esports rankings now looks like:
1) LoL 2) BW 3) World of Tanks 4) SCII
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I'm spit balling based on Twitch.TV viewers and past event numbers I can recall.
1) LoL by a massive margin 2/3) SCII 3/2) Dota 2 Very close to SCII so really they could be interchangeable 4) CoD (not terribly far behind SC2 and Dota 2) 5) Fighting Games (can be higher as a whole at major events like EVO) 6) World of Tanks Everything else Halo, Quake-Live, Planetside, blah blah etc. BW is dead more or less minus things like TLS
Despite it's massive popularity I have yet to see WoT grab a huge portion of eyeballs, but that doesn't mean it couldn't with proper PR and marketing.
I can just imagine the announcers now, "Team X waits in the western trees and hills while Team Y waits in the eastern trees and hills." 5 minutes later "Still waiting."
Tastosis would make it awesome.
Seriously, I had a little bit of fun playing it for maybe a month, but then I got bored of it and never looked back. I can't imagine ever watching it because it is so extremely slow paced. SC2, BW, LOL, DoTA, many shooters, and all fighters seem like better viewing experiences than WoT. Unless the game itself changes drastically, there's no way it's going to maintain a viewer base for very long even with millions of people playing it.
Oh man, that kinda Bums me out, but not because of Nada not playing SC2, but The Last Pride not playing GW2...
GW2 could be an awesome e-Sport Title, but ANet just followed the money and focused more on PvE (PvE Players buy a lot more cosmetic stuff from the ingame-Shop) and let PvP slide a little. Still no Observer-Mode, no Ladder, no way of creating your own Games (how's that gonna work in e-Sports? If you wanna Match up two teams in a tournament, would they have to simultaneously join a Game and hope they get matched up? -.-°) and the balance is kinda horrible.
The Last Pride had already announced that they would play GW2, but they waited to play PvP until it got really good, but after half a year of waiting, I guess they now left for good.
Really sad to see that ANet slowly destroys a game that has huge potential for e-Sports, because although they said that they will focus on making PvP e-Sport ready, they didn't really deliver in terms of necessary features, balancing and overall listening to the PvP-Community.
Was looking for the source and it doesn't even appear in search engines. It's an article on the azubu site titled "World class strategist of StarCraft. Come across in AZUBU TV." Can't be linked.
On March 04 2013 14:33 RenSC2 wrote: I can just imagine the announcers now, "Team X waits in the western trees and hills while Team Y waits in the eastern trees and hills." 5 minutes later "Still waiting."
Tastosis would make it awesome.
Seriously, I had a little bit of fun playing it for maybe a month, but then I got bored of it and never looked back. I can't imagine ever watching it because it is so extremely slow paced. SC2, BW, LOL, DoTA, many shooters, and all fighters seem like better viewing experiences than WoT. Unless the game itself changes drastically, there's no way it's going to maintain a viewer base for very long even with millions of people playing it.
Wish Nada would just stream more BW on Afreeca and play amateur leagues, but I am glad he has moved on from SC2. There would be too much talent wasted on it.
On April 27 2013 21:44 ZenithM wrote: That makes me really sad That's like hearing of Kasparov wanting to play Tic-Tac-Toe or Kobe Bryant switching to Angry Birds.
Well maybe I should check out one of the hundreds of World of Tanks videos from Gomtv in my youtube subscriptions. After all this talk about it I've still never seen it played, or really know what it's like.
I don't see the big deal , NaDa has played starcraft for most of his life . Give him a break guys don't be sad , everyone needs something new . On a side note WOT is kinda cool, the LAN center I go to has a crew that plays it , has a lot more depth then people think ! Seems like a good game , goodluck !
On April 27 2013 21:44 ZenithM wrote: That makes me really sad That's like hearing of Kasparov wanting to play Tic-Tac-Toe or Kobe Bryant switching to Angry Birds.
On April 27 2013 21:44 ZenithM wrote: That makes me really sad That's like hearing of Kasparov wanting to play Tic-Tac-Toe or Kobe Bryant switching to Angry Birds.
On April 28 2013 02:39 BlueFlames wrote: Is sellout too hard to say here? I dont think so. My respect for NaDa is going down witheverything he seems to do lately.
I don't think you are in any position to judge someone for there career choices especially when he has done so much for the game we love. Sellout ? How? He is a progamer , and he is playing games I see nothing wrong . You need to relax.
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Go go NADA 
