EPTEG releases Ho Joon “PuMa” Lee - Page 10
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{ToT}ColmA
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Bagration
United States18282 Posts
On March 15 2013 16:04 Antimatterz wrote: Aww really liked Puma, but completely forgot he was a player. Haven't seen news about him in a long time. GL to him in the future! He played in a good number of teamleagues, most notably Proleague (where he played absolutely terribly), and IPTL, where he was key in helping EG make it to the playoffs the past 2 seasons. | ||
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dabom88
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Scootaloo
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Flaele
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IamPryda
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Canucklehead
Canada5074 Posts
On March 15 2013 15:02 Sikly wrote: Well, he won three tournies, placed second and third at multiple other tournies. When he was at the top he was probably the most threatening player in the world at foreign tournies. Seems like he was pretty appropriately hyped to me, but what do I know! What you need to know is the level of competition puma faced at those foreign tournaments. He was one of the first koreans to join a foreign team, so was afforded the opportunity to go to a lot of foreign tourneys, which is an opportunity most koreans never got back then. Once more top tier koreans started going to those events, his results started disappearing at foreign tourneys. Puma was always overhyped due to his foreign tourney wins and the artosis hype of proclaiming him a practice bonjwa. I'm sorry, but if you can't even qualify for GSL even once in your entire career, then you were never one of the top players in the game by korean standards. You can't compare the koreans to the non koreans in terms of value in eg. Jaedong is a huge name from bw, so even if he's not winning, he still brings the team value and exposure. JYP, Puma, Revival only bring them exposure based on their results. If they're not winning then the exposure isn't as good because they don't do ads, they don't stream, they don't do live on three, etc. Idra can lose all day and everyday, but his fanbase is huge, so he doesn't need to win another game in his career and his fanbase will still be there to see him rage and be on shows and stuff. | ||
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Barkas853
Croatia18 Posts
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Zerg.Zilla
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mikkmagro
Malta1513 Posts
On March 15 2013 16:18 dabom88 wrote: BTW, anyone know of any high-profile Korean Terran free agents that EG might be interested in? The only Terrans they have left on their lineup are Demuslim and Thorzain. That's a lot of pressure to put on just those 2. aLive will probably be joining. | ||
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skyflyfish
Canada499 Posts
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Killerkrack
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danbel1005
United States1319 Posts
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kyllinghest
Norway1607 Posts
On March 15 2013 16:33 Barkas853 wrote: It's so funny to read this article. I mean, all the explanations about his performances fall on deaf ears when you know that EG has Machine, Incontrol and Huk. In comparison to those players how is Pumas performance lackluster? Obviously there's another issue at hand. Maybe he isn't such 'money making' personality as far as commercials and similar stuff go. EG pretty much showed it's policy when they decided they were going to boot axslav and keep incontrol, machine etc. If you found it funny to read you should have read the whole thing mate! They offered him a contract more suited to his performance, wich I guess at least Machine and Incontrol is already on, but he didn't want it. | ||
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eronica
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On March 15 2013 16:39 kyllinghest wrote: If you found it funny to read you should have read the whole thing mate! They offered him a contract more suited to his performance, wich I guess at least Machine and Incontrol is already on, but he didn't want it. we don't know the numbers, they even might have propose 0$ or even negative salary :D | ||
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Omnidroid
New Zealand214 Posts
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bbm
United Kingdom1320 Posts
Thanks EG for being honest. | ||
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Mensol
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BakedButters
United States748 Posts
Puma has no personality and is awkward. Don't want to sound rude, but if that's who you are, then your salary is solely based on performance. Koreans need to understand that there's a business side to every sport, and it helps the fans to be more engaged/entertained. | ||
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Phobbers
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On March 15 2013 16:30 Canucklehead wrote: What you need to know is the level of competition puma faced at those foreign tournaments. He was one of the first koreans to join a foreign team, so was afforded the opportunity to go to a lot of foreign tourneys, which is an opportunity most koreans never got back then. Once more top tier koreans started going to those events, his results started disappearing at foreign tourneys. Puma was always overhyped due to his foreign tourney wins and the artosis hype of proclaiming him a practice bonjwa. I'm sorry, but if you can't even qualify for GSL even once in your entire career, then you were never one of the top players in the game by korean standards. You can't compare the koreans to the non koreans in terms of value in eg. Jaedong is a huge name from bw, so even if he's not winning, he still brings the team value and exposure. JYP, Puma, Revival only bring them exposure based on their results. If they're not winning then the exposure isn't as good because they don't do ads, they don't stream, they don't do live on three, etc. Idra can lose all day and everyday, but his fanbase is huge, so he doesn't need to win another game in his career and his fanbase will still be there to see him rage and be on shows and stuff. Yeah, it's not like he ever played against any top koreans at the tournies he was in. He only beat this scrub MC a few times to take two golds, lost to him to get a silver. Beat this terrible guy named Hero once to get a gold, lost to him as well for a silver. Took out some pretty terrible Koreans as well on his road to multiple top 8 finishes. I mean Puma wasn't a god, far from it. But he was a hell of player. During his prime, definitely a top player. | ||
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