Artosis was just saying how he thought Puma might handle Coach Park's coaching style the best and start to shine under the new conditions at EG-TL. Interesting that now right after SotG a very news worthy headline crops up haha.

I bet Puma gets picked up by Azubu or Acer and we start to see him all over foreign scene, maybe even moving to USA like Violet has. I'd love that, as Puma is one hell of a character and I definitely don't want to see him fading away or retiring.

Chairman Ray

United States11903 Posts

March 15 2013 05:19 GMT

#22

Didn't actually expect this, but gl to puma in the future

kju

6143 Posts

March 15 2013 05:19 GMT

#23

gl finding a team pewma

Nick!

Scotland701 Posts

March 15 2013 05:20 GMT

#24

Damn

Yhamm

France7248 Posts

March 15 2013 05:20 GMT

#25

and even less Terran at EG now

ch33psh33p

7650 Posts

March 15 2013 05:20 GMT

#26

On March 15 2013 14:18 blade55555 wrote:

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They didn't kick him. Read the ending and they said they offered him less salary and some less event times which he didn't want so they decided to let him go.

He said nothing about him being kicked

They released him, albeit on friendly terms. It was a release nonetheless, as renegotiations failed. Not sure how you read he got kicked.

HotGlueGun

United States1409 Posts

March 15 2013 05:22 GMT

#27

Damn, I think with the new coach and HotS he could have made a serious comeback. He played some pretty good games for EG in IPTL

zephiK

United States372 Posts

March 15 2013 05:22 GMT

#28

Only 2 terrans left at EG, no korean terrans. I wonder if this gives room for aLive, I would speculate Polt but he went to CMStorm =/

Sad to see PuMa go. He was definitely their ace player in a lot of the team leagues when I started watching SC2

Mortal

2943 Posts

March 15 2013 05:22 GMT

#29

No hate at all here, but considering playlevels, I'm very surprised Machine and Huk are still around. In terms of personality, I'm not surprised though (they're marketable). Good luck to PuMa in the future. He had some beautiful series, some of my favorites.

EGLzGaMeR

United States1867 Posts

March 15 2013 05:22 GMT

#30

Good Luck Puma <3

Noobity

United States871 Posts

March 15 2013 05:22 GMT

#31

I kinda assumed this was coming at some point. Sad to hear, but as the press release said there simply weren't the results posting.

I think what's interesting is that while there was the usual fluff (whether true or not is irrelevant) there was a lot of what seems like blatant honesty here, which surprised me. I'm sure everything about Puma being a great teamate and how he'll be missed is all true, don't get me wrong, but to say that he was approached due to results and that he ended up deciding to part ways despite the offers from EG is interesting and a fresh dose of honesty.

I hope he's able to find a team that fits him as well as EG did, and that he's able to start showing the results he used to.

This kind of gives a lot more credibility to the Alive joining EG rumors now. Despite any friendships that were involved, I think Alive would probably show better results in proleague than Puma did.

Dodgin

Canada39254 Posts

March 15 2013 05:22 GMT

#32

I won't forget you original international tournament Korean Terran, your soul will live on in ForGG and theSTC.

dragoon

United States695 Posts

March 15 2013 05:22 GMT

#33

really sad, ive always respected his play~

shizaep

Canada2920 Posts

March 15 2013 05:22 GMT

#34

Nice writeup from EG.Alex. I can understand where he is coming from with the release. And at the end you know that they gave him a chance but it was a mutual decision to part ways.

Evil_Sheep

Canada902 Posts

March 15 2013 05:23 GMT

#35

EG making some tough but sensible decisions after a long time. Things are looking up for them.

And who knows? Maybe Puma can get picked up by another team (perhaps even kespa??) and rebuild his game. This could be a win for both sides.

PardonYou

United States1360 Posts

March 15 2013 05:23 GMT

#36

Wow, that's unexpected. They make it sound like they wanted more Korean players, maybe for GSTL, the way it's worded. Interesting though.

zantomun

United States37 Posts

March 15 2013 05:23 GMT

#37

it's nice that, for once, someone is transparent in their reasons for letting go of a player instead of some bs politically correct statement like "irreconcilable differences between them and management"

mrRoflpwn

United States2618 Posts

March 15 2013 05:23 GMT

#38

Thats saddening =( I never liked his play but he was always a hard working player. Poor chap. I hope he finds a new team.

jnsjr

United States461 Posts

March 15 2013 05:23 GMT

#39

Fuucckkkk not my Pew-Pew-Pewma!! So sad right now

BronzeKnee

United States5217 Posts

March 15 2013 05:24 GMT

#40

On March 15 2013 14:22 Mortal wrote:
No hate at all here, but considering playlevels, I'm very surprised Machine and Huk are still around. In terms of personality, I'm not surprised though (they're marketable). Good luck to PuMa in the future. He had some beautiful series, some of my favorites.

I'm sure Machine and Huk get paid based on results too, and choose to accept lesser salaries that matched their performance when their performance declined.

Puma apparently did not. That is a shame because Puma was my favorite Terran player and EG is my favorite team.