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Valikyr
Sweden2653 Posts
On May 10 2013 16:40 styLesdavis wrote: Why should anyone pick up Idra? He isn`t relevant anymore skillwise... I am actually really glad they "released the gracken". Because he's still very popular. He wouldn't be hired for his skill but for his popularity though. | ||
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Carl_Sagan
United States226 Posts
Good riddance. | ||
Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
End of the greatest foreigner to play StarCraft imo, had the biggest potential due to being so stupidly good mechanically. Since the end of WOL and start of HOTS he has been in the worst state he has been in with the game and it got to the point where he starting raging at team mates (ie DeMuslim) and that for me is the reason he has been let go, i think he has broken a clause in his contract or something "/ Well im pretty sure he will retire now, their is nothing left for him in this scene which makes this even worst for his fans >.< We had some great times IdrA thanks for them  GL in college! | ||
Olli
Austria24422 Posts
On May 10 2013 16:43 mikethenewman wrote: 90% of these comments are totally worthless wastes of a post: wow. holy shit. wait what? wow. deserved, but wow. cant believe it. reading 4 pages of posts and its all just one sentence garbage, how about some context and information and links people, sure ill go watch SoTG later to catch up but you people are just worthless with such comments, a community of degenerates.... where are the posts on analysis and review and reflections??? You're not making yourself look any smarter with that post. | ||
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Wildmoon
Thailand4189 Posts
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CikaZombi
Serbia630 Posts
Of course, this is expected for anyone other than Idra or EG. These kind of things happened 100 times before and there were no consequences except for a couple of apologies. But this was the final straw and a right timing for EG to do it probably. Greg has been a wreck lately and I fear how this will affect him irl, and naturally how it will affect his career as a professional SC2 player. | ||
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lovegg
47 Posts
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NarutO
Germany18839 Posts
On May 10 2013 16:42 Infernal_dream wrote: Since when has idra valued skill? Anytime he lost it was always to some "no skill noob cheese rush" or because whatever unit was imbalanced at the time. He never actually lost and said "well I fucked this up" or "I could've done this better." It was always the games fault. Any attack before 20 minutes was considered a cheese by him and therefore not the real game. If he valued skill he would better himself, not blame others for beating him. Not going to defend IdrA where nothing is to defend, but this post is untrue. IdrA - while not being ingame in a series that matters has a lot of statements and posts that actually say his opponent/upcoming opponents are good players etc. He also doesn't always leave without gg. I remember his games against NonY where he for example cancelled his CC. He gg'd out, and he pretty much was well aware that what he just pulled (cancelling a cc first) was stupid as hell, but it happened. He respected NonY. So... while he might be very blunt and not always polite, he sure is someone that does acknowledge skill. Doesn't mean he respects every player that is skilled, but saying he doesn't at all is wrong. | ||
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papaz
Sweden4149 Posts
Now make EG-Polt happen!! | ||
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Aelfric
Turkey1496 Posts
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thezanursic
5497 Posts
On May 10 2013 16:39 FoxShine wrote: I was there - he was influenced by a legion of retarded fanboys. I'm sure he regrets it aswell. Especially since he was like 1 spot from getting into Shoutcraft AM or something. | ||
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kubiks
France1328 Posts
On May 10 2013 16:40 Blargh wrote: Actually, this thread (and its # of pages) is pretty much proof of what Idra was saying (in his first post). People care about this kind of shit. People like uber gosu players like Innovation and Flash as well, but there's so much more money in Idra than Innovation. Flash, well, he will always have tons of fans and shit. I wonder how many viewers Innovation would get if he streamed.... If Innovation streamed, I would watch the hell out of his stream, just to see how does he ever loose a TvZ (and copy the zerg obviously  ).And historically top tier korean streaming always have a lot of views, but they don't stream often | ||
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Mouzone
3937 Posts
On May 10 2013 16:40 styLesdavis wrote: Why should anyone pick up Idra? He isn`t relevant anymore skillwise... I am actually really glad they "released the gracken". Publicity. 5k viewers is still a lot. | ||
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Osmoses
Sweden5302 Posts
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Reborn58
United States238 Posts
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IMHope
Korea (South)1241 Posts
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dadde
Italy314 Posts
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BlackVelvet
51 Posts
On May 10 2013 16:11 Fuchsteufelswild wrote: Nonsense, TL is Lawful Neutral, it has its rules, it means well but it has its own darned rules and it sticks to them, no matter what YOUR moral compass might be. That'd be my take on it, anyway. :p I couldn't make sense of this until I realised you weren't talking about the SC2 team Alien Invasion. On May 10 2013 16:14 Type|NarutO wrote: The longer you are on Teamliquid and the more you did contribute, the 'easier' or at least more likely you get away with something stupid. Ofcourse even a 10000+ count poster can be banned, but overall his tone could be more aggressive. Teamliquid is moderated quiet fair to be honest. Freedom of speech is encouraged here, which doesn't mean that you can insult / harm others with content you produce. /offtopic Yeah, I guess where I see this being demonstrated most bluntly is on the first TL commandment, where they say "If we don't like you, we simply ban you." And I can accept that Anyway, staying on topic. I'm not surprised as some people are about this Idra thing. It gives a sense of shock but in all honestly it makes total sense for EG in maintaining its status in the eSports community and its future as an organization. I saw the way people reacted on Reddit before the firing happened and although Idra has a lot of good to offer to the team he's with, the consequences of what he said and what he does say - to the name and image of EG, are harder to rectify than what they lose with Idra's release. And that name and image are extremely important to their continued success. This trend with Idra has been a long enough fixture for the organization to make their final judgments, so I don't see EG severing him as anything rash. EG has plenty of other players and things going for them that releasing even a big name like Idra won't do anything to cause real harm to their business. | ||
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Ponera
Canada596 Posts
I cover the reasons why IdrA is a huge deal in the North American scene in my latest video. Sorry if it's against rules to re-post it, I thought about it for several hours and then did several takes and finally got what I wanted to say out, in the way I wanted to say it. IdrA, thank you so fucking much for what you did for North American Starcraft and E-sports. My response. IdrA and EG splitting is a blow to E-sports. | ||
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Dav1oN
Ukraine3164 Posts
On May 10 2013 16:47 thezanursic wrote: Especially since he was like 1 spot from getting into Shoutcraft AM or something. I still don't get it, how actually a guy, who sitting at home and not taking a part in any foreigner event could have such big popularity for a long time? Also he's blaming on he's own mates while the stream, that's awful. | ||
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