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On May 10 2013 08:05 TurnipThrowingPeach wrote:
I can kind of understand EG making this decision. It's a business, and they considered him too much of a liability. It sucks. It really fucking sucks it had to end this way.
What is really getting at me is the timing of releasing this statement. You got Incontrol tearing up live on SOTG, Demuslim happily streaming (he had to go offline), and HuK has his WCS matches. Why the hell would Alex make the announcement right now? Stirring up the teams emotions during an important time. It wouldn't surprise me if Chris is flustered, it w/out a doubt would impact his play. IMO, they should've waited until later tonight to break the news.
To paraphrase a popular saying, "It's all fun and games until the monkey starts flinging poo at the spectators"
I mean, fling poo at opponents? LOL
fling poo at opponent's mom? LOL
fling poo at game? LOL
fling poo at tournament organisers? LOL
fling poo at fans? -.-;
fling poo at fans with management support? NO U
Never go full retard.
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On May 10 2013 20:30 zimz wrote:
still the only foreigner to qualify through the GSL qualifiers legit.
You mean like Artosis when everyone was awful?
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On May 10 2013 20:32 Abominous wrote:Show nested quote +On May 10 2013 20:30 Type|NarutO wrote:On May 10 2013 20:27 Abominous wrote:On May 10 2013 20:22 Type|NarutO wrote:On May 10 2013 20:21 Abominous wrote:On May 10 2013 20:17 RyF wrote:
If Idra starts streaming again his viewer count will be higher than any Sc2 player ever had before.
Idra will prolly smile and think: "Only bad news are good news."
So much attention for a player who did not show any decent results for a long time. His self marketing is just incredible... I'd like to see him beating 14k achieved by Stephano. That's the most I've seen. IdrA had 20k+ once or twice Fair enough. Could someone link or paste IdrA's statement? I have trouble finding it. ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/FgezXgU.jpg) Oh, I've seen that. I meant about the kick? Has he released one? His statement must look like:
#$@% ^%^@$ %@$^!43@$ %$#$*%#$% David Kim #$%@#% #^%$&$ %$$#% Protoss $#%@#% !@#%#$%
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On May 10 2013 08:05 TurnipThrowingPeach wrote:
I can kind of understand EG making this decision. It's a business, and they considered him too much of a liability. It sucks. It really fucking sucks it had to end this way.
What is really getting at me is the timing of releasing this statement. You got Incontrol tearing up live on SOTG, Demuslim happily streaming (he had to go offline), and HuK has his WCS matches. Why the hell would Alex make the announcement right now? Stirring up the teams emotions during an important time. It wouldn't surprise me if Chris is flustered, it w/out a doubt would impact his play. IMO, they should've waited until later tonight to break the news.
That is kind of the only thing I feel EG could've done better. It was a terrible timing, I feel most notably for HuK, since though they weren't BFF, I doubt I am the only one that plays like shit when he's not focused. I mean HuK was already the underdog in his group, or atleast not the favourite, so he really didn't need the distraction.
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On May 10 2013 20:30 zimz wrote:
still the only foreigner to qualify through the GSL qualifiers legit.
TLO, Jinro, huk all made it through the open brackets back in the open seasons
I think naniwa and sase also made it to code a at least through legit means too
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I don't know why you guys keep speculating which team he will join.
He has made a massive bank during the past couple of years, getting easily 8k a month, never having to pay for rent or food and probably not owning a car, so he will just retire and enjoy a wealthy, laid back student's life at a university of his choosing.
I dislike the dude, but there's no way to "gloat" about this news, since he'll be living the good life from now on.
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On May 10 2013 20:17 Ysellian wrote:Show nested quote +On May 10 2013 20:03 Eviscerador wrote:What he said was just a sarcastic answer to a previous poster. Nothing I wouldn't say in that situation. Another victim of the inflated politically correctness wave that nowadays plague the planet. GL Greg, hope you find a new team soon and keep giving a fuck about everything  This guy has wished cancer on people and has said cruel things about David Kim on live streams without any repercussion. Please take this idea that he is a victim of inflated politically correctness elsewhere because it's dumb and just not true. IdrA was released because he no longer gave a fuck. If you are really a fan of IdrA you should want him to do something he likes and enjoys, not because he's making money of haters tuning in to see him rage.
I stand in my opinion, mainly because what he said is true. Harsh and a bit rude. But true.
And what amazes me more is that, like you said, he had wished cancer to people, rage about developers, and a very long etcetera, but they fired him for that post, which is just an ironic reply to a random forum user.
There is something more there than we can see.
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Papua New Guinea1059 Posts
On May 10 2013 20:38 farnham wrote:Show nested quote +On May 10 2013 20:30 zimz wrote:
still the only foreigner to qualify through the GSL qualifiers legit. TLO, Jinro, huk all made it through the open brackets back in the open seasons I think naniwa and sase also made it to code a at least through legit means too
It was open seasons, there were no qualifiers, all players with masters xxx points were able to participate. So no, no foreigner ever qualified. They only got seeded.
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On May 10 2013 20:38 farnham wrote:Show nested quote +On May 10 2013 20:30 zimz wrote:
still the only foreigner to qualify through the GSL qualifiers legit. TLO, Jinro, huk all made it through the open brackets back in the open seasons I think naniwa and sase also made it to code a at least through legit means too
AFAIK none of them made it legit (I can`t remember Jinro anymore), the others got seeded into Code A I think.
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I don't like this at all.
This single comment doesn't bring anything new, he didn't lose a fain or gain a hater that he wouldn't have lost or gained otherwise. He is simply being who he has always been.
Firing him because of this single incident is dumb because it's nothing new, firing him because of all the incidents is dumb because IdrA is IdrA and they knew that when they signed him. He'd publicly been IdrA for years before EG signed him. If they didn't want him to do these kinds of things then why didn't they put it in his contract that he wasn't allowed to hurt the image of EG? Alexander Garfield saw a good deal and he jumped at it and now for some reason he wants to get out of it.
It's ironic how IdrA is getting sacked for telling the truth that is: he's getting paid for telling the truth. Alexander Garfield is acting all like "I had nothing to do with this" but what IdrA says is completely true: one of the big reasons EG hired him in the first place was because of his personality and Alexander Garfield knew about his behavior all along. He wanted his cake and he wanted to eat it too, he wanted IdrA's personality but he didn't want to take any of the fallout.
IdrA gave his best years to EG and now EG tries to squeeze the last drop out of him by the attention surrounding his firing. They didn't just let his contract expire, they made a big deal out of how he's getting fired for some vague and dumb reason. InControl said that EG also takes some care of their players after they let them go and I like that but I don't like this firing at all.
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On May 10 2013 20:42 FairForever wrote:Show nested quote +On May 10 2013 20:38 farnham wrote:On May 10 2013 20:30 zimz wrote:
still the only foreigner to qualify through the GSL qualifiers legit. TLO, Jinro, huk all made it through the open brackets back in the open seasons I think naniwa and sase also made it to code a at least through legit means too AFAIK none of them made it legit (I can`t remember Jinro anymore), the others got seeded into Code A I think.
At least TLO and Jinro made it legit. There was no seeding in open seasons.
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On May 10 2013 20:41 kafkaesque wrote:
I don't know why you guys keep speculating which team he will join.
He has made a massive bank during the past couple of years, getting easily 8k a month, never having to pay for rent or food and probably not owning a car, so he will just retire and enjoy a wealthy, laid back student's life at a university of his choosing.
I dislike the dude, but there's no way to "gloat" about this news, since he'll be living the good life from now on. In fact, here's another plot twist: Idra himself wanted to do this (retirement -> uni) and EG milked the opportunity to present the best online drama play ever, starring Incontrol on SotG. If that conspiracy were true, Geoff truly deserves his Oscar now, because I almost cried with him... but I doubt it.
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On May 10 2013 20:30 zimz wrote:
still the only foreigner to qualify through the GSL qualifiers legit.
wtf ? he went into the opens, he never quali legit after them lol
same did torch, artosis, tlo, jinro, loner, huk, sen, ...
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On May 10 2013 20:41 Eviscerador wrote:Show nested quote +On May 10 2013 20:17 Ysellian wrote:On May 10 2013 20:03 Eviscerador wrote:What he said was just a sarcastic answer to a previous poster. Nothing I wouldn't say in that situation. Another victim of the inflated politically correctness wave that nowadays plague the planet. GL Greg, hope you find a new team soon and keep giving a fuck about everything This guy has wished cancer on people and has said cruel things about David Kim on live streams without any repercussion. Please take this idea that he is a victim of inflated politically correctness elsewhere because it's dumb and just not true. IdrA was released because he no longer gave a fuck. If you are really a fan of IdrA you should want him to do something he likes and enjoys, not because he's making money of haters tuning in to see him rage. I stand in my opinion, mainly because what he said is true. Harsh and a bit rude. But true. And what amazes me more is that, like you said, he had wished cancer to people, rage about developers, and a very long etcetera, but they fired him for that post, which is just an ironic reply to a random forum user. There is something more there than we can see.
I think you are mis-informed, to believe he was released entirely on one post is wrong. It was his never changing attitude towards the people that keep him(EG) in business
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On May 10 2013 07:35 gh0stsquall wrote:Show nested quote +On May 10 2013 07:33 gobbledydook wrote:On May 08 2013 08:21 IdrA wrote:
nope you're all a bunch of fucks
it just so happens i get paid to treat you like it. it's fucking awesome.
User was temp banned for this post. this is what he said. stress makes you say things you wouldn't normally say- this is how i assume normal idra is- post from his fanclub a while ago. he's a good guy. just has a lot of issues with stress. i feel for him, but i can't sit and say he doesn't deserve the consequences. just feels bad. :/
It's easy to be gracious and magnanimous when things are going your way. the real test of character is how you respond to adversity.
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On May 10 2013 20:42 HornyHerring wrote:Show nested quote +On May 10 2013 20:38 farnham wrote:On May 10 2013 20:30 zimz wrote:
still the only foreigner to qualify through the GSL qualifiers legit. TLO, Jinro, huk all made it through the open brackets back in the open seasons I think naniwa and sase also made it to code a at least through legit means too It was open seasons, there were no qualifiers, all players with masters xxx points were able to participate. So no, no foreigner ever qualified. They only got seeded.
ther was "qualifier" to opens xD there was just not called like it, there was way more players wanting to play obviously then was able too ... dont talk wrong
torch artosis idra jinro huk all did it
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I love to see Idra playing SC2... he is a good player. His is not mannered at all... and most of the time, this is very funny.
I like to think that i am a FAN... but, Fans need to be respected and considered as a part of the programer job.
I understand the EG's reaction and Idra deserved it.
That's a sad day, good luck Idra! See you soon on your stream, let's go for more adventures...
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Papua New Guinea1059 Posts
Why do you people assume that he has been fired because of lack of results? And why do you think him saying that this entire community-aka the moneymakers- is shit, wouldn't matter to the team that basically lives off marketing and pr?
He has been given COUNTLESS oppourtunities to change his behaviour, EG just couldn't handle the disappointment anymore.
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On May 10 2013 20:10 Hds wrote:Show nested quote +On May 10 2013 20:08 Fluffboll wrote:On May 10 2013 20:06 Hds wrote:On May 10 2013 19:57 Wakimomo wrote:AWWWWWWWWWWWW so sad to hear machine go  Wtf? He left? _________________________ ^ The joke ________________________ ^ your head He wasn't temp banned or anything like that for trolling, so I thought he was serious I guess mods are sleeping now __________________ ^ My reasonning __________________ ^Your reasonning
Do you get temp banned for joking? O.o
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btw im surprised that Machine is still on EG.
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