Definitely not, Stephano was owning it up and revolutionized the metagame for ZvP in early 2012 (months before the patchzerg era) with his 13-minute roach remax build.

He did explicitly admit laziness in his interviews, but you can't deny that he has a ton of talent. One does not simply win so many tournaments while being lazy- you need to have some solid skill to back it up.

yeeshdontjudgeme

146 Posts

May 13 2013 22:26 GMT

#362

RIP to Foreign StarCraft.

No sarcasm

eviltomahawk

United States11135 Posts

May 13 2013 22:27 GMT

#363

On May 14 2013 07:24 chris2423 wrote:
as for EG's offer, its no coincidence that they cut idra and dont give stephano a good enough offer to stay. EG is definately cutting back on their sc2 budget

lol no. It's a complete coincidence since those two events have absolutely nothing to do with each other.

Sabu113

United States11047 Posts

May 13 2013 22:27 GMT

#364

Leaving on a high. Happy for him. Sad that we'll be missing someone who just thought more intelligently about the matchup than anyone else besides NesTea and Leenock.

Bibbit

Canada5377 Posts

May 13 2013 22:27 GMT

#365

On May 14 2013 07:23 HeartOfTheSwarm wrote:
So he is retiring the day Napoleon Bonaparte was born...hm..

It's a sign. The next great foreigner hope will be Napoleon Bonaparte. Or at the very least maybe this guy will switch to Sc2 and run show.

ZeromuS

Canada13389 Posts

May 13 2013 22:27 GMT

#366

On May 14 2013 07:26 eviltomahawk wrote:
He was supposed to retire in 2011, but his sucess and fans made him continue for another year.
He was then supposed to retire in 2012, but again he reconsidered.

This news should not be surprising. He gave relatively firm timetables for his previous plans for retirement, and each time he extended his progaming career, the chances of him retiring the summer after only increased.

I can also see Thorzain retiring this year or next year since I recall him saying in an interview that he also has wishes to go back to school sometime.

Yeah, this is true, he says this every year. Let's see if he can make a breakthrough in hots for wins or not. Currently he isn't playing as well as he did in WoL so for him, it begins to make more sense to drop the game and move on to school considering he isn't making as much money as he used to from winnings.

yeeshdontjudgeme

146 Posts

May 13 2013 22:28 GMT

#367

On May 14 2013 07:23 Moochlol wrote:
Lazy patch zerg imo, glad hes gone.

You do realize he was good long before the patch. Patch came out in February 2012 yet he won his first major tournament (IPL3) in October 2011. Yeah... patchzerg. /sarcasm

Onzaa

Canada11 Posts

May 13 2013 22:28 GMT

#368

Dang! That sucks that EG has been losing some good zergs lately.

AwesomeFossum

United States312 Posts

May 13 2013 22:28 GMT

#369

Was expected unfortunately. Sad to hear but best of luck to Stephano!

ferencziffra

Bulgaria29 Posts

May 13 2013 22:28 GMT

#370

On May 14 2013 05:31 syriuszonito wrote:
Well thats obviously a good call by him, zerg in hots is hard to enjoy. On the other hand losing both idra and stephano leaves me with almost no foreign zergs to cheer for

Sen

BronzeKnee

United States5217 Posts

May 13 2013 22:29 GMT

#371

And just like that, my two favorite Zergs are no longer going to be playing competitively.

TheDougler

Canada8304 Posts

May 13 2013 22:29 GMT

#372

On May 14 2013 07:28 ferencziffra wrote:

Show nested quote +

Sen

Scarlett.

Also... man, hard to believe. I hope Stephano manages to somehow win WCS EU in one last epic blaze of glory.

Shinespark

Chile843 Posts

May 13 2013 22:29 GMT

#373

Good luck, and thanks for the great games and the laughs.

vrok

Sweden2541 Posts

May 13 2013 22:33 GMT

#374

No more ez foreigner-money, no more Stephano. Makes sense. He just can't compete anymore.

twndomn

401 Posts

May 13 2013 22:33 GMT

#375

Sen's pretty good, BlizzCon 3rd and WCS Final 4th, Stephano's the only other foreign zerg who can win global tournaments (MLG/NASL), Idra's not even close to the above mentioned.

Scarlett has not done any, unproven.

Kvz

United States463 Posts

May 13 2013 22:34 GMT

#376

There has been so much mention of stephano and med school. He said specifically in an interview that he was never in or accepted to med school. he said he'd like to go to med school. you actually have to get accepted into a medical program before people can start saying 'oh wow now you have all this money to pay for med school.'