EPTStephano to retire from SC2 in August to return to studies…
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Orcasgt24
Canada3238 Posts
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DaFoo
United States68 Posts
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Joedaddy
United States1948 Posts
On May 14 2013 07:08 Kal_rA wrote: EG's lineup is losing personalities left and right  Oh well: jaedong.For real. EG went from the most interesting foreign team to one of the least interesting in the last few days. | ||
nimdil
Poland3772 Posts
Nerchio. Suppy. Snute. VortiX. DIMAGA. TLO. | ||
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eviltomahawk
United States11135 Posts
On May 14 2013 07:27 ZeromuS wrote: 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. I imagine that each year, he gave himself an ultimatum that unless he was making spectacular results, he would retire from the game, be it in 2011, 2012, or this year. Funnily enough, he did end up making the spectacular results in 2011 and 2012 needed to change his mind about retirement. Nevertheless, school seemed to always be part of his future plans while progaming seemed to always be a temporary venture for him. His career was always on a shorter timer than those of other progamers, and retirement was always a question of when, not if. | ||
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IcookTacos
Sweden295 Posts
I don't think anyone should invest to much effort or time into the pro scene, especially with SC2. I think it's smart of him to chose the studies but of course not as fun for us. | ||
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LingBlingBling
United States353 Posts
On May 14 2013 07:36 OPDream wrote: Can't he keep playing and go to school at the same time? Like what Suppy is doing. no offense to Suppy, But he comes from a wealthy America Asian family and is doing something different in his studies and is quite catered to, so has the money and time for both school and sc2. Most of Suppy's college fee's are paid by his parents. Where as Stephano is going into the medical field, being a med student gives you 100% no time for anything else, one of the most time consuming things to go to school for and start a career in. So I'm glad Stephano is thinking about his long term future, Pro gamer is not long term thing you can do, Unless you are Korean on a Kespa team and you are the best of the best. | ||
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Lukeeze[zR]
Switzerland6838 Posts
With magic rocks ? | ||
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AnomalySC2
United States2073 Posts
On May 14 2013 07:26 yeeshdontjudgeme wrote: RIP to Foreign StarCraft. No sarcasm Nani and Suppy both look strong. | ||
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Saat
France65 Posts
On May 14 2013 05:33 tuho12345 wrote: 216k + over 100k per year for salary, that shouldn't be too bad for a student. Well not enough to pay for med school but still help quite a lot. Gl hf to him, truly one of the best foreigner even though I never like his fanboys, still respect. // time for EG to add a strong foreigner with special personality  In France, school is free, you know. Except for business School, and few others, but med school, or something like is. | ||
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chris2423
31 Posts
On May 14 2013 07:27 eviltomahawk wrote: lol no. It's a complete coincidence since those two events have absolutely nothing to do with each other. well, in idra's talk about his event, he said that he felt the money he was getting paid was a motivating factor, and it wasnt JUST because of sponsor pressure, he also said he planned to leave EG before, but he got an offer he couldnt refuse. EG could have given stephano an offer that would have made staying worth his while, but they didn't. EG is a business and everything is related, because it all comes down to money. | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland27335 Posts
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wptlzkwjd
Canada1240 Posts
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Cereb
Denmark3388 Posts
I'm so sad that this is happening. I honestly still feel he is the best chance of having foreigners compete with Koreans in the future. Indeed he is the only foreigner who has been able to be amongst the very best players consistently. And it's not even close. The gap between him and the rest of the foreigner community is one of the largest gaps in all of the professional sc2 scene. None of them come close in terms of success, consistency and skills. Not only that, but he also had an interesting and fun personality which, despite popular opinion, most foreigners lack as well! I'm going to be completely selfish here and say that it's just terrible that he is leaving. I do still want to wish him good luck in the future and thanks for great games and entertainment! He's really the only player I have ever truly been a fan of. | ||
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_SpiRaL_
Afghanistan1636 Posts
Very sad day for foreign SC2. He is BY FAR the biggest player in foreign SC2 history in terms of interest generated, hype, prize money, actually winning stuff basically everything. He revolutionised the meta not just once but twice in two different match ups ZvP and ZvT, even at the end of WoL he was able to win against code S players with a brand new strategy. Its such a shame that the foreign scene, being realistic, will almost certainly never have anyone as relatively good as Stephano. Gratz Stephano | ||
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Shinta)
United States1716 Posts
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Integra
Sweden5626 Posts
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Mooov99
United States14 Posts
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Noocta
France12578 Posts
On May 14 2013 06:15 zomgE wrote: people seem to forget tournament money is not the only money players get ._. If what Idra said is correct, Stephano's salary has a lot of incentives on winning tournaments and stuff tho. | ||
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heartagram
178 Posts
On May 14 2013 07:44 wptlzkwjd wrote: And so, like in BW, begins the death of the Starcraft Foreigner scene. He has tapered off recently. It is not that huge of a blow to the foreign scene skill-wise, though I admit he had an amazing and popular personality. As there are tons of good european pros and emerging talent like drunkenboi, kane, neeb, and hendralisk. Not to mention Chinese players are getting more involved in the scene and many of them are as good as Code S level Koreans. | ||
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