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vult
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
United States9386 Posts
April 22 2014 21:52 GMT
#521
Waxangel with the epic retirement thread bumps.
"I used to play random, but for you I play very specifically." -iNcontroL, impersonating TLO flirting with Apollo, ASUS ROG 2012. RIP Geoff. || Pats and Jags
looken
Profile Joined September 2011
727 Posts
April 22 2014 21:52 GMT
#522
lol, nice one Wax
"Jingle Bells, Tasteless smells" Artosis 17.12.15
urasyupi2
Profile Joined August 2011
United States810 Posts
April 22 2014 22:01 GMT
#523
So I guess "retiring" is a thing now
Ah well, nice to see him back, even if only for a little while.
hemeh
Micro_Jackson
Profile Joined August 2011
Germany2002 Posts
April 22 2014 22:12 GMT
#524
Best necro ever.
TRaFFiC
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Canada1448 Posts
April 23 2014 05:03 GMT
#525
Fact of the matter is he's playing less and changed his priorities to non-sc2 related stuff like school. I think his retirement was justified and now he's back part time. I'm not holding my breath to see any championships. The landscape of sc2 has changed (Koreans are even more dominant) and he's playing rusty. He retired at a most opportune time. But who knows, maybe this relaxed style suits him and we'll see a few flashes of his former glory. I do think his lack of practice was over-exaggerated during his full time pro days. Last season he had a shit tons of games played in EU gm in a short period of time. The guy is a machine when he sits down to it. One game after another.
2v2, 1v1, Zerg, Terran http://www.twitch.tv/trafficsc2
Executor1
Profile Joined April 2011
1353 Posts
April 23 2014 05:41 GMT
#526
On April 23 2014 14:03 TRaFFiC wrote:
Fact of the matter is he's playing less and changed his priorities to non-sc2 related stuff like school. I think his retirement was justified and now he's back part time. I'm not holding my breath to see any championships. The landscape of sc2 has changed (Koreans are even more dominant) and he's playing rusty. He retired at a most opportune time. But who knows, maybe this relaxed style suits him and we'll see a few flashes of his former glory. I do think his lack of practice was over-exaggerated during his full time pro days. Last season he had a shit tons of games played in EU gm in a short period of time. The guy is a machine when he sits down to it. One game after another.

Yea i always thought he had a bit of a douchey attitude when it came to the practicing thing. Most people are humble and say they worked hard and prepared in this way and that way. He just said "oh i dont know i didnt even practice much" or something to that extent a lot of the time. Which is a bunch of bull IMO. Glad to see he's back although i never expected him to stay away for that long hes been saying hes going to quit "next year" for years lol.
TRaFFiC
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Canada1448 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-04-23 07:48:02
April 23 2014 07:47 GMT
#527
On April 23 2014 14:41 Executor1 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 23 2014 14:03 TRaFFiC wrote:
Fact of the matter is he's playing less and changed his priorities to non-sc2 related stuff like school. I think his retirement was justified and now he's back part time. I'm not holding my breath to see any championships. The landscape of sc2 has changed (Koreans are even more dominant) and he's playing rusty. He retired at a most opportune time. But who knows, maybe this relaxed style suits him and we'll see a few flashes of his former glory. I do think his lack of practice was over-exaggerated during his full time pro days. Last season he had a shit tons of games played in EU gm in a short period of time. The guy is a machine when he sits down to it. One game after another.

Yea i always thought he had a bit of a douchey attitude when it came to the practicing thing. Most people are humble and say they worked hard and prepared in this way and that way. He just said "oh i dont know i didnt even practice much" or something to that extent a lot of the time. Which is a bunch of bull IMO. Glad to see he's back although i never expected him to stay away for that long hes been saying hes going to quit "next year" for years lol.

I`m paying him a compliment to his work ethic and your post is borderline insulting so we don`t agree. Following up with yeah is ``wtf worthy. `` I don`t think it`s douchey at all. It`s smart. Make your opponents underestimate you and feel worse for their loses.
2v2, 1v1, Zerg, Terran http://www.twitch.tv/trafficsc2
Dodgin
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
Canada39254 Posts
April 23 2014 07:49 GMT
#528
cute title wax
phipsL
Profile Joined November 2012
Germany189 Posts
May 03 2014 22:29 GMT
#529
If he wins anything big as a part-time player i will ... I don't even know what i'll do. Party hard i guess.

I really missed this guy, and shortly after he "retired" i quit starcraft as well, because it wasn't that much fun anymore. Playing it wasn't really that fun for me anyway...
I'm a f*cking walking paradox.
AWalker9
Profile Blog Joined August 2013
United Kingdom7229 Posts
May 03 2014 22:32 GMT
#530
Haha good bump
Retirement is clearly going well for him
soOjwa has returned to smite all that stand in his way
Penev
Profile Joined October 2012
28294 Posts
May 03 2014 22:54 GMT
#531
On April 23 2014 06:35 Yorbon wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 23 2014 06:30 The_Templar wrote:
On April 23 2014 06:28 Shellshock wrote:
he was probably secretly training by playing LoL like Coca and Puzzle when they came back and did well at Dreamhack and MKP winning more games in proleague than lots of players. the real elephant in the room

Are you implying that there are hundreds current pros and semi-pros LoL players that have the potential to come in and dominate SC2 at any moment, with a latency of a few months from the day they switch?
Yeah, we have been skirting around this topic ever since beta now, so I’ll just fucking say it: the competition in SC2 thus far has been a farce.

edit: Oh wow, thanks for TL+. Glad someone liked the post

Haha, well played
I Protoss winner, could it be?
Yoshi Kirishima
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States9759 Posts
May 03 2014 23:20 GMT
#532
On April 23 2014 14:41 Executor1 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 23 2014 14:03 TRaFFiC wrote:
Fact of the matter is he's playing less and changed his priorities to non-sc2 related stuff like school. I think his retirement was justified and now he's back part time. I'm not holding my breath to see any championships. The landscape of sc2 has changed (Koreans are even more dominant) and he's playing rusty. He retired at a most opportune time. But who knows, maybe this relaxed style suits him and we'll see a few flashes of his former glory. I do think his lack of practice was over-exaggerated during his full time pro days. Last season he had a shit tons of games played in EU gm in a short period of time. The guy is a machine when he sits down to it. One game after another.

Yea i always thought he had a bit of a douchey attitude when it came to the practicing thing. Most people are humble and say they worked hard and prepared in this way and that way. He just said "oh i dont know i didnt even practice much" or something to that extent a lot of the time. Which is a bunch of bull IMO. Glad to see he's back although i never expected him to stay away for that long hes been saying hes going to quit "next year" for years lol.


It can also be viewed that saying you practiced a lot is bragging, and that saying I didn't practice much is humble. TBH if he didn't practice 10 hours a day most of the time or near a match date, then I don't see how it's "douchey" for him to say he didn't practice much. He's not rubbing it into his opponents' face after a game, only revealing info during an interview.
Mid-master streaming MECH ONLY + commentary www.twitch.tv/yoshikirishima +++ "If all-in fails, all-in again."
YuiHirasawa
Profile Joined August 2012
Japan220 Posts
May 03 2014 23:51 GMT
#533
I was one of the biggest Stephano fanboy even before he was known to the world (being french help).
But if he is able to secure even just a good tournament finish I will lose most of the hope I have left toward this scene.
An amateur player, by amateur I mean not playing the game full time, shouldn't be able to compete against dedicated and talented pro-players. A Stephano ro4 finish in any of the upcoming tournaments would either mean:

1/ Total lack of talent by the current foreign pro-scene
2/ If they are actually talented, they are not training enough to deserve their privileged "pro" life.

We know Stephano has a huge brain and he is the biggest talent the foreign rts scene had since elky/tod/grubby but come on..He is partying everyday, going to classes, playing the game sporadically AND just to abuse troll strategies. He shouldn't even be able to reach Challenger League.
Fun things are fun
Alryk
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
United States2718 Posts
May 04 2014 00:48 GMT
#534
Bahahahaha great bump :D
Team Liquid, IM, ViOlet!
Danglars
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States12133 Posts
May 04 2014 01:21 GMT
#535
On April 23 2014 06:30 Zaphid wrote:
Schroedinger's retirement !
How long can he go on in both a retired and non-retired state?
Great armies come from happy zealots, and happy zealots come from California!
TL+ Member
YuiHirasawa
Profile Joined August 2012
Japan220 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-05-04 18:58:59
May 04 2014 18:58 GMT
#536
Now we have our answers, even jvz can't beat his sh meta
Fun things are fun
maartendq
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Belgium3115 Posts
May 04 2014 19:08 GMT
#537
On May 04 2014 08:51 YuiHirasawa wrote:
I was one of the biggest Stephano fanboy even before he was known to the world (being french help).
But if he is able to secure even just a good tournament finish I will lose most of the hope I have left toward this scene.
An amateur player, by amateur I mean not playing the game full time, shouldn't be able to compete against dedicated and talented pro-players. A Stephano ro4 finish in any of the upcoming tournaments would either mean:

1/ Total lack of talent by the current foreign pro-scene
2/ If they are actually talented, they are not training enough to deserve their privileged "pro" life.

We know Stephano has a huge brain and he is the biggest talent the foreign rts scene had since elky/tod/grubby but come on..He is partying everyday, going to classes, playing the game sporadically AND just to abuse troll strategies. He shouldn't even be able to reach Challenger League.

Apart from some exceptions, most of the foreign scene is incredibly underwhelming. There is a lot of talent though, but for some reason those people tend to underwhelm in offline tournaments.
Dumbledore
Profile Joined April 2011
Sweden725 Posts
May 04 2014 19:08 GMT
#538
On May 05 2014 03:58 YuiHirasawa wrote:
Now we have our answers, even jvz can't beat his sh meta


Stephano too OP
Have a nice day ;)
Teoita
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Italy12242 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-05-04 19:11:42
May 04 2014 19:11 GMT
#539
lol wax, awesome necro xD
ModeratorProtoss all-ins are like a wok. You can throw whatever you want in there and it will turn out alright.
Mekare
Profile Joined April 2011
Germany393 Posts
May 04 2014 19:25 GMT
#540
lol Wax XDDD
Nice change of the title.
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