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Elroi
Profile Joined August 2009
Sweden5617 Posts
August 31 2013 21:25 GMT
#321
Good bye STX and thanks, it has been a hell of a ride.

Hwasin - Calm - Kal - Bogus
"To all eSports fans, I want to be remembered as a progamer who can make something out of nothing, and someone who always does his best. I think that is the right way of living, and I'm always doing my best to follow that." - Jaedong. /watch?v=jfghAzJqAp0
juicyjames *
Profile Joined August 2011
United States3815 Posts
August 31 2013 21:26 GMT
#322


(2:18 PM - 31 Aug 13) hyvaa was asking around for a team recently, so unless he suddenly changed his mind he hasn't retired
This Week in SC2Find out what happened 'This Week in Starcraft 2': http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=278126
Kerence
Profile Joined May 2011
Sweden1817 Posts
August 31 2013 21:56 GMT
#323
Not really a surprise considering all the rumors and whatnot lately (I mean, it was pretty much confirmed already, just not official), but that doesn't make it suck any less.
I am here in the shadows.
IntoTheEmo
Profile Joined February 2009
Singapore1170 Posts
August 31 2013 22:02 GMT
#324
First thought I had when I saw this was mustaju , can't believe he hasn't commented yet.

Felt the same way when Oz disbanded. Best of luck to their players in the future.
MMOs kill APM. However Proleague plus BW Proscene music increase APM -> 100. 이제동 Fighting! Highest ranked Jaedong owner in FPL10 = clearly #1 Jaedong fan~! <- Keeping my sig from 2010
megapants
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States1314 Posts
August 31 2013 22:04 GMT
#325
On September 01 2013 05:26 Prog455 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 01 2013 05:00 jakethesnake wrote:
On September 01 2013 04:15 ptbl wrote:
On September 01 2013 04:13 Slanina wrote:
This is just another step in the decline of SC2. You see players retiring, teams disbanding, viewer numbers decline rapidly. I have been a SC2 fan since the release and i must simply say that SC2 has lost its atractivity in any way for me nowadays. And news like this prove that the majority of the players/pro players/viewers see it the same way.

I am bored of seeing Deathball vs. Deathball, and often you can see that a game is lost/won in the beginning phase, with a 10-20 min death animation. I dont care anymore.

And Blizzard has proven again and again that they are out of touch with the e-sports scene and that they simply dont care. See it this way: They sell a game 2-3 million times, earn 50-60 million dollars. The whole e-sport scene in three years hasnt generated any money for them, quite the opposite. So why should they care?

I stop watching streams, stopped watching gsl and any streamers. Its sad, but its true. SC2 has reached its peak a year ago, and now it trending downwards rapidly.


See ya and don't let the door hit you on the way out. We don't need the doom harbingers in the sc2 community. All they do is bring negative energy to the scene.


Seriously. We all knew that SC2 was going to do some shrinking as competition between rival e-sports, but it doesn't make it any less painful to watch very skilled players retire and drop out as their teams fall apart. It's a rough enough couple weeks with big news of retirements and teams falling apart, we don't need it to be any worse with an onslaught of people running around rubbing everyone's noses in it. SC2 is far from dying, but is still going through a really tough time of pruning.

True true. But it's not only the competition from titles such as Dota 2 and LoL. It is also the fact that the pre-Kespa SC2 scene already was saturated. Then Kespa players switched over from BW and people expect that the scene can suddenly accommodate almost 100 new players. It was a bubble that was doomed to burst, and now we have to clean up the mess. It is not so much that the scene is dying, but more the fact that there is too many teams and too many players.

it was fun while it lasted, though! the current scene just wouldn't have been the same without Kespa. i'm glad that a lot of new players come in and showed us some fun games and i hope that they find a way to stick around. players like soulkey, dear, sos, fantasy, jaedong, and lots of other strong contenders are really what keeps this scene from becoming too stagnant for me.
Sumahi
Profile Blog Joined January 2012
Guam5609 Posts
August 31 2013 22:16 GMT
#326
I was glad I got to see them win a PL though before they disbanded.
Startale <3, ST_July <3, HongUn <3, Savior <3, Gretorp <3, Nada <3, Rainbow <3, Ret <3, Squirtle <3, Bomber <3
Marcus420
Profile Joined January 2011
Canada1923 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-31 22:23:50
August 31 2013 22:23 GMT
#327
Hope hyvaa doesnt retire, he has been doing really well recently. Cheesey player but could still play out a macro game
Drake
Profile Joined October 2010
Germany6146 Posts
August 31 2013 22:28 GMT
#328
On September 01 2013 00:42 KaiserKieran wrote:
WTF they won Proleague how can this happen? And Mini retiring sucks. I was hoping he would make a big splash in sc2.


stx is broke, so it was expected, no matter if you win, if your team has no money left
Nb.Drake / CoL_Drake / Original Joined TL.net Tuesday, 15th of March 2005
Aserrin
Profile Joined October 2011
Uruguay231 Posts
August 31 2013 22:28 GMT
#329
Surprised no one picked Trap/Dear considering how well they did in the last part of SPL.

Inno to Acer is a bit underwhelming.
Atom Cannister
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
Germany380 Posts
August 31 2013 22:32 GMT
#330
Aw no...
...
ZionsWrath
Profile Joined December 2010
United States121 Posts
August 31 2013 22:44 GMT
#331
TeamLiquid ESports, strong first post.
Thrillz
Profile Joined May 2012
4313 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-31 22:47:22
August 31 2013 22:47 GMT
#332
On September 01 2013 07:28 Aserrin wrote:
Surprised no one picked Trap/Dear considering how well they did in the last part of SPL.

Inno to Acer is a bit underwhelming.


Other teams probably don't have the free funds to have Dear/Trap
Ammanas
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
Slovakia2166 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-31 22:49:10
August 31 2013 22:48 GMT
#333
On September 01 2013 07:47 Thrillz wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 01 2013 07:28 Aserrin wrote:
Surprised no one picked Trap/Dear considering how well they did in the last part of SPL.

Inno to Acer is a bit underwhelming.


Other teams probably don't have the free funds to have Dear/Trap


Dear is Top5 protoss in the world, so I am pretty sure he won't have troubles finding a team. Even foreign one, if he wants to.
JangBi forever <3 || Classic! herO! Rain! Zest! | Rogue! Hydra! Solar! | Fantasy! Cure! Reality! Sorry! Journey!
Zenniv
Profile Joined September 2011
United States545 Posts
August 31 2013 23:42 GMT
#334
Holy shit no way .....
RouaF
Profile Joined October 2010
France4121 Posts
August 31 2013 23:50 GMT
#335
Why would you recruit classic instead of dear or trap ?
Ace1123
Profile Joined September 2011
Philippines1187 Posts
August 31 2013 23:51 GMT
#336
Sad (((
ForGG, Mvp, MMA, MarineKing, BoxeR,
Traceback
Profile Joined October 2010
United States469 Posts
August 31 2013 23:53 GMT
#337
On September 01 2013 08:50 RouaF wrote:
Why would you recruit classic instead of dear or trap ?

Maybe Classic is better and we just don't know it yet? o.o
monk
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States8477 Posts
August 31 2013 23:55 GMT
#338
On September 01 2013 08:53 Traceback wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 01 2013 08:50 RouaF wrote:
Why would you recruit classic instead of dear or trap ?

Maybe Classic is better and we just don't know it yet? o.o

Classic probably just cost less because he has fewer individual results. Same thing happened with ForGG/TheStC/Supernova when oGs disbanded. Supernova was the best of the three and while the other two quickly joined foreign teams, Supernova held out for a better offer.
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Lorch
Profile Joined June 2011
Germany3711 Posts
August 31 2013 23:55 GMT
#339
On September 01 2013 06:25 Elroi wrote:
Good bye STX and thanks, it has been a hell of a ride.

Hwasin - Calm - Kal - Bogus


Don't forget july zerg lol, he was on stx afterall when he won his golden mouse.
misspoo
Profile Joined December 2012
France63 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-09-01 00:02:26
September 01 2013 00:01 GMT
#340
I have a music too even if it's a bit more patriotic one
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