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Tileä " Tilea" Flavall, the 18 year old Terran/Zerg player from New Zealand (but residing in the US) has announced her retirement from Heart of the Swarm. Tilea as currently playing for  Denial eSports, who recently had another key player retiring in KawaiiRice. She previously played for LighT eSports, and was known as KnighTLighT.
She qualified to Challenger League in Season 1 of WCS America, and has survived in Challenger since, until today, when she forfeited her match against  Minigun in the Challenger Bracket of Season 3, and her spot in WCS.
The reason for her retirement is because despite her love for the game, and the community, she is no longer fit to play, but may come back for LotV.
Her retirement is most shocking, because the ratio of New Zealanders to Australians in WCS America used to be 2:1 to the benefit of the glorious nation of New Zealand, but the two rival countries are now tied 1:1.
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Germany592 Posts
Awwww, I liked her stream :/
Gl hf whatever you do now.
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United States8476 Posts
Er, lemme enable those tweets.
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Not fit to play? Wrist issues maybe? :-\
A shame either way. She's only young so potential there to develop a lot.
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On October 08 2013 22:45 monk wrote:
Er, lemme enable those tweets.
Thank you 
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 Sad to hear it, even though she was a bloody Kiwi.
I hope she overcomes whatever it was that made her unfit to play and returns to the scene stronger 
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"Her retirement is most shocking, because the ratio of New Zealanders to Australians in WCS America used to be 2:1 to the benefit of the glorious nation of New Zealand, but the two rival countries are now tied 1:1."
lol
never watched her play, that's a shame, would have been nice if I could catch her games in WCS AM
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the last random
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On October 08 2013 22:49 Drake wrote:the last random
She was a good player in Australia.
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Man I really enjoyed watching Tiliea's stream, great play and interesting music.
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On October 08 2013 22:49 Drake wrote:the last random
I thought Tilea picked between zerg and terran
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Wow. Never even knew that Tilea was a female player, although I saw the name quite often in the brackets this year.
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Wait... trapcarduser retired...? Wait... trapcarduser played zerg...? Damn, I'm out of touch with the NA scene. :o
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Its always Saddening when young talent does quit. If its wrist issues I hope she can fix them by doing exercises etc.
even if it isnt I do hope that teams promote the importance of a healthy lifestyle!
Personally taikido execises has done wonders for my wrists and arms, but enough about that.
Best of luck to Tilea and whatever shes planning on doing in the future and I do hope we will see her come back for LotV.
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Her stream was really cool, both cause of her unusual plays and her interaction with viewers. Hope she'll get better and come back!
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More retire to come .....sadly this game is no longer enjoayble or fun cause u barely can find friends who plays it.
I wish best of all to Tilea ,maybe to try Lotv she returns like all others but i cant see another way only LAN can make some difference or F2p + massive destruction of deathballs..... and 30 sek 200/200 battles.
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Aw, I've occasionally watched her stream and it was quite enjoyable. Too bad, I don't know what her personal issues are that she is dealing with (I suppose it's not really any of our business though), but here's to hoping she can overcome them.
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Sad... I liked her style
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The market returns to equilibrium :\
Too many players, not enough revenue and prize money in the system to support them all. I bet a lot of these progamers were just waiting it out until their run in Season 3 ended, so that they could have at least finished off the year.
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Shame. She played really smart.
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Sad... I hope she continues streaming
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Damn...I remember watching Tilea play IRL at WCS Oceania.
Come back!
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On October 09 2013 18:43 ThatGuyDoMo wrote:
Damn...I remember watching Tilea play IRL at WCS Oceania.
Come back!
I wasn't there, but watching that game with all those nukes was so sick.
I'll always remember Tilea for that game. Good luck in all future aspirations
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another "retirement". Shows how much money is in "esports"
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really enjoyed her stream to my surprise sad to see her go
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never heard of her before but.. GL HF
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On October 09 2013 19:43 Phanekim wrote:
another "retirement". Shows how much money is in "esports"
this statement isnt very smart.
gl to tilea in the furture!
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gl! hope to see you back someday
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NOOOOOOooooooo!!!
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Huh. Never heard of her until now.
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You can retire from SC2 but you can never retire from the community.
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Damn, I really liked her stream...
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I remember her from a video on HD's channel , a game between her and moonglade in WCS Oceania last year , sick game.
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Aw. I think this affects me personally more than MKP's retirement does. MKP had become less and less relevant, but Tilea looked like a rising star. Was really hoping she'd break into premiere league.
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On October 08 2013 23:25 Paragleiber wrote:
Wow. Never even knew that Tilea was a female player, although I saw the name quite often in the brackets this year.
After a short googling it appears that she is a transgender. (Remembered a old picture of KnightLight when Light was created and wondered if it was the same person).
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Spanishiwa's Coach will come back and she will be more succsessfull :z
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Can someone please clarify whether Tilea is a female in a female way or female in Scarlett, Leiya way?
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On October 14 2013 05:02 edlover420 wrote:
Can someone please clarify whether Tilea is a female in a female way or female in Scarlett, Leiya way?
I haven't been paying much attention to the Starcraft 2 scene since like 2011 (not really sure who any of these players are), so this post confuses the shit out of me. Explain?
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Hmm I thought Tilea was a guy with pink hair... Well what do u know...
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On October 14 2013 05:04 Headshot wrote:Show nested quote +On October 14 2013 05:02 edlover420 wrote:
Can someone please clarify whether Tilea is a female in a female way or female in Scarlett, Leiya way? I haven't been paying much attention to the Starcraft 2 scene since like 2011 (not really sure who any of these players are), so this post confuses the shit out of me. Explain?
I believe that edlover is asking if Tilea is transgender like Scarlett and the answer is yes.
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Oh, well that makes sense now. >_>
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Tilea Fighting!
Come out to Seattle and grab dinner with us sometime!
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On October 14 2013 05:02 edlover420 wrote:
Can someone please clarify whether Tilea is a female in a female way or female in Scarlett, Leiya way?
lol weird way to ask, but yes, she is transgender.
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Too bad, 2014 looks promising with the upcoming WCS changes (when is the Q&A with the blizzard official going to be released, TL???), but it seems that she quit because of personal reasons.
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On October 14 2013 05:04 Headshot wrote:Show nested quote +On October 14 2013 05:02 edlover420 wrote:
Can someone please clarify whether Tilea is a female in a female way or female in Scarlett, Leiya way? I haven't been paying much attention to the Starcraft 2 scene since like 2011 (not really sure who any of these players are), so this post confuses the shit out of me. Explain?
What an incredibly offensive way to write what you wrote, did you even bother to think about how that could be perceived before you just punched your keyboard and slapped enter? Seriously, what the fuck edlover.
To the person above me she quit because the games too robotic.
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She was my favorite zerg player, such beautiful army control. Wish her the best and hope to see her return in LotV.
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Russian Federation367 Posts
Why am I see boy on a photos and you call him "she"? wtf -_-
User was temp banned for this post.
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lmao
User was warned for this post
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On October 14 2013 06:38 PanN wrote:Show nested quote +On October 14 2013 05:04 Headshot wrote:On October 14 2013 05:02 edlover420 wrote:
Can someone please clarify whether Tilea is a female in a female way or female in Scarlett, Leiya way? I haven't been paying much attention to the Starcraft 2 scene since like 2011 (not really sure who any of these players are), so this post confuses the shit out of me. Explain? What an incredibly offensive way to write what you wrote, did you even bother to think about how that could be perceived before you just punched your keyboard and slapped enter? Seriously, what the fuck edlover. To the person above me she quit because the games too robotic.
Holy Christ dude settle down.. how can edlover's comment be considered any more offensive then slightly low-brow? You're making it seem he made a Princess Diana joke or something.
On topic: Tilea had some flashes of skill here and there, even beat Moonglade in WCS NA once if I recall correctly. Didn't have the consistency or exposure to really make something of herself so not too surprising retirement was the choice here.
Good luck in future endeavors Tilea.
On October 14 2013 17:29 LuckyGnomTV wrote:
Why am I see boy on a photos and you call him "she"? wtf -_-
That's the result of an overly politically correct community. I choose to refer to Tilea and Scarlett as female out of respect, but I don't see anything incorrect about doing the alternative either.
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Best of luck in your future Til!
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She was pretty good. Cya LoTV
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On October 14 2013 06:34 haffy wrote:Show nested quote +On October 14 2013 05:02 edlover420 wrote:
Can someone please clarify whether Tilea is a female in a female way or female in Scarlett, Leiya way? lol weird way to ask, but yes, she is transgender.
hrmm....something behind this?
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United States23455 Posts
Hoped she would stick around until the WCS changes in 2014. Best of luck to her anyway.
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Tilea you gotta come back in LotV! Most interesting player to come up in the last year. glhf in the meantime.
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On October 15 2013 03:04 Phanekim wrote:Show nested quote +On October 14 2013 06:34 haffy wrote:On October 14 2013 05:02 edlover420 wrote:
Can someone please clarify whether Tilea is a female in a female way or female in Scarlett, Leiya way? lol weird way to ask, but yes, she is transgender. hrmm....something behind this?
Probably not. If there were like 10 of them, it would be statistically significant, but I think there are only 3 prominent transgendered SC2 pros.
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Wow, how did i miss this thread, I guess it was the day my PC broke, well, its sad to see Tilea go, I always enjoy watching Random/Racepicking player.
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Really no idea who she? was haha, but that sucks
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