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fishjie
United States1519 Posts
On November 05 2013 03:14 Karis Vas Ryaar wrote: stinks for Startale. They'll be okay though. + Show Spoiler + especially when Virus comes out of retirement with a vengeance not seen since the Bubonic plague. oh i remember that guy. when did he retire anyway? he just fell off the face of the earth | ||
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AlternativeEgo
Sweden17309 Posts
On November 05 2013 04:34 fishjie wrote: oh i remember that guy. when did he retire anyway? he just fell off the face of the earth Summer of 2011 according to an editor of Liquipedia. | ||
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Nuclease
United States1049 Posts
Nowadays, it's pretty fashionable to retire in Korean SC2. There are just so many players and coaches all bunched up into one market that hit a bubble. Moreover, some people just get old/tired and retire, or they find other opportunities and move on. GLHF, <3<3 Startale. | ||
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catplanetcatplanet
3829 Posts
He seemed really close to all the players and super positive during the matches.... Will ex-ZeNEX HC be in charge now? | ||
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GumBa
United Kingdom31935 Posts
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Sumahi
Guam5609 Posts
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VArsovskiSC
Macedonia563 Posts
 In Western cultures contracts come-and-go, and they're usually only signed either for personality/stream-viewership or after a certain degree of success in a tourney.. In KR I think that there's more the "home-cook-and-chemistry-between-players" thing.. So teams in order to work need to have B-Teamers as well as the big-guns of the "good ol'" days to say the least.. In fact the success of a B-Teamer or lesser-known player over a captain/favorite is the greatest and most common source of hypes and stories.. That's usually where the knowledge of "neutral" people comes from, that's where the publicity takes place, pride gets born, merchandises and sponsorships arrive.., e.t.c. o.f.c. I might be talking thrash right now ATM cause I don't get a damn thing about business or how it's run or sth.., Still - the point is - if majority of the "younger" players from a team disband in such a short time - that might at least mean that the team owner has other plans for the team, or at least not plan further investing in the current business/maintenance program of the team.. The sign of the head-coach leaving is also something for a concern as well for a team-wealth and/or stability, in fact it can just mean confirmation that things haven't gone well for some time already.. So - really hope that those who really tried hard but never got the actual place of a starter in the team find their chance to prove themselves.. And it's not like - ahh, those are mostly the ZeNex guys that ST picked up.. Well - if we remember correctly Life was a ZeNex player before he went to ST, wasn't he ?? Still - B-teamers are always needed for the sake of wealthiness of a future of teams.. Like - take CJ for example (or more precisely talking about Sora for a moment).. The most hype about that team comes from the fact that they have a "new addition" to their team, and it's not a bought one, but rather a carefully-home-cooked player that almost no-one knew about (sorry for those who knew him already), and suddenly he's on the home-pages of articles and tourneys and such things.. Like - that's how a well-in-work team functions, and invests in it's own future.. ST has just "declined" it.. Hope things get settled and get better with the ST team though.. There's quite a bit of history to say the least.. | ||
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slowbacontron
United States7722 Posts
On November 05 2013 06:32 Sumahi wrote: This is unfortunate. I'm waiting for the other show to drop as they say in English on this bit of news. The expression would be "other shoe to drop" ^^ | ||
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shabby
Norway6402 Posts
On November 05 2013 01:03 DiMano wrote: It is actually 8 players:  Hoon Brain Balloon Sparta Harrier Sound SalvatioN SoNWe shall forever miss Balloon and SoN. | ||
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Darkdwarf
Sweden960 Posts
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glzElectromaster
Japan2474 Posts
On November 05 2013 04:31 NovemberstOrm wrote: i remember that game on antiga where Nestea held off his marine rush with just drones & queens was pretty cool AKA horrible mismicro by Sparta hahaha | ||
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glzElectromaster
Japan2474 Posts
On November 05 2013 04:48 AlternativeEgo wrote: Summer of 2011 according to an editor of Liquipedia. Pretty sure he meant Summer of 2012. I remember he dropped out of Code A in 2012 Season 3 and never tried to requalify after that, and his retirement was announced on the Startale Facebook page in September or so. He was a GSL staple. This series against boxer was so entertaining (usually didn't go well for him though  ) | ||
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Dodgin
Canada39254 Posts
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NovemberstOrm
Canada16217 Posts
On November 05 2013 09:59 Dodgin wrote: Is this the guy who was in charge of eSF when they blacklisted SlayerS? No I don't think so, that was Won Jong Wook. http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/StarTale#Organization | ||
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QuantumChaos
Canada37 Posts
On November 05 2013 01:07 Darkhoarse wrote: The others were pretty much ex-Zenex players who transferred over and never did too much :/ People always forget the importance of a good B-team for practice partners. | ||
Darkhorse
United States23455 Posts
On November 05 2013 11:42 QuantumChaos wrote: People always forget the importance of a good B-team for practice partners. Well then sOs and Soulkey should be going to shit, but they're not. | ||
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cythaze
830 Posts
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VKCA
Canada391 Posts
On November 05 2013 00:45 Zealously wrote: Keep in mind that out of the ten or so that retired, most people probably didnt know half of them half? more like two and I'm being generous, only sound was really notable, both sparta and brain were sorta seen a bit but really nobody knew of them. okay balloon had that one nice code b run but really, is it that surprising? | ||
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Bagration
United States18282 Posts
On November 05 2013 09:59 Dodgin wrote: Is this the guy who was in charge of eSF when they blacklisted SlayerS? That was Coach Won. Sleazy two-faced bastard he was too, trying to pretend to be a good guy publicly to promote eSports, while trying shut down any team that didn't kiss the eSF's ass. | ||
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holladoub
Canada32 Posts
bomber will win blizzcon and retire to become the coach | ||
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