Thank God this all worked out, I can't imagine any part of it was easy for him. Hopefully we'll see him splash into the WCS America stuff (although I have literally no idea how their system is working in 2014).

TommyP

United States6231 Posts

December 12 2013 08:39 GMT

#184

On December 12 2013 08:54 arvinds94 wrote:

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On December 12 2013 07:53 sns3rsam wrote:

On December 12 2013 05:55 Alryk wrote:
Love ViOlet :D

On December 12 2013 05:26 seoul_kiM wrote:

On December 12 2013 04:50 Ctone23 wrote:

On December 12 2013 04:45 seoul_kiM wrote:
Aren't all Texas schools second rate kind of except for Rice?

U of T Austin has a great law program though.

Nice generalization. Yeah, here in Texas we ride horses to school (only attend school after herding cattle, number one priority) and our women chew tobacco.

You might believe that I am ignorant, but you don't realize that your definition of second rate and mine might be completely different. I will admit that I am from the Northeast and you might make the generalization that I am an elitist pig. In my mind, I think there are top tier schools and then second rate schools even among your definition of a first rate school. It's not a long list at all: The Ivy League, MIT, CALTech, Berkeley, Duke, Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, Rice, Vanderbilt, Emory, UChicago, Northwestern, Wash U in St. Louis, Stanford, Williams, Swarthmore, Amherst. (excluding special schools like Juiliard) The schools that you are referring to might be good schools and even great schools in the local area but Nationally they are not as competitive.

The school you are referring to does not exist in Texas. It's called Deep Springs College in California and it is super competitive with most of its alumni completing a two year program and attending the world's best universities. So yes, I know my shit.

I'm not in high school, I'm not in college, I'm out of college and I work.

Both Texas A&M (11) and the University of Texas at Austin (11) are ranked higher in engineering than Johns Hopkins (25), U Penn (22), Harvard (23), Princeton (17), and the majority of the others you listed who might not even make the list. MIT, Caltech, Berkely, and Stanford among the competing ones. And engineering is a big field, by the way. Don't know what you mean by second rate.

You left out U of I Urbana-Champaign T~T
haha I went there that's why gogo Fighting Illini!

I go to U of I right now, ahaha gogo Fighting Illini!!
Responding to the elitist pig above, you are ignorant if that is your definition of first and second rate. If you were out of high school and college and doing work in the field one would think you would be more knowledgeable about the different colleges around the country. Your portrayed understanding of top tier just reflects admission rates and the name value, rather than actual programs, professors, and major specific rankings. Its hard for me to comprehend how these can be the only relevant schools in the nation for you. I love how everyone always skips over our school when we are top 10 for almost all undergrad engineering majors

Purdue>Illinois

but yeah Illinois very good school.

29 fps

United States5724 Posts

December 12 2013 08:50 GMT

#185

good news for esports!

Chairman Ray

United States11903 Posts

December 12 2013 09:09 GMT

#186

YES! This is great!

havok55

United States276 Posts

December 12 2013 10:56 GMT

#187

Good news.

Also people should stop implying that \he's trying to avoid military service. The article simply says military service would be a likely choice if he had not gotten the visa (it would be his choice, since he still has a few years before he absolutely has to go). Dodging military service is like a cardinal sin in SK and it can easily ruin the career of any public figure.

shabby

Norway6402 Posts

December 12 2013 12:14 GMT

#188

Sick! Good news!

Keeemy

Finland7855 Posts

December 12 2013 14:09 GMT

#189

Now that EG has released Revival and Oz (and possibly aLive), how awesome would it be if viOLet joined EG now that he's going back to the US?

Please EG, you know you want to.

Proseat

Germany5113 Posts

December 12 2013 14:39 GMT

#190

How times are changing. Good to see. All the best to viOLet!

Azurues

Malaysia5612 Posts

December 12 2013 14:42 GMT

#191

Wow impressive!!

Antisocialmunky

United States5912 Posts

December 12 2013 16:34 GMT

#192

Congrats, is he the first SCII player that has this?

I've mostly heard of Lol players.

PS. I have to say, I always think of KT_Violet when I see violet. :\

mikumegurine

Canada3145 Posts

December 12 2013 18:10 GMT

#193

so he gets to play in WCS America no problems then right?

lol JD and Polt better get ready for him

Grobyc

Canada18410 Posts

December 12 2013 21:25 GMT

#194

Awesome, congratulations to violet

WolfintheSheep

Canada14127 Posts

December 12 2013 21:51 GMT

#195

On December 13 2013 01:34 Antisocialmunky wrote:
Congrats, is he the first SCII player that has this?

I've mostly heard of Lol players.

PS. I have to say, I always think of KT_Violet when I see violet. :\

He's probably the first SC2 player that actually needed it. Most players only need a temporary Visa for a week at most. Then guys like Polt get a student visa.

Though, I guess it might help guys like DeMuslim?

Baarn

United States2702 Posts

December 12 2013 22:51 GMT

#196

This is good news.

TRaFFiC

Canada1448 Posts

December 13 2013 00:08 GMT

#197

What a miracle for Violet. The immigration process in America is disgustingly slow and flawed.

Best of luck to him. I will never forget how he said "I love Brazil" at Sao Paulo.

tomastaz

United States976 Posts

December 13 2013 01:56 GMT

#198

Violet joining EG would be pretty cool. I feel like that would work out in so many ways.

Strangways

United States13 Posts

December 13 2013 03:02 GMT

#199

I'm so happy for the guy. I wasn't even aware that there was a special visa for pro athletes or that e-sports pros couldn't qualify for it until recently.

Khai

Australia551 Posts

December 14 2013 01:15 GMT

#200

Unexpected but great news, nice work from all the people who helped. eSports recognition +1!