After almost 1 month without SC2 elfi is back to game stronger then ever! He will start streaming regularly next week! Yesterday he won Starcraft2.fi 4V. Cup beating mYi.Serral 2-0 and NrS.Welmu 3-0 to take the throne!
Couple of words from elfi:
"Last weeks I've started to play Starcraft again little bit and it feels again pretty good I don't have to force myself to play the game anymore. I had only like 16 days total break from opening Starcraft but already again felt like wanting to win and compete in big tours. So I m officially returning to play for my team Vega. For now I'm aiming to get in good shape for Dreamhack: Valencia and try to repeat my last year top 8 there! Big thanks for my team for their support in my decisions and pekka is best!"
Psalm 5 Listen to my words, Elfi, Consider my lament. Hear my cry for help, My King and My God, For to you I pray.
In the morning, Elfi, you hear my voice; In the morning I lay my requests before you And wait expectantly. For you are not Teoita, who is pleased with wickedness, With you, bad advice is nonexistent. The arrogant cannot stand in your presence. You hate all who do you wrong; You destroy those who claim they are better. The ones who detest your cat You, Elfi, detest. But I, by your great skill, Can come onto your stream, In reverence I watch Simultaneously on both monitors.
Lead me, Elfi, in your righteousness Because of my enemies - Lead your armies straight before me. Not a word from their mouths can be understood; Their hearts are filled with greed. Their throat is rusted from disuse; With their tongues they speak Korean. Declare them losers, O Elfi! Let their arrogance be their downfall. Banish them for their many sins, For they have rebelled against you. But let all who are in your fanclub be glad; Let them ever sing for joy. Spread your protection over them, That those who love your name may rejoice in you.
Surely, Elfi, you bless your viewers; You surround them with your tactics as with a shield.
Psalm 16 Keep me safe, Elfi, For in you I take refuge.
I say to Elfi, "You are my God; Apart from you I have no favorites." I say of Naniwa and Scarlett in the bracket, "They are the noble ones who shall guide you to victory." Those who run after other players will suffer more and more. I will not pour out my sympathy to these players Or get banned from Team Liquid for losing bets on them.
Elfi, you alone are my keyboard and my mouse; You make my play secure. My forcefields have fallen for me in unpleasant places; Surely you know what to do in this situation. I will praise Elfi, whose stream I watch; Even in the early morning when it's bedtime in Finland. I keep my eyes on Elfi's stream. With him on my second monitor, I will not be shaken.
Therefore, my heart is glad and my hand rejoices; My mind will also rest secure, Because your special tactics will not leave me dead, Nor will your builds ever see decay. You make known to me clutch warp prism drops; You show me unorthodox blink stalker timings, And halve the APM of my right hand.
honestly who cares if people retire/go on hiatus and then come back? they do this because returning from retirement in SC2 is as easy as starting to practice and qualifying for tournaments, unlike in other sports where you have to officially return to the league and/or get signed by a team. yes, everyone knows this happens a lot. but like... who cares? does it hurt anyone?
On February 06 2014 13:21 [UoN]Sentinel wrote: In the beginning, Elfi created the pylon and the gateway. Now the APM counter was declining and nearly empty, darkness was over most of the minimap, and his cat Pekka was hovering over the keyboard.
And Elfi said, "Let there be gas," and there was gas. Elfi saw that the gas was good, and sent three probes into each geyser to harvest it. Elfi called the first three probes "for core", and the other three probes "for stargate". And there was the occasional e-click, and the occasional "not enough minerals", the first minute.
And Elfi said, "Let there be a pylon between the structures to separate structure from structure." So Elfi made the pylon and separated his gateway from the core on the other side. And it was so. Elfi began his first zealot. And there was the occasional e-click, and the occasional "not enough minerals", the second minute.
And Elfi said, "Let the nexus in the main produce a mothership core, and let a mothership core appear." And it was so. Elfi rallied the mothership core to his ramp, and the new probes he put on minerals. And Elfi saw that it was good.
Then Elfi said, "Let the core research warp gate: gateways to eventually transform into warp gate and bear units with attacks, according to their various kinds." And it was so. The core researched warp gate, a second gateway went into construction to bear units with attacks according to their kinds. And Elfi saw that it was good. And there was the occasional e-click, and the occasional "not enough minerals", the third minute.
And Elfi said, "Let there be a stargate to make phoenixes and punish expansions, and let them serve as scouts to mark enemy buildings, units, and researches, and let them be units in the airspace of the map to defend the base." And it was so. Elfi made two phoenixes - the phoenix to show his chosen tech path to the enemy, and the oracle to die to enemy stalker pressure. He also made a hallucinated phoenix. Elfi set it in the base of the enemy next to his real phoenix to deliver more scouting information, and to confuse the enemy as to which phoenix was the real one. And Elfi saw that it was good. And there was the occasional e-click, and the occasional "not enough minerals", the fourth minute.
And Elfi said, "Let the phoenixes use all of their energy, and let them fly above the mineral lines across the base of the enemy." So Elfi hit the G key and clicked on things in the mineral line, according to their kinds, and lifted the stalker instead of the probe. And Elfi saw that it was good, since it gave his oracle free rein to shoot the probes. Elfi blessed them and said, "Vittu." And there was the occasional e-click, and the occasional "not enough minerals", the fifth minute.
And Elfi said, "Let my base produce units according to their kinds: the zealots, the stalkers that blink across the map, and the sentries, each according to their kind. And it was so. Elfi made the sentries according to their kinds, the zealots according to their kinds, and the stalkers that blink across the map according to their kind. And Elfi saw that it was good.
And Elfi said, "Let us expand while attacking, while making air units, so that I may simultaneously achieve everything and optimize the use of my eighty actions per minute on my zealots, and my sentries, and over all the stalkers that blink across the map."
So Elfi expanded to his natural in his main's image, in the image of his main he expanded there, nexus he created there.
Elfi blessed it and said to it, "Be fruitful and deliver probes, fill the mineral line and empty it. Remind me to take both assimilators to that I may hide probes from attacks in them. Allow me to build more zealots and sentries and stalkers that blink across the map.
Then Elfi said to Pekka, "I give you every expansion on the face of this whole map and every building powered by my Artosis pylon. They will be yours to control. And to all the units of the map and all the phoenixes in the sky and all the sentries that blink across the map, everything with the tag "elfi" on it, I send to the enemy base to attack." And it was so.
Elfi saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was the occasional e-click, and the occasional "not enough minerals", the sixth minute.
Thus the base and the buildings were completed in all their vast array.
By the seventh minute Elfi had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh minute he left to go take a dump and left Pekka in charge. Then Elfi blessed Pekka and made him holy, because he had just entrusted the winning of at least 100 WCS points to his cat.
Lol, saw this one coming. Maybe a couple weeks is what he needed. These guys should all do this a little some. I realize you have to sacrifice and practice a lot but small breaks can really do a lot for you.
Im bored of all this "retirements". If you assume that you can back - just leave quietly and if you left with some drama around you - dont be a girl, do what you sayed.
Someone once said that you will never see Elfi or Welmu at the same time. They coexist like two sides of a coin so they take turns being in the public eye. Never mind the hair color or facial differences - their Finnish essence is the same. Seriously, I enjoy both Elfi and Welmu as they have unique styles.
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