SKT announced that ParalyzE will officially be retiring on January 31st.
ParalyzE joined SKT on 2009 through the progamer draft and was with them for 6 years.
He made the decision to retire as a progamer so that he could pursue new and different opportunities before he enlists into the army in the future.
ParalyzE's biggest progaming achievements was back in 2014 GSL Season 2 where he took down MyuNgSiK and DongRaeGu in the Ro32 and then went on to take down Life twice in the Ro16 before losing to teammate Classic in the quarter-finals. ParalyzE also won several games for SKT during the 2014 SK Telecom Proleague.
Although he never really made a splash in the SC2 scene, he had some really memorable moments in 2014. I am personally sad to see this player go since he had shown a lot of potential and seemed capable of becoming someone in the SC2 world. Not to mention people will always remember dat afro!
ParalyzE's statement:
After debuting as a progamer, I made a lot of precious memories as a T1 player. I want to thank all my fans who have cheered me on up till now.
Long live Afrotoss! Hopefully ParalyzE and Starcraft cross paths again someday. I prefer to think of it as a see you later rather than a goodbye. You can take a man out of Starcraft but once he's tried it you can't take the Starcraft out of a man (or woman).
On January 31 2015 06:22 Circumstance wrote: I must say, I'm not a fan of the dogpile that the BW community seems to have in celebrating any Korean retiring from SC2 for any reason.
Seems to me that there's nothing wrong wishing players we once used to know and love would come back and provide us more fun and entertainment. We know many of them won't and have other plans. But I can't see anything that there's to much wrong with been optermistic and hoping it might happen.
Who knows if retirement from one game is moving onto a better or worse future for the the indivdual players involved. I guess only time will tell.
On January 31 2015 06:22 Circumstance wrote: I must say, I'm not a fan of the dogpile that the BW community seems to have in celebrating any Korean retiring from SC2 for any reason.
Not any korean. Just ex-BW progamers.
Why would you expect BW people not to celebrate? It's exciting when old fan favorites come back to play the game you enjoy. This would be like me complaining about SC2 community being happy that Stephano, or Nestea, or any other formerly decent SC2 player decided to return to starcraft2.
On January 31 2015 06:22 Circumstance wrote: I must say, I'm not a fan of the dogpile that the BW community seems to have in celebrating any Korean retiring from SC2 for any reason.
Not any korean. Just ex-BW progamers.
Why would you expect BW people not to celebrate? It's exciting when old fan favorites come back to play the game you enjoy. This would be like me complaining about SC2 community being happy that Stephano, or Nestea, or any other formerly decent SC2 player decided to return to starcraft2.
He's not playing BW. You're literally only cheering him leaving SC2.
On January 31 2015 06:22 Circumstance wrote: I must say, I'm not a fan of the dogpile that the BW community seems to have in celebrating any Korean retiring from SC2 for any reason.
Not any korean. Just ex-BW progamers.
Why would you expect BW people not to celebrate? It's exciting when old fan favorites come back to play the game you enjoy. This would be like me complaining about SC2 community being happy that Stephano, or Nestea, or any other formerly decent SC2 player decided to return to starcraft2.
He's not playing BW. You're literally only cheering him leaving SC2.
You could say this about a ton of players who retired from SC2.. only to come back to BW in the end. BW fans are happy that another player will most likely come back. No need to get upset about it.
On January 31 2015 06:22 Circumstance wrote: I must say, I'm not a fan of the dogpile that the BW community seems to have in celebrating any Korean retiring from SC2 for any reason.
Not any korean. Just ex-BW progamers.
Why would you expect BW people not to celebrate? It's exciting when old fan favorites come back to play the game you enjoy. This would be like me complaining about SC2 community being happy that Stephano, or Nestea, or any other formerly decent SC2 player decided to return to starcraft2.
He's not playing BW. You're literally only cheering him leaving SC2.
BW just want SC2 to die, its best to just ignore them
On January 31 2015 06:22 Circumstance wrote: I must say, I'm not a fan of the dogpile that the BW community seems to have in celebrating any Korean retiring from SC2 for any reason.
Not any korean. Just ex-BW progamers.
Why would you expect BW people not to celebrate? It's exciting when old fan favorites come back to play the game you enjoy. This would be like me complaining about SC2 community being happy that Stephano, or Nestea, or any other formerly decent SC2 player decided to return to starcraft2.
He's not playing BW. You're literally only cheering him leaving SC2.
BW just want SC2 to die, its best to just ignore them
You can think what you like really but you are been unnecessarily harsh in your criticism and judgement in generalising prejudiced emotions that largely don't exist onto a whole community. Most Broodwar fans couldn't care less if SC2 was thrieving and the most popular sport in the world or not as long as we get to watch the game we like and a lot of Broodwar fans love SC2 aswell. It's only natural to cheer and encourage a player who might but probablly isn't going to return to the sport I watch and love and hope that somehow the possiblity of change in his life could lead to his return. There is no malice of bad feeling intended towards the other community by cheering the possiblity that an old pro might return. It's just excitement and it's really not nice to imply otherwise.
I hope Kyungdu has a long and exciting career whatever he does with himself after retiring from SC2 whether that be inside of E-sports or not. I hope he can lead a long lfie with a happy family and a good job and friends that love him. However in all likely hood I will forget about him and not follow his life and career if he doesn't come back to Broodwar. I wish him the best with whatever he does but it would only really interest me and be exciting to follow if he returns to the game I love.
I think the problem here is one of perspective. There's plenty of people who watch both Broodwar and SC2. But for arguments sake if we take them out of the equation for now and asume there are two groups of Esports fans one who watches SC2 and doesn't watch or care about Broodwar and a seperate set the other way around. To the SC2 fans it's going to feel like a loss that a player who was bringing them fun and excitement is moving on and leaveing the game they watch. At the same time The Broodwar fans are excited because lots of players that have retired from SC2 have turned up playing Broodwar on Afreeca a few weeks/months later. So it's only natural for Broodwar fans to get excited when they hear the news that someone is retiring from SC2. Not because they have some irrational hatred for a game they don't even watch but because it might mean that player will turn up playing the game they love pretty soon. It's not excitement at someone leaveing SC2 its not some kind of deep down ill feeling emerging it's just plain posertive excitement and it's wrong to misinterpret it as anything else. It's unfortunate that the same news causes almost the exact opposite reaction in the two communities but please don't be rude and project an imagined ill feeling onto the Broodwar community. It doesn't exist.
On January 31 2015 06:22 Circumstance wrote: I must say, I'm not a fan of the dogpile that the BW community seems to have in celebrating any Korean retiring from SC2 for any reason.
Not any korean. Just ex-BW progamers.
Why would you expect BW people not to celebrate? It's exciting when old fan favorites come back to play the game you enjoy. This would be like me complaining about SC2 community being happy that Stephano, or Nestea, or any other formerly decent SC2 player decided to return to starcraft2.
He's not playing BW. You're literally only cheering him leaving SC2.
BW just want SC2 to die, its best to just ignore them
You can think what you like really but you are been unnecessarily harsh in your criticism and judgement in generalising prejudiced emotions that largely don't exist onto a whole community. Most Broodwar fans couldn't care less if SC2 was thrieving and the most popular sport in the world or not as long as we get to watch the game we like and a lot of Broodwar fans love SC2 aswell. It's only natural to cheer and encourage a player who might but probablly isn't going to return to the sport I watch and love and hope that somehow the possiblity of change in his life could lead to his return. There is no malice of bad feeling intended towards the other community by cheering the possiblity that an old pro might return. It's just excitement and it's really not nice to imply otherwise.
I hope Kyungdu has a long and exciting career whatever he does with himself after retiring from SC2 whether that be inside of E-sports or not. I hope he can lead a long lfie with a happy family and a good job and friends that love him. However in all likely hood I will forget about him and not follow his life and career if he doesn't come back to Broodwar. I wish him the best with whatever he does but it would only really interest me and be exciting to follow if he returns to the game I love.
I think the problem here is one of perspective. There's plenty of people who watch both Broodwar and SC2. But for arguments sake if we take them out of the equation for now and asume there are two groups of Esports fans one who watches SC2 and doesn't watch or care about Broodwar and a seperate set the other way around. To the SC2 fans it's going to feel like a loss that a player who was bringing them fun and excitement is moving on and leaveing the game they watch. At the same time The Broodwar fans are excited because lots of players that have retired from SC2 have turned up playing Broodwar on Afreeca a few weeks/months later. So it's only natural for Broodwar fans to get excited when they hear the news that someone is retiring from SC2. Not because they have some irrational hatred for a game they don't even watch but because it might mean that player will turn up playing the game they love pretty soon. It's not excitement at someone leaveing SC2 its not some kind of deep down ill feeling emerging it's just plain posertive excitement and it's wrong to misinterpret it as anything else. It's unfortunate that the same news causes almost the exact opposite reaction in the two communities but please don't be rude and project and imagined ill feeling onto the Broodwar community. It doesn't exist.
edit: awful spelling and gramar
Didn't really think wishing expros to come back to bw will initiate a civil war
EPT
ParalyzE![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/tNxlAzM.jpg)
DongRaeGu in the Ro32 and then went on to take down 
will always hold his fro in my memories
![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/staff/Waxangel/afrotoss.jpg)
and gl in the future. 
