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MC: Farewell to One of the Greatest

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MC: Farewell to One of the Greatest

Text byTL.net ESPORTS
Graphics byv1
June 18th, 2015 22:12 GMT
At midnight on June 18th, 2015 Jang "MC" Min Chul announced his retirement on Twitter, ending his 5 year career as an SC2 progamer.




Personally, this was a hard article to write. MC has been one of the most successful and accomplished players, one of the great revolutionary players of his race, one of the greatest players overall, the player that has won the most prize money of any other and one of the few to have complete control over his image. Yet the hardest thing to grasp was the fact that MC was retiring at all. When the tweet came out, I stared blankly at the monitor hoping it was a joke, trying to will the tweet out of existence, refusing to believe the reality that was in front of my eyes.
The term "legend" has been abused so many times by casters in recent years, I have become extremely loathe to use it. But MC is one of the few who rightfully deserves that moniker. He was one of its greatest SC2 players ever, not only in terms of gameplay but as a stand-in for the dedicated passion of the community. He functioned as role-model, entertainer, icon, and pillar of consistency, alternating between roles on a regular basis. He appeared to be an eternal star in the night sky, poised to outlast all the competition.
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Every star burns out and on this night, MC’s finally ended. He walks away with one of the most successful SC2 careers in the history of the game, He is the only Protoss to have won 2 GSLs and the only member of his race to reach the finals three times. He has the most premier tournament podium placings of any player (26 in total). MC stayed a reliable force from his 2010 debut to the beginning of 2015, where he was still able to make it to the Ro16 of Code S. This is without touching upon his in-game influence and how MC’s ideas, strategies, compositions and builds persist to this day. In terms of pure achievements, only TaeJa, Life, and Mvp can be argued to be ahead of him. Additionally he has won the most prize money of any SC2 player with a grand total of $492,485.40.
What we will remember most will be his larger-than-life personality. No one put on a song and dance quite like MC, and his antics held us rapt in fascination and amusement. MC earned infamy with various hilarious displays such as his Murloc dance, his Teemo dance, walking onto the stage of OSL Group selections as the Undertaker and casually trash talking his opponents in multiple languages. He was one of the first Korean players to understand the importance of meeting his fans halfway, and he gladly engaged with his foreign followers in English. He has served as caster and analyst, created his own team house in Europe, and has adopted/made multiple nicknames for himself including Kratoss, BossToss and the Protoss President.
Looking back on his oeuvre, was it any surprise MC started his career as a BW player by menacingly slitting his throat at his opponent? He lost his match but it demonstrated a desire to break the mold. That fervor to be both an entertainer and a great player has subsequently driven the course of MC’s career. It was why he was one of the first professional BW players to switch to SC2, why his championship reigns resembled the theatricality of WWE wrestling more than the tight-lipped fortitude of his contemporaries. As befitting his grandiose airs he put on, MC started his SC2 career as royalty and never entirely left. He was one of the rare players to qualify for the first ever GSL Open. In that first season, he met an ignominious end at the hands of Polt in the first round (who used the first ever televised 1-1-1 build). Nearly 5 years later his career ends as a masterpiece. He leaves as one of the most storied and loved players ever, having accomplished nearly everything he had ever hoped for. Though MC’s star no longer shines, his brilliance will continue to illuminate the night and remind us of a time when a titan walked the earth.
WRITER: STUCHIU
EDITOR: CosmicSpiral
PHOTO CREDIT: KEVIN CHANG
GRAPHICS: v1
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The_Templar
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
your Country52797 Posts
June 18 2015 22:15 GMT
#2
Farewell, MC.
Moderatorshe/her
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TelecoM
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States10671 Posts
June 18 2015 22:15 GMT
#3
Thanks for this, amazing write-up of MC, although I think he will be back in LOTV, it is the Protoss expansion after all. We will need the BOSSTOSS then.
AKA: TelecoM[WHITE] Protoss fighting
echO [W]
Profile Joined July 2010
United States1495 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-06-18 22:19:02
June 18 2015 22:18 GMT
#4
I hope he won't leave the community entirely.
"Or a school bus over a bunch of kids" - Tasteless --- “A man's errors are his portals of discovery.” - James Joyce
tshi
Profile Joined September 2012
United States2495 Posts
June 18 2015 22:18 GMT
#5
One of the funniest moments from MC that I can I remember:




Good luck in your future endeavors!
scrub - inexperienced player with relatively little skill and excessive arrogance
JamesT
Profile Blog Joined October 2014
United States681 Posts
June 18 2015 22:18 GMT
#6
That was a fast article!
How are you doing today?
stuchiu
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Fiddler's Green42661 Posts
June 18 2015 22:19 GMT
#7
On June 19 2015 07:15 GGzerG wrote:
Thanks for this, amazing write-up of MC, although I think he will be back in LOTV, it is the Protoss expansion after all. We will need the BOSSTOSS then.


TL Writers curse don't fail me now.
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SetGuitarsToKill
Profile Blog Joined December 2013
Canada28396 Posts
June 18 2015 22:24 GMT
#8
Where's the oGs flair when you need it?

RIP MC
Community News"As long as you have a warp prism you can't be bad at harassment" - Maru | @SetGuitars2Kill
Adept
Profile Joined December 2009
United States472 Posts
June 18 2015 22:24 GMT
#9
MC deserved something like this, thanks for putting this together so quickly! Still can hardly believe this is happening.
"HSC casting is essentially an LR thread read aloud." -ThomasjServo
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Shtanjel
Profile Joined November 2014
Slovenia49 Posts
June 18 2015 22:27 GMT
#10
Great article in honor of a great player.
Farewell!
-_-
Profile Blog Joined November 2003
United States7081 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-06-18 22:35:53
June 18 2015 22:32 GMT
#11
"In terms of pure achievements, there are only 3 that could be even be argued to be ahead of him ever (Taeja, Life and Mvp)."

Who puts Taeja ahead MC?

And before anyone says anything, yes, I know. I'm just drawing attention to it.
duckTemplar
Profile Joined February 2011
United States153 Posts
June 18 2015 22:36 GMT
#12
GSL OPEN I or II, his army broken by Polt's 1,1,1

earliest memory of the BossToss, that was 2010.
The first word Kerrigan said to Raynor was "...You Pig!", to Raynor's response "What? ... oh you're a psychic"
stuchiu
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Fiddler's Green42661 Posts
June 18 2015 22:39 GMT
#13
On June 19 2015 07:32 -_- wrote:
"In terms of pure achievements, there are only 3 that could be even be argued to be ahead of him ever (Taeja, Life and Mvp)."

Who puts Taeja ahead MC?

And before anyone says anything, yes, I know. I'm just drawing attention to it.

http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Premier_Tournaments_Medalists
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Antonidas
Profile Joined August 2014
United States105 Posts
June 18 2015 22:41 GMT
#14
=[. Best wishes MC. I loved your games. And your antics.
as long as there is Starcraft, life is good *insert propaganda here*
DarkPlasmaBall
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States44269 Posts
June 18 2015 22:42 GMT
#15
Boss Toss!!! The premier Protoss. The President Toss. One of the best personalities and SC2 players of all time.

Will be missed <3
"There is nothing more satisfying than looking at a crowd of people and helping them get what I love." ~Day[9] Daily #100
Yorbon
Profile Joined December 2011
Netherlands4272 Posts
June 18 2015 22:45 GMT
#16
En taro MC.
FrostedMiniWheats
Profile Joined August 2010
United States30730 Posts
June 18 2015 22:46 GMT
#17
I was having such an awesome week and then this happens

Time to go join Mvp and Nestea T_T
NesTea | Mvp | MC | Leenock | Losira | Gumiho | DRG | Taeja | Jinro | Stephano | Thorzain | Sen | Idra |Polt | Bomber | Symbol | Squirtle | Fantasy | Jaedong | Maru | sOs | Seed | ByuN | ByuL | Neeb| Scarlett | Rogue | IM forever
-_-
Profile Blog Joined November 2003
United States7081 Posts
June 18 2015 22:47 GMT
#18
On June 19 2015 07:39 stuchiu wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 19 2015 07:32 -_- wrote:
"In terms of pure achievements, there are only 3 that could be even be argued to be ahead of him ever (Taeja, Life and Mvp)."

Who puts Taeja ahead MC?

And before anyone says anything, yes, I know. I'm just drawing attention to it.

http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Premier_Tournaments_Medalists


And yet, he's never beaten the best players in the universally regarded most competitive tournaments. Sorry, but you're going to roundly mocked for that list for a long, long time.

DarkPlasmaBall
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States44269 Posts
June 18 2015 22:48 GMT
#19
On June 19 2015 07:47 -_- wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 19 2015 07:39 stuchiu wrote:
On June 19 2015 07:32 -_- wrote:
"In terms of pure achievements, there are only 3 that could be even be argued to be ahead of him ever (Taeja, Life and Mvp)."

Who puts Taeja ahead MC?

And before anyone says anything, yes, I know. I'm just drawing attention to it.

http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Premier_Tournaments_Medalists


And yet, he's never beaten the best players in the universally regarded most competitive tournaments. Sorry, but you're going to roundly mocked for that list for a long, long time.



I think they're saying it to elicit the exact reaction that you're giving them TrollLiquid
"There is nothing more satisfying than looking at a crowd of people and helping them get what I love." ~Day[9] Daily #100
wstubzi
Profile Joined February 2015
New Zealand224 Posts
June 18 2015 22:51 GMT
#20
TT so sad, what a legend. What a boss.
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