It's pretty obvious just reading through this thread who's relatively new to SC2 and who's actually watched both of the players from the beginning lol. Those ESV Weeklies were the shit. The IPLTAC was going on the same time, but it was so obvious that the level of play in ESV was so much higher than even those of some of the best foreigner pros at the time.

DonDomingo

504 Posts

November 21 2015 12:00 GMT

#63

I miss the well-playing TaeJa once thought a welcome constant in an ever changing world.

DonDomingo

504 Posts

November 21 2015 12:01 GMT

#64

On November 21 2015 05:58 The_Templar wrote:

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I think he means it's an excuse to talk about how great TaeJa was.

Which really is just a sad reminder that he's no longer relevant

Morbidius

Brazil3449 Posts

November 21 2015 20:14 GMT

#65

That game on Yeonsu is criminally underrated.

ZerOCoolSC2

8926 Posts

November 21 2015 23:53 GMT

#66

I consider myself a good writer. But Stuchiu, you have a way with the keyboard. TaeJa vs Life or TaeJa vs Innovation. He plays the best players and gifts us with some of the best games SCII has seen. Is he irrelevant now? Sure, but his wrists are healing, he's enjoying those $10k checks. Maybe he will make an appearance at one of the GSL/SSL quals and surprise people.

Meckie

18 Posts

November 22 2015 13:06 GMT

#67

He's the very reason I kept on playing SC2. Also his matches vs. Innovation are definitely among the best games of all time. I'm not a Terran-player and I'm generally not the biggest fan of mirror-matches but when those two faced eachother, it was one long orgasm.

Some moron in here claimed TaeJa wasn't even in top 10..... And the argument everyone with that retarded opinion uses is the fact that he never won anything on Korean soil - and obviously that's correct. But all of the "best" who won in Korea got stomped when they faced TaeJa at his peak. Just not in Korea. TaeJa travelled the world constantly and still managed to do that. Had he stayed permanently in Korea, he'd probably have about five times the amount of practice - and even a lot better practice - than he had. I'm pretty sure we have a lot of Koreans who appreciates the fact that he travelled a lot.

MoosyDoosy

United States4519 Posts

November 22 2015 15:39 GMT

#68

Life just became the best player in SC2 with that Blizzcon run. He just slowly tipped MVP over.

Glioburd

France1911 Posts

November 22 2015 16:18 GMT

#69

For a second I thought it was Gorush and Nal_rA in the banner.

sc2chronic

United States777 Posts

November 22 2015 22:34 GMT

#70

This article screams elitism. Basically name drops every known old school player to let us know that u watched korean weekly cups and every other caster just focused on flash and jaedong. There was no in depth look at the HUGE tournaments that u keep mentioning. Taeja vs life in gsl was the most anticipated match that season. If you're going to write about a rivalry you should insert more details about their rivalry. 5-4 20-12 etc etc numbers numbers. Amazing you can look up match scores. Omg they both had normal career startups with playing online cups. So when do we get to the part about their rivalry again?

This had a good start but lacked in anything substantial afterwards. 3/10 lazy writing more TL Taeja propaganda.

Dapper_Cad

United Kingdom964 Posts

November 23 2015 01:45 GMT

#71

You go girlfriend, don't let know TL beetches mess with your alpha strut.

Enjoyed the story and the vids. Was also nice to read one of these in one sitting.