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OrangeGarage
Profile Joined October 2015
Korea (South)319 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-12-20 03:19:43
December 20 2015 03:09 GMT
#1
http://www.xportsnews.com/jgame/?ac=article_view&entry_id=671920&_REFERER=https://www.google.com/
Park Sang Jin (X Sports News)

Rain, previous winners of Ongamenet Starleague and GSL, has selected retirement a day after Flash held his retirement ceremony. Rain came to the reporter seat after the ceremony was over and talked about his retirement. He said that donating part of his liver required him to rest for a bit, and made it difficult for him to play games. Rain has thought of retirement since he has left SKT1, but chose to postpone it for a year.

Rain became the Ongamenet Starleague champion in 2012 after beating DRG in the finals. He has also achieved second place in 2013 WCS Korea Season 2 Starleague, and became a GSL champion in 2015 GSL Season 2 after beating ByuL. There are only 2 other players who have won 2 Korean Starcraft 2 Starleagues: Classic and Maru.

However, Rain needed a long period of rest after donating a part of his liver to his father, and made his decision on the day his good friend, Flash, left the scene as well. It was truly an end fitting for the 3 Musketeers.

"Thank you for my fans, who have loved me throughout my career."

note: The 3 musketeers bit is not literal. 도원결의 comes from "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", which is like a fantasized book based on a period of Chinese history and is very famous in China, Korea, and Japan. Kinda like Star Wars as to the fandom because people who know it go really, really deep into it, and there are some casuals like me. I recall someone asking for translation for it on Seeker's thread so if he/she is watching...
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lichter
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
December 20 2015 03:13 GMT
#2
hard to do esports after giving a liver so this is good. guy deserves a good rest after that.
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JonnySC2
Profile Joined December 2015
Germany119 Posts
December 20 2015 03:15 GMT
#3
nooooo... TT so sad to see him retire, but he had an amazing career and his health is obviously more important now. I wish him all the best and good luck for the future.
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Topin
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Peru10082 Posts
December 20 2015 03:16 GMT
#4
bye Rain T_T

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Liquid`Zephyr
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
United States996 Posts
December 20 2015 03:16 GMT
#5
geez. had no idea. cant knock that reason though. thanks for all the ggs

someone should go and check and see if artosis is ok
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y0su
Profile Blog Joined September 2011
Finland7871 Posts
December 20 2015 03:17 GMT
#6
class act.
ChillingFrog89
Profile Joined October 2015
25 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-12-20 03:18:14
December 20 2015 03:17 GMT
#7
I hope it is not becoz of the new wcs system rekting his tournament opportunities..
CosmicSpiral
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States15275 Posts
December 20 2015 03:19 GMT
#8
Goodbye Handsome Toss. ;__;
WriterWovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muß man schweigen.
pure.Wasted
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada4701 Posts
December 20 2015 03:19 GMT
#9
His reason doesn't make sense. You can take a break without retiring. Is this like Soulkey's "retirement" aka an extended break?
INna Maru-da-FanTa, Bbaby, TY Dream that I'm Flashing you
Darkn3ssFallz
Profile Joined April 2013
Australia114 Posts
December 20 2015 03:19 GMT
#10
Im so sad T_T
Wasn't expecting this at all.
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OrangeGarage
Profile Joined October 2015
Korea (South)319 Posts
December 20 2015 03:20 GMT
#11
On December 20 2015 12:19 pure.Wasted wrote:
His reason doesn't make sense. You can take a break without retiring. Is this like Soulkey's "retirement" aka an extended break?

My guess is that he was going to retire sometime, and this was a good time to do so.
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RichardNPL
Profile Joined November 2015
185 Posts
December 20 2015 03:22 GMT
#12
GSL Champ! you'll be missed I always liked you
GTR
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
51480 Posts
December 20 2015 03:23 GMT
#13
i wouldn't compare 도원결의 to 'three musketeers'. for those ROTK fans out there, it refers to the peach garden oath at the start of the novel between liu bei, guan yu and zhang fei.
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stuchiu
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Fiddler's Green42661 Posts
December 20 2015 03:24 GMT
#14
On December 20 2015 12:23 GTR wrote:
i wouldn't compare 도원결의 to 'three musketeers'. for those ROTK fans out there, it refers to the peach garden oath at the start of the novel between liu bei, guan yu and zhang fei.


then whose the third?
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iamkaokao
Profile Joined March 2011
108 Posts
December 20 2015 03:25 GMT
#15
nooooooooo...
MaCRo.gg
Profile Joined June 2015
Korea (South)860 Posts
December 20 2015 03:27 GMT
#16
Sad day, Rain was a great player. Even as a super standard toss he could get you on your seat.
Good luck and best wishes.

On December 20 2015 12:17 ChillingFrog89 wrote:
I hope it is not becoz of the new wcs system rekting his tournament opportunities..

Clearly, it isn't. As stated in the op he was thinking about retirement, combined with the medical issue from donation and departure from SKT1.
I'm sure the WCS news didn't help his decision.

Even with WCS being racist towards Koreans, not all retirements are going to be about new policies.
OrangeGarage
Profile Joined October 2015
Korea (South)319 Posts
December 20 2015 03:27 GMT
#17
On December 20 2015 12:23 GTR wrote:
i wouldn't compare 도원결의 to 'three musketeers'. for those ROTK fans out there, it refers to the peach garden oath at the start of the novel between liu bei, guan yu and zhang fei.

Hmmm I guess it would be a lacking thingmajig, but I thought it might have been passable due to the extreme friendship shared in common by the 3 dudes making an oath (die at the same day) (All for one)
But that's why I put in the note anyway! Do you have any other suggestion?
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GTR
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
51480 Posts
December 20 2015 03:28 GMT
#18
On December 20 2015 12:24 stuchiu wrote:
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On December 20 2015 12:23 GTR wrote:
i wouldn't compare 도원결의 to 'three musketeers'. for those ROTK fans out there, it refers to the peach garden oath at the start of the novel between liu bei, guan yu and zhang fei.


then whose the third?


i actually have no idea as i've seldom heard the term being used in relation to flash/rain/mystery third player who's retired.
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hai2u
Profile Joined September 2011
688 Posts
December 20 2015 03:29 GMT
#19
Bye Rain, thanks for the memories. He was my favorite player after MVP. I haven't watch SC since the Proleague finals and with Rain's retirement and the dumb 2016 WCS system, I think I'm done with this game for good.
ThePacifist
Profile Joined March 2015
Korea (South)46 Posts
December 20 2015 03:31 GMT
#20
I understand now why the legendary progamers retired and some of the others consider to do. Obviously the new WCS system foreced Korean players to do. it's just like a s**t. If SPOTV or GSL doesn't open an additional league for Korean players, the SC2 Scene could be dead, i'm afraid.
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