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yoshi245
Profile Joined May 2011
United States2969 Posts
December 20 2015 10:42 GMT
#121
Farewell Rain, best of luck with whatever he does next in life.
"Numbers speak about the past, not the present." -Thorzain
Penev
Profile Joined October 2012
28477 Posts
December 20 2015 11:10 GMT
#122
Noo, woke up to bad news again..

Good luck Rain

I Protoss winner, could it be?
bObA
Profile Joined May 2012
France300 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-12-20 11:18:50
December 20 2015 11:13 GMT
#123
He is really a good son and what he did for his dad is very generous.
Rain is a noble person.
I wish him and his dad to be as healthy as possible and to recover very fast.
Good luck for your rest of your life man
DickMcFanny
Profile Blog Joined September 2015
Ireland1076 Posts
December 20 2015 11:19 GMT
#124
I heard he's going to play lol now.
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brickrd
Profile Blog Joined March 2014
United States4894 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-12-20 11:20:28
December 20 2015 11:19 GMT
#125
some of the people in this thread are monkeys. trying to criticize his reasoning or project wcs drama onto this is ugly and sad. the dude just had a serious medical operation to save his father's life, you think maybe that's something that could inspire people to make a change in life? like stop playing video games for a living? adds up fine to me.

gg rain, normally it's not often i care too much about a retirement, but in this case he was still a truly fantastic and exciting player and a good dude as well
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WigglingSquid
Profile Joined August 2011
5194 Posts
December 20 2015 11:20 GMT
#126
It's good to see one of my favorite players retire in style. Best of luck with his future endeavors.
JoeCool
Profile Joined January 2012
Germany2520 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-12-20 11:22:33
December 20 2015 11:22 GMT
#127
Okay these are actually terrible news for me. I did not care about Flash and I do not care about MMA but Rain leaving is a big deal. He was the only player I always rooted for. He had such a beautiful playstyle and something that made him really likeable.

As for the discussion about his reasons, I believe that donating a part of his liver might actually not be the only reason. I think that the game has changed too much with LotV and while some people like the changes, some other (including me) don't. It's just too far away from SCII has been in the past years. And I expect more Koreans to retire in the next months...

Goodbye Rain!

atrox_
Profile Joined November 2010
United Kingdom1710 Posts
December 20 2015 11:26 GMT
#128
best of luck in the rest of your life Rain
The_Red_Viper
Profile Blog Joined August 2013
19533 Posts
December 20 2015 11:38 GMT
#129
On December 20 2015 18:44 Topdoller wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 20 2015 18:26 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:
On December 20 2015 17:42 Thrillz wrote:
On December 20 2015 17:29 TaShadan wrote:
I wonder if more retirements are incoming.


Definitely. Could see Jaedong as a possible candidate.

Painful that, while some of those players were pass their primes, some were still exceptional players. Sad times for SC2.

Jaedong will not retired



But is the rumors of him leaving EG are true, he could return to Broodwar.


Seeing the "Big 3" in action once more playing the game that made them great would be amazing

Which rumors?



Sad to see Rain retire, he was one of THE sc2 protoss players to watch for sure. I wish him the best of luck.
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hymn
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
Bulgaria832 Posts
December 20 2015 11:40 GMT
#130
Liver donation severely impacts the immune system and the whole organism. This is because the liver is the organ that is responsible for the detoxification and metabolisation of waste products in the blood, as well as it's a major supplier of enzymes. Not to mention he has had an abdominal surgery with general anesthesia which might not seem like a big thing but it actually is because there is a small chance that one might not wake up from it and there is no way of knowing if it will be you. So it's an emotional shock too. And then, the surgery itself requires tons of rest and medications, even without losing 1/3 of your liver.
Rain is a true hero that has sacrifices his health and wellbeing for months to come in order for his dad to be better. We can all learn and take a lot from him. Even if I didn't like his play in HOTS (but I did) I am in awe of him.
So I totally understand his reasoning to retire. Maybe he didn't like LOTV too, who knows?
azk he is the north american player but the titan he is the french stars
Dav1oN
Profile Joined January 2012
Ukraine3164 Posts
December 20 2015 11:50 GMT
#131
You will be missed Rain! It was u who game me the way I like to play protoss, and I will never forget this!

Best of luck bro
In memory of Geoff "iNcontroL" Robinson 11.09.1985 - 21.07.2019 A tribute to incredible man, embodiment of joy, esports titan, starcraft community pillar all in one. You will always be remembered!
Strela
Profile Joined October 2011
Netherlands1896 Posts
December 20 2015 12:12 GMT
#132
On December 20 2015 12:17 ChillingFrog89 wrote:
I hope it is not becoz of the new wcs system rekting his tournament opportunities..

Dude he donated part of his liver..
oo_Wonderful_oo
Profile Blog Joined December 2013
The land of freedom23126 Posts
December 20 2015 12:25 GMT
#133
):
Thanks for all the memories.
Sun or rain, it was a good road.

Farewell, the legend. Stay well <3.
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fishjie
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States1519 Posts
December 20 2015 12:35 GMT
#134
wow i guess none of them were impressed by LOTV and the new WCS changes with only two gsls a year figured it wasn't worth it

really sad

hope there are still cool sc2 events to watch
[PkF] Wire
Profile Joined March 2013
France24202 Posts
December 20 2015 12:35 GMT
#135
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

I want to cry
Justinian
Profile Joined August 2012
United Kingdom158 Posts
December 20 2015 12:39 GMT
#136
Very sad. My favourite player.

Too many retirements!
Makro
Profile Joined March 2011
France16890 Posts
December 20 2015 12:42 GMT
#137
one of my favourite player, damn
Matthew 5:10 "Blessed are those who are persecuted because of shitposting, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven".
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NEEDZMOAR
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
Sweden1277 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-12-20 14:29:32
December 20 2015 12:53 GMT
#138
On December 20 2015 12:31 ThePacifist wrote:
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.



the new wcs system wasnt even released at the time when rain had his interview?
Kespa obviously knew about it, but did the players?

This is really really sad. I wonder if LotV wasnt fun for him at all or if missing the qualifiers for gsl/ssl had something to do with it. One of the best sc2 players ever and imho the best protoss player (not because he won as much as hero or sOs but because he did show how other styles than high risk /coinflip styles were viable as protoss).

I wish rain the best of luck with everything in the future.

Zzzapper
Profile Joined September 2011
1796 Posts
December 20 2015 12:54 GMT
#139
On December 20 2015 20:40 hymn wrote:
Liver donation severely impacts the immune system and the whole organism. This is because the liver is the organ that is responsible for the detoxification and metabolisation of waste products in the blood, as well as it's a major supplier of enzymes. Not to mention he has had an abdominal surgery with general anesthesia which might not seem like a big thing but it actually is because there is a small chance that one might not wake up from it and there is no way of knowing if it will be you. So it's an emotional shock too. And then, the surgery itself requires tons of rest and medications, even without losing 1/3 of your liver.
Rain is a true hero that has sacrifices his health and wellbeing for months to come in order for his dad to be better. We can all learn and take a lot from him. Even if I didn't like his play in HOTS (but I did) I am in awe of him.
So I totally understand his reasoning to retire. Maybe he didn't like LOTV too, who knows?

I find it amazing that liver donations are even possible. I just doesn't seem reasonable that you can cut off half a liver and give it to another person and that works out just fine after a while
Wrath
Profile Blog Joined July 2014
3174 Posts
December 20 2015 13:06 GMT
#140
Kespa obviously knew about it, but did the players?


Obviously they knew, Stats spit the beans in his interview that he wants to win since there are only 2 seasons of SSL and that was before Blizzard announce the WCS info.
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