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Moonsalt
267 Posts
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Feisty
Vatican City State35 Posts
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hitthat
Poland2316 Posts
GW, WP Fanta, wish you best of luck. | ||
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WGT-Baal
France3453 Posts
Thanks for all the great moments Fanta! Good luck with whatever you do next! | ||
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Elroi
Sweden5599 Posts
Goodbye Fantasy and thanks for everything! | ||
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Dark_A
Lithuania5 Posts
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iamho
United States3347 Posts
The WCS changes probably did push Fantasy to retire, since he's one of the few non-Koreans competing in the foreign circuit that isn't good enough to consistently qualify for GSL/SSL. The increased prizepool for lower finishes in GSL/SSL hopefully will still make most Korean pros better off under the new system. | ||
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johax
Sweden165 Posts
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JabuSeika
United States607 Posts
Rain, PartinG, and Fantasy would be the top 16 from last year that would be the most affected. There's no more place for mid-tier koreans, without Kespa teams. PartinG might be next, if he can't get into GSL or SSL. Then Hyun and all the rest that can't get visas to play the WCS circuit. | ||
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FromtheAbysS
32 Posts
On December 28 2015 05:57 Feisty wrote: Terran feels terrible to play in lotv and its been obvious through most of the beta. The wcs system is bad for Koreans. I don't think he leaves because of your first sentence. This guy is so gifted about microing units, and LOTV is way more micro oriented than HOTS. As I read in a commentary "MediTank play" was made for him. After, the new WCS system is death for so many pro Koreans. Koreans tournaments (GSL, SSL) will be ridiculously hard, and foreign tournaments will be reserved for foreign scene. To this point, not a surprise at all that some pro koreans players decide to retire. ATM I am unable to hope some good things from the next SCII year  | ||
Shellshock
United States97276 Posts
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FFW_Rude
France10201 Posts
Sad to see them all go. Stork is already gone in a way now that he is part coach. JD is doing nothing (i think). Hope they can offer us a little more games before they go too. | ||
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Mistakes
United States1102 Posts
 Merry f**king Christmas. | ||
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bjornkavist
Canada1235 Posts
Gl Fantasy, I will always remember your OSL final against Stork, and Stork finally winning that sweet sweet gold | ||
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corydoras
161 Posts
On December 28 2015 05:57 Feisty wrote: This is sad but not a suprise to see all these retirements. Terran feels terrible to play in lotv and its been obvious through most of the beta. The wcs system is bad for Koreans. At least we have more players like Lilbow who will be in the finals next year to show off the game while the most skilled players who make the game exciting to watch and inspire people to play are quitting. The numbers don't support the theory that Terrans are likely to retire. Terrans and Protosses have been retiring in almost even numbers during the last couple of months. Some notable Terrans retired (Flash, MMA, Fantasy), but notable Protoss players did that too (Rain, MC). WCS - yep, this could be a factor. Quite depends on what the Korean scene can offer this year besides GSL/SSL/SPL. | ||
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iSometric
2221 Posts
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FrkFrJss
Canada1205 Posts
On December 28 2015 07:19 corydoras wrote: The numbers don't support the theory that Terrans are likely to retire. Terrans and Protosses have been retiring in almost even numbers during the last couple of months. Some notable Terrans retired (Flash, MMA, Fantasy), but notable Protoss players did that too (Rain, MC). WCS - yep, this could be a factor. Quite depends on what the Korean scene can offer this year besides GSL/SSL/SPL. Well, it supports it in the sense that the last high profile Zerg that retired was Revival. Cause if in regards to balance the Terran/Protoss retired, the Zerg would be less likely to retire. Though Terran seems to be doing decently well versus Zerg, so who knows? Also....is MC actually retired? At Homestory, they said he still plays a several hours a day. | ||
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Rollora
2450 Posts
On December 28 2015 03:42 FrkFrJss wrote: Actually, in 2014 Terran won 12 premier tournaments and Protoss won 15. Terran had 13 second place finishers, and Protoss had 13 as well. Zerg won 8 with 9 second place finishers. So to say that 90% of the tournaments were won by the two other races is completely false because two races should win more than one race, and Terran won three less than Protoss. I agree, i had the numbers wrong: I meant that most terrans dropped out prematurely (or whatever the term is) like we had 2-3x RO16 with 1-2 Terrans in GSL and other tourneys. That there still was a terran victory is basically even more proof how great these players (Taeja, Flash...) were | ||
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Feisty
Vatican City State35 Posts
On December 28 2015 07:19 corydoras wrote: The numbers don't support the theory that Terrans are likely to retire. Terrans and Protosses have been retiring in almost even numbers during the last couple of months. Some notable Terrans retired (Flash, MMA, Fantasy), but notable Protoss players did that too (Rain, MC). WCS - yep, this could be a factor. Quite depends on what the Korean scene can offer this year besides GSL/SSL/SPL. MC has been semi retired for a while now. Rain retired because of a unique situation with his father. MMA and Fantasy were pushed out because of the WCS changes. I think Flash retired because he's never liked SC2 as much as BW and he didn't like the direction that Blizzard took with Terran in SC2. Flash isn't that old, was on a Kespa team, and was still one of the better Terran's, so the timing of his retirement says to me that he didn't like the game very much. | ||
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Solar424
United States4001 Posts
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