EPT[Inven] The story behind MC's retirement & return - Page 2
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Fig
United States1324 Posts
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Parcelleus
Australia1662 Posts
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Yiome
China1687 Posts
<3 Hope he can do well as a player again | ||
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Shadowbite
United States16 Posts
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Zoodles11
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On June 08 2016 15:30 Shadowbite wrote: What is meant by the term "runner" by south Koreans? I'm unfamiliar with the terminology. I wish MC much luck in his matches. He "ran" away from the korean scene when he left korea to live and play with foreigners. Pretty dumb and arrogant to expect some odd loyalty or whatever. | ||
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swissman777
1106 Posts
On June 08 2016 15:38 Zoodles11 wrote: He "ran" away from the korean scene when he left korea to live and play with foreigners. Pretty dumb and arrogant to expect some odd loyalty or whatever. Well, that's Korean culture for ya. | ||
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warlocke
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WhosQuany
Germany257 Posts
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Zealously
East Gorteau22261 Posts
The only thing MC ran from was inferior paychecks, guy ain't afraid of anything. Frankly I'm surprised he's so level about it, but then he was always at least partly an act. | ||
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Salteador Neo
Andorra5591 Posts
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zealotstim
United States455 Posts
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Waxangel
United States33625 Posts
New esports like SC2, and especially LoL, have pushed the soft reset button on this kind of culture. Even so, there's still a lingering feeling that the ideal progamer is a consummate professional like Flash, rather than a maverick like MC. | ||
BigFan
TLADT24920 Posts
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AKAvg
Brazil298 Posts
and BO1 like Proleague. IMO having The Boss will help a great deal with that. | ||
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washikie
United States752 Posts
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aRyuujin
United States5049 Posts
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OrangeGarage
Korea (South)319 Posts
To explain the animosity we will have to go back to the old days with Kespa vs the newly founded eSports Federation, as well as BW vs SC2, as well as the SlayerS incident (Crank: What did you ever do for me!). Many of the runners are from the E-Sports Federation, which SGall(the major community), hated because it was a BW community as well as it being very pro- BoxeR and Slayers. Its sense of superiority (Kespa> Federation) is heightened by the fact that the Federation failed to dominate the BW transitioned players from Kespa, even though they had much more experienced players. PlayXP, on the other hand, tends to remain pro Federation, due to the fact that their SC/SC2 community was differentiated from each other, and don't often use the terminology 'runner' Conclusion: don't try to explain what you don't understand | ||
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada17572 Posts
On June 08 2016 23:17 Zealously wrote: The only thing MC ran from was inferior paychecks, guy ain't afraid of anything. Frankly I'm surprised he's so level about it, but then he was always at least partly an act. the guy knows how to not take himself too seriously. and he wins. great to see MC back. Just Win, Baby. + Show Spoiler + | ||
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NdieWarp
Sweden8 Posts
On June 09 2016 09:28 RCCar wrote: Sorry to burst the loyalty theory that some guy pulled out from his armpit, but "runner" is used in the fact that the player couldn't make money anymore in Korea, so he "ran" to other places for easy money. (e.g. NA and EU) To explain the animosity we will have to go back to the old days with Kespa vs the newly founded eSports Federation, as well as BW vs SC2, as well as the SlayerS incident (Crank: What did you ever do for me!). Many of the runners are from the E-Sports Federation, which SGall(the major community), hated because it was a BW community as well as it being very pro- BoxeR and Slayers. Its sense of superiority (Kespa> Federation) is heightened by the fact that the Federation failed to dominate the BW transitioned players from Kespa, even though they had much more experienced players. PlayXP, on the other hand, tends to remain pro Federation, due to the fact that their SC/SC2 community was differentiated from each other, and don't often use the terminology 'runner' Conclusion: don't try to explain what you don't understand Well that is just as dumb, because he was top8(lost to the champion) in the gsl as well as top4(lost to the champion) in the first hots tourney(with quite alot of kespa in it)as well. So saying that he could not make money anymore in korea as he left is pretty dumb imo. The time were he slightly started to fall behind was when he lived in EU for a while. | ||
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Thax
Belgium1060 Posts
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