Former GSL champion Seed has today decided to retire after six years of professional StarCraft II.
I've decided to retire today. I have been so happy with doing this job. Winning at GSL, so many international competitions, so many beloved fans and people... I cannot forget all of them. I am really looking forward to seeing you in other positions, in other images. I want to appreciate all of your support for last 6 years. Thank you.
Seed's greatest accomplishments came under the banner of the legendary team Incredible Miracle. Seed became their third GSL champion, following in the footsteps of Mvp and NesTea. He clinched his GSL title in 2012 over all time great MC in a decisive 4-1 victory. In his short lived prime, Seed was by many considered the best player in the world.
Good for him. He had a good strong run for a while and lately has been struggling. I hope he continues to stay in the scene a little bit. GL with whatever you do in the future Seed.
The Bruce Lee Toss was, even if for a short perios, the best Protoss at SC2. His marvelous games on Cloud Kingdom will be remembered and his outgoing and entertaining personality will be missed greatly.
On July 14 2016 02:54 Yonnua wrote: GSL Spoilers: + Show Spoiler +
Fitting that he went down to Byun in his final match, given that he was the one who beat Byun in his first big run.
hehe
wasn't that the series where ByuN's brain melted and he indecisively went for an scv all-in or something on Daybreak xD?
Several bad decisions- notably being in a winning position with a 1/1/1, pulling all his SCVs and just sitting around for a while before he finally attacked when Seed had tons of defences up. It wasn't a great series for him.
On July 13 2016 23:30 Elentos wrote: Another casualty. We're losing a lot of Korean players, and who knows if the next generation can replace them.
GL HF Seed, it was a good run.
I haven't been following but is there any next generation?
From the looks of it, no. The only new blood that has come into the Korean scene in the last year or so are veterans coming back (ByuN, MC) and DRGLing, who's only televised game win came vs Bbyong in the game Bbyong threw. So we're in a terrible situation where lots of players are retiring and none are taking their places. Eventually it will get to a point where the quality of players will begin to drop simply from teams struggling to field a lineup.
On July 13 2016 23:30 Elentos wrote: Another casualty. We're losing a lot of Korean players, and who knows if the next generation can replace them.
GL HF Seed, it was a good run.
I haven't been following but is there any next generation?
From the looks of it, no. The only new blood that has come into the Korean scene in the last year or so are veterans coming back (ByuN, MC) and DRGLing, who's only televised game win came vs Bbyong in the game Bbyong threw. So we're in a terrible situation where lots of players are retiring and none are taking their places. Eventually it will get to a point where the quality of players will begin to drop simply from teams struggling to field a lineup.
While they haven't been getting into code A there's still Eagle, Nightmare, SGW, Zoun. And players like Speed and Sorry who have gotten into code S/A
On July 13 2016 23:30 Elentos wrote: Another casualty. We're losing a lot of Korean players, and who knows if the next generation can replace them.
GL HF Seed, it was a good run.
I haven't been following but is there any next generation?
From the looks of it, no. The only new blood that has come into the Korean scene in the last year or so are veterans coming back (ByuN, MC) and DRGLing, who's only televised game win came vs Bbyong in the game Bbyong threw. So we're in a terrible situation where lots of players are retiring and none are taking their places. Eventually it will get to a point where the quality of players will begin to drop simply from teams struggling to field a lineup.
While they haven't been getting into code A there's still Eagle, Nightmare, SGW, Zoun. And players like Speed and Sorry who have gotten into code S/A
There are some other amateur players who're basically just waiting to get picked up by bigger teams. Most of them just aren't good enough yet. The closest are probably CJ Rookie & CJ Nightmare (they did relatively well in the most recent qualifiers).
Sorry and SpeeD are still young, but they've been trying their luck ever since the KeSPA transition, so who knows when their patience runs out. SKT even dropped Sorry from their Proleague lineup entirely in favor of Zoun, last year Sorry played the opening game in the Proleague finals. And SpeeD already retired once.
There are some guys, but only time will tell if the next generation can take over. Some of these players aren't easy to replace.
Can't say I was ever the biggest Seed fan (I was rooting for MC pretty hard when Seed won his GSL), but I've got respect for any current pro who has been schooling noobs since WoL. He reminds me a bit of Jjakji that way, where he COULD have been a Sniper but instead took the hard road, and I respect that.
On July 13 2016 23:30 Elentos wrote: Another casualty. We're losing a lot of Korean players, and who knows if the next generation can replace them.
GL HF Seed, it was a good run.
I haven't been following but is there any next generation?
From the looks of it, no. The only new blood that has come into the Korean scene in the last year or so are veterans coming back (ByuN, MC) and DRGLing, who's only televised game win came vs Bbyong in the game Bbyong threw. So we're in a terrible situation where lots of players are retiring and none are taking their places. Eventually it will get to a point where the quality of players will begin to drop simply from teams struggling to field a lineup.
While they haven't been getting into code A there's still Eagle, Nightmare, SGW, Zoun. And players like Speed and Sorry who have gotten into code S/A
Journey is pretty good too. Knocked out Dear in his code A debut back in 2014 :p
I imagine we'll be seeing a lot of these from players with a six-month break in KR. Best wishes Seed, thank you for showing so many years of good games.
On July 14 2016 07:15 TheDougler wrote: Can't say I was ever the biggest Seed fan (I was rooting for MC pretty hard when Seed won his GSL), but I've got respect for any current pro who has been schooling noobs since WoL. He reminds me a bit of Jjakji that way, where he COULD have been a Sniper but instead took the hard road, and I respect that.
EPT
Seed has today decided to retire after six years of professional StarCraft II. 
Mvp and 
NesTea. He clinched his GSL title in 2012 over all time great MC in a decisive 4-1 victory. In his short lived prime, Seed was by many considered the best player in the world. 
