"I'm spending my days being bored. I don't have anything to do so I occasionally play StarCraft, trying to hit Grandmaster with Protoss."

so Gosu

Goodbye Taeja

SCHWARZENEGGER

206 Posts

August 30 2016 19:46 GMT

#43

On August 31 2016 02:56 NEEDZMOAR wrote:

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This is pretty common.

well, it was my first experience in multiplayer rts ever, and I see alot of players with 5-10k matches in dia-master.

Deleuze

United Kingdom2102 Posts

August 30 2016 20:40 GMT

#44

On August 31 2016 04:04 Dingodile wrote:

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I am not familiar with Dota. Diamond is the highest league in dota? Google doesn't help me.

It was in League of Legends, Diamond I would be the league below Master and Challenger leagues.

Paljas

Germany6926 Posts

August 30 2016 21:17 GMT

#45

On August 31 2016 05:40 Deleuze wrote:

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It was in League of Legends, Diamond I would be the league below Master and Challenger leagues.

not even sure if masters already existed back then.

washikie

United States752 Posts

August 30 2016 21:29 GMT

#46

I will miss Taeja he was such an interesting player. I have watched and cheered for a variety of Terran players. I watched mvp out mind game people, inovation out macro people, Maru out micro his opponents, polt win by positioning and base trading. but I've never been able to understand what makes Taeja so good. He seems to just be comfortable in most situations. He is masterful at defense. He is better at late game than any Terran pro I've ever seen. He took rain into a 40 + minute game and beat him. He wore down innovation in the greatest tvt of all time. His play is always smart strategic and patient. No matter the situation he always knows what to do and has a plan that can lead to victory. I will miss his games some of them were works of art. <3

TRaFFiC

Canada1448 Posts

August 30 2016 22:46 GMT

#47

Cute interview. Won't forget you Taeja. Nobody wins that many tournaments without a certain something special and that's why all the haters who said he couldn't put a fight in KR were wrong.

JimmyJRaynor

Canada16685 Posts

August 30 2016 23:04 GMT

#48

does any one know the exact nature of his injury?

evenjn

Italy13 Posts

August 31 2016 00:08 GMT

#49

Farewell Taeja, the terran legend. You will always be in our best memories.

geokilla

Canada8230 Posts

August 31 2016 01:23 GMT

#50

Just going to leave this here.

Antonidas

United States105 Posts

August 31 2016 02:12 GMT

#51

Any games you remember in particular? Any that were especially meaningful?

Game four against Life at BlizzCon 2014.

eh, if anyone was REALLY second place in that tournament, it was Taeja.

warlocke

97 Posts

August 31 2016 02:13 GMT

#52

Taeja's instinct in this game has been amazing, all the best the military service and hopefully come back to competitive play or become a coach

Heartland

Sweden24580 Posts

August 31 2016 07:22 GMT

#53

taeja wants to be a social studies teacher? But he seems to know absolutely nothing about the outside world. : P Good luck to him though

edit: Just thought of a few of my colleagues and realized that the above is not a problem.

-KG-

Denmark1206 Posts

August 31 2016 08:03 GMT

#54

Thanks for tons of great games TaeJa and best of luck in the military!

thragar

Canada450 Posts

August 31 2016 12:36 GMT

#55

I will never forget you Taeja! One of my favourite players to watch ever, you were entertaining every game.

Deleuze

United Kingdom2102 Posts

August 31 2016 12:36 GMT

#56

On August 31 2016 16:22 Heartland wrote:
taeja wants to be a social studies teacher? But he seems to know absolutely nothing about the outside world. : P Good luck to him though

edit: Just thought of a few of my colleagues and realized that the above is not a problem.

Yeah, I wonder made that role particularly interesting to him? It's quite specific, those I know in the social sciences got into teaching through as desire to do research.

Guess there is much we don't know about the lives of or pros (may it stay that way!).

KOtical

Germany451 Posts

August 31 2016 12:49 GMT

#57

On August 31 2016 02:17 Hot_Bid wrote:
That casual rank 79 in Overwatch (top 200-300 in Korea??) reminds me of my favorite story about Taeja: when he visited the TL house in the Netherlands in preparation for Dreamhack the next week. Many players visit and its generally a good environment for practicing. The seating is an open area where the players sit in the center and Victor (Nazgul) sits behind them. When Hero or TLO or Ret visit they typically practice really hard because the owner's RIGHT THERE working too, so they want to show they're a hardworking player etc.

Taeja just didn't give a fuck, I don't think I saw him play StarCraft 2 all week. He'd just watch k-dramas and play League (in which he's Diamond 1 lol) with Victor right behind him. Of course he then goes to DreamHack and sweeps the tournament easily. He's one of the most talented players I've seen and he could've probably gone pro in any game he wanted. Too bad about the hand injuries.

wow. thanks for sharing that amazing story. would be great to see some video footage from teaja other than his sick play. training videos from the past or how he hangs out with the TL crew... things like that. is something like that in the TL archives?

Heartland

Sweden24580 Posts

August 31 2016 13:05 GMT

#58

On August 31 2016 21:36 Deleuze wrote:

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A lot of people here can't make it into research and so the only thing you can do with a social sciences degree is to be a teacher for non-uni kids.

Wolf

Korea (South)3290 Posts

August 31 2016 13:07 GMT

#59

Great interview. Thanks Wax.

quannguyen

Vietnam1390 Posts

August 31 2016 17:08 GMT

#60

Awesome interview Wax. Big thanks

Taeja and HerO were my 2 most favorites players in Starcraft 2. They're the 2 who brought me to know and love Teamliquid. Now 1 is no longer on Liquid, and 1 is retired