EPTPolt to military, leaves EnVyUs, BlizzCon reseeded - Page 13
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Elentos
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TurboMaN
Germany925 Posts
It has been a lot of fun watching you play in tourneys and streaming. All the best! | ||
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Ve5pa
United Kingdom252 Posts
What i know for sure though was Polt was a guy who tried to embrace playing in the west in his latter years, great effort with the English even though their were some funny interview moments. He always played with a smile on his face and was an extremely likable guy. His attempts at BM were always lighthearted and he will be sorely missed in the SC2 community. Thanks for the memories Polt. p.s. I think in KR u can only put military service off so long, and I'm pretty sure I've heard somewhere that 28 may be the cut off. I think he's got to go into the marines corp though as it was pretty much the only unit he ever built  | ||
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J. Corsair
United States470 Posts
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Poopi
France12912 Posts
On October 15 2016 02:08 Elentos wrote: By the way, nothing against Drogo, but it would have been really cool to see uThermal play against Dark. A great (the best?) foreign TvZer and the best Korean ZvTer. Damn you and your stupid missing 15 points Marc! I don't think he stands a chance since him and MLorD struggle to compete with Nerchio when it counts. Would have been cool to see the only other foreign Terran that has a shot vs KR (since him and MLorD are virtually the only foreign T to have beaten Nerchio in TvZ bo5 iirc? Edit: LotV ofc) zergs tho I agree. MLorD couldn't do much but uThermal might surprise them in bo3. But who knows maybe viOLet will forfeit as well ensuring no Korean in foreign WCS x). | ||
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FrkFrJss
Canada1205 Posts
On October 15 2016 02:08 Elentos wrote: By the way, nothing against Drogo, but it would have been really cool to see uThermal play against Dark. A great (the best?) foreign TvZer and the best Korean ZvTer. Damn you and your stupid missing 15 points Marc! Well, then blame is entirely on uThermal since he invoked the "I killed Neeb in a finale and thus I will forever be stomped every time I meet him" curse. He could have just lost to Neeb then beat him in the other tournaments. Also, TRUE is also a Korean from the WCS region and not just violet. | ||
uThermal
Netherlands165 Posts
On October 15 2016 06:45 FrkFrJss wrote: Well, then blame is entirely on uThermal since he invoked the "I killed Neeb in a finale and thus I will forever be stomped every time I meet him" curse. He could have just lost to Neeb then beat him in the other tournaments. Also, TRUE is also a Korean from the WCS region and not just violet. Getting completely crushed by someone much better than you is still called a curse? I'll take it | ||
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FrkFrJss
Canada1205 Posts
On October 15 2016 09:28 uThermal wrote: Getting completely crushed by someone much better than you is still called a curse? I'll take it Well...it only applies to those who beat Neeb in an offline finals. Hydra also suffered this fate...and he retired o_O | ||
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Kovzirg
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Elentos
55571 Posts
On October 17 2016 00:45 Kovzirg wrote: I don't understand both of these Blizzcon withdrawals (Polt and Hydra). You literally just have to show up and are guaranteed a nice chunk of change. Maybe... oh I don't know... it's not so easy to "just show up"? You think Hydra could just be at the event on the 28th to play and then fly to Korea to get married the on the same day with severe jetlag (if he's even there on time because of time zones)? You think the military would have just let Polt go to Blizzcon but he decided to forfeit anyway? That's pretty optimistic. | ||
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Blargh
United States2103 Posts
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PharaphobiaSC
Czech Republic457 Posts
On October 17 2016 00:45 Kovzirg wrote: I don't understand both of these Blizzcon withdrawals (Polt and Hydra). You literally just have to show up and are guaranteed a nice chunk of change. Have you ever been on wedding? It's not like you plan this in one day... | ||
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Thax
Belgium1060 Posts
On October 17 2016 01:45 Blargh wrote: If I had to guess, these players will still receive the minimum prize money, as they did qualify but had to forfeit. I doubt it. Then what would their replacements get? There's not magically gonna be more price money because some people forfeited. | ||
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Chidoriiiii
United States21 Posts
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blade55555
United States17423 Posts
On October 17 2016 00:45 Kovzirg wrote: I don't understand both of these Blizzcon withdrawals (Polt and Hydra). You literally just have to show up and are guaranteed a nice chunk of change. I feel Hydra should have scheduled his wedding for early October whenever he started planning a date, but Polt I don't think had a choice. Just from reading he has to do Military, Korea won't let him delay any further as he's 28 years old. So it sucks for him as I don't think there's anything he could have done to delay it. | ||
Heyoka
Katowice25012 Posts
On October 17 2016 01:45 Blargh wrote: If I had to guess, these players will still receive the minimum prize money, as they did qualify but had to forfeit. I am stabbing in the dark here because I do not know Blizzard's internal conversations on this but that seems incredibly unlikely. | ||
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intotheheart
Canada33091 Posts
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MoonyD
Australia191 Posts
From a spectating point of view though, it would've been nice if he was replaced by another Terran. But there's not many good foreigners that play Terran | ||
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FrkFrJss
Canada1205 Posts
On October 17 2016 13:18 MoonyD wrote: I'm sure everyone in Group A don't mind Polt being replaced by a PittDrogo. Since for them it'd mean 1 less matchup to prepare for. From a spectating point of view though, it would've been nice if he was replaced by another Terran. But there's not many good foreigners that play Terran Well, there's MarineLord, Masa, and uThermal. But unfortunately, they didn't play well enough to make the 10th spot. I would say, that uThermal has been a pretty good Terran throughout LotV, and Masa's been getting better. It's just that Europe is dominated primarily by Zerg, and their Protoss has kept up but their Terran has not. And then for NA it's like Neeb, Masa, and Scarlett (and Puck and Pili among others) who are the top. | ||
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Blargh
United States2103 Posts
I could see them not doing that too, since they are not actually playing the Ro16 at all, but I feel that would be a much more fair system. After all, the replacement players are still having their trip paid for, so they have little to lose. | ||
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