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Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
55593 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-10-14 17:09:04
October 14 2016 17:08 GMT
#241
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!
Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
TurboMaN
Profile Joined October 2005
Germany925 Posts
October 14 2016 19:03 GMT
#242
Thanks for the memories, Polt.
It has been a lot of fun watching you play in tourneys and streaming.

All the best!
Ve5pa
Profile Joined December 2014
United Kingdom252 Posts
October 14 2016 19:05 GMT
#243
As a non American I always thought the Captain America stuff was pretty silly.

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
J. Corsair
Profile Joined June 2014
United States470 Posts
October 14 2016 20:16 GMT
#244
No way. Please tell me I'm dreaming?
“...it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.” - Scaramouche
Poopi
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France13018 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-10-14 20:28:34
October 14 2016 20:27 GMT
#245
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).
WriterMaru
FrkFrJss
Profile Joined April 2015
Canada1207 Posts
October 14 2016 21:45 GMT
#246
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.
"Keep Moving Forward" - Walt Disney
uThermal
Profile Joined January 2011
Netherlands165 Posts
October 15 2016 00:28 GMT
#247
On October 15 2016 06:45 FrkFrJss wrote:
Show nested quote +
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.


Getting completely crushed by someone much better than you is still called a curse? I'll take it
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FrkFrJss
Profile Joined April 2015
Canada1207 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-10-15 02:23:58
October 15 2016 02:03 GMT
#248
On October 15 2016 09:28 uThermal wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 15 2016 06:45 FrkFrJss wrote:
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.


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
"Keep Moving Forward" - Walt Disney
Kovzirg
Profile Joined July 2016
126 Posts
October 16 2016 15:45 GMT
#249
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.
Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
55593 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-10-16 16:49:02
October 16 2016 16:36 GMT
#250
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.
Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
Blargh
Profile Joined September 2010
United States2103 Posts
October 16 2016 16:45 GMT
#251
If I had to guess, these players will still receive the minimum prize money, as they did qualify but had to forfeit.
PharaphobiaSC
Profile Joined April 2016
Czech Republic457 Posts
October 16 2016 18:21 GMT
#252
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
Profile Joined July 2014
Belgium1060 Posts
October 16 2016 20:00 GMT
#253
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.
Chidoriiiii
Profile Joined January 2011
United States21 Posts
October 16 2016 23:39 GMT
#254
well there goes my last favorite player of sc2
Only the dead have seen the end of war
blade55555
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States17423 Posts
October 16 2016 23:53 GMT
#255
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.
When I think of something else, something will go here
Heyoka
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Katowice25012 Posts
October 17 2016 00:10 GMT
#256
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
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Canada33091 Posts
October 17 2016 01:37 GMT
#257
Goodbye.
kiss kiss fall in love
MoonyD
Profile Joined December 2013
Australia191 Posts
October 17 2016 04:18 GMT
#258
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
The world wants to be deceived
FrkFrJss
Profile Joined April 2015
Canada1207 Posts
October 17 2016 04:40 GMT
#259
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.
"Keep Moving Forward" - Walt Disney
Blargh
Profile Joined September 2010
United States2103 Posts
October 17 2016 04:51 GMT
#260
Is it not normal for players who qualify but must forfeit to receive last place prize money, and replacements to receive the amount earned minus last place (since they technically didn't qualify originally)?

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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