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HeroSandro
Profile Joined July 2019
531 Posts
October 28 2019 21:17 GMT
#41
GG! The smiling assassin.
HolydaKing
Profile Joined February 2010
21254 Posts
October 28 2019 21:27 GMT
#42
Gonna miss the Smiling Assassin for sure. Definitely among the top Protosses of all time.
Howard_Kao
Profile Joined September 2018
China261 Posts
October 28 2019 21:49 GMT
#43
Gonna miss him for a long while, also, all korean player who was born1992 will be in the military before the end of next year(before birthday)
"You don't need a gsl champion, you don't need a esl champion. I feel like I'm just a normal man. I just practice very hard this time, like 15hrs everyday" Oliveira 2023
AbouSV
Profile Joined October 2014
Germany1278 Posts
October 28 2019 22:13 GMT
#44
Oooh
A very nice person will be missed once again.

All the best to him, whatever the following plans will be!
Vutalisk
Profile Joined August 2016
United States680 Posts
October 29 2019 01:29 GMT
#45
On October 29 2019 00:07 Hvvacha wrote:
zerg in bw, protoss in sc2, terran irl. what a guy

I love this comment. Summing up herO so nicely.
dragoon
Profile Joined December 2010
United States695 Posts
October 29 2019 01:51 GMT
#46
gl in the military hero!
i love you
Shinji9505
Profile Joined June 2011
Vietnam11 Posts
October 29 2019 03:03 GMT
#47
hero my favorite Toss always smiling the prince of IEM. GL for your military.
No Pain, No Gain.
MrMischelito
Profile Joined February 2014
347 Posts
October 29 2019 03:51 GMT
#48
On October 29 2019 01:07 Nakajin wrote:
Goodbye old friend, you will be dearly missed.

A few of his best moments across the years.

Beating (P)Rain and (Z)soO in back to back ace match vs SKT in the 2011-2012 hybrid proleague s2 playoff, CJ ended up winning the championship and herO stayed CJ ace player until the end of proleague.
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Deifying Kespa by responding to (Z)Stephano "gl hf" in proleague and turning down the automatic victory. It also mark an exception as it is one of the only time where a pause wasn't herO's doing.
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Overcoming (Z)HyuN on his way to the IEM Katowice final (g4 in particular)
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Breaking (Z)Snute immaculate swarm host style with non stop warp prison harrassment
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Beating a not-yet-kong (Z)Dark to finally win his first Korean tournament.
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Stopping (P)Rain on his GSL-SSL unification tour, claiming his second 4-3 victory over the calm archangel with true pvp bullshit. herO would go on to stomp (Z)ByuL to win SSL and finish the year as the no1 seed in Korea, almost 2000 point in front of second place (T)Maru.
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Beating SSL and soon-to-be GSL and GSLvsTW champ (T)INnoVation as well as (T)TY to claim the best tvp in the world and reach his 5th IEM final.
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Not yet done! An underappreciated herO lead TSG to a chinese team championship victory with win over (Z)Solar and (P)Patience culminating into a nail biter final map.
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There are many, many more great games from one the best protoss player SC2 has ever seen. Also fitting that it ended at the hands of (P)Classic, the man who now has eliminated him in his 3 Blizzcon appearances.

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great picks! really enjoyed looking back. those were the days

gl herO!
showstealer1829
Profile Blog Joined May 2014
Australia3123 Posts
October 29 2019 03:58 GMT
#49
On October 28 2019 23:04 Raptor1 wrote:
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On October 28 2019 22:24 parksonsc wrote:
I wonder if we will still have enough players for ro32 GSL next year.


Of course, there are tons of players that are coming back from Military and practising to be in shape in 2020.. Like MMA, MVP, MC, Taeja, Bomber, DRG, Dream, Polt, and many others..


2020 will finally be the year of BitByBit
There is no understanding. There is only Choya. Choya is the way. Choya is Love. Choya is Life. Has is the Light in the Protoss Dark and Nightmare is his chosen Acolyte
yangluphil
Profile Joined July 2015
318 Posts
October 29 2019 06:14 GMT
#50
Best wishes to hero. It's great timing to take a break from competitive SC2. Hopefully Stats will follow. The state of the game does not deserve these amazing players anymore. Go on with future endeavors in life.
Neither party will be missed.
bObA
Profile Joined May 2012
France300 Posts
October 29 2019 06:51 GMT
#51
On October 28 2019 23:04 Raptor1 wrote:
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On October 28 2019 22:24 parksonsc wrote:
I wonder if we will still have enough players for ro32 GSL next year.


Of course, there are tons of players that are coming back from Military and practising to be in shape in 2020.. Like MMA, MVP, MC, Taeja, Bomber, DRG, Dream, Polt, and many others..


Yea you are right but I dunno if that is possible to have a great come back after 2 years without playing...
What a waste is this military service for all these players... and for us !

Good luck and thanks for all your great games, your fairplay and your magic smile, whatever you lost or you won you always smiled.
paddyz
Profile Joined May 2011
Ireland628 Posts
October 29 2019 07:44 GMT
#52
I only recently realised that herO is the most "special" SC2 player imo.

His intuition in understanding the game, even in unique/rare situations is the most impressive and inspirational thing in SC2 to me. He has the best micro imo too. I loved watching him decicively commit to attacks that could only work with amazing micro and pulling it off. To me, watching him play felt like art more than watching any other.

He was never my favourite player, it was only yesterday when describing the styles of the sc2 players to my gf that I realised how amazing herO really is.

He is the only Protoss in the top 10 for winrate vs Koreans offline this year. He was the highest rated on aliguliac in PvZ when he narrowly lost to Reynor and Classic became the highest rated in PvP after winning vs him. I am sad to see him go out like that, I strongly feel like he deserved to win vs Reynor. Sad.

Best wishes smiling assassin.
ChriS-X
Profile Joined June 2011
Malaysia1374 Posts
October 29 2019 08:21 GMT
#53
On October 29 2019 00:07 Hvvacha wrote:
zerg in bw, Protoss in sc2, terran irl. what a guy

pretty sure the hero who played zerg in BW was by.hero, not CJ_herO. herO has always played toss.

(Wiki)Hero
(Wiki)HerO(jOin)

ChriS-X
Profile Joined June 2011
Malaysia1374 Posts
October 29 2019 08:23 GMT
#54
On October 29 2019 12:58 showstealer1829 wrote:
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On October 28 2019 23:04 Raptor1 wrote:
On October 28 2019 22:24 parksonsc wrote:
I wonder if we will still have enough players for ro32 GSL next year.


Of course, there are tons of players that are coming back from Military and practising to be in shape in 2020.. Like MMA, MVP, MC, Taeja, Bomber, DRG, Dream, Polt, and many others..


2020 will finally be the year of BitByBit

ah, the days of WoL beta where tastosis would scream biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittttttt bbbbbbbyyyyyyyyyy biiiiiiiiiiittttttttttt whenever a terran goes 2rax all in
Phredxor
Profile Joined May 2013
New Zealand15076 Posts
October 29 2019 10:09 GMT
#55
Farewell king of proleague pauses.
Darkn3ssFallz
Profile Joined April 2013
Australia114 Posts
October 29 2019 10:49 GMT
#56
Was hoping he'd play on for as long as he could next year. The most proactive protoss imo. The way he played always shocked me but even more shocking was how he'd often come out on top when any other protoss would have just lost.
[SKT1.Rain] is the Postman Protoss, because by.Sun or by.Rain he delivers.
Ej_
Profile Blog Joined January 2013
47656 Posts
October 29 2019 11:14 GMT
#57
On October 29 2019 17:21 ChriS-X wrote:
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On October 29 2019 00:07 Hvvacha wrote:
zerg in bw, Protoss in sc2, terran irl. what a guy

pretty sure the hero who played zerg in BW was by.hero, not CJ_herO. herO has always played toss.

(Wiki)Hero
(Wiki)HerO(jOin)


You even linked to herO[jOin]'s LP page that explicitly states he played Zerg in Brood War.
Wow.
"Technically the dictionary has zero authority on the meaning or words" - Rodya
Zephyp
Profile Joined April 2013
238 Posts
October 29 2019 14:57 GMT
#58
On October 29 2019 05:02 Cricketer12 wrote:
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On October 29 2019 04:43 Zephyp wrote:
I have the impression that herO is a player that's been popular to hate on because of his playstyle, but I've always liked him. He did things his own way and made it work. Also a happy face to have in the scene.

Sad to see another one go.

I dont think anyone hated him. His personality makes up for the "flaws" in his playstyle

I probably could have worded it differently, but I tried with "hated on", rather than "hated". And yes, it was because of his playstyle. I can't imagine anyone hating on him as a personality.
Drfilip
Profile Joined March 2013
Sweden590 Posts
October 29 2019 17:13 GMT
#59
On October 29 2019 05:26 Shuffleblade wrote:
Sad to read this, GL herO! Also Dream doing great after coming back to SC2 along with PartinG.

PartinG is going to the military within two years. He's born in August of 1994, so August 2021 is his deadline.
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Jeremy Reimer
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Canada968 Posts
October 29 2019 18:41 GMT
#60
I feel honored that I was able to meet herO at the BTSL finals last year in Richmond, and get his autograph. He's a really cool guy!

Best of luck herO!
"Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere." -- Carl Sagan
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