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TheOneAboveU
Germany3367 Posts
 Team GP, their Korean Terran Rookie will retire today upon the end of his contract with the organization. I've heard before that Rookie was considering retirement if he didn't make it into GSL Code S, so it seems like he has indeed decided to move on with his life after failing to qualify again. Rookie started out on CJ Entus in 2016 and went on a hiatus after the KeSPA team disbanded. He tried to come back into the pro scene afterwards, but was unable to make an impact. Source 
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Russano
United States434 Posts
Always sad to see someones dreams go unfulfilled. | ||
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AssyrianKing
Australia2116 Posts
On August 27 2020 17:16 Russano wrote: Man, starcraft 2 might really be a dead game if even its Rookies are retiring. Always sad to see someones dreams go unfulfilled. At least in Korea, not the foreign scene though | ||
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ImmortalGhost
United States57 Posts
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Durnuu
13322 Posts
"The korean scene is healthy as fuck" | ||
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darklycid
3517 Posts
On August 27 2020 17:39 Durnuu wrote: Do not worry, my friends, for the prophet Apollo foresaw this and uttered those words "The korean scene is healthy as fuck" I mean the kr scene got hit by the matchfix scandal harder than by region lock i'd say. | ||
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Parser
Italy87 Posts
On August 27 2020 17:35 ImmortalGhost wrote: It's pretty tragic to see that Blizzard's efforts to foster a healthy foreign scene has lead to the decline of the korean scene. Even TY and Stats admitted it. I do not think we should still blame Blizzard for this. Korean interest in SC2 was declining well before the match-fixing scandal (the main reason is the audience looking towards team games) while the interest in the rest of the world was still stable, if not increasing. From the economic point of view Blizzard choice has been the right one: invest where you can obtain revenues. | ||
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Blargh
United States2103 Posts
On August 27 2020 17:35 ImmortalGhost wrote: It's pretty tragic to see that Blizzard's efforts to foster a healthy foreign scene has lead to the decline of the korean scene. Even TY and Stats admitted it. Let's not act like this is because of Blizzard. Seriously, they may have disrupted the scene a bit with their global efforts, but I don't think that's the reason Korean players are retiring. If anything, Blizzard's long-term financial support is the only reason it's made it out a decade. | ||
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deacon.frost
Czech Republic12129 Posts
On August 27 2020 17:39 Durnuu wrote: Do not worry, my friends, for the prophet Apollo foresaw this and uttered those words "The korean scene is healthy as fuck" Whut? Is there a source to that or is that some meme? On August 27 2020 18:38 Parser wrote: I do not think we should still blame Blizzard for this. Korean interest in SC2 was declining well before the match-fixing scandal (the main reason is the audience looking towards team games) while the interest in the rest of the world was still stable, if not increasing. From the economic point of view Blizzard choice has been the right one: invest where you can obtain revenues. Considering the biggest hyped matches are foreigners vs Koreans, if you remove Koreans from the equation you lose the audience. Also it won't look good if the death of the SC2 proscene will be based on the Blizzard's decision(although it's not 100 % their fault). Not that it matter to the new Blizzard anymore, after the last few years I lost all hopes(and not because the SC related decisions) | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland26136 Posts
On August 27 2020 17:51 darklycid wrote: I mean the kr scene got hit by the matchfix scandal harder than by region lock i'd say. Probably, seems a bigger factor to me. Brood War still being big in Korea is another huge factor. That aside, wish Rookie luck in whatever he’s doing next. There are structural problems in Korean SC2 for sure, I don’t think Rookie struggling to break the barrier into Code S is particularly due to some of them though. | ||
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freelifeffs
97 Posts
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Elentos
55560 Posts
On August 27 2020 22:05 freelifeffs wrote: it is blizzards fault. normally, when you release a new esports game, you shut down esports for the old installment. they shouldve just ended support and forbidden prize money tournaments for broodwar at the time they released sc2. maybe 1 year after sc2 was released to allow for a smooth transition. It wasn't in the first year but ultimately this is practically what Blizzard did as they made KeSPA switch to SC2. Yeah spoiler alert, this was not well received in Korea and it didn't help SC2 in the long term. | ||
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120720
95 Posts
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skdsk
138 Posts
On August 27 2020 17:35 ImmortalGhost wrote: It's pretty tragic to see that Blizzard's efforts to foster a healthy foreign scene has lead to the decline of the korean scene. Even TY and Stats admitted it. Blizzard was pumping money into kr scene since day 0 of sc2. How much money pumping does 1 nation needs compared to the rest of the globe? They even have there pretty much separate tournaments that pay just as well as global stuff. | ||
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Cricketer12
United States13990 Posts
On August 27 2020 17:35 ImmortalGhost wrote: It's pretty tragic to see that Blizzard's efforts to foster a healthy foreign scene has lead to the decline of the korean scene. Even TY and Stats admitted it. Who cares about Korea. Not like highest quality gameplay matters or anything. | ||
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SNSeigifried
United States1640 Posts
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Solar424
United States4001 Posts
On August 27 2020 22:05 freelifeffs wrote: it is blizzards fault. normally, when you release a new esports game, you shut down esports for the old installment. they shouldve just ended support and forbidden prize money tournaments for broodwar at the time they released sc2. maybe 1 year after sc2 was released to allow for a smooth transition. They tried that, but BW was too popular in Korea and the community refused to let it die. To this day BW is still more popular than SC2. | ||
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elluel
62 Posts
User was temp banned for this post. | ||
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Dave4
494 Posts
Unfortunately I have heard SpunXtain has also retired. I remember seeing his proxy base proxy barracks strategy on Scrap Station it was very innovative. | ||
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QOGQOG
834 Posts
On August 28 2020 03:09 skdsk wrote: Blizzard was pumping money into kr scene since day 0 of sc2. How much money pumping does 1 nation needs compared to the rest of the globe? They even have there pretty much separate tournaments that pay just as well as global stuff. That's one way to spin "they're banned from competing in many tournaments" I guess. | ||
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