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Diamond
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States10796 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-06 08:56:09
August 06 2011 08:54 GMT
#1
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So I do not know exactly when this happened, but it appears that Chinese Protoss player, xiaOt has decided to stop playing SCII to work in a management role within his team.

For those that do not know xiaOt, he is widely considered the very best player inside all of China, and was a very successful Warcraft III player.

In the Gigabyte StarsWar 6 Tournament (one of the only Chinese tournaments to make it to English fans) he put up impressive results taking a 3rd/4th (?) place finish. What was impressive is that on his route to the Top 4 finish, he took out (in order): MarineKingPrime.WE, NsHS.San, and EG.IdrA while only dropping one game!

His game vs MarineKing was the one of the two surprising matches in the Round of 32 in that tournament that let everyone know the Chinese are here, and they are damn good!

Frankly I just found out on TL, but I figured the best player in China not playing anymore was something people may want to know! So instead of tons of quotes and whatnot, I present you some xiaOt games!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZFxNFvY_Yg



Ballistix Gaming Global Gaming/Esports Marketing Manager - twitter.com/esvdiamond
Diamond
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States10796 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-06 08:58:11
August 06 2011 08:55 GMT
#2
Ugh I misspelled the title, shit.

Can someone make it "management" in the title, sorry!
Ballistix Gaming Global Gaming/Esports Marketing Manager - twitter.com/esvdiamond
Dommk
Profile Joined May 2010
Australia4865 Posts
August 06 2011 08:56 GMT
#3
Aw man :/ He was such a good Protoss
SafeAsCheese
Profile Joined June 2011
United States4924 Posts
August 06 2011 08:56 GMT
#4
Someone has to tell the other protoss how good blink is
Jakkerr
Profile Joined December 2010
Netherlands2549 Posts
August 06 2011 08:56 GMT
#5
hmm ok I guess.
Never saw any of his games and prolly never will now ^^.
Dagobert
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Netherlands1858 Posts
August 06 2011 08:57 GMT
#6
On August 06 2011 17:55 iCCup.Diamond wrote:
Ugh I misspelled the title, shit.

Can someone make it "management" in the title, sorry!

But why? "Eatment" is cool too.
Jacko11
Profile Joined November 2010
China146 Posts
August 06 2011 08:57 GMT
#7
Best of luck to him and his team. Chinese Sc2 players Fighting!
Indrium
Profile Joined November 2010
United States2236 Posts
August 06 2011 08:58 GMT
#8
Wow. That was unexpected. He's got so much talent.

Still, best of luck to him!
mr_tolkien
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
France8631 Posts
August 06 2011 08:58 GMT
#9
Wow, very sad news. It's a bit like if Nestea was stopping :/
The legend of Darien lives on
Gamegene
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States8308 Posts
August 06 2011 08:59 GMT
#10
Has he stated a reason, injury perhaps?
Throw on your favorite jacket and you're good to roll. Stroll through the trees and let your miseries go.
Dfgj
Profile Joined May 2008
Singapore5922 Posts
August 06 2011 09:00 GMT
#11
He certainly slammed his first opponent in Nationwars pretty hard. A shame he's shifting roles, but good luck to him.
Gladiator6
Profile Joined June 2010
Sweden7024 Posts
August 06 2011 09:01 GMT
#12
I saw potential in his game when he played in gigabyte cup, such a shame he takes on the management role. I would had think he could be something big as a player... Oh well, can only dream.

Someone change his fanclub!
Flying, sOs, free, Light, Soulkey & ZerO
FrostedMiniWheats
Profile Joined August 2010
United States30730 Posts
August 06 2011 09:01 GMT
#13
What a shame :/. Wanted to see how this guy would stack up at a lan
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yawnoC
Profile Joined December 2010
United States3704 Posts
August 06 2011 09:10 GMT
#14
Man that really is a shame. I guess the rich kid who brought CCM and LGD is going to pay him well in his new role.

Hopefully he can coach up some amazing players though.
GG - UNiVeRsE is the best player in the WORLD
Tommylew
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Wales2717 Posts
August 06 2011 09:11 GMT
#15
after warcraft 3 as well I thought this guy would become a world beater in starcraft 2... must get more money in magement then actually playing

Shame great player
Live and Let Die!
Diamond
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States10796 Posts
August 06 2011 09:12 GMT
#16
On August 06 2011 17:56 Jakkerr wrote:
hmm ok I guess.
Never saw any of his games and prolly never will now ^^.


If you only ever see one xiaOt game, make it the one in the OP vs MarineKing, Game 2. You see his awesome decision making, multitasking, macro, micro, and just generally makes MKP look a very amateur player.
Ballistix Gaming Global Gaming/Esports Marketing Manager - twitter.com/esvdiamond
Benjef
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United Kingdom6921 Posts
August 06 2011 09:13 GMT
#17
Well that makes no sense, unless his skill level has dropped, and other in his team has risen a lot?

Ah well, was looking forward to him play more . Well good luck to him and his team :D
<3 | Dota 2 | DayZ | <3
dtz
Profile Joined September 2010
5834 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-06 09:16:35
August 06 2011 09:16 GMT
#18
He was in the team that got bought for 6 million usd right?

It does seem like that tycoon want to start a new generation of chinese e-sport athletes so to speak. He probably wants xiaoT to teach his skills to budding 15-16 years old chinese
Noocta
Profile Joined June 2010
France12578 Posts
August 06 2011 09:16 GMT
#19
That man was making Blink scarier than anything.
What a shame.
" I'm not gonna fight you. I'm gonna kick your ass ! "
p4NDemik
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United States13896 Posts
August 06 2011 09:16 GMT
#20
If he's going to be a manager, they must have some amazing players in waiting.
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