ComBi and Na Jae-woong, who both left after the end of last season.

He was hired to help players prepare for their SC2 matches.

Previously the Terran coach on Slayers, he is most known for helping (T)

MMA win his first GSL title at Blizzcon against (T)

MVP.

Source: http://esports.dailygame.co.kr/news/read.php?id=60595

chongu

Malaysia2599 Posts

May 18 2012 13:50 GMT

Isn't Ryu younger than players like (P)

free[gm] and (Z)

ZerO?

Woongjin fighting!! ^^

BLinD-RawR

ALLEYCAT BLUES51080 Posts

May 18 2012 13:56 GMT

as if woongjin didn't already make me feel that they were front runners to take the season.

Antisocialmunky

United States5912 Posts

May 18 2012 14:01 GMT

Man all this shuffling around is annoying.

LeLfe

France3160 Posts

May 18 2012 14:02 GMT

that's a good pick for Woongjin and also a great loss for SlayerS

Waxangel

United States33637 Posts

May 18 2012 14:04 GMT

so there's a gentleman's agreement not to take players, but I guess coaching staff are free game -_-?

slytown

Korea (South)1411 Posts

May 18 2012 14:06 GMT

Oh god. Here comes the Jessica twitter fiasco.

Hes always seemed like a good coach. Could make or break Woojin I think.

kakaman

United States1576 Posts

May 18 2012 14:14 GMT

Woongjin looking to be the SKT of the new era

Asha

United Kingdom38257 Posts

May 18 2012 14:21 GMT

Seriously smart pick up, he's a very good coach and deserves a lot of credit for SlayerS Terran succeses. Particularly good at gameplanning for certain opponents.

Huggerz

Great Britain919 Posts

May 18 2012 14:29 GMT

#10

I suppose it was inevitable Brood War teams would buy what coaches with SC2 experience they could

BLinD-RawR

ALLEYCAT BLUES51080 Posts

May 18 2012 14:30 GMT

#11

On May 18 2012 23:04 Waxangel wrote:
so there's a gentleman's agreement not to take players, but I guess coaching staff are free game -_-?

exactly what I though.

Dodgin

Canada39254 Posts

May 18 2012 14:54 GMT

#12

I remember this guy busting into MMA's booth when he won at blizzcon, must have helped him prepare so much. will surely be a great asset to stars.

pPingu

Switzerland2892 Posts

May 18 2012 15:00 GMT

#13

I thought the agreement included the team staff

TheWind might get picked in that case

Eee

Sweden2712 Posts

May 18 2012 15:10 GMT

#14

On May 19 2012 00:00 pPingu wrote:
I thought the agreement included the team staff

TheWind might get picked in that case

He used to be on STX right? :O

Gosi

Sweden9072 Posts

May 18 2012 15:11 GMT

#15

Wow, did not see this coming actually. Ryu is the best coach in SC2 (although there isn't many coaches) and he helped out SlayerS big time no doubt.

Pretty sneaky tho to get the best coach in sc2 when there is a deal to not make any sc2 player transfers. ^^

Eee

Sweden2712 Posts

May 18 2012 15:20 GMT

#16

On May 19 2012 00:11 Gosi wrote:
Wow, did not see this coming actually. Ryu is the best coach in SC2 (although there isn't many coaches) and he helped out SlayerS big time no doubt.

Pretty sneaky tho to get the best coach in sc2 when there is a deal to not make any sc2 player transfers. ^^

IMO Coach Lee (formerly of MBC Game Hero) is the best sc2 coach, even though his reputation is quite bad, the ammount of talent that has emerged from his team in INSANE. I mean like aLive (Fnatic), Rain (Fnatic), Puma (EG), JYP (EG), Heart (Complexity), and now with their new lineup their pretty much starting to look a bit like a mini-Woongjin a bit (considering how good SymboL/Shine/HyuN have been playing lately).

I'm also pretty impressed with Coach Kim from startale, I believe he was appointed as Coach this year and ever since then ST has had most players in Code S + The GSTL finals.

Torenhire

United States11681 Posts

May 18 2012 15:22 GMT

#17

Woongjin Schmoongjin

STX still gonna win this season, even with your imba coaches.

UTL_Unlimited

Korea (South)353 Posts

May 18 2012 15:23 GMT

#18

This seems to explain the Boxer Coach shift a few weeks back which was to prepare for this and help ease the transition of coaches. Cella's still around and BoxeR is obviously a good coach (I would believe), but yeah Ryu pick up for Woongjin is huge. In regards to the no SC2 player transfer thing, I believe Slayers has never actively participated in those agreements. Like they're still out of the new SC2 association thing no? So I guess it's a whole new case with SlayerS.

But with Boxer's roots, I thought Ryu would get picked up by SKT. But they have Coach Park so.

Gosi

Sweden9072 Posts

May 18 2012 15:27 GMT

#19

On May 19 2012 00:20 Eee wrote:

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Ah I didn't mean to compare him to Coach Lee and Startale coach. I ment more like... game/race coach(?). Hmm don't know how to explain it. But Coach Lee and Startale coach are more like managers too since they own their teams and do all the management stuff like the part Jessica does for SlayerS while Coach Ryu only focused on the gameplay and was a pure coach. You don't have guys like than in the SC2 teams. The only ones I know was Coach Ryu and Cella in SlayerS.

EDIT: I guess Head Coach is the term I mean?

figq

12519 Posts

May 18 2012 15:30 GMT

#20

Woongjin is continuously on the rise in recent seasons and now means serious business this season. Expecting top SC2 performances (now with the help of Ryu too) and top BW performances. Nothing can stop us this time!