If no one knows who DayFly is, I guess this picture might recover memories.
guess who the chick is, hahaha
And now to the article/press release itself... as always, roughly translated. Source: FOMOS
Romantic Orc DayFly declares his intention to become a Starcraft 2 progamer! He announced his intention five days ago through his posts on his fan cafe
Nicknamed the 'Romantic Orc', DayFly became involved in professional Warcraft 3 in its early days, August 2002 to be exact. After the MBC Map Scandal, he retired from full-time professional gaming in August 2004. Now 25, he has decided to make a return to progaming.
"With the current economic crisis, it is hard to find a job. Selecting a different career path was difficult." he said on his fan cafe. With the announcement of Starcraft 2, he is clearly determined to at least play 3 years as a pro gamer.
"I haven't achieved any goals in the past three years," "I will enjoy the preparation period for the life of a professional gamer," he said.
전역한지 벌써 반년이 지났습니다. 전역 당시에는 최종적으로 자연환경을 위해 일을 하겠다는 결심만 명확하게 있었고, 업종에 대한 진로 선택은 흐리멍텅한 상태에 있었습니다.
확실하게 결정된 진로는 2년~3년 스타2로 프로게이머 생활을 한다는 것과 이후에 무역/마케팅 일을 하는 것으로 결정되었습니다.
스타2로 프로게이머를 하겠다는 것은 게임이 최초 나왔을 때 발휘되는 저의 재능(게임에 대한 이해력과 창의적인 전략성)과 스타2의 시장성을 바라보고 하는 선택입니다. 또한 제가 반드시 하겠다고 하는 현재 저의 의지가 저 자신에게 최고에 자리에 갈 수 있다는 믿음을 심어주고 있습니다.
결과가 좋아도 절대 최대 3년 이상을 넘겨 프로게이머 생활을 하지는 않을 것 같습니다. 게임이 출시되고 2년, 3년 시간이 지나면 전략이 평준화 되어 저의 재능이 빛을 볼 수 없다는 것과 다음 진로, 인연에 대한 약속이 있기 때문입니다.
지금은 프로게이머 생활에 대한 준비기간?을 가지고 있습니다-_-;
나중에 스타2로 찾아뵐 수 있을꺼 같습니다. 여기 카페는 워3 오크 카페인데 어떻게 될지 모르겠네요-_-;
이만 남기겠습니다^^ 항상 건강하시고 좋은하루되세요~
Some background on Dayfly: He was basically the best Orc player in Korea before Zacard. He got angry at times and because of the MBC Map Rigging scandal, he retired. He made a semi-comeback in 2005 but shortly retired fully after that. I think he developed many of the popular Orc strategies used today. Oh and he dated Grubby's current girlfriend.
On May 26 2009 23:34 404.Nitrogen wrote: what happened in the mbc map scandal...?
I wondered this too and here is what I found by googling it
The moon wells would finally run dry in 2005, when one of the worst scandals in WC3 pro gaming history broke -- the MBC Prime League Scandal. After some suspicious results cropped up during MBC Season V, it was later revealed that in an effort to curb the profligate number of Night Elves, the MBC had rigged certain maps to favor the underdog Orcish Horde. Orc unit hit point regeneration rate was upped from 0.25 to 0.45. In contrast, the Night Elf hit point regeneration was lowered to 0.40 from 0.50; build time for a Great Hall was reduced from 150 to 138 seconds, the Tree of Life bumped to 115 from 110 seconds.
Apparently they rigged some maps because they thought all the NE mirrors were a big reason why their viewer rates had fallen.
The moon wells would finally run dry in 2005, when one of the worst scandals in WC3 pro gaming history broke -- the MBC Prime League Scandal. After some suspicious results cropped up during MBC Season V, it was later revealed that in an effort to curb the profligate number of Night Elves, the MBC had rigged certain maps to favor the underdog Orcish Horde. Orc unit hit point regeneration rate was upped from 0.25 to 0.45. In contrast, the Night Elf hit point regeneration was lowered to 0.40 from 0.50; build time for a Great Hall was reduced from 150 to 138 seconds, the Tree of Life bumped to 115 from 110 seconds.
Apparently they rigged some maps because they thought all the NE mirrors were a big reason why their viewer rates had fallen.
His last game vs Anyppi.WeRRa( you might remember him as an old protoss player). The videos outta time with sound tho theres a fairly nice ending video for him aswell, I have the vod on an external HDD with in time sound somewhere
Pretty sure DayFly was a troubled guy, he was a brilliant player popularizing a lot of strategies which involved the FarSeer, raiders and towers to an extent. I think he had a breakdown before going on a hiatus and coming back with World Elite. He was part of the elite Sonokong FrienZ team with Leader, Check, Swain and later MadFrog.
Nangman Orc was his nickname in the old days I guess.
The old joke was that if Grubby ever lost to Zacard, PPG would go into his arms~~