cArn : Road to the GSL - Page 18
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drooL
United Kingdom2108 Posts
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denzelz
United States604 Posts
On July 20 2011 23:09 Ftrunkz wrote: I am a man who is about to put everything on the line, i plan on moving to America this September, alone and without the support of sponsers or a team, with one gole in mind: Participate in the NBA. I'm here to tell you about my ambition to play in the NBA. This might come as a shock to you considering Basketball will be the first ever ball-sport I've ever played, and going to america will mean I'll be competing with people who have played basketball all their lives. For the first few months I imagine i'll be living in a boarding house, with my only place to train being the local high school basketball rings, with nobody to practice with at all, getting ready to impress the NBA talent scouts will not be an easy task. However I plan on not giving up. Apparantly one of the basketball stadiums needs a janitor and i'll be able to live out of the stadium and even train in a stadium environment, perhaps the other janitors will even play with me there! This is when my skill level will hopefully increase rapidly, and ill be able to start to be seen a bit by the NBA talent scouts. I'm just hoping a real basketball team doesn't end up needing the room in the stadium i'm currently using to sleep in overnight, or i might get kicked out, leaving me to return to my previous, bad, practice environment... How unfair!. However dispite this, i plan on remaining faithful to my goal of becoming a player in the NBA. After all I'll be going through, I'm hoping to get a charity spot on one of the teams i hear they sometimes give out to people. Whilst they might still be hesitant to give it to me, I will not judge them for their decision, im just hoping they realize the sacrifices im going to be making (family, friends, job and even a stable place to live) so that i could have a chance of playing in the best basketball league in the world. Should luck not be on my side when i train infront of talent scouts, I'll ask the NBA to consider offering me a spot anyway, because hey, i tried hard right. I know not everyone will share the same view as me, but I believe that having put in this much effort to follow my ridiculously near-unattainable dream in probably the dumbest fashion possible, i deserve the support from the community. I didn't think this was as clever as you might meant it to be. Having dreams is cool. He never asked for your support. I sympathize with cArn but I'm not going to do anything to help him. I'm also not going to be a big dick and put him down either... | ||
skrzmark
United States1528 Posts
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Sbrubbles
Brazil5763 Posts
At least if he doesn't manage his goal right away, his story may created a fanbase for him that he can exploit in some way (I don't mean this in a bad way). | ||
Sableyeah
Netherlands2119 Posts
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3772
Czech Republic434 Posts
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BadgerBadger8264
Netherlands409 Posts
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Sina92
Sweden1303 Posts
On July 20 2011 23:09 Ftrunkz wrote: I am a man who is about to put everything on the line, i plan on moving to America this September, alone and without the support of sponsers or a team, with one gole in mind: Participate in the NBA. I'm here to tell you about my ambition to play in the NBA. This might come as a shock to you considering Basketball will be the first ever ball-sport I've ever played, and going to america will mean I'll be competing with people who have played basketball all their lives. For the first few months I imagine i'll be living in a boarding house, with my only place to train being the local high school basketball rings, with nobody to practice with at all, getting ready to impress the NBA talent scouts will not be an easy task. However I plan on not giving up. Apparantly one of the basketball stadiums needs a janitor and i'll be able to live out of the stadium and even train in a stadium environment, perhaps the other janitors will even play with me there! This is when my skill level will hopefully increase rapidly, and ill be able to start to be seen a bit by the NBA talent scouts. I'm just hoping a real basketball team doesn't end up needing the room in the stadium i'm currently using to sleep in overnight, or i might get kicked out, leaving me to return to my previous, bad, practice environment... How unfair!. However dispite this, i plan on remaining faithful to my goal of becoming a player in the NBA. After all I'll be going through, I'm hoping to get a charity spot on one of the teams i hear they sometimes give out to people. Whilst they might still be hesitant to give it to me, I will not judge them for their decision, im just hoping they realize the sacrifices im going to be making (family, friends, job and even a stable place to live) so that i could have a chance of playing in the best basketball league in the world. Should luck not be on my side when i train infront of talent scouts, I'll ask the NBA to consider offering me a spot anyway, because hey, i tried hard right. I know not everyone will share the same view as me, but I believe that having put in this much effort to follow my ridiculously near-unattainable dream in probably the dumbest fashion possible, i deserve the support from the community. Hahaha, that cracked me up so bad. | ||
-Archangel-
Croatia7457 Posts
On July 20 2011 23:49 BadgerBadger8264 wrote: I've never seen him play, but if he's as good as people here make him out to be he should just get out of Korea and participate in foreign tournaments. A player that's worthy of Code A could get pretty far in MLG/IPL/Dreamhack; or at the very least get into those tournaments, as well as win smallscale local tournaments, which would at the very least bring him up into the spotlight more, which'll get him more fans, etc. GSL is just flat out the hardest tournament to get into, and is one of the few tournaments in Korea, and for the price money if you don't regularly place in the code S ro8 it's just not worth your time to stay in Korea. I would guess Carn is not interested in the money as much as being the best and improving the fastest. And he can only do that in Korea. What is sad is that some foreign team has not taken him into their roster (and possibly payed him to go to foreign tournaments). | ||
moxley
United States65 Posts
There's no reason for cArn to be struggling to find proper housing and beating his head against the wall in Code A qualifiers.. there's a flourishing tournament scene in Europe and North America.. he should take the skill he's developed during his time in Korea and go make a name for himself.. if he really is worthy of a Code A spot, then he should be able to win some tournaments, get noticed by a big name team and possibly even get sent back to Korea on better terms, or sent to some MLG events where he can fight for a Code A or Code S spot. | ||
moxley
United States65 Posts
On July 21 2011 00:26 -Archangel- wrote: I would guess Carn is not interested in the money as much as being the best and improving the fastest. And he can only do that in Korea. What is sad is that some foreign team has not taken him into their roster (and possibly payed him to go to foreign tournaments). What foreign team is going to take him into their roster when he's produced no results in any tournaments and (unless you're one of the white knights who goes on about him "beating GSL champions on the ladder") is really only seen as one of the foreigners who consistently hang around the GSL studio? | ||
OrChard
Hong Kong1119 Posts
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Roflhaxx
Korea (South)1244 Posts
On July 16 2011 05:52 chipmonklord17 wrote: And the ones that can are HuK(before he got his invite)/Incontrol/Select/Kiwikaki(?) Incontrol couldn't even qualify in gsl 1-3 and then it was argueably easier to get in. Because that was before most pro koreans were in proper houses. | ||
Maliris
Northern Ireland2557 Posts
On July 20 2011 23:09 Ftrunkz wrote: I am a man who is about to put everything on the line, i plan on moving to America this September, alone and without the support of sponsers or a team, with one gole in mind: Participate in the NBA. I'm here to tell you about my ambition to play in the NBA. This might come as a shock to you considering Basketball will be the first ever ball-sport I've ever played, and going to america will mean I'll be competing with people who have played basketball all their lives. For the first few months I imagine i'll be living in a boarding house, with my only place to train being the local high school basketball rings, with nobody to practice with at all, getting ready to impress the NBA talent scouts will not be an easy task. However I plan on not giving up. Apparantly one of the basketball stadiums needs a janitor and i'll be able to live out of the stadium and even train in a stadium environment, perhaps the other janitors will even play with me there! This is when my skill level will hopefully increase rapidly, and ill be able to start to be seen a bit by the NBA talent scouts. I'm just hoping a real basketball team doesn't end up needing the room in the stadium i'm currently using to sleep in overnight, or i might get kicked out, leaving me to return to my previous, bad, practice environment... How unfair!. However dispite this, i plan on remaining faithful to my goal of becoming a player in the NBA. After all I'll be going through, I'm hoping to get a charity spot on one of the teams i hear they sometimes give out to people. Whilst they might still be hesitant to give it to me, I will not judge them for their decision, im just hoping they realize the sacrifices im going to be making (family, friends, job and even a stable place to live) so that i could have a chance of playing in the best basketball league in the world. Should luck not be on my side when i train infront of talent scouts, I'll ask the NBA to consider offering me a spot anyway, because hey, i tried hard right. I know not everyone will share the same view as me, but I believe that having put in this much effort to follow my ridiculously near-unattainable dream in probably the dumbest fashion possible, i deserve the support from the community. LOL this is gold | ||
-Archangel-
Croatia7457 Posts
On July 21 2011 00:34 moxley wrote: What foreign team is going to take him into their roster when he's produced no results in any tournaments and (unless you're one of the white knights who goes on about him "beating GSL champions on the ladder") is really only seen as one of the foreigners who consistently hang around the GSL studio? Well FXO guys didn't make it much further in the qualifier as well, did they? And some of them do have some results under their belt from foreign tournaments. From what is said in this thread, Carn is as good as some on the FXO team (and has had a worse living conditions and no team to practice with). I can only imaging what he can accomplish once he has a proper team to back him up and to train with. | ||
Maliris
Northern Ireland2557 Posts
On July 21 2011 00:42 -Archangel- wrote: Well FXO guys didn't make it much further in the qualifier as well, did they? And some of them do have some results under their belt from foreign tournaments. From what is said in this thread, Carn is as good as some on the FXO team (and has had a worse living conditions and no team to practice with). I can only imaging what he can accomplish once he has a proper team to back him up and to train with. Yeah... keyword here being "said" imo cArn is the next sc2 bonjwa invite him to Code S please | ||
Chickaboom
Canada47 Posts
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DerBeefman
Germany226 Posts
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All.In
United States214 Posts
On July 20 2011 23:09 Ftrunkz wrote: I am a man who is about to put everything on the line, i plan on moving to America this September, alone and without the support of sponsers or a team, with one gole in mind: Participate in the NBA. I'm here to tell you about my ambition to play in the NBA. This might come as a shock to you considering Basketball will be the first ever ball-sport I've ever played, and going to america will mean I'll be competing with people who have played basketball all their lives. For the first few months I imagine i'll be living in a boarding house, with my only place to train being the local high school basketball rings, with nobody to practice with at all, getting ready to impress the NBA talent scouts will not be an easy task. However I plan on not giving up. Apparantly one of the basketball stadiums needs a janitor and i'll be able to live out of the stadium and even train in a stadium environment, perhaps the other janitors will even play with me there! This is when my skill level will hopefully increase rapidly, and ill be able to start to be seen a bit by the NBA talent scouts. I'm just hoping a real basketball team doesn't end up needing the room in the stadium i'm currently using to sleep in overnight, or i might get kicked out, leaving me to return to my previous, bad, practice environment... How unfair!. However dispite this, i plan on remaining faithful to my goal of becoming a player in the NBA. After all I'll be going through, I'm hoping to get a charity spot on one of the teams i hear they sometimes give out to people. Whilst they might still be hesitant to give it to me, I will not judge them for their decision, im just hoping they realize the sacrifices im going to be making (family, friends, job and even a stable place to live) so that i could have a chance of playing in the best basketball league in the world. Should luck not be on my side when i train infront of talent scouts, I'll ask the NBA to consider offering me a spot anyway, because hey, i tried hard right. I know not everyone will share the same view as me, but I believe that having put in this much effort to follow my ridiculously near-unattainable dream in probably the dumbest fashion possible, i deserve the support from the community. I don't understand post like this. I guess you think your clever for putting down someone who is attempting to do something great. Failure is a possibility but why wouldn't we rally around him and give him support. I don't know if it's jealousy or spite or maybe even just straight up trolling for trolling sake. You really should be ashamed of your self for shit like this. I mean he could be at home living with his mom watching dragonball Z right ftrunkz? Then he can make post in topics about players that people actually care about and get attention. A man should not be put down for attempting something that you can't understand. Everyone stating the obvious that ya 1 in 1000 or its impossible should get a life. If everyone had that mentality we would accomplish nothing. If you don't like him fine. You shouldn't attempt to make him look like an idiot though. If everyone was like the haters all over this site no one would be in Korea trying to get it done. Your the man Carn. I havn't seen you stream or anything but I know for a fact everyone that has posted in this thread even the "pro's" could learn a thing or two from you. Keep going till you can't go anymore that way when your older you don't have to look back and be disappointed in your self for not trying. Save that for the haters. Times change my friend. If this were still BW you would be praised and rooted for by the entire community. Flash forward to sc2 and the "community" and it's not the same anymore but know that most of us are rooting for you. | ||
Primadog
United States4411 Posts
Why hasn't this story popped up earlier? If TL + r/sc can raise $23k for a documentary, certainly we can put together something for this guy? He has the guts to put a dream that many of us shared and risked everything. I don't care what the cost-benefit analysis says: this man has my respect. | ||
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