On August 31 2016 02:17 Hot_Bid wrote: That casual rank 79 in Overwatch (top 200-300 in Korea??) reminds me of my favorite story about Taeja: when he visited the TL house in the Netherlands in preparation for Dreamhack the next week. Many players visit and its generally a good environment for practicing. The seating is an open area where the players sit in the center and Victor (Nazgul) sits behind them. When Hero or TLO or Ret visit they typically practice really hard because the owner's RIGHT THERE working too, so they want to show they're a hardworking player etc.
Taeja just didn't give a fuck, I don't think I saw him play StarCraft 2 all week. He'd just watch k-dramas and play League (in which he's Diamond 1 lol) with Victor right behind him. Of course he then goes to DreamHack and sweeps the tournament easily. He's one of the most talented players I've seen and he could've probably gone pro in any game he wanted. Too bad about the hand injuries.
Such a great story. One of my all time favorite pros.
GL Taeja!
I am not familiar with Dota. Diamond is the highest league in dota? Google doesn't help me.
He's on about League of Legends, no one in Korea really plays DOTA, but LoL is very popular, after Diamond 1 their is masters and GM
On August 30 2016 23:28 SCHWARZENEGGER wrote: "I put thought into every single game I played." I thought it was just me who doing that, thats why I hit diamond after my very first ~400 games in sc2 and master after ~1000 xD
This is pretty common.
well, it was my first experience in multiplayer rts ever, and I see alot of players with 5-10k matches in dia-master.
On August 31 2016 02:17 Hot_Bid wrote: That casual rank 79 in Overwatch (top 200-300 in Korea??) reminds me of my favorite story about Taeja: when he visited the TL house in the Netherlands in preparation for Dreamhack the next week. Many players visit and its generally a good environment for practicing. The seating is an open area where the players sit in the center and Victor (Nazgul) sits behind them. When Hero or TLO or Ret visit they typically practice really hard because the owner's RIGHT THERE working too, so they want to show they're a hardworking player etc.
Taeja just didn't give a fuck, I don't think I saw him play StarCraft 2 all week. He'd just watch k-dramas and play League (in which he's Diamond 1 lol) with Victor right behind him. Of course he then goes to DreamHack and sweeps the tournament easily. He's one of the most talented players I've seen and he could've probably gone pro in any game he wanted. Too bad about the hand injuries.
Such a great story. One of my all time favorite pros.
GL Taeja!
I am not familiar with Dota. Diamond is the highest league in dota? Google doesn't help me.
It was in League of Legends, Diamond I would be the league below Master and Challenger leagues.
On August 31 2016 02:17 Hot_Bid wrote: That casual rank 79 in Overwatch (top 200-300 in Korea??) reminds me of my favorite story about Taeja: when he visited the TL house in the Netherlands in preparation for Dreamhack the next week. Many players visit and its generally a good environment for practicing. The seating is an open area where the players sit in the center and Victor (Nazgul) sits behind them. When Hero or TLO or Ret visit they typically practice really hard because the owner's RIGHT THERE working too, so they want to show they're a hardworking player etc.
Taeja just didn't give a fuck, I don't think I saw him play StarCraft 2 all week. He'd just watch k-dramas and play League (in which he's Diamond 1 lol) with Victor right behind him. Of course he then goes to DreamHack and sweeps the tournament easily. He's one of the most talented players I've seen and he could've probably gone pro in any game he wanted. Too bad about the hand injuries.
Such a great story. One of my all time favorite pros.
GL Taeja!
I am not familiar with Dota. Diamond is the highest league in dota? Google doesn't help me.
It was in League of Legends, Diamond I would be the league below Master and Challenger leagues.
not even sure if masters already existed back then.
I will miss Taeja he was such an interesting player. I have watched and cheered for a variety of Terran players. I watched mvp out mind game people, inovation out macro people, Maru out micro his opponents, polt win by positioning and base trading. but I've never been able to understand what makes Taeja so good. He seems to just be comfortable in most situations. He is masterful at defense. He is better at late game than any Terran pro I've ever seen. He took rain into a 40 + minute game and beat him. He wore down innovation in the greatest tvt of all time. His play is always smart strategic and patient. No matter the situation he always knows what to do and has a plan that can lead to victory. I will miss his games some of them were works of art. <3
Cute interview. Won't forget you Taeja. Nobody wins that many tournaments without a certain something special and that's why all the haters who said he couldn't put a fight in KR were wrong.
On August 31 2016 16:22 Heartland wrote: taeja wants to be a social studies teacher? But he seems to know absolutely nothing about the outside world. : P Good luck to him though
edit: Just thought of a few of my colleagues and realized that the above is not a problem.
Yeah, I wonder made that role particularly interesting to him? It's quite specific, those I know in the social sciences got into teaching through as desire to do research.
Guess there is much we don't know about the lives of or pros (may it stay that way!).
On August 31 2016 02:17 Hot_Bid wrote: That casual rank 79 in Overwatch (top 200-300 in Korea??) reminds me of my favorite story about Taeja: when he visited the TL house in the Netherlands in preparation for Dreamhack the next week. Many players visit and its generally a good environment for practicing. The seating is an open area where the players sit in the center and Victor (Nazgul) sits behind them. When Hero or TLO or Ret visit they typically practice really hard because the owner's RIGHT THERE working too, so they want to show they're a hardworking player etc.
Taeja just didn't give a fuck, I don't think I saw him play StarCraft 2 all week. He'd just watch k-dramas and play League (in which he's Diamond 1 lol) with Victor right behind him. Of course he then goes to DreamHack and sweeps the tournament easily. He's one of the most talented players I've seen and he could've probably gone pro in any game he wanted. Too bad about the hand injuries.
wow. thanks for sharing that amazing story. would be great to see some video footage from teaja other than his sick play. training videos from the past or how he hangs out with the TL crew... things like that. is something like that in the TL archives?
On August 31 2016 16:22 Heartland wrote: taeja wants to be a social studies teacher? But he seems to know absolutely nothing about the outside world. : P Good luck to him though
edit: Just thought of a few of my colleagues and realized that the above is not a problem.
Yeah, I wonder made that role particularly interesting to him? It's quite specific, those I know in the social sciences got into teaching through as desire to do research.
Guess there is much we don't know about the lives of or pros (may it stay that way!).
A lot of people here can't make it into research and so the only thing you can do with a social sciences degree is to be a teacher for non-uni kids.
Taeja and HerO were my 2 most favorites players in Starcraft 2. They're the 2 who brought me to know and love Teamliquid. Now 1 is no longer on Liquid, and 1 is retired
But still, best of luck on whatever you do Taeja. For me you're always the best Terran in the world!