Behind shot of Ret at BlizZCon

ret: "The goal of course would be to make a Proleague appearance..."

Jos "ret" de Kro

on is on many people's lips right now. Observing his games through the popular Livestream.com service, people noticed he stopped playing Terran versus Zerg to instead go for a mirror match. ret revealed in the GosuGamers forums that his switch was because he had put up a goal: Korea.

- I switched because I am currently trying to get to Korea to try to be a progamer, but I can't reall…  More

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The long waiting battle between ToT)ret( and KT.MGW)Grape is finally going to take place!

This Saturday, the foreign Zerg master battles an up and coming Protoss player from Korea. The first map will be destination, the second map is Neo Medusa, and the third will be Colosseum 2.

How to watch?

You can use This Thread as a source to watch the matches, or also head on ov…  More

As mentioned last week in the Starcraft Weekly show, hosted by Artosis, we would be going to the WeMade FOX house where we would then do a video tour of the building, get an interview with NaDa, Pure, and Moon from Warcraft 3. We did all of this, and here is the first part of the adventure!

NaDa opens up and tells us some things that aren't usually heard in normal interviews, one has to think that it might be d…  More

Since we're on the topic of Jaedong:

A very interesting thread here, from TeamLiquid.net, that compiled various quotes from top Progamers and Team Coaches, with regards to their opinions of Jaedong.  Here are some of the stand-out ones:


Jae-gyoon Yi (Woongjin Stars coach), when asked who does he think is the best gamer -

"The gamer that possesses everything a coach wants is JD. Not only he has an amazing record, his mindset and attitude and everything else is flawless. For example, when a coach …  More

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koreanprosc said: Ah, I stumbled across this post while looking for some good pro StarCraft scene pictures...I was the one who posted the original thread...that post... JType said: Yeah, I definitely agree with you there.  I love to watch the progamers play and look for any weaknesses that I can spot, but with players like Jae... Achaia said: Nice, it's pretty cool reading what the pro scene's view on Jaedong is.  He's def my favorite player right now.  I'm a Toss player myself but if I ...

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Part 1 of this special video coverage focuses on showing you the different teams and players who compete at this seasons Minor League event, as well as a long video recorded game of eSTRO_Suny, one of the fastest pro gamers around today, with over 400 actions per minute (APM).

Part 2 of this video will feature IdrA and his match against the new Samsung Khan Zerg player. The video will be release…  More

This match, commentated by Nick "Tasteless" Plott & Daniel "SuperDanielMan" Lee; between Pro SC Protoss player BackHo and Oragn(who used to be named Piano) is one of the most amazing Starcraft matches I've watched. And I'm sure most of you will feel the same...

  BackHo
  Protoss    vs

  Oragn
  Terran

 
^ Click to watch on GOMTV.net (Map: Destination)


^ Click to watch on GOMTV.net (Map: Neo Medusa)


^ Click to watch on GOMTV.net (Map: A Garden of GOD)

Download and play on the maps the Pros use:Destin…  More

Part2(read Part 1 here)

Things got off to a great start, just landed a great sponsorship deal with AMD and Giom was fairly doing well in the leagues so I couldn't have been more content.    

The name Dreamteam came about when I met 'Elky' at the WCG event in the 2002. Elky certainly caught my eyes and many others with his orange hair and a pair of sunglasses he constantly wore.



What mostly impressed me was of course how good he was at the game. Foreigners were not taken seriously by the Korean Pro…  More

Hi all, Peanut here with another installment of the PeaPod, my podcast! In this episode I let loose with some of the stuff that simmers in my head whenever I think about StarCraft, and I hope you find the results interesting and informative. The mp3 version is here.

 

 

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Exactly 2 days ago the eSTRO manager and I went and picked NonY up at Incheon Airport. Then yesterday we brought him down to the eSTRO main office and gave him a nice interview that you can see up above. He answers many pressing questions concerning top foreigners, Idra, country rankings in Starcraft, and all the other fun drama stuff that i could think of.

Welcome to Korea NonY, hope you enjoy your stay!

See th…  More

Daniel “Artosis” Stemkoski gives his first interview from Korea while being there on official Starcraft business.

 

 

Artosis flew to Korea about five days ago to make the foreign scene bigger and better by becoming the second professional Starcraft caster, just behind Tasteless.

 

Some of the things that’ll be discussed in this video are his thoughts on Korea, what he wants to contribut…  More

An inside tour was recently done at the WeMade pro team headquarters in Seoul, Korea.

The video starts off with a quick shot of the outside building which is named Mario Towers.

The inside tour starts off with a view of their huge trophy wall with medals, plaques, and statues. It's really amazing.

Next you see the players rooms, meeting room, showers, head coach office, practice room, kitchen with a super long table, and …  More

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Becoming a Pro Gamer?
Traveling to different countries?
Attending all of the Starcraft events you see on TV every night?
Meeting the Pro Gamers you have watched closely during the past years and learned how to play this game from?



IEG is looking for gamers with untapped potential from around the world who are passionate about Starcraft as much as they are.



Summary of the Pro Gamer position

- All expense p…  More

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