Proleague and dissapointment

               I honestly didn`t plan on talking a whole lot about Pro Gaming on this blog, but in the last couple of days two HUGE things have happened that I simply must mention.

The Tyrant Cometh!

               First off we have Lee Jae Dong a.k.a JaeDong (Super creative name I know) is moving over to team Evil Geniuses for the next year. Now Progamer contracts typically only last one year at max so this is pretty long. More impotantly it`s JAEDONG! This guy is an absolute legend from Brood War, the game that elevated E-sports to the same level as traditional sports in Korea.  Words simply cannot describe how excited I am to watch JaeDong come out to all sorts of events under the EG banner. This means that he’ll likely be attending at least MLG’s. so awesome! I mean come on, JaeDong is in my opinion the scariest and best player to ever play Starcraft that never received the title of Bonjwa. (To clarify, Bonjwa is a term given to certain Starcraft players who reign over the scene for an extended period of time. Kinda like a dynasty for a regular sports franchise.)

               The signifiganly larger piece of news that comes out is the teaming up of the two largest Non-Korean based Starcraft teams to play in the biggest and most prestegious league in all of starcraft, and maybe E-Sports. SK Planet Proleague. Evil Geniuses and Team Liquid. Pure Nerdgasm. The best part? Looking at the line-up, they could win it. The team is pretty strong on its own, but it has the inherit advantage of all the other teams playing in it having only played SC2 for a few months. This could be so incredible. It’s actually on right now so I’m gonna go watch it and then we’ll talk about what happens after.

               ….What. What just happened? First match of Proleague, EGTL facing off against KT roster and loses 4-0. KT roster who’s only notable player on the roster right now is Flash. Who is a big deal cause he’s the best player to ever play the first starcraft, and he’s playing SC2 really good as well. I actually expected him to win his match, but other than that I thought It’d be a stomp in the other way with EGTL coming out like 4-1. Wow. That is just embarassing. This could be a long year for these teams. On the plus side the four of the best players on the teams roster didn’t play tonight, three were out of the country and one was reserved for the sixth match, which wasn’t played because it was over before then. It’s a good thing they just hired a coach, cause man oh man are they going to need one if they want this to work. I really wanted to watch HuK play man…

  I just wanna watch this Canadian Nerd play some games

Sources for pics: Myeg.net (Jaedong) MLG (HuK)