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Two time StarCraft OSL champion Garimto defeated WarCraft III player Grubby in an exhibition match held in a Korean Air hangar.
By Duncan 'Thorin' Shields
Jun 25, 2010 20:02
Two time StarCraft OSL champion Garimto defeated WarCraft III player Grubby in an exhibition match held in a Korean Air hangar.GosuGamers have reported that StarCraft veteran Dong Soo 'GARIMTO' Kim defeated WarCraft III champion Manuel 'GrubbY' Schenkhuizen in an exhibition match held in a Korean Air hangar.
Apparently Garimto played as random on the first map, getting Terran, while Grubby chose Protoss. Garimto came out the victor 2 maps to none, with the second map, Scrap Station, apparently lasting 24 minutes.
VODs:
Game 1: Grubby (P) vs. Garimto (T) @ Lost Temple
Game 2: Grubby (P) vs. Garimto (T) @ Scrap Station (1/2)
Game 2: Grubby (P) vs. Garimto (T) @ Scrap Station (2/2)
Grubby is known to Westerners as one of the best WarCraft III players in the game's history, with WCG gold medals as well as Blizzcon and WEM titles amongst his lengthy list of accomplishments.
Garimto is one of the oldest active South Korean progamers, at the age of 29, and is well loved by fans despite having spent a number of years in retirement from StarCraft. In 2001 he defeated the legendary BoxeR in the final of the SKY OSL. He is also the only Protoss player to win two OSL titles. More recently he became a member of MYM for StarCraft II.
Korean Air gained itself a place in South Korean StarCraft gamers' hearts by sponsoring the last season of the OSL, and the next. The finals of the first Korean Air OSL were also held in a hangar, with impressive entrance ceremonies as challenger and eventual champion EffOrt was lowered down on a crane and the otherwise dominant Flash entered in a plane.
Source: GosuGamers
(Photograph copyright of FOMOS.kr)
Apparently Garimto played as random on the first map, getting Terran, while Grubby chose Protoss. Garimto came out the victor 2 maps to none, with the second map, Scrap Station, apparently lasting 24 minutes.
VODs:
Game 1: Grubby (P) vs. Garimto (T) @ Lost Temple
Game 2: Grubby (P) vs. Garimto (T) @ Scrap Station (1/2)
Game 2: Grubby (P) vs. Garimto (T) @ Scrap Station (2/2)
Grubby is known to Westerners as one of the best WarCraft III players in the game's history, with WCG gold medals as well as Blizzcon and WEM titles amongst his lengthy list of accomplishments.
Garimto is one of the oldest active South Korean progamers, at the age of 29, and is well loved by fans despite having spent a number of years in retirement from StarCraft. In 2001 he defeated the legendary BoxeR in the final of the SKY OSL. He is also the only Protoss player to win two OSL titles. More recently he became a member of MYM for StarCraft II.
Korean Air gained itself a place in South Korean StarCraft gamers' hearts by sponsoring the last season of the OSL, and the next. The finals of the first Korean Air OSL were also held in a hangar, with impressive entrance ceremonies as challenger and eventual champion EffOrt was lowered down on a crane and the otherwise dominant Flash entered in a plane.
Source: GosuGamers
(Photograph copyright of FOMOS.kr)
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Thorin, you might want to change the title. As of now, it sounds like Grubby was Garimto's price :P
why do people call gamers progamers when they dont have pro license?
Esports history has repeatedly been written by "nobodys" that signed up for oficial tournaments and won them,beating well known names in the business. These "nobodys" are less than progamers if they actually beat licenced progamers, just because they didn't hold some plastic thing in their pocket that has written "progamer" on it?
1st read about starcraft in korea than write :)
In Europe vs Asia thing that gg.net organised. It's true that Asia won (honestly, the EU squad members were not all of them my first idea of representing Europe but that doesn't matter much), yet the europeans sure got some asians smacked in that event, and guess what? They didn't have such licences.
Like SolHeiM said above "Because in the real world you don't need a license to be a professional gamer. South Korea is just retarded with their progaming licenses".
Well, it's nothing wrong for a community to have such licenses. It's a tradition and dare i say regulation thing in Korea, and i respect that, yet sometimes you need to think out of the box and consider the fact that a piece of plastic doesn't make you a progamer.
Grubby is one of the european players that proved himself to be a strong opponent for the asian players and regardless of the number of sc2 games he played, obviously less than Garimto played, he is by far an interesting player to be observed.
It's true that the matches weren't even, but that wasn't the point of the showmatch,was it?
Its SC..not even SC1 but SC2 ...so guys .. one who follows changes more than another wins here.
But yee! That korean veteran player must be happy!
As an european player and scene member, i don't care about the Korean scene. Personally i see the Koreans pretty over rated.
Only the Koreans judge a player on terms of having a pro license or not.
If the Koreans call someone a non-progamer, just becouse he/she doesn't own such a licence, it's their oppinion and i respect that.
Lets take ESL for instance. I have my own ESL playercard and yet, that doesn't make me a better player than someone who doesn't have one. I believe the same thing applies to having or not a pro-gamer license. :)
The player that i can't wait to see playing Starcraft 2 is Lucifron. Grubby and Garimto were repeatedly seen playing SC2 so the mistery around them has been unveiled. I wish i could see some demo matchup like this one, involving Lucifron's Terran :D
"Personally i see the Koreans pretty over rated."
The only international starcraft tournament where koreans compete with the rest of the world is WCG. How do you explain that out of it's 9 editions all were won by south koreans and most of the times 2nd and 3rd place are koreans too?
"(...) yet sometimes you need to think out of the box and consider the fact that a piece of plastic doesn't make you a progamer."
In order to have a starcraft progaming licence you have to win a tournament called "courage" TWICE. If you win it the first time you earn a "semi pro" title and are elegible to join a pro team as a trainee and maybe as a player if you are ridiculously good. It's held every month or so in Seoul and Pusan. Many gamers try to win the tournament for YEARS and still can't do it. Every courage edition is harder to win than any non korean tournament.
Some of the best non-korean starcraft gamers mooved to korea in order to try to win a licence and guess what? They ALL failed... some lived in Korea for more than half an year and still didn't make it once... quite far from winning it twice right? Having a progaming licence does mean you are better than someone who doesn't. It's not just a piece of plastic.
"In Europe vs Asia thing that gg.net organised. It's true that Asia won (honestly, the EU squad members were not all of them my first idea of representing Europe but that doesn't matter much), yet the europeans sure got some asians smacked in that event, and guess what? They didn't have such licences."
Of course they didn't. Noone of the players that played for team Asia were famous starcraft players in Korea. In fact, none of them were in a pro team for starcraft brood wars, they were all AMATEURS. Europe lost to a bunch of amateurs, what would progamers do to them?