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commenter2 · 2 years ago

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I love the Neebs Gaming Youtube crew as not only are they hilarious but there content is great, especially their animated works like Mob Squad, Battlefield Friends, and my favorite Doraleous and Associates. I do wish that they would try and go back to doing animation again and if they ever do, and wanted to take another crack at Doraleous and Associates, I got a few ideas for what they could do. Major spoilers for the series.

To quickly recap, D&A (as I will call it) is about a dysfunctional team of heroes for hire lead by Doraloeus who travel around the fantasy world of Nudonia battling evil while mostly getting into arguments and antics along the way whether it be Neebs the egotistical archer getting more famous then the other characters for "defeating" the Achilles like warrior Titanus 3 times (via trickery/sucker punch tactics) or Mirdon the wizard being a bad wizard and causing a lot of arguments in the group. Before I continue, I should bring up that with the passing of Tony Schnur (AKA Thick44) characters like Sir Walken and the Crazy Old Man wouldn't be in later episodes but along with dedicating episodes to Thick I could see the cast also giving his characters a great send off, like saying Sir Walken went into retirement and now runs a Wyvern farm (referencing Thick being the Wyvern king) and we could see a framed post card of Walken being at peace. I also could see the Old Man being seen among the confirmed gods of this world if there is ever a scene where D&A meet them. On a positive I could see older character returning to join/rejoin D&A like Thesaurus who quit and worked for Neebs after getting a realization from Neebs and Testiclees one of the greatest heroes out there, as I always felt like they would have done so if the series had continued so why not do that if it ever does? One idea for a storyline I could see happening is a small story arc where D&A are asked to help the people of a generic island nation. I could see this leading to some funny antics like the heroes getting tired of each other during the long boat ride to the area, them running into a sea monster which is just the Neebs Gaming Minecrat Nessie character who wants sweet tea. Once arriving on the island they found out they were hired to aid a generic tribe of warrior women that live on it, as there young leader is a big fangirl of D&A. Here I could a joke where the heroes try to hit on the ladies to no luck besides Broof, who is more interested in seeing there combat skills. I can also picture Doraloeus getting a possible love interest here as he and her could bond while fighting off the evil forces that endangered the tribe and how they do deal with a lot of nonsense as the woman would be the leader's 2nd in command/advisor/family friend but she can't be with him, at least not yet as she has to be with her people and lead their leader till she is old enough. However one thing I would like to see is a story involving the still mysterious Brotherhood of the Old World. I like the idea of them coming back again where we finally learn that there is more to there plans of invading Nudonia. I could picture its being revealed that the evil immortal wizard leader of the Brotherhood is a servant of an evil god that was banished a long time ago because his actions turned the Old World into barren wasteland and the reason why the Old World was abandoned. The only thing that can free him is somewhere in Nudonia and the invasion is an excuse to find it. To do this I can see the Brotherhood getting help from reoccurring and confirmed characters like Biratt, an old Old World leader who surprisingly is still alive but was in a coma due to his bee allergies but even after being healed, looks dead and maybe talks like Sir Daniel from MediEvil. I also see Titanus and King Calas joining so they can get there revenge on Neebs and Doraleous, or Doralingus in Calas' case XD. Eventually Doraleous realizes that the Zephyr Blade (a powerful mythical weapon) is the only thing that can stop the Brotherhood and there evil god once and for all so he deals with the Lady of the Lake again, where in a shocking twisted is revealed that she ISN'T the keeper but instead a monster that held the real Lady of the Lake hostage and has been using the position to kill people, leading to Doraleous FINALLY getting the Zephyr Blade and killing the fake Lady, which I bet a a lot of fans would love to see. The day is saved, Nudonia enters a new peaceful era even with people like King Calas (who actually aided Doraloeus in the last battle) are still around, and Doraleous is finally known as one of Nudonia's greatest heroes even if people still like Neebs more. Would you like to see Doraleous and Associates return? What would you like to see happen in it? Doraleous and Associates is owned by Neebs Gaming AKA Hank and Jed base by JokuSSJ

#neebs gaming #doraleous and associates #web series

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patchworkk · 5 years ago

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Outer Wilds Gameplay - Episode 2

[I really love the story Neebs Gaming has been telling of a curious alien and his dumb ship computer. This bit was one of my favorite exchanges, a very somber moment in comparison to the rest of the series.]

#first post on my new blog!#i needed something with different text styles for my theme editing #i do love this series tho im eagerly awaiting the next part #neebs gaming #neebs #appsro #outer wilds #outer wilds gameplay #outer wilds spoilers #he speaks #my stuff

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saltyaro · 5 years ago

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[Image description: The cover of the 5th book of Aromantic (love) Story. It features a drawn woman in a red tank top, a white skirt that hides her heels, and red high heels shoes. She has her hands on her hips and looks confident.]

You know what I forgot to do? That review on the 5th and last tome of aromantic (love) story. For those who weren’t aware yet, I’m not going to keep the suspense going on any longer: yes, it is safe, no, the heroine doesn’t end up as a straight woman. That’s already a victory in itself, so now all of you can go ahead and buy it if it’s available in your country ;)

The actual review is under the read more, it’s not spoiler free so!

So, Futaba (the main character) tried dating to see if she’s able to develop romance, or not. The person she chose to do so with of course knows about it, and they’re actually both trying it to see if they can understand romance. Futaba still can’t imagine romantic attraction outside of sexual attraction, which frustrates her, because she *knows* allo aces are a thing so obviously, sexual desire isn’t necessarily linked! The viewpoint of her (straight dude) partner-in-crime is...well, not surprising at all, actually. His opinion is that romantic feelings are born of, on one hand, wanting the other person’s happiness, while also wanting to possess them and keep them all to yourself.

This is, well. A very Straight Man™ way of seeing things, but, on the other hand, this point of view isn’t limited to them. (I promise, I’m not going to ramble about how it’s scary that society puts such a violent feeling as the most beautiful and important. Not on this post at least)

Fun note, at least for me, you have the classical “guy is sick, girl brings him medicine” except...Futaba gives him the medicine and just. Leaves. I love her. Well, she ends up going to his apartment, but that’s where her being aro really stands out. Usually, in a basic romcom, everyone’s flushed, and it’s annoying. But Futaba is aro, so she isn’t embarrassed, she just sees someone she cares about being sick and wants to help. She’s very natural and stoic about the whole situation. It may seem like a detail, but honestly I find that so important!

She explains that, when she was a teenager, she avoided men as much as possible (to avoid romance) and I relate. So fucking much. I don’t know if any of you did the same, but with my parents bugging me about boys, I just avoided them as much as possible (with a few exceptions). I didn’t feel unsafe around men yet back then, so I know that’s not what it was.

She explains she was afraid of creating misunderstandings, and ended up not using the world “love” at all because of that. I relate to that so much too, I’m trying to heal from that, and I think it’s important, really important, for us as a community, to learn to separate love from romance. Anyway, this kind of struggle that just...hinders your vocabulary options is really a shame, and I’m glad to see a character mention it (and not be shamed for it!).

Are you ready for some Hetero Bashing™? Because Futaba reunites with her friends and they talk a bit. The Straight dude (Kyosuke) asked Futaba to think about marrying him, and she’s a bit “huuuuuh” so she talks about it to her friends. Friend 1 is like “well, you don’t need to be *in romance* to get married. I have friends, a straight dude and a lesbian, who got married by necessity” and Futaba expresses that she never thought such a thing would happen to her, she never thought of marriage being an option for her. Friend 2 they says that it’s the contrary for her, impossible to avoid the idea of marriage and children, despite not wanting either, because it’s been so ingrained in her head. “you know, the “to perpetuate the specie” argument, like having descendance is every human’s mission...”

And the friend 1 says “ah...the perfect exemple of a notion made by straight people to validate their point of view!” and I love that?? I mean, in general, even in the larger queer community, we’re dancing around the argument, finding proof that there are non-straight animals in all species, and all. She then adds “If reproductions is *that* important...then rich single people could have a ton of kids using articifial fertilization and bingo, they’d have contributed to society’s well-being!” Friend 2 is like “uuuuh, that would raise ethical issues” to what friend 2 answers: “Personally, I kinda reaaally don’t care for lessons of morality from a society that considers sexual minorities and childfree people as useless. If we consider that humanity will necessarily go extinct one day, then mating to reproduce is nothing but a useless cycle”. I really like that take which’s why I *had* to share it despite it being so long to read haha.

Futaba is surprised by her words, so friend 2 explains that friend 1 is worried that a straight guy is going to steal Futaba from them, and she doesn’t want to be abandoned. Friend 1 is bi but that’s a very aro sentiment here tbh.

(Straight bashing, over)

You have the usual meeting with the family...god, how realistic is that, you see your aunt and uncle you haven’t seen in maybe years and the only thing they’re interested in, is whether or not you’ve found a romantic partner. I swear, I got annoyed for the character cause it’s so true. She’s bothered (and I am too) by her grandma’s affirmation that everyones gets married someday. I hate that, it really, really annoys me that I supposedly can’t be free to make my own decisions! But she also knows that it would be useless to explain to her grandma that her words are paternalism, so she lets her be. Because she means well, and maybe that’s the worst thing about amatonormativity and its assumptions...that the people upholding those mean well.

The manga also touches (rapidly) on Futaba feeling of guilt for not being sincere with her family. Her parents aren’t pressuring her to get married, but she knows that seeing their only child, still single, and over 30, is sure to make them worried (especially given she’s not exactly wealthy). I can’t express how much I love seeing a character like that, she knows what she wants, but there’s still this lingering feeling that keeps you from feeling totally at ease, regardless of how much confidence you’ve got. It’s only natural and nothing to be ashamed of.

I think one of my favourite moments of this book - maybe of all the serie? is after Kyosuke’s friends remotivates Futaba by, basically, telling her to do what she always did, fight out of spite, even if that means to accept to sometimes take hits (this happens throught the phone). Kyosuke says to his friend, that he would never have neeb able to say such things to him, and his friend answers that love blinds him, and prevents him from seeing what she really needs. To that, Kyosuke doesn’t answer, and his friend understands immediately and says “That look...maybe you actually nurture this self-deception.”

And I love this moment because, for Futaba to be happy, she needs to be single, and free. From him, and his expectations of romance, because even though he knows, rationally speaking, that she won’t ever feel the same, he still wants her, and still wants to be the one at her side - when no one should be. Not in a partnership way anyway. He’s actually choosing to ignore the rational part of him because he still hopes for her to make the difficult choice, and stay at his side, because it’s not really that he wants her to be happy but rather, that he wants to be the one to make her happy, which is of course, extremely selfish and possessive. I love that it’s just laid here, without ambiguity. What’s great also, is that the straight dude in romo realizes what he’s doing, even if he tries to ignore that. Later in the manga, Kyosuke thinks to himself that he couldn’t help but hope that she would concecede, yield, and accept him, despite knowing that’s not what she needs, and knowing that’s not the way you build a positive relationship. I...don’t know if alloro usually know they’re doing such things? I don’t know what’s worse, to be confident you’re not doing that shit when you’re doing it, or to keep on doing it even though you’re aware.

On a sidenote, I really, really like that she got boosted by the least expected person? They don’t like each other, they’re more or less at each other’s throat most of the time cause he’s sexist and unsentitive, but in the end, he was touched by the anger in the beginnings of her work, and it built a sort of...professional trust between the two of them. Like, those characters won’t ever be friends, but there’s still that little place of trust between them, it’s a delicate portrayal of ambiguous relationships.

Basically, what ends the manga, if the end of Futaba’s own manga (the romantic comedy). And I really like the outlook she has on it, at the end of her 2 years and a half of work. Even though she didn’t want to write such a thing, in the end, she met a lot of people thanks to it, and, through challenging her own vision of relationships and romance, she finally managed to complete her certitude in herself and who she is. I think that’s a lovely parallel.

It also ends her questions, and she rejects Kyosuke (I usually can’t help but laugh when a Straight man gets rejected in fiction I’m an asshole I know). Their conversation is really lovely after that, and challenged the expectations of partnership. Kyosuke asks her if she would have accepted his proposal if, like one year ago, he didn’t feel anything towards her. And her answer is no. She did think about it, imagining their marriage as a fake straight couple, and how she knew that, while it would have asked concessions and sacrifices from both of them, they could have been happy. But what she needs isn’t some stability based on renunciations, but ton confront reality, so she can live in agreement with herself.

Also, the moment after her choice, loneliness and worry strike her, and she acknowledges that feeling, because it’s okay, it doesn’t mean she made the wrong choice. It will pass.

The younger guy who’s also in romance with her, interestingly enough, resolves the situation in a very mature way. He asks her if she’s found her answer, when they’re about to part ways (he’s no longer her assistant), and she says that, yes, she doesn’t feel romance - and he thanks her, for having endured his weirdness all this time, and bids her farewell. And we then have his thoughts - while his decisions, to act that way, was difficult for him, he did so because it was the right thing to do and he realized that insisting would have bothered her. That was nice. The situation is weird for Futaba too, because, as his senior, she kinda felt responsible for him, protective maybe? And she’s a bit overwhelmed by how much this kid’s grown.

There’s an epilogue of sorts, and we can see that Futaba decided to entirely live while being true to herself, which also means making some changes.

To conclude: I really liked this serie! It’s nice to see a woman over 30, finally embracing herself - despite having gone through doubts, even at her age - after making sure she was right about her feelings. She’s, well, asexual I think, but it’s the aro part that matters to her, and really has an influence on her life, the ace part is more of an afterthought. It’s also nice to see a nonamorous aromantic woman! Aro women are already hard to grasp in our amatonormative and migogynistic society, so a nonamorous one probably even more so.

It was overall a really nice experience, I’m not going to say everything was perfect, and her aromanticism is the topic of the story, but Futaba is also her own person and this is never downplayed in favour of talking about her identity. Definitely something too rare and, as such, very enjoyable.

#my post #Aromantic (Love) Story #Aro representation

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theuniversitychallengereview · 4 years ago

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UC 50.8 - Darwin, Cam vs St Andrews

Right, I’m going to warn you straight from the off - this one is going to be experimental. And I don’t mean experimental in the way literary types describe Will Self novels, because it is only ever used when they think the experiment in question has been a success, at least to some extent. I’m using it in the purely scientific sense, whereby a hypothesis is proposed and then proved or disproved using an agreed upon methodology. I am under no illusions that this is going to work, or that it will even achieve one tenth of what it sets out to, although of course if it does (which I very much doubt it will) pull this off even a little bit then this bit will look like nothing but bluster and I’ll come across as exactly the kind of pretentious I was going for.

Anyway, last things first, if you haven’t seen the new Christopher Nolan film Tenet then there will be... I was going to say spoilers, but that would imply that I understood the plot well enough to be able to spoil it for you. But still, the hypothesis of this post will be to review this episode of University Challenge in the style of Tenet, so if you don’t want to spot cack-handed references to various plot points then you may want to stop reading here.

Okay, here is the point where I admit that I have no idea how one would go about writing a review of a quiz show in the style of a sci-fi spy thriller, and the reason that this is being released on a Saturday is that I spent the whole week trying to come up with a sufficiently clever way of doing it.

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Is it simply good enough to run some of the sentences through a backwards text generator and call it a day, or do I have to do other things as well? (oot tnorf ot kcab sa tnuoc nwod edispu seoD and could I have used the upside down Spanish question marks there¿). I guess what I should really be doing is running a temporal pincer movement, but what would that involve exactly; should I be

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simultaneously reviewing the beginning and end of the episode with one version of me travelling forwards and the other backwards? I’ll just carry on, shall I?

St Andrews have made loads of appearances on the show, but haven’t made the quarter finals since 2010. They give a very strong performance against a timid Darwin side to give them a shot at breaking that duck (I only know this because I was told by the inverted version of me travelling backwards from the end of the episode. Keep up).

They have a player who is literally called Sherlock, though it is their surname rather than their first name, which checks out given the theme of this post (unfortunately none of the contestants have palindromic names, which would have been even better), and they are the star of the show, with seven starters, including four of the first five. Sherlock has a moustache that is fit for twirling and the most remarkable pair of glasses I’ve ever seen, which could, for all I know, be from the future themselves. Hang on, I’m just going to go back for another pass through the first few questions...

Yes, I was right. You don’t notice it because you don’t think it would be possible, in the smae way taht you can siltl raed wrods if the ietanrnl ltetres are all jbemlud up, but Sherlock actually gives their answers before Paxman asks the questions. The reason Paxman looks confused by it is because, like when John David Washington’s protagonist uses an inverted bullet for the first time and is perplexed by the sensation of catching rather than shooting it, he is not asking the question, he is answering it. This explains how Sherlock was able to put on such a dominant performance, and why they have such bizarre (and excellent) spectacles. Probably something to do with their eyes not being able to process inverted light.

So, we already know the score, because what’s happened, happened, but I will say that Darwin

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do get some questions right, quite a few actually, its just that they were unfortunate to be up against a time-travelling super-quizzer called Sherlock. And this being the fifth first round match to post a combined score of 345 or more we’ve already exceeded the equivalent total from last year, indicating either a jump in quality or a dip in difficulty, but I’ve noticed no evidence of the latter.

So, we’re coming to the end/start of this review, and I would like to thank you if you’ve made it this far, given the batshit nonsensicality of it all (I don’t think nonsensicality is a word, but it might just be the only way of describing this drivel). You don’t need to tell me whether it all makes sense, because I already know, and you don’t need to ask me how I know, because you already know...

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scdojo · 8 years ago

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The Complete History of Foreigners in GSL

Alexander "Neeb" Sunderhaft won the KeSPA Cup. Mikolaj "Elazer" Ogonowski, Tobias "ShoWTimE" Sieber and the aforementioned Neeb all made it into the round of 8 at Blizzcon. This is a wild time to be a StarCraft fan, as the foreigners continue to close the gap against the Korean programmers, making their mark more and more.

And now, Sasha "Scarlett" Hostyn has qualified for the longest standing and most prestigious tournament in all of StarCraft II, the GSL Code S. While this is certainly an impressive feat, Scarlett's entire story in the GSL has not unfolded yet, so I'd like to take this time to look back on the history of foreigners (non-Koreans) in GSL.

GSL started just after the official release of SC2, all the way back in August of 2010. It was an exciting time, the start of the first Korean league in the sequel to the game that really started esports. Immediately great attention was given to the GSL, and many top Non-Korean players decided to attempt to make their name by traveling to Korea to compete.

The First Era - Open Seasons 1-3

The Open Seasons were like the Wild West of GSL. StarCraft II was an untamed land, one full of strategies and mechanics yet to be discovered. There was a pretty good understanding of who the top players were at the time, but really anything could happen as the game was not even close to mapped out at the time. To add to the craziness, the first 3 seasons were known as "Open" for a reason. There were no seeds, and the brackets started at 64 players. This means that during the open qualifiers, there were 64 spots up for grabs to get into the GSL. That is a LOT of spots, which both allowed almost every top player to qualify, but also let in a lot of randoms who had some strange strategies or easy brackets.

Open Season 1

The first qualifier for GSL was announced very last minute, but still 4 non-Koreans were able to make it into the main tournament.

Trevor "TorcH" Housten made it only as far as the round of 64, losing to a Protoss player who, little did we know, would several seasons later become a surprise powerhouse: Cho Won "San" Kang.

Dan "Artosis" Stemkoski (me, lol!) also only made it into the round of 64. There I played a pretty poor series against a Protoss player and lost 1-2. This was of course with Zerg, my original race in SC2.

Dario "Liquid`TLO" Wunsch also qualified for the first GSL Open Season, and certainly did a good job there as well. He took out Kang Ho "LosirA" Hwang, who is still a top professional Zerg to this day, with a 2-0 score, and then lost to Yoo Jong "Hyperdub" Kim in the round of 32, a well known Terran of the time, 1-2. By the way, this was all playing Terran, the race TLO started out with.

The favourite of the Non-Koreans (and truthfully, one of the overall favourites of the whole tournament), Greg "IdrA" Fields didn't preform as well as anyone expected in the first season. After handily dispatching a Terran player in the round of 64, he lost to Yung Soo "NettiePrime" Jun 1-2 in the round of 32.

Thus ended a very underwhelming Open Season 1 for a hopeful foreigner scene.

Open Season 2

Season 2 had repeat qualifiers in TLO and IdrA, as well as a new one in Yi "Loner" Dai, the Chinese Terran (who would soon later go on to get 2nd at the first StarCraft II Blizzcon tournament).

TLO had a harder season this time, hitting Sang Ho "Killer" Shin AKA SangHo, an experienced StarCraft 1 pro who had just switched over. He went out in the round of 64.

IdrA had a much better run this time. He took out 2 Terrans before losing to Jung Min "Zenio" Choi in the round of 16.

Loner had a pretty impressive in his first GSL, first taking out the current world champion, Hyun Woo "ByuN" Byun (who played Protoss at the time and was known as Bleach), followed by a victory over a Zerg player before losing to the Emperor himself, Yo Hwan "BoxeR" Lim.

2 rounds of 16 was certainly a much better showing for the foreigners, but nothing compared to what the 3rd season had in store...

Open Season 3

Some truly heavy hitters came out of the woodwork this season.

Hayder "Liquid`HayprO" Hussein made it in but instantly fell to the cheesiest player in the history of StarCraft, Nam Kyu "BitByBitPrime" Kim.

IdrA, Jos "Liquid`ret" de Kroon, and Chia Cheng "Sen" Yang all fared a bit better than HayprO and made it to the round of 32 before falling. Notably Sen's run was cut short by the previous season's champion, Jae Duk "NesTea" Lim, who mentioned multiple times that he felt Sen was easily top Korean level.

Pretty underwhelming for a brand new game with the best RTS talent outside of Korea trying their best to overcome the history of Korean dominance. Enter Jonathan "Liquid`Jinro" Walsh.

Jinro had already tried the previous 2 seasons to qualify for the GSL. Despite many weaker players making it into the GSL, Jinro was only able to make it to the ro8 in both previous qualifier attempts. 3rd time's a charm.

In the round of 64, Jinro took out the strong Zerg player Jin Yung "Drug" Kwun 2-1. Sadly, he would be going up against the 5th race, the ultimate legend from WarCraft III, Jae Ho "Moon" Jang, in the round of 32. Sadly for Moon, that is. 2-0 for Jinro. Well, in the round of 16, which is as far as any non-Korean had made it so far, he would have to play Seong Hun "Polt" Choi. Yes, that Polt. Polt, by the way, had already taken down BoxeR in the previous round. Oh, never mind, no problem. Jinro wins 2-0. Well round of 8 is pretty damn good. But now he was going up against Hyung Seop "Choya" Lee, who had already taken out He Who Would Be The Greatest That There Ever Was, Jong Hyun "Mvp" Jung. Jinro clutched that round out as well, with a 3-2 score. Round of 4. This would be where Jinro was stopped, by none other than the Boss Toss, Min Chul "MC" Jang. MC crushed Jinro 4-0, and would go on to give a 4-1 victory against Seo Yong "Rain" Park in the Finals. MC would also go on to be the biggest money winner EVER, even to this day, when he is retired and coaching a League of Legends team. Not a bad player to go out against.

Just to get this out of the way, these large 64 spot GSLs were the ONLY times that foreigners ever qualified for the GSL through an open bracket. Every single participation in the GSL after Open Season 3 (which started in November of 2010) by a foreigner was seed-based. Until, that is, Scarlett won her qualifying group this past week.

The Second Era - Rapid Fire GSL Code S

2011 had 7 GSL Code S tournaments. 2012 had 5 GSL Code S tournaments.

GSL January 2011

Loner and ret both played in Code A and both lost to Jung Hwan "Cezanne" Kim. ret in the first round, Loner in the second.

Jinro and IdrA were in Code S, where they were both put into Group H. The star foreigners were both able to eek it out, forcing Sang Cheol "Ensnare" Kim and Hyung Joo "Check" Lee into the Up and Down matches.

The round of 16 groups were absolutely brutal for both players. IdrA was in a group with the legendary Yoon Yeol "NaDa" Lee, the Blizzcon Champion Min Soo "Genius" Jeong, and one of the strongest players of early StarCraft II, Kyu Jong "Clide" Han. Despite this, IdrA advanced in first place to the round of 8.

Jinro's group was no less scary. Sung Je "Rainbow" Kim, the runner-up of Open Season 1. MC, the Boss Toss and defending champion. And last but certainly not least, the legendary Jung Hoon "MarineKingPrime" Lee, who was the runner up to Open Season 2. No prob Bob. Jinro gets out cleanly in 2nd place, moving on to the round of 8 with IdrA. Or should I say against IdrA?

Having not played against each other enough, what being in the same ro32 group and all, IdrA and Jinro faced off in the round of 8, to see if IdrA would become the most successful foreigner in GSL history, or if Jinro would run far out of his range. Jinro came out on top, securing his second top 4 in a row. Here he would fall to MarineKing once again, 1-3.

A remarkable season for the non-Koreans, and a statement to be sure. Spoiler alert: this greatness would never be matched again.

GSL March 2011

This was a sad time, the time when IdrA, after many years living in Korea decided it was time to move back to America. With that, Jinro would be the only foreign player in Code S this season.

It started out well for Jinro, beating down a group containing RainBow, Polt and Check to finish in first place. Once he reached the round of 16 (now a bracket), he was taken out by Hong Wook "HongUnPrime" Ahn, a Protoss of some note in early SC2.

There was also quite a handful of foreigners in Code A this season. Loner, HayprO, ret and Andrew "mOOnGLaDe" Pender all lost immediately in the round of 32.

This though, was Chris "HuK" Loranger's big breakout moment. HuK was seeded into the Code A and was able to take down Won Pyo "Curious" Lee and Dong Hyun "Revival" Kim, two extremely strong Zergs before losing to LosirA in the round of 8. This gave HuK a spot in the Up and Down matches. After losing to Joon Hyuk "InCa" Song, a previous GSL Finalist, HuK managed to take down Choya in a close series and gain a spot in the next GSL Code S.

GSL May 2011

HuK and Jinro were all that was left going into the GSL May season. Neither were able to make it out of their round of 32 groups. Jinro beat San but lost to both Nestea and Clide. HuK wasn't able to take any victories, losing once again to InCa as well as to the God Of War himself, Sung Joon "JulyZerg" Park. These disappointing performances forced both into the Up and Down matches. Jinro lost to both Jong Hwan "CoCa" Choi and Zenio, while HuK was able to take out Seong Won "MMA" Mun and advance back into Code S.

GSL July 2011

Due to a partnership between MLG and GSL, Shawn "Sheth" Simon was given a Code A spot for this season. Showing great skill he was able to take down San in the first round, but did lose in the next round to the strong Protoss, Sang Jun "Puzzle" Kim.

Jinro met a similar fate. After winning the first round of Code A against an unknown Protoss, he fell to the strong Terran player Dae Jin "asd" Lee, who had taken down fan favourite BoxeR in the previous round. Thanks asd.

Meanwhile in Code S, HuK was having a strong showing. He topped his ro32 group which included Polt, Killer and Lee Seok "aLive" Han. It was a much tougher round of 16 though, as HuK faced off against his close friend MC. HuK was crushed here but at least secured the next season of Code S on the back of this performance.

GSL August 2011

There were 4 new foreigner seeds for Code A this season due to the MLG / GSL partnership:

Marcus "ThorZaIN" EklofJohan

"NaNiwa" Lucchesi

Jian Carlo "Fenix" Morayra Alejo

And Kim "SaSe" Hammar

All 4 players, as well as Jinro who was in Code A once again, lost in the round of 32 in Code A. Only ThorZaIN was able to take a map.

Similarly to GSL July, though, HuK was having a great time up in Code S. First he got out of his ro32 group in second place. Out of Killer, Ji Sung "Bomber" Choi and Dong Hwan "viOLet" Kim, only Bomber was able to take him down. As one of 4 Protosses in the round of 16, HuK got a deadly opponent indeed. A bonjwa of StarCraft 1, NaDa. HuK managed to take down his opponent 2-1, but that's where his run would end. His next opponent was Mvp. HuK lost 0-3 there, but who can blame him? Mvp was just hitting his stride as the strongest player in the history of the game.

GSL October 2011

NaNiwa and SaSe both remained in Korea and gave Code A another go. It didn't go very well, as both Swedish Protosses fell in the first round to Korean Zerg players. Joining them, and fairing a bit better though, was fellow Swede Jeffery "SjoW" Brusi. SjoW did manage to win his first round against Han Eol "MaKa" Kwak, but then promptly lost to the Code A Gate Keeper himself, Curious.

Meanwhile, due to his strong showing in the previous Code S season, HuK was once again the only foreigner representation in the most prestigious league in the world. He ended up in 3rd place in his ro32 Group, having lost to asd and Joon Yong "Virus" Park, but having taken down Zenio at least.

GSL November 2011

HuK fights on in Code S. Put into group C with Clide, JulyZerg and Puzzle, HuK takes first place with a clean 2-0. In the round of 16 groups, though, he gets a devastatingly hard group. The Creator Of The Universe, NesTea, along with MMA and Dong Nyoung "Leenock" Lee. No laughing matter. HuK manages a win against Leenock but loses against both NesTea and MMA, getting 3rd place. This loss in the ro16 immediately seeded HuK into the Code A ro24, where he would face Kyu Seok "KeeN" Hwang. With a 0-2 loss, HuK was off to the Up and Down matches. His group was played less than 2 weeks later. Unable to secure a top 2 spot, HuK was relegated to Code A.

SaSe and Naniwa, once again, stayed in Korea to fight the good fight. Both dropped in the first round of Code A with 0-2 scores.

GSL 2012 - Season 1

A welcome surprise occurred with the new year's first GSL season. The return of IdrA. Kind of. Both IdrA and Sen were seeded directly into GSL Code S this season, much to the delight of the fans. They didn't fair too well, though. Sen ended up with a 0-4 map score and immediately was eliminated. IdrA, in what could be called the group of death (containing NesTea AND Mvp) fell out in last place as well, taking only a single map.

Code A was chock-full of foreigners this season: HuK returned, of course. Two still-famous Chinese pros also came to Korea: Xiang "MacSed" Hu and Lei "XiGua" Wang. IdrA and Sen, who were eliminated early on in Code S were also back to battle it out.

It didn't go well. IdrA lost 0-2. HuK lost 1-2. XiGua lost 1-2. MacSed? 0-2. Only Sen was able to take his series, but fell immediately in the next round.

GSL 2012 - Season 2

Only HuK and NaNiwa remained to fight on. HuK had to start out in the Up and Down matches, which still consisted of 6 man groups with the top 2 advancing to Code S. Heartbreakingly, HuK got 3rd place in his group and had to go into Code A. Here he lost in the first round to Young Il "Hack" Kim, being completely eliminated from the GSL.

NaNiwa was given a seed directly into Code S, where he made an extremely impressive run. First he topped his round of 32 group which included Dong Won "Ryung" Kim, Puzzle, and Mvp himself. Naniwa dropped only a single map. The round of 16 groups, somehow, went even better. With a flawless victory, Naniwa won the group over Young Jin "SuperNova" Kim, Virus and Genius.

This put NaNiwa into a fabled land: the GSL Code S round of 8 bracket. Here his opponent was Mvp, the eventual champion of the tournament. NaNiwa fell 1-3.

GSL 2012 - Season 3

HuK was now completely out of the GSL. NaNiwa remained in Code S due to his high placement, and ThorZaIN was back due to a seed, this time directly into Code S. Sadly, ThorZaIN wasn't able to capitalize upon his seed in the same way that Naniwa had in the previous season, falling out of a strong group containing Hyun Woo "Squirtle" Park, Byung Jae "GuMiho" Koh, and Keen. His 3rd place finish put him into the Code A round of 32 against Jin Young "JYP" Park, where he ended up falling 1-2.

NaNiwa though, wasn't done making his mark on Code S. In a group containing NesTea, Hyun Woo "Creator" Jang and Yeon Sik "TheStC" Choi, NaNiwa got out in second place right behind NesTea. The round of 16 groups went just as well for Naniwa, getting 2nd place to ByuN, beating out both Genius and KeeN. Again NaNiwa found himself in the round of 8, and again he found himself eliminated by a legend. This time it was Soo Ho "DRG" Park who took him out with a 3-2 score.

GSL 2012 - Season 4

Season 4 brought a new seed: Grzegorz "MaNa" Komincz was put directly into the Up and Down matches. In a 5 man group containing Ji Hoon "jjakji" Jung, Seok Hyun "HyuN" Ko, KeeN and Bomber, MaNa was able to secure 2nd place (to Bomber) and move on to the Code S. Code S didn't go so well for MaNa. His group was maybe the most ridiculous of the year, though, so 4th place with a 1-4 map score really wasn't that bad. Who was in the group? Oh, only Mvp, MMA and Young Seo "TaeJa" Yun.

Naniwa had similar results in his ro32 group, going 1-4 total against Squirtle, Min Hyuk "Heart" Kim and Tae Hoon "Sniper" Kwon. His drop down to Code A was similarly rough, losing 0-2 to a Protoss player.

These results meant that GSL 2012 - Season 5 would have not a single foreigner playing in it.

The Third Era - The End of Hope

GSL 2013 - Season 1

The Up and Down matches this season had both HuK and Manuel "Grubby" Schenkhuizen seeded in. Grubby ended up losing each and every map in his 6 man group and was immediately eliminated. HuK, on the other hand, managed to get top 2, just behind NesTea. This seeded him directly into Code S, where he and Ilyes "Stephano" Satouri (also seeded) would be the last foreigners to play in the tournament until Scarlett's debut.

HuK was placed into another tough group with Bomber, GuMiho and Sniper. Only able to win a single map, HuK fell out of GSL Code S for the last time.

Stephano didn't fare much better. With DRG and Shin Hyung "INnoVation" Lee topping the group, Stephano was only able to beat out Hack, losing to INnoVation 1-2 in the decider match of the group.

With both players in Code A, we would witness the unceremonious exit of foreigners from GSL. HuK lost in the first round 0-2 to Young Han "Shine" Lee. Stephano, seeded one round higher due to his 3rd place group finish, lost 1-2 to Jae Wook "Flying" Shin.

That season of GSL ended in March of 2013. Since that last moment, we haven't had a single foreigner compete in the GSL. Now, with Scarlett having qualified for GSL 2017 Season 1, we begin a new Era.

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