This might be more appropriate for the blogs section (but I'm unsure of how to begin a new topic there.) I've had some amazing experiences during my time following Starcraft so far (I'll admit to only discovering the extent of its popularity once I began living in SK.) and I've gotten some great (albeit dodgy quality due to my less than stellar camera vs the MBC Centre's crappy lighting.) shots of the randomness that occurs at the weekly events.
Frozean being surprised anyone actually wants his sig;
The exceptionally dorky Kim Taekyong. The first thing he did upon leaving his dressing room at the last proleague was trip over. (I also got a nice hug off of him during the fanmeeting.)
I'm looking forward to several more months causing havok at the proleague (Remember Taekyong being late for his Ace match against the ACE team recently? That's because he broke my pen and we spent five minutes trying to get it working again....) So feel free to ask for any specific gamers pics and I'll try and catch them.
On a final note;
After the MBC fanclub forced Light to go and get his DS for backing music;
On January 18 2008 00:02 -WGT-Stars- wrote: Yea Stork is shy ahah; I remember in WCG I was trying to talk to him he was like oO??? LOL Nice pics BTW ] I want a picture of Nal_rA >:D
I'd definitely like to see Nal_rA in action sometime soon - KTF is one of the only teams I haven't see playing yet (I'm also interested to see how Flash is going to fare in the future.)
On January 18 2008 00:28 Aepplet wrote: FBH speaks english? Respect!
Yeah - more than any other player I've met so far. I try to speak Korean when I go to events, but sometimes it's more fun to muddle through in Konglish.
omg! its them! I remember seeing you guys at one of the proleague's on TV! Yakii thinks your friend is cute, lol! We were all wondering who those 2 girls were.
*sarcasm I think its apparent that this is another overweight 45 year old guy who somehow got pics of women with progamers (ew stalker hacker gross) and is posting on the forum for attention/profit *sarcasm
I think its apparent that this is another overweight 45 year old guy who somehow got pics of women with progamers (ew stalker hacker gross) and is posting on the forum for attention/profit
I can provide evidence to the contrary if you're that convinced lol.
On January 18 2008 03:10 JensOfSweden wrote: Rofl Zia....
haha ok I just saw the pics with you in them so now I know :p I just wondered cuz your friend was a girl too, just curious
and how good english does FBH speak?
^_^ I also took my fellow girl-co-worker to the MSL matches on Sunday - although she's not into Starcraft so she was a tad mystified for most of her time there. Well, he shocked me at first when I asked him for an autograph in korean and he replied in perfect english. His English is about as competant as my Korean, but I've still had a couple of decent conversations with him. He actually talked about it in an interview with Fomos and seemed very amused by the whole language barrier.
On January 18 2008 03:16 trollbone wrote: very good thread again, whaoo, u made 2 awesome thread
u need to do a picture with BOXER !!!!
Thanks ^^ Boxer is a bit of a challenge - he has a massive fan following over here. (61 very organized women nearly beat me to front row seats last time.) I would love to watch him play again however and I'll see what I can do about some pictures in the near future.
Tell us more about FBH! I, for one, love that silly guy. I'm sure TL.net would like to know what you talked about? Judging by his dancing etc I wouldn't say he's very shy so I bet he had some things to say? =)
On January 18 2008 03:30 Stegosaur wrote: Tell us more about FBH! I, for one, love that silly guy. I'm sure TL.net would like to know what you talked about? Judging by his dancing etc I wouldn't say he's very shy so I bet he had some things to say? =)
I actually initially went to see Stork, but Sungeun is such a fruitloop that I ended up not even speaking to the rest of the team at the last proleague. We usually just talk about food (According to my friend Rosy who is a Korean Khan fan he's a big fan of anything sweet - especially candy - which might go a way to explaining his energetic performances.)
I got that picture of him and Stork by collaring their manager (I keep forgetting her name, but she's lovely.) and getting her to find him during a break - I hadn't quite finished a small box of presents (it's very customary to buy your favourite players gifts of food/hot packs etc here so I join in sometimes for fun.) for the team so I asked him to come out after his match to get it.
He asked if I wanted him to bring Stork out too so naturally I agreed. Less than two minutes after finishing his match he came out along with Stork (who looked his usual bewildered self.) and we talked for a few minutes ending in said photo and a funny chorus of 'Hwaiting!' from FBH.
I saw him on Sunday at the MSL and *points to her sig* He was definitely embarassed to have to ask us that. I even admit to chastising him somewhat for it. He's definitely the most confident gamer I've met thus far (except for a couple of the members of MBC Heroes who have an incredibly loyal and loud fanclub. A great bunch of ladies.) Like alot of the players - Kim Taekyong, Min Chanki etc - he's different on and off camera.
On January 18 2008 03:46 Jibba wrote: I don't care if you've got tits or a penis, I will be your slave forever if you steal an MBC jacket for me, preferably with Bisu's arms still in it.
hahaha.
also, very cool you got all the backstage meet & greet etc, hope more pics come soon
I did want to ask about FBH though, is he really that tall/big, or is your friend like really petite? It looks like he towers over her, and I always had him pegged as a really skinny guy but he looks kinda thicker in that pic... not fat or anything, just not bone thin.
Anyways, I don't know what kind've rapport you have with January or FBH, but you should try to get FBH to give TL a shout-out in english on video. We would be eternally grateful. ^_____^
Edit - Mad props if you can get in a mini-interview or something in English
On January 18 2008 03:56 EvilTeletubby wrote: Thanks for the pics!
I did want to ask about FBH though, is he really that tall/big, or is your friend like really petite? It looks like he towers over her, and I always had him pegged as a really skinny guy but he looks kinda thicker in that pic... not fat or anything, just not bone thin.
Anyways, I don't know what kind've rapport you have with January or FBH, but you should try to get FBH to give TL a shout-out in english on video. We would be eternally grateful. ^_____^
Edit - Mad props if you can get in a mini-interview or something in English
Well I'm 176cm tall and he's only slightly taller than me. He's not skinny like some of the gamers *coughminchankicough* he's got more of an athletic body type. I'm actually working on a bilingual Samsung Khan website at the moment with two fellow online gaming enthusiasts and we'll be asking the managers once it's up and running if we can have the support of the team (in exchange for pimping their image out to a wider audience.) So I'll see what I can do.
On January 18 2008 03:56 EvilTeletubby wrote: Thanks for the pics!
I did want to ask about FBH though, is he really that tall/big, or is your friend like really petite? It looks like he towers over her, and I always had him pegged as a really skinny guy but he looks kinda thicker in that pic... not fat or anything, just not bone thin.
Anyways, I don't know what kind've rapport you have with January or FBH, but you should try to get FBH to give TL a shout-out in english on video. We would be eternally grateful. ^_____^
Edit - Mad props if you can get in a mini-interview or something in English
Well I'm 176cm tall and he's only slightly taller than me. He's not skinny like some of the gamers *coughminchankicough* he's got more of an athletic body type. I'm actually working on a bilingual Samsung Khan website at the moment with two fellow online gaming enthusiasts and we'll be asking the managers once it's up and running if we can have the support of the team (in exchange for pimping their image out to a wider audience.) So I'll see what I can do.
Wow, that's pretty ambitious. You do know you'll have a few thousand people on this end eager to check it out whenever you're done.
And yeah, I can see the athletic build in the pics with you and your friend. Maybe its just the size of his head compared to both of yours that threw me off at first.
On January 18 2008 03:46 Jibba wrote: I don't care if you've got tits or a penis, I will be your slave forever if you steal an MBC jacket for me, preferably with Bisu's arms still in it.
I second that, and I'll raise him my first born child as an investment payment for said jacket.
On January 18 2008 03:46 Jibba wrote: I don't care if you've got tits or a penis, I will be your slave forever if you steal an MBC jacket for me, preferably with Bisu's arms still in it.
*Cracks up* I'd love one of those jackets too, but for the past few times I've seen them the team has only worn this get up;
On January 18 2008 03:56 EvilTeletubby wrote: Thanks for the pics!
I did want to ask about FBH though, is he really that tall/big, or is your friend like really petite? It looks like he towers over her, and I always had him pegged as a really skinny guy but he looks kinda thicker in that pic... not fat or anything, just not bone thin.
Anyways, I don't know what kind've rapport you have with January or FBH, but you should try to get FBH to give TL a shout-out in english on video. We would be eternally grateful. ^_____^
Edit - Mad props if you can get in a mini-interview or something in English
Well I'm 176cm tall and he's only slightly taller than me. He's not skinny like some of the gamers *coughminchankicough* he's got more of an athletic body type. I'm actually working on a bilingual Samsung Khan website at the moment with two fellow online gaming enthusiasts and we'll be asking the managers once it's up and running if we can have the support of the team (in exchange for pimping their image out to a wider audience.) So I'll see what I can do.
Wow, that's pretty ambitious. You do know you'll have a few thousand people on this end eager to check it out whenever you're done.
And yeah, I can see the athletic build in the pics with you and your friend. Maybe its just the size of his head compared to both of yours that threw me off at first.
Thanks - We're hoping to make a Khan site and then move on to a sister site for MBC Heroes. The basic framework is up, but our site designer just got herself a part-time so progress will be a bit slow until she settles into it.
On January 18 2008 04:06 Gaetele wrote: video of you having a conversation with fbh in english plz
I'm probably more likely to conduct a text interview with our questions written out in Korean prior to asking and his responses in Korean which will then be translated unless I can get help from another bilingual fan at the events (I know someone, but not well enough to ask her yet.) Once the site is sorted I'll see what I can do though
omfg..i was reading the friggin links n junk and ended up reading the zia stuff..then i was like "how the hell did i get here?" *forgets what i was doing before*
btw the 'no girls exist on internet' stuff was interesting
On January 19 2008 15:30 Ilikestarcraft wrote: am i the only one when i first read this that thought you were a guy and you were talking about getting hugs from other guys ;;
Good thing i read the comments below Hehe you're taller than me T.T
Nice pictures lucky lucky
Hahaha - well I think even if I was a guy I'd still want a hug from Kim Taekyong. I started out thinking he was an arrogant prick who only played for the money, but after seeing him so upset at the S3 MSL final and finally meeting him a couple of weeks ago I've got nothing but respect for the guy. I think I'm pretty much taller than everyone in my city - I tower over some of the younger players *amused*.
Awesome pics. You met FBH, and stork... seriously it doesnt get any cooler than that if your a khan fan. But of course, if you took a picture with january that would seriously make my week... she's like the coolest woman in the SC scene. <3
It doesnt matter what people say, FBH is always cool in my book.
Nice to hear about the personality of the players; little tidbits like FBH speaking English and Bisu having emotion (what a shocker, eh? -_-) make progaming much more interesting to follow.
On January 19 2008 15:30 Ilikestarcraft wrote: am i the only one when i first read this that thought you were a guy and you were talking about getting hugs from other guys ;;
Good thing i read the comments below Hehe you're taller than me T.T
Nice pictures lucky lucky
Hahaha - well I think even if I was a guy I'd still want a hug from Kim Taekyong. I started out thinking he was an arrogant prick who only played for the money, but after seeing him so upset at the S3 MSL final and finally meeting him a couple of weeks ago I've got nothing but respect for the guy. I think I'm pretty much taller than everyone in my city - I tower over some of the younger players *amused*.
Awesome. :D It's always great to catch a glimpse of the person behind the player, tx. I hope you can continue this stuff and the KAHN/Hero site thingy works out! -____-
On January 19 2008 15:30 Ilikestarcraft wrote: am i the only one when i first read this that thought you were a guy and you were talking about getting hugs from other guys ;;
Good thing i read the comments below Hehe you're taller than me T.T
Nice pictures lucky lucky
Hahaha - well I think even if I was a guy I'd still want a hug from Kim Taekyong. I started out thinking he was an arrogant prick who only played for the money, but after seeing him so upset at the S3 MSL final and finally meeting him a couple of weeks ago I've got nothing but respect for the guy. I think I'm pretty much taller than everyone in my city - I tower over some of the younger players *amused*.
On January 19 2008 15:30 Ilikestarcraft wrote: am i the only one when i first read this that thought you were a guy and you were talking about getting hugs from other guys ;;
Good thing i read the comments below Hehe you're taller than me T.T
Nice pictures lucky lucky
Hahaha - well I think even if I was a guy I'd still want a hug from Kim Taekyong. I started out thinking he was an arrogant prick who only played for the money, but after seeing him so upset at the S3 MSL final and finally meeting him a couple of weeks ago I've got nothing but respect for the guy. I think I'm pretty much taller than everyone in my city - I tower over some of the younger players *amused*.
I want a hug from Bisu.
Warm, long hug, with pats on eachother's backs.
haha,. me too who doesn't :D
I don't. I don't just randomly hug guys (and even girls) for the sake of them just being so awesome. A cool guy handshake would be an amazing alternative tho ...
On January 19 2008 15:30 Ilikestarcraft wrote: am i the only one when i first read this that thought you were a guy and you were talking about getting hugs from other guys ;;
Good thing i read the comments below Hehe you're taller than me T.T
Nice pictures lucky lucky
Hahaha - well I think even if I was a guy I'd still want a hug from Kim Taekyong. I started out thinking he was an arrogant prick who only played for the money, but after seeing him so upset at the S3 MSL final and finally meeting him a couple of weeks ago I've got nothing but respect for the guy. I think I'm pretty much taller than everyone in my city - I tower over some of the younger players *amused*.
I want a hug from Bisu.
Warm, long hug, with pats on eachother's backs.
haha,. me too who doesn't :D
I don't. I don't just randomly hug guys (and even girls) for the sake of them just being so awesome. A cool guy handshake would be an amazing alternative tho ...
On January 19 2008 15:30 Ilikestarcraft wrote: am i the only one when i first read this that thought you were a guy and you were talking about getting hugs from other guys ;;
Good thing i read the comments below Hehe you're taller than me T.T
Nice pictures lucky lucky
Hahaha - well I think even if I was a guy I'd still want a hug from Kim Taekyong. I started out thinking he was an arrogant prick who only played for the money, but after seeing him so upset at the S3 MSL final and finally meeting him a couple of weeks ago I've got nothing but respect for the guy. I think I'm pretty much taller than everyone in my city - I tower over some of the younger players *amused*.
I want a hug from Bisu.
Warm, long hug, with pats on eachother's backs.
haha,. me too who doesn't :D
I don't. I don't just randomly hug guys (and even girls) for the sake of them just being so awesome. A cool guy handshake would be an amazing alternative tho ...
what about a high five?
Oh sure! An expressive one with the clash between palms. Yeah sounds good.
On January 19 2008 15:30 Ilikestarcraft wrote: am i the only one when i first read this that thought you were a guy and you were talking about getting hugs from other guys ;;
Good thing i read the comments below Hehe you're taller than me T.T
Nice pictures lucky lucky
Hahaha - well I think even if I was a guy I'd still want a hug from Kim Taekyong. I started out thinking he was an arrogant prick who only played for the money, but after seeing him so upset at the S3 MSL final and finally meeting him a couple of weeks ago I've got nothing but respect for the guy. I think I'm pretty much taller than everyone in my city - I tower over some of the younger players *amused*.
I want a hug from Bisu.
Warm, long hug, with pats on eachother's backs.
haha,. me too who doesn't :D
I don't. I don't just randomly hug guys (and even girls) for the sake of them just being so awesome. A cool guy handshake would be an amazing alternative tho ...