KTF_YellOw - Life of a Progamer

Aired in Daejeon MBC.

Excellent documentary about the Progamer Hong Jin Ho, known in the SC comunity as the Zerg god [NC..]Yellow (later KTF_YellOw), one of the best progamer ever. Well worth watching even if you don't understand, I'll explain a bit:

Shows his daily life, his family, the fans waiting for him everywhere he goes, his practice at the KTF team, and conversations with many other progamers such as Nada and Boxer, and what they think about him.

I'll edit this video later on if I get a full translation. For now here are some key translated information:

First shows a Finals match between NaDa and YellOw... preparation, showing their nervousness. He talks about how incredibly sad he gets when he loses a game. He can't even smile when people greet him.

Even at home, Starcraft is the big part of life. His whole family watches the starcraft channels. His mom didn't want him to make it to the Finals because she was so stressed out by his matches.

Yellow used to run away from home from his hometown to Seoul to play at PC bangs all day. When he came back, his mother thought he came back from school; his brother was the only one that knew.

Much later on Yellow and some other players moved Seoul with big hopes and rented a place together, it was very tough for them in the beginning, they didn't have any money left and sometimes could only efford one cup of instant noodles per day!
Yellow's mom is a single parent, its been tough for her raising 2 kids. His brother is a university student, quite the image that their mother wanted Yellow to be as well.

There was a scene where the whole team was at a PC bang before the proleague finals, and the pc bang owner said how difficult it looked for the team. He noted that in contrast to TV, these guys are having a hard time.

It says that the team only eats 1 meal a day sometimes (just ramen too). It also shows MinGyu washing dishes, because he's the youngest (and therefore does the black work for his older partners) "I have to do this, of course. I can't say anything to complain."

The life of a progamer is very hard, Yellow actualy said that if his friends wanted to become progamers, he'd ask them to reconsider, no matter how good they were. He's saying that it's really really difficult, and on TV, they show only the best parts of a progamer's life.

Here's the translation of the chat Yellow has with Boxer (about 20min into the movie): Yellow is saying how he saw Boxer practice: "I always thought that I will do more than him. If Boxer plays 10 games, I'll play 11. If Boxer plays 20 games, I'll play 21. If he goes to sleep at 1-am, then I'll go to sleep at 2-am."

Boxer replies by saying that he thinks Yellow is similar to him (with a little smirk and voice tone that tells he thinks he can kick Yellow's ass anyday). He then says: "I always think that a progamer should have a rival, in order to strengthen himself. I guess Yellow is my rival :)"
Thanks to pubbanana, WhatisProtoss, essare, miNi

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• KTF_YellOw
• [NC..]Yellow
• [NC]Yellow
• Yellow
• Hong
• Jin
• Ho
• Zerg
• Boxer
• Nada
• Starcraft
• Broodwar
• SC
• BW
• KTF
• Korea
• progamer

[agcompton]

I wish pro gamers in Europe, and America had that kinda fan base. Those guys are like the Jonas brothers in Korea. Girls drop vagina panties for them

[lawlatsociety57]

wow u sound like some racist fuck, u prolly culdnt beat my left nut at starcraft let alone the best to play this game aka the pros in the video. nd they arent chinese they r korean, nd no not from north korea, south, there u go now know to not stereotype, just like not all black ppl r from, africa and not all white ppl r english not all asians r from china or japan, some r even russian, hav a nice day jackass

[SomeAznBoi95]

They are not MLG. They are beyond MLG...called "Asians" like me xD

[ProviderMR]

Those freaks have fans like if they were rockstars, its weird...

[ROGERDERBY]

subs?

[TheWoWRevelation]

@agcompton wtfs a vagina pantie, where else do you wear panties lol, over your head? :PPPPPPPPP

[Scott97169]

@dontlikemb What would you say about progaming today with SC2?

[luckduck32167]

a legend retires

[malik1988]

@agcompton

cuz eu and na players suckk

[ObLiViOnZThEkIllEr]

@ColaFreak123456 Crt was superior to flat screens back in the days. CRT screens have 0 ms and 120 hz refresh rate.

[LANPENNER007]

@dardull

1up! 

[ColaFreak123456]

they got rly nice flatscreens lol