I totally called it

[Adventurer-16000863]

Gumiho announces turbulence with his SC2 career.

I predicted this on October 17th:

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The dominoes are already falling. The lowest level terran and zerg pros will be the first to fall because they will realize it’s impossible to compete with protoss on an equal skill basis, and, since they are the lower tier pros in skill, they will realize they can’t do it. So they will retire. Then protoss will be the most common race in tournaments and PvP will be the most common matchup. We’re already seeing this happen, with protoss winning 2x as many esl cups as zerg, and with PvP being 4x as common as ZvZ.

Protoss has destroyed SC2 esports and will continue doing so going into the future

I even predicted Gumiho by name, citing his struggle with protoss being the limiting factor in his ability to perform:

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https://i.imgur.com/NLHNL21.png

I predict Gumiho will be among the first to fall. Idra and Nerchio were ahead of the curve because they figured this out way sooner than anyone else. Why play a game that is rigged against you?

Hopefully the balance counsel treads carefully when deciding the final balance patch because if they over buff protoss and extend the balance issues from PvZ into PvT I predict it will be the end of SC2 esports. It’s going to be the Kespa scandal 2.0 if Protoss start to utterly dominate Premier tournaments like they do Grandmaster and ESL cups. Following the Kespa scandal, there was a mass exodus of Korean talent from the SC2 pro scene and a steep decline in tournament interest inside Korea. So, yeah, my advice is to be 100% certain that the new patch won’t make premier tournaments identical to Grandmaster and don’t make the patch final until you are 1000000% certain that won’t be the case.