Just like Europe and just like in the Americas, Asia too does recognize the "April Fools" holiday. And boy, those Asians can be some cruel people when it comes to jokes. FighterForum pulled off ten jokes yesterday alone. YGClan.Com pulled a fast one on a few people and even than the eNature Top professional team go involved into the mix. There was just so many jokes moving around the community, it certainly made April 1st, 2006 a memorable one.
Canadian Progamer
To start it all off we at GosuGamers.Net fooled a couple of gamers around the world on this years April Fools. » Here is a news created by us editors at GosuGamers. This article is referring to the Canadian gamer, ToT)Testie(rS joining the progaming Korean team SK Telecom T1. The news had a very well "faked" interview of Testie, and overall the community at first found it very believable.
The main reason why this would have never worked, or have been real, is due to the fact that Nick "Testie" Perentesis, previously stated that his a very happy man at the moment, and he would never leave his new found love.
FiFo is a Bunch of Jokers
FighterForum.Com is a Korean website that has every news possible about the progaming scene and everything involved with it, inside and out. So usually when you would see a news posted by them you would think it to be very credible. Well, they pulled some fast, yet funny, jokes on the Korean community on April 1st.
Iloveoov going Zerg WarCraft based news XellOs left HQ and went missing WeRRa switching from WarCraft to StarCraft. Where he would than play with a joystick. TosSGirl will be casted in a Korean drama show. A married progamer would be having a baby in a month or so. The KOR twins, where not actually, twins. JulyZerg drastically lost weight. A progaming manager left his team to go direct movies. Nal_Rock will quit Pantech and Curitel Curriors, and than become a rapper. KTF gamers will be wearing a 20kg uniform, which they just released. |
YGClan.Com Shuts Down!
YGClan.Com is a well known team as well as a well known source for great watchable up to date replays. But, yesterday, they announced that they would forever shut down due to overflow of traffic in their download section. Meaning people are downloading to many replays and their host will shut them down. A very cruel joke if you wanted to ask me. » Here is a look at the original topic over at TeamLiquid.Net about the closing.
eNature Foreign Proteam
1tym decided to fool a couple of people by stating that eNature Top professional team will start inviting "worthy" foreign gamers into their team. It made since seeing how eNature has been in a slump, but why foreigners? A lot of people got the joke right away, but still the news could have been real. Liquid`Nazgul asked to see a source for the news, and when the author could not come up with one, a lot realized, April Fools. » Here is where the "news" was posted, at TeamLiquid.Net.
There probably were a million other April Fools jokes out there, but no one can find them all, truly. But, there is one thing that is certain, we all fell for at least one this year on this most unforgettable April 1st ever.