Thorzain no longer full-time, goes back to school

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EG's Terran Marcus "Thorzain" Eklöf announced via his personal blog that he will be playing StarCraft only part-time starting this autumn. "My motivation has swindled and I feel that I still want to keep playing, but not put all my eggs in the Starcraft 2 basket so to speak," writes the Swede who will be going back to school. 

The 2012 DreamHack Stockholm champion Thorzain will be dropping professional gaming as a full-time career after having unconvincing results in 2013. Mostly known for this particular victory as well as his gold medal at TSL 3 and The GD Invitational and top four finishes at NASL 2 and IPL 2, Thorzain is still looking forward to representing Evil Geniuses at future events he might be attending. 

A translation on part of his blog post reads:

"I'm 22 years old now and I've told myself and others for a long time that I don't want to keep doing e-sports full time for too long, because according to me it doesn't provide you with a very secure or bright future, especially not if you've 'only' been a progamer. I've applied for university every year since I finished high school but always turned it down because I wanted to keep being a progamer. My motivation has swindled and I feel that I still want to keep playing, but not put all my eggs in the Starcraft 2 basket so to speak. I played more Starcraft and improved my play much faster when Starcraft was a hobby and not a job. Now I've decided to accept my university invitation and will be studying at Linköping's med school program starting this autumn and 5½ years forward, while I keep playing Starcraft on the side as much as I can. It won't be easy and I'll probably devote almost all my time to studying and playing Starcraft, and not much else. I've spoken with EG and will still be representing them in the future."

Thorzain's entire blog post can be read here.