![]() ![]() I don't think I ever appreciated his casting or his presence as much as it deserved, to be quite honest, and now he's gone.Įdited to add: remembrances from SC community figures are being compiled at the top of this Reddit thread ( continued here) and this thread on Team Liquid. 13K Share 342K views 3 years ago I take some time to remember my friend Geoff 'iNcontroL' Robinson, who tragically passed away. or in connection with a divorce or domestic relations order or decree. It really wasn't too long ago that Blizzard e-sports started to look like it was crumbling all around us, and Geoff was one of the steadying voices on programmes like the Pylon Show, reminding us all to cherish what we have and to do what is best for the scene. Under the 2017 Equity Incentive Plan, upon a change in control, the board of. Geoff had been a staple of TL since its earlier days of Brood War, and honestly this news truly came as a shock. I wasn't sure to post on which forum but I felt people had to know. I heard its from infection but idk for sure. J01:01 GMT 1 Geoff, known to everyone as iNcontroL has passed away due to sudden, unexpected illness and had the announcement just made today. As someone who is a SC and 40k fan I cant believe it. He was a natural comedian and raconteur, sometimes even in excess, and his voice will be dearly missed. I dont think God hate divorce as much as he hate using divorce for the wrong reasons. 2 03:16:23 Subject: Geoff 'iNcontroL' Robinson Has Passed Away Billagio Battlewagon Driver with Charged Engine Gallery Votes: 0 Posts: 1604 Joined: 0 02:59:25 Offline Filter Thread Direct Link This Post This is crazy. But I don't think anybody was quite prepared for him to pass so suddenly, particularly for health reasons-not something one expects for the biggest fitness freak on the scene. Amazing how well he held up, mentally and physically, under intense pressure and scrutiny year to year. and given it was near his femoral artery, I can't help but think it had to be related to that dvt issue in some way. Geoff had been having a rough go of it in recent years, between a very public divorce and a few miscreants in the fan base who were really quite vicious to him whenever his casting had an off-day, and he was one of those people that you could always tell was very sensitive to strangers picking fights with him on the Internet. he had a large infected abcess over his femoral artery less than a month ago, sounded like he had to have surgery and was on the mend, but i have to imagine there was some complications with that given his sudden passing. Geoff ‘iNcontroL’ Robinson, a former StarCraft 2 pro, a pro-gamer and Esports commentator, has died due to a sudden illness according to his official Twitter account. For some reason I'm thinking back to the time he played DDR on some oddball reality show once years before e-sports celebrity was even a thing. Geoff has been one of the faces of American StarCraft for as long as there has been a scene, going back to the fledgling WCG days of Brood War in the mid-2000s when it was a total grassroots effort outside of South Korea. ![]() This is a tremendous shock, especially to a community that just lost another one of its most passionate proponents with TotalBiscuit last year. ![]()
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