It looks like I'm good to return to full time SC2, and already I'm playing at least at the level I was before break (or damn close) so I'm extremely excited to see where this will go :D

That said I'm also returning to casting, streaming, and coaching. Past students will still retain their original hourly rate that they started taking lessons from me with, as always (so if you started when I charged 15 an hour that's what your rate is now).

Youtube vods will be uploaded 5-6 days a week, if not a cast then there will be a vod of my latest streaming.

Streaming will be irregular for the time being until I have a chance to see where I can squeeze it into my schedule, it's going to have to take backseat to my improvement as a player (previously I made it too high of a priority and unfortunately I don't learn as much when streaming as I do when I'm able to dedicate 100% of my attention to my gameplay).

Both my youtube channel and stream can be accessed from the links on this site, or at http://www.youtube.com/user/Rekatan and http://www.twitch.tv/rekatan

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Another quick update. The recovery is going well, but slow. The doc told me it would be rough, and that I'd wake up every morning feeling like I'd been punched really hard in the face lol. He wasn't kidding.

I also managed to catch a cold somehow, so that's unfortunate - recovering from a surgery on your nose while fighting a cold is tricky for sure.

Have had one followup appointment thus far and the doc says everything is going well but that he never wants to work on my septum again lol, apparently one of the more difficult surgeries he's had. This also means that the recovery is going to be longer than expected, due to how much bone he had to take off and how heavily deviated the septum was, I should expect a total of 3 weeks before I'm anything close to recovered. Yuck!!!

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My doctors and I have gotten to the bottom of things, and I just came out of surgery yesterday. There's a bit more testing to be done and a long recovery process from the surgery, but after all's said and done I should be able to return to competitive SC2 a month - 2 months from now.

I've been getting a ton of questions about what happened - it's been such a long ride it's hard to explain it all every time so I'm instead going to release a youtube video when I return giving a nice brief explanation so that no one speculates ^^

In the meantime though, thanks for all the emails of support, I look forward to being back to it soon!

For the time being I am not accepting any new students as I make some changes and take a short break from the competitive side of SC2. In light of this I need to put coaching on hold until I'm able to maintain a respectable SC2 rank, and can commit the time necessary to maintaining my understanding of the metagame (a necessity for any coach IMO).

Rest assured I will be returning to coaching shortly, however it will be in a part time capacity, which my hope is, will allow me to enjoy it that much more, without the financial pressures of it being my sole source of income.

See you soon guys! :D

Nasreth wrote an excellent guide on zerg scouting! Check it out @ http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/3279044736?page=1

After some discussion with my new team (DM) I've decided to go to MLG Orlando!

Pass is bought and paid for, and I'm now just grinding out the ladder to be as prepared as possible when I arrive! My goal *was* grandmaster but promoting into GM is so dodgy I've decided that top 50 Master is good enough (attempting to get all 3 of my NA accounts into top 50 haha, or at least top 100).

Aaaaanyways, that being said. Who else is going?! <3

In the SC2 General Discussion someone's decided to have a little coach's version of the Emmy's it seems, and I was nominated (thanks Shenanigans!) for most efficient coach.

If you'd like to show your support head over to http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/3074647511

Due to creative differences and a desire to retain my independence, I've decided to leave pT.

That said my stream is moving back to the original location http://www.justin.tv/rekatan

I will still be streaming the same hours, and hosting many of the same events for the community (though out of respect for pT, on CPN will be on different days, with a different name - to be determined).

In the long run this will if anything improve the quality of my stream and my coaching, so don't worry guys, this is a good change ^_^

It's been a while since the last update, so let me get everyone up to speed. Evolution Gaming has dissolved (on that note if anyone wants an EVO shirt let me know, I've got a bunch of em and nowhere for them to go LOL).

I was planning on going team-free for quite a while until I was contacted by Brian from pT Gaming - a well established console gaming sponsor who is now looking to move into SC2. After comparing goals for a while it looks like we line up very well, and as such I've decided to join and captain their SC2 division. In the short term this means only a few small things - my stream has moved to http://www.twitchtv.com/puretalentgamingpt (it's identical to justintv you can even use your justin login information). Also I'll now be using the pT tag which means I have to use my new account since my old one didn't have a name change, that said RekatanpT.842 is the account to add now to get in touch with me. Lastly I think this now officially means I'm working for "the man" sorry guys, no more anti-establishment for me! Rekatan action figures will be out within the month, with "Rekatan on Ice" coming shortly thereafter. It will be good! I promise!

Long term this has the potential to mean BIG things for my SC2 career, and while I can't go into too many details such as sponsors and what not quite yet, suffice to say I've done my homework on pT gaming and they are legit, and definitely will be able to make things happen down the road.

Two big announcements, one won't be any surprise at all, the other probably will be a huge surprise.

The first one is of course in 2 weeks i'll be playing in MLG Columbus =D My goal is to get one more round in the open bracket and one more round in the loser's bracket - so 3rd round open bracket and 7th round loser's bracket. This would earn me my first ever MLG points, and I just barely missed it at Dallas despite the hard matchups! =D

So now the second announcement... I've decided to begin taking lessons from FXOSheth! My ZvZ has hit a pretty huge ceiling and so I've decided to look up a great player (and from what I can grasp thus far, a great coach as well!) to help me overcome that. I will be streaming these lessons and also posting them on my youtube channel so that everyone else can benefit from this as well. More details to come when we've sorted them out - probably looking like we'll start the first week after Columbus, and be doing one hour every two weeks to a month depending on how my budget is looking.