{"id":1777,"date":"2019-11-19T20:21:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T20:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/seoul-dynasty-retiring-ryujehong-jersey"},"modified":"2024-07-20T20:53:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T20:53:48","slug":"seoul-dynasty-retiring-ryujehong-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/overwatch\/seoul-dynasty-retiring-ryujehong-jersey","title":{"rendered":"Seoul Dynasty to retire Ryujehong\u2019s jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/overwatch\">Overwatch<\/a> announcement came during Jung Sorim&#8217;s interview with&nbsp;Ryujehong when Hur sent a personalized message to Ryu via Twitter and expressed all the appreciation and gratitude he has for the member and leader of the&nbsp;Seoul Dynasty team.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;For us, you are one of the founding members of Dynasty,&rdquo; said Hur. &ldquo;For you, because of the importance of what you&rsquo;ve done and what you&rsquo;ve contributed to our organization, I just wanted to let you know that no other person in the history of Seoul Dynasty will ever wear your jersey number again.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Hur also assured Ryujehong that an official ceremony would be taking place whenever&nbsp; Ryujehong does decide to retire to which Hur added is &ldquo;hopefully not for a very very long time.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div data-oembed-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/forRYU14\/status\/1196048788885917696\"><twitter-widget class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\" id=\"twitter-widget-0\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden; display: block; transform: rotate(0deg);\"><\/twitter-widget><\/p>\n<blockquote align=\"center\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-dnt=\"true\" data-twitter-extracted-i1574332092302439556=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"ko\">&#50616;&#51232;&#44032; &#51228;&#50745;&#51060; &#45208;&#51473;&#50640; &#51008;&#53748;&#47484;&#54616;&#44172;&#46104;&#47732;<br \/>\n&#44277;&#49885;&#51201;&#51004;&#47196; &#50689;&#44396;&#44208;&#48264;&#49885;&#44284; &#54632;&#44760; &#50689;&#44396;&#44208;&#48264;.. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/m2VwI29f9s\">pic.twitter.com\/m2VwI29f9s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; &#49296;&#53076;&#8321;&#8324; &sup1;&#8308; &#8321;&#8324; &sup1;&#8308; &#8321;&#8324; &sup1;&#8308; &#8321;&#8324; (@forRYU14) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/forRYU14\/status\/1196048788885917696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Ryujehong has been with the Seoul Dynasty since the team&rsquo;s first Overwatch&nbsp;League season which saw him quickly become a two-time&nbsp;Overwatch&nbsp;World Cup champion, as well as a key element of Team South Korea&rsquo;s victories in 2016 and 2017, solidifying his career in esports. During his 2018 season, Ryujehong has been a deadly support player with an average of 11.24 eliminations every 10 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Ryujehong is set to part ways with Seoul Dynasty at the conclusion of the 2019 season, according to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.invenglobal.com\/articles\/9707\/official-ryu-is-now-a-free-agent\" rel=\"nofollow\">Overwatch&nbsp;League&rsquo;s official website<\/a>. It&rsquo;s unsure of Dynasty will make any moves to retain Ryujehong following the end of his contract, which would explain the abrupt announcement from Hur during their interview.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of whoever Dynasty finds to fill the shoes that Ryujehong is leaving behind, none of them will be doing so with the number 14 on their jersey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Overwatch announcement came during Jung Sorim&#8217;s interview with&nbsp;Ryujehong when Hur sent a personalized message to Ryu via Twitter and expressed all the appreciation and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":543,"featured_media":1778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-overwatch"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - 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