EPTThe name Dreamteam came about when I met 'Elky' at the WCG event in the 2002. Elky certainly caught my eyes and many others with his orange hair and a pair of sunglasses he constantly wore.
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What mostly impressed me was of course how good he was at the game. Foreigners were not taken seriously by the Korean ProGamers at the time, but Elky was better than most of the Koreans in his prime.
At one time or another he was in the top 10 in the Korean rankings, which pretty much translates into top 10 in the world. His level of commitment, and his spirit of competition surpassed even most of the Korean ProGamers. He was a practice bug and that is what made him so good. His single-minded pursuit of glory is what got him stardom in the Korean e-sports industry.
Oh you know what, I think the very first time I met him was in 2001 at the KBK event in Korea, and when he came back for WCG I was very serious about adding him onto our team.
So you guys might wonder how we got the name DreamTeam, do you guys remember the time when the NBA players were allowed to participate in the Olympics? And we often referred to them as the Dreamteam? Well that's how I got the name.
Up to this point all of my attention went to Giom, but now it had to be divided up between two players and things got quite busy for me. As soon as Elky became an addition to our team, the 'DreamTeam' was born.
I quickly got him a sponsor with I-venture pc room franchise so things were rolling. Giom was with AMD and Elky was with I-venture, they were both under the name Dreamteam. People didn't understand this very well; it was a new concept at the time, because I was the only one who ran my team this way.
Under the name 'dream team' my players had different sponsors, at one time I had three different sponsors for five of my players and those years were the golden years for me. For other managers and teams those periods were tough, but for me it was quite the contrary. This is when I received the nick name 'sponsor king' by the community. This is when I also came up with the nickname SuperDanielMan, because I was feeling super all the time haha.
rest of his article here:
http://starfeeder.gameriot.com/blogs/Super-Daniel-Man/Part-2-The-AMD-DreamTeam
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