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When SPARKYZ Team-house Flooded Underwater

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jinjin5000
Profile Joined May 2010
United States1500 Posts
June 05 2020 00:05 GMT
#1
jinjin5000
Profile Joined May 2010
United States1500 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-06-05 00:11:29
June 05 2020 00:09 GMT
#2
Do note, hite SPARKYZ team was known as "Hellparkyz" nickname due to those conditions.

The whole Leta earning $100k was just smoke and mirrors to cover team's cracks and show to public they were well run team, while players really played under these conditions. (covered in different stories)

Coach signature now works for Jin Air green wings SC2/LoL team after coaching at SKT T1 and found very good success in esports coaching after being let go from SPARKYZ team from being too good at coaching and endangering positions of other sparkyz staff members. (and not being good at politics)
GTR
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
51589 Posts
June 05 2020 00:25 GMT
#3
Guess this confirms the manager (Lee Myung-geun) was a piece of shit person. Wouldn't surprise me at all if he was the one who enabled the team wide match fixing and was able to get away with it because of his ranking within the team hierarchy.
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Chris_Havoc
Profile Joined August 2016
United States600 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-06-05 00:53:42
June 05 2020 00:50 GMT
#4
On June 05 2020 09:25 GTR wrote:
Guess this confirms the manager (Lee Myung-geun) was a piece of shit person. Wouldn't surprise me at all if he was the one who enabled the team wide match fixing and was able to get away with it because of his ranking within the team hierarchy.


I always wondered if the reason why so many matchfixers came from SPARKYZ was out of vengeance for being mistreated by management.
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jinjin5000
Profile Joined May 2010
United States1500 Posts
June 05 2020 02:36 GMT
#5
On June 05 2020 09:50 Chris_Havoc wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 05 2020 09:25 GTR wrote:
Guess this confirms the manager (Lee Myung-geun) was a piece of shit person. Wouldn't surprise me at all if he was the one who enabled the team wide match fixing and was able to get away with it because of his ranking within the team hierarchy.


I always wondered if the reason why so many matchfixers came from SPARKYZ was out of vengeance for being mistreated by management.


because they had a very small wage budget but they all-in'd on leta
MinscandBoo
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
252 Posts
June 05 2020 04:43 GMT
#6
Thank you for posting this. I found it very sad, funny and entertaining all at the same time. I hope none of them had any lasting damage from that mold
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rainei
Profile Joined November 2009
Canada1316 Posts
June 05 2020 07:50 GMT
#7
Thanks for the translation! Was laughing along with the rest of the commenters!!
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Ziggy
Profile Blog Joined June 2013
South Korea2106 Posts
June 05 2020 07:57 GMT
#8
now imagine how cool it'd be to have teamhouses in the current streaming culture of sc
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LML
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
Germany1789 Posts
June 05 2020 10:15 GMT
#9
On June 05 2020 16:57 Ziggy wrote:
now imagine how cool it'd be to have teamhouses in the current streaming culture of sc


They have that for professional gamers in other games like LoL and CS:GO (even outside of Korea). But it doesn't make as much sense for BW I guess, as the best players are accustomed to living independently. Many even live with their girlfriend/wife/kids.
The average BW player is probably just too old to still find this as appealing imo.
LML
prosatan
Profile Joined September 2009
Romania8684 Posts
June 05 2020 11:08 GMT
#10
I like Tazza !
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Ej_
Profile Blog Joined January 2013
47656 Posts
June 05 2020 13:04 GMT
#11
On June 05 2020 19:15 LML wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 05 2020 16:57 Ziggy wrote:
now imagine how cool it'd be to have teamhouses in the current streaming culture of sc


They have that for professional gamers in other games like LoL and CS:GO (even outside of Korea). But it doesn't make as much sense for BW I guess, as the best players are accustomed to living independently. Many even live with their girlfriend/wife/kids.
The average BW player is probably just too old to still find this as appealing imo.

What do you mean? Do you not long for adolescent boys living together in sweatshops?
Imagine Larva governing a body of high school dropouts, telling them to play for 10h or they do the dishes.
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Dangermousecatdog
Profile Joined December 2010
United Kingdom7084 Posts
June 05 2020 13:31 GMT
#12
I'll never understand the nostalgia for KESPA teamhouses, now that we know how horrible they were, now that players can speak freely now. I'd rather the quality of bw drop than let another group of young children be exploited.
Heyoka
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Katowice25012 Posts
June 05 2020 13:59 GMT
#13
I think for me the nostalgia is because when I learned about them I was young and it was 2008 when imagining something like that where I grew up (USA) seemed totally impossible, and the news we got about them on TL was basically only the nice PR pics occasionally SKT or CJ would release of their nice communal area. Turns out though they were pretty awful and not at all something to admire!
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Hot_Bid
Profile Blog Joined October 2003
Braavos36399 Posts
June 09 2020 22:11 GMT
#14
this is insane lol

feels like a comedy sketch
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