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CJ Entus and Hite Sparkyz to merge

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DragonDefonce
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
United States790 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-12 05:33:55
October 12 2010 02:14 GMT
#1
CJ Entus and and Hite Sparkyz are to merge as the new team "Hite Entus"

CJ has received the operating rights to the Hite Sparkyz team from OnGameNet, a decision made in light of the rapidly approaching 2010~2011 Proleague season.

The OnGameNet Sparkyz's naming sponsorship deal with Hite (a Korean beer company) is still in effect, and thus the joined team will participate this season under the name "Hite Entus." All players on OGN Sparkyz's Brood War and Special Forces teams will continue their contracts under CJ.

Acting head coach Kim Dong Woo of CJ Entus has been appointed as the head coach, while Lee Jaehoon (ForU), Joo Jinchul (Starcraft_Side), and Jeon Taegyu (Zeus) have been named as coaches. Former Hite Sparkyz Coach Lee Myung Geun will work as an advisor to the team, focused on cultivating young talents (his allowance of suspected match-fixing players to play during the proleague season had come under fire).

The team will begin the merging process in earnest on the 13th.



Fomos interview with new head coach Kim Dong Woo
Source: FOMOS

Fomos: You've been officially named head coach after the merger.
KDW: We've been preparing for this for a while. The important thing is the merger, not the fact that I'm head coach. Sparkyz have a lot of great players, so I'm have big expectations this season. I hope to make the two teams coalesce well and lead them this season.

Fomos: The team has become stronger with the addition of solid starters like Shin Sang Moon (Leta) and Lee Gyung Min (Horang2).
KDW: I didn't think we had become particularly weaker because of Kim Jung Woo's (Effort) retirement. It was unfortunate to lose an ace card, but we still had a lot of good mid-tier players so I didn't consider it to be a big problem. But this merger with Sparkyz provides us with a lot of starters which is a big help at strengthening the team.

Fomos: Are the preparations for the merger going well?
KDW: It's important that there's good chemistry after the merger. That's what I'm focusing on the most. Right now the two team houses are in Pyeong Chang-dong and Yongsan, but we'll be living in the same place before the start of the season.

Fomos: How did the players react upon hearing the news?
KDW: I told the players yesterday night, and they were all quite surprised. They have good relationships with the Sparkyz players though, so their reaction was that there was no problem.

Fomos: The addition of Leta will probably be the biggest help.
KDW: Leta is a great player, and he also a nice guy who conducts himself well outside the game, so I'm excited about him joining. He works well coaches as well, so we think he'll do well on Hite Entus as well. Leta has a lot of friends as Entus, so we think he'll have no problem fitting in.

Fomos: This might make you entertain some lofty goals this season?
KDW: It's my first season as head coach, so I'm looking forward to it. But I don't want to get greedy this season, I just want to show a more developed Entus team. I want to lead the players to a result that isn't embarrassing.

Fomos: Your zerg line has been pointed out as the team's weakness.
KDW: It's not that our zergs are bad, people just say this because Jungwoo is no longer with the team. We have our TvT specialist Skyhigh, and Leta on board to strengthen the team. There's no such thing as a team that's good against all three races. We're a better team now, and I hope to get good results this season.


Original post by DragonDefonce
Link to fomos article

CJ just announced that their progaming team will merge with Hite's. This includes Starcraft and Special force team.

CJ will be the company running it, but it will be called the Hite Entus, for some contractual reasons apparently.


Personal thoughts: I am sad to see the number of teams decrease, but the new Entus might be a worthy challenger to KT and SK. If the next proleague does start, it should be very interesting.
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justiceknight
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
Singapore5741 Posts
October 12 2010 02:16 GMT
#2
ehhhhh???? so how many proteams left to play in the upcoming proleague?
lyAsakura
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States1414 Posts
October 12 2010 02:17 GMT
#3
Hite Entus is such a bad name.
WeMade FOX would be a deadly SC2 team.
jalstar
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
United States8198 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-12 02:20:00
October 12 2010 02:17 GMT
#4
Good, hite wasn't going anywhere and CJ needed an ace. Weak zerg lineup though, come back Effort!

On October 12 2010 11:17 whitelynx wrote:
Hite Entus is such a bad name.


I kind of like CJ Sparkyz myself. It didn't make sense for one company to own 2 teams in the first place.

On October 12 2010 11:14 DragonDefonce wrote:
Personal thoughts: I am sad to see the number of teams decrease, but the new Entus might be a worthy challenger to KT and SK. If the next proleague does start, it should be very interesting.


Leta/Effort/Snow/Skyhigh would have been a proleague-winning lineup. Without Effort, they'll make playoffs but not win.
Black Gun
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Germany4482 Posts
October 12 2010 02:17 GMT
#5
On October 12 2010 11:16 justiceknight wrote:
ehhhhh???? so how many proteams left to play in the upcoming proleague?

10

estro and hite disappeared as individual teams.

imho its no bad idea for cj to take over hite. this way they get leta, so they now have a terran that is competent in all 3 matchups and not just in tvt.
"What am I supposed to do against this?" - "Lose!" :-]
moopie
Profile Joined July 2009
12605 Posts
October 12 2010 02:19 GMT
#6
Yeah I wasn't looking forward to this. Down a team (possibly 2 counting eSTRO).
I'm going to sleep, let me get some of that carpet.
DragonDefonce
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
United States790 Posts
October 12 2010 02:21 GMT
#7
On October 12 2010 11:17 Black Gun wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 12 2010 11:16 justiceknight wrote:
ehhhhh???? so how many proteams left to play in the upcoming proleague?

10

estro and hite disappeared as individual teams.

imho its no bad idea for cj to take over hite. this way they get leta, so they now have a terran that is competent in all 3 matchups and not just in tvt.


They probably will end up dropping a lot of the weaker players though.... this trend of teams disappearing isn't looking good from what I can tell.
xxpack09
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States2160 Posts
October 12 2010 02:21 GMT
#8
woahhhhhhhhhhhhh

woahhhhhhhhhhhhh

CJ Sparkyz >>>>>>>>>>>>> Hite Entus as a name imo
stafu
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Australia1196 Posts
October 12 2010 02:21 GMT
#9
Hite Entus? Isn't that bad for CJ?

Should be a pretty strong group though, although would've been better if EffOrt never left. :x
vectorix108
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States4633 Posts
October 12 2010 02:24 GMT
#10
I would have expected them to merge with eSTRO, but w/e i'll take this.
They're still lacking a good zerg.... i Really dont think (Z)Hydra can get the work done...
Aka XephyR/Shaneyesss
bearbuddy
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
3442 Posts
October 12 2010 02:24 GMT
#11
Hite doesn't really bring much to the table in the merge. I would put last season's CJ entus over Hite Entus.
swanized
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
Canada2480 Posts
October 12 2010 02:24 GMT
#12
hite entus?

ROFL


less teams is not fun but now that's a pretty damn solid team
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Lightwip
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States5497 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-12 02:30:18
October 12 2010 02:27 GMT
#13
Hite was all but dead. This merge is IMO a very good thing.
Although I really don't like the name. Hite-CJ Entus would even be better.
Pretty much Leta is the replacement for Effort and Horang is an extra A class that could win.
If you are not Bisu, chances are I hate you.
hacklebeast
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States5090 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-12 02:35:41
October 12 2010 02:31 GMT
#14
On October 12 2010 11:21 xxpack09 wrote:
woahhhhhhhhhhhhh

woahhhhhhhhhhhhh

CJ Sparkyz >>>>>>>>>>>>> Hite Entus as a name imo

But if the name is CJ Sparkys then neither company gets their name advertised, and that kind of defeats the purpose of owning a team.

Entus -effort +leta -iris +horang2 will be interesting to watch. I think that if Snow continues to improve as he has been, and hydra can assert himself as an A class zerg, Entus could accualy come out in the black from all this.

I wonder if effort is regreting his desision, thinking about how he could have been playing with leta.

edit: in the comments on the fomos page the symbol 헐 appears a lot what does that mean? Google translate says "hull".
Protoss: Best, Paralyze, Jangbi, Nal_Ra || Terran: Oov, Boxer, Fantasy, Hiya|| Zerg: Yellow, Zero
everstarleague
Profile Joined December 2009
China89 Posts
October 12 2010 02:33 GMT
#15
even if the 12 teams merge into one team by one company, they can divide it to 12 groups, each group could have it own sponsor. Then ,the company fulfill what the kespa has down, don't worry.
im a roc
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States743 Posts
October 12 2010 02:33 GMT
#16
It's going to be hard to train myself not to call them CJ anymore, I don't think I've ever referred to them with Entus before >.<
Beware The Proxy Pool Rush
prototype.
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Canada4189 Posts
October 12 2010 02:35 GMT
#17
Interesting... Just as effort retires, leta comes into the picture.
( ・´ー・`)
xxpack09
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States2160 Posts
October 12 2010 02:36 GMT
#18
On October 12 2010 11:31 hacklebeast wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 12 2010 11:21 xxpack09 wrote:
woahhhhhhhhhhhhh

woahhhhhhhhhhhhh

CJ Sparkyz >>>>>>>>>>>>> Hite Entus as a name imo

But if the name is CJ Sparkys then neither company gets their name advertised, and that kind of defeats the purpose of owning a team.

Entus -effort +leta -iris +horang2 will be interesting to watch. I think that if Snow continues to improve as he has been, and hydra can assert himself as an A class zerg, Entus could accualy come out in the black from all this.

I wonder if effort is regreting his desision, thinking about how he could have been playing with leta.


I'm still QQing over effort's retirement to be honest

I'm definitely looking forward to seeing Leta and Skyhigh perfect TvT together ^_^
dRaW
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
Canada5744 Posts
October 12 2010 02:39 GMT
#19
Yeah CJ/HITE is a good mix, however, unfortunately they just lost effort =/ would've been amazing leta+effort
I don't need luck, luck is for noobs, good luck to you though
dcberkeley
Profile Joined July 2009
Canada844 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-12 02:39:34
October 12 2010 02:39 GMT
#20
Switching favorite team to KT.

Savior? Gone.
Coach Cho? Gone.
Effort? Gone.
Best name? Gone.
Moktira is da bomb
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