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Naniwa joins Dignitas - Page 7

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StutteR
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States1903 Posts
January 21 2011 03:07 GMT
#121
I dunno if I would put Huk as number 1. He's doing awesome in ladder but he has yet to put up any real results this year.
`~` | effOrt Movie sKyHigh forever & SEn
frequency
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Australia1901 Posts
January 21 2011 03:26 GMT
#122
On January 21 2011 10:43 dtz wrote:
Well, according to Diestar, Empire is "not enough professional"

I'm not sure if this means the management is bad or it means that they does not have enough money to send the players to lans and give them "professional salary"

KInda sad though , they had a very strong roster but are getting picked apart by teams with bigger budget it seems. Empire also picked up Naniwa immediately after he was dropped from MYM so they deserve a little credit.

Nani's performace has been beastly though. Probably will see him trying for GSL or MLG sooner or later.


And according to Nani himself, Empire is very professional, it's just that Kas only ever laddered (what a shock) so he couldn't get really good practice in.

Also, Nani was teamless for like a month after MYM, then joined Power Gaming for a while then joined Empire.
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Raysalis
Profile Joined July 2010
Malaysia1034 Posts
January 21 2011 03:37 GMT
#123
Glad to see Naniwa finally joining one of the bigger established team. Hopefully now he would get to enter some of the bigger "LAN" tournament around the world (Hint:GSL). Very impress with his recent play and would like to see him do well.

Now if Dignitas add a world class Zerg player, they would be a beast (No disrespect to Apollo and Killer)

:)
AllTheWay
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States50 Posts
January 21 2011 04:53 GMT
#124
On January 21 2011 06:14 unsaintly wrote:
hes hopping clans like a madman.


He was on MyM and what else?
IdrA, Nada, Tassadar
chaosdarkprince
Profile Joined November 2010
Ecuador52 Posts
January 21 2011 05:22 GMT
#125
I just think people should stop critizicing him. Well yeah, he was really bm back in his younger days, but now -if you read the interviews- he is a lot more mature, understands how bad he was and has the rightfull feeling of not dissapointing his fans anymore by giving everything he got.
He is trying to upgrade (redeem) himself, so people should stop attacking and start supporting instead.
Naniwa fighting!
Khas Naradahk!!
tadL
Profile Joined September 2010
Croatia679 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-21 05:27:34
January 21 2011 05:23 GMT
#126
His ESL Log

optimistic view: 3 Months till he get kicked. But anyway, a good player finds always a team that is willing to pay a guy even if he is like nani. Dont think he will ever change. I am a little concerned cause ofc you didnt follow him in wc3. So i am ofc surprised how many positiv comments he get on tl.
Redmark
Profile Joined March 2010
Canada2129 Posts
January 21 2011 05:28 GMT
#127
On January 21 2011 12:07 StutteR wrote:
I dunno if I would put Huk as number 1. He's doing awesome in ladder but he has yet to put up any real results this year.

He hasn't really played in much, has he?
ptbl
Profile Joined January 2011
United States6074 Posts
January 21 2011 05:30 GMT
#128
On January 21 2011 14:28 Redmark wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 21 2011 12:07 StutteR wrote:
I dunno if I would put Huk as number 1. He's doing awesome in ladder but he has yet to put up any real results this year.

He hasn't really played in much, has he?


If you didn't know, Huk is in Korea. In order to participate in the GSL code A tournaments, he has to go through qualifiers, which will be in February.
Don't mind me
7pool
Profile Joined October 2010
Sweden103 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-21 05:55:11
January 21 2011 05:53 GMT
#129
On January 21 2011 06:15 hellsan631 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 21 2011 06:07 busbarn wrote:
Naniwa left Empire and is confirmed to be joining dignitas.
This makes team dignitas look scary good, probably one of the best foreign teams now.


Minus Liquid (Every member?), or Root (Catz, Mini, Kiwi, QXC, Drew), or EG(Machine, Inka, Incontrol, LZ), or Mouz(Morrow, Strelock, Mana, Hasu, Naama), or Fnatic(Kiwi, TT1, Fenix, Gretorp. Sen, Lucifrion)



Yeah, Those teams are way better than Dignitas. SeleCT is probably the best in that team. Nani needs to learn to play on more than one base. People saying they should send nani to Korea makes me laugh. Nani would just be a worse version of ChoyafOu.
"The reason there's no zergs on the server is cuz fags like you do builds like this." - IdrA
.MadHaT
Profile Joined November 2010
Canada76 Posts
January 21 2011 06:24 GMT
#130
I think with the Nani addition Dignitas is unarguably improving their roster but they'll need to bolster their Zerg players to a higher level to be called a top well rounded foreigner team, and SeleCT has been rather quiet as of late. Sjow is probably their top right now, questionably? Having some solid practice partners should put Naniwa near the upper echelon of European Protoss players (Hasu, WhiteRa, Socke ?), but not quiet there yet.
"That's just the man trying to get you to buy Bananas" - Artosis
uSnAmplified
Profile Joined October 2010
United States1029 Posts
January 21 2011 06:26 GMT
#131
This guy really receives a lot of baseless hate considering how much he has improved as a person and a player, best of luck to him.
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frequency
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Australia1901 Posts
January 21 2011 06:40 GMT
#132
On January 21 2011 14:53 7pool wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 21 2011 06:15 hellsan631 wrote:
On January 21 2011 06:07 busbarn wrote:
Naniwa left Empire and is confirmed to be joining dignitas.
This makes team dignitas look scary good, probably one of the best foreign teams now.


Minus Liquid (Every member?), or Root (Catz, Mini, Kiwi, QXC, Drew), or EG(Machine, Inka, Incontrol, LZ), or Mouz(Morrow, Strelock, Mana, Hasu, Naama), or Fnatic(Kiwi, TT1, Fenix, Gretorp. Sen, Lucifrion)



Yeah, Those teams are way better than Dignitas. SeleCT is probably the best in that team. Nani needs to learn to play on more than one base. People saying they should send nani to Korea makes me laugh. Nani would just be a worse version of ChoyafOu.


The stupidity in that comment really annoys me. If you don't watch his games, don't bother commenting on his play.
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Drake
Profile Joined October 2010
Germany6146 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-21 07:18:54
January 21 2011 07:17 GMT
#133
On January 21 2011 06:15 hellsan631 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 21 2011 06:07 busbarn wrote:
Naniwa left Empire and is confirmed to be joining dignitas.
This makes team dignitas look scary good, probably one of the best foreign teams now.


Minus Liquid (Every member?), or Root (Catz, Mini, Kiwi, QXC, Drew), or EG(Machine, Inka, Incontrol, LZ), or Mouz(Morrow, Strelock, Mana, Hasu, Naama), or Fnatic(Kiwi, TT1, Fenix, Gretorp. Sen, Lucifrion)



did u rly miss Idra and Tastless in EG ?

nani is strong, but not as good to go to korea when i see him 1-4 vs white-ra that hard
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Euronyme
Profile Joined August 2010
Sweden3804 Posts
January 21 2011 07:52 GMT
#134
On January 21 2011 16:17 CoR wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 21 2011 06:15 hellsan631 wrote:
On January 21 2011 06:07 busbarn wrote:
Naniwa left Empire and is confirmed to be joining dignitas.
This makes team dignitas look scary good, probably one of the best foreign teams now.


Minus Liquid (Every member?), or Root (Catz, Mini, Kiwi, QXC, Drew), or EG(Machine, Inka, Incontrol, LZ), or Mouz(Morrow, Strelock, Mana, Hasu, Naama), or Fnatic(Kiwi, TT1, Fenix, Gretorp. Sen, Lucifrion)



did u rly miss Idra and Tastless in EG ?

nani is strong, but not as good to go to korea when i see him 1-4 vs white-ra that hard


Tasteless isn't a player.. he's a commentator. He does logistics for EG. I'm pretty sure nani is better than him I suppose you might've meant machine or incontrol though.
You go to Korea because you have time and money to learn, not because you already own. You need some basic skill, sure, but whoever you end up sending there will end up learning so much that when he comes back, he'll go all Mr. Andersson (See what I did there? ) on everyone and just hulk smash.
I bet i can maı̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̸̨̨̨̨̨̨ke you wipe your screen.
dahornnn
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United Kingdom395 Posts
January 21 2011 07:56 GMT
#135
GL to dig, for his sake i hope he doesnt have a childish outburst because odee will royally destroy him. x]
Vanimar
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
220 Posts
January 21 2011 08:38 GMT
#136
On January 21 2011 06:09 SmoKim wrote:
Naniwa changing team for the 6 time

so what else is new ^^ ?


For some reason I really disagree with comments like this. People change Team for their own reasons, and even if they MAY sound like not reasons at all, it still is the player who has to be satisfied. I guess in generel, you should just always wish best of luck with the new team and remaining friendly relations to the old one. Othen then that It's really players' business.

For me, I personally hope, he will find what he has been looking for and Dignitas and that maybe we get to see even more of him in the Future.
Best of Luck
I figured out the EG Curse. It was set in motion by Voodoo Shamans working for Millenium. Whenever EG aquires a player, Voodoo energies start slowly draining skill from the EG guy into an Millenium newcomer. Think about it!
[F_]aths
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Germany3947 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-21 08:53:12
January 21 2011 08:47 GMT
#137
On January 21 2011 06:24 ptbl wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 21 2011 06:15 hellsan631 wrote:
On January 21 2011 06:07 busbarn wrote:
Naniwa left Empire and is confirmed to be joining dignitas.
This makes team dignitas look scary good, probably one of the best foreign teams now.


Minus Liquid (Every member?), or Root (Catz, Mini, Kiwi, QXC, Drew), or EG(Machine, Inka, Incontrol, LZ), or Mouz(Morrow, Strelock, Mana, Hasu, Naama), or Fnatic(Kiwi, TT1, Fenix, Gretorp. Sen, Lucifrion)



You forgot Idra. He's in EG
Idra is BM, but with style.

Idra is also not clan-hopping.


On January 21 2011 06:51 mdma-_- wrote:
[...], but Bischu, merz and killer arent notable?
Bischu beat Darkforce 2:1 in Take's first homestory cup. But I don't remember him on a good place on a big tournament.


On January 21 2011 06:53 Dionyseus wrote:
Who's the other top 2 protoss in EU?
White-Ra should be Europe's number 1 protoss.
You don't choose to play zerg. The zerg choose you.
Jimmy Raynor
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
902 Posts
January 21 2011 08:57 GMT
#138
Good for him, at the moment he may be the second best protoss in EU after White-Ra (also I wonder why isn't white-ra still signed by one of the top teams after he is no longer in mouz?)
netherDrake
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Singapore1831 Posts
January 21 2011 09:06 GMT
#139
On January 21 2011 14:53 7pool wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 21 2011 06:15 hellsan631 wrote:
On January 21 2011 06:07 busbarn wrote:
Naniwa left Empire and is confirmed to be joining dignitas.
This makes team dignitas look scary good, probably one of the best foreign teams now.


Minus Liquid (Every member?), or Root (Catz, Mini, Kiwi, QXC, Drew), or EG(Machine, Inka, Incontrol, LZ), or Mouz(Morrow, Strelock, Mana, Hasu, Naama), or Fnatic(Kiwi, TT1, Fenix, Gretorp. Sen, Lucifrion)



Yeah, Those teams are way better than Dignitas. SeleCT is probably the best in that team. Nani needs to learn to play on more than one base. People saying they should send nani to Korea makes me laugh. Nani would just be a worse version of ChoyafOu.


I think the dignitas lineup isn't too far from mouz/Fnatic/ROOT and slightly stronger than EG.

Without Idra and Demuslim the dignitas lineup would be much stronger (based on results) and the rest are probably about EG's standard.

No offence to EG, but only Idra and Demuslim have results to back them up.
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Shockk
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Germany2269 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-21 09:31:42
January 21 2011 09:30 GMT
#140
I just read the interview on the Dignitas page.

While I apreciate Naniwa trying to be less BM and working on his attitude, he shouldn't act as if his despicable behaviour is a thing of his distant War3 past four or five years ago. He's been an arrogant prick to tournament players and he's flamed and trash-talked in games as recently as last year.

If the issue with dropping out of the ESL and losing his appartment in Germany finally got him to think things over, alright. It's just sad that he manages to screw things up over and over again and always gets another chance, while other players with similar skill but more mature personality may not.
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