I'm always glad to see someone join Root Gaming. I guess with Root having both Sc2 & Dota they wanted someone to dominate all other Blizzard games/do charity stuff. He seems more of a personality pick up which is cool having all those world first acheivements is a lot of bragging rights.

Sup Dood welcome to Root Gaming and Best of Luck Athene!

imre

France9263 Posts

July 18 2012 15:24 GMT

#51

On July 19 2012 00:07 GaiusBaltar wrote:

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They also have more players in the WCS NA Finals than Liquid and EG combined. Oh snap.

Mill has more player at the WCS EU Finals than root, oh wait Liquid only had 2players participating in the WCS US.
Gl to both Root and Athene, bringing new fans to the scene is never a bad thing

Torte de Lini

Germany38463 Posts

July 18 2012 15:28 GMT

#52

Hot damn! What a move!

babybell

776 Posts

July 18 2012 15:30 GMT

#53

On July 18 2012 23:56 VelJa wrote:
hey guys
i'm pretty sure that Athene create a Protoss-smurf account GM with 0 loss and 20 more wins at the beginning of the game.
Using always 4G no matter matchup / maps :D

Isn't it ?

PS : He is a coach in RAZER house too i believe.

I believe it was Kiwikaki on his account.
And he didn't 4gate. He was just a pro tearing his way into high masters. About 50 games if I recall correctly with a 90+% winrate. You can check a couple on Husky's youtube page.

saltessio

United States15 Posts

July 18 2012 15:30 GMT

#54

Maybe he's going to be giving them tips, just for free.

Teodice

Sweden641 Posts

July 18 2012 15:30 GMT

#55

For promotional purposes grats

. I wonder thou if ROOT is the right place for Athene!

Well done, hope it all works out!

Spec

Taiwan931 Posts

July 18 2012 15:31 GMT

#56

I wonder if ROOT was the first team thought of picking him up.

pwnopotamus

United States70 Posts

July 18 2012 15:34 GMT

#57

Someone should tell Athene that his "good friend" CatZ pronounces his name "cats", not "cat zee".

ejozl

Denmark3327 Posts

July 18 2012 15:35 GMT

#58

This is like some subliminal way of saying Kiwikaki is back baby!

OT:
This brings a lot of attention to Root and maybe to the Starcraft 2 scene. Athene is one of the biggest figures in e-sports, i wonder if this means he will be playing though.
Next invite will be Husky? :D

decerto

244 Posts

July 18 2012 15:35 GMT

#59

On July 19 2012 00:35 ejozl wrote:
This is like some subliminal way of saying Kiwikaki is back baby!

OT:
This brings a lot of attention to Root and maybe to the Starcraft 2 scene. Athene is one of the biggest figures in e-sports, i wonder if this means he will be playing though.
Next invite will be Husky? :D

What I originally thought too

GreEny K

Germany7312 Posts

July 18 2012 15:36 GMT

#60

On July 18 2012 23:44 Mattchew wrote:
I don't see what this does for Athene or ROOT but they are pretty smart doodz

Are you kidding? Athene raised over a million dollars for charity, if that doesn't help attract sponsors or at least scream determination or motivation, then I don't know what does.