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Tom Cruise
Profile Joined July 2012
Denmark482 Posts
July 18 2012 18:13 GMT
#121
So much hate in here, holy shit.
Air4013
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States89 Posts
July 18 2012 18:13 GMT
#122
On July 19 2012 01:40 Hypemeup wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 19 2012 01:26 Assirra wrote:
On July 19 2012 01:22 Marou wrote:
ok seriously on the list of achievements which one are true ?


Big wow gladiator paladin true
power lvl'ing true
giving 1 million to charity true

4ai thing, not sure but heard something about it.


He was never "good" in WoW, he played a Holy paladin in TBC which was about the most braindead thing you could ever do, you had what, 6 spells to use? Plus he got his R1 from 5v5 being carried by Hydra.

And 4ai is not really hard either -_-


Haters gonna hate

User was temp banned for this post.
Rad
Profile Joined May 2010
United States935 Posts
July 18 2012 18:20 GMT
#123
Interesting. I wonder what's in it for Athene? I'm looking forward to where this goes... hope it benefits ROOT's sc2 side of things.
Torenhire
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States11681 Posts
July 18 2012 18:30 GMT
#124
On July 19 2012 02:57 Sc2ttyl wrote:
If it was posted in starcraft 2 general on purpose i would figure it to be so. The fact mods moved it could symbolize that they know more about this than we do and that it is indeed not related to starcraft. Good post bro, iam real proud of you (ps i am mad so please ask me).


My point and reply was based on the fact that you said "Starcraft Website". Sure it was in the wrong section but TL isn't a Starcraft only website.

Your post didn't say anything about it being posted in the wrong section. Plus it was in Sports & Games by the time you posted here.
SirJolt: Well maybe if you weren't so big and stupid, it wouldn't have hit you.
Farad
Profile Joined November 2010
216 Posts
July 18 2012 19:14 GMT
#125
They have hired a pro WoW player? I thought WoW as an e-sport was kinda dead :/

Greatest gamer of what game?

I'm confused
Jaaaaasper
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
United States10225 Posts
July 18 2012 19:17 GMT
#126
I'm not sure why they are doing this, but it has to be marketing of some kind, because athene is really popular.
Hey do you want to hear a joke? Chinese production value. | I thought he had a aegis- Ayesee | When did 7ing mad last have a good game, 2012?
Mondieu
Profile Joined November 2011
Romania803 Posts
July 18 2012 19:44 GMT
#127
On July 19 2012 04:14 Farad wrote:
They have hired a pro WoW player? I thought WoW as an e-sport was kinda dead :/

Greatest gamer of what game?

I'm confused



Greater gamer of all the games. Athene proved again and again that he can make or break a game. He slaughtered every game he played, be it LoL / Sc2/ wow/diablo 3. You might say these are all easy feats, but truly it's not. His smart use of game mechanics made it possible for him to afterwards raise over 1million $ for charity in the name of gaming.

Some still call him the leetking even, but I wouldn't go that far He also has a very funny series on youtube that later got banned from the 'most viewed' lists because it didn't share youtube's policies [at least the very first 10 vids we funny as hell 4 years ago ]

Go athene, can't wait to see you find new ways of owning dem nerds :-)
DarkPlasmaBall
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States45175 Posts
July 18 2012 20:05 GMT
#128
Athene being hailed as the best gamer, when he's consistently being handed the best gear on a silver platter by his cult following? (I don't know if it was like that in WoW, but that's exactly how he progressed in D3 so quickly, as opposed to players like Kripp who played the game on their own or with their own teams.) Hard to support a player like Athene in that manner as being legitimate, despite the large amount of respect I have for Root in general.
"There is nothing more satisfying than looking at a crowd of people and helping them get what I love." ~Day[9] Daily #100
Crownlol
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
United States3726 Posts
July 18 2012 20:11 GMT
#129
Has he been secretly laddering or something and is joining the SC2 squad?

Cuz that'd be pretty cool, Athene's a beast. Either way, cool pickup
shaGuar :: elemeNt :: XeqtR :: naikon :: method
turdburgler
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
England6749 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-07-18 20:25:23
July 18 2012 20:24 GMT
#130
On July 19 2012 05:05 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
Athene being hailed as the best gamer, when he's consistently being handed the best gear on a silver platter by his cult following? (I don't know if it was like that in WoW, but that's exactly how he progressed in D3 so quickly, as opposed to players like Kripp who played the game on their own or with their own teams.) Hard to support a player like Athene in that manner as being legitimate, despite the large amount of respect I have for Root in general.



thats part of the joke, apparently its funny for the 10th time in a row where he gets boosted to some high-ish position, then promptly proclaims himself the best in the world at said random game.

then when people who find him annoying vent their frustration that their game is now infested with the athene virus all his idiot followers all spam LOLOL WE TROL U. then he moves on to the next game.

i wonder how much he pays jeremy for stealing his act, at least that guy had class though.
BrTarolg
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United Kingdom3574 Posts
July 18 2012 20:49 GMT
#131
Athene is an absolute hero

Not for his funny antics

But he frickin raise ONE MILLION for charity. Do you know what kind of monumental feat that is? That alone transcends to one of the greatest moments in esports ever
Kyuki
Profile Joined February 2008
Sweden1867 Posts
July 18 2012 21:05 GMT
#132
Yes honestly, people can say what they want but not many can raise 1mil (or even try for that matter) for kids. Enjoy the act and relax. Don't take shit too seriously. He's a decent gamer with a pro marketing mind. ROOT will deffo ride that train, and I think this is really good for them.

More money into e-sports plX
Mada Mada Dane
TBone-
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States2309 Posts
July 18 2012 21:11 GMT
#133
It makes a lot of sense for them to pick up Athene. He's insanely popular, as is most of root. They already have some controversial players, so thats not a big deal, and theres a ton of cross promotion they can do. Overall very smart pickup on ROOTS end :D
Eve online FC, lover of all competition
JerKy
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Korea (South)3013 Posts
July 18 2012 21:19 GMT
#134
Nice, congrats on the pick up~
You can type "StarCraft" with just your left hand.
marttorn
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Norway5211 Posts
July 18 2012 21:37 GMT
#135
He's pretty funny in some of his videos, and his charity work is really good. Some of his D3 stuff is annoying from the perspective of someone who doesn't have tens of millions of gold handed to them every day, but nevertheless I support him and root overall.
memes are a dish best served dank
Beorn1
Profile Joined April 2011
United States27 Posts
July 18 2012 22:01 GMT
#136
Hard to support ROOT when they have this fool on their roster.
AsymptoticClimax
Profile Joined May 2012
United Kingdom249 Posts
July 18 2012 22:29 GMT
#137
ugh.. people need to realize that ROOT isn't pure SC2 anymore even though it was at the beginning, i believe they have a DOTA2 team and who knows what else.
i wish my motherboard would find a fatherboard so i could have anotherboard
VPCursed
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
1044 Posts
July 18 2012 22:53 GMT
#138
root is deff expanding their "roots" pun absolutely intended here.. which will help them attract more sponsors and hopefully able to get a strong competitive roster in e-sports... pretty well done I must say.
GeeseHoward
Profile Joined November 2010
United States78 Posts
July 18 2012 22:55 GMT
#139
On July 19 2012 07:01 Beorn1 wrote:
Hard to support ROOT when they have this fool on their roster.

Yeah, I'm pretty sad to see this happen but I think ROOT trying to be in multiple games now and I guess he'll just be a billboard/host character for their team. I don't see him actually being competitive in any games.

But then I could be completely wrong, I did think Fruitdealer was here to stay
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dAPhREAk
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Nauru12397 Posts
July 18 2012 23:02 GMT
#140
On July 19 2012 04:44 Mondieu wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 19 2012 04:14 Farad wrote:
They have hired a pro WoW player? I thought WoW as an e-sport was kinda dead :/

Greatest gamer of what game?

I'm confused



Greater gamer of all the games. Athene proved again and again that he can make or break a game. He slaughtered every game he played, be it LoL / Sc2/ wow/diablo 3. You might say these are all easy feats, but truly it's not. His smart use of game mechanics made it possible for him to afterwards raise over 1million $ for charity in the name of gaming.

Some still call him the leetking even, but I wouldn't go that far He also has a very funny series on youtube that later got banned from the 'most viewed' lists because it didn't share youtube's policies [at least the very first 10 vids we funny as hell 4 years ago ]

Go athene, can't wait to see you find new ways of owning dem nerds :-)

athene played sc2?
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