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On January 14 2017 06:31 karazax wrote:Team 8 moves on without Chu8Chu8 has chosen to leave the team. As a result, Chu8 has been disqualified from the HGC for the remainder of 2017 and will not be playing with Team 8 in the first phase of HGC. Prismaticism will join the remaining members of Team 8. Chu8's comments: Show nested quote +There is no juicy drama here, boys.
But here's what happened in a nutshell.
I made sure to let everyone know that I want this team to take more of a casual approach to the tournament. However, when we did qualify and things got more serious, we could not agree on the level of commitment we want to make as a team, mostly because of me wanting to focus on my stream. Since some members of the team strongly expressed their pursuit for HGC, it was clear to me there are more complications here than I expected. I coulda been a douche and just rake in the $$ while forcing a bad practice schedule and toxic team environment, but that's not me. This is best decision for all.
Good luck to the team going forward. More details here
Why even bother to qualify if you weren't going to take it seriously ... Anyway, seems like he made the right choice.
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Chu told the whole team his intentions before even qualifying and thought everyone was on the same page. After qualifying they either decided they wanted more, or had a drastically different idea of what casual competition meant.
So why bother qualifying? It was at least 10k salary for each player for half a season for playing 6-10 games every weekend just for fun. That's pretty good money if you aren't spending any additional time practicing and can hold a full time job, go to school or do whatever you want during the week. It's pretty bad money if you practice 6-8 hours every other day during the week, which prevents you from realistically doing any of those other things. At that point you need to win tournament prize money to make your hours of practice pay off financially. Even with a heavy practice schedule their team will be big underdogs to win any significant prize money beyond their salaries. Playing completely casually was the best guaranteed money per hour invested.
It wouldn't be a great look for HCG, but if another team really deserved to be there more they should have beaten Team 8 out. They didn't, so it's hard to imagine any of the teams that didn't qualify would have been significantly more competitive. I expect the 8th seeded team in most regions is going to get stomped a lot regardless of how much they practice, and if another team improves significantly between now and May/June then they would knock Team 8 out then.
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Apparently MVP_Black's support player Merryday is planning on retiring after his summer to return to university.
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Is the summer championship when the transfer of 1 player per team is allowed? I can imagine some of the poorer performing teams having some internal strife right now, especially in NA :p
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GFE roster shake up
Equinox will not be returning to the GFE team during Phase 2 of HGC.
Khroen will be stepping down to a substitute position while continuing to stream under the GFE banner.
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XingC of eStar gaming appears to be retiring from HotS (announced via weibo). Not sure if he will continue through the brawl or phase 2.
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On May 24 2017 05:10 karazax wrote:GFE roster shake upEquinox will not be returning to the GFE team during Phase 2 of HGC. Khroen will be stepping down to a substitute position while continuing to stream under the GFE banner.
That's weird. I would've ditched Udall and Fan. Then get a proper tank and move Equinox to melee carry/bruiser.
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I'm hoping we see NVT get relegated, then bige, bkid, and Tomster can fill weak spots in some stronger teams.
Also that SS switch is pretty huge. That team was really getting carried by Goku the past couple of weeks and I don't think they'll be nearly as successful without him. Interested to see what else they change. Before that tweet I was hoping they would drop Hosty and pick someone else up, but I'm not sure they can find 2 players that are better than what they already have. Maybe they'll pick up Insomnia? That'd make a lot of sense to me.
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Life comes at you fast.
B-Step disbands, aPm retires, and the rest of the team are free agents. Even in Death has rights to the open spot in HGC if they accept.
Tricked eSport dropped ethernal and are trying out new melee/flex players.
beGenius unsurprisingly drop their roster after failing to make it out of the Crucible.
Team expert drops bLaDe, adds Atheroangel. bLaDe commented that he would continue to work toward getting back into the HGC premier league.
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I'm assuming that all but confirms KingCaf and K1pro to GFE.
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iDream to Team Naventic
iDream will be replacing Kenma, Zuna will be moving back to the range/secondary tank position and bigempc will be moving to the support role
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What's the mystery announcement there karazax?
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Right before Stockholm...?
Playing Ducks: chriZplosion out, nande to main tank, Ethernal as the new melee carry
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