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Thax
Profile Joined July 2014
Belgium1060 Posts
January 14 2017 16:15 GMT
#141
On January 14 2017 06:31 karazax wrote:
Team 8 moves on without Chu8

Chu8 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.
karazax
Profile Joined May 2010
United States3737 Posts
January 14 2017 18:39 GMT
#142
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.
karazax
Profile Joined May 2010
United States3737 Posts
January 23 2017 19:46 GMT
#143
Playing Ducks signs Diamond Skin
karazax
Profile Joined May 2010
United States3737 Posts
March 21 2017 14:05 GMT
#144
Apparently MVP_Black's support player Merryday is planning on retiring after his summer to return to university.

Immersion_
Profile Joined May 2010
United Kingdom794 Posts
March 22 2017 20:34 GMT
#145
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
http://www.twitch.tv/sybar1te Sybarite#2581 - add me for Heroes games. .Play Hots and Overwatch currently. Feel free to add.
karazax
Profile Joined May 2010
United States3737 Posts
May 23 2017 20:10 GMT
#146
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.
dyDrawer
Profile Joined September 2012
Canada438 Posts
May 24 2017 01:13 GMT
#147
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.
Dear, Rain, PartinG, Trap - "Glory to the Firstborn"
Thax
Profile Joined July 2014
Belgium1060 Posts
May 24 2017 11:54 GMT
#148
On May 24 2017 05:10 karazax wrote:
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.


That's weird. I would've ditched Udall and Fan. Then get a proper tank and move Equinox to melee carry/bruiser.
karazax
Profile Joined May 2010
United States3737 Posts
May 25 2017 12:04 GMT
#149
karazax
Profile Joined May 2010
United States3737 Posts
May 25 2017 18:15 GMT
#150
Insomnia removed from TeamFreedom
im a roc
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States745 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-05-25 19:08:53
May 25 2017 19:03 GMT
#151
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.
Beware The Proxy Pool Rush
EsportsJohn
Profile Blog Joined June 2012
United States4883 Posts
May 30 2017 03:52 GMT
#152
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.
StrategyAllyssa Grey <3<3
Adramelch
Profile Joined April 2017
14 Posts
May 30 2017 15:32 GMT
#153
I'm assuming that all but confirms KingCaf and K1pro to GFE.
karazax
Profile Joined May 2010
United States3737 Posts
May 30 2017 18:11 GMT
#154
karazax
Profile Joined May 2010
United States3737 Posts
May 30 2017 23:13 GMT
#155
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
karazax
Profile Joined May 2010
United States3737 Posts
May 31 2017 03:19 GMT
#156
GFE adds KingCaffeine and K1Pro
karazax
Profile Joined May 2010
United States3737 Posts
May 31 2017 14:17 GMT
#157
Kure joins Team Freedom
karazax
Profile Joined May 2010
United States3737 Posts
June 06 2017 18:15 GMT
#158
Immersion_
Profile Joined May 2010
United Kingdom794 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-06-06 19:48:41
June 06 2017 19:48 GMT
#159
What's the mystery announcement there karazax?
http://www.twitch.tv/sybar1te Sybarite#2581 - add me for Heroes games. .Play Hots and Overwatch currently. Feel free to add.
Ej_
Profile Blog Joined January 2013
47656 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-06-06 20:34:49
June 06 2017 20:05 GMT
#160
On June 07 2017 03:15 karazax wrote:
https://twitter.com/MVP_GG/status/872108087364263936

Right before Stockholm...?



Playing Ducks: chriZplosion out, nande to main tank, Ethernal as the new melee carry
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