EPTPlease recruit the legendary NA IH player Marmy.
Cloud 9 announces challenger squad - Page 2
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nobodywonder
United States848 Posts
Please recruit the legendary NA IH player Marmy. | ||
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Eviox
United States3 Posts
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Fusilero
United Kingdom50293 Posts
On January 11 2015 18:14 Eviox wrote: Never heard of Hard or Solo but I hope Yusui and LOD do well. Perhaps you heard of Solo as when he was TheSoloKing on zenith? | ||
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deleuzed
United States32 Posts
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Chriis
Germany8 Posts
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AlterKot
Poland7525 Posts
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Wita
Denmark267 Posts
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Hathsin
Germany29 Posts
On January 11 2015 17:24 LiQuiD112 wrote: Team looks pretty good  We will be announcing our TL Academy team soon Nice! Cant wait :D | ||
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Ansibled
United Kingdom9872 Posts
On January 11 2015 17:24 LiQuiD112 wrote: Team looks pretty good We will be announcing our TL Academy team soon Hey Liquid, since apparently you can't sub in challenger players into LCS teams (CLG situation), can you sub in challenger players from TL academy into TL for example or is this still not allowed? | ||
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vulpino
United States8 Posts
On January 11 2015 13:58 Baffels wrote: Cloud9 seems to have a knack for finding and refining talent. Hoping to see LOD and Yusui succeed. Also never heard of Solo or Hard so that's always a treat after having followed the scene for awhile. Solo was known as TheSoloKing, I believe, and played for ZEN (Zenith eSports). Hard has been a solo queue superstar for some time now, but not much else. I'm excited to see how the squad shapes up. Hard seems incredibly promising, LOD and Yusui are veterans of the scene, Solo was a superstar of the top lane who should be able to continue his success here, and Stixxay is...well, I don't know much about him as I didn't see Denial play very much. Overall an incredibly promising team. | ||
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scryor
Australia4 Posts
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Wita
Denmark267 Posts
On January 12 2015 00:25 scryor wrote: Yusui will be the next NA hope calling it now Will be? He already is, everybody is hyping him up so massively.. | ||
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ThreeActPlay
United States249 Posts
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Shatterfront
Australia77 Posts
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Ruran
United States151 Posts
On January 11 2015 18:18 Chriis wrote: It's nice to see Cloud9 being one of the first teams to develop a sister team, sad thing is that koreans did this already one year ago. Curse has had sister challenger teams for a while, C9 had 2 challenger teams for a period, TSM had one as well IIRC. This isn't the first team to create a challenger team in NA. | ||
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SwizzY
United States1549 Posts
On January 11 2015 13:58 Baffels wrote: Cloud9 seems to have a knack for finding and refining talent. Hoping to see LOD and Yusui succeed. Also never heard of Solo or Hard so that's always a treat after having followed the scene for awhile. I felt so too but after C9T... going to wait for concrete results before getting hype | ||
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fanaticus
United States40 Posts
On January 12 2015 12:05 Ruran wrote: Curse has had sister challenger teams for a while, C9 had 2 challenger teams for a period, TSM had one as well IIRC. This isn't the first team to create a challenger team in NA. The key word here is "develop." Cloud 9, TSM, and other organizations had Challenger teams, but they did not find and develop the talent themselves. Instead they approached an already successful challenger team and simply brought them in under their name. What Curse and now Cloud 9 are doing is saying, "Okay, we're going to create an academy team. Who do we want on it?" instead of, "We want a challenger team, who do we buy?" There is a difference there that is actually quite important. | ||
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Ruran
United States151 Posts
On January 12 2015 13:22 fanaticus wrote: The key word here is "develop." Cloud 9, TSM, and other organizations had Challenger teams, but they did not find and develop the talent themselves. Instead they approached an already successful challenger team and simply brought them in under their name. What Curse and now Cloud 9 are doing is saying, "Okay, we're going to create an academy team. Who do we want on it?" instead of, "We want a challenger team, who do we buy?" There is a difference there that is actually quite important. Huh interesting, I didn't think of it that way. I think Curse did develop CA, but you're quite right about the other teams. Thanks for correcting me! | ||
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keithasante
United States46 Posts
On January 12 2015 13:22 fanaticus wrote: The key word here is "develop." Cloud 9, TSM, and other organizations had Challenger teams, but they did not find and develop the talent themselves. Instead they approached an already successful challenger team and simply brought them in under their name. What Curse and now Cloud 9 are doing is saying, "Okay, we're going to create an academy team. Who do we want on it?" instead of, "We want a challenger team, who do we buy?" There is a difference there that is actually quite important. I don't think that's the only way to look at it though. Of course it's nice that C9 and Liquid are developing Challenger rosters from the ground up, but (and I'm not saying this is what you meant, just pointing it out) it's unfair to look down on organizations that put their support behind established teams. Teams that bring themselves together aren't undeserving of the resources a major organization can offer them just because they weren't put together by said organization. Until more new owners/organizations/sponsors like Fusion and MSI step in and look at the Challenger scene seriously, we're still gonna have teams come together and disband after one split because potential owners are waiting for teams to qualify for the LCS first. Honestly, I don't think it should fall to LCS owners to put together new teams. For instance, if the OpTic rumors meant anything and they are actually interested in the LCS, why can't they use their resources to develop talent? Why wait until an LCS owner's Challenger team is developed, qualified for the LCS, and ready to be sold? | ||
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