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United Kingdom50293 Posts
New organization NRG Esports has announced that they will be participating in the NA LCS and have confirmed 4/5 of their players.
Founded in 2015 to compete in Season 6 of the North American LCS, NRG eSports will bring a new sense of professionalism to eSports. Under the founders, Gerard Kelly, Mark Mastrov, and Andy Miller, we can take our experience in business and sports to the world of competitive gaming. The NRG brand represents the energy of a group of people coming together, whether it’s the power of five players working together or the roar of their fans.
Heading into the 2016 season, NRG has the resources and players to make a powerful statement in our LCS debut. With power, potential, and perseverance, we will rise to the top of North America. We will reach the World Championship. We are NRG eSports.
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Team Roster:
 Jung "Impact" Eon-yeong (Top)
 Galen "Moon" Holgate (Jungle)
Lee "GBM" Chang-seok (Mid)
Johnny "Altec" Ru (ADC)
Kevin "KonKwon" Kwon (Support)
The organisation has later confirmed to thescore that Johnny "Altec" Ru will be their AD Carry
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This team gonna win LCS.
Why are they announcing AD separately -__-
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The land of freedom23126 Posts
On November 16 2015 21:18 Ansibled wrote:
This team gonna win LCS.
Why are they announcing AD separately -__-
Probably still negotiating with Altec, huh.
Inb4 plot twist, Altec joins CLG, WildTurtle empowers NRGwithRNG power.
And why in the world, do we have RNG and NRG in the same league now.
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The land of freedom23126 Posts
Someone who's completely desperate to be in LCS without any talent.
Like, uh, Martin Shkreli? :p
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This rule is actually more stupid than originally thought, amazing.
I don't see TiP/GV ending up with good rosters or orgs.
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United Kingdom50293 Posts
TiP is from what I've heard the most expensive slot, plus you get none of the players plus all of the good free agents were already likely deep into negotiation stages/done deal by the time TiP put their slot on sale. So they're basically the last slot that's going to be sold; if it even is sold.
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Bearded Elder29903 Posts
ahhh.... GBM, so nice. Seems like NA LCS gonna be interesting to say at least.
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I winder if the coast members get a bit of the buyout. I mean, they basically fought into lcs just to get benched without playing a single split haha.
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Interesting. Are there any other notable free agent NA ADCs besides Altec and WT?
Do Moon/KonKwon speak Korean, also? I'm assuming that's what this roster would communicate in.
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On November 16 2015 23:32 BrownBear wrote:
Interesting. Are there any other notable free agent NA ADCs besides Altec and WT?
Do Moon/KonKwon speak Korean, also? I'm assuming that's what this roster would communicate in.
Apollo. His contract ends today. There werer rumours about him joining Dig tho. I think he shortly followed them on Twitter.
Then maybe Maplestreet.
Reminder that buyers of Tip and Gravity as well as Immortals rosters are not known yet (or have none). Will be tough to find 3 good NA players for all of them.
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On November 08 2015 07:37 bbc23 wrote:
Do you guys seriously think new CST is keeping guys like Cris/Mash if they can afford top tier players GBM? I will guarantee no more than 1 of the players on that team stays. Please keep in mind 80% of players are no longer under contract and there are upgrades that can be mean from the Challenger scene.
Whoooo, nailed it.
Guessing Altec will be the final piece. Really sad Vivek isn't a part of the purchase, he'd fuck this up royally.
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The land of freedom23126 Posts
On November 16 2015 23:32 BrownBear wrote:
Interesting. Are there any other notable free agent NA ADCs besides Altec and WT?
Do Moon/KonKwon speak Korean, also? I'm assuming that's what this roster would communicate in.
Pretty sure that KonKwon speaks Korean fluently.
But knowing how such teams communicate usually, you just need to play game properly and all is fine.
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On November 16 2015 21:31 oo_Wonderful_oo wrote:Show nested quote +On November 16 2015 21:18 Ansibled wrote:
This team gonna win LCS.
Why are they announcing AD separately -__- Probably still negotiating with Altec, huh. Inb4 plot twist, Altec joins CLG, WildTurtle empowers NRGwithRNG power. And why in the world, do we have RNG and NRG in same league now.
Inb4 TiP slot is bought out by GNR eSports
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I hope this team does well. Great star power, good staff and I also like how they weren't afraid to pull from NA challenger (granted, Moon and Konkwon are probably two of the safer bets in that regard). Hoping for Altec but it seems Turtle is in Korea duo right now with the players, so maybe it's him.
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Woah, yea, I'm really surprised that it isn't Vivek that's the owner buying this.
Any screwups you can attribute to current Sacramento Kings ownership is effectively attributed to majority owner Vivek Ranadive. So Andy Miller and Mark Mastrov are kind of blank slates as far as top level sports team ownership goes.
Also, calling them Kings co-owners is like calling Marc Lasry (current majority co-owner of the Milwaukee Bucks) an ex-owner of the New Jersey/Brooklyn Nets*. Technically true, but they're minority owners.
It's also not under the Sacramento Kings brand, so it annoys me when people keep shortcutting things to 'Kings bought Coast'. It's as dumb as saying that the Chicao White Sox (MLB) bought the Chicago Bulls (NBA) (Jerry Reinsdorf bought the White Sox in 1981, then the Bulls in 1985; still owns them to this day).
Here is an article at a Kings fan blog introducing Andy Miller.
His career path looks to be: found Quattro Wireless, sold that to Apple in 2009, worked as VP of mobile advertising for Apple for a couple of years, then became a partner with Highland Capital Partners, served as president of Leap Motion until 2014, then started up Remix Media Inc. (source)
Mark Mastrov mainly has 24 Hour Fitness and has a listed networth of $350 million this year.
*edit: actually, both current majority co-owners of the Bucks (Marc Lasry and Wes Edens) were minority owners in the Nets prior to buying the Bucks...also, F*** THEM FOR THEIR CONNECTION TO JASON KIDD.
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Hope this team will work out for Turtle, kind of wonder what happened with CLG WildTurtle though, maybe NRG made a better offer.
Also, I've ran out of emails, would be cool if I could just stop getting banned for talking about a banbet that was never agreed on.
User was banned for this post.
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They're not taking Turtle... lol.
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On November 17 2015 02:23 BannedGoat wrote:
Hope this team will work out for Turtle, kind of wonder what happened with CLG WildTurtle though, maybe NRG made a better offer.
Also, I'm running out of emails, would be cool if I could just stop getting banned for talking about a banbet that was never agreed on.
haha. :D
Maybe it would help if your posts were a little bit less random. Because it makes you look like a troll.
Like, where do you see any confirmation here that Turtle is on this team? He was just mentioned because he is teamless.
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The land of freedom23126 Posts
On November 17 2015 02:23 BannedGoat wrote:
Hope this team will work out for Turtle, kind of wonder what happened with CLG WildTurtle though, maybe NRG made a better offer.
Also, I've ran out of emails, would be cool if I could just stop getting banned for talking about a banbet that was never agreed on.
Yea, it was never agreed on.
Oh wait.
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