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On April 11 2011 22:03 Zorkmid wrote:Show nested quote +On April 11 2011 22:00 Puosu wrote:On April 11 2011 21:37 Irrational_Animal wrote:
Looks like a similar attempt to SK in building up a squad with relative unknowns. But again similar to SK I don`t see this working out.
Was always thinking they would try to sign some of the ukrainian big 4 (Strelok, Kas, Dimaga or White_Ra) Indeed. It is saddening to see such a huge organization not only enter the scene super late but also hire only unknown to semi-unknown players. It's a gamble. There are some pretty "unknown" players smashing known ones in the TSL, maybe (probably) these guys know something we don't.
I'd argue that while some persons like Thorzain were not that well known, they have been established high level players all the time, maybe not as much known to the more casual spectator but skillwise on top.
These players are definitely a tier behind the top players - which can change quickly if they are provided with enough support to play full time (which I think the players from SK aren't)
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Germany1287 Posts
There are some skilled Ukrainian players scattered around across European teams, so maybe, with a money injection, they can lure some of them in in order to strengthen their lineup.
But whereas I understand that NaVi is quite a name in Counterstrike, for now I highly doubt they can set foot into the top tier of the Eastern European teams that are ImbaFXO, RoX and Empire. These teams must be the line of measurement for NaVi in the future.
Nonetheless, good lock to NaVi, it's always good to see some big esport-names taking interest in SC2.
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The arbalet guy who supported the navi cs team with anything want is stopping his support at the end of this year i do believe i read...... so maybe NaVi can't afford the big 4 without the richman?
interested to see how they do however
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On April 11 2011 22:23 dahornnn wrote:
The arbalet guy who supported the navi cs team with anything want is stopping his support at the end of this year i do believe i read...... so maybe NaVi can't afford the big 4 without the richman?
interested to see how they do however
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Babyknight? DotA Babyknight? This guy used to have some sick SF play, curious to see him play SC2 now.
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On April 11 2011 22:10 GTR wrote:
i guess dimaga/strelok/white-ra/kas will be targeted by navi when their current contracts expire with their current teams
Almost every contract can be breaken super easily so I don't think it is the issue...
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On April 11 2011 22:30 Galek wrote:
Babyknight? DotA Babyknight? This guy used to have some sick SF play, curious to see him play SC2 now.
He's very ... Average. He does sometime stream at TL, so watch him
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On April 11 2011 22:45 Welmu wrote:Show nested quote +On April 11 2011 22:10 GTR wrote:
i guess dimaga/strelok/white-ra/kas will be targeted by navi when their current contracts expire with their current teams Almost every contract can be breaken super easily so I don't think it is the issue...
This statement is absolutely untrue. There have been numerous times when players got in trouble because of existing contracts, and so far they always turned out to be valid.
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well about happyzerg - i casted 30-40 games when he was playing in my or other tours here on the EU server - good, solid zerg play -nothing too fancy tho and about navi targeting empire people + dimaga - i would not be too sure about it - empire is gaining more and more fame atm with the recent success (kas stomping tsl) and newest additions (nerchio, happy etc.)
but ill guess ... time will tell
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Is Arbalet still sponsoring Na`Vi?
I heard that he only sponsoring Na`Vi CS team until 2011.
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Germany7312 Posts
Thought this would be cool since their CS team was pretty good... Don't recognize any of those players...
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Is CrazyPanda BratOK's brother?
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On April 11 2011 21:31 KwarK wrote:
Moved to sc2. The only name I really recognise there is the TSL2 abuser HappyZerG.
Same here. I think i have seen happyzerg doing fairly good on the ladder, never heared of the other guys.
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On April 11 2011 22:54 Special Endrey wrote:well about happyzerg - i casted 30-40 games when he was playing in my or other tours here on the EU server - good, solid zerg play -nothing too fancy tho and about navi targeting empire people + dimaga - i would not be too sure about it - empire is gaining more and more fame atm with the recent success (kas stomping tsl) and newest additions (nerchio, happy etc.) but ill guess ... time will tell
Indeed. And i dont think that NaVi will offer that much money that whitera would leave his contract with duckload even tho navi has one of the best cs-teams in the world.
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On April 11 2011 21:37 Irrational_Animal wrote:
Was always thinking they would try to sign some of the ukrainian big 4 (Strelok, Kas, Dimaga or White_Ra)
Na`Vi CEO ZeroGravity has talked about this in interviews before hinted that it's unlikely due to transfer fees and such. Here's an interview from IEM Kiev which touches on the subject: http://www.rakaka.se/index.php?newsID=15947
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erm to guys who are talking about navi signing big ukrainian players, they realy cant, Arbalet is only going to support na`navi till the end of 2011, so i doubt that they could offer more money to those big ukrainian players than they'r current teams.
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On April 11 2011 22:52 KaveX wrote:Show nested quote +On April 11 2011 22:45 Welmu wrote:On April 11 2011 22:10 GTR wrote:
i guess dimaga/strelok/white-ra/kas will be targeted by navi when their current contracts expire with their current teams Almost every contract can be breaken super easily so I don't think it is the issue... This statement is absolutely untrue. There have been numerous times when players got in trouble because of existing contracts, and so far they always turned out to be valid.
There should be statement in rule that says the price of breaking contract, which shouldn't be too much
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On April 11 2011 22:00 Puosu wrote:Show nested quote +On April 11 2011 21:37 Irrational_Animal wrote:
Looks like a similar attempt to SK in building up a squad with relative unknowns. But again similar to SK I don`t see this working out.
Was always thinking they would try to sign some of the ukrainian big 4 (Strelok, Kas, Dimaga or White_Ra) Indeed. It is saddening to see such a huge organization not only enter the scene super late but also hire only unknown to semi-unknown players. It's a gamble.
I too expected them to grab some big name players. That said Na'Vi is far from a huge organization yet, they were build off of their CS team and have a big name rich singular sponsor in the Arbalet family, but they are by no means an established G7-esque team like SK is.
It's too bad they couldn't grab all the ukrainian players, would have been super super epic.
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On April 11 2011 23:10 Welmu wrote:Show nested quote +On April 11 2011 22:52 KaveX wrote:On April 11 2011 22:45 Welmu wrote:On April 11 2011 22:10 GTR wrote:
i guess dimaga/strelok/white-ra/kas will be targeted by navi when their current contracts expire with their current teams Almost every contract can be breaken super easily so I don't think it is the issue... This statement is absolutely untrue. There have been numerous times when players got in trouble because of existing contracts, and so far they always turned out to be valid. There should be statement in rule that says the price of breaking contract, which shouldn't be too much
Its a lot more than it should be to buy players for esports thats for sure ( if thats what you meant)
G7 teams = 10k buyout ;O iirc
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SUPER cool logo, the 'NAVI" design, I like it.
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