• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EST 13:22
CET 19:22
KST 03:22
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
ByuL: The Forgotten Master of ZvT29Behind the Blue - Team Liquid History Book19Clem wins HomeStory Cup 289HomeStory Cup 28 - Info & Preview13Rongyi Cup S3 - Preview & Info8
Community News
Team Liquid Map Contest - Preparation Notice6Weekly Cups (Feb 23-Mar 1): herO doubles, 2v2 bonanza1Weekly Cups (Feb 16-22): MaxPax doubles0Weekly Cups (Feb 9-15): herO doubles up2ACS replaced by "ASL Season Open" - Starts 21/0258
StarCraft 2
General
Team Liquid Map Contest - Preparation Notice How do you think the 5.0.15 balance patch (Oct 2025) for StarCraft II has affected the game? ByuL: The Forgotten Master of ZvT Nexon's StarCraft game could be FPS, led by UMS maker Weekly Cups (Feb 23-Mar 1): herO doubles, 2v2 bonanza
Tourneys
Sparkling Tuna Cup - Weekly Open Tournament $5,000 WardiTV Winter Championship 2026 RSL Season 4 announced for March-April Sea Duckling Open (Global, Bronze-Diamond) PIG STY FESTIVAL 7.0! (19 Feb - 1 Mar)
Strategy
Custom Maps
Publishing has been re-enabled! [Feb 24th 2026] Map Editor closed ?
External Content
The PondCast: SC2 News & Results Mutation # 515 Together Forever Mutation # 514 Ulnar New Year Mutation # 513 Attrition Warfare
Brood War
General
BW General Discussion Gypsy to Korea BSL 22 Map Contest — Submissions OPEN to March 10 BGH Auto Balance -> http://bghmmr.eu/ It's March 3rd
Tourneys
Small VOD Thread 2.0 [BSL22] Open Qualifier #1 - Sunday 21:00 CET [Megathread] Daily Proleagues BWCL Season 64 Announcement
Strategy
Soma's 9 hatch build from ASL Game 2 Fighting Spirit mining rates Simple Questions, Simple Answers Zealot bombing is no longer popular?
Other Games
General Games
Nintendo Switch Thread Stormgate/Frost Giant Megathread Battle Aces/David Kim RTS Megathread Diablo 2 thread Path of Exile
Dota 2
Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion The Story of Wings Gaming
League of Legends
Heroes of the Storm
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Deck construction bug Heroes of StarCraft mini-set
TL Mafia
Mafia Game Mode Feedback/Ideas Vanilla Mini Mafia TL Mafia Community Thread
Community
General
US Politics Mega-thread Russo-Ukrainian War Thread YouTube Thread Things Aren’t Peaceful in Palestine UK Politics Mega-thread
Fan Clubs
The IdrA Fan Club
Media & Entertainment
[Req][Books] Good Fantasy/SciFi books [Manga] One Piece Anime Discussion Thread
Sports
2024 - 2026 Football Thread Formula 1 Discussion TL MMA Pick'em Pool 2013
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
Laptop capable of using Photoshop Lightroom?
TL Community
The Automated Ban List
Blogs
Gaming-Related Deaths
TrAiDoS
ONE GREAT AMERICAN MARINE…
XenOsky
Unintentional protectionism…
Uldridge
ASL S21 English Commentary…
namkraft
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 1649 users

Fnatic and Fenix part ways - Page 12

Forum Index > SC2 General
328 CommentsPost a Reply
Prev 1 10 11 12 13 14 17 Next All
TheAmazombie
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States3714 Posts
August 24 2011 03:52 GMT
#221
Well, too bad for them. I love seeing Fenix in action there in Korea.
We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. -Charlie Chaplin
Badboyrune
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Sweden2247 Posts
August 24 2011 04:49 GMT
#222
I feel like this is fnatics loss. When you have a player as good as fenix who's willing to commit to stay in korea to practice you should hold on to him, I think it will pay off in the end.

People saying that he's not good enough to join liquid or eg are obviously forgetting those teams weaker players, all of who fenix is as good as or better. That combined with the fact that he's willing to practice in Korea should make him a good pickup for just about any team.

I don't see him joining Liquid though as they have a tendency to recruit the 'fan favourites', the kind of players that are praised by the community. While fenix is a nice guy and not someone anyone dislikes, he doesn't quite have the community support like sheth for instance has.

FXO seems already ruled out by FXOBoss, would have been a nice option otherwise.

So that leaves EG, coL and possibly dignitas. I don't know if dignitas has some deal set up with startale to let their players practice in their house as Naniwa is. If they do I wouldn't be suprised to see finix end up there. Would be nice to have two foreigners practising with startale.

EG is also very possible. Biggest problem is that they already have quite a large roster at this point, even though fenix is arguably better than any of the players eg left behind in the us.

coL is also possible, but I just don't feel him ending up there for some reason.

Would be awesome if he joined a korean team, but I think dignitas or eg are the most likely destinations for fenix. Either way I hope the best for him and that he really gets to benefit from his determination to go to korea! fenix hwaiting!
"If yellow does start SC2, I should start handsomenerd diaper busniess and become a rich man" - John the Translator
ROOTFayth
Profile Joined January 2004
Canada3351 Posts
August 24 2011 04:54 GMT
#223
stealing money is a bad start =(
Eschaton
Profile Joined May 2010
United States1245 Posts
August 24 2011 05:02 GMT
#224
On August 24 2011 13:54 ReignFayth wrote:
stealing money is a bad start =(


Care to expand on that one?
TT1
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada10014 Posts
August 24 2011 05:08 GMT
#225
fayths body itchs for drama
ab = tl(i) + tl(pc), the grand answer to every tl.net debate
ROOTFayth
Profile Joined January 2004
Canada3351 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-24 05:27:25
August 24 2011 05:27 GMT
#226
LOL

it's ok it's just a tease I'm not sure I can expand xD
RenSC2
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
United States1081 Posts
August 24 2011 05:44 GMT
#227
What I can understand from the business speak:
- Fnatic has a limited amount of money.
- Fenix was getting a salary plus a lot of benefits (like being housed in Korea) from Fnatic. This costs money.
- Fnatic didn't feel that Fenix's results warranted his salary + benefits and during the contract negotiations proposed stepping down the salary and/or benefits.
- Getting a pay cut is not something most people accept. Fenix is no exception.
- Fnatic now uses the money they saved by not re-signing Fenix to recruit a Korean (probably) player(s) who has shown better results. Considering the struggles of many Korean teams financially, Fnatic can probably get significantly better ROI right now by recruiting a Korean than what they got with Fenix.
- The "lesser" players on Fnatic are not costing (salary + benefits) what Fenix was asking for. If they are, expect more moves as their contracts expire.

As a side note, most teams are trying to recruit the best out there. Very few look at a player on the market and say, "well, he's better than our worst players. Let's get him." No matter the team, those "worst" players have almost all been on the team for a long time and are on contracts from when they were showing good results. When contracts are up, they will either be removed or asked to re-sign for less salary/benefits. Some/most are already on very poor contracts.

Best of luck to Fenix, it can be a very tough market if you aren't the "best" (of the moment).
Playing better than standard requires deviation. This divergence usually results in sub-standard play.
fams
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Canada731 Posts
August 24 2011 06:39 GMT
#228
On August 24 2011 06:17 VirgilSC2 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 24 2011 01:37 Roychez wrote:
We couldn't agree terms. That's why we terminated his contract.


Show nested quote +
On August 24 2011 01:49 Roychez wrote:
As I said before, we parted ways because we couldn't come to an agreement on terms of his salary. As far as I know, his talks with other teams started once it became clear we couldn't come to an agreement.


Show nested quote +
On August 24 2011 01:59 Roychez wrote:
Also, to join the "making announcements of announcements" hype, we will be signing some sick players soon! Stay tuned


Show nested quote +
On August 24 2011 03:23 Roychez wrote:
Fact is, we can't always tell you everything yet, as it might upset parties or the entire deal. I don't know about others, but we are giving out the information we can. We can also say nothing about future signings too and leave you wondering about what will happen with our team, but I guess some info is better than none at all.

And obviously, we're a business, so we want to get as many hits and views, etc. out of it as possible, by giving a press release in the best possible manner, and not half-done.


Show nested quote +
On August 24 2011 03:32 Roychez wrote:
On August 24 2011 03:24 ptbl wrote:
Did you even read the article? They wanted to keep him, but they couldn't come to a mutual agreement on the terms of his contract. He's going to search for a team that can support him the way he needs.

Not entirely true. Due to his results it wasn't worth investing in him as much as we did. We offered him something else and he didn't accept.


Show nested quote +
On August 24 2011 03:51 Roychez wrote:
On August 24 2011 03:42 justinpal wrote:
I guess. I see a lot of people saying guess what we will announce, big announcement incoming, my next tweet will hold a big announcement, etc. I know hype is important as a business, but I think the actual moves will hype themselves in most cases. For example, when you signed NightEnD or Rain it was hyped by itself .

I'm not sure who does that, but we try not to go that far. We're just saying we're going to add new players so we don't leave you in the dark and that you know we're trying to move forward, and not backwards. I think our new additions will show our ambition.

I went through and compiled all the posts from the Fnatic Manager regarding this, for easier viewing.

Show nested quote +
On August 24 2011 02:19 Fenix wrote:
well everyone know puma huk and idra arepretty good, yo will know who i am 8)

And here is the post from Fenix about it.




Roald isn't part of FnaticMSI management or the SC2 teams manager, Elroy Pinto and Duran Parsi are the managers of the SC2 team - Elroy is also a General Manager at FnaticMSI.

Just so you know...

http://www.twitter.com/famsytron/
Vul
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States685 Posts
August 24 2011 07:04 GMT
#229
Wow this is really insulting towards Fenix and totally unnecessary. They don't need to say that he wasn't worth investing in, wasn't a good player, etc. It's enough to say that they couldn't reach an agreement. This isn't how you treat your former players... I definitely lost respect for fnatic after reading these statements.
DisaFear
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Australia4074 Posts
August 24 2011 07:09 GMT
#230
Interesting news
Time for Fenix to find a better team
How devious | http://anartisticanswer.blogspot.com.au/
Chrill
Profile Joined May 2011
Sweden91 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-24 07:12:16
August 24 2011 07:10 GMT
#231
I don't get why fnatic is getting hate here. The truth of the matter is, we have no idea how much money they were paying fenix. He could very well been overpaid based on his results (wich are..?) Also, not to hate on fenix, but I consider myself to atleast have a moderate amount of knowledge about team and players and really, fenix pre-gstl is kind of a question mark for me.. dont really know the guy that well. And I think that's how it is for alot of people, he just doesnt have that star power to represent an organization. Although, being one of few successful south american players, there might be potential. I don't know, I think fnatic is doing a great deal if they made some salary space to sign a good korean instead. Think this is the best for both parties.

Edit: Getting paid less always seem disrespectful for the person it happens to, but it's just bussiness. I like the honesty from Roychez.
danbel1005
Profile Joined February 2008
United States1319 Posts
August 24 2011 07:49 GMT
#232
Hey Fenix, loved ur games @ GSTL, keep training hard, ur quite good already, GL in Korea, keep doing ur thing, u'll get picked by another good team eventually. You got it bro, chillax.
GL Fenix Hwating!!!
"EE HAN TIMING" Jaedong vs Stork [22 December, 2007] 2set @ Finals EVER OSL.
Fralse
Profile Joined April 2011
Sweden44 Posts
August 24 2011 08:36 GMT
#233
On August 24 2011 16:09 DisaFear wrote:
Interesting news
Time for Fenix to find a better team

Yes you are so right.
Hopefully he will find a great team to play for!
BobMcJohnson
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
France2916 Posts
August 24 2011 08:41 GMT
#234
So, Fenix and SaSe are both teamless and in Korea, It would be interesting to see a Korean team pick them up

They both showed quite a lot of improvement lately and I could see this happening.
Romanes eunt domus
JoeAWESOME
Profile Joined February 2011
Sweden1080 Posts
August 24 2011 08:52 GMT
#235
If I were a betting man I would bet that he's going to join Dignitas.
I can also see him going to Sixjax
Simply Awesome! - Liquid'Ret - NSHoSeo_Seal - coLMVP_DRG - EG_Idra - Fnatic.NightEnd
Tommylew
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Wales2717 Posts
August 24 2011 09:10 GMT
#236
EG.Fenix, from his commment in this thread it seemed anyway!!!
Live and Let Die!
smr
Profile Joined April 2011
Germany4808 Posts
August 24 2011 11:04 GMT
#237
gl fnatic!

i'm too thinking that we're gonna see eg.fenix because of one of the 5 soundfiles they released.
JustPassingBy
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
10776 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-24 11:10:20
August 24 2011 11:07 GMT
#238
On August 24 2011 14:44 RenSC2 wrote:
What I can understand from the business speak:
- Fnatic has a limited amount of money.
- Fenix was getting a salary plus a lot of benefits (like being housed in Korea) from Fnatic. This costs money.
- Fnatic didn't feel that Fenix's results warranted his salary + benefits and during the contract negotiations proposed stepping down the salary and/or benefits.
- Getting a pay cut is not something most people accept. Fenix is no exception.
- Fnatic now uses the money they saved by not re-signing Fenix to recruit a Korean (probably) player(s) who has shown better results. Considering the struggles of many Korean teams financially, Fnatic can probably get significantly better ROI right now by recruiting a Korean than what they got with Fenix.
- The "lesser" players on Fnatic are not costing (salary + benefits) what Fenix was asking for. If they are, expect more moves as their contracts expire.

As a side note, most teams are trying to recruit the best out there. Very few look at a player on the market and say, "well, he's better than our worst players. Let's get him." No matter the team, those "worst" players have almost all been on the team for a long time and are on contracts from when they were showing good results. When contracts are up, they will either be removed or asked to re-sign for less salary/benefits. Some/most are already on very poor contracts.

Best of luck to Fenix, it can be a very tough market if you aren't the "best" (of the moment).


The housing in Korea is provided by gom, isn't it? (or by fox)

edit:

On August 24 2011 16:04 Vul wrote:
Wow this is really insulting towards Fenix and totally unnecessary. They don't need to say that he wasn't worth investing in, wasn't a good player, etc. It's enough to say that they couldn't reach an agreement. This isn't how you treat your former players... I definitely lost respect for fnatic after reading these statements.


Wow, really? Where did they say that? On the site? The site seems down from me, but I'll check on it from time to time.
BigLighthouse
Profile Joined October 2010
United Kingdom424 Posts
August 24 2011 11:23 GMT
#239
On August 24 2011 17:41 BobMcJohnson wrote:
So, Fenix and SaSe are both teamless and in Korea, It would be interesting to see a Korean team pick them up

They both showed quite a lot of improvement lately and I could see this happening.


Because we all know how much money those Korean teams have.. Im guessing if fnatic wasnt willing to offer fenix the deal he wanted then the Korean teams probably wont even be in able to, let alone willing.
Also I dont get all the people now "losing respect" for fnatic. Its not like they fired a guy from the factory and he cant support his 5 crippled children and blind mother anymore. They couldnt agree on a deal, fenix obviously imagines he's going to get a better deal somewhere else anyway or he'd settle for less so he's not going to be overly upset. Both player and team seem happy with this so why arnt some people here?
DeadBull
Profile Joined August 2011
421 Posts
August 24 2011 12:07 GMT
#240
TSL.Fenix !

CLIDE goes to sixjax !!!
Prev 1 10 11 12 13 14 17 Next All
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
Next event in 5h 38m
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
DenverSC2 179
UpATreeSC 151
elazer 76
MindelVK 51
JuggernautJason12
StarCraft: Brood War
Sea 31022
Shuttle 1912
Jaedong 1423
Larva 1064
Mini 547
Soma 436
Stork 366
EffOrt 269
Rush 268
Soulkey 221
[ Show more ]
firebathero 212
Dewaltoss 195
Sharp 158
ggaemo 136
Mong 69
Aegong 53
Mind 43
sorry 25
sSak 24
Terrorterran 20
Rock 17
soO 15
ajuk12(nOOB) 12
NaDa 10
Dota 2
qojqva2536
Counter-Strike
fl0m3382
pashabiceps2617
byalli419
Super Smash Bros
Mew2King108
Heroes of the Storm
Khaldor134
Other Games
Grubby3209
FrodaN1090
B2W.Neo827
Beastyqt661
ceh9419
C9.Mang0174
ArmadaUGS137
KnowMe112
QueenE94
Hui .67
Trikslyr54
capcasts15
Organizations
Other Games
BasetradeTV125
StarCraft 2
Blizzard YouTube
StarCraft: Brood War
BSLTrovo
sctven
[ Show 15 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• iHatsuTV 1
• intothetv
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• Kozan
• IndyKCrew
• LaughNgamezSOOP
• Migwel
• sooper7s
StarCraft: Brood War
• BSLYoutube
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
League of Legends
• Nemesis10133
• TFBlade1319
• Shiphtur396
Other Games
• imaqtpie703
Upcoming Events
Replay Cast
5h 38m
Ultimate Battle
17h 38m
Light vs ZerO
WardiTV Winter Champion…
17h 38m
MaxPax vs Spirit
Rogue vs Bunny
Cure vs SHIN
Solar vs Zoun
OSC
23h 38m
Replay Cast
1d 5h
CranKy Ducklings
1d 15h
WardiTV Winter Champion…
1d 17h
Replay Cast
2 days
Sparkling Tuna Cup
2 days
WardiTV Winter Champion…
2 days
[ Show More ]
Replay Cast
3 days
Replay Cast
3 days
Monday Night Weeklies
3 days
OSC
4 days
Replay Cast
6 days
The PondCast
6 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

Proleague 2026-03-04
PiG Sty Festival 7.0
Underdog Cup #3

Ongoing

KCM Race Survival 2026 Season 1
Jeongseon Sooper Cup
Spring Cup 2026
WardiTV Winter 2026
Nations Cup 2026
ESL Pro League S23 Stage 1&2
PGL Cluj-Napoca 2026
IEM Kraków 2026
BLAST Bounty Winter 2026
BLAST Bounty Winter Qual
eXTREMESLAND 2025

Upcoming

ASL Season 21: Qualifier #1
ASL Season 21: Qualifier #2
ASL Season 21
Acropolis #4 - TS6
Acropolis #4
IPSL Spring 2026
CSLAN 4
HSC XXIX
uThermal 2v2 2026 Main Event
Bellum Gens Elite Stara Zagora 2026
RSL Revival: Season 4
NationLESS Cup
Asian Champions League 2026
IEM Atlanta 2026
PGL Astana 2026
BLAST Rivals Spring 2026
CCT Season 3 Global Finals
IEM Rio 2026
PGL Bucharest 2026
Stake Ranked Episode 1
BLAST Open Spring 2026
ESL Pro League S23 Finals
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2026 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.