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Listen to everyone rippin people in here. Here are the facts:
A TEAM is a business. Making money = having a successful team. More money you can buy better talent. The fact that people will bash her for being a female and getting picked up by a team is generating publicity for the team. Ergo by you wantiong to hate on her and doing so publicly all you are doing is making it a hot topic to talk about which brings more press for Quantic gaming which means evidently more money in the end. There is NO doubt in my that the owner of this team clearly knows he could probably field a wide variety of talent far superior at the moment to whoever Flo is. But signing a gosu player that no one knows anything about and isn't marketable or won't generate controversy then you are basically cutting off a limb for your business.
The best example in my mind when it comes to marketability is idra. Regardless if you hate him, you still love to hate him. You love to watch him fail if it were to happen or you love to watch him succeed. The end result is you bring attention to EG. In the same manner if Flo fails miserably or succeeds either way Quantic benefits. If Flo fails all you flamers and haters (which in some way I maybe one too more so jealousy) will want to rabble on about it. Only making the name Quantic Gaming more relevant. If you (the one's who hate this move) truly want something to be done about it the best thing you can do is to IGNORE this whole post and anything to do with this. Otherwise all the hating is doing is good for Quantic.
Sure I may jealous and to some degree a hater of this move but in no way am I stupid when it comes to business. This thread alone shows how smart of a move for the brand and business of Quantic gaming this was. Hate or love it you are still talking about it.
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yay, more good things for quantic and more reasons for me to be happy! I'm glad to see their roster add another good player.
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starting to fall in love with Quantic now ♥
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ah same team as naniwa.
Anyone know what her rank is in ladder?
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Was a good business move, but looking at it from the side of players it kind of sucks. No offense to Flo, there are better player prospects out there right now, and it sucks to see them getting passed up.
But as some posters have mentioned, it's a business, and a move like this attracts attention. I wish the Team and her the best.
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how many of those players can participate in female only tournies?
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On December 22 2011 09:29 Telcontar wrote:Here we go. Do you ask this for every pro that gets signed by a team? Didn't think so.
no because we don't see male gamers get signed because of their looks as a main reason. Not saying that is what happened here, I have no idea how good or bad flo is, but we have seen females get signed to teams in the past not because of skill, so I think it will always be a legitimate question as long as that happens. In this case, from what others have said, it appears she is actually competitive so hurray, he gets his answer and people who try and hate on her for being a pro female with no skill will be shut up. A good thing in my opinion.
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From a female gamer's perspective, I disagree that recruiting a female not based solely on skill hurts the female gaming scene.
For instance, so many people talk crap about the WNBA because it's so bad compared to the NBA. I've heard people say a high school team could beat a WNBA team. It's probably true because we're just built differently. That's why I love gaming so much because there's no gender bias. My gameplay is based on the time and effort I put into it, not what I was physically born with. So when a girl gets recruited, gender should be completely omitted.
Eventually there'll be a female who will take international tournaments and inspire a new era of female gaming. I don't think Aphrodite or Flo will be the ones. Like many have already stated, Destiny and Flo were picked up because of the publicity they generate. From a business standpoint, that makes complete sense. However, if they can't produce satisfactory results for the gaming community, that's all they'll be - just publicity. I definitely see potential in Destiny as he's made his way into Korea, but Flo has a long and tough journey ahead. Good luck!
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Cheers to QG and Flo, keep up the practice and hope to see you in top 16 at a tourny soon!
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best inerview ever. loved the bits about nerd groupies and trolls.
I'll be watching your stream! Hopefully you can commentate on your games sometime!
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On December 22 2011 12:53 BloodThirsty wrote:
Listen to everyone rippin people in here. Here are the facts:
Only making the name Quantic Gaming more relevant. If you (the one's who hate this move) truly want something to be done about it the best thing you can do is to IGNORE this whole post and anything to do with this. Otherwise all the hating is doing is good for Quantic.
Sure I may jealous and to some degree a hater of this move but in no way am I stupid when it comes to business. This thread alone shows how smart of a move for the brand and business of Quantic gaming this was. Hate or love it you are still talking about it.
completely agree with your business sentiment, however Idra is a bad example because you are picking one of the most skilled players in the game so it is not a relevant example to female gamers being signed who are not good.
However, the part quoted above kind of annoys me. The whole "any publicity is good publicity mentality." speaking from a sponsor standpoint (which I am not this is pure speculation), good publicity would be better then bad. Idra winning a tournament and EG computer sponsor X getting a lot of traffic and attention is better I would think than them getting attention because Idra told someone to go fuck themselves.
Also, there is such a thing as integrity so a team making a decision with the viewpoint you stated above "even if she fails we get attention" lacks in this area. I won't just be talking about how FLO was a failure in x, y, or z tournament. I will be talking about how bad the decision to pick her up was and how it reflects poorly on those who made it (this is just an example, I don't know who she is let alone if she will find any success).
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Love the move by quantic GLHF =)
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Very cool to see a big name team pick up a female member. Good luck to her and look forward to watching some streaming!
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good luck Flo! she is qtpie!
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Awesome glad to see quantic gaming picking up Flo! GL to both Flo and Quantic in 2012
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Unlike most of the newly recruited females she is actually pretty good.
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She's pretty cute. Nice pickup for Quantic.
Good luck to you and your team! :D
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Nice to see female gamers stepping it up, this is a good way to go about things, not like eSahara who said they were looking specifically for a female player and picked up one from low masters and then wrote "acquires female gamer" or something along those lines in the thread title, bumping the players actual name out of the sidebar.
Good job Quantic
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