EPTDragon joins Millenium - Page 11
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archonOOid
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Ylrahc
France496 Posts
On March 07 2012 07:05 algue wrote: I don't think Millenium's really cares about their korean fan base , their sponsor are only french/european exept MSI  And the real reason was to get a good and popular terran player not a ticket to get more korean players ^^ Dragon could have been american / european or anything else I don't think it would have change something. Did you read the part where I said I was quoting the words of Llewellys, manager of the Millenium SC2 team ? ... and you don't read properly : it's not the korean fan base they care about, it's about the opinion of korean pros towards the Millenium team and the contacts with said pros. It's obviously not the only reason they recruited him, but it's one of them. Besides, recruiting koreans is definitely a good move to get more european / french exposure... Considering the fact that Dragon said he would stop his pro career, read his interview : he changed his mind a while ago and actually wanted to join a foreign team so he could discover new things and get chances to play EU / US tournaments. | ||
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Hilo
Estonia114 Posts
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matiK23
United States963 Posts
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Faust852
Luxembourg4004 Posts
On March 07 2012 07:14 archonOOid wrote: wow great pickup millenium might now be the best foreigner team! They have a team house + great players + nice location in france I don't think so. At this time, only Stephano performs really well, with Feast but he still needs to improve a lot to compete with the top tiers. Imho, Diestar is at the same level. Lalush is pretty dead right now and Tarson is not come back in his old shape yet. Adel did well by beating ToD at the PxL Lan (french lan) but still, it's not a great accomplishment ... Teams like EG, Quantic, TL or Empire are much more solid right now. | ||
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INTOtheVOID
United States225 Posts
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dearyuna
United States322 Posts
On March 07 2012 07:23 Faust852 wrote: I don't think so. At this time, only Stephano performs really well, with Feast but he still needs to improve a lot to compete with the top tiers. Imho, Diestar is at the same level. Lalush is pretty dead right now and Tarson is not come back in his old shape yet. Adel did well by beating ToD at the PxL Lan (french lan) but still, it's not a great accomplishment ... Teams like EG, Quantic, TL or Empire are much more solid right now. YAY GO QUANTIC<3<3<3<3 Would be nice to see teams like Millenium compete in team leagues or something like that. Would be very interesting and fun | ||
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ImgSeeDs
France5 Posts
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Sagamantha
United States339 Posts
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TheFlock
United States389 Posts
Gratz Dragon and Millennium!! | ||
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NoctemSC
United States771 Posts
On March 07 2012 07:25 INTOtheVOID wrote: I forgive Dragon, and a lot of the other players who have been caught cheating in the past. But why can't the community forgive sAviOr. Stream cheating is not the same as a match fixing scandal That's a felony in Korea. Totally different. Not to say I don't love sAviOr. | ||
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ColterTV
Argentina163 Posts
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TrojanSC2
United States82 Posts
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zezamer
Finland5701 Posts
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Balgrog
United States1221 Posts
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Danzo
2820 Posts
 ! Too soon? J/k! Congrats to dragon :D. About time.. | ||
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dearyuna
United States322 Posts
On March 07 2012 07:40 Balgrog wrote: Congratz to dragon. Hopefully after IPL 4 he will start going to more tournaments. Also I thought he was just going to get a job or something, is he returning to doing starcraft full time? He explains it in the interview. | ||
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Affluenza
United Kingdom214 Posts
On March 07 2012 07:23 Faust852 wrote: Teams like EG, Quantic, TL or Empire are much more solid right now. None of these team are really that dominant tbh...it's like picking a winner from an average bunch...and all the team have in common is they all have that 1 player that carriers the team name into finals...but it remains purely individual basis rather then 2/3 player consistently pushing things forward. Until all of the teams have 2-3 players in a GSL Code A&S month after month it's hard to say one team is better then another... | ||
1Eris1
United States5797 Posts
On March 07 2012 07:44 Affluenza wrote: None of these team are really that dominant tbh...it's like picking a winner from an average bunch...and all the team have in common is they all have that 1 player that carriers the team name into finals...but it remains purely individual basis rather then 2/3 player consistently pushing things forward. Until all of the teams have 2-3 players in a GSL Code A&S month after month it's hard to say one team is better then another... All of those teams (well maybe not EG)+Mouz, have placed consistently higher than Millenium in nearly every teamleague they've shared participation in. | ||
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chuky500
France473 Posts
On March 07 2012 06:59 Ylrahc wrote: Well, I was listening to the stream, and Llewellys explicitly said a reason he wanted to recruit Dragon is to get contacts in the korean scene, to potentially recruit a top world korean player later on. He even trolled a bit saying he thought last autumn that Stephano may help with the contacts part, but as Stephano is "like he is" (dunno what it means exactly, not that fluent in korean for sure, and perhaps he didn't fit / feel very well in Korea), it kinda failed So yes, Dragon will focus his play on the foreign scene, but the fact that he is korean played in the decision to recruit him too, so Millenium gets more exposure in Korea. I watched the stream and I didn't understand the same thing as you. I think he said Stephano didn't help him get in contact with many Koreans because "he is like he is" (he probably meant shy). So he contacted Dragon by himself, not through Stephano. But yes he also said Dragon was more like a prospect or an underdog, and that Millenium was keeping trying to sign a recognized pro. Llewellys has teased many times for the past months that they were aiming for a pro (people were expecting players like Bling or Kas, personally I hoped for Kiwikaki). He said Terran players were either at the top, or declining so it's easier to get a Terran underdog, and maybe pick a pro from another race. Also previously Millenium's position was to promote the french speaking community but I believe it's changed a bit with Ironsquid. Llewellys said a big tournament in France would draw the mainstream medias and since among plenty of Koreans the only french are Stephano and Tod and they are/were Millenium, journalists would be interested to hear about the team. So maybe he's thinking having a Korean in the team can help about the medias and financing too. | ||
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