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Eclypsia - Official launching thread

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Eclypsia
Profile Joined February 2012
United Kingdom117 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-02 18:27:36
April 01 2012 14:26 GMT
#1
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Hi everyone,

Last night, you may have read that (Wiki)Eclypsia was not a real team, and that their players were having problems with payment and other issues. Evidently, this is far from the truth. Ever since we launched our project we’ve faced these same doubts from the community, and despite our professionalism acquired through many years working in online business people sometimes love blood too much to appreciate the honey.

So we decided to play along, after all we had nothing to lose. We contacted our players and staff with this crazy idea, and I can assure you their opinions were just as mixed as yours. Some found the idea brilliant, others thought we were just crazy. They told us we were going to burn ourselves and them at the same time. After long, in-depth discussions we decided to go for it. Our common motivation was to quash the accusation of being a “fake team”, and what better way to do that than to laugh about it on the only day of the year when it’s allowed.

Returning to the controversy, there are no problems whatsoever. Welmu will be at the Copenhagen Games at our expense, Dayshi has indeed received his computer in near record time, just 7 days after signing, and all our players and staff feel very comfortable in the organisation.

We may be new arrivals in e-sports but we are a company that has been thriving on the internet for more than 7 years now, and our players and staff appreciate the professional infrastructure we have in place: a lawyer to answer any questions about contracts, a department that presents the business plan to our players, they are not in the dark and can plan their careers entirely around the time they commit to the game. No more questions day after day about whether they can live on the money from their stream, slaves to the fickleness of fame. Our players can focus fully on their play, free of financial worries.

Beyond our explanations we want to sincerely apologise to those who believed the original story and felt bad for our players! We have work to do to catch up, but let the Eclypsia adventure begin!



Our website has launched

Our site is online in French and English. This is the launch version and will be constantly improved with new features and content.
www.eclypsia.com


New players have arrived

Several new faces from Starcraft 2 and League of Legends join us for the official launch.

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(Wiki)Artist is a Korean Terran player who previously played for fOu and Reign. He has notably won 16 Playhems and attended multiple MLGs and season 3 of the IPL.

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(Wiki)SarenS is a French Terran player. He has played for MYM, ESC, *aAa* and Cybernation. He was France’s best Brood War player, and won the first two seasons of the eOSL, a French competition organised by eGG-One. In their last tournament he faced Stephano in the final.

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(Wiki)desRow is a Canadian Protoss player. Currently living in the GOM.tv house in Korea, desRow played for Team Legion and RAGE.

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Skyyart is a top solo player in League of Legends. He left Sypher to join us and reunite with his old teammate ShLaYa. Skyyard won the Asus RoG tournament at Paris Games Week and had strong results at IEM New York (3rd place).



The Zerg Lair’s shoutcaster commentating on our English WebTV

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(Wiki)Foxy is the creator of the Zerg Lair. She has interviewed numerous professional players and will be joining Eclypsia to cast Starcraft 2 in English and French.


Two Tournaments (Starcraft 2 and League of Legends) each with a 2000 euro prize pool Eclypsia will organise two tournaments (Starcraft 2 and League of Legends) commencing on April 18th. They will each have a 2000 euro prize pool. Payment of cashprizes is guaranteed within 30 days after the final! More information will be released very soon, including the teams that will be participating.


A gaming house in Brussels

Our players are going to live in Brussels, capital of Belgium and center of the European Union. The opening will take place in about a month.

Have a good day everybody! We love you!


P.S : Our players wanted to say a few words about the April Fools 


Dayshi: I loved participating in this diabolical plan. Thanks to everyone who supports me and I apologise for having so much fun tricking you!




Pouilleux : April 1st required a little joke from Eclypsia. Don’t worry, this organisation keeps its promises and looks very exciting. In a week we’ll meet the French public at Gamers Assembly ! If you don’t see us there check out eclypsia.com, this is going to be one of the great stories in e-sports.



ELVIS: That was fun. I put some doubts in peoples minds by continuing to stream on Eclypsia TV. Sorry to all those who asked me for information and who I didn’t reply to, I couldn’t upset the plan!


ShLaYa: The principle is simply Machiavellian! From a seed of genius! It was a pleasure to participate indirectly and to watch it play out
.

SLoG : It’s great to be part of the team. The April Fools was funny until everyone started sending me messages in private that I had to ignore (sorry guys!)


desRow: I’m really pleased to join a new team. I can already tell you that they will be sending me to the MLG Fall Championship. I will also be streaming from time to time on Eclypsia TV. Follow me on the social networking sites. Thanks to all my fans who have supported me since early 2011.



Artist : I’ve finally found a team after a long time, and I’m not going to waste anybodies time! I will give my very best.



Our SC2 Team:

Jo "(T)Artist" Min Ho
Pierre "(T)SarenS" Guivarch
Antoine "(Z)ELVIS" Paquay
Antoine "(T)Dayshi" Stievenart
Marc-Olivier "(P)desRow" Proulx
Vesa "(P)Welmu" Hovinen
Andrew "(P)SLoG" An


Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/EclypsiaCOM
Twitter : https://twitter.com/#!/EclypsiaCOM
Website : http://www.eclypsia.com
snively
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
United States1159 Posts
April 01 2012 14:29 GMT
#2
LOL thats kind of funny. so it was an april fools joke about being an april fools joke???

o_O
My religion is Starcraft
novamarine
Profile Joined February 2011
Malaysia215 Posts
April 01 2012 14:30 GMT
#3
Cruel joke dude. But very well done lol
People.....People never change
Xiron
Profile Joined August 2010
Germany1233 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-01 14:32:06
April 01 2012 14:31 GMT
#4
images not loading e: now they do.
"The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way. " - Charlie Chaplin
Cosmos
Profile Joined March 2010
Belgium1077 Posts
April 01 2012 14:32 GMT
#5
Brussels, awesome :p
http://www.twitch.tv/becosmos
saksy2
Profile Joined May 2011
Norway520 Posts
April 01 2012 14:32 GMT
#6
Geniusly done! So many people got mad because they got tricked.
Fusilero
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United Kingdom50293 Posts
April 01 2012 14:34 GMT
#7
Artist and SarenS? They cannot have been cheap or easy to get eclypsia must have some serious cash backing it up so I'll be interested in seeing how this team develops.
Glorious SEA doto
Antisocialmunky
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States5913 Posts
April 01 2012 14:34 GMT
#8
ESPORTS is trolling ESPORTS and killing ESPORTS so ESPORTS may live? :p
[゚n゚] SSSSssssssSSsss ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Marine/Raven Guide:http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=163605
green.at
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
Austria1459 Posts
April 01 2012 14:34 GMT
#9
i'd like to hear from welmu about this
Inputting special characters into chat should no longer cause the game to crash.
Geisterkarle
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
Germany3257 Posts
April 01 2012 14:38 GMT
#10
Welmu did great :D
Good luck Ecylpsia in the future!
There can only be one Geisterkarle
starojda
Profile Joined May 2011
Czech Republic246 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-01 15:00:19
April 01 2012 14:38 GMT
#11
As so much teams are created, whichever does this evil joke recieve highest PR credit .

Well done Eclypsia and gratz to very nice logo and webpage
ʘ
SlitZ
Profile Joined December 2011
Sweden42 Posts
April 01 2012 14:39 GMT
#12
What a retarded way to get publicity.

I hope you guys go out the same way as you came crawling in.
sereniity
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Sweden1159 Posts
April 01 2012 14:39 GMT
#13
Hands down this is the best Aprils Fool... why? Because they actually fooled ALOT of people, NOBODY knew for certain.

The posts made by the managers gave it away for me, specifically the reply to Taip from BLAST.Mgk (2nd quote)

Taip
To be honest, I'm very disappointed. Eclypsia contacted me at the beginning of March to manage their team. Now I'm listed as a coach, they've recruited other managers, and I don't have a fucking clue what's going on. I didn't get any of the salary I was promised either and I can't reach any of their staff on skype, this is a really sad situation.


BLAST.Mgk's reply
Taip, you just say shit ! I became manager because I was better. Nevertheless, I don't have any news of the staff too, but it's the week-end...

Just eat french fries Taip, thank you.
"I am Day9, Holy shit!"
komokun
Profile Joined July 2011
France343 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-01 14:42:19
April 01 2012 14:40 GMT
#14
that's how trolling is done, great way to launch your organization. Gongratz for fooling everyone

EDIT : And happy birthday, just saw the icon, this is pure genius ! :D
Eee
Profile Joined August 2011
Sweden2712 Posts
April 01 2012 14:40 GMT
#15
Which players will be living in belgium?
Spec
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Taiwan931 Posts
April 01 2012 14:41 GMT
#16
Artist + SarenS... Nice. Is Skyyart Zerg?
Eye for an eye make the world go blind - Gandhi
Mycl
Profile Joined November 2010
Australia1370 Posts
April 01 2012 14:42 GMT
#17
The April fools joke thing actually worked a real treat to take attention away from the playing roster
Naphal
Profile Joined December 2010
Germany2099 Posts
April 01 2012 14:43 GMT
#18
very meta, glhf!
imZcK
Profile Joined February 2011
United States61 Posts
April 01 2012 14:44 GMT
#19
So one of the reasons people believed the joke was because no one could find the team's sponsors, I still can't. Do you guys have sponsors?
Amokoma
Profile Joined August 2011
Denmark122 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-01 19:52:01
April 01 2012 14:46 GMT
#20
In my opinion it was not the best choice bringing a lot of negative attention and bad first impressions on your team due to a april fools joke and also making fun of players who actually ended in a position where their teams screwed them over
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