Eclypsia - Official launching thread - Page 12

here we are all talking about it.. bad publicity = good publicity

On April 01 2012 23:26 Eclypsia wrote:


Hi everyone,

Last night, you may have read that 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.



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.



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.



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



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



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
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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 "Artist" Min Ho
Pierre "SarenS" Guivarch
Antoine "ELVIS" Paquay
Antoine "Dayshi" Stievenart
Marc-Olivier "desRow" Proulx
Vesa "Welmu" Hovinen
Andrew "SLoG" An


Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/EclypsiaCOM
Twitter : https://twitter.com/#!/EclypsiaCOM
Website : http://www.eclypsia.com

On April 02 2012 05:36 hypercube wrote:


Just in case there are 15 year old girls reading this thread: Telling your mom that you're pregnant as an april's fool joke is out of line.

I don't think this is that bad. I mean, next time someone comes forward with something like this, they'll get asked if it's an april's fool joke. I can see how that will be annoying, but no big deal, really.

On April 02 2012 06:32 Beakyboo wrote:
I actually love this just because it demonstrates how insane the community on these forums can be. A random post from an unknown player on a super obscure team and everyone starts jumping to radical conclusions with no hard facts at all. Troll the idiots and watch them freak out. Well done.

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.

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.

On April 02 2012 08:04 HorsemasterK wrote:
First team that I will be an anti-fan of.

Not clever, not funny and attention-whorish.

On April 02 2012 07:46 r.Evo wrote:
There is no such thing as bad PR.

What the people who rage at the whole thing don't realize is: Now you have heard about Eclypsia. Before that you didn't. And a random "NEW PRO TEAM RISING OMG" post would have made less people aware of their existance than this.

tl;dr: Profit.