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vVvSpike
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redDuke
Australia207 Posts
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FuFighter
Germany60 Posts
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Abort Retry Fail
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Looking forward to Thorzain on a great team/environment! | ||
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Targe
United Kingdom14103 Posts
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Mimimimi
Germany7 Posts
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takingbackoj
United States684 Posts
On May 11 2012 18:34 RageBot wrote: Yeah, it's really silly, they have a team house, which means that out of any team in the world (outside of Millenium I think) they have an opportunity to take up-and-coming players, let them live in their house and play 12 hours a day. They should try and grow some NA talent in my opinion. Why? | ||
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SEA KarMa
Australia452 Posts
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FairForever
Canada2392 Posts
Exactly - why should they do that unless there's some benefit? They don't have any social responsibility to do that. | ||
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WolfintheSheep
Canada14127 Posts
On May 11 2012 14:33 Cloud9157 wrote: Problem is that is the ONLY players they sign it seems. Yeah, they should follow TeamLiquid's example, right? Face it, people just want to shit on EG because it's EG. It's a running double standard from fanboys. | ||
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Sphaero
Germany1697 Posts
On May 11 2012 21:35 FairForever wrote: Exactly - why should they do that unless there's some benefit? They don't have any social responsibility to do that. It would probably increase their reputation and fanbase as well. Homegrown talent is always good for the image. People outside their existing fanbase have more often than not a fixed view of EG. An American team with a bunch of money, which buy victories rather than "earn" them. A team that takes already complete players from other teams to weaken them. There is also the "EG curse" going around. I think that even only one truly homegrown player could change the view for some and could be sold by EG as "the America dream" or something like that. What do they have to lose? Just give a guy with potential a little bit of Salary, a shirt and a room in the Lair and see how it goes. Even if it fails, they can still at least say, that they have tried. | ||
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TheBanana
Norway2183 Posts
On May 11 2012 18:14 Velr wrote: Iirc the SC2 division started out as pure american? Probably some people got the idea from there taht EG will stay "mainly" American. But they had Grubby? | ||
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chocopan
Japan986 Posts
EG is pretty cool, they know how to run a team and have some pretty interesting players now. Lot to like. | ||
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Incognoto
France10239 Posts
Gratz to EG and Thorzain, they'll be good to each other; | ||
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Valikyr
Sweden2653 Posts
Grubby was signed as a WC3 player at the time. | ||
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TheBanana
Norway2183 Posts
On May 11 2012 23:04 Valikyr wrote: Grubby was signed as a WC3 player at the time. He was still listed on their SC2-roster on their own page. | ||
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GruGloG
Netherlands114 Posts
Also, what team in the world would NOT want the best players in their team? Big gratz to Thorzain and EG! | ||
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Hnnngg
United States1101 Posts
On May 11 2012 23:30 GruGloG wrote: I am trying so so so hard to see the logic that EG are villains for paying players more money than other teams, but I really struggle. They are a team, they want good results: so if their players don´t produce the results they feel is adequat they should just sit by and watch? Do they have some sort of obligation to not seek the best results they can for their team? Also, what team in the world would NOT want the best players in their team? Big gratz to Thorzain and EG! They need to actually adopt a child and rear it to be a SC2 pro, otherwise EG is poaching. Correction, the child needs to be one of the original EG member's child, otherwise it's poaching children from orphanages. | ||
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takingbackoj
United States684 Posts
On May 11 2012 22:29 Sphaero wrote: It would probably increase their reputation and fanbase as well. Homegrown talent is always good for the image. People outside their existing fanbase have more often than not a fixed view of EG. An American team with a bunch of money, which buy victories rather than "earn" them. A team that takes already complete players from other teams to weaken them. There is also the "EG curse" going around. I think that even only one truly homegrown player could change the view for some and could be sold by EG as "the America dream" or something like that. What do they have to lose? Just give a guy with potential a little bit of Salary, a shirt and a room in the Lair and see how it goes. Even if it fails, they can still at least say, that they have tried. What do they have to lose? Well do you know why Nike sponsors Lebron James and Ronaldo? Because they are arguably the best at what they do. I imagine it works in a similar fashion with E-sports an example would be IM, arguably the most successful team in SC2 hast the biggest sponsor in LG. Why would a company waste its time sponsoring a team full of unknown less skilled players? And I have never seen anyone say they hate EG because their isnt enough Americans on the team. | ||
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FairForever
Canada2392 Posts
On May 11 2012 22:29 Sphaero wrote: It would probably increase their reputation and fanbase as well. Homegrown talent is always good for the image. People outside their existing fanbase have more often than not a fixed view of EG. An American team with a bunch of money, which buy victories rather than "earn" them. A team that takes already complete players from other teams to weaken them. There is also the "EG curse" going around. I think that even only one truly homegrown player could change the view for some and could be sold by EG as "the America dream" or something like that. What do they have to lose? Just give a guy with potential a little bit of Salary, a shirt and a room in the Lair and see how it goes. Even if it fails, they can still at least say, that they have tried. 1) The team house has limited space. You want to bring someone in, you gotta kick someone out. You think developing talent is worth as much to EG as Machine/Idra/InControl? Think about the tradeoff? 2) Bringing in developing talent is like bringing in a team at a whole different level of play. I can't see Idra or the Korean side practicing with them, so they're going to be practicing with InControl/Machine/Lz/other people at their level on other teams. How are they going to get improved training and become competitive EG players? 3) Do you really think this will change the perception of EG? People dislike EG for no apparent reason, which is fine (people can root for/against teams). But TL doesn't develop talent (their only recruits recently are all Koreans, and Sheth if you go a bit further back) - yet you don't rag on them. 4) EG already tried to develop Axslav and Strifecro. The fact they released them shows it isn't financially responsible to keep developing players around. Sure they also played some 2s, but you can't really make a living off 2s in SC2. | ||
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