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It has been some weeks since we posted about our only protoss player Welmu, to leave the team. But now, after long searching, we found our new hope in the protoss race, in the upcoming, former AoE player TheMista.
Since most of you wont know about him, let me shortly introduce him to you.
TheMista is a former Age of Empire player from greece, who started playing computer games at the age of 8. At the age of 13 he made it into on of the best AoE-Clans out there called "L_Clan". He started playing Sc2 one month after release, but didn't make any great appereance in the EU scene quite yet. However he won a lot of National Lan tournaments and is concentrating on gaming right now. At the moment of writing he is ranked #70 in the European grandmaster league and improves very fast.
If you still wanna know more about him, i recommend this thread for you: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=300642
Statement Team Empire:
We were looking for a new protoss for quite a while and after a lot of searching, we finally found a player, in which we see a lot of potencial to become one of the best protoss players in the scene. We are really happy to get this addition to our roster, since our line up really lacked in a solid protoss player. Have a nice stay with us Mista!
Statement TheMista:
It feels like a dream come true , i always wanted to join team empire . I will try my best to prove my self worthy and give results . Playing along side with Kas,beasty,happy,aristeo,violet,hobot is just damn great !
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Awesome. Kind of poorly timed though since it's going to be obviously overshadowed by ThorZain/EG Lol
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good talent addition keeper
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good pick up
lol, talk abt overshadowed.
#TH0RZA1N
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Best of luck to him and Empire. Keep searching for new talents!
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I was actually just thinking about Empire needing to pick up a toss. I was thinking GuineaPig but I like the investment into new talent
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Great Protoss player with huge talent and great potential! Good pick by Empire and good luck to both!
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Great pick up from Team Empire, Mista Hwaiting!!!
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Good luck to him and Empire, hope it works out well! :D
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Props to Empire for signing people for talent and not names.
I like your style.
Good luck to both parties involved.
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Good luck and congrats :D
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United States7481 Posts
Nice! I can't think of any other Greek sc2 players off the top of my head, always cool to see people from new areas joining big teams.
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I dunno, Empire most likely thought they could find someone better than Welmu but didn't really find one... Pretty sure they are regretting letting go of Welmu now.
GL to TheMista though!
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I've seen "EmpireMista" play Grubby today on his stream. I was wondering if there was an announcement already. Mista played well but Grubby outplayed him.
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United Kingdom38056 Posts
Nice signing, hopefully he develops into a really solid Protoss for you!
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I remember themista from aoe glad to see he got into a team!
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Interesting, like that they're investing into more new talent and not getting a Korean to replace Welmu.
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On May 10 2012 05:42 JOJOsc2news wrote: I've seen "EmpireMista" play Grubby today on his stream. I was wondering if there was an announcement already. Mista played well but Grubby outplayed him.
Don't know where you saw Grubby outplaying him there, they played 2 games and went 1-1.
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Saw yesterday that he played versus Hasuobs, pretty sick PvP I must say!
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Great player with a lot of potential,keep an eye on him in the future!
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COOL! Some1 Kas can practice with.
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Mista is a great player. GL Mista!!!
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Hope to see him play in some tournaments.
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Empire is an awesome EU team with a very powerful line up, looking forward to see how TheMista does .
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Isn't this rather old news. I have seen him use the Empiremista tag for a while now on grubby's and white-ra's streams. Didn't put two and two together I guess haha.
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On May 10 2012 05:45 Champloo wrote:Show nested quote +On May 10 2012 05:42 JOJOsc2news wrote: I've seen "EmpireMista" play Grubby today on his stream. I was wondering if there was an announcement already. Mista played well but Grubby outplayed him. Don't know where you saw Grubby outplaying him there, they played 2 games and went 1-1.
I only saw the game Grubby won and "outplayed" might be the wrong word. I didn't mean to imply that he had no chance if that's how you understood that.
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Great! Do you have a twitter account?
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Wow, probably one of the most talented players out there, that's probably the sickest pick-up I've seen in a while. I hope he gets some recognition in the mist of all the turmoil created by the usual EG hype :/
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Themis is a sick player. Definitely deserves more recognition!
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Saw this on stream yesterday. He did well against Hasu and White-Ra. niceee!
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Awesome pick up! GL to him and hes new team
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My all time favorite Greek player, TheMista, is the best choice Empire could do, as goes for a new talented player. A good focused TheMista can win any player in the world. Competing with the best, will only make Themis stronger, even so by looking his match history, this is already happening.
Good Luck Themi and Team Empire, I 'll be there cheering for you :D
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TheMista's talent doesn't fall short when compared to any other competitive player out there. Now that his dedication is also taken to the next level, I'm quite certain of many great things to come. Good luck Themi, you are a great addition to a great team, and I'm looking forward to your upcoming achievements!
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Simply the best Greek player.Very innovative and smart!
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Best of luck to you and Empire
More non-Terrans for your team can only be a good thing ^^
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WHAAAAAAAAT?!!? Havent browsed the greek community site for while this comes as a shock!
Gratz! Mista, well deserved spot. We are all supporting you. Lets get things going!
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First Greek player on a major SC2 team, cool news.
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A Greek? nice! Good luck TheMista!!!
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Awesome news!!! Best of luck to Mista,he's certainly the most talented Greek player and an amazing guy
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Empire-Da-Mistaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa should be ur new name bro i hope part of "benefits" joining Empire is to get some Stolichnaya bottles... Bring em to next Lan^^
Μίστα-Kλαρίνο-Τσίπουρο και ΚΙΝΟ
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Norway68 Posts
TheMista is a pretty good player. Nice pickup by Empire.
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Hey I remember him from aom. awesome
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Totally expected, Themis is an awesome player. Greek bonjwa? xP
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great and cool player, gl Mista !!
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On May 10 2012 19:22 Oboeman wrote: Hey I remember him from aom. awesome
And you are HailToTheOboe ?
gratz Empire and Themis
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Mista is incredibly talented and smart. As long as he works hard, i can see him going to places. He loves warp prism play and often uses multiple warp prisms.
He was known as the "2base mista" earlier on because he would never get a 3rd. He loved to use smart strategies and timings to beat his enemies. But in the last year he has greatly improved his macro, by forcing himself to get a 3rd base and make extra probes. Nowadays he is scary beastly since his repertoire of strategies is pretty wide. He can get a fast third, go for a 2base timing or hit you with a 2base 200pop, 3/3 upgrades classic protoss deathball(he beat stephano like that yesterday, it was funny). All that while constantly harassing you with warp prisms, zealots and dts. You can download some of his replays from here
http://www.finegamer.com/english/replays.aspx?cid=4&rid=-1&did=-1
PS His liquidpedia page is missing tons of info. Mista has won thousands of euro cash(or prizes) from tournaments, though they were mostly greek tournaments. But i am too lazy update the page
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Good luck in your career Mista!
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Woohoo great stuff! Good to see mista getting serious ! Good luck sir <3
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go go aoe players! good work mista!
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Great pickup by Empire and good luck to Mista!!
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Gm rank 16... things are getting serious! :D
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way worse than welmu, but GL
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Nice pickup Empire and a big congratulations to Mista! Good to see some AoE players doing well in SC2.
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On May 11 2012 08:31 mazqo wrote: way worse than welmu, but GL
I think you should check sc2ranks again . you re kinda outdaTED sir.
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On May 11 2012 08:46 HSL wrote:I think you should check sc2ranks again . you re kinda outdaTED sir.
ladder rank means very little, he was referring to player skill, and in terms of results Welmu has a lot more to show
but on topic, i love that Empire has invested in some up and coming talent, rather than just poaching an established player, and I really hope it works out for them
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Team empire, used to play age of empires?? Good luck, i remember this guy got really good at aom last time i played it.
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On May 11 2012 08:51 Tidus Mino wrote:Show nested quote +On May 11 2012 08:46 HSL wrote:On May 11 2012 08:31 mazqo wrote: way worse than welmu, but GL I think you should check sc2ranks again . you re kinda outdaTED sir. ladder rank means very little, he was referring to player skill, and in terms of results Welmu has a lot more to show but on topic, i love that Empire has invested in some up and coming talent, rather than just poaching an established player, and I really hope it works out for them
This thread is not meant to be a comparison between these two players. EmpireMista is kinda new to hardcore sc2 scene and he climbs ladder and ranks very fast. Seems pretty promising. Welmu is also a decent player but Empire chose to dismiss him... i think they know better and i trust their decision. Pretty much sure they know better from us all.
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Congratulations Themi Gl in the future
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