EPTEG teams up with SlayerS for 2012 GSTL Season 2 - Page 3
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MasterKang
United States1373 Posts
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Dexington
Canada7276 Posts
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bITt.mAN
Switzerland3693 Posts
Is tons of money, which seems to abduct all promising players from other teams (oh hi there PUMA), the sweet smelling glue that gets SlayerS to agree? What else could it be?!? [No accusations, I just can't think of any other logical explanation.] Here's some history guys: once bought from their old teams, former stars GoRush, Nal_Ra (July too, but he then went to get a golden mouse, so not really) and Action never really did well. Likewise, KT(F) in Brood War was notorious for buying all the best players, but for some reason they didn't have the same dominance when it came to league championships. What I'm trying to say is, to make a good team, simply buying the good players won't be enough. Sometimes you need some re-vitalizing with new blood, ok fine, but you're in trouble if you focus too much on your by-gone stars instead of building up lesser players + Show Spoiler [WHOOPS] + I didn't read attentively enough. PUMA, HukThorZain and JYP are CERTAINLY NOT bygone stars, please don't get me wrong. I was only implying Idra really, but since he's not involved ..... Theory still holds, just doesn't apply in this case! It'll be dreary if the foreigners aren't up to scratch for GSTL, but hey, how else will they get to that level of competition? EDIT: nevermind, the ones put forth by EG are certainly up to snuff and should be a great for SlayerS in this "exchange progamer" programe! | ||
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PhoenixVoid
Canada32740 Posts
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unit
United States2621 Posts
startale still looks like the team to beat right now though with their players all doing excellent though mvp and prime aren't that far behind there's also the slumping IM and TSL that could theoretically do well as well and you would be foolish to count out nshoseo from doing well i wish liquid could succeed here but it's just so cutthroat with these stacked teams that i would consider it insanity for them to make the cut at the end of the season (one can hope though with hero and taeja around  ) | ||
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Serinox
Germany5224 Posts
On May 17 2012 09:26 bITt.mAN wrote: [...]but also seems like it'll marginalize SlayerS players who would otherwise play, but are replaced by some foreigners ....... with money. That's what I don't get, what have SlayerS got to gain from this[...] Remember that it is still up to the attending Slayers coach which player will get in the booth. Otherwise: Slayers gains a third tested protoss, two sick terrans who can snipe Protoss and HuK. These things are pretty nice to receive. | ||
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Demonhunter04
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On May 17 2012 09:25 Canucklehead wrote: WIth OGS disbanded, GSTL is down a team. I think EG should have sent Idra over and they could have competed as their own team. Slayers is already a huge team, that they don't need to use the EG lineup. Liquid is competing as an individual team, actually. | ||
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Eee
Sweden2712 Posts
On May 17 2012 09:12 Badfatpanda wrote: This is great news, will be excited to see how Tzain does during his stay in Korea, but does anyone know about how SteelSeries/Razer will be reacted to by the respective sponsors? I know it's been a rather big deal with partnerships in the past. Razer does not sponsor SlayerS any longer. | ||
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Grampz
United States2147 Posts
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bertu
Brazil871 Posts
Coca, MMA, Ryung, Puzzle, Yugioh is already a solid 5-man team, and they have Min, Brown, Clide, Crank, Ven and Alicia to practice snipes, plus their new recruits. I wouldn`t replace any of the first 5 for a EG player. I`d rather see EG as a separate team, but a combined roster is better than not seeing they at all. EG-Col would be fun, but not really feasible as a business plan, : P | ||
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Canucklehead
Canada5074 Posts
On May 17 2012 09:31 Demonhunter04 wrote: Liquid is competing as an individual team, actually. I know that, which is why I said GSTL is down a team with OGS disbanded. It was a 12 team tournament and now it's an 11 team tournament and I don't want every OGS opponent to receive a forfeit win, so they need to replace them if they can. | ||
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Serinox
Germany5224 Posts
On May 17 2012 09:33 DontGiveUp wrote: Idk, Slayers already had a pretty big line-up. I don`t see EG`s players adding anything. It adds redundancy in the new roster, not depth. Coca, MMA, Ryung, Puzzle, Yugioh is already a solid 5-man team, and they have Min, Brown, Clide, Crank, Ven and Alicia to practice snipes, plus their new recruits. I wouldn`t replace any of the first 5 for a EG player. JYP is better than Brown and Ven (and possibly Crank), PuMa is in a better shape than Ryung right and has acceptable TvP. Adding variancy and potential to a roster is never bad. | ||
Fionn
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LeLfe
France3160 Posts
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Serinox
Germany5224 Posts
On May 17 2012 09:38 Fionn wrote: So what's their tag? EG-Slayers? Slayers-EG? SlayEGrs? BoxeR used SlayerS-EG in his statement, so I guess they will use that. | ||
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ssg
United States1770 Posts
On May 17 2012 09:31 Demonhunter04 wrote: Liquid is competing as an individual team, actually. That doesn't have anything to do with what he said. If they send demuslim and Idra over they have a roster to compete. | ||
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mrtomjones
Canada4020 Posts
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ThreeActPlay
United States249 Posts
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opterown
Australia54784 Posts
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ssg
United States1770 Posts
On May 17 2012 09:26 bITt.mAN wrote: I don't understand, this feels like EG is tagging along with SlayerS and smacking their sticker on their boat, maybe putting forth some EG guys once in a while. Seems like a great "in" for EG (experience bonus galore), but also seems like it'll marginalize SlayerS players who would otherwise play, but are replaced by some foreigners ....... with money. That's what I don't get, what have SlayerS got to gain from this, apart from making friends with some evil gingers, and their ~genius~ fans? Is tons of money, which seems to abduct all promising players from other teams (oh hi there PUMA), the sweet smelling glue that gets SlayerS to agree? What else could it be?!? [No accusations, I just can't think of any other logical explanation.] Here's some history guys: once bought from their old teams, former stars GoRush, Nal_Ra (July too, but he then went to get a golden mouse, so not really) and Action never really did well. Likewise, KT(F) in Brood War was notorious for buying all the best players, but for some reason they didn't have the same dominance when it came to league championships. What I'm trying to say is, to make a good team, simply buying the good players won't be enough. Sometimes you need some re-vitalizing with new blood, ok fine, but you're in trouble if you focus too much on your by-gone stars instead of building up lesser players + Show Spoiler [WHOOPS] + I didn't read attentively enough. PUMA, HukThorZain and JYP are CERTAINLY NOT bygone stars, please don't get me wrong. I was only implying Idra really, but since he's not involved ..... Theory still holds, just doesn't apply in this case! It'll be dreary if the foreigners aren't up to scratch for GSTL, but hey, how else will they get to that level of competition? EDIT: nevermind, the ones put forth by EG are certainly up to snuff and should be a great for SlayerS in this "exchange progamer" programe! An in form Idra would actually be huge for slayers if they don't use coca since their z lineup is pretty horrible. Their zs, including coca, were a total of 0 and 2 all of last season. | ||
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