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Serinox
Profile Joined August 2011
Germany5224 Posts
June 18 2012 23:40 GMT
#1
Well, this news is a bit old (15.06.2012), but somehow there were no threads on TL and r/starcraft, so I just post this here.

The german multigaming clan mTw reduces their StarCraft II roster to one player. (P)RineTS, (T)SonG, (P)Underdark and (P)TT1 are leaving mTw, making the ukrainian zerg (Z)DIMAGA the last player in their roster.

The reason for that is that most of the important "teamladders" are located in South Korea. Because a South Korean team branch does not make any sense for mTw, they released their players to allow them to join a team which focusses more on their SC2 roster than mTw.

Statement by team manager Christopher Pawlowski:

"We tried hard to re-establish a complete team like we had back in the days in WarCraft 3 to let the team play in teamladders. But these ladders are pretty much chaotic and have weird qualification procedures. In the end we came to the decision to focus on the presentation and success of the entirely mTw. The attraction of korean teamladders does not fulfil our claim. We do not see a reason to keep focus on a entire StarCraft 2 - team. We wish all our players good luck and all of success in the future. It was a good time! From now on we focus on our player Dmitriy 'Dimaga' Filipchuk".


Statement by TT1 (this news was posted on the mTw page one day before TT1 joined ROOT):


"I want to thank mTw for all the support that theve shown me. I'm very sad that we had to part ways this early but this is a step that both myself and mTw knew had to be taken in order for both partys to flourish. I leave the team on good terms and wish nothing but success for mTw and my dear friend Dimaga. See u guys at future lan events <3."


Source: http://www.mymtw.com/en/article/22994/ref-topnews/starcraft_tt1-rine-song-und-underdark-to-leave-mtw_starcraft-2-team-reduced.html
Badfatpanda
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States9719 Posts
June 18 2012 23:43 GMT
#2
Figured more would be leaving after TT1 left for ROOT. It's a shame both SonG and Underdark are good players, haven't seen Rine play personally but I'm sure he's of equal skill as well. As long as DIMAGA still gets to go to events he'll be happy.
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intense555
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States474 Posts
June 18 2012 23:44 GMT
#3
Wow.
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Bagration
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
United States18282 Posts
June 18 2012 23:45 GMT
#4
Well, at least they got Dimaga still, who is now a Dreamhack finalist.
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Xiphos
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Canada7507 Posts
June 18 2012 23:46 GMT
#5
I'm not even that much of SC2 fan and I am saddened by the fact that a gaming team is on the verge of being disbanded.

Hopefully mTw will pick up more guys.
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Ryusei-R1
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States2106 Posts
June 18 2012 23:47 GMT
#6
Dimaga as the only mTw SC2 player? That's pretty crazy...
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PhoenixVoid
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
Canada32740 Posts
June 18 2012 23:47 GMT
#7
Awww, hope mTw will find more players to fill their roster up. I don't want a great team to go the way of MYM.
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Zalitara
Profile Joined July 2011
Norway361 Posts
June 18 2012 23:48 GMT
#8
So mTw got first place at the Dota 2 tournament and second in the SCII tourney? That's pretty impressive considering the competition.
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Torte de Lini
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany38463 Posts
June 18 2012 23:48 GMT
#9
Beyond unsurprising when even DIMAGA isn't making any appearances in US sadly and doing tremdendously in EU.
I feel if that isn't enough of an incentive for MTW to do more, then I guess they're just not focusing on SC2 (given their successes elsewhere, it's al'right I guess).
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nkr
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Sweden5451 Posts
June 18 2012 23:50 GMT
#10
"The reason for that is that most of the important "teamladders" are located in South Korea."

I don't get this; what does "teamladders" mean? :o
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Hulavuta
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
United States1252 Posts
June 18 2012 23:50 GMT
#11
Somehow I saw this coming. Aside from TT1, we haven't really heard anything coming from any of the other mTw players.
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LuckoftheIrish
Profile Joined November 2011
United States4791 Posts
June 18 2012 23:52 GMT
#12
mTw doesn't really need more players than Dimaga since the major team competitions (in their view) are in South Korea. Since mTw isn't, and doesn't seem to have plans to send anyone over, there's not much point in them actually having a large roster.
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KingFool
Profile Joined January 2008
Canada428 Posts
June 18 2012 23:53 GMT
#13
So i guess what the organization is thinking, is they need to assist a team of dota players to fly to events, but not a team of starcraft players. If dimaga is realistically the only one who has a shot then it may be best to toss all of your eggs into one basket. It's a shame they have no intentions of growing talent, but as long as it doesn't become a trend then so be it.
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Serinox
Profile Joined August 2011
Germany5224 Posts
June 18 2012 23:56 GMT
#14
On June 19 2012 08:50 nkr wrote:
"The reason for that is that most of the important "teamladders" are located in South Korea."

I don't get this; what does "teamladders" mean? :o


I don't know either, I just quoted it from their website. Maybe there was something like that in WC3?
Sadistx
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Zimbabwe5568 Posts
June 18 2012 23:56 GMT
#15
They honestly don't need anyone else, except DIMAGA. I've never even heard of those other 3 guys, and TT1 left on his own volition.

I'd rather mtw save all their money on the dota team + dimaga than spread thin on some players that will never win anything.
aRyuujin
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States5049 Posts
June 18 2012 23:56 GMT
#16
On June 19 2012 08:50 nkr wrote:
"The reason for that is that most of the important "teamladders" are located in South Korea."

I don't get this; what does "teamladders" mean? :o

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mazqo
Profile Joined September 2010
Finland368 Posts
June 18 2012 23:57 GMT
#17
On June 19 2012 08:50 nkr wrote:
"The reason for that is that most of the important "teamladders" are located in South Korea."

I don't get this; what does "teamladders" mean? :o

propably team leagues
Kaitokid
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Germany1327 Posts
June 19 2012 00:00 GMT
#18
Well their players didn't have a lot of potential to be honest. RINE barely plays and he is so rusty that you could take one out of 100 random guys on ladder and there would be no difference. Underdark is pretty good but he just didn't seem to improve at all during 2011 and 2012 and from what I've seen he's not as active anymore aswell, he was a stable midtier GM player but nothing really special. I don't know much about SonG but he also didn't seem to be that great.

GL to mTw and hope they will support Dimaga well, he deserves it.
Bagi
Profile Joined August 2010
Germany6799 Posts
June 19 2012 00:01 GMT
#19
On June 19 2012 08:56 Sadistx wrote:
They honestly don't need anyone else, except DIMAGA. I've never even heard of those other 3 guys, and TT1 left on his own volition.

I'd rather mtw save all their money on the dota team + dimaga than spread thin on some players that will never win anything.

Agreed.

It works for SK with MC too.
JerKy
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Korea (South)3013 Posts
June 19 2012 00:02 GMT
#20
Is there any reason that Dimaga is continuing to stay or being kept by mTw?
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