The backers behind quantic obviously put some major money into this to secure a team house, top class players like Illusion, SaSe, TheStC, Golden, and flew people to tournaments. They have however been relatively bad at finding sponsors and giving the sponsors they have exposure. I had to look up what sponsors Quantic have despite been quite familiar with them, and they only have the generic Twitch and Razer sponsorship which every serious team seems to have these days (possibly with Steelseries over Razer). To me it seems to have been run more like a clan than a business, and investors likely couldn't see a good ROI being likely. *

In any case I suspect this means EGTheStCRC as EG likely knew before, TheStC would fit their plans in proleague perfectly and they hinted at a new player in Korea.

SaSe, Illusion and Golden shouldn't have major problems finding a team either.

* EDIT: And apparently some weird vision sponsor I never heard about despite reading and hearing plenty interviews with Quantic players

fireforce7

United States334 Posts

December 04 2012 22:06 GMT

#62

Teams disbanding and players quitting to lol left and right.

DavoS

United States4605 Posts

December 04 2012 22:06 GMT

#63

That's a lot of talent gone. Granted they didn't really have an all star to help carry them (I wouldn't call TheSTC reliable), but there was a lot of talent that could've been trained up. What went wrong?

bertjuuhh

Netherlands36 Posts

December 04 2012 22:06 GMT

#64

What!!! this is such sad news

Young Terran

United Kingdom265 Posts

December 04 2012 22:07 GMT

#65

im more concerned for all the players that are left teamless its hard to survive living off e sports money

Monochromatic

United States998 Posts

December 04 2012 22:07 GMT

#66

How did this happen? I thought they were one of the more successful teams?

Nevosis

France27 Posts

December 04 2012 22:07 GMT

#67

What?!
Really sad, I hope Sase will find a really great team to reach the top foreigner lvl, he is really really close

Acronysis

872 Posts

December 04 2012 22:07 GMT

#68

wow. thats a big blow. really hope StC and Sase can find new teams. To think Mark was talking so highly of the future no more than a month ago. =/

Boucot

France15997 Posts

December 04 2012 22:07 GMT

#69

@Slasher
Investors have pulled out from funding the team, players nor staff knew about this beforehand. Players in talks with other American teams.

=/

Very sad news

clever_us

United States329 Posts

December 04 2012 22:08 GMT

#70

QUICK SOMEBODY SIGN HAWK HE'S A BADASS

Aulisemia

United States123 Posts

December 04 2012 22:08 GMT

#71

I wonder if this is just shedding some of the, what 24 players they had on the roster? I'm sure most of their upper tier players will find homes, but seems like they had a lot of dead weight at the bottom.

yoshi245

United States2974 Posts

December 04 2012 22:08 GMT

#72

What sad news. Well I figure other teams will at least have bidding wars for the more well known players like TheSTC, SaSe, Golden, and Illusion. I figure Complexity wouldn't mind having any of them.

babylon

8765 Posts

December 04 2012 22:08 GMT

#73

But whyyyyyyyy. D:

Hope the players find a good home. (Wouldn't mind seeing TheStC or Sase on ST, for instance.)

Nuclease

United States1049 Posts

December 04 2012 22:09 GMT

#74

Jesus.

The hell happened?

Dodgin

Canada39254 Posts

December 04 2012 22:09 GMT

#75

On December 05 2012 07:06 fireforce7 wrote:
Teams disbanding and players quitting to lol left and right.

Frankly the bubble has burst, and now things are going to downsize. It sucks for those who are losing their teams but it was bound to happen eventually.

The retirements for LoL are because they can't be successful in sc2 or have lost passion for sc2, not because LoL is a better career path ( It's not unless you are in a huge team )

PixelNite

France1008 Posts

December 04 2012 22:09 GMT

#76

Knowing Crank is best friend with TheStC, and how awesome theStC is, wouldn't be surprised to see him joining Axiom. Sucks for the other players; hope Sase, Golden and Illusion find a good new home

Quakie

Norway725 Posts

December 04 2012 22:09 GMT

#77

Isn't Quantic also some of the older teams? With teams in Halo etc(before SC2 was released)?

drooL

United Kingdom2108 Posts

December 04 2012 22:09 GMT

#78

was Sase still on Quantic?

ThomasjServo

15244 Posts

December 04 2012 22:09 GMT

#79

On December 05 2012 07:08 babylon wrote:
But whyyyyyyyy. D:

Hope the players find a good home. (Wouldn't mind seeing TheStC or Sase on ST, for instance.)

Sase to a Korean team would be sick. ST_Sase has a nice ring to it.