So... Are we expecting another Dota 2 team to join up with another Starcraft 2 player in the next few days, except that these guys call themselves Horde, and for some strange reason all the ping data thingies line up with TeamLiquid -_-?

Jackle

Canada859 Posts

April 12 2013 06:48 GMT

#183

On April 12 2013 15:38 nmetasch wrote:

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Why not necessarily?

Well, since he obviously had to keep this a secret. What would the logic be for him to play for EG in proleague?

Also from the looks of it, EG is trying to create a new brand. Since the "Alliance" is a separate team, he wouldn't be able to play for EG-TL anyways.

Miss_Foxy

Singapore109 Posts

April 12 2013 06:52 GMT

#184

This is so awesome!

JtoK

Germany232 Posts

April 12 2013 06:53 GMT

#185

Interesting "Alliance". With HotS being kinda 'new' its maybe easier to create/form a new team. CoCa and Polt are still kinda teamless, but Polt has his own Sponsor with CMStorm. I think some other good korean Sc2 players are still teamless too.

GumBa

United Kingdom31935 Posts

April 12 2013 06:54 GMT

#186

Nice one NaNi

yokohama

United States1116 Posts

April 12 2013 06:54 GMT

#187

Awww I was really hoping for a Kespa team. Oh well, I knew it was a longshot. Hopefully the team will get some more pickups soon, right now it doesn't really draw too much interest from me.

quannguyen

Vietnam1390 Posts

April 12 2013 06:55 GMT

#188

When I saw 'Alliance', I immediately thought of EG-TL lol. Grazt to all the guys

MHT

Sweden1026 Posts

April 12 2013 06:56 GMT

#189

Think this is EG's way of bypassing the curse! (When coach Park isn't around)

Grats NaNi!

Heartland

Sweden24604 Posts

April 12 2013 06:57 GMT

#190

And here I woke up thinking that finally I'd understand what team Nani would play on.

TheAmazombie

United States3714 Posts

April 12 2013 06:59 GMT

#191

Well this is cool, I just hope to see Naniwa playing top Koreans again, I don't give a crap what team he is on. Go go go!

Balgrog

United States1221 Posts

April 12 2013 06:59 GMT

#192

I think this is perfect for naniwa. He doesn't play well with others, so I think this will be the best environment and we can see some more amazing play.

Azurues

Malaysia5612 Posts

April 12 2013 07:02 GMT

#193

just imagine them winning WCS and International 3...

oh wait

Zerg.Zilla

Hungary5029 Posts

April 12 2013 07:03 GMT

#194

First we had the "unholy alliance" and now the alliance...good.

BoZiffer

United States1841 Posts

April 12 2013 07:03 GMT

#195

Really dig NTH and Naniwa. What a good partnership.

felisconcolori

United States6169 Posts

April 12 2013 07:06 GMT

#196

Scott Smith ‏@SirScoots 6m

Anyone else think that hosting and selling .GG domain names is just another brilliant rev stream idea from @ottersaresocool and gang?

...
No, Scoots, no...

-_-

TheSilverfox

Sweden1928 Posts

April 12 2013 07:07 GMT

#197

This is actually nothing that weird to be honest. "The Alliance" is heavily sponsored by Razer and run by the EG Management.

From a branding and player perspective this is really smart. NTH and NaNiwa are Swedish and it's nothing wrong with an entrepreneur/owner to own two different brands. Think of it like car brands. You have Volkswagen Group which owns a lot of brands. Skoda is the EG here and The Alliance is Bentley.

From a marketing point of view as well as for the players it's fantastic for NaNiwa to be on a team with other Swedish superstars (No Tidehunter) with a little bit of different approach and focus.

sPSalai

Sweden16 Posts

April 12 2013 07:08 GMT

#198

if this ISNT EG, then they did a mistake, they let noob stephano join with total fail after he joined, Huk is a joke now days, always first game lose, did you all see the EG-TL vs woongjin? Huk got owned with like 70 suply in the first fight at 10min mark, he is SOOOOO BAD now, he just cant addept, playing his colossus, stalker sentry zealot bullshit, it doesnt work anymore. But if EG took Naniwa into their team, they for sure would start winning again, since Naniwa wins with or without teams, he is the best foreigner no doubt about that. Best EU NA player, and one of the best KR players when naniwa played there. He for sure is suited for anyteam there is, and ESPECIALLY EG since they suck so bad now, all their players suck, even thorzain

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gedatsu

1286 Posts

April 12 2013 07:09 GMT

#199

I'm confused, how exactly has Naniwa's real situation changed? He still doesn't have any SC-playing teammates. He's playing for a team in name only. It could of course be an EG partnership thing like many of you have speculated, but in terms of the stuff that's actually in the announcement, I don't see what he has to cheer for.

Dagobert

Netherlands1858 Posts

April 12 2013 07:10 GMT

#200

On April 12 2013 14:53 xtyxtbx wrote:
Love hearing about new E-Sports teams. However, EXPAND YOUR SC2 SECTION. 1 player won't cut it. There's a million other good unsigned players.

All 4.294.967.296 of them should come together and form Unsigned.int .