Alliance @theAllianceGG 36s We're just getting warmed up. More players, more teams, more Europe.
Well, looking forward to this.
Yeah, I'm really interested in what kind of players they'll pick up. "More Europe" might imply they'll keep their Swedish/EU player angle for sc2 as well. How long is Thorzain's contract with EG?
I don't think Thorzain would leave anywhere. I think he feels pretty home in EG and overall the BEST option he could have. But as stated earlier, there are players like ToD, Dimaga to name a few. Of course, if they are willing to get someone outside of Sweden.
Yeah I know it's very unlikely with Thorzain, it's just me loving the idea to see the best two swedes on a team, especially with their history. I can already imagine the team interviews in my head.
Dimaga would be nice though, give him some motivation to activate his beast mode again.
On April 13 2013 02:47 Sub40APM wrote: I thought Idra and Huk would quit EG if Naniwa joined it. Were those not the wildly reported threats?
Idra also used to talk about how much he hated HuK and was so glad that he wasn't on EG..
EG also used to shit on Razer gear, didn't they?
My point exactly. EG, more than any other NA team I can think of, is out to make money. If they felt like adding these players would be a smart business move, they would do it. Frankly I don't think they care about who or what their current players don't like. At then end of the day it isn't the players who make the decisions about who joins/what sponsers they sign with.
On April 13 2013 02:47 Sub40APM wrote: I thought Idra and Huk would quit EG if Naniwa joined it. Were those not the wildly reported threats?
Idra also used to talk about how much he hated HuK and was so glad that he wasn't on EG..
EG also used to shit on Razer gear, didn't they?
My point exactly. EG, more than any other NA team I can think of, is out to make money. If they felt like adding these players would be a smart business move, they would do it. Frankly I don't think they care about who or what their current players don't like. At then end of the day it isn't the players who make the decisions about who joins/what sponsers they sign with.
All NA teams are out to make money and become sustainable businesses. EG is just the best at it.
On April 13 2013 02:47 Sub40APM wrote: I thought Idra and Huk would quit EG if Naniwa joined it. Were those not the wildly reported threats?
Idra also used to talk about how much he hated HuK and was so glad that he wasn't on EG..
EG also used to shit on Razer gear, didn't they?
Liquid used to hate dota2 & razer, america used to promote peace,love&understanding, bitbybit used to macro
Since when did Liquid (the actual team) hate on dota2 and Razer? This is news to me considering Razer was the first sponsor for TSL back in BW and FakeSteve used to work with Razer so I don't get your comment.
Can someone briefly explain the relationship to EG? Is it like Baseball where Alliance will act as an EG farm team, or is it like FXO with multiple divisions in different areas?
On April 13 2013 05:38 Ikris wrote: Can someone briefly explain the relationship to EG? Is it like Baseball where Alliance will act as an EG farm team, or is it like FXO with multiple divisions in different areas?
It's about viral marketing where EG doesn't explicitly say alliance is theirs, but leave obvious clues for people to find, so people spend all day talking about whether alliance is EG or not. It's a smashing success if I do say so myself.
On April 13 2013 02:47 Sub40APM wrote: I thought Idra and Huk would quit EG if Naniwa joined it. Were those not the wildly reported threats?
Idra also used to talk about how much he hated HuK and was so glad that he wasn't on EG..
EG also used to shit on Razer gear, didn't they?
Yeah. Idra used to hate HuK, EG used to hate razer. Fact is, they do/say and put up with whatever keeps the money flowing. Not saying that's a bad thing, as it makes sense. Just saying that EG wouldn't let something like Idra hating yet another person in the pro scene get in the way of a good idea.
On April 13 2013 02:47 Sub40APM wrote: I thought Idra and Huk would quit EG if Naniwa joined it. Were those not the wildly reported threats?
Idra also used to talk about how much he hated HuK and was so glad that he wasn't on EG..
EG also used to shit on Razer gear, didn't they?
Yeah. Idra used to hate HuK, EG used to hate razer. Fact is, they do/say and put up with whatever keeps the money flowing. Not saying that's a bad thing, as it makes sense. Just saying that EG wouldn't let something like Idra hating yet another person in the pro scene get in the way of a good idea.
Exactly, and conversely, the players can complain as much as they want/threaten to leave. But they would have to be complete idiots to willingly leave that team in their position. Huk presumably is still making a ton of money over their as well as Idra.
On April 13 2013 05:45 Batch wrote: EG merges with TL under the banner Alliance. First the team is announced with Naniwa joining it, then they will fill up with players from EG and TL.
Heh, that is actually a pretty funny idea. I have the impression of the TL proteam being broke, but I'm probably way off base.
On April 13 2013 02:47 Sub40APM wrote: I thought Idra and Huk would quit EG if Naniwa joined it. Were those not the wildly reported threats?
Idra also used to talk about how much he hated HuK and was so glad that he wasn't on EG..
EG also used to shit on Razer gear, didn't they?
Liquid used to hate dota2 & razer, america used to promote peace,love&understanding, bitbybit used to macro
Since when did Liquid (the actual team) hate on dota2 and Razer? This is news to me considering Razer was the first sponsor for TSL back in BW and FakeSteve used to work with Razer so I don't get your comment.
Yeah, I don't think Liquid' has actually hated on DotA2 and Razer, nkr is talking about specific community members, which is hardly a fair comparison to EG players shitting on Razer publicly.
Like you said, Razer sponsored the first TeamliquidSL and has been their first and only computer peripheral sponsor.