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Innovation will join Acer on September 1 - Page 10

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iyasq8
Profile Joined December 2012
113 Posts
August 26 2013 23:56 GMT
#181
Now the real question is will there be an Acer curse?

ps. he'll probably be fine without a coach, his coach used to say innovation went with his own pace.
Piece
Weavel
Profile Joined January 2010
Finland9224 Posts
August 26 2013 23:56 GMT
#182
Great news! Acer looking super strong.
Life/Seed//Mvp/NaNiwa fighting! ZeNEX forever!
IPA
Profile Joined August 2010
United States3206 Posts
August 26 2013 23:58 GMT
#183
Innovation and Scarlet could beat most 5-7 person lineups just between themselves.
Time held me green and dying though I sang in my chains like the sea.
iyasq8
Profile Joined December 2012
113 Posts
August 26 2013 23:59 GMT
#184
will Innovation be participating in GSTL?
Piece
StarStruck
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
25339 Posts
August 27 2013 00:00 GMT
#185
On August 27 2013 08:56 KingMel wrote:
So let me tell you what you have to read here, because if you're not french, you arent getting the key information.

Anyone not french : Acer is getting Innovation, wow, cool ! Now they just need a good protoss !

Any french guy : Pomf & Thud want Innovation really bad for the next Iron Squid, and they get him as Kaoru (Acer's manager) is one of the most important personn of the Ogaming Crew and one of the most influent figure in France. P&T know it would have been too hard to get Innovation directly from the Kespa because of the barrier of language and the barbed wire Kespa put around their players.


I'm not surprised that Iron Squid want him.
GuitarBizarre
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
United Kingdom332 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-27 00:04:49
August 27 2013 00:02 GMT
#186
More lazy Slasher journalism. Another article with nothing more compelling than "sources say" appended to what everyone already thought (Or at least, thought if they had any sense about them to decipher the obvious hints).

I don't like the way Slasher seems to write these articles on a whim and simply reiterate extant rumours. No doubt he does actually have sources that will tell him stuff, but why is he never able to articulate what he's learned and combine it with intelligent analysis of the extant situation or previous situation?

A valid and hard-working journalist would have written an article that didn't just state things already said in public by other sources, but actually cross referenced them and formed a new conclusion or an affirmed conclusion out of them.

For example, the evidence from the hints alone given via Scarlett and AcerEsports twitter, would have gleaned the following once the teaser tweets were out:


What We Know So Far:

1 - They're getting a new player

2 - Knocked out before the RO8 in WCS Finals. - This leaves MC, Welmu, Grubby, Polt, duckdeok, INnoVation, Maru, or MMA.

3 - Can't be MMA, since he's already on Acer.

4 - New Player is Terran. This leaves Maru, Polt, or Innovation.

5 - This image shows the new player's silhouette with the other players on the team - It can't be Maru, since he's nowhere near as tall as the person in the photo. This leaves Polt or INnoVation. - This holds true even if the photo is photoshopped, as Maru's height is a very obvious tell, whereas people may be lenient with Polt or Innovation's height.

6 - The link says the players team wishes to keep things secret until such time as the player actually switches from one team to the other - this eliminates Polt, as he recieves a personal sponsorship, rather than being on a team contract. This leaves one possible conclusion

The new Acer player is INnoVation.


He could have pulled this together in his article by pointing out that his sources confirmed a player that fit with all the available teaser evidence. He could even have qualified the situation's parallel to earlier signings by other teams where the new player was hinted at significantly before the actual announcement, or other teams parodical approach to such, for example EG's willingness to play to the crowd with the signing video about EG Stephano.


Slasher did none of this, and as a result his entire article could have been shortened to "Someone told me Innovation is the new Acer player - By the way, STX seem unhappy that Acer have been teasing this so heavily before the transfer took place, and btw neither team would actually talk to me before I wrote this article".


Then he has the balls to post it both on gamespot, here, and on r/starcraft, with a title that suggests he obtained an outright, public confirmation, rather than his anonymous "source".


I don't doubt he's correct, but simply being correct about something this obvious doesn't make someone a good journalist.

Not to mention, isn't Slasher's job to write for gamespot and thus drive exposure to their website and articles? I respect that he's (Finally) linked their site from his r/starcraft and teamliquid posts, but can I suggest this is some small concession to the fact that in the past he has submitted many of his news stories to reddit via the medium of a direct twitter link, thereby driving zero traffic to the website that ostensibly pays his bills?

Slasher, shape up, you and others besides, know that right now, you're relying on article titles much more than actual content, to drive people to read your articles, be they gamespot or anywhere else.
In retrospect, I don't know how you can play StarCraft without swearing. - Eifer
Penguinator
Profile Joined December 2010
United States837 Posts
August 27 2013 00:06 GMT
#187
Slasher killing esports
Towelie.635
jax1492
Profile Joined November 2009
United States1632 Posts
August 27 2013 00:10 GMT
#188
Interesting, i would not have guessed this at all actually .... acer must be making him an offer he can't refuse, but also surprised stx can't match it.
OneSpeed
Profile Joined June 2012
Norway47 Posts
August 27 2013 00:13 GMT
#189
Does this mean we get to see INnoVation stream ladder? :O :S ) :=E
I only got one speed
FoShao
Profile Joined November 2012
United States256 Posts
August 27 2013 00:14 GMT
#190
Acer got money in the bank
TJ31
Profile Joined October 2012
630 Posts
August 27 2013 00:16 GMT
#191
Why Innovation... whyyyy? I'm pretty sure most of korean teams would pick him as well, why Acer?
Dreamer.T
Profile Joined December 2009
United States3584 Posts
August 27 2013 00:18 GMT
#192
This feels weird...Acer.Innovation just doesn't sound as solid as STX_Innovation. Oh well, him and Scarlett should make excellent practice parters, further improving each of their strongest matchups.
Forever the best, IMMvp <3
Phil0s0pher
Profile Joined October 2012
Australia317 Posts
August 27 2013 00:19 GMT
#193
On August 27 2013 08:59 iyasq8 wrote:
will Innovation be participating in GSTL?


I'm really interested in this question!!

Imagine Axiom-Acer with Ryung, Innovation, MMA, Crank, Alicia, Scarlett, Heart ...that is a scary scary line up.
Sometimes I remember that there will be a day where herO and Maru retire. And I get sad
CuSToM
Profile Joined October 2010
United States1478 Posts
August 27 2013 00:21 GMT
#194
I feel like he is throwing all of his potential away.

best of luck to him I suppose
Team SCV Life #1
liberate71
Profile Joined October 2011
Australia10252 Posts
August 27 2013 00:23 GMT
#195
hmmm.... grats Acer, much more preferred LGIM.Innovation though

Especially as they didn't get Jjiakji

Acer have da ca$h
Minelord Stimfestor, also known as karma.
Hryul
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Austria2609 Posts
August 27 2013 00:24 GMT
#196
awesome! I'm really curious what will come out of this in the long run. (hopefully MMA can take something away from him too )
Countdown to victory: 1 200!
PresenceSc2
Profile Joined February 2011
Australia4032 Posts
August 27 2013 00:25 GMT
#197
Wonder why EG didn't pick him up.
Stephano//HerO//TaeJa//Squirtle//Bomber
Dontkillme
Profile Joined November 2011
Korea (South)806 Posts
August 27 2013 00:29 GMT
#198
STX is gonna get fucked lol
Bomber & Jaedong & FlaSh & SNSD <3
Godwrath
Profile Joined August 2012
Spain10165 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-27 00:31:32
August 27 2013 00:31 GMT
#199
He should go back to his old ID.

Acer.Bogus sounds much better and describes my feelings entirely.
Bagration
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
United States18282 Posts
August 27 2013 00:34 GMT
#200
Ok, Acer is now the strongest "foreign" team.
Team Slayers, Axiom-Acer and Vile forever
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