Innovation will join Acer on September 1 - Page 12

On August 27 2013 10:29 GinDo wrote:
Hopully MMA can learn from Innovation and become his old self again. Go Go Team Acer.

RIP STX T_T

On August 27 2013 10:26 jiberish wrote:
IMO it is a good choice. A lot of the korean players really want to travel and play in the foreign tournaments. I mean look at JD. EG flies him all over the place. I think it is much more rewarding to look back on a career and think of all the places you went and the different fans you get to meet etc.

On August 27 2013 10:38 Bagration wrote:


Exactly. That's the crazy thing about Innovation. This Season 2 Finals was the FIRST Premier tournament that Innovation attended in HotS where he did not get top 4. Every single tournament he has attended otherwise he has gotten top 4 or better.

3rd place MLG Dallas
2nd place WCS Korea Season 1 (GSL)
1st place WCS Season 1 Finals
3rd/4th place WCS Korea Season 2 (OSL)
3rd Place WCG Korean Qualifiers (ok, not the main event or technically a Premier tournament, but definitely harder than most foreign Premier tournaments)

In order to be successful, a player needs 2 things:
1. Skill
2. Opportunities

Now there is no question Innovation has skill. But that alone is not always enough. You have plenty of players who are really good, but never have the opportunity to leave Korea to compete. That's why EG-TL have been doing so well. They have decent players (not the best, but solid players), and they send them everywhere. When's the last time we had a foreign tournament where these two teams weren't represented?

By joining a foreign team, Innovation now has both the skill, AND the opportunities to compete in more tournaments other than WCS. This could be huge for his career.

On August 27 2013 10:38 Cricketer12 wrote:
GSTL:

Startale: Bomber Life Curious Avenge and Hack (?)
MVP: Super, DongRaeGu, Keen, Dream, Duckdeok
AxA: Scarlett INnoVation Alicia MMA Ryung
IM: Squirtle Mvp First, YongHwa, MC

who wins? more importantly if INnoVation gets back into form, who beats him? Ryung? they are on the same team, so, who else?

On August 27 2013 10:47 XtreMe_au wrote:


And 1st in the IEM shanghai Korea qualifier. And winning his team proleague.. Pretty funny that people say he's in a massive slump and he's going down... Those results are almost unprecedented (MVP, Life, maybe a few others). I'm certain he will bounce back and be clutch as fuck.

On August 27 2013 10:38 Bagration wrote:


Exactly. That's the crazy thing about Innovation. This Season 2 Finals was the FIRST Premier tournament that Innovation attended in HotS where he did not get top 4. Every single tournament he has attended otherwise he has gotten top 4 or better.

3rd place MLG Dallas
2nd place WCS Korea Season 1 (GSL)
1st place WCS Season 1 Finals
3rd/4th place WCS Korea Season 2 (OSL)
3rd Place WCG Korean Qualifiers (ok, not the main event or technically a Premier tournament, but definitely harder than most foreign Premier tournaments)

In order to be successful, a player needs 2 things:
1. Skill
2. Opportunities

Now there is no question Innovation has skill. But that alone is not always enough. You have plenty of players who are really good, but never have the opportunity to leave Korea to compete. That's why EG-TL have been doing so well. They have decent players (not the best, but solid players), and they send them everywhere. When's the last time we had a foreign tournament where these two teams weren't represented?

By joining a foreign team, Innovation now has both the skill, AND the opportunities to compete in more tournaments other than WCS. This could be huge for his career.

On August 27 2013 11:05 skatblast wrote:
innovation has peaked long ago and is on a downfall

On August 27 2013 10:32 Zethiel wrote:
I wonder how much this will impact on the output of both teams. If STXsouls will do any better or worse, and how much Acer players may or may not improve... I mean, other players in STX will have more opportunities to play, to show and also be more responsible for where the team stood on PL, and on the other hand, Acer seems to be pretty balance to some point, and now I wonder how this will affect to mainly the other big players Acer has... like if INnoVation will be traveling a lot more to other tournaments, and how much less players like MMA or Scarlett will be attending those since INnoVation may take away some of the lights from them...

Either way, I'll miss seeing INnoVation in the light-blue/Black shirts and jacket combos, and now into the white/green of Acers...