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Hey I am not sure if there was a post of it here (didn't see any), but I thought it was worthy enough to make a post about.
ROOT Gaming is excited to announce the founding of its very own academy, SEED! Like other Starcraft academies, SEED will sign promising SC2 players and give them the resources needed to hone their skills and develop their talent. But what sets SEED apart from other academies is the simple structure that will allow players to rank their progress amongst not only each other, but the main team as well: SEED players will participate in ROOT's internal rankings tournaments, where consistently high placements will earn promotions to the main team and a spot at the team house.
Our first three members of SEED are Arium, SolO, and NajzMajs, all of whom are very young at only 13-14 years old and have displayed strong performances on ladder. Arium had a chance to play on the mainstage at MLG Anaheim and with SolO and NajzMajs coming from Norway and Sweden, respectively, the ROOT organization will now have two players living in Europe. @2xNoodle interviewed the three players to learn more about them and their thoughts about joining the ROOT organization through SEED:
Interview and more at this link
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Overall I'm pretty indifferent to ROOT, but this I really like. I hope it goes somewhere and it works out for them.
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pretty happy about this
go root
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I don't want to sound rude but Najzmajs loses to lowmid masters in small eu tourneys... I somehow see his friendship with catz working out positively for him in this regard...
My more or less semi competitive clan has some very young high masters who beat Najzmajs on ladder many times already...
For me the signing can only be justified with ROOT seeing some BIG room for improvement and a high future skill potential in him...
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United States692 Posts
Cool stuff. Always happy to see teams open up academy programs and the like. :D
Even though 'i c wut u did thar' with 'root' and 'seed', naming it SEED just makes me think someone is a FF8 fan haha.
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I saw this and went ahead and followed the players twitter accounts. ROOT is so very good at raising people's stream popularity. Good luck to the players  It sounded like they have real opportunity to join ROOT if they keep improving!
edit to the above: yeah, everytime I see SeeD in some shape or form I think of that game. My childhood T_T soooo good...
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On September 10 2013 05:49 sSooG wrote:
I don't want to sound rude but Najzmajs loses to lowmid masters in small eu tourneys... I somehow see his friendship with catz working out positively for him in this regard...
My more or less semi competitive clan has some very young high masters who beat Najzmajs on ladder many times already...
For me the signing can only be justified with ROOT seeing some BIG room for improvement and a high future skill potential in him...
Just like in real life, it's all about what connections you have. That's why i think your post is a bit naive.
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Players under 18 have a lot of legal problems competing and generally have to deal with not being their own master (parent's interfering) so they can't deadicate themselves to improving, despite having the drive.
However, I'm sure ROOT knows wtf they are doing and have found young'ins that are exceptions to this and will be awesome.
Cool initiative guys, gl gl gl! :D
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iNcontroL
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if they were any younger you'd need to name this academy "sperm"
HEYOOOOOOOOOOO
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On September 10 2013 05:56 iNcontroL wrote:
if they were any younger you'd need to name this academy "sperm"
HEYOOOOOOOOOOO
ZING!
OP you should also add the news of Fitzy and TT1 leaving ROOT, since it is in the same article.
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On September 10 2013 05:56 iNcontroL wrote:
if they were any younger you'd need to name this academy "sperm"
HEYOOOOOOOOOOO
And with that, Anna dragged him away from the PC while he yelled, "Wait, wait, I got one more! It's really good."
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On September 10 2013 05:56 iNcontroL wrote:
if they were any younger you'd need to name this academy "sperm"
HEYOOOOOOOOOOO
Actually this is a good idea, i think they should open another academy called SPORE for 5 to 10 year olds with diamond as minimum requirment.
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On September 10 2013 05:49 sSooG wrote:
I don't want to sound rude but Najzmajs loses to lowmid masters in small eu tourneys... I somehow see his friendship with catz working out positively for him in this regard...
My more or less semi competitive clan has some very young high masters who beat Najzmajs on ladder many times already...
For me the signing can only be justified with ROOT seeing some BIG room for improvement and a high future skill potential in him...
Doesnt sound like theyre giving the guy money or anything, the biggest aspect is having higher quality opponants to play against and give feedback. Who cares if they want to help their friend?
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So you have to be 13-14 years old to be in the SEED academy?
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On September 10 2013 06:01 Harajuku wrote:Show nested quote +On September 10 2013 05:56 iNcontroL wrote:
if they were any younger you'd need to name this academy "sperm"
HEYOOOOOOOOOOO Actually this is a good idea, i think they should open another academy called SPORE for 5 to 10 year olds with diamond as minimum requirment.
At what point are they just too young? I'm not sure we should be recruiting SC2 players before a certain age
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This is AWESOME! I like ROOT more and more every day.
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On September 10 2013 06:16 radscorpion9 wrote:Show nested quote +On September 10 2013 06:01 Harajuku wrote:On September 10 2013 05:56 iNcontroL wrote:
if they were any younger you'd need to name this academy "sperm"
HEYOOOOOOOOOOO Actually this is a good idea, i think they should open another academy called SPORE for 5 to 10 year olds with diamond as minimum requirment. At what point are they just too young? I'm not sure we should be recruiting SC2 players before a certain age
Jokes are hard on the internet. I think the HEYOOOOOOOOOOOO might be required for any joke.
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WAY 2 GO ROOT!!!
KEEP FIGHTING!!!!
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On September 10 2013 06:16 radscorpion9 wrote:Show nested quote +On September 10 2013 06:01 Harajuku wrote:On September 10 2013 05:56 iNcontroL wrote:
if they were any younger you'd need to name this academy "sperm"
HEYOOOOOOOOOOO Actually this is a good idea, i think they should open another academy called SPORE for 5 to 10 year olds with diamond as minimum requirment. At what point are they just too young? I'm not sure we should be recruiting SC2 players before a certain age
I think he's joking.
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I am on my phone so it's hard time quoting right now but concering najzmajs his skill , I was team mates with him in his old team AT gaming like 1 and a half year ago and he improved a lot since then he doesn't improve fast but he does also marketing wise he is an excellent choice he's been interviewed multiple times including an interview with the Swedish tv svt6 if I'm not mistaken and his stream numbers are decent.
Also for age it does not matter super much they can compete in most things like others and when they have a contract it's just a sign more.
Also I think they defenitly get more than practice I know najzmajs got gaming gear and support and such I could see it happen that he gets less but atleast gaming gear and such and I think back up to events as well but I am not 100% sure about the latter.
Edit: sorry for sloppy writing and to much use of also , I should sleep lol
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Neat that they picked 3 really young guys for their academy. I mean I doubt they cost root anything, and they can help lead those kids to reasonably balanced school/progaming careers or fulltime if they were good enough. Kind of has parity with some of the young guys (remember little maru a couple years ago?) that end up with teams in korea.
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GOGO ROOT
That is good good news : )
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This is pretty awesome.. Seems a more functional and useful compared to other academies I've seen. Really interested in where this lands some players.
Overall, great job @ ROOT. ROOT4ROOT errday anyway.
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will academy players have access to Das keyboard and thermaltake stuff for free (or at least have a discount ) ?
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On September 10 2013 05:56 iNcontroL wrote:
if they were any younger you'd need to name this academy "sperm"
[Sperm]Solo... giggity.
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The academy looks nice and I hope the best for the young players. It is also sad to see TT1 and Fitzy part ways with root. 
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partnership with fxo pls
seed.seed
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I already live in the same city you have the ROOT house, can I get in at no charge to you?
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*insert FFVIII / Gundam joke here*
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EPT
