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viOLet recognized as Athlete by the US government - Page 6

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Yergidy
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States2107 Posts
December 11 2013 19:41 GMT
#101
On December 12 2013 04:05 Nerevar wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 12 2013 03:25 Lonyo wrote:
On December 12 2013 02:52 The_Templar wrote:
This is awesome news, are other AM players like Polt recognized as athletes too?

Polt is in the US on a student visa as he is studying at Texas A&M or something like that.

Polt is actually studying at the University of Texas at Austin, not A&M. That's actually a pretty big difference among us Texans, so don't go around mixing the two up if you're ever down here

Yup, unless you're down for a fight. Too bad Polt decided to go to the second-rate school that is UT lol

On topic, congrats for Violet!
One bright day in the middle of the night, Two dead boys got up to fight; Back to back they faced each other, Drew their swords and shot each other.
Drake
Profile Joined October 2010
Germany6146 Posts
December 11 2013 19:41 GMT
#102
super cool news
Nb.Drake / CoL_Drake / Original Joined TL.net Tuesday, 15th of March 2005
nabresrotciv
Profile Joined September 2012
United Kingdom32 Posts
December 11 2013 19:43 GMT
#103
This is BIG!
gg
seoul_kiM
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States545 Posts
December 11 2013 19:45 GMT
#104
Aren't all Texas schools second rate kind of except for Rice?

U of T Austin has a great law program though.
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Crownlol
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
United States3726 Posts
December 11 2013 19:46 GMT
#105
EG.viOlet inc.

Actually, I think his personality fits better on Liquid- also would give Liquid a serious top tier trifecta (sorry Zenio )
shaGuar :: elemeNt :: XeqtR :: naikon :: method
Crownlol
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
United States3726 Posts
December 11 2013 19:46 GMT
#106
On December 12 2013 04:45 seoul_kiM wrote:
Aren't all Texas schools second rate kind of except for Rice?

U of T Austin has a great law program though.


U of T Austin also has a top-20 Business School too.

So no, U of T is not second rate.
shaGuar :: elemeNt :: XeqtR :: naikon :: method
Bagration
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
United States18282 Posts
December 11 2013 19:47 GMT
#107
Congrats!
Team Slayers, Axiom-Acer and Vile forever
maw-maw
Profile Joined August 2011
Poland40 Posts
December 11 2013 19:48 GMT
#108
great news!! hope to see even more legitimization in esports.
now you're a mayun
VisonKai
Profile Joined May 2012
United States2203 Posts
December 11 2013 19:50 GMT
#109
omg omg omg omg omg

he's coming back.

my second favorite player is coming back to America.

YESSSSSS
Ctone23
Profile Blog Joined December 2012
United States1839 Posts
December 11 2013 19:50 GMT
#110
On December 12 2013 04:45 seoul_kiM wrote:
Aren't all Texas schools second rate kind of except for Rice?

U of T Austin has a great law program though.


Nice generalization. Yeah, here in Texas we ride horses to school (only attend school after herding cattle, number one priority) and our women chew tobacco.
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The_Templar
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
your Country52797 Posts
December 11 2013 19:51 GMT
#111
On December 12 2013 04:45 seoul_kiM wrote:
Aren't all Texas schools second rate kind of except for Rice?

U of T Austin has a great law program though.

Have you been in texas or even talked to people from texas? I have done the latter and the answer is no
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VisonKai
Profile Joined May 2012
United States2203 Posts
December 11 2013 19:53 GMT
#112
Assuming there's multiple rates beyond second rate, then I guess almost all Texas schools (along with most other schools) are second rate or worse.
Crownlol
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
United States3726 Posts
December 11 2013 19:55 GMT
#113
On December 12 2013 04:50 Ctone23 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 12 2013 04:45 seoul_kiM wrote:
Aren't all Texas schools second rate kind of except for Rice?

U of T Austin has a great law program though.


Nice generalization. Yeah, here in Texas we ride horses to school (only attend school after herding cattle, number one priority) and our women chew tobacco.


Now hold on Skeeter, he ain't hurtin' nobody.

Seriously though, I think he's probably just a highschool kid who is looking at a list of "Top 25 Schools".
shaGuar :: elemeNt :: XeqtR :: naikon :: method
PhoenixVoid
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
Canada32746 Posts
December 11 2013 19:57 GMT
#114
So happy for viOLet, we can finally see him play and he overcame the diplomatic hurdles to his dreams.
I'm afraid of demented knife-wielding escaped lunatic libertarian zombie mutants
SCST
Profile Joined November 2011
Mexico1609 Posts
December 11 2013 19:58 GMT
#115
This is great news for NA ladder IF Violet participates. Let's hope he does and gives everyone some great practice.
"The weak cannot forgive. Forgiveness is an attribute of the strong." - Gandhi
Rescawen
Profile Joined April 2010
Finland1028 Posts
December 11 2013 19:58 GMT
#116
Good for violet, makes you doubt MLG as an organization.
GenesisX
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Canada4267 Posts
December 11 2013 20:00 GMT
#117
Wow great news haven't heard news about violet in forever
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merz
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
Sweden2760 Posts
December 11 2013 20:04 GMT
#118
This is actually huge. Afaik it's already happened in LoL but seeing it happen in SC2 just reaffirms the fact that it is huge.

It gives validity to the notion that "professional e-sports athlete/player" is actually a profession. Big ups for the U.S. Government and all the people involved making this possible.
Winners never quit, quitters never win.
Wuster
Profile Joined May 2011
1974 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-12-11 20:10:19
December 11 2013 20:08 GMT
#119
On December 12 2013 04:55 Crownlol wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 12 2013 04:50 Ctone23 wrote:
On December 12 2013 04:45 seoul_kiM wrote:
Aren't all Texas schools second rate kind of except for Rice?

U of T Austin has a great law program though.


Nice generalization. Yeah, here in Texas we ride horses to school (only attend school after herding cattle, number one priority) and our women chew tobacco.


Now hold on Skeeter, he ain't hurtin' nobody.

Seriously though, I think he's probably just a highschool kid who is looking at a list of "Top 25 Schools".


Ya, those lists are BS, public schools like UT regularly get shafted on the rankings.

I went to a public school and our rival is a private school who's shot up the rankings like 10, 20 places every year and finally tied us. Does anyone really believe a school can 'improve' that quickly? Not me, they basically gamed all the monetary rankings (alumni fundraising, spending on research, and other money categories that have little to do with what ugrads actually do).

Rankings aside though, the perception of a school's quality goes up the closer you live to it too lol (having friends who studied all over the US it's interesting to see what their peers thought of as top-schools).

Edit: On topic, I'm wondering where the rumor that Violet was a Visa overstay came from then if that wasn't the case.
KalWarkov
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
Germany4126 Posts
December 11 2013 20:14 GMT
#120
took 3 hours for someone to finally make a thread lol
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