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Lorch
Germany3690 Posts
On January 26 2014 04:37 TigerKarl wrote: Alternate Downsizing hard, with this step they basically accept going into meaninglessness. Before this they only had 1 player in Socke. They traded 1 expensive player for 3 cheap ones. | ||
Darkhorse
United States23455 Posts
On January 26 2014 05:12 Lorch wrote: Before this they only had 1 player in Socke. They traded 1 expensive player for 3 cheap ones. 1 expensive player is probably better for business than 3 cheap ones. See keeping Jaedong instead of aLive, Oz, and Revival. | ||
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NovaMB
Germany9534 Posts
On January 26 2014 05:10 JustPassingBy wrote: Hm, shit. I could swear I read something like that in one of the threads about Hyun being owed some money, and him also saying that it's not a lot of money and they are in no legally binding contract in the first place when asked why he doesn't persue legal matters. But seriously, why cannot I find it...? Maybe I am getting senile...  It was Cloud On January 01 2014 20:56 aTnClouD wrote: Well honestly Alternate owes me a lot of money too which they refuse to pay for no reason and to other players too, and I know many other players haven't been paid by their teams. Esport business is still very shady. The problem is that other than bringing the facts to public attention the players have no power to do anything. And these swindling teams don't really give a fuck. http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=439685¤tpage=14#262 | ||
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grs
Germany2339 Posts
On January 26 2014 05:12 Lorch wrote: Before this they only had 1 player in Socke. They traded 1 expensive player for 3 cheap ones. Also Alternate as a company is mostly operating in Germany. Getting three players that are at least somewhat known in Germany and regularly appear on German casts/tournaments/etc. can really be worthwhile for Alternate, although none of them has the international appeal of Socke. | ||
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Irrational_Animal
Germany1059 Posts
On January 26 2014 05:10 JustPassingBy wrote: Hm, shit. I could swear I read something like that in one of the threads about Hyun being owed some money, and him also saying that it's not a lot of money and they are in no legally binding contract in the first place when asked why he doesn't persue legal matters. But seriously, why cannot I find it...? Maybe I am getting senile... I think Cloud said the things you mentioned. (Being owed some money and the contracts being somewhat shady) edit: nova was 1 minute quicker | ||
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grs
Germany2339 Posts
On January 26 2014 05:14 NovaMB wrote: It was Cloud http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=439685¤tpage=14#262 Coming from Cloud who could complain about the sun shining, I would take that with a grain of Salt though. | ||
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SpikeStarcraft
Germany2095 Posts
"Zerocool" is the new manager for 2014 but it seems that when he started, Socke already found a better offer since Alternate was basically doing nothing but laying off all their players an entire year long. Well those new players are nowhere near in skill and popularity compared to Socke, Darkforce and Cloud last year. Alternate basically went from Top 2 german team to maybe 6th best after Mouz, XMG, AI, ESC and Planetkey | ||
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JustPassingBy
10776 Posts
On January 26 2014 05:12 grs wrote: I am quite sure you somehow mixed up teams. Alternate has a quite good name as a team. Nope, I mixed up players, it was Cloud saying that: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=439685¤tpage=14#262 edit: too late, should've looked into this thread instead of reading posts in an old thread one by one. | ||
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Enstein
Russian Federation134 Posts
None of them managed to get top 8 of the last ESL Pro Series Germany (Monty finished at the 9th place, KnowMe 11th). None of them even got to top 16 in the current Germany Cup V. KauP lost to Hanfy and to an unknown protoss Levi. KnowMe got completely destroyed by Lambo and TLO and decided to forfeit his last match. Never was a huge fan of Socke, but he is way better than these three combined. | ||
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Musicus
Germany23576 Posts
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JustPassingBy
10776 Posts
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Irrational_Animal
Germany1059 Posts
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Serinox
Germany5224 Posts
On January 26 2014 05:36 JustPassingBy wrote: Anyways, happy to see Knowme under a team already. Apart from Heromarine, he is one of the few German players who stream regularly. Hasu and Socke used to stream pretty often, sad that they don't anymore | ||
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HYRULE15
Germany72 Posts
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YouthSC
United Kingdom355 Posts
Hope there's content put out so that I can actually follow him/the team! | ||
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HYRULE15
Germany72 Posts
On January 26 2014 05:42 Serinox wrote: Hasu and Socke used to stream pretty often, sad that they don't anymore Did you guys never heard of someone called TLO? | ||
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Serinox
Germany5224 Posts
On January 26 2014 05:58 HYRULE15 wrote: Did you guys never heard of someone called TLO? "he is one of the few German players who stream regularly" Learn to read more carefully  | ||
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bosnia
Canada223 Posts
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TTBest
Germany74 Posts
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QuixoticO
Netherlands810 Posts
On January 26 2014 05:12 Lorch wrote: Before this they only had 1 player in Socke. They traded 1 expensive player for 3 cheap ones. This and their League team left the organization and joined Millenium so I guess that freed up some money too. | ||
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