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elfi joins Vega Squadron

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HighArT
Profile Joined June 2011
Croatia189 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-03-10 22:54:47
March 10 2014 12:51 GMT
#1
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Russian team http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Vega_Squadron is happy to announce the signing of one of the best Finland players [image loading]http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Elfi . elfi is great protoss player, great community guy and highly ranked Grandmaster player which will give some fresh blood to our roster. With his high motivations and practice schedule, we don't doubt his results will come soon under Vega Squadron banners. His first big tournament under Vega tag will be Copenhagen Games Spring 2014 in April and hopefully Dreamhack Bucharest and Dreamhack Summer. He will start to stream more too, so feel free to tune on his stream anytime.

Lets see what our new guy has to say about his new position:

"I've been teamless for month now and now I've been given new chance! I will be joining team Vega after them offering me this chance! I believe I can once again reach good results with the help of my new team and ur going to see us rocking soon! Thanks for Vega and all my fans who's been supporting me as well my new team sponsors Vega LLC, bweb group and esportclothing!" - Samuli"elfi" sihvonen

Vanja "HighArT" Šimunec - General Manager:

"We are extremely happy that we realized such big signing as its elfi's. We have been following him since his departure from ENCE, and finally we are proud that he joined our team. We hope he will show us some results in upcoming online and offline tournaments, and show up he is still player to be afraid of. Welcome Samuli to Vega"

Vega Squadron SC2 Pro lineup:

[image loading]http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Elfi
[image loading]http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/FireCake
[image loading]http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Revolver
[image loading]http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Romson
[image loading]KingCobra
[image loading]http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Verdi - Inactive

We have another excited news coming soon, so follow us and stay tuned.

Vega @ Facebook: Vega
Vega @ Twitter: Vega

Follow elfi:

elfi @ Twitter: elfi
elfi @ Twitch: elfi stream

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General Manager | Vega Squadron | www.vega-squadron.com | /VegaSquadronESports | @VegaSquadron
Sjokola
Profile Joined November 2010
Netherlands800 Posts
March 10 2014 12:58 GMT
#2
Yay elfi has a team again!
scotch4789
Profile Joined July 2013
United States42 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-03-10 12:58:58
March 10 2014 12:58 GMT
#3
Congrats to both elfi and Vega, nice pick up for them!
y0su
Profile Blog Joined September 2011
Finland7871 Posts
March 10 2014 12:59 GMT
#4
grats and gl to both!
fingerwaggin
Profile Joined April 2012
Russian Federation167 Posts
March 10 2014 13:00 GMT
#5
So, now waiting for Vega to disband/drop their sc2teamsquad
StraTkSloth
Profile Blog Joined August 2012
United States181 Posts
March 10 2014 13:04 GMT
#6
Cant wait to practice and learn a lot with new teammate! Vega fighting!
Vega Squadron Player || StarCraft II entusiast
Penev
Profile Joined October 2012
28530 Posts
March 10 2014 13:14 GMT
#7
I wonder what the other excited news is!
I Protoss winner, could it be?
Waxangel
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States33629 Posts
March 10 2014 13:17 GMT
#8
hail elfi
AdministratorHey HP can you redo everything youve ever done because i have a small complaint?
Azhrak
Profile Joined January 2011
Finland1198 Posts
March 10 2014 13:19 GMT
#9
GL elfi and Vega!
starcraft2.fi
cyklo
Profile Joined July 2011
Finland3 Posts
March 10 2014 13:21 GMT
#10
Why elfi, why?
GreenMash
Profile Joined August 2012
Norway1746 Posts
March 10 2014 13:22 GMT
#11
Not sure what to think lol.
I love hellbats
Irrational_Animal
Profile Joined August 2010
Germany1059 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-03-10 13:24:10
March 10 2014 13:23 GMT
#12
Hm, a team that has some notoriously bm players in its roster. I`m glad that they provide Elfi some support but they should rethink the composition of the team.
Twine
Profile Joined June 2012
France246 Posts
March 10 2014 13:39 GMT
#13
So is elfi gonna become as bm as other vega's member ?
#1 Bomber fan | Jin Air best KT
Gen.Rolly
Profile Joined September 2011
United States200 Posts
March 10 2014 13:40 GMT
#14
Finnish protoss best protoss
Vector locked in.
Musicus
Profile Joined August 2011
Germany23579 Posts
March 10 2014 13:41 GMT
#15
I'm so sad now, why Elfi (((?
Maru and Serral are probably top 5.
HYRULE15
Profile Joined September 2013
Germany72 Posts
March 10 2014 13:46 GMT
#16
That was quick.
RaFox17
Profile Joined May 2013
Finland4581 Posts
March 10 2014 13:55 GMT
#17
Good luck Elfi!
vjcamarena
Profile Joined October 2013
Spain493 Posts
March 10 2014 14:11 GMT
#18
On March 10 2014 22:17 Waxangel wrote:
hail elfi

All hail the king of cats.
Mvp and ForGG! - Vortix FTW - Never forget Lucifron
NeThZOR
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
South Africa7387 Posts
March 10 2014 14:13 GMT
#19
Grats Elfi!
SuperNova - 2015 | SKT1 fan for years | Dear, FlaSh, PartinG, Soulkey, Naniwa
Niko_Thien
Profile Joined September 2011
Germany2671 Posts
March 10 2014 14:14 GMT
#20
Good luck to Elfi but why Vega? :/
@Niko_Thien on twitter!
Irrational_Animal
Profile Joined August 2010
Germany1059 Posts
March 10 2014 14:16 GMT
#21
On March 10 2014 23:14 Niko_Thien wrote:
Good luck to Elfi but why Vega? :/


I think the general problem is that aside from Teams like TL or Mouz, there is only a small market for fulltime-pros atm. So you have to take what you can get.
TheBloodyDwarf
Profile Blog Joined March 2012
Finland7524 Posts
March 10 2014 14:26 GMT
#22
Im happy that elfi has new team but Vega? I have to say that im suprised!

elfi is streaming pretty much already, idk how much more he can stream :/
Fusilero: "I still can't believe he did that, like dude what the fuck there's fandom and then there's what he did like holy shit. I still see it when I close my eyes." <- reaction to the original drunk santa post which later caught on
kusto
Profile Joined November 2010
Russian Federation823 Posts
March 10 2014 14:29 GMT
#23
On March 10 2014 23:14 Niko_Thien wrote:
Good luck to Elfi but why Vega? :/


As mean as it sounds: beggars can't be choosers.
the game is the game
FnaticPink
Profile Joined May 2011
Denmark324 Posts
March 10 2014 14:43 GMT
#24
On March 10 2014 23:29 kusto wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 10 2014 23:14 Niko_Thien wrote:
Good luck to Elfi but why Vega? :/


As mean as it sounds: beggars can't be choosers.


Sure you can say that, knowing nothing about the contract details. Vega tends to offer pretty decent salaries to their players, rather than focusing on events and marketing, which is quite the motivating factor.
Boucot
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
France15997 Posts
March 10 2014 14:46 GMT
#25
:/ Would have liked to see him on Empire for example.
Former SC2 writer for Millenium - twitter.com/Boucot
Irrational_Animal
Profile Joined August 2010
Germany1059 Posts
March 10 2014 14:50 GMT
#26
Well Empire has been very quiet in SC2 lately. Kas and Happy are active as always but kinda slumping but that aside the team doesn`t show a lot of effort anymore to compete with the likes of Acer, TL or Mouz.
Zerg.Zilla
Profile Joined February 2012
Hungary5029 Posts
March 10 2014 14:57 GMT
#27
GL elfi! :D
(•_•) ( •_•)>⌐■-■ (⌐■_■) ~Keep calm and inject Larva~
tili
Profile Joined July 2012
United States1332 Posts
March 10 2014 14:59 GMT
#28
Scarlett must be so pleased!
EnPo
Profile Joined June 2012
Finland411 Posts
March 10 2014 15:00 GMT
#29
Wow. Did not see that coming. Really surprising, but if they treat elfi (#god) well, there is no problem.
(Good that they announced this today, so we were able to win that cw tehehehehee *giggles* )
"Enpo has good builds and is good at executing those" -Serral 2018
nachtkap
Profile Joined February 2011
Germany197 Posts
March 10 2014 15:02 GMT
#30
On March 10 2014 22:39 Twine wrote:
So is elfi gonna become as bm as other vega's member ?

If that is a thing with this team, then I would say that his cannon rushes qualified him for the team.
Apollo_Shards
Profile Joined February 2011
1210 Posts
March 10 2014 15:04 GMT
#31
good for elfi but Im sad to see the rest of vega squadron go
Jaedong, sOs, avilo, MaSa, Oprah
JustPassingBy
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
10776 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-03-10 15:06:41
March 10 2014 15:06 GMT
#32
Wait... Verdi is inactive...? Recently, he was stronger than he had ever been! D:
HighArT
Profile Joined June 2011
Croatia189 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-03-10 15:39:08
March 10 2014 15:38 GMT
#33
On March 11 2014 00:06 JustPassingBy wrote:
Wait... Verdi is inactive...? Recently, he was stronger than he had ever been! D:


Verdi don't play competitively at the moment... He is just playing ladder with terran and streaming games.
General Manager | Vega Squadron | www.vega-squadron.com | /VegaSquadronESports | @VegaSquadron
shid0x
Profile Joined July 2012
Korea (South)5014 Posts
March 10 2014 15:59 GMT
#34
elfi and firecake in the same team...
Oh boy...

Please 2v2 !
RIP MKP
y0su
Profile Blog Joined September 2011
Finland7871 Posts
March 10 2014 21:05 GMT
#35
from sett.fi
Päädyin Vegaan pitkälti parhaimman tarjouksen ja heidän osoittaman mielenkiinnon takia. Monen muun tiimin kanssa oli uskomattoman vaikea edes keskustella ettei keskustelu vaan yhtäkkiä loppunut ignoraukseen pariksi päiväksi.

Vega osoitti viimeiset viikot kiinnostusta ja he halusivat minut, joten päätös oli helppo. Tiimin pelaajista odotan hyvää treeniä etenkin FireCaken kanssa, PvZ: kanssa on aina ollut hiukan ongelmia, ehkä se paranee. Seuraava eventtini on näillä näkymin Copenhagen Games!


"I ended up with Vega because they had by far the best offer and their demonstrated interest. With several other teams it was unbelievably difficult to even talk without the discussion just cutting off for a few days.

Vega, over the last few weeks, demonstrated interest and they wanted me, so the decision was easy. I'm anticipating good practice from the team especially with FireCake. PvZ has always had some struggles so maybe it will improve. My next event will evidently be Copenhagen Games."

nkr
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Sweden5451 Posts
March 10 2014 21:16 GMT
#36
title is quite misleading when its vega who joined elfi
ESPORTS ILLUMINATI
OldLadyStarCraft
Profile Joined November 2013
United States66 Posts
March 10 2014 21:23 GMT
#37
GL Elfi. Glad you found a team that wants the best for you. Look forward to seeing your future streams and matches.
AxiomBlurr
Profile Blog Joined November 2012
786 Posts
March 11 2014 11:44 GMT
#38
COngrats Elfi!!! Have always believed in u!!!
Niko_Thien
Profile Joined September 2011
Germany2671 Posts
March 11 2014 13:46 GMT
#39
On March 11 2014 06:05 y0su wrote:
from sett.fi
Show nested quote +
Päädyin Vegaan pitkälti parhaimman tarjouksen ja heidän osoittaman mielenkiinnon takia. Monen muun tiimin kanssa oli uskomattoman vaikea edes keskustella ettei keskustelu vaan yhtäkkiä loppunut ignoraukseen pariksi päiväksi.

Vega osoitti viimeiset viikot kiinnostusta ja he halusivat minut, joten päätös oli helppo. Tiimin pelaajista odotan hyvää treeniä etenkin FireCaken kanssa, PvZ: kanssa on aina ollut hiukan ongelmia, ehkä se paranee. Seuraava eventtini on näillä näkymin Copenhagen Games!


"I ended up with Vega because they had by far the best offer and their demonstrated interest. With several other teams it was unbelievably difficult to even talk without the discussion just cutting off for a few days.

Vega, over the last few weeks, demonstrated interest and they wanted me, so the decision was easy. I'm anticipating good practice from the team especially with FireCake. PvZ has always had some struggles so maybe it will improve. My next event will evidently be Copenhagen Games."


Thanks for translating!
@Niko_Thien on twitter!
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