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CryMeaRiveR.749
Profile Joined September 2011
France59 Posts
August 10 2014 12:58 GMT
#21
nicee itw
Cry me a riverrrrrrrrr
Arceus
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
Vietnam8333 Posts
August 10 2014 13:37 GMT
#22
guess we wont know anything until DES or TIG manages to grab Coach Kang for an iview, who seems to be MIA atm
JBanKs
Profile Joined April 2010
United Kingdom617 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-08-10 14:54:58
August 10 2014 14:33 GMT
#23
Hey all I appreciate that this may not have answered all the questions you guys had but I was asked to speak upon the subject and have done. I have also provided aAa with a contact for the Coach, hopefully they will be able to get in touch with him. With so little contact this mainly comes down to my own thoughts from my view point.
Ex-StarTale manager // @BanKseSports on twitter
TAMinator
Profile Joined February 2011
Australia2706 Posts
August 10 2014 14:39 GMT
#24
On August 10 2014 23:33 JBanKs wrote:
Hey all I appreciate that this may not have answered all the questions you guys had but I was asked to speak upon the subject and have done. I have also provided aAa with a contact for the Coach, hopefully they will be able to get in touch with him.

Thanks for the brief insight
docvoc
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States5491 Posts
August 10 2014 14:43 GMT
#25
On August 10 2014 21:26 Koshi wrote:
Ughh Poor IM. Best team in scII since the dawn of time.
Gl to all.

oGs were the original OGs, but this is so sad . I feel like a lot of this could have been avoided too. While we've only been given one side to this happening, it feels like this could have been avoided by changing management like the guy said, 6 months to a year earlier.
User was warned for too many mimes.
Chuddinater
Profile Joined July 2013
Korea (South)169 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-08-10 14:48:58
August 10 2014 14:44 GMT
#26
astray71
Profile Joined February 2012
United States325 Posts
August 16 2014 22:14 GMT
#27
Imagine Mvp winning another GSL even after he leaves...

Thank you for the interview. Also, did Mvp, Squirtle, and the other players leave because their contracts weren't renewed or did the players think that IM was over already and decided to leave at first chance?
There is no victory without the blessing of god, and there is no god but Madlife.
WGT-Baal
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
France3413 Posts
August 16 2014 22:30 GMT
#28
nice interview, thanks!
Horang2 fan
AKAvg
Profile Joined April 2014
Brazil298 Posts
August 17 2014 04:09 GMT
#29
On August 10 2014 00:43 Phredxor wrote:
Thanks for the interview!

So pretty much the coach goes to hospital and the SC2 division just gets hung out to dry?

Still strange that Lucky hasn't announced anything :s


That's what I got from the interview.
One sole guy responsible for everything goes to the hospital/flee/gives up and no word about it to anyone?
Nice management :S
TelecoM
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States10682 Posts
August 17 2014 06:29 GMT
#30
Hope the best for IM....

also....JULYZERG SIGHTING !
AKA: TelecoM[WHITE] Protoss fighting
boxerfred
Profile Blog Joined December 2012
Germany8360 Posts
August 17 2014 07:11 GMT
#31
On August 10 2014 09:16 Seeker wrote:
Hmmm... I didn't really get much from this interview. Title is a bit misleading imo.

Same for me, I still don't get why IM was releasing its roster all of a sudden.
Yakikorosu
Profile Joined March 2013
1203 Posts
August 17 2014 07:29 GMT
#32
Yeah, this really should be called "James Banks shares his experiences with IM" or something--it's great to have an interview and to be open about what you do and don't know, but this far from "explained" anything.
Sumahi
Profile Blog Joined January 2012
Guam5609 Posts
August 17 2014 08:13 GMT
#33
That old school Startale picture is awesome. That's when I first started following SC2 and they became my favorite team.
Startale <3, ST_July <3, HongUn <3, Savior <3, Gretorp <3, Nada <3, Rainbow <3, Ret <3, Squirtle <3, Bomber <3
plgElwood
Profile Joined October 2010
Germany518 Posts
August 17 2014 10:55 GMT
#34
Title Suggestion: Roughly LG.IM related Information provided by former unknown character called "James Banks".


Seriously, blaming the teams failure on ONE PERSON YOU CAN'T REACH VIA SKYPE is what E-Sports makes such a sad and awful business. Well E-Sport in general is not able to create structures like real sport, because the moneyflow is too small, you cant really pay managers coaches and orgas well enough to organize the players. Players payments take it all up.

What possibly happend:
LG cancelled sponsorship = No Money.
They keep the LG name to sound more legit to possible new sponsors.
Coach Kang got Sick = No Money + No lead + No Management to find new money

Explosion.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
GumBa
Profile Blog Joined July 2012
United Kingdom31935 Posts
August 17 2014 11:11 GMT
#35
Thx for the interview!
Bit of a misleading title though
To all the haters: you deserve to witness many, many more Serral victories, worthy of the godlike player he is.
gneGne
Profile Joined June 2007
Netherlands697 Posts
August 17 2014 12:36 GMT
#36
Sad way to mark the end of a great team
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