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YoDa and First join TCM.

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Aeromi
Profile Blog Joined August 2012
France14463 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-08-26 19:33:22
August 26 2014 19:04 GMT
#1
Founded in 2005 TCM-Gaming (TCM) has been a professional gaming team and a marketing/media company with its HQ in the UK, with years of experience in the scene and many championship titles under their belts in games such as Call of Duty, Counter-Strike, Halo and Battlefield. It has taken a while for TCM to delve into the Starcraft 2 scene but we wanted to take our time and choose players who represent our brand and share the same goals as us.

Starcraft 2 is the number one real-time strategy game with tournaments worldwide including the prestigious World Championship Series (WCS). The WCS is a series of events organised by or in cooperation with Blizzard Entertainment, featuring $1.6 million invested in the prize pool and spread out among multiple events throughout the year.

We are pleased to announce that Hyun Woo 'First' Kang and Byung Hyun 'YoDa' Choi will be representing TCM in the European WCS as well as all future Starcraft 2 events! You will be seeing the duo at various events including WCS, Dreamhack, Intel Extreme Masters, HomeStory Cup and more!

Both First and YoDa come from the respected and well known Incredible Miracle team and have achieved fantastic results in the past. Together with TCM the players will be living in the GEM house in Germany and will be practicing hard with some of the best players in the world in order to achieve great success under their new team.


Jim Maguire, Director of TCM-Gaming had this to say: Today marks the first step in to the StarCraft 2 scene for TCM-Gaming. We are very happy to begin our journey with two well-known players like Hyun Woo 'First' Kang and Byung Hyun 'YoDa' Choi. - See more at: http://www.tcm-gaming.net/articles/News/StarCraft-II/1034/TCM-Gaming-enters-StarCraft-II-welcomes-First-YoDa/#sthash.UpKToqJV.dpuf


We are also pleased to announce that with our two great players we will be adding some new staff to look after the division.

James ‘BanKs’ Banks – Team Manager – BanKs has been involved in Starcraft 2 since its release, first working with ZOWIE GEAR and BenQ before going on to manage the successful Korean pro team StarTale. We are confident that BanKs’ experience and skills will be vital to the success of the team, especially when it comes to what the players need.

Robert ‘Pughy’ Pugh – Technical advisor & commentator – Pughy started off his Starcraft 2 career as an extremely capable player within the UK, due to his great analyst skills he made the transition into a commentator and has since commentated i-series, Gfinity G3 and various online tournaments and cups. With TCM by his side we look forward to working on some new tournaments with Pughy and using his great knowledge of Starcraft 2 to help our players and the team.


On August 27 2014 04:32 JBanKs wrote:
I posted this on reddit and will post it here as well

"I expected people to be worried about this announcement but I have full faith and confidence in TCM, they have been around for a long time and you won't find anyone who has a bad word to say about them. The players and GEM were happy with this move and so am I.

Hopefully we can win the communities trust "

Thanks for all the support guys.



Source : http://www.tcm-gaming.net/articles/News/StarCraft-II/1034/TCM-Gaming-enters-StarCraft-II-welcomes-First-YoDa/
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SetGuitarsToKill
Profile Blog Joined December 2013
Canada28396 Posts
August 26 2014 19:07 GMT
#2
Well that's good I guess. Never heard of this team before but looking at their list of teams that makes sense, but they seem solid enough. I hope this ends up being successful
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partydude89
Profile Blog Joined August 2012
1850 Posts
August 26 2014 19:09 GMT
#3
never heard of TCM, so i'm not sure how i feel about this

Happy they found a team though, i guess
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Jono7272
Profile Joined November 2010
United Kingdom6330 Posts
August 26 2014 19:09 GMT
#4
Awesome, nice to see another UK team coming into the Starcraft scene.

I beat Pughy on ladder the other day, so feel free to pick me up as Senior Technical Advisor!
Innovation | Flash | Mvp | Byun | TY
badeanden
Profile Joined December 2011
Norway56 Posts
August 26 2014 19:10 GMT
#5
Wow hiring two staff members too look after two players shows that they are really serious about getting into starcraft! hopefully tyhey will pick up some more players!
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Sabre
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United Kingdom1086 Posts
August 26 2014 19:11 GMT
#6
TCM is a pretty big org in the UK so this is cool to see, gl to them
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Fusilero
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United Kingdom50293 Posts
August 26 2014 19:14 GMT
#7
TCM afaik are a pretty legit team, not the biggest outside of apparently a pretty good call of duty team but from what I can gather from some of their former LoL players they were always good with payments and management
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Paljas
Profile Joined October 2011
Germany6926 Posts
August 26 2014 19:16 GMT
#8
good to see them joining a legit organisation
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Lorning *
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Belgica34432 Posts
August 26 2014 19:16 GMT
#9
Coool :D
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HighArT
Profile Joined June 2011
Croatia189 Posts
August 26 2014 19:19 GMT
#10
Amazing. Great team.
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SWARMYYY
Profile Joined January 2013
7 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-08-26 19:20:02
August 26 2014 19:19 GMT
#11
TCM stands for Team Coolermaster if anyone is interested although I'm not sure they use that anymore. They are still sponsored by Coolermaster by the looks of it though.
Trasko
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Sweden983 Posts
August 26 2014 19:25 GMT
#12
This is pretty cool! Glad to see YoDa has finally found a team. And First too I guess.
Jaedong <3
dronee
Profile Joined August 2014
United Kingdom2 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-08-26 19:37:20
August 26 2014 19:30 GMT
#13
On August 27 2014 04:19 SWARMYYY wrote:
TCM stands for Team Coolermaster if anyone is interested although I'm not sure they use that anymore. They are still sponsored by Coolermaster by the looks of it though.


What does TCM stand for?

This is a question we find ourselves being asked time and time again; and we also sometimes find ourselves being refferred to incorrectly.

TCM-Gaming is our name, our brand and our identity. To keep it simple it stands for nothing, we are simply TCM-Gaming.

Yes, you are correct, we were once called Team Cooler Master, who were our title sponsor from 2007 until 2010; when we rebranded. Upon our relaunch we retained the name as which we had become known, TCM, with it we retained our brand recognition whilst also allowing us to work with a wider variety of partners moving forward.

We are proud of our history, we are proud of where we are now as TCM-Gaming, and we are proud of where we are headed into the future.

=]

But yes, they are still one of our sponsors.

Sorry, pet hate of mine. <3
Thanks for the support guys.
JBanKs
Profile Joined April 2010
United Kingdom617 Posts
August 26 2014 19:32 GMT
#14
I posted this on reddit and will post it here as well

"I expected people to be worried about this announcement but I have full faith and confidence in TCM, they have been around for a long time and you won't find anyone who has a bad word to say about them. The players and GEM were happy with this move and so am I.

Hopefully we can win the communities trust "

Thanks for all the support guys.
Ex-StarTale manager // @BanKseSports on twitter
DarkPlasmaBall
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States46638 Posts
August 26 2014 19:33 GMT
#15
Turner Classic Movies <3

Congrats to Yoda and First and TCM!
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KingofdaHipHop
Profile Blog Joined October 2013
United States25602 Posts
August 26 2014 19:36 GMT
#16
Awesome! :D
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ZigguratOfUr
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Iraq16955 Posts
August 26 2014 19:38 GMT
#17
Great pickup. They are both very strong players will YoDa showing exceptional form recently. Nice to see them get a team to support them in getting to more events.
Spriki
Profile Joined April 2012
216 Posts
August 26 2014 19:38 GMT
#18
I hate to say it but I read TCM as TSM
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The_Templar
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
your Country52798 Posts
August 26 2014 19:39 GMT
#19
Cool. I found it funny that + Show Spoiler +
They played to knock each other of WCS
and now they're joining the same team at the same time
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ptbl
Profile Joined January 2011
United States6074 Posts
August 26 2014 19:39 GMT
#20
TCM is pretty big in the European CoD scene. They have a huge rivalry with Epsilon. I don't really see them as an RTS/MOBA esports organization though. They focus more on FPS. We'll see how this goes, but not sure if their fans will be interested in sc2.
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