EPToGsTOP joins Invasion eSport - Page 3
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OveRtheStarS
Canada69 Posts
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Rikudou
Germany151 Posts
On September 25 2014 22:08 Invasion-eSport wrote: We are a new pro team, we are based in France. We started our recruitment in France by Quent and Nanaki former img players. Then we had our first international recruits were from Switzerland IMComingHome and Noblesse from korea to extend our team outside of the country. Once this was done and we had good feedback we started recently to recruits high level players from Korea with TAils and TOP. We hope that with those players we will reach a competitive level in major tournaments upcoming. (little teasing in 5 days a surprise is coming follow us  )so basically you guys will be the next "newschool" team millenium :D | ||
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renaissanceMAN
United States1840 Posts
On September 26 2014 00:32 R1CH wrote: I get a really bad feeling about this. Who are the sponsors? Where is the money coming from? How will you pay salaries + flights etc? Is this actually a professional team or a clan? Their website makes it sound like anyone can join: I hope you haven't misrepresented yourselves to Korean players who may not know better due to language barriers. Definitely had similar thoughts running through my mind on this. | ||
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boxerfred
Germany8360 Posts
On September 25 2014 22:08 Invasion-eSport wrote: We are a new pro team, we are based in France. We started our recruitment in France by Quent and Nanaki former img players. Then we had our first international recruits were from Switzerland IMComingHome and Noblesse from korea to extend our team outside of the country. Once this was done and we had good feedback we started recently to recruits high level players from Korea with TAils and TOP. We hope that with those players we will reach a competitive level in major tournaments upcoming. (little teasing in 5 days a surprise is coming follow us )img = imaginary gaming? Please give some more information about yourselves, I'd really like to know more about new foreign teams that are currently joining the scene. On September 26 2014 00:32 R1CH wrote: I get a really bad feeling about this. Who are the sponsors? Where is the money coming from? How will you pay salaries + flights etc? Is this actually a professional team or a clan? Their website makes it sound like anyone can join: I hope you haven't misrepresented yourselves to Korean players who may not know better due to language barriers. I have the same worries, though my word does not have the weight of a TL.net admin. Then, seeing this article about how to execute a 4gate (which tbh is a bad tactic nowadays) is raising some doubts in me on how much in-depth game knowledge your team actually provides for koreans. Your pictures of TOP are neither professional nor up-to-date, they rather look like coming from a quick skype chat like "yo we need picture of you". Not too convincing. Then, your homepage is completely in french - how the heck is a korean supposed to read through contents? Next up, on your facebook page, it says "IMComingHome GM zerg Smurfing with commentary" - which professional player would do that, backed up by the marketing channels of his team? Did you ever send one of your players to a Dreamhack, or IEM, or wherever? It just looks so shady. I really want to believe that TOP found a decent team that enables him to have fun and find success. So please answer some questions! Is TOP going to play WCS EU in region lock (with all the consequences)? Is he staying in Korea? If so, at which house? Who are your sponsors? How do you raise money to actually send Tails or Top to tournaments? | ||
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tomastaz
United States976 Posts
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Ctesias
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Kompicek
Czech Republic245 Posts
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astray71
United States325 Posts
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Daswollvieh
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Musicus
Germany23580 Posts
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Circumstance
United States11403 Posts
On September 25 2014 22:40 Kevin_Sorbo wrote: Hes been streaming a lot for a few months now. He never actually stopped streaming consistently. I checked out Invasion's website when Tails joined, and speaking personally, I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt until I have an actual reason not to. And if it means TOP plays in more events, then good for all of us! | ||
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Kevin_Sorbo
Canada3217 Posts
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docvoc
United States5491 Posts
On September 26 2014 00:56 Circumstance wrote: He never actually stopped streaming consistently. I checked out Invasion's website when Tails joined, and speaking personally, I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt until I have an actual reason not to. And if it means TOP plays in more events, then good for all of us! So long as we don't have another LYGF I'll be happy. | ||
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HighArT
Croatia189 Posts
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TR
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SetGuitarsToKill
Canada28396 Posts
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robson1
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Invasion-eSport
France7 Posts
The team is created in 2 division one is the community made to have fun to meet nice people, the second part is the pro section where only pros are recruited. After long negotiations, we have reached an agreement to go to the next level and got the funds to be able to hire high quality players. We are also in talking to be able to make them come in Europe. Our structure is based as an organisation with 1 president and 5 board members. Those people take all the decisions concerning the pro roaster, recruitment, budget and sponsors. We are now 12 people working for this organisation (7 players and 5 staffs). The board and the staff is working for now 4 months (holidays were there so during summer not much work was done). Our designers are working on the logo, the new website, clothes, while others are taking care of the players (looking for their needs, tournaments, booking flights, accommodation, gears, etc) and one is responsible to write future articles and is responsible of the communication of the team. We opened a have a facebook page https://www.facebook.com/invasionesport and a twitter https://twitter.com/InvEsport. | ||
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boxerfred
Germany8360 Posts
On September 26 2014 01:22 Invasion-eSport wrote: As we said earlier we are a brand new team on the pro scene, as we can see there is a lot of question about our funding which we find it interesting people are more preoccupied by our funding than our project in the esport. So due to the high demand i'm going to answer (if there is more questions we will be happy to talk about it) we are currently and for the past 4 months funded by a family office. You are going to ask us what is their interest in investing in esport, there is first of all the taxes reason and there is also the fact that they found compatible one of the brand they are managing with esport. The team is created in 2 division one is the community made to have fun to meet nice people, the second part is the pro section where only pros are recruited. After long negotiations, we have reached an agreement to go to the next level and got the funds to be able to hire high quality players. We are also in talking to be able to make them come in Europe. Our structure is based as an organisation with 1 president and 5 board members. Those people take all the decisions concerning the pro roaster, recruitment, budget and sponsors. We are now 12 people working for this organisation (7 players and 5 staffs). The board and the staff is working for now 4 months (holidays were there so during summer not much work was done). Our designers are working on the logo, the new website, clothes, while others are taking care of the players (looking for their needs, tournaments, booking flights, accommodation, gears, etc) and one is responsible to write future articles and is responsible of the communication of the team. We opened a have a facebook page https://www.facebook.com/invasionesport and a twitter https://twitter.com/InvEsport. Maybe revise that post and add it to the op? Clears some things up, but not too many. "family funded for tax reasons" - can you explain that a bit further? | ||
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Tobblish
Sweden6404 Posts
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