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Hello everybody,
My name is Michael and I am the CEO of Team Spectre.
After 3 months of inactivity at professional level, I am pleased to let you know that we, Team Spectre, will return. The reasons for this return are many. Here are the main ones:
- WCS 2014 is almost done, and it 2015 it will come back with a new, better system in our opinion and we want to do well in this upcoming year, better than we did this past one.
- Our sponsor Stanislav Petrov, we sponsored Team Spectre and rendered us capable of paying very good professional players for about a half of year has returned to us with fresh forces and willing to give it another shot.
- We simply love the game and the community. We, or at least myself, cannot see us vanishing forever or just limiting ourselves to some high master level clanwars. We want to do our best for the StarCraft2 fans and to show good, quality, entertaining games in this upcoming year and to do well, not only in WCS, but also in other tournaments like Dreamhack and hopefuly make some appearances in IEM if possible. We'll see. What I do know for a fact is that there's never an end to good things, as long as you believe in them and never back down.
Our plans this time will be much better and make more sense than our previous ones, when we recruited a bunch of amazingly good players, without thinking consequences like sponsor getting severely injured and shortly thereafter married might occur, and our players wouldn't have a backup sponsor to pay the obvious bills. This time the plan is to get a single professional talented player, try to help him reach his goals and improve, while working meanwhile on our brand and trying to get hopefuly more sponsors. If you, the community, will like us, this plan will be a good one and we'll do our best to achieve this.
Therefore, our chose was AlaStOr, one of the veterans of StarCraft2 and one of the main figures of spanish eSports scene, playing right from the beginning when this beautiful thing called StarCraft2 happened. He's agreed to return to us and he's also prepared an official statement that goes like this:
"Well, I've been inactive for a few months, playing only a few little games and not so serious because I was unmotivated because of a lot of things, like bad WCS system, bad situation with the teams...etc. But now that my old team, Team Spectre, seems to be on again, and the WCS system is growing in a better way, I would like to start again motivated and try to do my best with the team =) Thank you, all !"
Lets see if this time we can make it happen for real.
I also want to thank all of you for understanding why we had to temporarily step down the last time and I am sure you'll agree us to come back.
See you in the playgrounds !
Kindest regards,
Team Spectre CEO,
Michael "Ancestor" Traistaru
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Are you serious? LOL
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Good luck at your second attempt :-)On November 07 2014 04:58 HighArT wrote:
Are you serious? LOL
That's harsh 
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That's... interesting. I hope you're able to pick up a bit more of a relevant player in the future if you guys are serious about this thing. Good luck
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I honestly don't understand how people can be so naive.
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Very interesting approach.
A lot of it depends on how well AlaStOr performs.
Good luck to both of you!
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Having more informations on your sponsor would be nice. Who is he and where does his money come from (I mean when I google Stanislav Petrov I find a retired Soviet lieutenant, so I doubt it's him)? You are talking about your last sponsor being severely injured and getting married, was he the same person as this one? How is he different? You say that you didn't have a backup sponsor, do you have one now? etc. I'm sorry to ask these questions, but precising things would probably help your credibility considering your past.
Good luck to you though. I hope this time what happened last time won't happen again
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Individual sponsors are always so shady. Corporate sponsors at least give a little bit more assurance that there isn't something fishy going on... though there could always be something fishy going on unfortunately.
Good luck with the team Michael.
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In fairness, last time Spectre lost their sponsor they were very open about it and dropped their players immediately. They didn't let anyone play for them while not being paid etc.
Good luck
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good luck on this try, hope this time the sponsor won't vanish.
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Good luck, but I don't really understand the point of having a personal sponsor, a 'professional gaming team' and only having one player at a time, also why not choose a Up and coming KR player or someone that has been more active? Also...
On November 07 2014 05:31 OtherWorld wrote:
Having more informations on your sponsor would be nice. Who is he and where does his money come from (I mean when I google Stanislav Petrov I find a retired Soviet lieutenant, so I doubt it's him)? You are talking about your last sponsor being severely injured and getting married, was he the same person as this one? How is he different? You say that you didn't have a backup sponsor, do you have one now? etc. I'm sorry to ask these questions, but precising things would probably help your credibility considering your past.
Good luck to you though. I hope this time what happened last time won't happen again
I'm curious of these things as well.
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Cool. Let me know when you guys retire and then return again.
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On November 07 2014 09:48 sc2chronic wrote:
Cool. Let me know when you guys retire and then return again.
if they want to retire and unretire 400 times who cares? this team didnt do anything shady, they just had an unsuccessful run and are trying again
weird to me how the community treats "team owner disappears, fails to pay players and lies about everything repeatedly" as the same general category with "sponsor falls through and team goes nowhere". team drama isn't all equal
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As far as I remember, Team Spectre didn't do anything shady or illegal. Their sponsor fell through so they dropped their players and went inactive. It's not like they signed a bunch of players and then disappeared and never paid them. Anyone who is willing to make an honest effort to achieve success in the esports industry has my best wishes. Good luck to you guys!
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On November 07 2014 10:03 brickrd wrote:Show nested quote +On November 07 2014 09:48 sc2chronic wrote:
Cool. Let me know when you guys retire and then return again. if they want to retire and unretire 400 times who cares?
that was my point 
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I get the hate towards unknown teams and signings, but Spectre is no Quantic. They were pretty straightforward. Put their faith in a sponsor, didn't pan out, let their players go. That seems honest and to the nature of the industry. Unless anyone can fill me on on something I don't know? Good luck to Spectre, thanks for giving the scene another shot!
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The approach is interesting but I feel it may prove to be unsuccessful in the long run. If your team is running with one player, why would sponsors want to sponsor a whole team. It would only make sense for them to honestly just sponsor the player alone.
The only way to get a team sponsorship is for the team as a whole, produce worthy content.
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Interested to see how you guys recover. GL.
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On November 07 2014 05:31 OtherWorld wrote:
Having more informations on your sponsor would be nice. Who is he and where does his money come from (I mean when I google Stanislav Petrov I find a retired Soviet lieutenant, so I doubt it's him)? You are talking about your last sponsor being severely injured and getting married, was he the same person as this one? How is he different? You say that you didn't have a backup sponsor, do you have one now? etc. I'm sorry to ask these questions, but precising things would probably help your credibility considering your past.
Good luck to you though. I hope this time what happened last time won't happen again
Stanislav Petrov is working in the finance field of the SU-155, the biggest company in constructions in Russia at the moment. I am pretty sure he is not a retired soviet lieutenant, because he isn't old at all. He was our very first main sponsor able to pay professional players with decent salaries and support for offline events. I stated in my previous post that he returned now, therefore, he is the same sponsor. He is not a different person than before, but he has a different perspective now on how to approach the situation. The same perspective I have, which is having a single paid pro player in our roster, until we can have a backup sponsor, a secondary sponsor. That's what I meant to say by a backup sponsor.
I agree precising these things would probably help our credibility from the community considering our past, but how I see it, it really doesn't matter where do Petrov's money come from and I don't think I had to share these information publicly either. If we'd had something to hide or he'd had something to hide, it's our/his problem. But since we don't hide anything, I answered your questions which I think are many others questions as well.
Thank you for the good luck wished and thanks to the majority of you who replied here who still have faith in us. Even though we'd still do our thing anyway and retire/comeback as many times as we'd like to and consider ourselves able to, having you by our side supporting us means a lot for us and especially for AlaStOr, who will do his best in the upcoming year to bring good, quality and, never the least, entertaining games to all of you kind gentlemen.
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I guess Stanislav Petrov will disappear again, he did same with Vega. I hope he won't.
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I hope it goes better this time. GL!
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