On January 03 2015 08:11 SetGuitarsToKill wrote: It's nice to see a new team, especially a established one in other games, get into Sc2, and into the NA scene no less. It'll be interesting to see who these others they say they're picking up are.
They'd established a roster several months back. With these acquisitions, the roster now consists of:
Do any of these guys even play anymore? Bails is clearly the best, but he never seems to stream anymore (thus no exposure + not sure if he plays). Flatline either doesn't play enough or isn't' even GM level anymore.. Anytime I played shew he was talking about how playing the game wasn't worth it/quiting. I saw SaroVati playing on a stream the other day and I was in shock, as I hadn't seen that named around in forever.
I can't speak about all of them but Bails is awesome and still playing. ElhayM has actually been streaming and definitely plays a good bit(though he just started a new job very very recently so may be slightly less active). rebOrn tends to play on barcodes and on KR and SaroVati is playing more in prep for WCS as far as I'm aware. Flatline has a stream I see on fairly often and I see Nero's stream going sometimes as well(I think)?
Siphonn isn't playing as much lately and Shew works at Twitch now and has been pretty busy I think.
Overall, I think almost all of them are fairly active, though not always super visible when we're in the downtime period of SC2 where there's not as much to play in, or they tend to play on barcodes.
Anyways, super awesome pickups! Can't wait to see Flipsid3 in 2015!
Well, I just started watching thecreature, and flatline, who is on skype with him, was talking about how no one was active besides the people they just picked up, and he had just came back a few weeks ago (was playing hearthstone). Either way, not a good sign.
I feel I have heard of this team outside of StarCraft scene, but never in SC scene, I hope they do well, but I do have mixed feelings about this team as there whole roster seems like people I haven't seen or heard of in a long time, especially shew. He works for Twitch now? That is awesome, wonder what he does.
On January 03 2015 08:11 SetGuitarsToKill wrote: It's nice to see a new team, especially a established one in other games, get into Sc2, and into the NA scene no less. It'll be interesting to see who these others they say they're picking up are.
They'd established a roster several months back. With these acquisitions, the roster now consists of:
I honestly don't understand this organization's thought process. Why would you recruit a bunch of guys with such bad records in competitive play? After all this time, do they really think that puck, shew, etc are going to be something different than what we've seen the last 4 years?
It just looks like the same recipe for fail that we've seen from other teams who recruited average/below average NA players.
Grats to puck and the team. The team roster definitely has some good NA players. !
On January 03 2015 10:58 Joedaddy wrote: I honestly don't understand this organization's thought process. Why would you recruit a bunch of guys with such bad records in competitive play? After all this time, do they really think that puck, shew, etc are going to be something different than what we've seen the last 4 years?
It just looks like the same recipe for fail that we've seen from other teams who recruited average/below average NA players.
Quite sure that says premier league for 3 seasons straight, 5 total (5 straight actually?). Pretty sick consistency if u ask me especially with koreans last year. !
They mentioned earlier that shew has moved on~ and Bails, ElhayM, and SaroVati are all great NA players.
On January 03 2015 10:58 Joedaddy wrote: I honestly don't understand this organization's thought process. Why would you recruit a bunch of guys with such bad records in competitive play? After all this time, do they really think that puck, shew, etc are going to be something different than what we've seen the last 4 years?
It just looks like the same recipe for fail that we've seen from other teams who recruited average/below average NA players.
On January 03 2015 10:58 Joedaddy wrote: I honestly don't understand this organization's thought process. Why would you recruit a bunch of guys with such bad records in competitive play? After all this time, do they really think that puck, shew, etc are going to be something different than what we've seen the last 4 years?
It just looks like the same recipe for fail that we've seen from other teams who recruited average/below average NA players.
lol, typical attitude of someone who exclusively watches korean sc2 or WCS... just because players aren't winning IEMs and DHs on the international scene that doesn't mean there's no place for smaller teams fielding local top talent. do you go into your local grocery store and ask why they bother competing with walmart?
On January 03 2015 10:58 Joedaddy wrote: I honestly don't understand this organization's thought process. Why would you recruit a bunch of guys with such bad records in competitive play? After all this time, do they really think that puck, shew, etc are going to be something different than what we've seen the last 4 years?
It just looks like the same recipe for fail that we've seen from other teams who recruited average/below average NA players.
lol, typical attitude of someone who exclusively watches korean sc2 or WCS... just because players aren't winning IEMs and DHs on the international scene that doesn't mean there's no place for smaller teams fielding local top talent. do you go into your local grocery store and ask why they bother competing with walmart?
Maybe he thinks they are paid as much as koreans in kespa teams.
On January 03 2015 08:11 SetGuitarsToKill wrote: It's nice to see a new team, especially a established one in other games, get into Sc2, and into the NA scene no less. It'll be interesting to see who these others they say they're picking up are.
They'd established a roster several months back. With these acquisitions, the roster now consists of:
Do any of these guys even play anymore? Bails is clearly the best, but he never seems to stream anymore (thus no exposure + not sure if he plays). Flatline either doesn't play enough or isn't' even GM level anymore.. Anytime I played shew he was talking about how playing the game wasn't worth it/quiting. I saw SaroVati playing on a stream the other day and I was in shock, as I hadn't seen that named around in forever.
Who can even tell who's active anymore? There's so little opportunity for advancement or exposure in this region right now, all but the very best are left in anonymity. Hell, Deimos is quietly streaming friendly clan wars again, and nobody noticed.
There are 3 Go4-Cups and a Zotac Cup every week. None of them are region locked. I know, that there may be a bit of ping, but Armani for example plays fom korea and still has decent runs in those cups from time to time.
Isn't Flipside the only new created team for a veeeeery long time? However, i really like the roster, and also the new pickups! I wish esecially puck, sarovati and BAILS good luck in wcs, bails has earned a wcs in my opinion!
btw i think, Neeb would be a perfect addition to that team as well.^^
On January 04 2015 04:07 Taari wrote: Isn't Flipside the only new created team for a veeeeery long time? However, i really like the roster, and also the new pickups! I wish esecially puck, sarovati and BAILS good luck in wcs, bails has earned a wcs in my opinion!
btw i think, Neeb would be a perfect addition to that team as well.^^
Cav did say his next pick up is someone who has been in WCS. Hopefully it is Neeb
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