DuSt Gaming - 2015 Year End Review

In our efforts to fill those roster holes, we have had 4 players return and added 6 new players as well. Returning to the team this year was our old team captain sWs who is now in charge of our CSGO team. The other 3 returning players are KellerMaN, LovE and Kirk. LovE will be focusing on streaming and casually playing in leagues.

Throughout the year, we've added Spectre and GayGuy, two constant top 16 NA GM players from the USA; and our Japanese terran player PSiArc, who captained Team Japan in Nation Wars III. Our most recent pickups include SteAdfaSt, a Canadian GM Zerg, he has played in many offline local Toronto LANs and will be a solid addition to our zerg lineup. We anticipate more players joining at the start of 2016 as well.

I thought I would make this it's own section and shed some light on why we picked up Apocalypse. Skill wise, he's amazing. I've known him since his time playing for Quantic Gaming, IvD Gaming and his short stint with PSISTORM Gaming. Recently he was under scrutiny when a match fixing scandal broke out involving him, a third party, and another player. After reading the evidence, we were not convinced he intentionally tried to involve anyone in match fixing. This guy is a well respected player, and a kind hearted person and many people voiced their opinions on how this couldn't be intentionally done by him, and we agree. There may have been language barriers clouding Apocalypse's ability to see what was really going on, but passing a contact over to someone doesn't conclude he had anything at all to do with the actual match fixing itself.

However, if Apocalypse is guilty, then better evidence should be shown to prove he directly attempted to match fix, the evidence presented was not enough to condemn him, but resulted in a pitchfork contest and we do not support that. While Apocalypse still has a leg to stand on, we have enough respect for what he's done to give him that shot. If no other team will, we will be that team. We believe in innocent until proven guilty beyond a doubt. We support him and all our players, and we will be doing our best to lift the bans from other private organizations and tournaments, and we will strive to put this unfortunate situation behind him. For those of you supporting him as well, we appreciate it and you can look forward to seeing him play in GSL, SSL, ESL, SC2SEA and many many more events he has not been barred from. This includes our DuSt League Season 2 coming up very soon.

Unfortunately, we say goodbye to a great teammate. Spear joined us in February of this year and will be serving his mandatory army service on December 20th. Our most valuable player, and definitely one of the most underrated, overlooked korean players. He went 8-1 in our Team League playoffs, All Killing Team Gravity, including a win from their WCS Challenger player Semper. In the Semifinals, he carried us on his shoulder with a 3-0 start vs Flipsid3 Tactics, beating WCS Challenger JonSnow, Elhaym and Padre before losing to WCS Premier player puCK. He has an ASL Season 4 Challenger Title. He holds an OSC bounty and is constantly in top 10 ranking for OSC points. He could cheese, he could macro game, and we will certainly miss him cleaning up online tournaments, the NA and KR GM server, and miss him on our roster. We wish him the best of luck in his military service and whatever his future holds. It has been an amazing 10 months with him and we are thankful for all the time he was put into helping DuSt be a great team, and he will be missed by us and the community all the same.