Source (esportsheaven.com)

A new StarCraft team called Apocalypse eSports that will be making their debut in the SC2 Improve Team League. At this time the team’s line up consists of Marc-Oliver “ (P)

desRow” Proulx, Juan “ (T)

MajOr” Tena Lopez, Vesa “ (P)

Welmu” Hovinen, Haseeb “ (P)

TeebuL” Ishaq, and Piotr " (T)

souL" Walukiewicz, Isaac “ (Z)

PandaBearMe” Fox.

wjat

385 Posts

January 15 2016 17:48 GMT

nice, good luck to them.

KalWarkov

Germany4126 Posts

January 15 2016 17:50 GMT

gl! quite promising lineup

Rizesc2

Australia3 Posts

January 15 2016 17:52 GMT

Huh... Interesting.
Good luck to the guys, especially PandaBearMe and Soul.

Ragnarork

France9034 Posts

January 15 2016 17:57 GMT

Who owns that?

Faefae

2203 Posts

January 15 2016 17:57 GMT

Cool, gl guys

Tenks

United States3104 Posts

January 15 2016 18:01 GMT

Since desrow beat major in NW3 he gets top billing I see

Elentos

55567 Posts

January 15 2016 18:05 GMT

On January 16 2016 02:57 Ragnarork wrote:
Who owns that?

Our source informed us that the team had the same management as previous North American teams “BrawL eSports” and its successor “Endurance eSports”.

Whoever that is.

SlammerIV

United States526 Posts

January 15 2016 18:12 GMT

um........ok? interesting pickups, they must have some halfway decent funding to pick up so many players. Major is a great pickup in theory, he should get a free ticket to wcs because of the region locked qualifiers.

Elentos

55567 Posts

January 15 2016 18:14 GMT

#10

Also look, MajOr joined a team that isn't ROOT again.

TelecoM

United States10700 Posts

January 15 2016 18:20 GMT

#11

Well... as interesting as this is, i'm not sure how long I think this team will last... =p

TheCzarOfAll

United States170 Posts

January 15 2016 18:26 GMT

#12

Why Desrow?

Pontius Pirate

United States1557 Posts

January 15 2016 18:36 GMT

#13

On January 16 2016 03:26 TheCzarOfAll wrote:
Why Desrow?

He has a decent Twitch following, he produces content, and he is a big personality. Keep in mind that players generate value for their teams by showing their sponsors how much attention they are able to bring to said sponsors. If it was purely skill-based, then Firecake would be swimming in endorsements. But he pisses people off, and so his career suffers from it. On the other end of the spectrum, you have Scarlet who hasn't accomplished much in a while, but does a bit of casting and still is a wildly popular community member with an adoring fanbase. If she was hired purely on skill, she'd be on a small team, but she's on Acer because she is an extremely potent source of advertisement for their sponsors.

OtherWorld

France17333 Posts

January 15 2016 18:39 GMT

#14

Apocalypse eSports? Damn, I miss the time when teams with ridiculous names had the decency to at least be funny (#LYGF4Ever)
Good luck to them though, NA desperately needs other big stable teams than ROOT. It's interesting (and kinda sad at the same time) to see that Welmu ended up on a relatively unknown NA team though, while he certainly deserves a top EU team.

Tenks

United States3104 Posts

January 15 2016 18:43 GMT

#15

I always thought highly of Welmu in HotS but he doesn't seem to be of the same caliber in LotV

Footler

United States560 Posts

January 15 2016 18:56 GMT

#16

Soul links to Ryung. Unless Ryung has changed his ID, team and real name.

Major should change his name again. Maybe change it to 'Now' or something.

Azhrak

Finland1198 Posts

January 15 2016 18:57 GMT

#17

Glad to see Welmu in a team again! However, I can't help to wonder why isn't the CEO's name mentioned in the news piece? I guess it's either Andrew "Zailyn" Martin or Dillon "Hathrow" Palimaka, since those are the people also behind BrawL eSports and Endurance eSports.

Also, anyone know the Twitter/Facebook/Homepage of Apocalypse eSports? I found this https://twitter.com/apocnation.

By the way, the link for souL is wrong in the topic. It should be