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PartinG signs with Zenith of Origin (rumor)

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showstealer1829
Profile Blog Joined May 2014
Australia3123 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-02-25 16:49:40
February 24 2016 19:28 GMT
#1
So sayeth eSports Heaven

eSports heaven has learned that that Won “PartinG” Lee Sak has been signed to Zenith of Origin, a Chinese team that includes top players such as Huang “TooDming” Huiming. The signing to Zenith of Origin comes hot on the heels of a highly successful one year tour with the Taiwanese team Yoe Flash Wolves.

PartinG had previously played for Team StarTale before signing a high profile contract with top Korean outfit SK Telecom T1. Despite the high salary PartinG chose not to continue with SKT1 after his contract expired, citing a dislike for living and playing within the KeSPA system. Despite the lower salary, PartinG has stated that he prefers playing on teams that give him the freedom to travel and compete, claiming he "grew up in the wild", but SKT1 continue to hold PartinG's Proleague rights, making it unlikely he will be able to play in Prologue as a mercenary for one of the KeSPA teams.


Zenith's roster

(P)PartinG
(Z)TooDming
(Z)Sakya
(T)Zycart

Edit:
There is no understanding. There is only Choya. Choya is the way. Choya is Love. Choya is Life. Has is the Light in the Protoss Dark and Nightmare is his chosen Acolyte
Apoteosis
Profile Joined June 2011
Chile820 Posts
February 24 2016 19:44 GMT
#2
Cool !
Life won like 200k and didn't hire a proper criminal lawyer.
CxWiLL
Profile Joined May 2013
China830 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-02-24 19:46:11
February 24 2016 19:45 GMT
#3
YFW are abandoning their SC2 team except Has. That is the reason Parting leaves YFW.
YFW and ZOO teamed up together to attend the NSL (Chinese team league) this year. So we have Parting/Has/Toodming on the same team.

BTW
The NSL is going to be interesting this year. The top four contender iG, Bheart, Xteam and Zoo-YFW all have some solid roster.
IG: Jim/iAsonu/Xigua/Macsed
Bheart: Cyan/Mytery
Xteam: Byun/Ein/Time
Zoo-YFW: Parting/Has/Toodming.
intotheheart
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Canada33091 Posts
February 24 2016 19:46 GMT
#4
What format is NSL, all-kill?
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CxWiLL
Profile Joined May 2013
China830 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-02-24 21:04:27
February 24 2016 19:47 GMT
#5
On February 25 2016 04:46 IntoTheheart wrote:
What format is NSL, all-kill?

4 1v1 games like SPL, no ACE game in regular season.
but both team can pull out an archon as a player once, like a joker card.
So there are some 2v1 scenario in this tournament.
rednusa
Profile Joined October 2012
651 Posts
February 24 2016 20:37 GMT
#6
What about GSL and S2SL?
DinoMight
Profile Blog Joined June 2012
United States3725 Posts
February 24 2016 20:39 GMT
#7
On February 25 2016 04:47 CxWiLL wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 25 2016 04:46 IntoTheheart wrote:
What format is NSL, all-kill?

4 1v1 games like SPL, no ACE game in regular season.
but every team can pull out an archon as a player once, like a joker card.
So there are some 2v1 scenario in this tournament.


That's fucking cool.
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xtorn
Profile Blog Joined December 2013
4060 Posts
February 24 2016 20:40 GMT
#8
PartinG is such a boss. Signing only teams that make him happy and understand his need for freedom.
Fighting! <3
Life - forever the Legend in my heart
Clonester
Profile Joined August 2014
Germany2808 Posts
February 24 2016 21:03 GMT
#9
Chinese visum, easy winning Shanghai WCS Event?
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Cricketer12
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
United States13996 Posts
February 24 2016 21:25 GMT
#10
Would have been fun to see him on tl or eg but good luck to him all the same!
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IcookTacos
Profile Joined December 2011
Sweden295 Posts
February 24 2016 21:29 GMT
#11
Is there any reason he don't want to go back to a Korean organization?
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Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
55571 Posts
February 24 2016 21:31 GMT
#12
On February 25 2016 06:29 IcookTacos wrote:
Is there any reason he don't want to go back to a Korean organization?

He doesn't like the KeSPA system and all Korean teams that exist right now are part of that system (also SKT owns his Proleague rights so he's not a very appealing player for the other teams either).
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Advantageous
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
China1350 Posts
February 24 2016 22:22 GMT
#13
YFW leaving SC2? ... anyone did not see this coming? saw this coming when Leenok left...
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HooHooH
Profile Joined January 2015
165 Posts
February 24 2016 22:32 GMT
#14
Who is this team?
Shrinkzxo
Profile Blog Joined August 2014
Dotoland672 Posts
February 24 2016 22:44 GMT
#15
So can I now count myself as a reliable source?
https://twitter.com/shrinkzxo
NyxNax
Profile Joined March 2014
United States227 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-02-24 23:05:50
February 24 2016 23:05 GMT
#16
<3 Parting, wish him all the best and hope he does well this year. Seemed to take a down turn towards the end of Hots, hopefully he comes back to form! Absolutely love watching his games. Also, really sick of SK T1 holding onto players proleague rights, I mean c'mon SKT1... Been so dominate, just allow them to play! Esports careers don't last forever, shouldn't lock them out for the majority of it, if not all of it..
AKAvg
Profile Joined April 2014
Brazil298 Posts
February 24 2016 23:36 GMT
#17
On February 25 2016 08:05 NyxNax wrote:
<3 Parting, wish him all the best and hope he does well this year. Seemed to take a down turn towards the end of Hots, hopefully he comes back to form! Absolutely love watching his games. Also, really sick of SK T1 holding onto players proleague rights, I mean c'mon SKT1... Been so dominate, just allow them to play! Esports careers don't last forever, shouldn't lock them out for the majority of it, if not all of it..


Never quite understood that.
Did he break his contract midway with SKT? Everywhere they cite that he left SKT when his contract ended (expired), so it shouldn't be like that.

Since he's banned from proleague for the time being it seems like a pretty bad deal to come back to Korea anyway (both for him and the team).
Circumstance
Profile Blog Joined March 2014
United States11403 Posts
February 25 2016 00:34 GMT
#18
It's odd that Zoo is his organization of choice. Haven't they had issues financially supporting their players in the past?
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Nuclease
Profile Joined August 2011
United States1049 Posts
February 25 2016 00:49 GMT
#19
What is up with Korean players going to all of these booty teams with no real financial backing? Don't get it.
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CxWiLL
Profile Joined May 2013
China830 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-02-25 00:54:57
February 25 2016 00:53 GMT
#20
On February 25 2016 09:34 Circumstance wrote:
It's odd that Zoo is his organization of choice. Haven't they had issues financially supporting their players in the past?

Zoo is not a rich team but I think they have overcome the financial problem now. So I think they are fine.
Zoo also holds one of the best academy team in China. A lot of young players went to zoo last year and became noticed by the pro-scene.
vult
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
United States9400 Posts
February 25 2016 01:57 GMT
#21
Parting loves China!
I used to play random, but for you I play very specifically.
partydude89
Profile Blog Joined August 2012
1850 Posts
February 25 2016 02:49 GMT
#22
On February 25 2016 10:57 vult wrote:
Parting loves China!



Err, i might be wrong but i thought YFW was a Taiwan team, not a Chinese one
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pzlama333
Profile Joined April 2013
United States282 Posts
February 25 2016 02:50 GMT
#23
Parting said he wants to join X-team at first, but X-team's manager F91 and xiaose said they do not really want to sign him because X-team (with Byun) will be too strong compared to other Chinese team, so they refered Parting to Zoo in order to play the Chinese starcraft league.
But Parting does not play very well recently because he still play old Hots style. He narrowly beat the caster xiaose, and had been crushed by xigua several times. However, it looks like he enjoys his steaming on douyu by defeating random gold and diamond players in China server, and watching other girl's steaming of other games.
digmouse
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
China6331 Posts
February 25 2016 02:54 GMT
#24
Welp. Zoo should be releasing an official announcement soon.
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fronkschnonk
Profile Joined November 2011
Germany622 Posts
February 25 2016 06:18 GMT
#25
On February 25 2016 11:49 partydude89 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 25 2016 10:57 vult wrote:
Parting loves China!



Err, i might be wrong but i thought YFW was a Taiwan team, not a Chinese one


The official name of Taiwan is "Republic of China". It was part of Chine since the 17th century being seperated from China under the rule of Japan from 1895 to 1945. Then it became part of "the Republic of China" again which became "People's Republic of China" in 1949 after the communist civil war. Since then Taiwan is the remaining piece of the "Republic of China" where government and army retreated to.

tl;dr: history-wise Taiwan is kind of China too.
Furthermore, I consider that some kind of Code A must be reestablished.
pzlama333
Profile Joined April 2013
United States282 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-02-25 06:51:04
February 25 2016 06:37 GMT
#26
On February 25 2016 15:18 fronkschnonk wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 25 2016 11:49 partydude89 wrote:
On February 25 2016 10:57 vult wrote:
Parting loves China!



Err, i might be wrong but i thought YFW was a Taiwan team, not a Chinese one


The official name of Taiwan is "Republic of China". It was part of Chine since the 17th century being seperated from China under the rule of Japan from 1895 to 1945. Then it became part of "the Republic of China" again which became "People's Republic of China" in 1949 after the communist civil war. Since then Taiwan is the remaining piece of the "Republic of China" where government and army retreated to.

tl;dr: history-wise Taiwan is kind of China too.


Yea, Taiwan if part of China, and the mainland China is another part of China too, though they are currently controlled by two different governments which call themselves different names. Technically they are still in civil war state, because there's neither peace treaty nor cease fire between them.

Btw, it is just some historical fact, and I think TL is not a good place for politics. But in any case, Parting loves China and Chinese now. Though he does not play very well now, he still keeps his blink stalker micro. This year's China's team league should be interesting to watch.
azunyashka
Profile Joined October 2011
Russian Federation7 Posts
February 25 2016 07:24 GMT
#27
How long skt t1 can deny Parting's appearence in spl?
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Profile Blog Joined April 2005
Where dat snitch at?37074 Posts
February 25 2016 07:31 GMT
#28
On February 25 2016 16:24 azunyashka wrote:
How long skt t1 can deny Parting's appearence in spl?

I believe another three years.
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Yiome
Profile Joined February 2014
China1687 Posts
February 25 2016 08:04 GMT
#29
I am not sure how I feel about this...
This is not the parting that was in SKT1, not even the parting with YFW... This is the parting that streams League on Douyu trolling around.
Hopefully he can get back on track and perform in Zoo, or I don't think Zoo is getting a good deal in this
SystemXN
Profile Joined December 2011
China105 Posts
February 25 2016 09:20 GMT
#30
On February 25 2016 17:04 Yiome wrote:
I am not sure how I feel about this...
This is not the parting that was in SKT1, not even the parting with YFW... This is the parting that streams League on Douyu trolling around.
Hopefully he can get back on track and perform in Zoo, or I don't think Zoo is getting a good deal in this


Agreed. But I don't think Zoo would pay a considerable salary to PartinG, while Zoo could use PartinG's fame to attract more sponsors (hopefully), so this is a good deal to Zoo anyway.

I am a big fan of PartinG since his days as another random GSL qualifier player, but tbh I feel regret on today's PartinG, even though he never be so close to Chinese fans than today.

I hope he can take his motivation back after joining Zoo, but I doubt that. Zoo lacks ability to provide a good atmosphere for progamers to practice hard.
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nachtkap
Profile Joined February 2011
Germany197 Posts
February 25 2016 10:19 GMT
#31
This has to be the longest staring contest ever.
SuperHofmann
Profile Joined September 2013
Italy1741 Posts
February 25 2016 16:26 GMT
#32
I'm very happy for team ZoO, they had financial problems if I remember correctly, now they have PartinG!
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SNSeigifried
Profile Joined April 2013
United States1640 Posts
February 25 2016 16:47 GMT
#33
https://twitter.com/PartinGBigBoy/status/702897373341573120
Icebound Esports
showstealer1829
Profile Blog Joined May 2014
Australia3123 Posts
February 25 2016 16:50 GMT
#34
On February 26 2016 01:47 SNSeigifried wrote:
https://twitter.com/PartinGBigBoy/status/702897373341573120


Added it to the OP
There is no understanding. There is only Choya. Choya is the way. Choya is Love. Choya is Life. Has is the Light in the Protoss Dark and Nightmare is his chosen Acolyte
TechNoTrance
Profile Joined May 2012
Canada1007 Posts
February 25 2016 17:13 GMT
#35
Lol, bit of a "citation needed" on that article then. Guess we should wait for proof from player or team before quickly believing any announcements.
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