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puCK, Semper, ViBE join ROOT

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SetGuitarsToKill
Profile Blog Joined December 2013
Canada28396 Posts
June 08 2016 23:02 GMT
#1



Returning to ROOT Gaming are puCK and ViBE, both of whom formerly played under the teams banner. Semper, formerly of Team Gravity, has been added to the team's roster as well.

ROOT Gaming's Lineup:
(Z)CatZ
(Z)Hydra
(Z)JimRising
(T)Kelazhur
(Z)Petraeus
(Z)Revolution
(Z)SolO
(P)RotterdaM
(P)puCK
(Z)ViBE
(P)Theo
(T)Semper


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TelecoM
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States10685 Posts
June 08 2016 23:03 GMT
#2
Wow this is huge, GL to puCk and ViBE!! ROOT Rocks
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Seeker *
Profile Blog Joined April 2005
Where dat snitch at?37045 Posts
June 08 2016 23:07 GMT
#3
Dang Semper is in ROOT now? That guy is seriously moving up the chain now.
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chipmonklord17
Profile Joined February 2011
United States11944 Posts
June 08 2016 23:08 GMT
#4
Solid line up
Qwyn
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States2779 Posts
June 08 2016 23:10 GMT
#5
ViBUUUUUU!

We've come full circle . ROOT4ROOT, expecting great things for ViBE in LOTV. Been following him since 2011, lots of ups and downs, but I'm glad to see him back home.
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Pokebunny
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States10654 Posts
June 08 2016 23:14 GMT
#6
Wow, some pretty good players. Neat. GL guys and root
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MrMotionPicture
Profile Joined May 2010
United States4327 Posts
June 08 2016 23:14 GMT
#7
Has Vibe participated in any events recently?

Congrats on the move to ROOT everyone. Great team!
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PharaphobiaSC
Profile Joined April 2016
Czech Republic457 Posts
June 08 2016 23:19 GMT
#8
Vibu back in action? NICE! VibeGASM
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kugHop
Profile Joined January 2016
Luxembourg44 Posts
June 08 2016 23:23 GMT
#9
Go Root, new ultimate foreign powerhouse!! Hope that they will one day challenge for the Foreigner Throne and maybe even start showing themselves in Korea, maybe through Scarlett or NoRegret
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Cluster__
Profile Joined September 2013
United States328 Posts
June 08 2016 23:26 GMT
#10
Love Root and everything they do for NA players. Good dudes
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ShowTheLights
Profile Blog Joined June 2012
Korea (South)1704 Posts
June 08 2016 23:43 GMT
#11
Hasn't Puck joined and left Root like 20 times?
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aRyuujin
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States5049 Posts
June 08 2016 23:44 GMT
#12
On June 09 2016 08:26 Cluster__ wrote:
Love Root and everything they do for NA players. Good dudes


how much do they do for their players? chudat (root melee player) was doing donation drives to get to tournament, and they have so many sc2 players...
can i get my estro logo back pls
phodacbiet
Profile Joined August 2010
United States1740 Posts
June 08 2016 23:46 GMT
#13
On June 09 2016 08:44 aRyuujin wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 09 2016 08:26 Cluster__ wrote:
Love Root and everything they do for NA players. Good dudes


how much do they do for their players? chudat (root melee player) was doing donation drives to get to tournament, and they have so many sc2 players...


Probably give them free t-shirts and whatnot. Those are always nice to have.
Frawz
Profile Joined December 2014
United States9 Posts
June 08 2016 23:53 GMT
#14
awesome news! ROOT4ROOT!
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Mistakes
Profile Joined February 2011
United States1102 Posts
June 09 2016 00:00 GMT
#15
Big jump for Semper. Straight from Grav to ROOT? Well done!
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Mistakes
Profile Joined February 2011
United States1102 Posts
June 09 2016 00:01 GMT
#16
On June 09 2016 08:44 aRyuujin wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 09 2016 08:26 Cluster__ wrote:
Love Root and everything they do for NA players. Good dudes


how much do they do for their players? chudat (root melee player) was doing donation drives to get to tournament, and they have so many sc2 players...


CatZ has said on many occasions that ROOT will stay primarily an SC2 team. It's very likely that the StarCraft 2 portion and it's players get much more support than any of the other parts of ROOT.
StarCraft | www.psistorm.com | www.twitter.com/MistakesSC | www.twitch.tv/MistakesSC | Seattle
Rehio
Profile Joined March 2011
United States1718 Posts
June 09 2016 01:05 GMT
#17
On June 09 2016 09:01 Mistakes wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 09 2016 08:44 aRyuujin wrote:
On June 09 2016 08:26 Cluster__ wrote:
Love Root and everything they do for NA players. Good dudes


how much do they do for their players? chudat (root melee player) was doing donation drives to get to tournament, and they have so many sc2 players...


CatZ has said on many occasions that ROOT will stay primarily an SC2 team. It's very likely that the StarCraft 2 portion and it's players get much more support than any of the other parts of ROOT.


And honestly, he's sacrificing a lot to focus on SC2 more than other games. He recruited Ostkaka in Hearthstone, and Ostkaka went on to win Blizzcon after he'd left ROOT and moved to Navi. The second place finisher of that Blizzcon? Hotform, who was on ROOT at the time.

If he was willing to sacrifice the SC2 support and fully invest that in other games, ROOT would probably be a lot higher on the esports totem pole.

---

As for what they do for their players? Salaries and travel support (based on contracts I assume), having one of the few NA team houses available to live in, advertisement for streams and helping them gain traction and popularity in a scene? Is there something more they should be doing? ._.

Also, sick jerseys to wear.
blade55555
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States17423 Posts
June 09 2016 01:06 GMT
#18
Feel like Vibe and Puck have left and rejoined root so many times lol
When I think of something else, something will go here
vult
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
United States9400 Posts
June 09 2016 01:39 GMT
#19
Vibuuuu.

Grats to the three of them, Semper is really showing good improvement in the NA scene and the three of them are good NA representatives of their respective races.

GL to them!!
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Kitai
Profile Joined June 2012
United States878 Posts
June 09 2016 02:15 GMT
#20
I've never really cheered much for ROOT before, but much respect to them for being a steady pillar in the foreign scene for so long. Congrats on the bigger and better roster!
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dragoon
Profile Joined December 2010
United States695 Posts
June 09 2016 02:15 GMT
#21
grats puck and vibe. haven't seen anything of semper yet but i trust catz! gl to all you guys!
i love you
Advantageous
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
China1350 Posts
June 09 2016 02:16 GMT
#22
puck and vibe back to root! :D

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EndOfLineTv
Profile Joined February 2011
United States741 Posts
June 09 2016 02:33 GMT
#23
all three players are kicking some ass on ladder. really strong
sweffymo
Profile Joined March 2013
United States62 Posts
June 09 2016 02:59 GMT
#24
Man, Root always seems to have so much turnover with pros. But they can always sign the biggest NA players...
Garemie
Profile Joined April 2011
United States248 Posts
June 09 2016 03:46 GMT
#25
Holy cow insane news. ROOT needs more Terran though.
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BronzeKnee
Profile Joined March 2011
United States5217 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-06-09 03:58:48
June 09 2016 03:58 GMT
#26
I always thought Vibe was just another solid player, until I saw this:



Now he is my favorite Zerg. Really happy he found a team and will be cheering for him, and hope he continues to bathe in salty tears.
Zerg.Zilla
Profile Joined February 2012
Hungary5029 Posts
June 09 2016 05:23 GMT
#27
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Dungeontay
Profile Joined December 2015
126 Posts
June 09 2016 05:24 GMT
#28
Thats actually amazing!!!!
Zzz
Adept
Profile Joined December 2009
United States472 Posts
June 09 2016 06:13 GMT
#29
So glad to see more picked up by ROOT, awesome that they're still doing well!! :D
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Mistakes
Profile Joined February 2011
United States1102 Posts
June 09 2016 08:26 GMT
#30
On June 09 2016 10:05 Rehio wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 09 2016 09:01 Mistakes wrote:
On June 09 2016 08:44 aRyuujin wrote:
On June 09 2016 08:26 Cluster__ wrote:
Love Root and everything they do for NA players. Good dudes


how much do they do for their players? chudat (root melee player) was doing donation drives to get to tournament, and they have so many sc2 players...


CatZ has said on many occasions that ROOT will stay primarily an SC2 team. It's very likely that the StarCraft 2 portion and it's players get much more support than any of the other parts of ROOT.


And honestly, he's sacrificing a lot to focus on SC2 more than other games. He recruited Ostkaka in Hearthstone, and Ostkaka went on to win Blizzcon after he'd left ROOT and moved to Navi. The second place finisher of that Blizzcon? Hotform, who was on ROOT at the time.

If he was willing to sacrifice the SC2 support and fully invest that in other games, ROOT would probably be a lot higher on the esports totem pole.

---

As for what they do for their players? Salaries and travel support (based on contracts I assume), having one of the few NA team houses available to live in, advertisement for streams and helping them gain traction and popularity in a scene? Is there something more they should be doing? ._.

Also, sick jerseys to wear.


Well yeah but those other games suck compared to SC2 so... #passion!! Haha.
StarCraft | www.psistorm.com | www.twitter.com/MistakesSC | www.twitch.tv/MistakesSC | Seattle
alukarD
Profile Joined July 2012
Mexico396 Posts
June 09 2016 15:07 GMT
#31
Probably not the best place to post this, but we really need the team leagues back.
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Shellshock
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States97276 Posts
June 09 2016 15:41 GMT
#32
On June 10 2016 00:07 alukarD wrote:
Probably not the best place to post this, but we really need the team leagues back.

ROOT was playing in the SC2Improve team league which is just finishing up soon
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EndOfLineTv
Profile Joined February 2011
United States741 Posts
June 09 2016 15:54 GMT
#33
On June 09 2016 12:58 BronzeKnee wrote:
I always thought Vibe was just another solid player, until I saw this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mygH92WzKV4&ab_channel=DanScherlong

Now he is my favorite Zerg. Really happy he found a team and will be cheering for him, and hope he continues to bathe in salty tears.


One of the most amusing games I have ever watched
Hotshot
Profile Joined November 2004
Canada184 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-06-09 17:21:32
June 09 2016 17:20 GMT
#34
On June 10 2016 00:54 EndOfLineTv wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 09 2016 12:58 BronzeKnee wrote:
I always thought Vibe was just another solid player, until I saw this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mygH92WzKV4&ab_channel=DanScherlong

Now he is my favorite Zerg. Really happy he found a team and will be cheering for him, and hope he continues to bathe in salty tears.


One of the most amusing games I have ever watched


I like most of it till the end. Vibe started getting rather nasty and toxic at the end. I avoid players like avilo/protech because I dont like lots of negativity, vibe appears to be different side of the same coin (tho maybe he was just particularly nasty in that video because he really hates avilo). Also, I knew he was going to win, but it really bugged me how he got lazy with his corrupts, sending in too many at once when he didnt need to, or how his infestors weren't even in the right spot 50% of the time near the end of the game. I would have also put build more spores/drones around the mining drone (in case avilo got crafty and tried to snipe the drones with some libs when countdown was low for a tie) and build a hatch at the middle right of the map (that had more minerals).

Anyway... Team ROOT looks interesting, has a decent amount of players.
xtorn
Profile Blog Joined December 2013
4060 Posts
June 09 2016 17:26 GMT
#35
Puck hype! <3 gz gz
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EatThePath
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
United States3943 Posts
June 09 2016 17:32 GMT
#36
ROOT4PUCK! :DDD
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DSK
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
England1110 Posts
June 09 2016 19:04 GMT
#37
Surprised, but best of luck to ROOT, puCK, ViBE & Semper.
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[Svall]Granis
Profile Blog Joined August 2013
Sweden94 Posts
June 10 2016 00:52 GMT
#38
Awesome news.

But whatever happend to Goswser? Did he retire?
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Morgenes
Profile Joined November 2011
6 Posts
Last Edited: 2016-06-10 03:19:02
June 10 2016 03:09 GMT
#39
I wish the best for all parties involved :p ROOT4ROOT!
mark000032
Profile Joined June 2016
6 Posts
June 11 2016 03:28 GMT
#40
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ploguidice
Profile Blog Joined June 2013
United States233 Posts
June 15 2016 17:48 GMT
#41
Nice pick ups, especially Semper! I get the feeling he is one good run away from becoming a terrifyingly good Terran.
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