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Waxangel
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States33643 Posts
January 14 2018 13:19 GMT
#1
Source: ROOT Gaming

ROOT Gaming announced that long-time member (T)SuperNova has officially re-joined the team after finishing his mandatory military service. In addition, marquee players (P)herO and (T)Kelazhur have re-signed with ROOT for the 2018 season.

We are extremely happy to announce that YoungJin "SuperNova" Kim is officially back on ROOT Gaming!

Though he never technically left, our good friend YoungJin took a long break from SC2 to do his military service. Recently, he returned from the military and has been streaming SC2 regularly (https://www.twitch.tv/root_supernova)...

...On other roster-related news, we are also very excited to announce our Blizzcon'17 attendees, herO and Kelazhur have also both re-signed with ROOT Gaming and will continue to represent us in 2018, hopefully culminating with one of them lifting the World Championship Trophy at Blizzcon '18!
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ReachTheSky
Profile Joined April 2010
United States3294 Posts
January 14 2018 13:22 GMT
#2
<3 Supernova.
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WillZen
Profile Joined January 2018
Germany4 Posts
January 14 2018 13:46 GMT
#3
Nice, hope to see SuperNova stream again.
Musicus
Profile Joined August 2011
Germany23579 Posts
January 14 2018 13:47 GMT
#4
Getting excited for the GSL season 2 qualifiers already!
Maru and Serral are probably top 5.
Kovzirg
Profile Joined July 2016
126 Posts
January 14 2018 13:49 GMT
#5
On January 14 2018 22:46 WillZen wrote:
Nice, hope to see SuperNova stream again.


He’s been streaming quite a bit.
TypeOfT
Profile Joined July 2015
14 Posts
January 14 2018 14:08 GMT
#6
Happy Happy!!
zealotstim
Profile Joined February 2015
United States455 Posts
January 14 2018 14:18 GMT
#7
Happy that SuperNova is back! I remember watching his "last" stream, and it was both awesome and sad. He was so incredibly good with liberators and tankivacs. Hopefully he can get his skills back in top form.
Heyoka
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Katowice25012 Posts
January 14 2018 15:08 GMT
#8
Awesome to hear!
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GoloSC2
Profile Joined August 2014
713 Posts
January 14 2018 15:25 GMT
#9
great news!
"Code S > IEM > Super Tournament > Homestory Cup > Blizzcon/WESG > GSL vs The World > Invitational tournaments in China with Koreans > WCS events" - Rodya
WillZen
Profile Joined January 2018
Germany4 Posts
January 14 2018 15:30 GMT
#10
On January 14 2018 22:49 Kovzirg wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 14 2018 22:46 WillZen wrote:
Nice, hope to see SuperNova stream again.


He’s been streaming quite a bit.


Woot? Seems like Ive got the bad timings D_D`
ROOTCatZ
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
Peru1232 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-01-14 15:59:27
January 14 2018 15:58 GMT
#11
On January 15 2018 00:08 Heyoka wrote:
Awesome to hear!

You're awesome to hear. Also thanks Wax for the post.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

We're very happy to have YoungJin back and Kela and herO still in ROOT, SuperNova is a long time friend and a brilliant player, herO has become, over the last year especially, one of the strongest contenders / favorites in the Korean circuit and by proxy the world. On most betting websites he was considered to have the highest chance to win this GSL, even ahead of innovation dark rogue and stats, who followed closely. To house "the best" or at least indisputably one of the best players in the world is amazing for the team. I think that herO could get more than he gets from us but he chose to stay after not giving it much thought, he feels happy / comfortable as a part of the family and that fills me with joy.

Kelagod is another one that has stuck with us for a long time now, and he's the longest standing resident of the ROOT house alongside myself. While I am unsure the house will continue to exist past mid-2018, having lived with and seen Diego constantly grow year after year has been an amazing experience, and I am certain he isn't done growing. We have other very strong players like puCK who is atm in Korea (and will no doubt be in top shape as a result) or Jig who is one of my favorite players to watch, and has tons of potential. Neuro, ViBE and ZergGirl are wonderful streamers, and longstanding honorary member Rotti is getting out of control, with how good he is, he might soon bench herO. Wardi's channel is constantly growing and hydra's out there making babies that are likely to become world champions in due-time.

Bottom line for me is - ROOT is likely the strongest it has ever been heading into 2018, we have many successful years behind us and hopefully a couple or more ahead of us in SC2, much or all of this made possible by Twitch.tv and you guys' support, so thank you and please continue to #ROOT4ROOT.
Progamerwww.root-gaming.com
HolydaKing
Profile Joined February 2010
21254 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-01-14 16:29:08
January 14 2018 16:28 GMT
#12
Awesome Catz, I liked SuperNova back when he played. The smiling Assassin is great too, so I'm happy for him (and ROOT likewise).
Dapper_Cad
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United Kingdom964 Posts
January 14 2018 17:14 GMT
#13
Full on herO fan. Always enjoyed watching supernova since I first saw him royal road a code A title (I'm probably not remembering that right) but anyways a while ago now. Great news all round.
But he is never making short-term prediction, everyone of his prediction are based on fundenmentals, but he doesn't exactly know when it will happen... So using these kind of narrowed "who-is-right" empirical analysis makes little sense.
Lorning *
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Belgica34432 Posts
January 14 2018 17:19 GMT
#14
SuNo
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DieuCure
Profile Joined January 2017
France3713 Posts
January 14 2018 17:19 GMT
#15
How many foreign teams can keep a top kr player for more than a year ?

Well done ROOT and good luck for 2018!
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Drfilip
Profile Joined March 2013
Sweden592 Posts
January 14 2018 17:49 GMT
#16
SuperNova has been streaming his mech games for several weeks now. 2 weeks ago I saw him and TY on approximately the same GM rank. I thought that was interesting.
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Jan1997
Profile Blog Joined April 2013
Norway671 Posts
January 14 2018 18:19 GMT
#17
Supernova's stream is cool. Mech is pleasing to watch Glad he's back.
Do something today that your future self will be thankful for.
Xamo
Profile Joined April 2012
Spain886 Posts
January 14 2018 23:16 GMT
#18
Awesome! ROOT's roster looks better than ever. Keep it up!
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Musicus
Profile Joined August 2011
Germany23579 Posts
Last Edited: 2018-01-14 23:25:26
January 14 2018 23:25 GMT
#19
ROOT looks like a favourite to win the Wardi Teamleague tbh.

Splyce only has 3 players and JAGW won't play I guess.
Maru and Serral are probably top 5.
shockaslim
Profile Joined December 2010
United States1105 Posts
January 15 2018 07:16 GMT
#20
I am excited as hell to see what weird Frankenbuilds Supernova is going to come up with.
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