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Scythe Esports SC2 Disbands Current Lineup

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vult
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
United States9400 Posts
January 04 2019 18:01 GMT
#1
Posted on their official Twitter page - it seems that due to the announcement of Blizzard discontinuing HGC for Heroes of the Storm, Scythe lost out on their major sponsors. All pro players are released to explore other opportunities, while NA non-pros will still be personally supported by Toast, Scythe's manager.




Notable players at the time of disbanding:
(P)Zest
(Z)Cham
(Z)eGGz
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KR_4EVR
Profile Joined July 2017
316 Posts
January 04 2019 18:25 GMT
#2
On a serious note, though, they really need to just put everyone in the same region on a team. One or two teams for NA/LA, one or two teams for EU/West Asia, one or two teams for KR/Pacific, and one team for everyone else / whoever wants to join it. Eight teams max. All these small teams are good in the short term but in the long term, look at what's happened? They disappear mere months or after they started. I wish there was a way to get everyone to band together into a small amount of teams max.

User wasn't Disbanned for this post.

User was temp banned for this post.
Et tu Brute ?
FFW_Rude
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France10201 Posts
January 04 2019 19:04 GMT
#3
the hell mods lol
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SinO[Ob]
Profile Joined October 2010
France898 Posts
January 04 2019 19:07 GMT
#4
On January 05 2019 04:04 FFW_Rude wrote:
the hell mods lol

Im so confused too :>
Stephano and Clem enjoyer
KelsierSC
Profile Blog Joined March 2013
United Kingdom10443 Posts
January 04 2019 19:15 GMT
#5
Drunk as fuck Mod for the win.

Don't have a solution , it's just a shame when any organisation goes down. Apart from the shitters who scammed Hyun, fuck those guys.
Zerg for Life
Vutalisk
Profile Joined August 2016
United States680 Posts
January 04 2019 20:07 GMT
#6
I'm a bit confused about comments above. Not sure what is gonna on.

Anyway, a bit sad that another SC2 team goes under. Best of luck to Zest.
Ronin2011
Profile Joined November 2012
Greece30 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-01-04 20:47:25
January 04 2019 20:46 GMT
#7
Never seen a meme mod before. noiceee.

P.S. Sad to see Zest without a team but I don't think he will stay teamless for that long.
The time of Reckoning has come!
Gianttt
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
Netherlands194 Posts
January 04 2019 21:22 GMT
#8
Unfortunately blizzards decision to kill hots


What do they mean by they killed "hots"? Sorry, haven't really followed the scene that closely as of late.
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tantalus
Profile Joined June 2012
69 Posts
January 04 2019 21:35 GMT
#9
On January 05 2019 06:22 Gianttt wrote:
Show nested quote +
Unfortunately blizzards decision to kill hots


What do they mean by they killed "hots"? Sorry, haven't really followed the scene that closely as of late.


I'm assuming they meant Heroes of the Storm? Maybe Scythe was primarily a Heroes team and got a majority of their funding through that? Other than that I have no idea.
deacon.frost
Profile Joined February 2013
Czech Republic12129 Posts
January 04 2019 21:39 GMT
#10
Damn you, Dominos!!!!

On a more serious note, now I'm sad
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darhumewin
Profile Joined October 2013
United States16 Posts
January 04 2019 21:55 GMT
#11
as an investor, Blizzard esports looks like that crazy kid with the destroy an entire esport ecosystem button when the cause of not meeting their standards is unclear; matchmaking, skins, marketing, online pricing, etc, and then their actions seems to blame their esports domain.

Wouldn't be suprised to see Hearthstone, WoW, and maybe even OWL teams lose sponsors as well. Rightfully so.
lechatnoir
Profile Joined November 2016
392 Posts
January 04 2019 22:33 GMT
#12
Well, that sucks. Nice of them to be open about it.
BisuDagger
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Bisutopia19351 Posts
January 04 2019 22:34 GMT
#13
Working with investors is incredibly hard. I'm sorry they had to go through this. Hopefully ex-players can still thrive. SC2 is the most fun it has ever been to watch and play imo.
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Kurao
Profile Joined April 2018
215 Posts
January 04 2019 22:47 GMT
#14
This is unfortunate, seeing the HoTS decisions by Blizzard affect their other games' scenes (albeit quite natural).
Good luck to Zest, Cham and eGGz on finding a new team.
Vindicare605
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
United States16121 Posts
January 04 2019 23:03 GMT
#15
On January 05 2019 03:25 KR_4EVR wrote:
On a serious note, though, they really need to just put everyone in the same region on a team. One or two teams for NA/LA, one or two teams for EU/West Asia, one or two teams for KR/Pacific, and one team for everyone else / whoever wants to join it. Eight teams max. All these small teams are good in the short term but in the long term, look at what's happened? They disappear mere months or after they started. I wish there was a way to get everyone to band together into a small amount of teams max.

User wasn't Disbanned for this post.


That requires money.

The reason the smaller teams exist is because they are sponsoring only a small number of players and MOST of these esports teams also have sponsored players in other games.

You can't just sponsor every single player in a single region, that requires a ton of funding and organization, you'd need a central body like KeSPA to pull that off and nothing like that exists in the West.
aka: KTVindicare the Geeky Bartender
FBTsingLoong
Profile Joined April 2018
China410 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-01-05 01:42:17
January 05 2019 01:37 GMT
#16
That's bad.
TyInnoMaruByunAlive,TIMBA
vyzion
Profile Joined August 2016
308 Posts
January 05 2019 02:44 GMT
#17
Ah, hots = heroes of the storm. I was confused for a while there.
Gemini_19
Profile Joined June 2010
United States1258 Posts
January 05 2019 05:11 GMT
#18
On January 05 2019 06:35 tantalus wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 05 2019 06:22 Gianttt wrote:
Unfortunately blizzards decision to kill hots


What do they mean by they killed "hots"? Sorry, haven't really followed the scene that closely as of late.


I'm assuming they meant Heroes of the Storm? Maybe Scythe was primarily a Heroes team and got a majority of their funding through that? Other than that I have no idea.


Yeah a big pull from our sponsors was our Heroes team and being in the HGC, so without that going forward in 2019 we weren't able to come to terms on a good deal and they decided to pull out.

It's super unfortunate and demotivating but Toast is a great guy and still wants the team to succeed going forward and is going to keep looking for more opportunities.
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TwiggyWan
Profile Blog Joined December 2013
France337 Posts
January 06 2019 02:14 GMT
#19
this summarizes well the esports business
No bad days
geokilla
Profile Joined May 2011
Canada8246 Posts
January 06 2019 05:17 GMT
#20
On January 06 2019 11:14 TwiggyWan wrote:
this summarizes well the esports business

CS:GO, LoL, and Dota are all fine. It's just Blizzard games that are struggling.
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