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Update: soO joins Afreeca Freecs after leaving Chivo

https://tl.net/forum/starcraft-2/554241-soo-leaves-chivo-sc-special-joins?page=2#21
IncarnatioN_
Profile Joined April 2018
Russian Federation38 Posts
January 01 2020 06:22 GMT
#21
2020 is the year of terrans (i hope)
TelecoM
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States10684 Posts
January 01 2020 08:32 GMT
#22
Oh wow this is awesome to see Afreeca continuing to support the scene, Lets go Freecs ! (Not my favorite team name though lol)
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TT1
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada10011 Posts
January 01 2020 09:38 GMT
#23
On January 01 2020 15:22 IncarnatioN_ wrote:
https://twitter.com/SC2soO/status/1212231922513924096


THANK YOU!!
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SamirDuran
Profile Joined May 2012
Philippines895 Posts
January 01 2020 09:58 GMT
#24
Wow afreeca supporting sc2! Grats soO, stats and armani!
Don't practice until you can get it right, practice until you can't get it wrong.
Ziggy
Profile Blog Joined June 2013
South Korea2105 Posts
January 01 2020 12:03 GMT
#25
well, if it is the Afreeca Freecs of yore then maybe its time to move iloveoov away from coaching their lol team hmmmmmm
WriterDefeating a sandwich only makes it tastier. @imjustziggy
FFW_Rude
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France10201 Posts
January 01 2020 13:14 GMT
#26
So... We got TWO korean team now with JinAir...

Hoping for more... The phenix must rise. Proleague needs to be reborn from its ashes
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digmouse
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
China6330 Posts
January 01 2020 14:31 GMT
#27
Huh Afreeca now has a SC2 team (again)?
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Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
55560 Posts
January 01 2020 14:54 GMT
#28
On January 01 2020 23:31 digmouse wrote:
Huh Afreeca now has a SC2 team (again)?

They've had one for a while. But KeeN, aLive and DRG didn't exactly have many big runs so it'd have flown under the radar a bit they were sponsored by Afreeca all year long.

The fact that they decided to pick up 3 more players (and really good ones at that) after KeeN's retirement is a good sign (though I suspect aLive is probably going to retire soon too).
Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
Marcos49121
Profile Joined September 2018
3 Posts
January 01 2020 15:33 GMT
#29
good news, both for Special to finally find team and soO for moving to Afreeca.
if Afreeca means to revive their Freecs team and not just act as personal sponsors with "S2" brand like with Keen and aLive then it's double the good news
lechatnoir
Profile Joined November 2016
391 Posts
January 01 2020 15:51 GMT
#30
Wow that's a surprising move. Wonderful to see afreeca supporting the scene again even beyond organizing GSL.
HsDLTitich
Profile Blog Joined October 2012
Italy830 Posts
January 01 2020 18:17 GMT
#31
On January 01 2020 23:54 Elentos wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 01 2020 23:31 digmouse wrote:
Huh Afreeca now has a SC2 team (again)?

They've had one for a while. But KeeN, aLive and DRG didn't exactly have many big runs so it'd have flown under the radar a bit they were sponsored by Afreeca all year long.

The fact that they decided to pick up 3 more players (and really good ones at that) after KeeN's retirement is a good sign (though I suspect aLive is probably going to retire soon too).


They were sponsored by Afreeca but afaik they weren't in the Afreeca Freecs team.
I used to organize tournaments for ESL Italy and referee Go4SC2s, WCSs, and IEMs for ESL SC2.
Ziggy
Profile Blog Joined June 2013
South Korea2105 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-01-01 20:38:51
January 01 2020 18:28 GMT
#32
aight, its a bit confusing, but it seems like this might be an afreeca freecs reboot and the Afreeca S2 name has been retired

https://gall.dcinside.com/mgallery/board/view/?id=sc2&no=528686

DRG says they're now called Afreeca Freecs, 'just like the LoL team'

funnily enough, he said it with the AFS2 tag still attached to his name ^^

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sneakyfox
Profile Joined January 2017
8216 Posts
January 01 2020 19:17 GMT
#33
Looking forward to the KT Rolster reboot announcement.
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mythikdawn
Profile Joined July 2019
United States25 Posts
January 01 2020 19:29 GMT
#34
Man I wish the Afreeca Freecs reboot gave even a shred of hope to the revival of proleague. Unfortunately I don't think proleague is coming back. I wish it were though.

But seriously, overall these have been pretty good pickups I feel. soO gets to play for a korean team, Juan gets picked back up, and it looks like most everyone's ready to go for 2020.
IncarnatioN_
Profile Joined April 2018
Russian Federation38 Posts
January 02 2020 12:33 GMT
#35
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2020 is the year of terrans (i hope)
Tastyyyy
Profile Joined July 2018
Portugal95 Posts
January 02 2020 13:24 GMT
#36
I mean, if Afreeca picked up 1 more player I would not be surprised...but 3 more? Does this mean they know about something big coming up?

I mean, two of the players are about to retire...but still
Plasmid
Profile Joined December 2010
57 Posts
January 04 2020 03:15 GMT
#37
For people keeping track at home, here is the list of teams Special has not been on yet:

.

Joking aside, Happy New Year and Happy New Team, Special! I was quite impressed by his overall performance in the last year, I hope he can maintain it wit the new team.
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