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TIME joins KZ Gaming

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digmouse
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
China6330 Posts
March 26 2020 08:30 GMT
#1
Source

The Chinese Terran recently left Newbee, previously his former teammate Dear joined the team as well.

Current KZ Gaming roster:

(T)Bunny
(P)Dear
(T)INnoVation
(T)TIME
(P)Nice

TIME will not be eligible to play in GTC until week 4.
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Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
55569 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-03-26 08:43:13
March 26 2020 08:39 GMT
#2
The rich getting richer. DPG and Kaizi are in a real arms race. The only thing that gives other teams any chance is that they can't use every strong player on their team for every match.

Kinda worried about the state of the league, dominance can quickly lead to boredom then.
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Waxangel
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States33584 Posts
March 26 2020 08:42 GMT
#3
Well, TIME has been low-key bad in team leagues (besides his amusingly dominant 2v2 run with Dear), so I honestly don't know if he deserves a starting spot over Nice given his past performances.

Still good to have more options and depth, obviously.
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Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
55569 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-03-26 09:16:22
March 26 2020 09:06 GMT
#4
On March 26 2020 17:42 Waxangel wrote:
Well, TIME has been low-key bad in team leagues (besides his amusingly dominant 2v2 run with Dear), so I honestly don't know if he deserves a starting spot over Nice given his past performances.

Still good to have more options and depth, obviously.

Nice did slightly worse in regular season CTC last time (1 extra loss in regular season), TIME did far better in NEXT Autumn than Nice (TIME went 6-9 to Nice's 1-7 and both their teams were in the finals). So it's not like Nice has put out those monster performances that make fielding him an inevitability without alternative.

Having another Chinese player who's favored against his countrymen and who can also hang with the Koreans at least doesn't hurt. More so than improving their own roster, other than DPG any team right now would be seriously improved by having either Nice or TIME (it's undeniable TSG's stock dropped harshly with letting Nice go). Maybe even DPG too but they don't have a reason to stop trusting Firefly. But Kaizi opts to hoard players so no other team has them, I guess.
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Harris1st
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Germany7139 Posts
March 26 2020 09:18 GMT
#5
Great news fo Time!

That also mean Scarlett is left hanging for now?
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Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
55569 Posts
March 26 2020 09:26 GMT
#6
On March 26 2020 18:18 Harris1st wrote:
Great news fo Time!

That also mean Scarlett is left hanging for now?
Wardi get in here and Sponsor Scarlett! :D

I'm sure it won't take long for a Chinese team to pick her up.
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TheOneAboveU
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Germany3367 Posts
March 26 2020 09:29 GMT
#7
Damn KaiZi, leave something for the other teams. :D

Kind of sad we likely won't see Nice that often anymore starting with Week 4. I really liked him last season and would love to see more improvement and development from him over this season, but it's probably going to be hard for him to compete for a spot against TIME.

I'm also pretty sure Scarlett's going to be picked up soon.
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Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
55569 Posts
March 26 2020 09:38 GMT
#8
On March 26 2020 18:29 TheOneAboveU wrote:
Damn KaiZi, leave something for the other teams. :D

Kind of sad we likely won't see Nice that often anymore starting with Week 4. I really liked him last season and would love to see more improvement and development from him over this season, but it's probably going to be hard for him to compete for a spot against TIME.

I'm also pretty sure Scarlett's going to be picked up soon.

If only Nice knew in advance Newbee was going to collapse and TIME was going to join Kaizi, then he could have stayed on TSG.
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TheOneAboveU
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Germany3367 Posts
March 26 2020 10:46 GMT
#9
On March 26 2020 18:38 Elentos wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 26 2020 18:29 TheOneAboveU wrote:
Damn KaiZi, leave something for the other teams. :D

Kind of sad we likely won't see Nice that often anymore starting with Week 4. I really liked him last season and would love to see more improvement and development from him over this season, but it's probably going to be hard for him to compete for a spot against TIME.

I'm also pretty sure Scarlett's going to be picked up soon.

If only Nice knew in advance Newbee was going to collapse and TIME was going to join Kaizi, then he could have stayed on TSG.

There is that. But I also imagine KaiZi are paying pretty well, so idk how much Nice values playtime against paycheck.
From a viewer perspective I definitely have to say I'd love to see them on different teams.
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Waxangel
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States33584 Posts
March 26 2020 11:13 GMT
#10
Well it's a good move from KZ simply by taking TIME AWAY from other teams. The Chinese-region player slot is a big part of CTC success, and Chinese players who can be realistically be expected to tie or even defeat a Code S-tier Korean player are in scarce supply.

It's weird that Has has been one of the most intriguing and potentially season-changing assets in the CTC scene, but none of the teams have been able to acquire his services.
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Nakajin
Profile Blog Joined September 2014
Canada8989 Posts
March 26 2020 13:15 GMT
#11
A bit of a shame to see Nice and Time on the same team, I love to see both of them play as much as possible.
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sneakyfox
Profile Joined January 2017
8216 Posts
March 26 2020 13:24 GMT
#12
A bit weird to have all these Terran options on KZ though. But at least making mono-race teams ensure that we don't have to watch mirror matchups
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sylow
Profile Joined July 2019
13 Posts
March 26 2020 13:40 GMT
#13
Maybe Nice would return to TSG
Howard_Kao
Profile Joined September 2018
China261 Posts
March 26 2020 15:03 GMT
#14
There are only two chinese players who got a relatively high chance winning a code-s korean, Time and IAsonu, with IA will probably be in IG for life, every team will be willing to have Time in their hand, good take from KaiZi. I also want to see teams start to buy players from IG or IG acquiring some Korean players to make the rosters stronger.
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Akio
Profile Blog Joined January 2019
Finland1838 Posts
March 27 2020 11:03 GMT
#15
Quite a powerhouse team, although it looks like SKT in BW with practically (or in this case, quite literally) no Zergs. A Scarlett pick-up could fix that though!
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digmouse
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
China6330 Posts
March 27 2020 13:16 GMT
#16
On March 27 2020 20:03 Akio wrote:
Quite a powerhouse team, although it looks like SKT in BW with practically (or in this case, quite literally) no Zergs. A Scarlett pick-up could fix that though!

Probably not happening. I don't see KZ still has the budget left to sign her, as the league have a salary cap.
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ImSquanchnHere
Profile Joined March 2019
15 Posts
March 27 2020 16:29 GMT
#17
Thats a sick lineup. They need a Z now!
TheOneAboveU
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Germany3367 Posts
March 27 2020 16:55 GMT
#18
On March 28 2020 01:29 ImSquanchnHere wrote:
Thats a sick lineup. They need a Z now!


If only Misaki hadn't retired. I liked that crazy madman.
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Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
55569 Posts
March 27 2020 17:03 GMT
#19
On March 27 2020 22:16 digmouse wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 27 2020 20:03 Akio wrote:
Quite a powerhouse team, although it looks like SKT in BW with practically (or in this case, quite literally) no Zergs. A Scarlett pick-up could fix that though!

Probably not happening. I don't see KZ still has the budget left to sign her, as the league have a salary cap.

Not like Kaizi needs more players anyway with the format being what it is. Options are great and all but if you're limited to 2 non-Chinese players per week, you don't have to get every high profile free agent.
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