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Chivo SC disbands

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TheOneAboveU
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Germany3367 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-04-07 20:09:36
April 07 2020 15:25 GMT
#1
UPDATE 2 (7. 4. 2020, 18:00 CEST)

Official statement from Chivo:


Link to picture/statement


Original posting (older news)

According to (Wiki)SpeCial, team (Wiki)Chivo SC has disbanded today. (Wiki)RagnaroK tweeted that he left the team.

This comes pretty suddenly, as the team has tweeted on the 2nd of April about its players qualifying for GSL, making it sound like normal business, and is in the midst of participating in the Gold Series Team Championship.

As of now, there is no official statement from the team available. (See Update 2 below for the official statement!)


SpeCial: as of today i am teamless. my team has disbanded im very sad about it. will look into my options for the future.


SpeCial seemed pretty surprised by the news himself, tweeting earlier today:
SpeCial: ha nothing like waking up to bad news... fantastic something always happens to me

Source


RagnaroK: i leave Chivo SC. Thank you for supporting me !


UPDATE (7. 4. 2020, 17:00 CEST)

An official announcement was supposed to be coming out in about a week.

On April 07 2020 20:45 olimoley wrote:
We are waiting on other members of the Chivo team to receive the news privately before we release a public announcement.

Olimoley is the team manager of Chivo SC.

On April 07 2020 22:51 Major wrote:
so i woke up with a message telling me because covid 19. the team would be disbanded. now while i respect that.

no one can honestly expect me to hold this for 1 week.(when they planned to make it public) while i was happy with what chivo did for us and they always threated us well. i cannot go 1 week acting like nothing happeend on my stream or trying to find a new job.


i just want to say i am sad.

Major is SpeCial, as most of you will probably already know.
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IncarnatioN_
Profile Joined April 2018
Russian Federation38 Posts
April 07 2020 09:26 GMT
#2
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Akio
Profile Blog Joined January 2019
Finland1838 Posts
April 07 2020 09:31 GMT
#3
First TY, and now this.. Rip...
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operwolf
Profile Joined April 2008
United States324 Posts
April 07 2020 09:44 GMT
#4
That's really too bad if true. Two of my favorite players/streamers were on Chivo, mcanning and special. Hope the best for everyone involved!
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derkopf
Profile Joined July 2004
Germany77 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-04-07 10:11:10
April 07 2020 09:49 GMT
#5
Sad news. I think it will make them stronger(the pro players). sounds like a very impulsively action, not ok for the pro players since their life depends on it. i wonder how the pro contracts are looking that they can just disband the contract.
-Kyo-
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Japan1926 Posts
April 07 2020 10:03 GMT
#6
always with special D: hope he can find another team soon, he is one of the foreigners still putting up amazing results in korea over such a long period.
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FBTsingLoong
Profile Joined April 2018
China410 Posts
April 07 2020 10:14 GMT
#7
So it is true.Solar told this to Cloudy several hours ago.
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digmouse
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
China6327 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-04-07 10:38:17
April 07 2020 10:36 GMT
#8
Damn. Hope everyone lands on their feet soon.

EDIT: just talked to the folks over at GTC, schedule for the rest of the season will be tuned.
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sneakyfox
Profile Joined January 2017
8216 Posts
April 07 2020 10:47 GMT
#9
Very surprising news. Chivo seemed like a really well functioning SC2 division, with not only players competing in GTC but also several of the biggest streamers in sc2 under their banner. Looking forward to hearing why this happened.
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olimoley
Profile Blog Joined January 2013
United States742 Posts
April 07 2020 11:45 GMT
#10
We are waiting on other members of the Chivo team to receive the news privately before we release a public announcement.
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Musicus
Profile Joined August 2011
Germany23576 Posts
April 07 2020 11:54 GMT
#11
Man, Chivo was looking good an was one of the legit "new" teams with community veterans as staff, so sad .
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Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
55476 Posts
April 07 2020 12:08 GMT
#12
Because TY's contract running out after 2 weeks of GTC just couldn't be the weirdest thing that happens this week, huh?
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Nakajin
Profile Blog Joined September 2014
Canada8988 Posts
April 07 2020 12:17 GMT
#13
Wow that suck
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op11er
Profile Joined August 2019
3 Posts
April 07 2020 12:26 GMT
#14
CranK just said on stream that apparently Special broke the embargo about the team disbandment. From what I hear it seems like it was supposed to be tmr when it's announced but special outright just said it today. He seemed pretty pissed on stream, and it been a few months since I saw him that displeased on cam.
Yrr
Profile Joined June 2012
Germany802 Posts
April 07 2020 12:40 GMT
#15
Pretty sure Special is also pretty displeased to lose his team without any notice period.
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ssg
Profile Joined July 2011
United States1770 Posts
April 07 2020 13:12 GMT
#16
On April 07 2020 21:26 op11er wrote:
CranK just said on stream that apparently Special broke the embargo about the team disbandment. From what I hear it seems like it was supposed to be tmr when it's announced but special outright just said it today. He seemed pretty pissed on stream, and it been a few months since I saw him that displeased on cam.

Why would there be an embargo on someone losing their team? That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. Special needs to worry about himself and get his name out there so he can find a new team.
Psychonian
Profile Joined March 2012
United States2322 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-04-07 13:15:43
April 07 2020 13:14 GMT
#17
Honestly very possible that, considering that the owner is in Mexico and Juan is in Korea, there was some confusion over the date of the announcement. Could also be that Juan just wasn't told or missed the fact that he wasn't supposed to say it yet. It's not necessarily, for lack of a better word, malicious, although it is a possibility that Juan did intentionally announce early because of the suddenness of losing his salary, or even just because he (like me) thought it was just stupid and pointless to keep that information under wraps. Who knows.
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Astronest
Profile Joined January 2020
34 Posts
April 07 2020 13:16 GMT
#18
From what I remember, the owner of the team was a Mexican business man with some disposable income. Most likely, with the current economic situation, that excess income is now gone.
kubaPS
Profile Joined July 2018
Germany162 Posts
April 07 2020 13:17 GMT
#19
On April 07 2020 22:12 ssg wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 07 2020 21:26 op11er wrote:
CranK just said on stream that apparently Special broke the embargo about the team disbandment. From what I hear it seems like it was supposed to be tmr when it's announced but special outright just said it today. He seemed pretty pissed on stream, and it been a few months since I saw him that displeased on cam.

Why would there be an embargo on someone losing their team? That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. Special needs to worry about himself and get his name out there so he can find a new team.


Because you wouln't like to read on TL or Twitter that you have lost your job before you get the information from your employer ;-)
Psychonian
Profile Joined March 2012
United States2322 Posts
April 07 2020 13:18 GMT
#20
On April 07 2020 22:17 kubaPS wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 07 2020 22:12 ssg wrote:
On April 07 2020 21:26 op11er wrote:
CranK just said on stream that apparently Special broke the embargo about the team disbandment. From what I hear it seems like it was supposed to be tmr when it's announced but special outright just said it today. He seemed pretty pissed on stream, and it been a few months since I saw him that displeased on cam.

Why would there be an embargo on someone losing their team? That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. Special needs to worry about himself and get his name out there so he can find a new team.


Because you wouln't like to read on TL or Twitter that you have lost your job before you get the information from your employer ;-)

I would prefer to find out as soon as possible regardless of source if it's effective immediately like this appears to be.
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