Intro

ROOT was founded over 11 years ago before 'esports' was much of a thing. Our goal was simple, yet ambitious: make the best SC2 team in North America. Over the years we managed to meet our expectations at multiple points, all while retaining our team spirit and cultivating friendships many of which are going strong to this day, but there's no denying that over time our competitive drive, goals and ambitions as an organization lessened to near halt.
Today that changes, as we recognize the need to re-build a sense of community and support systems for established and aspiring players in the SC2 ecosystem, we go back to our ROOTs and embark on our boldest journey yet: to become the biggest StarCraft 2 Clan, ever.

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ROOT is now open to all Masters+ (all servers)

Are you Masters+? You are now eligible to join our growing family and reap the benefits!! To submit a simple application join our discord here

Not Masters yet? Join our discord anyway! Get familiar, participate and learn as your path unfolds before you, we'll be here when you get your blue star.

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Presenting the ROOT Tournament Circuit !

In partnership with Twitch, we will be running $400 cups for members only every 2 weeks + quarterly finals (4 per year) for $2000! (Top 6 ROOT players from circuit points + 2 players from an open qualifier).
Every other week member-only distribution: 1st: $200 2nd: $100 3/4th: $50
Quarterly finals prizepool distribution: 1st: $690 2nd: $420 3/4th: $245 4-8th: $100
Tournaments will be hosted on Saturdays at 1pmEST / 7pmCEST and use EPT rules for servers. If there is a big tournament we'll reschedule.
Tournaments will be regularly streamed and casted on www.twitch.tv/rootcatz
more information ...you guessed it: on our discord.

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Inaugural Class and Player Policy:

We are very happy to announce that SKillous, SortOf and ShaDoWn have all decided to join / represent ROOT as our inaugural class!!
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As ecstatic as we are for the power these players bring to the table and our brand, we want to make sure that everyone is aware: None of our players are under contract and their commitment / obligations end at any moment they decide to move on.

This means to other teams: ROOT players remain open to offers and we will take no fee or stand in the way of their best interest moving forward.

ROOT aims to be a support structure that fills what we believe to be an existing void. To provide a system that rewards hard-working, aspiring talent, as well as established players in their transitions and flow within the sc2 sphere. We've always taken pride in supporting and developing talent and now this mission is explicitly at the heart of our project for the foreseeable future.

While we expect we'll see exponential growth, we will continue to feature a 'main roster' on our new website, with our house-hold streamers and pro-players featured. We love and are greatful to this core and hope to be able to add many more names to this list organically as our system helps to develop and catapult players and content creators forward in the space.

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Crypto fan? $ROOT is now available on rally.io!

Much of the work and efforts we are putting forward are made possible in part thanks to our new crypto token $ROOT. Access weekly rewards just for holding and participate in our economy, part of which goes to fuel our efforts in the RTS space! Buy $ROOT: https://rally.io/creator/ROOT/

More information and benefits can be found in our discord!

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Believe it or not, we have MORE in the works, including practice session schedules for members, $ROOT driven events, and, Group Coaching from pros (Provided there's enough interest) and more..

Stay up to date and track our ongoing efforts:
Twitter - @ROOT4ROOT
Discord
New Website! - http://www.root4root.com/

Pandain

United States12989 Posts

October 09 2021 20:19 GMT

Hell yeah! Root4Root!

Cokefreak

Finland8096 Posts

October 09 2021 20:35 GMT

Good luck! I hope this goes big!

_fool

Netherlands682 Posts

October 09 2021 20:42 GMT

Very nice! Hope this will allow new players to get on the scene.

Phrawz

United States11 Posts

October 09 2021 20:59 GMT

Very cool! ROOT <3

GoloSC2

713 Posts

October 09 2021 21:06 GMT

great news

[PkF] Wire

France24239 Posts

October 09 2021 21:11 GMT

awesome ! GL !

WombaT

Northern Ireland26961 Posts

October 09 2021 22:32 GMT

Yay more crypto tokens!

Am quite fond of Root’s history in the game though, hope this goes well.

Nakajin

Canada8990 Posts

October 09 2021 23:41 GMT

Nice!

DSK

England1110 Posts

October 10 2021 00:13 GMT

#10

Nice, best of luck. What exactly do you mean by 'class' exactly? that phrasing implies some sort of training/education element - will those players be providing training for the masters+ players that will have the opportunity to join up? Would appreciate it if you could elaborate a bit more :D.

Niyanyo

Mexico71 Posts

October 10 2021 02:41 GMT

#11

Great motivation to push for Master now!

AssyrianKing

Australia2117 Posts

October 10 2021 04:21 GMT

#12

Goodluck!

vyzion

308 Posts

October 10 2021 06:00 GMT

#13

Wowwwwww

Edpayasugo

United Kingdom2217 Posts

October 10 2021 06:38 GMT

#14

Root4Root!

swarminfestor

Malaysia2463 Posts

October 10 2021 06:49 GMT

#15

Talking about RootGaming, it always remind me about herO.

SnowAngel91

2 Posts

October 10 2021 07:48 GMT

#16

This relatively low masters+ requirement should bring a lot of people in. I was actually thinking of joining myself before I remembered how stressful 1v1 is. :'D But great news nonetheless. WOW.

Elche

Finland170 Posts

October 10 2021 09:03 GMT

#17

On October 10 2021 09:13 DSK wrote:
Nice, best of luck. What exactly do you mean by 'class' exactly? that phrasing implies some sort of training/education element - will those players be providing training for the masters+ players that will have the opportunity to join up? Would appreciate it if you could elaborate a bit more :D.

I'm interested about this as well.
How are they paid if they are not under a contract?
Also joining something that aims to become a foundation/support for future SC2 talent with cryptos just makes my stomach turn.

Sharkken

Jordan141 Posts

October 10 2021 09:48 GMT

#18

Best news in a while!

Good luck ROOT

Drfilip

Sweden592 Posts

October 10 2021 11:06 GMT

#19

$ROOT driven events

Is this the rebirth of Team Liquid attacks?
TL attacks was a good concept. You had known players being invited 1 per event. They were to play custom games with rules that varied a lot. Their opponents were fans that correctly answered trivia questions.
Since there were professionals vs amateurs, the custom game rules was often very debilitating. They also changed during the game, at iNcontroL's whim.

The Trial of the Xel'Naga, hosted by RedBull, was also a great event. 8 professionals teamed up with 8 fans, playing 2v2 on custom maps with very distinct features. Viewers got to vote on what was to happen, e.g. moving all mineral nodes to the middle of the map, landing a nuke in White-Ra's base, or unleash a mighty demon that attacks anyone.
Having a laughing Day9 pushing the buttons whilst commenting the games was amazing (Husky was also present).

These non-1v1 standard game events have fallen to the wayside. I wish for more big events with non-standard games. The ones that are happening now are so small that I often miss them when they are happening and I only find the VoD a few months later.
Example: Mappers' delight hosted by Creighton Olsen. I found out about it when he mentioned the conclusion of the fifth edition when commenting another event.