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.
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.
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.
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!! 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.
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!
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..
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.
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.
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.
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.
Really excited to see the extra support coming back into the scene . This is also an amazing deal for up and coming players looking to compete, get into a community for practice partners and have nice solid events similar to the ESL cups but with a way smaller amount of the top players.
This is awesome news! ROOT Gaming was one of the first SC2 teams I first heard of back in the day, along with Team Liquid and Evil Geniuses. Glad they are being resurrected!!
ROOTCatZ (now caster/commentator) and ROOTKiWiKaKi were both staple names.
You have to be aware, that some players are given the master rank by failure of the ranking system.
At least on EU the MMR requirements for master can be much lower at the start of the season. I meet a lot of masters with 3500-3600 mmr. And I usually win, because I don't get scared of the master rank, as I know how they got it.
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.
Players benefit from the system that everyone has access to, it's detailed in the post and there's more info on discord. The tournament circuit is as clearly stated, sponsored in partnership with Twitch.
Crypto will be used for people who want to buy things down the line, like merch or coaching or other optional perks, no one's forcing anyone to use the crypto or buy anything they don't want to buy.
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