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YEAH!!! welcome Rotti to the family. Not only is RotterdaM joining ROOT, but the most important and exciting part is he is joining as a PLAYER!.
Altough Kevin is mostly known in the sc2 community for being a caster, anyone who followed wc3 knows that there's a beast within him yet to be unleashed! Rotti's one of the players with the most potential out there, which makes me incredibly excited to have him on our squad. It was awesome in the beta when we could recruit people who we thought had talent and then they grew into great players, at this point in time however, most players are already "made" and new talent is rare. I am absolutely sure rotti has what it takes to be one of the best players, and I am confident than in ROOT we'll help him archieve just that.
Kevin will also start streaming games, something that he hasn't gotten the chance to do yet, so you'll get to see him in action as he climbs the ladder under ROOTterdaM (most likely)
now don't get me wrong, RotterdaM is a GM level player, so you won't get to see him start in gold, but you'll get to see him grow with us. We are incredibly happy to make this announcement at ROOT Gaming <3333333 you Rotti.Here's what RotterdaM had to say about joining ROOT:
"After Serious Gaming disbanded I wondered if I should join a new team or not. I took my time because I've been super busy for the last 5 months where I attended a lot of live events, moved from Germany to USA and didn't have a pc available for a long time. Now when I'm finally settled I'm ready to play a lot again since at the end of the day I believe the only way to truly know what you're talking about is by trying to play against the guys you're casting but that's not all. Above everything I love StarCraft and competing is the best feeling there is. I miss the feeling of playing important games and I miss just hanging out with a team, preparing for a clanwar etc. I spoke with CatZ 2 months ago about playing competitively again after we played each other in the ONOG and I had a great feeling straight away, would have loved to play along side him and get a bit more competitive again but back then it wasn't really possible, with my future being unsure and having to move from EU to NA I knew I wouldnt get a lot of practise so I didn't really push those plans. However 2 months later is everything different, Catz is back to his rootz (lol! ) and asked me if I wanted to join on the exact same day as I told Ben I might try to join Root :D, spidersenses alert! I really love the line-up of Root and I know I can learn a ton of those guys which will help me both as player and caster. I don't wanna raise to many expectations because at the end of the day, I still am a caster since that's how I make a living but I can guarantee you guys I will try as hard as I can to catch up and hopefully be a valuable asset to Root in clan wars. I'm super excited to play with the guys and improve and I'll do my best to wear the ROOT tag with pride. I will stream a lot of my practise as well so I hope you guys can see me improving, thanks to Catz for giving me this great oppertunity and I'll work hard as always. XoXo" - Kevin "RotterdaM" van der Kooi
on other news, we also just announced our Dota 2 Squad, so please support them and post comments there as well, we're incredibly happy to be able to diversify and grow our family and our brand, everything is going great for us, and for that, again, we have all of you guys to thank.
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=338454 < Dota 2 Announcement
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c u guys later, hopefully with more amazing news!! - CatZ
