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The Norwegian Zerg who most notably placed fourth in DreamHack Valencia 2012 has joined the prominent British team, Team Dignitas.
TargA was studying/living in Australia for quite some time, until moving back to Norway to focus on SC2 (and Dota 2 apparently!). Unfortunately he did not qualify for WCS.
Team Dignitas was one of the best teams in 2010 and 2011, with three top tier players in  SeleCT, SjoW and  NaNiwa, but after the departure/retirement of their star players, they never got back up there, even though they have decent mid-tier Europeans in BlinG and Tefel.
Team Dignitas SC2 roster:
![[image loading]](http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/images2/c/c6/Uk.png) BlinG
![[image loading]](http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/images2/c/cd/Cn.png) DreAm
Ourk
![[image loading]](http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/images2/0/04/No.png)  TargA
![[image loading]](http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/images2/b/b9/Pl.png) Tefel
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Personal opinion:+ Show Spoiler + I recall the Dignitas boss, ODEE, being critical of SC2 players demanding more than they know they're worth. Even way back at the very start of SC2, he wasn't very willing to pay salaries to players, instead offering them all-expenses paid trips to events. Dignitas is a huge organisation, in that they field teams for many games, much more so than most professional organisations out there, so keeping costs relatively down for each division would make sense, especially if there's no guaranteed return of investment. Eitherway, it's really nice to see them pick up someone like TargA.
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Where dat snitch at?37055 Posts
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PS: the most interesting bit in that article, is that one of the reasons for the new recruit is to help them out in team leagues, the ESL EMS, and another team league that is yet unannounced. Could this be EG's project (which probably replaces EGMC?)
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DAVAY TARGA!!!!!!! #BestplayerEU! Too bad IPL6 didn't happened were he was qualified too :/
ipl6 not 4 lol
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YES! TargA is still an honorary Australian so it warms my heart to see my countrymen get on a team he deserves. Also happy because this means Dignitas is going to rebuild and hopefully become real title contenders again in the foreign scene.
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Congratz!!! Glad to see him moving on up.
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TargA fighting!!! Either I haven't been following this guy in WoL, or his skill spiked alot in HotS. :D
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so what im getting by this is Dignitas is basically not wanting to be a top organization? They'd rather save money for multiple gaming teams? I miss the SeleCt / Naniwa / Sjow days. Need more top teams. Not more top teams stepping down. T.t
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Nice! Good to see Dignitas picking someone up. I miss Dignitas being a contender team. Also, I rather like TargA.
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Dignitas finally getting back on the bandwagon. Haven't heard much from them at all other than Bling since Select and others left.
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Good to hear from Dignitas again after so long!
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So no more DotA 2 ? 
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On May 18 2013 03:58 QxGRockEr wrote:
so what im getting by this is Dignitas is basically not wanting to be a top organization? They'd rather save money for multiple gaming teams? I miss the SeleCt / Naniwa / Sjow days. Need more top teams. Not more top teams stepping down. T.t
It's just a personal opinion, they've been a 'top organisation' for a long while, but they probably think that they can give better value for their sponsors if they're visible in as many gaming scenes as possible. Apparently, one of the reasons why Dignitas was not invited to the G7 (an organisation made of the best and biggest professional organisations) for the simple reason that they didn't have teams for the games that were deemed to be most ESPORTS at the time (CS 1.6, Quake 3, WarCraft III) - or didn't have top teams, but would rather recruit the best UK team, for example. They've changed this up a bit recently, they do have successful teams in Dota 2 and LoL, and their SC2 players are still pretty good, they just don't have a title contender in that lineup, like Fnatic's SaSe, mouz's MaNa or Western Wolves' SortOf/Sting, whilst other foreign teams have 2 or 3 title contenders (Liquid, EG, Acer, Empire, Millenium).
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=/ Dignitas unable to become a significant organization in SC2 anymore...
Glad they picked up TargA and are giving him opportunities. Great guy! But kinda sad that a huge orga isn't willing to invest in any huge talent.
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for some reason I thought Dignitas was dead o_o
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The former sk-gaming forum troll has come far! Grats to Targa
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