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Hello TeamLiquid! I am here to announce the release of the new Team oGaming! This involves the new logo you see above, as well as this new roster and a new website that should be released in a week or two!
If you haven't heard of oGaming before, we started out in 2003 as a Brood War team, and had players from around the globe with the tag oG). In StarCraft 2 we returned after a 3 year hiatus, and came back with a few of our original members. If you wish to learn more about us from the dawn of our SC2 team, head over to our Liquipedia page.
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Our first leave from our Professional roster had Kevin "FlatLine" Van one of the more analytical guys on the roster leaving the team. With him. Phil "ScrubbleS" Cortinas also had left, and the two went off to look for another team together. Lastly, our good friend imbaASfuts had also left the team, going to Team .SCA in search of new opportunities. We wish them all best of luck in their endeavors.
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We have taken in quite a few new players, because a few went inactive or just can't dedicate as much time to the game. Early May, American Terran player Jesse " RuFF" Hall had joined the ranks of oGaming. RuFF does consistently well in MLG Open Brackets as well as doing very well in local LANs. You can find his stream over on TwitchTV. Protoss player Richard "Eifer" Gayler joined the ranks as well. He was on 4NOT before the Quantic merger, and is a very skilled player with achievements such as getting to Round 2 of the group play in the MLG 2012 Summer Championships.
We also had 3 more acquisitions in the form of Zerg players from across the globe. We had Romanian Zerg player Andrei "DeathAngel" Nodea join the Pro Team roster. Also joining him as Zerg recruits are the British Paul "JonnyREcco" Whyte (formerly of Team Dignitas) and the Korean Hyun "DeParture" Sung Min (formerly of Fnatic). These 3 have many notable achievements in their respective regions such as a 3rd place finish for DeathAngel at IeSF 2011, a Ro8 finish in TSL4 for JREcco and a 2nd place finish in the Auction All-Kill OSL non-KeSPa Preliminaries for DeParture.
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gratz paul is a sick pickup really talented zerg
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jonnyrecco best uk zerg  wish him and the team all the best! good luck
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Good pick up! jrecco is really really good player! grtz
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wow! nice! good to see good players finding a good team!
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Thought Ruff retired. Hm.
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wow, those are some pretty significant pickups, hope you can afford them! Didn't know DeParture was still playing competitively, I haven't seen him play a qualifier in ages. JonnyREcco is a pretty big talent, I thought Fnatic was somewhat interested in picking him up, I guess I was wrong, or you made a better offer ^^ DeathAngel got pretty close to qualifying for EU Challenger so he's quite a good pickup as well.
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On May 23 2013 08:03 mikkmagro wrote:
wow, those are some pretty significant pickups, hope you can afford them! Didn't know DeParture was still playing competitively, I haven't seen him play a qualifier in ages. JonnyREcco is a pretty big talent, I thought Fnatic was somewhat interested in picking him up, I guess I was wrong, or you made a better offer ^^ DeathAngel got pretty close to qualifying for EU Challenger so he's quite a good pickup as well.
Once upon a time DA was 1 match away from qualifying for code A too. Lost 0-2 to Center once and another Korean terran the other time IIRC
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Yeaaah, hard to take a team seriously when it has DeathAngel in it.
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For all the DeathAngel comments i get what people are saying but he deserves a second chance a lot of players got that second chance why deathangel cant idk.
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I think the team will have to carefully consider whether or not the skill of Deathangel is worth the anti-fans that come with him. A lot of people aren't going to be so quick to forgive the whole Veralynn thing.
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On May 23 2013 08:08 kilokilo23 wrote:
For all the DeathAngel comments i get what people are saying but he deserves a second chance a lot of players got that second chance why deathangel cant idk.
Not saying he doesn't "deserve" a second chance, but people shouldn't forget hence the friendly reminder.
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On May 23 2013 08:09 Bibbit wrote:
I think the team will have to carefully consider whether or not the skill of Deathangel is worth the anti-fans that come with him. A lot of people aren't going to be so quick to forgive the whole Veralynn thing.
He was really underrated, although it certainly doesn't help that he suffered the trope of "talented but not yet accomplished foreign pro waiting to break out" etc. Hopefully he'll perform well and not cause any more issues.
I'm a bit more interested in seeing DeParture play though, and how he fares against foreigners.
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oh damn nice.. except death angel of course, but meh, TT1 used to be a known hacker but look at him now, maybe we can give DeathAngel another chance
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Grats to JR!
I rather Deathangel over RuFF anyday.
That person is possibly the most skilled BM all in player since Believe.
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On May 23 2013 08:48 SoOJuuu wrote:
Grats to JR!
I rather Deathangel over RuFF anyday.
That person is possibly the most skilled BM all in player since Believe.
who is BM? ruff or deathangel?
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Good luck with the new team but signing DeathAngel either shows no knowlege of his fraud history or at least a dont-care-attitude in the management.
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I still remember when JRecco popped up into the scene and was one of the most up-and-coming Zerg rising talent. He looked top Korean caliber and suddenly he looked like another foreigner, and I never really understood why 
Looking forward to sick performances from him once again.
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EPT![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/UkZOFvW.png)
Dalton "ToXSiK" McMullen
William "TOP" Lee
Richard "Eifer" Gayler
