What happens to hoorai players now?!

[h0bgawblin]

Hoorai is disbanded, some of the coolest players like kaki are now clanless. I say we raise money to put these little guys in a home, or if anyone else knows whats going down, i'd like to know. For details, wcreplays.com has a couple of articles.

[Nedech]

Some of them went to PiG, i know for sure that Pato did. I don't know about the others, though.

Where did Naniwa go? He was in Hoorai, right?

[RedRagToAnOrc]

Some of them went to PiG, i know for sure that Pato did. I don't know about the others, though.

Where did Naniwa go? He was in Hoorai, right?

Most of them went to Clan PiG - (basically the new name for hoorai at the moment) - their current roster is;

KiWiKaKi
Levin
Naniwa
Nilknarf
Qazzi
PaTo

Finally, CanucK also joined the team recently from verGe Gaming.

[Nedech]

PiG just recently merged with StarComa.
Their roster now looks like this;

sCa.International:
http://www.gotfrag.com/assets/shared/images/countries/1.gif Franklin "Nilknarf" Pearsall
http://www.gotfrag.com/assets/shared/images/countries/7.gif Jonathan "KiWiKaKi" Garneau
http://www.gotfrag.com/assets/shared/images/countries/7.gif Tristan "CanucK" Taschuk
http://www.gotfrag.com/assets/shared/images/countries/1.gif Phi "Qazzi" Tran
http://www.gotfrag.com/assets/shared/images/countries/3.gif Johan "NaNiwa" Lucchesi
http://www.gotfrag.com/assets/shared/images/countries/6.gif Bernardo "PaTo" Rodrigues
http://www.gotfrag.com/assets/shared/images/countries/6.gif Carlos "Levin" Cruz (Inactive)

sCa.Germany:
http://www.gotfrag.com/assets/shared/images/countries/8.gif Moritz "sCa.corugnoll" Wagner
http://www.gotfrag.com/assets/shared/images/countries/8.gif Dennis "1mpacT" Kalsen
http://www.gotfrag.com/assets/shared/images/countries/8.gif Adrian "Freezer" Zowislo
http://www.gotfrag.com/assets/shared/images/countries/8.gif Stefan "dArk" Lehmann
http://www.gotfrag.com/assets/shared/images/countries/8.gif evo
http://www.gotfrag.com/assets/shared/images/countries/8.gif yawS
http://www.gotfrag.com/assets/shared/images/countries/8.gif Ravage

Looks pretty strong.

[RedRagToAnOrc]

http://www.gotfrag.com/assets/shared/images/countries/8.gif Moritz "sCa.corugnoll" Wagner

Took me a while to realise I've played him three times on WCGZone ladder. At the time, I'd never heard of him, so I figured he was just a "good" player. :)

Yeah, when KaKi was wearing the sCa tag I thought he might have switched clans, but turned out the entire PiG team had. They're very strong now - I wonder why no-one picked the PiG players up earlier.

[Nedech]

Yeah, me to. I mean, Nilknarf, he's doing really good at the moment. Why didn't anyone pick him up?

[h0bgawblin]

Nilknarf is good, but he hasn't had his chance to really shine in big tournies from what I understand. Not standing up to players like lucifer and sweet (duh, short list of people who can) has been, imo, why not many people have taken him seriously as a gosu player. I think his time will come though, after all, tod was the shit before sky came around. Now it's almost like tod is a memory, people tend to only recognize the best. I could just be talking out of my ass with more 4 am posts though....

[GroG]

It looked like Nilknarf was trying to stay with the majority of their team. Plus, I don't think Americans easily recruited since it'd cost more to sponsor them and get them to tourney's (I'd assume a lot of tournies are either Euro, China, or small number of Korea).

The majority of the War3 scene is China/Euro, and America has only a small amount of good players (thus why Shortround has kept his dominance even though he is inactive). It costs a lot of money to get American players to events..

[RedRagToAnOrc]

Yeah, but only some European countries. It's big in Germany, but unfortunately for Brits like me, we're a large FPS-country.

[PsychoPath]

As for that Tod is an afterthought now, he made the Semis? of bnet season 4 finals.

[h0bgawblin]

After thought and tod arn't what I was trying to combine. Simply that tod was considered the human of humans, now, sky has that role and thusly tod is less appreciated.

[RedRagToAnOrc]

After thought and tod arn't what I was trying to combine. Simply that tod was considered the human of humans, now, sky has that role and thusly tod is less appreciated.

People are getting bored of ToD, simply because he "whines" too much (he was apparently overheard mentioning that the Season 4 Finals was the worst organised tournament since EuroCup) and complains about imbalance much more than other professionals.

Ask Grubby about imbalance, and he says he enjoys playing against Night-Elf, because it's a "challenge". Ask ToD, and he'll voice his opinion.

[h0bgawblin]

Yeah, however I can understand where tod comes from on that. I think however, it's a good idea to put that on the side lines, so instead of bitching I can improve. My one opinion is, however, people have little time and patience. They like to watch the best, and why not, the best have (most of the time) more to offer viewers. When sky was taken notice of over tod, tod is going to lose a LOT of sight in the community because he's simply not the best.