Everything does point to innovation :/ Aside from the silhouette, they said they had difficulty communicating with the other party and it wasn't clear at first whether or not they could announce him before his contract ended at the end of august. This all sounds like Kespa. I hope it isn't so.
STX is also almost probably definitely likely disbanding. It's one of those pieces of information you hear second hand, but from a ton of random people, and fits what you already know about the situation.
Because the silhouette of Acer's picture matches perfectly with the picture of Innovation used on his Liquipedia (notice the round cheek and glasses bump), I'm inclined to think that this was Acer being cheeky and misleading.
After all, last time they were signing a Zerg, and it ended up being MMA (and Cella).
As far as the HyuN/StarDust/Welmu hint, I can't really think of anything. They all did well at Assembly, and they are all European champions. Polt is also an Assembly winner/ European champion. But this train of thought feels like a stretch.
Between the three candidates (assuming it really is a Terran and Scarlett didn't mislead us on that one), there is no twitter lockdown on acerpolt, acer_polt, acerinnovation, acer_innovation, acermaru, and acer_maru.
Acer keeps their players and site members tagged as http://www.aceresport.com/uk/profile/####.htm with the number being something between 1 and ~11450 currently. MMA was high 9000s. The most recent Acer player is Trackmania Royal at 11320. So, uh, if anyone has the time and is really bored, I suppose they could go through all numbers between 11320 and 11450 and see if this new player has a profile yet, since they planned on unveiling it tonight.
Anyways, despite not technically being on a "team", I'm going with Polt. To me, it makes more sense than Innovation.
Edit: Oh, well that "STX might be disbanding" rumor kind of pushes it back towards the more obvious Innovation.
On August 25 2013 09:28 babylon wrote: Well, can't find a profile from 11320 up until 11420.
Yeah I browsed around there too. The only thing that caught my eye was http://www.aceresport.com/uk/profile/11448.htm which is "ImBaTosS" and registered today. Wasn't that the ID Scarlett was using at WCS? Maybe this was the profile placeholder, or maybe it was just someone who is a fan of Scarlett and registered on the site. Either way, it's unfortunately no help.
Because the silhouette of Acer's picture matches perfectly with the picture of Innovation used on his Liquipedia (notice the round cheek and glasses bump), I'm inclined to think that this was Acer being cheeky and misleading.
After all, last time they were signing a Zerg, and it ended up being MMA (and Cella).
As far as the HyuN/StarDust/Welmu hint, I can't really think of anything. They all did well at Assembly, and they are all European champions. Polt is also an Assembly winner/ European champion. But this train of thought feels like a stretch.
Between the three candidates (assuming it really is a Terran and Scarlett didn't mislead us on that one), there is no twitter lockdown on acerpolt, acer_polt, acerinnovation, acer_innovation, acermaru, and acer_maru.
Acer keeps their players and site members tagged as http://www.aceresport.com/uk/profile/####.htm with the number being something between 1 and ~11450 currently. MMA was high 9000s. The most recent Acer player is Trackmania Royal at 11320. So, uh, if anyone has the time and is really bored, I suppose they could go through all numbers between 11320 and 11450 and see if this new player has a profile yet, since they planned on unveiling it tonight.
Anyways, despite not technically being on a "team", I'm going with Polt. To me, it makes more sense than Innovation.
Edit: Oh, well that "STX might be disbanding" rumor kind of pushes it back towards the more obvious Innovation.
Gone through the first ten from 11450. It seems to be sorted by date, so I doubt that <11440 would have the Acer pickup.
Hahaha when I wrote my post there was no 11450, so I have no doubt that this was done in response as a troll. Unfortunately, most players don't have registered usernames as AcerName. It's just Name, like MMA and Scarlett. Quick, someone register AcerInnovation!
Edit: and someone just made AcerInnovation as 11451. I'm guessing AcerPolt incoming as 11452.
No probably not more than jaedong, I just mean maybe EG doesn't see value in spending tons of money on another sc2 player at this time and they're happy with their current roster.
Most likely the case.
I mean let's be honest, Jaedong has been performing really well lately and generating tons of hype, and the support crew of aLive, Revival and Oz have been doing unexpectedly well as of late. I mean Revival's really hit his stride recently, having shown nothing but glimpses of hope in GSTL in the past; aLive and Oz may not be back in their Code S Top 4 forms (+ IPL Champion, MLG Top 4 respectively) but they're getting back up there for sure.
Plus, let's be honest, after this weekend I expect Bogus' stock to decline a bit and for good reason.
How is Revival, aLive and Oz results unexpected? They are your run of the mill pro's.
Because the silhouette of Acer's picture matches perfectly with the picture of Innovation used on his Liquipedia (notice the round cheek and glasses bump), I'm inclined to think that this was Acer being cheeky and misleading.
After all, last time they were signing a Zerg, and it ended up being MMA (and Cella).
As far as the HyuN/StarDust/Welmu hint, I can't really think of anything. They all did well at Assembly, and they are all European champions. Polt is also an Assembly winner/ European champion. But this train of thought feels like a stretch.
Between the three candidates (assuming it really is a Terran and Scarlett didn't mislead us on that one), there is no twitter lockdown on acerpolt, acer_polt, acerinnovation, acer_innovation, acermaru, and acer_maru.
Acer keeps their players and site members tagged as http://www.aceresport.com/uk/profile/####.htm with the number being something between 1 and ~11450 currently. MMA was high 9000s. The most recent Acer player is Trackmania Royal at 11320. So, uh, if anyone has the time and is really bored, I suppose they could go through all numbers between 11320 and 11450 and see if this new player has a profile yet, since they planned on unveiling it tonight.
Anyways, despite not technically being on a "team", I'm going with Polt. To me, it makes more sense than Innovation.
Edit: Oh, well that "STX might be disbanding" rumor kind of pushes it back towards the more obvious Innovation.
Because the silhouette of Acer's picture matches perfectly with the picture of Innovation used on his Liquipedia (notice the round cheek and glasses bump), I'm inclined to think that this was Acer being cheeky and misleading.
After all, last time they were signing a Zerg, and it ended up being MMA (and Cella).
As far as the HyuN/StarDust/Welmu hint, I can't really think of anything. They all did well at Assembly, and they are all European champions. Polt is also an Assembly winner/ European champion. But this train of thought feels like a stretch.
Between the three candidates (assuming it really is a Terran and Scarlett didn't mislead us on that one), there is no twitter lockdown on acerpolt, acer_polt, acerinnovation, acer_innovation, acermaru, and acer_maru.
Acer keeps their players and site members tagged as http://www.aceresport.com/uk/profile/####.htm with the number being something between 1 and ~11450 currently. MMA was high 9000s. The most recent Acer player is Trackmania Royal at 11320. So, uh, if anyone has the time and is really bored, I suppose they could go through all numbers between 11320 and 11450 and see if this new player has a profile yet, since they planned on unveiling it tonight.
Anyways, despite not technically being on a "team", I'm going with Polt. To me, it makes more sense than Innovation.
Edit: Oh, well that "STX might be disbanding" rumor kind of pushes it back towards the more obvious Innovation.
But I don't know, maybe someone read your post and is trying to lose us.
Yup, both were made after my post. However, it's not a bad idea to test some things. If the site allows you to register as Acer_____, or just Maru, Innovation, or Polt, then the profiles were never created.