| mikkmagro Malta. December 13 2012 18:45. Posts 870 | Profile # |
The former team captain for  Quantic Gaming, the Swedish Protoss Kim " SaSe" Hammar, has (temporarily) joined up with Taiwan's premier gaming association, Gama Bears, home to the one and only Zerg King,  Sen.
http://www.esports.com.tw/news_detail.php?id=4162
The Taiwan eSports League (TeSL) is a televized league featuring three games: Kart Rider (Racing), Special Forces (Team-based FPS) and StarCraft II. It is probably more popular than other people think it is. Gama Bears have 80,000 fans on Facebook. Wayi Spider have 90,000. Pretty significant considering a team such as Evil Geniuses have half that amount. Players live in team houses, and teams often have corporate sponsors, giving a very healthy impression of the Taiwanese eSport scene.
TeSL has an exchange programme in place, whereby teams are allowed to bring in foreign players to play for them for a set amount of time. In the past, Wayi Spider had brought in MVP's Galaxy to play for them, whilst Thermaltake Apollos had Prime's  ByuN.
As clarified through his tweet, SaSe will be staying in the Gamania team house for three weeks, whereby he will have the opportunity to play five televized matches.
Gama Bears roster:
Leaf (Coach)
Sen
Slam
Apro
Gow
YoyO
SaSe
Luway (Female player, not listed on the league website, so I'm not sure if she's a pro) |
| | SaSe / Stephano / NaNiwa / MorroW / ThorZaIN / Kas / HasuObs / Socke / VortiX / LucifroN / Ret / SortOf | |
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| TheBB Switzerland. December 13 2012 18:46. Posts 4844 | Profile Blog # |
| Well THIS was unexpected. |
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| megacrack Australia. December 13 2012 18:46. Posts 90 | Profile # | |
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| dabom88 United States. December 13 2012 18:47. Posts 3084 | Profile Blog # |
Interesting. But I thought the teams in the Taiwan E-sports League followed a draft format? How was he able to get recruited without entering a draft?
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Ah, that explains it.Last edit: 2012-12-13 18:48:34 |
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 Glurkenspurk United States. December 13 2012 18:47. Posts 1843 | Profile # |
| Uh.. Wow. Didn't expect that. |
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| Sjokola Netherlands. December 13 2012 18:48. Posts 313 | Profile # |
Was hoping on Sase and Nani getting back together  |
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| Lorning December 13 2012 18:48. Posts 1151 | Profile # |
sniped.
Hm, i'd like to see more from the taiwanese scene here on TL. Last edit: 2012-12-13 18:50:15 |
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| mikkmagro Malta. December 13 2012 18:49. Posts 870 | Profile # |
On December 13 2012 18:47 dabom88 wrote:
Interesting. But I thought the teams in the Taiwan E-sports League followed a draft format? How was he able to get recruited without entering a draft?
They have some sort of procedure/policy on foreign players. Galaxy was playing for Wayi Spider, and apparently ByuN played for Thermaltake Titan. |
| | SaSe / Stephano / NaNiwa / MorroW / ThorZaIN / Kas / HasuObs / Socke / VortiX / LucifroN / Ret / SortOf | |
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| Musicus Germany. December 13 2012 18:51. Posts 2881 | Profile # |
Nice Sase! Got himself some mercenary work, that's pretty cool as a foreigner, since they have a huge variety of cheap korean players they could've chosen  .
Edit: Sadly that means no Sase at HSC .Last edit: 2012-12-13 18:54:26 |
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| digmouse China. December 13 2012 18:52. Posts 1197 | Profile Blog # |
Brief translation:
Foreign Protoss player Sase has registered with Gaba Bears' Starcraft II roster, and will play for Gama Bears starting from their game vs YoeIronmen on December 22nd, till Wayi Spider vs Gama Bears on January 6th, 2013, which means 3 weeks and 5 official televised matches, marking him the foreign player to play for the longest time in TeSL.
+ Show Spoiler +橘子熊《星海爭霸II》登錄外籍神族選手SaSe，將於12/22例47橘子熊v.s. yoe IRONMEN開始，至1/6 華義SPIDER v.s. 橘子熊出賽三週共五場職業正規賽事，是目前出賽最長時間的外籍選手。
The rest are just Sase's bio. |
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| MrCash United States. December 13 2012 18:53. Posts 1498 | Profile # |
Holy shit, I don't know the exact TeSL team league format, but Gama Bears should be freaking unstoppable now.
Congrats to Sase and even more so to Gama Bears.Last edit: 2012-12-13 18:54:50 |
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| Cinim Denmark. December 13 2012 18:57. Posts 640 | Profile # |
| Proably you want to change the title to something like - Sase playing for Gama bears, rented to them or whatever, since he isn't going to be official part of the team |
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| Cel.erity United States. December 13 2012 18:57. Posts 3595 | Profile Blog # |
| Well that's pretty cool, I guess. You don't see much collaboration between the Taiwanese/Chinese scene and everybody else. |
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| lastshadow United States. December 13 2012 19:02. Posts 1192 | Profile Blog # |
| Wonder if this is due to him being able to speak mandarin, and thus no(or little) language barrier? |
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| Weirdkid Singapore. December 13 2012 19:08. Posts 2110 | Profile Blog # |
On December 13 2012 18:49 mikkmagro wrote:
Show nested quote +On December 13 2012 18:47 dabom88 wrote:
Interesting. But I thought the teams in the Taiwan E-sports League followed a draft format? How was he able to get recruited without entering a draft?
They have some sort of procedure/policy on foreign players. Galaxy was playing for Wayi Spider, and apparently ByuN played for Thermaltake Titan.
Right on |
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| bblack Netherlands. December 13 2012 19:13. Posts 259 | Profile # |
Luway is a pro yeah, she's been playing in the ASL.
Great pickup though, hope the bears will do well with him |
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| calippo Sweden. December 13 2012 19:16. Posts 311 | Profile # | |
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 Wolfswood United States. December 13 2012 19:20. Posts 349 | Profile # |
| "on loan" is probably the best term for this arrangement. |
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| GulpyBlinkeyes United States. December 13 2012 19:23. Posts 682 | Profile # |
Sase is cool, GB are cool. We don't hear much news about Sase, we don't hear much news about GB. Seems like a good fit!
Seriously though, sounds like a neat arrangement, and it's always nice when there's a little contact with the Taiwanese scene from the outside. Hope he has a fun run there! |
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