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The Clarity Gaming Training Facility

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 VirgilSC2   United States. January 09 2013 10:00. Posts 5743
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It's with an incredible amount of pride (and slight degree of trepidation) that I compose these words. I'd like to think every serious Professional Organization dreams of the day they can have their own training facility. It's not only a huge boon for the players of the organization, but a significant centralization of the organization as a whole. For us, it's been a project in the works since the inception of our organization that has finally come to fruition. I know I speak for everyone in the organization when I say we're all excited to kick off 2013 by opening the doors to our new facility.

Team Owner, Brandon "cAdama" Altman, had some words to share on the opening of the facility as well.

After many months of planning and coordination, I'm pleased to finally say that the Clarity Gaming Training Facility is open and currently in use. One of our core focuses at Clarity is to ensure that all of our players have the best environment, tools, and help to succeed in their careers. I see this step as essential to ensuring the success of our pro-gamers to compete internationally with the best of the best. As wonderful as it was sharing my house with SungYong and ManHyeok, I'll sleep much better at night (both figuratively and literally) now that they're in the Training Facility with much better living conditions.


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Located in Hampton Bays, New York the Clarity Gaming Training Facility aims to provide comfortable lodging for all of our full-time players in order to alleviate the stress of day-to-day life and allow greater focus on their primary interest: StarCraft 2. With the ability to house up to ten players comfortably at any time, we can not only ensure a high level of support for the players, but also an environment in which to foster growth both individually and as a team.

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The location is just remote enough to offer complete seclusion from the outside influences of the world, but not enough to completely negate ease of travel (both foreign and domestic). Likewise, the house features a full kitchen (for unboxing of take-out brought home by management) and laundry facilities, as well as many other amenities (including a swimming pool).

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Despite the official announcement today, our first pair of players have already moved into the house and set up shop. Both ManHyeok "(Z)cJookTo" Jo and Sung Yong "(P)cYong" Hong are now full-time residents in the Training Facility. They are planned to be joined by more members of the team in the coming weeks.

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We asked both SungYong and ManHyeok to share some thoughts after their first week in the house, and how things are coming together.

Yong:

It's been 5 days since I've arrived at the teamhouse, I've been waiting for this for so long. It was so much bigger than it seemed in the pictures, and the interior was great. The house gets great sunlight on all four sides, with a grand view of the ocean through the balcony. We've been shopping home supplies to fill its empty atmosphere. We heard there are 3 additional members joining the team house, so that should do it for us.


JookTo:

We've been here for 5 days, and it still feels pretty empty because there are only 3 of us and the house is just huge. No complaints so far, we're just running around buying stuff for the house, making it homely. We'll be having 2-3 more people within the next few days. Once we get enough people rolling in here, it'd be the most ideal practice space.


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To keep a closer eye on our players in the future, you can follow the team, and the progress and travels of the players on the following sources:

Website: ClarityGaming.com
Twitter: @Clarity_Gaming
Facebook: Facebook.com/ClarityGaming
Twitch: Twitch.TV/Clarity_Gaming
Youtube: YouTube.com/ClarityGamingSC2

You can also expect to see our next Bi-Weekly Wrap-Up at the end of this week (our first of 2013!) for more up-to-date information on the rest of the team!

I'm also more than happy to field any additional questions regarding the Training Facility either in this thread, or via my personal Twitter (found below). For inquiries of a more direct/lengthy nature, you can contact me via Skype (VirgilSC2).

Thanks for reading, and we hope you cheer for us in this new year!
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Clarity Gaming General Manager | ClarityGaming.com | @VirgilSC2
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 ROOTheognis   United States. January 09 2013 10:01. Posts 4414
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SIck house! Congrats =D Expect big things from you guys soon!
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 ASasquatch   United States. January 09 2013 10:01. Posts 145
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Cool shit! I plan to visit soon :D (my home is only ~40 minutes away)
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 joofro92   United States. January 09 2013 10:01. Posts 89
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congrats to you all, hopefully it works out for the best
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 Acid916   United States. January 09 2013 10:04. Posts 18
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Insane. Congrats and Good luck. Looks amazing :D Clarity Fighting!
Member/Manager of Soviet Gaming(sG) Twitter : https://twitter.com/#!/sGAcid
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 SkaPunk   United States. January 09 2013 10:05. Posts 424
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What the eff brandon. Awesome.
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 MrCon   France. January 09 2013 10:05. Posts 20483
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Nice ! I hope it'll produce great results :-)
 
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 uberism   Canada. January 09 2013 10:05. Posts 270
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awesome stuff
 
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 Netsky   Australia. January 09 2013 10:06. Posts 1102
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This is really awesome, but I have a question.

So far as I can tell from looking at your website, Clarity doesn't have any sponsors. How can you afford player salaries, travel and a team house etc without any sponsorship? Is it all funded privately by team owners/managers etc?
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 InsidiA   Canada. January 09 2013 10:09. Posts 961
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Nice to see this finally up and running, 2013's the year of Clarity!
cInsidiA | Graphic Designer for Clarity Gaming and Copenhagen Wolves | @cInsidiA
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 PolishxThunder   United States. January 09 2013 10:11. Posts 150
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As a Hampton Bays resident this is awesome to see, hopefully this will be a start of some great things to come for the New York SC2 scene.
 
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 Emzeeshady   Canada. January 09 2013 10:12. Posts 2842
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So cool :D
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 AnachronisticAnarchy   United States. January 09 2013 10:12. Posts 2295
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This looks really awesome, which is kind of a problem. Your team isn't very well known, at least in SC2.
Do you have a big foothold in other games or a big incoming sponsor? This just doesn't seem like it could last very long.
"How are you?" "I am fine, because it is not normal to scream in pain."
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 Crainey   Northern Ireland. January 09 2013 10:12. Posts 89
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Seems legit, congrats! Admittedly I had only heard of Clarity through InsidiA and didn't take it seriously, with so many poorly managed teams around that screw over players you can't blame me for being pessimistic. I can confidently say Clarity Gaming is well and truly on my radar now though!

Good luck to your team and players, I hope to see your players make headway.
Gaming is much more than just a hobby.
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 Admiral Adama   United States. January 09 2013 10:16. Posts 154
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On January 09 2013 10:06 Netsky wrote:
This is really awesome, but I have a question.

So far as I can tell from looking at your website, Clarity doesn't have any sponsors. How can you afford player salaries, travel and a team house etc without any sponsorship? Is it all funded privately by team owners/managers etc?


Currently, yes. Although we have two announcements coming in the next few weeks with regards to that specific question.

We appreciate the kind words and hope you stay tuned in the coming months to follow the results!
Head Manager/Team Owner of Clarity Gaming www.claritygaming.com @Clarity_Gaming
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 VirgilSC2   United States. January 09 2013 10:18. Posts 5743
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On January 09 2013 10:12 AnachronisticAnarchy wrote:
This looks really awesome, which is kind of a problem. Your team isn't very well known, at least in SC2.
Do you have a big foothold in other games or a big incoming sponsor? This just doesn't seem like it could last very long.

Without delving into exactly how we finance the team in explicit detail, I'm comfortable sharing that we didn't go out and purchase a new house specifically for use as a training facility. We had an opportunity as a team and we took it, after careful consideration into how it effects the long-term team financials.


On January 09 2013 10:06 Netsky wrote:
This is really awesome, but I have a question.

So far as I can tell from looking at your website, Clarity doesn't have any sponsors. How can you afford player salaries, travel and a team house etc without any sponsorship? Is it all funded privately by team owners/managers etc?


Yes, the team is currently funded completely from members within the organization. Without saying too much, the response we've seen from potential sponsors was less than ideal. That being said, we have carefully laid out our financial expenditures down the road and made sure this is a sustainable endeavor.
Clarity Gaming General Manager | ClarityGaming.com | @VirgilSC2
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 FXOpen   Australia. January 09 2013 10:22. Posts 1832
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Excellent!!!!!

Glad to see these players finally getting a stable team and a lovely team house like they deserve
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 -Kyo-   United States. January 09 2013 10:27. Posts 920
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I thought that was a place where naughty things happen at first but then I read and saw pictures and I'm really impressed. Clarity slowly getting better and better. Good luck to you guys~
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 InsidiA   Canada. January 09 2013 10:31. Posts 961
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On January 09 2013 10:27 -Kyo- wrote:
I thought that was a place where naughty things happen at first but then I read and saw pictures and I'm really impressed. Clarity slowly getting better and better. Good luck to you guys~

what. I dont even.
cInsidiA | Graphic Designer for Clarity Gaming and Copenhagen Wolves | @cInsidiA
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 BretZ   United States. January 09 2013 10:32. Posts 886
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That's so awesome! Is this a beach house? congrats!
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