Makes sense. Just listening to things the owner would say in talk shows and interviews showed that he was a bit out of touch with how to properly manage a team.
On December 05 2012 07:10 Epoch wrote: the "pro" gamer scene is waaaaaay over-saturated. that's why things like this happen. there's no money and sponsors for all these wannabe teams and pro-gamers. it's a lot tougher to be a pro then just being a ladder hero. you have to win events and actually draw a return for you investors. you have to have truly competitive players that have enough visibility to gain and promote sponsors.
i expect a similar fate for some other teams. i didn't necessarily think quantic would be one of them but it's no suprise at all to me.
gl to all the ex-quantic members
Yeah you're exactly right. Sponsors jumped on board because they saw how quickly SC2 was rising. They were willing to make an investment into a scene which could give good returns later on. However SC2 has more or less stalled, so companies are moving on to bigger and better things. Big teams like Liquid and EG will always be fine, but plenty of the smaller teams/players/tournament are going to end up dying off.
I hope Sase gets picked up somewhere. I feel he is one of the better foreigners, maybe Liquid? If ST does pick him up, it would be great for him. I just hope for him to find a team ASAP.
When you think about it, this was sort of obvious. For a team of Quantic's size and caliber they weren't very active commercially. EG and TL always seem to have some event going on while Quantic was virtually non-existent.