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- Team Vitality enters a new phase of its international development by partnering with ONSYDE, a South Korean StarCraft II team.
- The roster consists of esports athletes Kang “Solar” Min-soo, Cho “Maru” Seong-ju, Kim “Ryung” Dong-won alongside Coach Choi “CranK” Jae-won, who are set to compete at the Intel Extreme Masters Katowice on February 8th.
- This partnership comes as part of the global expansion of the Parisian club, aiming to replicate its European success at a global level. Together, ONSYDE and Team Vitality aim to continue shaping the history of esports, sharing common ambitions.
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On February 01 2024 19:10 CicadaSC wrote:
what does this mean? will they in tournaments be representing vitality in their team section and wear vitality jersies and onsyde be more of a clan? or is it still all onsyde and just like, vitalityowning them is a behind the scenes thing
The ONSYDE team will also be rebranded to Team Vitality.
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On February 01 2024 19:10 CicadaSC wrote:
what does this mean? will they in tournaments be representing vitality in their team section and wear vitality jersies and onsyde be more of a clan? or is it still all onsyde and just like, vitalityowning them is a behind the scenes thing
The ONSYDE team will also be rebranded to Team Vitality.
gotcha, so they basically just merged and vitality had the bigger agar.io blob so they ate them. interesting. gamers8 seems really beneficial to the players in more than just the big prize pool! also all these signings has to get other teams looking at the game again. a general esports ;recession; has smaller games looking more appealing as well.
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They added the players/team in their new Starcraft 2 section, but you can’t select “Maru” as a player when trying to buy the official jersey yet, hopefully they change that quickly
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There’s enough good enough free agents that logistics-wise it would be simpler. But it is probably way simpler in another way to just recruit a ready-made roster, and if you have money to pay them, eh go for it, makes sense.
EDIT : @Waxangel, ah, it makes it a bit different. Still makes sense for Onsyde to partner with a bigger team
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Honestly I would have expected Vitality going for a more European-centric roster. As a Frenchman I would have thought, DnS, PtitDrogo and similar calibre need a bigger opportunity. If talking about other players from other countries, Gungfubanda, etc.
There’s enough good enough free agents that logistics-wise it would be simpler. But it is probably way simpler in another way to just recruit a ready-made roster, and if you have money to pay them, eh go for it, makes sense.
EDIT : @Waxangel, ah, it makes it a bit different. Still makes sense for Onsyde to partner with a bigger team
On the other hand the French players (except Clem but he is not available ) have no real shot at doing well in the Saudi Arabia World Championship event. Getting such a strong roster is a godsend for Vitality, even though it’s not an acquisition, I would guess that Onsyde/sc2.vitality players results in the event count towards the clubs cup?
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Also after years of community members appealing during streams and podcasts that SC players are cheap investments for big e-sports organizations someone has finally told them :O :O :O Cloud9, Vitality, Twisted Minds, Talon, NaVi. Who will be next? EG, Astralis?
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Like…we have partnerships in other Esports. Especially PSG likes to “partner” with other orgs (Talon in LoL, LGD and now Quest in DotA2), always having the original name still in the title (e.g “PSG Talon”). So VIT.ONSYDE or something wouldn’t have been uncommon.
Opens up the question who would have the money to “partner” with BASILISK? FaZe and TSM came to mind, but both have financial troubles as far as I know. PSG usually only invests in non-european teams. Maybe SK Gaming or fnatic? Or that clusterfuck of a name from OverActive Media?
As a Rocket League fan i can only say this is INSANE.
Also after years of community members appealing during streams and podcasts that SC players are cheap investments for big e-sports organizations someone has finally told them :O :O :O Cloud9, Vitality, Twisted Minds, Talon, NaVi. Who will be next? EG, Astralis?
EG is literally dead and in the process of completly selling out right now.
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- Source: https://tl.net/forum/starcraft-2/620484-vitality-partners-with-onsyde
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