SC2SEA.com - Starcraft 2 SEA eSports Community Site

breadfan · Tue, 4th-Dec-2012, 4:49 PM

Last week, the 2012-2013 KeSPA ProLeague season was announced, with the inclusion of "a foreign team" causing a frenzy of speculation and rumour.

Today, Liquid and EG have announced a partnership, and together, they will take on the might of the Koreans.

"Obviously, Liquid's roster is excellent, and from a pure competition perspective, the addition of their players provides tremendous value to our partnership. However, to me, this joint participation represents much more than a mutual desire to win. To me, on the part of both organizations and their leaders, it represents mutual respect, reciprocal admiration, and a shared vision for the future of StarCraft as a professional sport."

- Alex Garfield, Evil Geniuses

"Teaming up with our old enemy Evil Geniuses to undertake this incredible challenge is a new and exciting development. There is no doubt that we still see EG as our biggest rivals, but maybe that is exactly what makes it so appealing; the two biggest adversaries coming together to take on an even larger enemy on their home turf. It's an opportunity that makes us all very excited.

"Liquid will be adding our players that are currently living in Korea to the roster. These will be Zenio, Sea, HerO, and TaeJa. As the tournament progresses we will be exploring our options with regard to bringing over additional players. "

- Victor "Nasgul" Goossens, Team Liquid

EG went on to announce a team house in Korea (code name: The Lab), and the signing of former SKT1 coach Sung Jin Park, to help in their campaign for ProLeague glory.

The ProLeague kicks off on 8 December, 2012.

+ [Participating Teams] +

+ [Confirmed Players] +

"Unholy Alliance" announcement on TeamLiquid.net
"A New Era Has Come" announcement on EvilGeniuses.net

AxSGRiM · Tue, 4th-Dec-2012, 8:35 PM

2 missing EG players are probably ByuL + (HOPEFULLY) Jaedong.

Quick Comments

syfSoundwave:

ByuL*

**syfSoundwave** · Tue, 4th-Dec-2012, 8:40 PM

Super cool announcement.

Hope IdrA and Stephano take some time for GSL while they're there.

CUSupreme · Wed, 5th-Dec-2012, 1:12 AM

really looking forward to this im abit dissapointed it is only the korean players from liquid would love to see nony or sheth included in it but we all know this is going to be great for both teams

Quick Comments

Synizta:

Not suprised no Sheth, he seems to dislike living away from home for periods of time. like when FXO first when to Korea.

breadfan · Wed, 5th-Dec-2012, 7:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CUSupreme

really looking forward to this im abit dissapointed it is only the korean players from liquid would love to see nony or sheth included in it but we all know this is going to be great for both teams

I'm really hoping we see some nony and TLO action! I think Ret is the most likely Liquid foreigner to make the trip though

**nirvAnA** · Wed, 5th-Dec-2012, 7:40 AM

Its great to witness the historic moment of a "foreign" team taking part in a KesPA league! Who would have thought!

Damn i just realised TL is now all Korean

Will be cheering for the foreigners in EG i guess!!

Quick Comments

breadfan:

I think it's a financial thing that the TLKR contingent is confirmed, their foreigners *may* join in

breadfan · Wed, 5th-Dec-2012, 10:36 AM

Just browsing through some of the TL threads and what do you know - turns out FXOBoss is clairvoyant. http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/view...&currentpage=2