Core Gaming
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Overview[edit]
Core Professional Gaming (Core Gaming LLC) is a StarCraft II, League of Legends, and Dota 2 community comprised of over 300 active members.[Citation needed] Established on May 1st 2013, Core Gaming LLC (Core) is owned in part by CorePRO Design LLC, a graphics and web development company based in California. The community sponsors a professional StarCraft II team and professional League of Legends team.
Core Gaming's rostered players receive a monthly salary, gear perks, and travel subsidies for major tournaments as well as merit pay for performance on ladder and at tournaments.
After the pro player contracts expired in March 2014, Core Gaming decided to shift gears and focus on the community. With the transition, players were found homes on other teams, and management shifted around. Core Gaming transitioned to being a community based team with no salaried players.[1] In September 2014, the former Core Gaming player EJK declared that the team had no players any more.[2] At that date, the website had been closed, and there had been no activity on social media since May 2014.
Timeline[edit]
- May 1st, Core Gaming was founded.[Citation needed]
- June 14th, Community website launched.[Citation needed]
- August 30th, The team is officially announced, with OneTrickPony, Fruttis, Expect, Carnage, Edge, JonSnow, Sonic, Wannabecool, and ColdScars.[3]
- September 1st, DeParture and FlowerPig join Core Gaming.[4]
- September 6th, JonnyREcco joins Core Gaming.[5]
- September 9th, Carnage is promoted to the Pro roster.[6]
- September 15th, Dragon is picked up by Core for a 6 month contract after being formally released by Clarity Gaming's COO. [7]
- September 20th, Due to internal issues at Clarity Gaming, Dragon's contract was broken and Dragon was released from Core. He was allowed to keep his first monthly payment from Core and was not penalized by Core for breaking his contract since Dragon was not personally responsible for the broken contract.[8]
- November 3rd, Former Copenhagen Wolves player, SpaceMarine joins.[9]
- December 23rd, Core Gaming does not renew their contract with DeParture and decide to part ways. SPL Round 1 Roster shows that DeParture is now a player on Prime.[10]
- January 4th, Core Gaming signs Genius to play in WCS, as evidence by him representing their tag on all servers.
- January 24th, Core Gaming releases Genius as per his request based upon very generous salary offer given by Love your Girlfriend LYGF.
- March 23rd, Core Gaming releases JonnyREcco after completion of his contract. He joins Vega Squadron the same day.[11]
- March 26th, Core Gaming's Kelazhur leaves to join MicroGamerZ.
- March 26th, Core Gaming's NayA leaves to join Prometheus Gaming.
- May 7th, Core Gaming's JonSnow leaves to join Solaris Gaming.
Player Roster[edit]
Active Grandmasters[edit]
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Best Yearly Result:
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Blast | Lee Min Kyu | |||||
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Expect | Cho Byeong Seok | |||||
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AsTeR | Connor Richardson | |||||
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FlowerPiG | Jung In An | |||||
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OneTrickPony | Ryan Lee | |||||
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SoulQuest | Greg Giterman | |||||
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Wannabecool | Won Tae Lee | |||||
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NexuS | Christian Haufe |
Former Players[edit]
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EJK | Evan Jaewon Kim |  Boreal eSports
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Sonic | Wen Jin |  Solaris Gaming
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JonSnow | Jared George | Solaris Gaming
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SpaceMarine | Suayb Köse |  Team Gravity
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NayA | John Lagousakos | Prometheus Gaming |
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Kelazhur | Diego Schwimer |  MicroGamerZ
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JonnyREcco | Paul Whyte |  Vega Squadron
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Edge | Josh Yang | |
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ColdScars | Aaron Eich |  No Dice Gaming
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DeParture | Hyun Sung Min |  Prime
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Fruttis | Michal Tomaszewski |  Reason Gaming
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Carnage | Fil Donskoy | Retirement |
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Dragon | Jeon Yong Soo | Retirement/Streamer |
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Genius | Jeong Min Soo |  Love Your Girlfriend
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Gallery[edit]
Paul "JonnyREcco" Whyte, member since September 6th 2013.
Wen "Sonic" Jin, member since August 8th 2013.
Lee "Wbc" Won Tae, member since August 4th 2013.
Josh "Edge" Yang, member since August 11th 2013.
External links[edit]
- Official announcement on TL
- Showmatch & Video AMA
- Interview with Jules Hill, VP of Core Professional Gaming by Alan LaFleur about the future of Core Gaming
References[edit]
- ↑ CoreProgaming (2014-03-26). "Tweet announcing the change of status for Core Gaming". Twitter.com. Retrieved 2014-09-16.
- ↑ EJK (2014-09-16). "Solaris Gaming signs Sonic! - Comment". TeamLiquid.net. Retrieved 2014-09-16.
- ↑ [Core] Neurotic (2013-08-31). "Core Gaming Official Launch". teamliquid.net.
- ↑ CoreProgaming (2013-09-06). "Post on @CoreProgaming's Twitter". twitter.com/CoreProgaming.
- ↑ [Core] Neurotic (2013-09-14). "Core's New Players, Showmatch, & Video AMA!". teamliquid.net.
- ↑ CoreProgaming (2013-09-09). "Post on @CoreProgaming's Twitter". twitter.com/CoreProgaming.
- ↑ [Core] Neurotic (2013-07-17). "Core Gaming Signs Dragon!". teamliquid.net.
- ↑ [Core] Neurotic (2013-07-20). "Update on Clarity, Core, & Dragon". teamliquid.net.
- ↑ Copenhagen Wolves (2013-11-03). "One in; one out for the StarCraft II team". copenhagenwolves.dk. Retrieved 2013-11-03.
- ↑ SPL Round 1 Roster.
- ↑ "JonnyREcco joins Vega Squadron". TeamLiquid.net. 2014-03-23. Retrieved 2014-03-23.
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