eSahara

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[e][h]eSahara

Team Information

Location:

France

Manager:

Kevin "illuu" Vandini

Sponsor:

Razer
CFG server

Links

Player Breakdown

Number of Players:

8

3

3

2

History

Created:

2011-07-09

Disbanded:

2012-03-22

Recent Player Trades:

Retires: Check

eSahara was a French multigaming organisation, which had a StarCraft II roster from July 9, 2011 to March 22, 2012, date of the team's merger with Absolute Legends.

Overview

eSahara was a French multigaming team that is most recognized for its Counter-Strike division. eSahara established a StarCraft II division on 9 July 2011. The team initially picked up Souaib "cArn" Hanaf, a French Terran player who lives in South Korea in an attempt to qualify for a spot in GSL Code A, and Sebastian "FuRy" Pesic, a Swedish Terran player who was left without a team after the dissolution of RAGE Gaming. The latter decided to retire a few months after. Since the beginning of September 2011, eSahara has tried to expand their horizon and set themselves up as an important professional team in an already crowded European scene. The team was acquired by Absolute Legends on March 22, 2012.

History

2011

• July 9, eSahara announces the creation of its StarCraft II section with the acquisition of cArn and FuRy.
• July 31, eSahara acquires VERDI.
• August 20, Cash joins eSahara, and states that he will switch to StarCraft II after WCG 2011 and ESWC 2011.
• September 9, eSahara announces that both FuRy and VERDI had decided to leave the team and to put an end to their respective careers. VERDI later reversed his decision to leave.
• September 18, eSahara acquires team rez-ts's roster.
• September 19, eSahara signs Vladoica.
• October 2, DeathAngel joins eSahara.
• October 31, Naama, Satiini and RiSK join the team, while Jarick leaves. The team is split in two: professional team and talent team.
• November 19, eSahara announces its eSahara Cup, a sixteen players invitational tournament.
• November 27, Check, who was still teamless after his departure of team Prime, joins eSahara. Meanwhile, eSahara ends RiSK's contract because of an incident which occurred during a Go4SC2. The young player indeed repeatedly insulted an ESL admin as well as a shoutcaster, and later refused to apologize for his behaviour.
• December 13, eSahara signs MaddeLisk, a female Masters Zerg player.

2012

• January 3, it is announced that Naama and DeathAngel will go practice in Korea from January 11 with MvP's B-team (Project Supreme). They will meet their teammates Check and cArn, and try to qualify for GSL Code A.
• January 4, Maka, who recently left Prime, joins eSahara. The team also announces the recruitment of the former Brood War player pepe.
• January 5, a former manager of team WeMade FOX claims that pepe is still employed by the Korean organisation, and that eSahara is either misinformed or fooled by an imposter. Later in the day, eSahara announced they had been informed by third party people that the player they hired was indeed an imposter, who used his good level on the North American ladder and his huge knowledge of the Brood War scene (including confidential information on some players, confirmed by SLoG and the KeSPA) to trick them into thinking he was the actual pepe. The team subsequently expelled the imposter from its roster.
• January 10, eSahara recruits BabyKnight, while VERDI decides to retire in order to focus on his studies and subsequently leaves the team.
• January 10, eSahara launches its Illu's Academy, a four-tournaments series dedicated to players that are not currently bound by a contract with a team, and which features a spot in eSahara's talent team as a reward for the winner.
• January 11, cArn parts way with eSahara due to his refusal to attend the GSL qualifiers (believing that his skill was not yet sufficient to participate).
• January 15, HongUn, who was still teamless after his departure from Prime, joins eSahara.
• February 3, a partnership between eSahara, Old Generations and Razer is announced. It is meant to help grow each other’s presence in Korean and international e-Sport scenes. Meanwhile, VERDI rejoins the team.
• March 8, After some controversy, VERDI and Russian manager TeSt leave the team.
• March 13, Korean Zerg Check retires from progaming.
• March 13, Head-Manager Kevin 'illuu' Vandini takes the lead of the StarCraft II Squad.
• March 22, the team is acquired by Absolute Legends.

Player Roster

Players acquired by Absolute Legends

		ID	Name	2010	2011	2012
dk	p	BabyKnight	Jon Andersen	-	F6Ro56	-
ro	z	DeathAngel	Andrei Nodea	-	D2Ro32	-
se	z	MaddeLisk	Madeleine Leander	-	-	-
South Korea	P	HongUn	Ahn Hong Wook	A4Ro4	A4 Ro4	-
kr	t	Maka	Kwak Han Eol	A8Ro8	D2 Ro32	-
fi	t	Naama	Santeri Lahtinen	1st	A8Ro8	B6Ro16
fi	t	Satiini	Juha-Matti Backström	-	D2Ro32	D2Ro32

Former Players

		ID	Name	New Team
se	T	FuRy	Sebastian Pesic	Retired
fr	p	RiSK	Romain Locquet	DuSt Gaming
fr	t	cArn	Souaib Hanaf	Blight Gaming
ru	p	VERDI	Artem Avramenko	Virtus.pro
kr	z	Check	Lee Hyung Joo	Retired

Management

	ID	Name	Position
	illu	Kevin Vandini	Head Manager & Coach
	DeathNote	Oleg Gusev	Orga

See also

• Portal:Teams
• French SC2 scene
• European SC2 scene

External links

• Interview with cArn after the creation of the team in French and in roughly-translated English