Welcome Andeh and Pioneer

Pioneer has been an applicant here at proxiteam for a long while now, during this time he has been very active within the community by posting on forums and attending team practices. Pioneer is currently rocking in the diamond league as a Terran player.

Andeh hasn't been on around as long but has proved himself at recent team practice sessions to earn his place on the roster. Andeh is a Zerg player, who has a very creative style, which shows much promise.

Congratulations guys welcome aboard!

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Holy shit. I mean no disrespect Andeh and Pioneer but, aren't we getting a little ahead of ourselves? Things never happened this quickly during the Brood War days. Shit, it took me like months of hanging out around these blokes for them to even acknowledge me and then probably about a year for me to actually get into the clan (I was a massive nub so it probably wouldn't have taken this long for somebody with reasonable skill level, BUT STILL!). Now, all the old timers here at proxiteam who knew team [AutO] would know that a clan that recruits too quickly, dies just as quickly. (They were a HUGE! clan for like a week and then dwindled in active members. I don't think they lasted more than 2-3 months.) Just my two cents and please heed my warning.

I know this decision can not be taken back, so for all it's worth...

Welcome to prOxiteam Pioneer and Andeh.

FighT is the new Pink!

Grats guys :)

Hey FighT!

Things have changed a little. We can be as tight as we like when it comes to recruitment. But we cannot escape the laws of supply and demand. In Brood War, there really weren't a whole lot of quality clans for people to join. This meant we were able to be quite strict with our recruitment policy, and would still have interested people hanging around for as long as it took them to get recruited.

In StarCraft 2, the amount of quality teams around is quite large. We no longer have the luxury of being a diamond in the rough. Waiting too long could be the difference between integrating some really high-potential players, or losing them to the next team that comes along and picks them up.

Consider also that this doesn't really have to affect us negatively at all. Veom talks to me before pretty much all of his actions are made as recruitment manager, and I either agree with him, or I disagree and recommend him a different course of action.

You may notice 'jamesltl' is no longer on the roster. We recruited him, he stopped showing up, and so he got removed. That really hasn't damaged us at all (can you think of a way that it has?). The important thing is that the dedicated players will stick around. Some players may come and go in the meantime, but occasionally some of those players are the ones that will become solid members just like yourself (yay!) and it's worth having a few guys come and go in order to find the ones that stay.

Additionally, your example about [AutO] is not a very good one. You have to remember that [AutO] was started by Sliggy, who is a great guy, but always played Brood War in ridiculous spurts. He would completely disappear for 6 months at a time. I am confident that even if most of our players left (let's pretend they were recruited in some mass-recruitment binge), we would still have our core players here to keep things going. I will still be here even if I am the only one left. And I know I'm not the only one with this attitude.

These above points in combination with Veom's ability to be much more active with weeding out inactive players from our roster is in my opinion a great way forward.

^^ Pretty stoked, cheers lads, and don't worry Fight, I agree on recruitment policy, but just as its nice to have strict policy, its also just as nice to let a guy get in, get motivated, and then if he nubs it and becomes inactive kick him out.

Congrat! :)

Ok, I understand :D. Just frustrating seeing so many people get in with only a few weeks with the team.

Lol I feel ya FighT. I was going with prOxi members for a year before I got the invite :P. But those were different times and we are in SC2 now and I like what Dwain/Veom are doing. Welcome guys <3.

I really like that fight said that, good to hear that it will be fair exclusive recruitment, makes it feel more special to be here and motivates me to try harder. At the same time i feel both these guys have been good to talk to and play with and i didnt wait a year like others to get in either :) good job everyone.

"Waiting too long could be the difference between integrating some really high-potential players, or losing them to the next team that comes along and picks them up."

Thats true :D
I'd say a month is a far time.

Welcome Andeh and Pioneer.

When in BW one thing I found was that the more effort a person had to put in, in being accepted into a clan/team, the more they would value that and would then be more loyal.

Perhaps rostering someone is not "accepting them in" so much as, giving someone the chance to show that they will be loyal, over time.

Anyway, I don't think we should put skill above loyalty to the team.

Uh.. yea.. so <3 you guys, congrats on getting in :-)

I've been here for ages why arent i in the team? =p
Granted im not crazy active but meh
Grats Andeh and Pioneer.

Cool wrote:

I've been here for ages why arent i in the team? =p
Granted im not crazy active but meh
Grats Andeh and Pioneer.

Any concerns can be directed to Veom (now our recruitment manager)