Team 8

T8 1-0 TSM

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MATCH 1/1: T8 (Blue) vs TSM (Red)

Winner: T8
Game Time: 39:32

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Hi, guys. I'm Steven CaliTrlolz Kim, top laner for new LCS team T8.

I'm on the verge of making a very important, privileged decision of my life: To play League professionally or to continue pharmacy school.

To give you guys a short background of my situation, I graduated from a university back in May 2013. I applied to pharmacy schools in Sepetember 2013, which the application process takes about 6~8months. During my interview phase of the application in Jan-March, I was offered to join Team 8 as a top laner in February to play for NACS Spring split. Before I accepted the offer, I made it clear that I was likely to pursue pharmacy school in August-September if I got accepted to the Pharm D. program. In May and June, I was notified of my acceptance to some pharmacy schools in Cali. As of my current standing, I have been attending a pharm school in LA for the past three weeks, and Team 8 very recently secured a spot for professional League.

Few recurring questions that I'd like to answer:

1. Why not delay school? You can always go back to school but not LCS!
   Unfortunately for professional programs (unlike undergrad), the option to defer admission is only granted under few extreme conditions like medical problem and family/financial crisis for most schools. Noting the difficulty of getting into the program, the action of leaving pharmacy school after acceptance is likely to be detrimental on my future application. This can jeopardize my long-term career goal/dream.

2. Follow your dream. Make a decision that won't make you regret!
   Although my parents did have an influence to me in looking into health profession, I'm highly self-motivated to be an amazing pharmacist and contribute to the healthcare. A lot of its merit also comes from stability of the job financially and socially. However, as a Korean boy growing up amidst the Starcraft eSports hype, computer gaming has always been my passion and love. I remember myself choking up in front of a GUY for the first time--Jaedong, my all-time favorite Starcraft player--at the Lone Star Clash lan tournament in Texas at the player lounge. I'm in the position to make a privileged, yet the hardest decision of my life in a few days: to pursue my short-term dream and jeopardize my long-term dream or to just give up my short-term dream entirely and continue my education. I really do not know what decision would make me regret less currently.

3. What stops you from making up the decision?
   Even the morning of the promotion match on Sept 11th, I had told my parents that I will retire after the match with certainty. Despite my decisive character, I could not help but feel my heart race when I perform on-stage with fans and started questioning myself "is this something I'll miss?" Most definitely yes. But in reality, as many fans and popular League pro have advised me, there is no denying that pharmacy school is much more stable and financially profitable, and I have no concrete reason to argue against my parents who is very unsupportive of my school deferment, which I understand completely, as I would've probably reacted the same had my child been in the same situation. Knowing that the median starting salary lies around 100k for a pharmacist and 30-60k for a professional League player (surprisingly few LCS pros actually make six figures), I cannot help but worry about over 200k debt I would have from pharmacy program while forfeiting a year of opportunity to work as a pharmacist.

As you can tell from my play-style in League, I'm pretty bold about my decisions. And I ask the League community to help me finalize my decision by signing this petition my fan made to delay Pharm D admission for one year.

It only takes about 20 seconds with Twitter/FB account or 30 seconds without. You can uncheck all the other boxes but 'show my name in the online signature list'. My goal is to get 1000 E-signed petition to present to the Dean. Although this will not guarantee anything, this would definitely be helpful for me in making my decision.

Thank you for the long read and support my fellow League summoners! Let's test the power of our community :) Much Love, Cali8

tl;dr- Need your help in making my decision: pharm D or LCS. Help me sign deferment petition to present to school! Lv, CA8.

Edit 1: I do understand this is very YOLO and unstable, however I'm only investing one more year. I'm still young (actually the youngest of the current class of 42 students). I ask for this petition so that you guys HELP ME SECURE MY PHARMACY SPOT after YOLO swag LCS. Thank you.
Edit 2: I will not play in the LCS if the petition is rejected, thus I'll be investing a year of my life for my dream, nothing more nothing less! Hope you guys understand this!
Edit 3: Petition reached 1300 in 30mins! My god... you guys are so loving <3 Goal is being raised since more the better. Thank you guys so much !! I LOVE YOU GUYS!
Edit 4: After 90mins of post, 4600 E-signed petition! I love you guys! I finally raised the goal to 8888! This will be the last raise. This would be more than enough. <3333

Last Edit: Thank you all who have been so amazingly supportive. The petition is now at 12k signatures from you guys. Every sign counts! I feel so grateful to be in such community. Hope to see you all at the LCS studio and possibly stream! ^_+

Hello, we are Team 8, we recently went 3-2 against complexity to make it into the 2015 Spring NA LCS. We finally made into LCS after being unsuccessful in the spring season. We will be answering questions after around 30 minutes.

Team 8 Facebook:

Team 8 Twitter:

Team 8 Website:

Contact Email:

Player Twitter:

Cali:

Pops:

Slooshi:

Maple:

Dodo:

Edit1: No more questions for now. We will slowly answer all your questions.

T8 1-0 C9

T8 | | | |
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MATCH 1/1: T8 (Blue) vs C9 (Red)

Winner: T8
Game Time: 46:28

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COL   2 : 3   T8

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T8   | | |

Game 1/5

Winner: Team 8!

Game Time: 39:58

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Game 2/5

Winner: Team 8!

Game Time: 58:27

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Game 3/5

Winner: Complexity!

Game Time: 37:42

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Game 4/5

Winner: Complexity!

Game Time: 44:51

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Game 5/5

Winner: T8!! Welcome to the LCS

Game Time: 36:48

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CLG 1-0 T8

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T8 | | | |

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MATCH 1/1: CLG (Blue) vs T8 (Red)

Winner: CLG
Game Time: 27:48

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T8 1-0 C9

T8 | | | |
C9 | | | | |

MATCH 1/1: T8 (Blue) vs C9 (Red)

Winner: T8
Game Time: 39:31

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TSM 1-0 T8

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MATCH 1/1: TSM (Blue) vs T8 (Red)

Winner: TSM
Game Time: 36:25

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TSM 1-0 T8

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T8 | | | |

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MATCH 1/1: TSM (Blue) vs T8 (Red)

Winner: TSM
Game Time: 40:16

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T8 0-1 CLG

T8 | | | | | Youtube
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MATCH 1/1: T8 (Blue) vs CLG (Red)

Winner: CLG
Game Time: 36:52

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Hi everyone, we are the challenger team Team 8 who just won the challenger tournament at the Lonestar Clash 3. We have a lot of free time before our flights back to our home, so we are doing an AMA :). We will try our best to answer our questions while we are eating this giant steak.

Twitter:

Team twitter - @teameightx

Top - @calilol8

Jungle - @vvvporpoisepops

Mid - @slooshi8

Ad - @maplestreetlol

Support - @dodo8lol

Facebook -

Thanks to everyone who support us!

TL 1-0 T8

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MATCH 1/1: TL (Blue) vs T8 (Red)

Winner: TL
Game Time: 41:16

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IMG 1-3 T8

Congratulations to Team 8 for requalifying for the 2016 NA LCS Spring Split!

IMG | | | |

T8 | | | |

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MATCH 1/5: IMG (Blue) vs T8 (Red)

Winner: T8
Game Time: 31:57

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MATCH 2/5: IMG (Blue) vs T8 (Red)

Winner: IMG
Game Time: 31:38

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MATCH 3/5: IMG (Blue) vs T8 (Red)

Winner: T8
Game Time: 40:12

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MATCH 4/5: IMG (Blue) vs T8 (Red)

Winner: T8
Game Time: 25:49

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C9 1-0 T8

C9 | | | | |
T8 | | | |

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MATCH 1/1: C9 (Blue) vs T8 (Red)

Winner: C9
Game Time: 34:20

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T8 0-1 CLG

T8 | | | |
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MATCH 1/1: T8 (Blue) vs CLG (Red)

Winner: CLG
Game Time: 33:43

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TEAM 8 WIN in 48:30

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T8 0-1 GV

T8 | | | |
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MATCH 1/1: T8 (Blue) vs GV (Red)

Winner: GV
Game Time: 48:12

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T8 1-0 CST

T8 | | | |
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MATCH 1/1: T8 (Blue) vs CST (Red)

Winner: T8
Game Time: 45:09

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T8 0-1 GV

T8 | | | |
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MATCH 1/1: T8 (Blue) vs GV (Red)

Winner: Gravity
Game Time: 48:51

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