EPTMusings on the sponsorship situation in Korea - Page 4
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courtpanda
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Probe1
United States17920 Posts
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mprs
Canada2933 Posts
On August 29 2012 01:28 drsnuggles wrote: Calling BS, team MVP is sponsored by Lotte which is "kind of a motherfucking big company", to say the least. You can be sponsored by Apple, but if they only give you $5 a week, it doesn't help much. We don't know what kind of deal MVP has with Lotte. | ||
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Ripeace
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britneysbeers
United Kingdom22 Posts
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babylon
8765 Posts
If you see MMA play on his European account he clearly has a Blizzcon logo and it looks good. Blizzard could implement a system which would allow authorized teams to display sponsorship logos on command structures for instance. I was just thinking about this the other day, due to the prevalence of ads in War3 tourney maps, like such. Obviously this will be so much more problematic for individual team sponsors, and it is somewhat ugly, but the uglier it is, the more effective it is ... so I say. Red Bull does all right with their name-brand on ST's shirts nowadays in terms of visibility, lol. | ||
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TheBamf
Denmark366 Posts
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VirgilSC2
United States6151 Posts
On August 29 2012 01:49 n0ise wrote: A regular korean stop, with good commentary and decent prize money is bound to draw a lot of viewers, granted that the scheduling is done right and there's some hyping there. Also, as koreans play cross-server, foreigners will also try and get a piece in, so it won't be a completely "isolated" event. No. You would think it might, but it actually won't UNLESS its all the top top popularity players. The interest for Koreans just isn't there. | ||
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Misacampo
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TotalBiscuit
United Kingdom5437 Posts
On August 29 2012 02:59 Misacampo wrote: I thought SlayerS was the most well-sponsored team in korea, or did that go away once boxer left....? I have it on good authority that SlayerS is not that well sponsored at all. | ||
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Niazger
Germany41 Posts
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RenSC2
United States1063 Posts
On August 29 2012 02:59 Misacampo wrote: I thought SlayerS was the most well-sponsored team in korea, or did that go away once boxer left....? I believe they were initially given a very nice sponsorship of around $500,000 for the first year, but I don't think the sponsor renewed that deal past the first year. I'm not an Esports insider, I just remember something like that. Having money pulled out from under you can actually be a lot tougher than barely having money from the start since you've taken on certain financial obligations that you can no longer afford. edit: back on topic. I was hoping that Red Bull would have been a big sponsor for Startale. Are they really going a relatively cheap route? Perhaps Startale just overextended too much? They had a good sized roster and still decided to absorb ZeNex. | ||
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Keytar
Canada156 Posts
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NeMeSiS3
Canada2972 Posts
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MoreFaSho
United States1427 Posts
MLG is pretty good at this because they focus on a lot of lifestyle brands that are hard for teams to get (dr. pepper, stride gum, etc), but it's certainly possible that you can have conflicts (intel and amd are big sponsors, so are razer and steelseries, etc.). I think it might be worth helping to "out" sponsors who demand unreasonable exclusivity. The Dr. Pepper situation at MLG is almost comical. I get on the margins water is a competitor, but that doesn't make it a strong enough substitute to not allow in the venue. | ||
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aherisanu
Romania3 Posts
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Rescawen
Finland1028 Posts
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Zandar
Netherlands1541 Posts
I wouldn't be surprised with the power Kespa has, if many big Korean sponsors have some shady agreement to not sponsor the GSL teams. I also think non Korean e-sports sponsors should step in and sponsor Korean teams instead of crappy foreign players, this seems like a great opportunity for them you'd say. Love your idea too TB, I'm sure it will help  | ||
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MstrJinbo
United States1251 Posts
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Theeakoz
United States1114 Posts
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