EPTMusings on the sponsorship situation in Korea - Page 9
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FXOGumiho
Korea (South)1 Post
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Dodgin
Canada39254 Posts
On August 29 2012 12:42 FXOGumiho wrote: Our company owns the team. Our company produces money from our business. Thus it is covered completely by another business. Something like most of the KESPA teams. Damn Gumiho has some good English! + Show Spoiler + I'm guessing Boss logged in on Gumiho's account to attach his stream to the sidebar and forgot to log out  | ||
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FXOBoSs
337 Posts
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Taku
Canada2036 Posts
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StarStruck
25339 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. Doesn't mean they they get a lot from them man. It's one thing to have a big brand attached to your jersey; it's another to actually get good funding and support from them. TB's post might be newsworthy to some but unfortunately I cannot say the same for myself. It's been an ongoing problem since the beginning. Online tournaments will only reward them with more prize money and a little more exposure, but not much else. You would be better off doing SC2 PC Bang Tournaments and getting the players to interact more with the fanbase in Korea if you really want to get the Korean Republic going. Not just online tournaments. | ||
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FXOBoSs
337 Posts
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deathly rat
United Kingdom911 Posts
Korean teams should be doing more to promote active SC2 participation. In NA the continued interest in SC2 from the general population is in no small part down to the great production of live tournaments like MLG and NASL. In Korea it should be the GSL, but if they aren't getting enough viewers, it's only there own fault. Perhaps they should switch to a live event tournament format like MLG. | ||
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Forikorder
Canada8840 Posts
On August 29 2012 12:52 Taku wrote: Probability of Blizzard actually doing something innovative and productive to help the esports community without messing it up somehow? ~0% imo. probability of anyone doing anything innovative or productive to help the esports community without messing it up somehow? 0% in actual fact the WCS is fucking amazing and doing amazing things for communitys all over the world to help raise awareness of esports in literally every single country, in addition to helping people break out into the scene (which was amazingly hard until WCS gave everyone a good chance) not to mention its a badass tournament with absolutely amazing games and good casting | ||
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TheAldo
United States214 Posts
Teams have sponsors. Sponsors have money. Tournaments need teams. Teams need a place to play and showcase their sponsors. See where I'm going with this? Tournament organizers can offer up a spot in a tournament to teams for say $50 - $100 per player. What the the organizer offers is: Good competition, the team's branding and sponsors displayed on stream, and a decent prize pool that can be paid out quickly. The tournament organizer can go a step further and offer up special content packages for $10 a person that the profits can be split with whatever player helps contribute with the content. There are ways to showcase sponsors and build income for players but tournament organizers have been too focused on themselves and not the one thing they should be focused on: the talent. | ||
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RiceAgainst
United States1849 Posts
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Forikorder
Canada8840 Posts
On August 29 2012 13:32 TheAldo wrote: There is a way for both teams, tournament organizers, and sponsors to all be happy. Teams have sponsors. Sponsors have money. Tournaments need teams. Teams need a place to play and showcase their sponsors. See where I'm going with this? Tournament organizers can offer up a spot in a tournament to teams for say $50 - $100 per player. What the the organizer offers is: Good competition, the team's branding and sponsors displayed on stream, and a decent prize pool that can be paid out quickly. The tournament organizer can go a step further and offer up special content packages for $10 a person that the profits can be split with whatever player helps contribute with the content. There are ways to showcase sponsors and build income for players but tournament organizers have been too focused on themselves and not the one thing they should be focused on: the talent. so the korean teams cant afford to send palyers and the rich teams get more exposure? | ||
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BobStaMan
United States29 Posts
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TheAldo
United States214 Posts
On August 29 2012 13:41 Forikorder wrote: so the korean teams cant afford to send palyers and the rich teams get more exposure? We are talking about online tournaments and if teams CAN afford to send players to the US for MLG and get hardly any ROI, they can buy a $50 spot in an online tournament and have their brand up on the stream. This isn't unimaginable. | ||
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Forikorder
Canada8840 Posts
On August 29 2012 13:46 TheAldo wrote: We are talking about online tournaments and if teams CAN afford to send players to the US for MLG and get hardly any ROI, they can buy a $50 spot in an online tournament and have their brand up on the stream. This isn't unimaginable. the teams with lots of money will still get tons more exposure then the smaller teams so it doesnt help the struggling teams make more sponsors hopefully KeSPA coming into the SC2 scene will have the bigger korean companies start spreading the wealth to the current SC2 teams the only way to really fix this problem is to make E-Sports big enough that companies are willing to shell out enough money for everyone | ||
opterown
Australia54784 Posts
On August 29 2012 13:17 FXOBoSs wrote: MVP's hot6 sponsorship was publicly stated to be product sponsorship. rofl, so all they get are drinks? ahaha On August 29 2012 12:43 Dodgin wrote: Damn Gumiho has some good English! + Show Spoiler + I'm guessing Boss logged in on Gumiho's account to attach his stream to the sidebar and forgot to log out LOL wp | ||
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Novalisk
Israel1818 Posts
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masterbreti
Korea (South)2711 Posts
They are sponsored by Lotte, which is a big company here, so in the likely case, they get drinks, food and such, which can be a big relief for a team of MVP's size. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotte_(conglomerate) | ||
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opterown
Australia54784 Posts
On August 29 2012 14:50 masterbreti wrote: They are sponsored by Lotte, which is a big company here, so in the likely case, they get drinks, food and such, which can be a big relief for a team of MVP's size. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotte_(conglomerate) haha, makes sense i guess. if they only got hot6ix drinks though that would be amusing. monsieur j should give a product sponsorship too ;D | ||
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Vansetsu
United States1454 Posts
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Weaklink123
United States159 Posts
Now the only question is how do we as the general population do our part beyond just watching? | ||
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