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History of the Professional StarCraft Leagues & TV

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Lipton United States168 Posts March 17 2009 22:21 GMT #1 Daniel Lee posts another update, this time talking about the early days of StarCraft e-Sports budding in S.Korea. Guillaume (XD’s~grrr) was immensely popular with the fans so naturally he was the most sought after ProGamer by the TV networks. At this time there were three TV networks that dedicated themselves to broadcasting gaming related contents, mostly StarCraft since it was the most popular game, ITV(equivalent to fox network in the States, ITV is ITV no longer now) Ongamenet, and Ghemtv(Ghemtv disappeared into thin air after few years). And every once in awhile he would get invited to be on one of the mainstream network programs, ProGamers getting invited to be on mainstream networks were a big deal and it still is. He really had a hectic schedule, which means I also had a chaotic schedule, with all the leagues, internet cafe event appearances, magazine, newspaper interviews etc. We kept ourselves very busy. StarCraft was consistently getting coverage from the main stream media, newspaper syndications, imagine opening up the U.S.A today's sports section and reading the results of who won last night in the Starleague, and an interview on the player, it's wild ha, for me it was mind blowing. For an hour of appearing at an internet cafe to play games with fans, prominent players got paid between 1thousand to 3 thousand US dollars, and Guillaume did on a bad month just one and on a good month did 3 events so on top of getting a regular pay check, TV appearance fees, event money and prize money.... well you do the math. Check out the full article on his Starfeeder blog here: http://starfeeder.gameriot.com/blogs/Super-Daniel-Man/History-of-the-Professional-StarCraft-Leagues-TV-networks-in-Korea

TonyL2 England1953 Posts March 17 2009 23:15 GMT #2 Cool thanks for linking Reading now

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