Oh man, if this is true, then the head of the GOM S4 guy flat out lied to me. I have MSN chat logs of him telling me that they are in negotiations and that they are planning for December. I guess Blizz and Kespa and GOM never came to an agreement.

Doso

Germany769 Posts

October 23 2009 11:29 GMT

#45

Someone please translate the Fomos article.

qpwo1777

United States27 Posts

October 23 2009 11:43 GMT

#46

fuck kespa

KlaCkoN

Sweden1661 Posts

October 23 2009 11:55 GMT

#47

Does this necessarily have anything to do with kespa though? At least the OP made it sound like the teams pulled out out of courtesy to their players (Or more like they want a better PL performance out of them but w/e)
Coupled with the Ra interview stating how hard the current number of games is on the players and how it dampers creativity I guess it makes a bit of sense.
A pity though, GOM was a nice league with fairly good games, not to mention that the format somehow seemed to actually favour the best players.
Another part of me is happy, mostly because I want blizzard as far away from the competetive scene as possible.

PadrinO

Canada103 Posts

October 23 2009 11:56 GMT

#48

As far as I'm concerned GOM can go fuck themselves after sending copyrights infringement to Jon747(on YT).

Lumi

United States1616 Posts

October 23 2009 11:56 GMT

#49

GosuGamers has a little update

http://www.gosugamers.net/starcraft/news/10690-kespa-vs-blizzard-1-0

Apparently Oz, Samsung Khan, Stars, Sparkyz, Wemade FOX all were interested and everyone else 'said' no.

SwEEt[TearS]

Canada1575 Posts

October 23 2009 12:17 GMT

#50

On October 23 2009 20:56 Lumi wrote:
GosuGamers has a little update

http://www.gosugamers.net/starcraft/news/10690-kespa-vs-blizzard-1-0

Apparently Oz, Samsung Khan, Stars, Sparkyz, Wemade FOX all were interested and everyone else 'said' no.

should be CJ entus not Sparkyz
what a noob.

Shizuru~

Malaysia1676 Posts

October 23 2009 12:31 GMT

#51

once again, politics > viewers

it breaks my heart that this happened, what will tasteless do now???

Integra

Sweden5626 Posts

October 23 2009 12:46 GMT

#52

If this is true and Blizzard and Kepsa haven't found a way to cooperate, what will Kespa do when SC2 comes out, they won't be able to broadcast any SC2 matches without the consent of Blizzard.

Doso

Germany769 Posts

October 23 2009 12:49 GMT

#53

I doubt very much that Blizzard can do anything to stop KeSpa from doing an SC2 league without killing SC2 e-Sports completly.

Integra

Sweden5626 Posts

October 23 2009 12:54 GMT

#54

I didn't talk about the E-sports future, which I think will be just fine

What I meant was Kespa's future.

GTR

51599 Posts

October 23 2009 12:56 GMT

#55

KeSPA is still going to operate, they have the backing of the government.
Which means if Blizzard deny them SC2 rights, they will be forced to stick to SC1 until some sort of compromise can be made.

KlaCkoN

Sweden1661 Posts

October 23 2009 13:12 GMT

#56

Why would kespa need any acceptance from blizzard to do a SC2 league at all? If you look at the current situation they don't anywhere in their marketing include names or symbols copyrighted by blizzard.
Yeah I guess blizzard can be dicks and just randomly unplug their bnet servers during an OSL final or something but legally I don't think they can deny someone the right to stream played games.

Integra

Sweden5626 Posts

October 23 2009 13:27 GMT

#57

All onlineplay in SC2 will be on BattleNet. This means that any playing that occurs has to be with agreement with the rules that Blizzard establishes.

If they establish (which they will) that only leagues that is recongnized by Blizzard are allowed to host tournaments with a prize pool higher than a certain amount and Kespa still uses BattleNet and hosts tournaments that goes over the the legal prize pool they are doing illegal activities.

KlaCkoN

Sweden1661 Posts

October 23 2009 13:31 GMT

#58

On October 23 2009 22:27 Integra wrote:
All onlineplay in SC2 will be on BattleNet. This means that any playing that occurs has to be with agreement with the rules that Blizzard establishes.

If they establish (which they will) that only leagues that is recongnized by Blizzard are allowed to host tournaments with a prize pool higher than a certain amount and Kespa still uses BattleNet and hosts tournaments that goes over the the legal prize pool they are doing illegal activities.

If they do that there is no chance in hell I am ever buying another blizzard game lol.

HiOT

Sweden1000 Posts

October 23 2009 13:35 GMT

#59

SDM and TASTELESS is a wombo combo for us foreign fans and those who want English commentating. Why can't KESPA arrange for them to cast and earn a living of the other leagues?

Imagine full English commentating of MSL/OSL/PL, that would be so freaking awesome!

What does Kespa has to loose about that? SCII is around a couple of corners and if we and them are lucky we will see one or two more OSL/MSL why not make a gamble and see if they can earn some money. I even bet some company's is willing to buy in commercials for us foreigners. (Scenario of SCII being a major hit) Second scenario is non discussable.