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United States33486 Posts
Sources: http://esports.dailygame.co.kr/news/view.daily?idx=20027
http://esports.dailygame.co.kr/news/view.daily?idx=20026
To sum it up shortly, CJ bought a controlling share of stock in OnMedia for around $400 million dollars. Now, to explain why this all may or may not matter.
CJ we all know, is the corporate sponsor of the CJ Entus team. They are a huge conglomerate that has their hands in a ridiculous amount of things from food products to movie theaters, and one of their other side businesses is cable television.
OnMedia owns a bunch of cable channels in Korea, the relevant one here being OnGameNet. The bigger society angle of this is that CJ now has a near monopoly on cable television channels in Korea, so make what you will of that.
In any case, CJ now owns two pro-game teams through as a side effect. Does this mean anything will happen? I have no idea. It's definite fun to think about a Sparkyz + Entus merger, but they are two tiny entities in a gigantic company. Personally, I'd bet on the status quo.
The other factor here is that CJ has some sort of control over GomTV, which may ease the relationship between OGN and GomTV as competitors. Gom has been quiet as of late, but we'll see if anything changes in the future.
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Hope this is good news for GOM! CJ sent three players to Blizzcon and seems to be more aware of GOM's impact on foreigners so this might be good. One can always hope....
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Omfg think of the after merger CJ/Sparkz lineup:
SAVIOR
LETA
MOVIE
EFFORT
IRIS
SKYHIGH
YELLOWARNC
ETC ETC
OMFG MY BRAIN IS SPLODING
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This sounds very interesting indeed.
The GomTV thing made me immediately think of the Gyungnam STX cup, with the longer offseason we could very well be seeing a CJ tournament broadcast on either GomTV (which would immediately get them tons of "official" viewers both in Korea and overseas) or OGN (back to the streams...), possibly featuring B-team players and such.
As to the CJ enterprise owning both Entus and Sparkys I wouldn't worry about it, Hite sponsoring sparkys doesn't mean that they own them but the teams looks to me like it still will belong to Hite rather than CJ.
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Keep your goddamn Sparkyz the hell away from my Entus!
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doubleupgradeobbies!
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isn't sparky's owned by hite rather than ongamenet now though?
Or was it like some kind of joint sponsorship?
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United States33486 Posts
Hite has zero ownership over the team, they are purely a sponsor (OGN sold the name for money)
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Well I am more worried about conflict of interests... since CJ owns OGN, and OGN airs SPL... then if CJ Entus loses badly it's bad image on the company... but CJ controls the TV... censorship much?
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knowing korea without a doubt it will just be status quo.
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arent sparkyz under hite now?
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On December 24 2009 13:51 Waxangel wrote:
Hite has zero ownership over the team, they are purely a sponsor (OGN sold the name for money)
this. i really hate the misinterpretation everyone has that hite owns Sparkyz now. everything is still ran by OnGameNet.
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I dunno, the way things are going now, CJ doesn't seem to need any help with effort and movie surging, but having practice partners like yarnc and leta would probably make them even better.
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MrHoon
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On December 24 2009 13:50 SonuvBob wrote:
Keep your goddamn Sparkyz the hell away from my Entus!
this.
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wasnt CJ one of the poorest teams in the past?
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On December 24 2009 13:54 Kenpachi wrote:
wasnt CJ one of the poorest teams in the past?
it wouldn't be quite accurate to say that. you could say that GO was one of the poorest teams though.
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MrHoon
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On December 24 2009 13:54 Kenpachi wrote:
wasnt CJ one of the poorest teams in the past?
History lesson every TL member should read :D
And yes. They were the poorest team out of all the teams
if Suma Go had money to support all their players long ago
KT/SKT mandrid would not exist
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i don't know how i would feel if they merged teams. Wouldn't that upset how proleague would work with a super imba team? And i don't think anything will happen. I bet cj sponsors 100000000000 things so they won't bother with the starcraft team.
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51497 Posts
merging will never happen
shady 'trades' will possibly arise though.
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United States33486 Posts
On December 24 2009 14:01 GTR wrote:
merging will never happen
shady 'trades' will possibly arise though.
good one! this is a deceptively bland story, it needs rumor mill to keep it interesting.
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51497 Posts
horang2 traded to cj entus for a bag of rice.
you heard it here first.
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United States13896 Posts
Isn't this old news? Maybe this was in the works for a long time and didn't become official until just now. I swear there was a topic exactly like this 6 months ago or so.
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i dont think anything will change anytime soon. the deciding guys of cj are many hierarchy levels above any guy in that company who even knows about the sponsorship of some sc progaming team. and i doubt the cj-entus manager would go to the big boss of the huge cj conglomerate and tell him he wants that horang2 kid from sparkyz. 
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On December 24 2009 13:58 MrHoon wrote:Show nested quote +On December 24 2009 13:54 Kenpachi wrote:
wasnt CJ one of the poorest teams in the past? History lesson every TL member should read :DAnd yes. They were the poorest team out of all the teams if Suma Go had money to support all their players long ago KT/SKT mandrid would not exist
Ah, if only...
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On December 24 2009 14:10 p4NDemik wrote:
Isn't this old news? Maybe this was in the works for a long time and didn't become official until just now. I swear there was a topic exactly like this 6 months ago or so.
i believe it was just the intention by cj group which was news 6 months ago.
i guess it's now officially set.
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SonuvBob Aiur. December 24 2009 13:50. Posts 14035 PM Profile Blog Quote
Keep your goddamn Sparkyz the hell away from my Entus!
This.
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United States33486 Posts
On December 24 2009 14:10 p4NDemik wrote:
Isn't this old news? Maybe this was in the works for a long time and didn't become official until just now. I swear there was a topic exactly like this 6 months ago or so.
was a rumor around april, but it was just a rumor. so I guess the story would be that CJ has been interested for a while, but it took this long to finalize a deal.
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Is it me or does it seem like there are just a few corporations in Korea that owns EVERYTHING. They remind me of those evil giant conglomerates in movies that control the entire country.
Anyway, just a random thought. 
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Leta is probably the only player CJ would want.
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On December 24 2009 14:25 On_Slaught wrote:
Leta is probably the only player CJ would want.
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On December 24 2009 13:58 MrHoon wrote:Show nested quote +On December 24 2009 13:54 Kenpachi wrote:
wasnt CJ one of the poorest teams in the past? History lesson every TL member should read :DAnd yes. They were the poorest team out of all the teams if Suma Go had money to support all their players long ago KT/SKT mandrid would not exist
Just read it. And yeah, everyone, especially CJ fans should read it. Seeing coach Cho at proleague events, he seems to be the stoic businessman type of guy. Never thought he cares so much for his players.
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Yeah I cant see CJ needing yarnc or go.go or something
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On December 24 2009 14:04 GTR wrote:
horang2 traded to cj entus for a bag of rice.
you heard it here first.
Who wins this trade?
Just kidding, I think.
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Well, yarnc and type-b went pretty far in Bacchus.
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HonestTea
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This isn't going to change progaming. Trust me.
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On December 24 2009 14:04 GTR wrote:
horang2 traded to cj entus for a bag of rice.
you heard it here first.
I'm sure hite would be happy to take a bag of rice for horang2 from any team.
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On December 24 2009 14:59 Sunyveil wrote:Show nested quote +On December 24 2009 14:04 GTR wrote:
horang2 traded to cj entus for a bag of rice.
you heard it here first. I'm sure hite would be happy to take a bag of rice for horang2 from any team.
Keep your horang2 away from my proleague team.
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On December 24 2009 14:43 B1nary wrote:Show nested quote +On December 24 2009 13:58 MrHoon wrote:On December 24 2009 13:54 Kenpachi wrote:
wasnt CJ one of the poorest teams in the past? History lesson every TL member should read :DAnd yes. They were the poorest team out of all the teams if Suma Go had money to support all their players long ago KT/SKT mandrid would not exist Just read it. And yeah, everyone, especially CJ fans should read it. Seeing coach Cho at proleague events, he seems to be the stoic businessman type of guy. Never thought he cares so much for his players.
As a 19-year old, I always found coach Cho to be the best coach around: if you followed how Movie and SkyHigh have been handled throughout all of 2009 you'd have realized how whenever they were winning "too much" (especially in SkyHigh's case) the coach would bench them to prevent the success from overwhelming them. Like the stereotypical asian father who is extremely hard on kids but is extremely proud of their kids' success.
Instead of sending rookies out on ace matches like OZ's coach Park he would do the exact opposite, often sacrificing PL wins for the team to keep his players' mindset balanced. Also in every former GO player interview, especially in Oversky and Iris' most recent interviews they tell how hard the atmosphere inside the team house was back then, and how (Iris said) with the new blood it just feels lighter.
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MrHoon
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I also have the highest respect for Coach Cho. The guy is a genius, he knows how to breed great players. Not to mention probably one of the manliest coaches around
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On December 24 2009 13:50 SonuvBob wrote:
Keep your goddamn Sparkyz the hell away from my Entus!
I'm with you, sonuvbob!
Though it is - I hope - good news for everyone regardless of a possible merger. Getting GOM back involved would be a+!
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ok i don't get it.if CJ bought a controlling percent of shares of on-media,does that mean that they now have the power to merge the two progaming teams together?
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On December 24 2009 16:54 BloodDrunK wrote:
ok i don't get it.if CJ bought a controlling percent of shares of on-media,does that mean that they now have the power to merge the two progaming teams together?
not directly imho, but as the majority owner, they can enforce a new management of the on-media company, one that is loyal to CJ and obeys any orders given by the CJ bosses. but as long as they dont control all the shares, they dont technically own on-media.
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On December 24 2009 14:04 GTR wrote:
horang2 traded to cj entus for a bag of rice.
you heard it here first.
ROFL
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On December 24 2009 13:48 WheelOfTime wrote:
Omfg think of the after merger CJ/Sparkz lineup:
SAVIOR
LETA
MOVIE
EFFORT
IRIS
SKYHIGH
YELLOWARNC
ETC ETC
OMFG MY BRAIN IS SPLODING
thats was i was thinking. now their team is gonna be filled with A+ level and S class level pro gamers.
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On December 24 2009 14:04 GTR wrote:
horang2 traded to cj entus for a bag of rice.
you heard it here first.
that sounds about right
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On December 24 2009 13:56 LosingID8 wrote:Show nested quote +On December 24 2009 13:54 Kenpachi wrote:
wasnt CJ one of the poorest teams in the past? it wouldn't be quite accurate to say that. you could say that GO was one of the poorest teams though.
protective father
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I thought sparkyz was funded by a beer company.
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On December 25 2009 12:26 MuffinDude wrote:
I thought sparkyz was funded by a beer company.
that was my thought exactly.
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On December 24 2009 14:59 Sunyveil wrote:Show nested quote +On December 24 2009 14:04 GTR wrote:
horang2 traded to cj entus for a bag of rice.
you heard it here first. I'm sure hite would be happy to take a bag of rice for horang2 from any team. I don't think CJ wants to trade away the bag of rice- he's a better prospect than most of their B-team players.
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On December 25 2009 13:04 Zozma wrote:Show nested quote +On December 24 2009 14:59 Sunyveil wrote:On December 24 2009 14:04 GTR wrote:
horang2 traded to cj entus for a bag of rice.
you heard it here first. I'm sure hite would be happy to take a bag of rice for horang2 from any team. I don't think CJ wants to trade away the bag of rice- he's a better prospect than most of their B-team players.
The 4-0 in dream league B-team CJ?
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Hmm. I somehow remember hearing this news a little while back. What's wrong with me?
EDIT: I know, I don't read threads...
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hm if this means another Gom TV SL then that would be awesome!
Hopefully the Sparkyz stay away from Entus!
they have nothing to offer except washed up newbies!
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On December 25 2009 14:41 FragKrag wrote:
hm if this means another Gom TV SL then that would be awesome!
Hopefully the Sparkyz stay away from Entus!
they have nothing to offer except washed up newbies!
Is everyone living in 2008 or did sparkyz change their sponsor back to ogn again?
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sparkyz were always sponsored by ogn (from 2006 anyways).they just sold their teams naming rights to hite.
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As long as this hold true, hite won't let sparkyz and cj merge.
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oh my. god.
leta + effort. i'm getting a boner just thinking about it.
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On December 25 2009 13:44 Camlito wrote:Show nested quote +On December 25 2009 13:04 Zozma wrote:On December 24 2009 14:59 Sunyveil wrote:On December 24 2009 14:04 GTR wrote:
horang2 traded to cj entus for a bag of rice.
you heard it here first. I'm sure hite would be happy to take a bag of rice for horang2 from any team. I don't think CJ wants to trade away the bag of rice- he's a better prospect than most of their B-team players. The 4-0 in dream league B-team CJ?
No tangible results in major leagues yet.
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On December 25 2009 14:50 MuffinDude wrote:
As long as this hold true, hite won't let sparkyz and cj merge.
but hite dosen't have any power in the team.if they decide to back out on the deal just because cj bought a controlling share of on-media and perhaps decide to form a dream team then it's their loss cuz they are only the name sponsors.plus theyv'e already paid for their sponsorship and won't be able to liquidate it if they decide to back out.
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On December 25 2009 14:53 BloodDrunK wrote:Show nested quote +On December 25 2009 14:50 MuffinDude wrote:
As long as this hold true, hite won't let sparkyz and cj merge. but hite dosen't have any power in the team.if they decide to back out on the deal just because cj bought a controlling share of on-media and perhaps decide to form a dream team then it's their loss cuz they are only the name sponsors.plus theyv'e already paid for their sponsorship and won't be able to liquidate it if they decide to back out.
I'm pretty sure hite can stop the merge easily. The contract that they signed can't be dat simple.
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Lol such harsh word for Sparkyz >_>
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OMG!!! CJ World Domination!!!! everybody runnnnn~
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On December 25 2009 16:13 chongu wrote:
OMG!!! CJ World Domination!!!! everybody runnnnn~
xD drama drama!
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On December 24 2009 14:04 GTR wrote:
horang2 traded to cj entus for a bag of rice.
you heard it here first. Dammit, what were they thinking?
Have they forgotten that Coach Cho's kids are hungry?
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God I can't imagine OGN and CJ combining teams. Both of them seem to have such different cultures.
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