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SkelA
Macedonia13032 Posts
On August 22 2011 19:03 Telcontar wrote: There are rumours that 2 more teams will close shop by the 31st of this month. Korean netizens are speculating them to be MBC and Samsung. Their source: http://www.clubcity.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=86574 Oh god no.... | ||
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DanCaek
Lebanon71 Posts
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whatusername
Canada1181 Posts
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Ribbon
United States5278 Posts
On August 22 2011 18:39 Klaca wrote: Look, the bottom line is Blizz-vision is being greedy ass and trying to harvest all the money they can from an already struggling enterprise like BW and SC2 proscene. Theyre certainly not making it any better. Except that A. Blizz lost that lawsuit, so it doesn't affect BW B. WeMadeFOX is a team, not a tournament organizer, so they aren't affected by SC2 broadcast rights. There were $166k in prize money in the last two weeks, not counting Korea, for SC2, so that scene seems to be okay. And while it's certainly possible that Blizz winning the suit would be bad for BW, they didn't, so it's water under the bridge. And I'd hardly call BW "struggling" in an objective sense, seeing as they got 21% of males 16-19 watching the highest-rated TV show in the proleague finals. Maybe it's smaller than it was last year and having troubles as a result, but there's a bit of a step between that and a charity case. | ||
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twiitar
Germany372 Posts
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lbmaian
United States689 Posts
On August 22 2011 18:27 RTudoRR wrote: Well the sc2 team at least was a very weak and underachieving one  so it's kinda understandable.Actually it's the WC3/SC2 team. WC3 is worse off then the BW scene I think, so it's not surprising they started also playing SC2. | ||
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SolidGasPro
93 Posts
On August 22 2011 19:16 lbmaian wrote: Actually it's the WC3/SC2 team. WC3 is worse off then the BW scene I think, so it's not surprising they started also playing SC2. For outside Korea, WC3 should be better than BW at the moment. Actually, never was WC3 stronger than BW since its release outside Korea. Similarly, WC3 was never stronger than BW inside Korea. | ||
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ellerina
Philippines452 Posts
On August 22 2011 19:03 Telcontar wrote: There are rumours that 2 more teams will close shop by the 31st of this month. Korean netizens are speculating them to be MBC and Samsung. Their source for anyone who can read korean: http://www.clubcity.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=86574 Wow- the dissolution of WeMade has been rumored for months and MBC is understandable given the uncertainty of the TV Station, but even Samsung?! Did the netizens hear/speculate about this before or did the news just come out recently? | ||
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Telcontar
United Kingdom16710 Posts
On August 22 2011 19:24 ellerina wrote: Wow- the dissolution of WeMade has been rumored for months and MBC is understandable given the uncertainty of the TV Station, but even Samsung?! Did the netizens hear/speculate about this before or did the news just come out recently? Yeah, there were some rumours that Samsung was thinking about disbanding before Fox announced their decision, and this article coming out. I'm not sure how accurate and reliable it is though. You know what internet rumours are like. | ||
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Ryo
8787 Posts
On August 22 2011 19:26 Telcontar wrote: Yeah, there were some rumours that Samsung was thinking about disbanding before Fox announced their decision, and this article coming out. I'm not sure how accurate and reliable it is though. You know what internet rumours are like. Netizens are just guessing. The only teams not involved in such rumors are the two telecoms. | ||
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Ikonn
Netherlands1958 Posts
On August 22 2011 19:26 Telcontar wrote: Yeah, there were some rumours that Samsung was thinking about disbanding before Fox announced their decision, and this article coming out. I'm not sure how accurate and reliable it is though. You know what internet rumours are like. Where there's smoke... | ||
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LuckyGnomTV
Russian Federation367 Posts
On August 22 2011 11:17 Nontrivial wrote: Is this just BW or SC2 as well? SC2 and WC3 already disbanded | ||
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NicksonReyes
Philippines4431 Posts
On August 22 2011 19:03 Telcontar wrote: There are rumours that 2 more teams will close shop by the 31st of this month. Korean netizens are speculating them to be MBC and Samsung. Their source for anyone who can read korean: http://www.clubcity.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=86574 and even this  I believe more teams will disband in the future but BW will miraculously rise again before everything is too late. | ||
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Earawen
France51 Posts
that sucks :'( | ||
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pksens
United Kingdom156 Posts
But I wonder, even though SC2 exists now, I don't see how the bw scene has changed that much for the investments to be worth less? Surely this is an isolated problem for the company of WeMade Fox such that speculation on other companies is pointless; if the speculation proves true then we have to assume the BW scene has diminished to a point that it costs too much to run a team to be worth it and surely is the end of all things. | ||
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Finskie
Sweden412 Posts
poor midas, hope they manage to find a new sponsor | ||
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Ryo
8787 Posts
On August 22 2011 19:38 pksens wrote: So, sad as it is, what are the genuine reasons at play here? They don't see a decent enough of a return of investment anymore with a BW team, or a team like WeMadeFox? But I wonder, even though SC2 exists now, I don't see how the bw scene has changed that much for the investments to be worth less? Surely this is an isolated problem for the company of WeMade Fox such that speculation on other companies is pointless; if the speculation proves true then we have to assume the BW scene has diminished to a point that it costs too much to run a team to be worth it and surely is the end of all things. After 4-5 years of running a team, companies pulling sponsorship is not unexpected, especially if their new CEOs have little interest in esports, as is the case with Wemade and MBC. The true test will be whether Kespa can find new sponsors for either of these teams. If they can't, then you can probably say that esports (not just BW because it isn't just BW being affected here) in Korea is struggling. | ||
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{ToT}ColmA
Japan3260 Posts
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Drake
Germany6146 Posts
harsh to say but with moon and lyn play wc3 again their sc2 skill is really bad atm and soccer never was good | ||
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Pippah
Denmark353 Posts
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