On February 17 2012 01:20 BLinD-RawR wrote:
If someone has news they WILL post is here or make a new thread about it because there is no reason to withhold the information.

Thats exactly the reason why you get super excited everytime you see it bumped. :/

Milkis

5003 Posts

February 16 2012 16:43 GMT

#342

afaik they're having a hard time finding a sponsor

sucks, given how epic last osl was ~_~

HaXXspetten

Sweden15718 Posts

February 16 2012 16:54 GMT

#343

On February 17 2012 01:39 Skeggaba wrote:

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Thats exactly the reason why you get super excited everytime you see it bumped. :/

That's why we should stop posting in this thread unless we've got something important to add.

...wait, I just did as well ffffuuuuu

hacklebeast

United States5090 Posts

February 16 2012 17:23 GMT

#344

On February 17 2012 01:43 Milkis wrote:
afaik they're having a hard time finding a sponsor

sucks, given how epic last osl was ~_~

Isn't that contradictory to the OP? Did the companies back out?

Milkis

5003 Posts

February 16 2012 17:46 GMT

#345

On February 17 2012 02:23 hacklebeast wrote:

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Isn't that contradictory to the OP? Did the companies back out?

Why do you believe the OP so much?

DES/Fomos releases stuff about "potential sponsors" all the time. Don't you remember Team 8? When DES/Fomos started talking about how a major corporation was possibly sponsoring team 8, by that point it was just pure PR cause by that point it was going to be KeSPA operated

just some perspective on things related to the shit you read

hacklebeast

United States5090 Posts

February 16 2012 17:59 GMT

#346

des/fomos is the only perspective some of us have. I was surprised when I saw the initial statement, but when they use language as definite as "two companies have agreed to sponsor" I kind of have to take that as fact considering I haven't heard anything from anywhere else.

sabas123

Netherlands3122 Posts

February 16 2012 18:00 GMT

#347

i doubt they have a hard time finding sponsers lolX_X

i bet there yust swiching to sc2.

CrtBalorda

Slovenia704 Posts

February 16 2012 18:01 GMT

#348

ye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

j2choe

Canada243 Posts

February 16 2012 18:05 GMT

#349

Sad to say, this is hardly surprising at all. If you look at the scene right now, the big message getting across is obviously that BW is out the door either this season or next. That's hardly an incentive to potential investors who will probably have to wait a long time to see any ROI from sponsorship. The problem is that while everybody's waiting around for a positive sign, they're not putting in the dollars needed to sustain the scene enough. The whole thing just collapses on itself.

I thought the biggest sign was Shinhan pulling out of proleague sponsorship. That to me is a huge signal that BW is just not a viable investment anymore. On the other hand, SK has a huge stake in BW so I am not surprised that they're taking over the PL reigns, but the sum of it all is one major sponsor out of the race, which only contributes further to an atmosphere of decline.

In Korea, things have a habit of dying out swiftly and fiercely once they're regarded as losing popularity. I'll be very surprised if an outside company has the balls to step up and try to revitalize the scene. If it does come back, it'll most likely be a current sponsor doing it.

hydrogg

United States377 Posts

February 16 2012 18:15 GMT

#350

On February 17 2012 03:05 j2choe wrote:

I thought the biggest sign was Shinhan pulling out of proleague sponsorship.

Shinhan had a 3 year contract to sponsor Proleague IIRC. It wasn't that they decided to sponsor it for 3 years and then quit.

Milkis

5003 Posts

February 16 2012 18:15 GMT

#351

On February 17 2012 02:59 hacklebeast wrote:
des/fomos is the only perspective some of us have. I was surprised when I saw the initial statement, but when they use language as definite as "two companies have agreed to sponsor" I kind of have to take that as fact considering I haven't heard anything from anywhere else.

I don't care if it's the only perspective you guys have, but you guys should take everything they say with a grain of salt.

Furthermore... the article was literally last year. The comment said "As soon as we set the scope of the sponsorship we can start immediately".

It doesn't take 3 months. It's most probable that sponsors didn't think OSL would cost so much :p

Milkis

5003 Posts

February 16 2012 18:16 GMT

#352

On February 17 2012 03:15 hydrogg wrote:

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Shinhan had a 3 year contract to sponsor Proleague IIRC. It wasn't that they decided to sponsor it for 3 years and then quit.

source?

cause shinhan def didnt want to sponsor last year and took a lot of goading and made conditions.

hacklebeast

United States5090 Posts

February 16 2012 18:42 GMT

#353

If by "take it with a grain of salt" you mean to have an open mind about things, I would say I was doing that in asking for clarification rather than simply announcing you were wrong. If by "take it with a grain of salt" you mean don't believe anything you read from these sites until you see cooperating evidence, well that's a luxury I don't have. The earliest I can know anything about Korean starcraft more definitely than what some guy tells me on the internet (be he from fomos or TL), is when I watch the stream and see it for myself.

[sc1f]eonzerg

Belgium6578 Posts

February 16 2012 18:50 GMT

#354

in some days someone come with epic news. about osl , and all fine

is my hope

Arceus

Vietnam8333 Posts

February 16 2012 18:52 GMT

#355

as some ppl said that April might be the last BW proleague final, maybe OGN is actually working on an OS2L as well

supernovamaniac

United States3046 Posts

February 16 2012 19:19 GMT

#356

On February 17 2012 03:16 Milkis wrote:

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source?

cause shinhan def didnt want to sponsor last year and took a lot of goading and made conditions.

In 2007 Shinhan made a 3-year contract with KeSPA. In 2010~2011 season Shinhan decided to sponsor for one more year (Don't know the details of the talk, so don't bait me into such thing).

fabiano

Brazil4644 Posts

February 16 2012 19:22 GMT

#357

On February 17 2012 03:52 Arceus wrote:
as some ppl said that April might be the last BW proleague final, maybe OGN is actually working on an OS2L as well

OS2L?

I sure hope its just a typo and doesn't imply they are thinking of replacing the original OSL with a OSL for SC2 D:

SlowBullets

United States839 Posts

February 16 2012 19:25 GMT

#358

On February 17 2012 03:42 hacklebeast wrote:
If by "take it with a grain of salt" you mean to have an open mind about things, I would say I was doing that in asking for clarification rather than simply announcing you were wrong. If by "take it with a grain of salt" you mean don't believe anything you read from these sites until you see cooperating evidence, well that's a luxury I don't have. The earliest I can know anything about Korean starcraft more definitely than what some guy tells me on the internet (be he from fomos or TL), is when I watch the stream and see it for myself.

This a million times..

Milkis

5003 Posts

February 16 2012 19:31 GMT

#359

On February 17 2012 04:19 supernovamaniac wrote:

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In 2007 Shinhan made a 3-year contract with KeSPA. In 2010~2011 season Shinhan decided to sponsor for one more year (Don't know the details of the talk, so don't bait me into such thing).

Ah, interesting.

There was some significant back and forth between shinhan and kespa to sponsor 2010-2011, mostly due to the IP rights fiasco