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HonestTea
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Continuing the good news, FiFo and Uzoo.com report that G.O. have come to terms with CJ, a major Korean coorporation.
As you all know, G.O. is one of the elite teams of progaming. They have never finished lower than 4th in any team league, and constantly produce individual league winners. After a long stretch of toughing it out on their own (and losing players to coorporate teams) G.O. have reached a deal with CJ.
CJ is a pretty big company, comparable to the likes of SK. It started out in the food industry, and is now a major player in packaged food, retail, and entertainment. In particular, CJ is the largest presence in Korea's booming entertainment scene, owning a movie studio, distribution house, and a management company that employs Korea's biggest stars.
I mentioned above that CJ is comparable to SK in size, and it looks like CJ's support of G.O. will match that of SKT T1. This includes salaries for all players and coaches, a new living area/practice facility, a van, and other perks. People are saying things like "new record contract" or "no limit to the funds set aside." While we will have to wait to see if this is really true, considering G.O.'s presitge and CJ's clout, there's no reason why CJ can't set new benchmarks spending.
Right now CJ is in the process of designing a new look for G.O., including new team name, logo, and uniform colors. G.O. members will represent CJ as soon as next week, in the MSL and OSL.
Also intriguing is the fact that CJ owns Korea's largest celebrity managment company, as mentioned above. People are wondering if this means that G.O. members might also get involved more traditional entertainer-like activities.
There are no interviews or specifics reported yet, this is very recent news, but if they get posted I'll update this accordingly.
[update] ujoo has a lot of translations up on the news page, everybody gogogo.
Congrats G.O.
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On April 10 2006 19:40 YoiChiBow wrote:
Awesome finally! 1st!
don't
as far as the sponsorship goes, it's really great to see new money flowing into the starcraft progaming industries. as long as big companies continue to back teams, brood war will stay in the limelight and we can all continue to enjoy playing and watching this game for years to come
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wow, that's awesome  , congrats G.O.
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wow this day has finally come! G.O. truly deserves such an honour as to get a very good sponsor.
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This is awesome news. GO deserved this more than anything.
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So, we got all the teams being sponsored? or there are still teams that don't have sponsor?
Well G.O. was the biggest one who didn't had one! ;o
Go G.O.!
sAviOr is going to look sooo sexy in new uniforms :D
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On April 10 2006 19:42 lil.sis wrote:
as far as the sponsorship goes, it's really great to see new money flowing into the starcraft progaming industries. as long as big companies continue to back teams, brood war will stay in the limelight and we can all continue to enjoy playing and watching this game for years to come
Its the other way around.
As long as Broodwar is in the limelight, big companies will continue to support the teams.
The fact that G.O is sponsored is not going to directly increase the size of OGN or MBCGame's audience, rather the current viewership is significant enough in size as is to encourage a large corporation to invest.
... and since when does the success of professional gaming in Korea determine whether or not we can still play Starcraft?
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blizzard must make royalties off all this progaming business, so i very much think it affects the provision of our free bnet servers
this is great news for progaming btw, i love how koreans are comitting further to broodwar rather than backing away from it..
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On April 10 2006 19:52 NubainMuscle wrote:Show nested quote +On April 10 2006 19:42 lil.sis wrote:
as far as the sponsorship goes, it's really great to see new money flowing into the starcraft progaming industries. as long as big companies continue to back teams, brood war will stay in the limelight and we can all continue to enjoy playing and watching this game for years to come Its the other way around. As long as Broodwar is in the limelight, big companies will continue to support the teams. The fact that G.O is sponsored is not going to directly increase the size of OGN or MBCGame's audience, rather the current viewership is significant enough in size as is to encourage a large corporation to invest. ... and since when does the success of professional gaming in Korea determine whether or not we can still play Starcraft?
it increases the chances of brood war not dying out as quick
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Good point a-game and b_unnies.
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Is this the same company as CJ Media, which is supposedly starting its own games channel and Starleague?
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HonestTea
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1. Unsponsored teams: Soul, KOR (rumored to change)
2. Blizzard make almost no royalties from any of this.
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Hong Kong20321 Posts
wtf kinda name is CJ>?!!?! -> curtis jackson -> 50 cent LOLZ..
and G.O. is a cool name..and i love their uniform now -_-;; black hoodies, black G.O. tshirts, etc. wtf gay-. -
ok i guess its good that they're getting sponsored, but still. could they keep their current uniforms etc plz ㅠ_ㅠ
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On April 10 2006 20:13 HonestTea wrote:
2. Blizzard make almost no royalties from any of this.
what's your source? i find it hard to believe that all this money/advertising is being thrown around in the name of starcraft and blizz isn't getting a piece of the pie
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Good news! Hope G.O. makes their new sponsor proud!
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Baltimore, USA22260 Posts
~!~!~!~!
This is very good news indeed... should be front page news if a mod is feeling it. ^_^
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GO is so ownage, it's about time
but i know i'll be missing the old "uniforms," black jackets and sunglasses
if i was a mod i would have banned the first 2 repliers 
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CJ Media is a part of CJ corporation. They have so many subsidiaries its hard to keep track of them all. But if there's a "CJ" .. it's most likely part of the family 
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that is awesome news :D
I hope Soul gets sponsored next (:
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Great news !
btw they won`t need celebrities anymore after IPX+Xellos` appearing.
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cool, congrats G.O.
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On April 10 2006 20:18 a-game wrote:Show nested quote +On April 10 2006 20:13 HonestTea wrote:
2. Blizzard make almost no royalties from any of this. what's your source? i find it hard to believe that all this money/advertising is being thrown around in the name of starcraft and blizz isn't getting a piece of the pie
On what ground would Blizzard ask for money ?
You pay for the game, then you do with it as you please. If blizzard was to ask money everytime it's game were played... then we would have a very very odd situation. When would that stop, who would pay, every tournaments ? every players for every matches ?
Come on.
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On April 10 2006 19:52 NubainMuscle wrote:Show nested quote +On April 10 2006 19:42 lil.sis wrote:
as far as the sponsorship goes, it's really great to see new money flowing into the starcraft progaming industries. as long as big companies continue to back teams, brood war will stay in the limelight and we can all continue to enjoy playing and watching this game for years to come Its the other way around. As long as Broodwar is in the limelight, big companies will continue to support the teams. The fact that G.O is sponsored is not going to directly increase the size of OGN or MBCGame's audience, rather the current viewership is significant enough in size as is to encourage a large corporation to invest. ... and since when does the success of professional gaming in Korea determine whether or not we can still play Starcraft?
Ehm, well, personally I'd probably quit BW if it died in korea.
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On April 11 2006 17:25 FrozenArbiter wrote:
Ehm, well, personally I'd probably quit BW if it died in korea.
Really? Could you briefly explain why?
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Cuz half the fun is the pro gaming scene and spectating to others.
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