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HonestTea
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This will have to be a quick news post:
eNature Top Team has picked up a sponsor. International E-sports Group (IEG) is a consulting company that specializes in the field of e-sports. IEG has been active in running Korean and international e-sports tournaments, such as the ESWC, CPL, and KODE5.
The team name will be "Estro" (pronounced EE-stro, like "astro" with an 'e')
IEG is unique among companies involved with e-sports, because its main objective is not advertising. Rather, in keeping with the company's line of business, IEG wants to create a "progaming club team." What that exactly means is unclear right now, but IEG will hold a press conference on the 13th.
It's hard to believe, but now 10 of the 11 progaming teams are properly owned by stable, long-term companies. (The 11th, STX Soul, is currently in a one-year, no-individual-salary, 'trial' sponsorship. And STX is no small company.)
We've come a long way from Boxer and his four teammates eating milk and cookies for breakfast, in a small office space back in the 4U days.
[update]
So e-stro are planning to expand to around 20 players, and they will get a big house/living quarters, van, the whole shebang.
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Korea (South)17174 Posts
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The Estro Generation.... What an awful awful team name. eNature becomes Estrogen team.... weak.
I remember all the sponsorship switchin then.. Orion, Jung, Whatever, ETC ETC... Oh man, Pro gaming has come such a long way.
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Lol, I thought the title said "Enature is no more"
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Korea (South)17174 Posts
On October 10 2006 17:46 SuperJongMan wrote:
The Estro Generation.... What an awful awful team name. eNature becomes Estrogen team.... weak.
I remember all the sponsorship switchin then.. Orion, Jung, Whatever, ETC ETC... Oh man, Pro gaming has come such a long way.
ROFL i dont think koreans know that word?
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On October 10 2006 17:47 Drowsy wrote:
Lol, I thought the title said "Enature is no more"
wow... now sponsored reads as no more? :o
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HonestTea
5007 Posts
On October 10 2006 17:53 Rekrul wrote:
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ROFL i dont think koreans know that word?
Haha, I propose that, for the purposes of TLnet, we spell their name e-stro or eestro?
of course once they start losing we can call them whatever we want.
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LOL the Estro Gen, classic
good to hear enature is finally caught a sponsor.
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Osaka27149 Posts
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On October 10 2006 17:47 Drowsy wrote:
Lol, I thought the title said "Enature is no more" yeah I held my breath
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Good 
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Good ol days. I remember boxer AND yellow being at IS, then boxer left, the team sinked, themarine being at BOX, the silver and gold lightning spacesuites they had to wear...
I think NOW we are really talking progamming, and in some months every team will be backed by a big sponsor and even the suckiest in the team will get some salary maybe.
If this continues to happen i guess lots of kids will want to go progaming, so at the end there might appear new pro teams since there will be plenty players to choose between.
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On October 10 2006 17:53 Rekrul wrote:
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ROFL i dont think koreans know that word?
You live in Korea dawg, you don't think the guys know what Estrogen is? It's in the air... sleeveless pink top wearing manli men.. -_-;;
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I think this is the height of SC progaming in Korea.
and according to the law of diminishing returns...
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I believe this is the ONLY time in history where every proleague team has a sponsorship, if you include STX's 1 year contract. They are bound to be sponsored soon permanently anyway.
Great news.
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Why not just Astros, like Houston Astros
Lame team name. I'm just gonna ignore this whole thing and call them eNature no matter what.
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Korea (South)1201 Posts
On October 10 2006 18:31 SuperJongMan wrote:
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You live in Korea dawg, you don't think the guys know what Estrogen is? It's in the air... sleeveless pink top wearing manli men.. -_-;;
i only know estrogen is a kind of hormon but couldn't think of it out of "Estro".
as a non-english speaker, i myself couldn''t get the feeling at first that it could be used
in a somehow derogatory way.  or are you saying it means such a men just literally?
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Sweden33719 Posts
On October 10 2006 17:55 NonY wrote:
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wow... now sponsored reads as no more? :o
The title cuts off at n if you see it in the list to the left.
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United States5262 Posts
Good to hear the another progaming team won't have starving kids anymore. ;D. Is anyone good on ENature though?
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