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Samsung, one of the oldest sponsors in Korean e-sports has made a huge splash by buying and absorbing MVP's League of legends teams.
With the League of Legends Season 3 World Finals only a week away. Samsung had to hurry to acquire the MVP Ozone League of Legends squad which qualified for the World Finals from the Korean region. MVP Ozone -- now Samsung Galaxy Ozone -- are regarded as one of the best teams in the League of Legends scene, making the World Finals and winning the spring season of Korea's premiere League of Legends tournament, OGN Champions.
MVP Blue, the sister team of MVP Ozone, has also been picked up by Samsung, but they have not been given an official name as of yet. Both League of Legends team have contracts with Samsung Galaxy until the end of the OGN Champions Winter season. After that, they will need to renegotiate to see if they want to continue the relationship.
Finally, the MVP SC2 division has been absorbed into the Samsung Khan SC2 squad. The new team will be known as Sasmung Galaxy Khan. The various teams Samsung now owns in multiple games will be under the banner of the Samsung Galaxy.
UNCONFIRMED
DENIED BY DONGRAEGU HIMSELF
The Dota2 team was NOT picked up by Samsung Galaxy.
Edit: Looks like MVP SC2 stays the same. MVP Dota2 stays the same. League teams bought. Everything else stays the same in SC2 world.
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Mo' money
Mo' problems
+ Show Spoiler +Great news for MVP all around. Actually getting a salary now is sweet. 
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That name seems too long.
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So does this mean that we can expect them in proleague? Or will they still play in GSTL?
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1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
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i wonder if they will be cutting any of the sc2 MVP players at all. hopefully nott
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Great news for MVP!
Another really strong team for Proleague ^_^
Dota not being picked I guess means we won't be seeing Kespa teams pick up dota teams for a while 
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Can some helpful person now assemble the likely roster of the "Samsung Galaxy Khan"?
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holy shit. I guess Samsung really wants to market their Galaxy right now if they even changed their name to include Galaxy. At least this means more stability to the ex-MVP team members so that's one positive thing!
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Whelp, I'm changing my team to samsung now  How could I not with drg back in his ultimate form?
In other news I didn't realise that the trade embargo was already over. Meh, drg in proleague is good enough for me :p
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1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
I have a Galaxy, that means my phone is maximum esports
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Samsung Galaxy KHAN DongRaeGu. Gotta admit, has a nice ring to it. Not to mention, we'll also get to see him play in Proleague.
Oh and this makes me want to get a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 as well. :p
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Samsung Galaxy Ozone... SGO... Hmm, I guess that will take some time getting used to but nonetheless: should be beneficial to the players so best of luck to them
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The poor DotA team
Great news overall though :D
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Stuff like this makes me feel better about all the Samsung products I own.
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On September 07 2013 11:13 lichter wrote:
I have a Galaxy, that means my phone is maximum esports
Too bad your shoes aren't.
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samsung galaxy...sounds familiar
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They should rename the LoL teams to Samsung Galaxy S3, and Samsung Galaxy S4
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Fionn, you can read Korean? Because in the LoL section the discussion is saying the SC2 team is NOT being picked up by Samsung.
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1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
On September 07 2013 11:14 bo1b wrote:Show nested quote +On September 07 2013 11:13 lichter wrote:
I have a Galaxy, that means my phone is maximum esports Too bad your shoes aren't.
I could put their logo on my shoes ez
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