NICE!! Ericsson is globaly known for the quality of their network around the word. Hope they can share a litlle bit of it to the GSL live stream. I already bought my S2 ticket and hope quality will be there!

Anyway this is a good news for e-sport and the future of the GSL. Except Gillette and Coca (and that was long time ago) we had no major foreign sponsor in Broodwar competition.

Kazeyonoma

United States2912 Posts

October 16 2010 00:35 GMT

#123

wow, friggen huge sponsor, baller GSL!

Rinrun

Canada3509 Posts

October 16 2010 01:34 GMT

#124

GSL is ballin now. I <3 SE. My w800i is still kickin.

JBright

Vancouver14381 Posts

October 16 2010 04:30 GMT

#125

On October 16 2010 08:17 St. Fu wrote:
Hopefully they start getting enough from sponsors to put the VODs out in low quality for free, like the stream.

but having big sponsors doesn't mean they can stop making money from the tournament. the HQ stream + VODs are a package that comes together as a monthly pass. if they remove the VODs from that package(make them free), it loses a lot of value for the customers who are paying

LuckyGnomTV

Russian Federation367 Posts

October 16 2010 06:50 GMT

#126

wow, nice sponsor

Orome

Switzerland11984 Posts

October 16 2010 07:54 GMT

#127

Cool!

For the people who are saying this is the start of big western companies investing in e-sports, we had Coca Cola OSL back in 2001.^^ Many big companies have sponsored a BW league at some points, the problem is that they tended to stop taking interest after one tournament.

oRacLeGosu

Norway151 Posts

October 16 2010 11:30 GMT

#128

There is really no risk anymore. A big company like Sony Ericsson just don't make stupid mistakes in this regard. This sponsorship just really shows you how consolidated the Sc2 steady growth is.

Sanguinarius

United States3427 Posts

October 17 2010 00:58 GMT

#129

nice a huge company..... not that intel wasn't, but more exposure is better

skronch

United States2717 Posts

October 17 2010 07:54 GMT

#130

that's awesome that they've secured such a huge sponsor

Corrupted

United States1255 Posts

October 17 2010 09:03 GMT

#131

I go out of my way to support those companies who support Starcraft.

z00t

Australia976 Posts

October 17 2010 12:01 GMT

#132

Heh, doesn't have quite as nice a ring as 'Intel Sambo', but this is cool news ^^. It's promising to see more big sponsors step up to support Esports!

bigjenk

United States1543 Posts

October 17 2010 16:57 GMT

#133

On October 15 2010 21:26 bibbaly wrote:
Old spice should sponsor the gsl and send terry crews to do some co casting

As long as dr pepper doesn't. Or is they make them never use the dr of love commercial again.