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This upcoming 17th, there will be an official establishment of StarCraft 2 association as well as an orientation at GomTV studio. It will involve 7 teams that are currently participating in GSL, plus their coaches and players.
The association will include teams StarTale, Prime, oGs, TSL, fOu, ZeNEX, and IM, their coaches and their players. In addition, there will be StarCraft 2 game team association, players association, and an advisory board.
The first president will be Won Jeong Uk, currently the coach of StarTale, and the advisory committee will be managed by GomTV e-sports business management and an editor from a famous e-sports specialized webzine.
Also, the commissioners will be TSL's Lee Un Jae coach, Prime's Park Wae Sik coach, oGs Park Sang Ik coach, fOu Kim Tae Yeup manager, ZeNEX Yun Hee Won coach, and IM Kang Dong Hoon coach. As for the commissioner for the players association, one will be selected through gamers voting in sometime in January 2011.
StarCraft 2 association aims to be an official association approved by Blizzard, and it will deal with the following: Protection of rights for the gamers and teams, operations of StarCraft 2 team's business-league sponsor, arbitrator for when there is an issue between a gamer and a team, and furthering the popularity of StarCraft 2 leagues that are linked with Blizzard-GomTV (editor's note: this most likely means, leagues that opened legit with permission from them).
Also, the association does not aim for profit, and will focus on the right path for the association by listening to what fans want. As a first thing to do, they will put forth plans to support teams with PCs and starting online team league.
Won Jong Uk, the first president of the association, said, "While the name is quite grand, but it is just a group made with a purpose of uniting the voice in order to do the things we need to do."
He continued, "Unlike existing e-sports association, we would like people to think this is a different kind of a group from them, and that our no.1 issue is to protect the rights of the gamers. We must gather all our strength to help with our current difficult situation for StarCraft 2 progamer teams. To that end, we wish for the fans to give us support."
In a meanwhile, in the StarCraft 2 gamer orientation, it will include the following topics and then some: Gamer's basic behavior education, interview method education from Fomos' reporter, Kim Kyung Hyun, and 2011 league operation plans from GomTV e-sports business unit, Chae Jeong Won.
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Awesome! Thanks for translating. This looks good and I hope they do things right. It's a lot more comfortable knowing that it's not controlled by Sponsors though. I think this is a good thing. Starcraft 2 as an e-Sport in Korea is progressing nicely.
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Should be interesting to see how this plays out.
So is this...GeSPA?
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KeSPA 2.0 =/
okay i take that back
In a meanwhile, in the StarCraft 2 gamer orientation, it will include the following topics and then some: Gamer's basic behavior education, interview method education from Fomos' reporter, Kim Kyung Hyun, and 2011 league operation plans from GomTV e-sports business unit, Chae Jeong Won.
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So it's pretty much kespa with blizzard support? I guess it will help organize the scene a bit.
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KeSPA 2 but no sponsors but coaches rather.
So we're going to see a Proleague soon in sc2 which is the most logical step.
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Wow, this sounds like Blizzard making fun of the KeSPA.
Let's just hope it leads to a better organization than KeSPA.
(none of this stupid you-can't-participate-elsewhere policies please)
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On November 16 2010 17:26 Whiladan wrote:
Should be interesting to see how this plays out.
So is this...GeSPA?
You know what GeSPA means right? xD
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having the coaches as commissioners is definitely much better than Kespa
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Ooh wow Blizzard is going to love that.
Remember, Blizzard hates Kespa for different reasons people here do. Blizzard would hate kespa just as much if they were total saints. Interests just collide.
Blizzard will try to stop this before they get too powerful. Can't have something not under their control and this is exactly that.
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I don't see how this could hurt sc2, cause isn't this the first step to corporate sponsors?
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On November 16 2010 17:30 DonKey_ wrote:
I don't see how this could hurt sc2, cause isn't this the first step to corporate sponsors?
the problem would be allowing the corporate sponsors power, which is bound to happen if it ever occurs.
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It's not likely this group will replace KeSPA. While KeSPA gives pretty much zero support for games not named "StarCraft: Brood War", they still do manage leagues for other games.
This group's sole purpose is managing StarCraft 2.
Of course, who knows how it'll turn out in the future.
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This sounds like great news! Once again the official association for SC(2) is in the control of the managers/coaches of the teams. They'll do what's right for the game, I have high expectations for them! 
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the need to have a sick acronym before anyone takes them seriously
Association for the Regulation of Korean Organized NexgenGaming
Arkon!
there you go, already 10x better than kespa
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As along as they don't try make the progammers sign ridiculous contracts.
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this is awesome because clan wars is what I like watching most
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I don't know about calling it "KeSPA 2". On the surface, this sounds very different.
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On November 16 2010 17:40 PackofHighly wrote:
I don't know about calling it "KeSPA 2". On the surface, this sounds very different.
Huh? It sounds identical -- except for one key thing -- that it's the coaches/players directly involved, rather than corporations like KeSPA. It's off too a good start but it's really KeSPA 2.0
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