EPTSamsung Acquires MVP Ozone and Blue - SC2 not acquired - P…
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RaiKageRyu
Canada4773 Posts
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Torpedo.Vegas
United States1890 Posts
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yoshi245
United States2972 Posts
On September 07 2013 15:36 RaiKageRyu wrote: Yeah glad I wasn't the only one who thought "wait Coach Choi is going to leave MVP behind... then who's in charge of MVP now?" Yeah, can someone clarify who will be running MVP now? Will it be the Dota2 coach? Or maybe MVP will have some others step up. Would be interesting if SangHo/Swagger could become a player coach again for their SC2 division. | ||
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UmberBane
Germany5450 Posts
On September 07 2013 15:41 Torpedo.Vegas wrote: As a ignorant peon, is the LoL scene propped up by Riot, third party interests, or a combination of both? I'm impressed with its growth, but call me cynical, I am used to seeing a competitive gaming scene struggle to develop and establish itself prior to exploding (ala BW, CS, FIghting scene, etc.) It always seemed to me LoL never had a struggle and just coasts. Am I way off and just missed the hard years? You need to seperate between EU/NA and Korea. In Korea it's the classic Korean model. First huge growth at pc bangs, then OGN starts picking it up and broadcasts it with big company sponsors on TV and it grows tremendously each season (since early 2012 now). That's why people always compare LoL to how BW started out in Korea (see Chobra grilled with Thorin). In the West it's LCS by Riot. They made the initial investment themselves and pay most of its cost, however they are also acquiring a lot of sponsors recently, for example just now got American Express to sponsor the LCS and the WorldFinals, and also recently promoted Pacific Rim on their NA LCS stream. So it's getting there, but I'm sure that it's not self-sustainable yet. In Korea it is, obviously. | ||
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Sprouter
United States1724 Posts
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glzElectromaster
Japan2474 Posts
On September 07 2013 15:20 RagequitBM wrote: Oh cool. I use a Samsung Galaxy Nexus. Always thought Samsung Khan was awesome because I actually recognized their products, unlike most of the other KeSPA teams. You could move to Korea and use a Samsung Galaxy and buy the plan from SKT or something lol | ||
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UmberBane
Germany5450 Posts
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itsdaniel
Austria334 Posts
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Shana
Indonesia1814 Posts
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Arceus
Vietnam8333 Posts
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bokchoi
Korea (South)9498 Posts
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glzElectromaster
Japan2474 Posts
On September 07 2013 16:43 bokchoi wrote: I bet eazyhoon is super sad he left Blue now. Wait what he left? anyone else? | ||
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UmberBane
Germany5450 Posts
The Samsung Galaxy Blue roster according leaguepedia still goes like this: Cheonju, Spirit, easyhoon, Deft, Sense, SuNo, FLahm | ||
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Bowzar
Sweden741 Posts
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vrok
Sweden2541 Posts
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PVJ
Hungary5221 Posts
(clarification: that's so sad ) | ||
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GulpyBlinkeyes
United States1449 Posts
Galaxy is at least a little better than Green Wings or Rolster, I guess. | ||
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Pontius Pirate
United States1557 Posts
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Amui
Canada10567 Posts
On September 07 2013 17:00 vrok wrote: Wait what? They took both LoL teams and coach Choi? Need more information ASAP, but to me it sounds like the players and coaches still on MVP got shafted completely. No money, no GSTL, no Samsung, no Proleague, no nothing. I guess the big question is what happened to the money. Depends on where the money went. If a moderate portion of the money gets reinvested(10-20%+), MVP is probably fine, and they can probably still survive despite having lost their largest sponsorship draw. If no/little money gets reinvested though, MVP could be in deep water. | ||
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glzElectromaster
Japan2474 Posts
On September 07 2013 16:54 UmberBane wrote: On leaguepedia it says he moved over to Samsung aswell... however they aren't always super up to date with these lower tier Korean teams, so who knows... The Samsung Galaxy Blue roster according leaguepedia still goes like this: Cheonju, Spirit, easyhoon, Deft, Sense, SuNo, FLahm I was the one who edited that on the MVP Blue page. Had not a single clue Ezhoon left... | ||
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