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DivinO
United States4796 Posts
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comabreaded
United States2166 Posts
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TheRecliner
Sweden103 Posts
On September 15 2009 02:02 JWD wrote: Does anyone know if the lack of KeSPA support somehow made GOM less attractive to teams (in obvious ways, like less prize money or something)? What I claim now may be complete bs, but afaik this is how it went last season: GOM was not sanctioned by Kespa. The SKT1 owner is a big shot in KESPA. They did not take part in the tournament. The MBC and OGN teams did not take part last season. The tournament was not an official KESPA tournament, and as such, they would only have supported a "rogue" tournament run by a rival television channel. This season leading to the tournament being cancelled: So last season you have 3 teams sitting out, which imo points to a snowballing effect regarding teams dropping out this current season. No doubt the GOM tournament was discussed by KESPA during the offseason, and I'd guess they did lobby work to have the other teams sit out as well. | ||
Heyoka
Katowice25012 Posts
On September 15 2009 02:02 JWD wrote: Does anyone know if the lack of KeSPA support somehow made GOM less attractive to teams (in obvious ways, like less prize money or something)? If there's no obvious association between lack of KeSPA sanction and a league's desirability for teams involved, we can assume with greater certainty that KeSPA in some way bullied teams out of GOM. I would love to get some more insight on this too, maybe Dan will do a MUMBOJUMBO on it or something. | ||
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Gnaix
United States438 Posts
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Dametri
United States726 Posts
What's going to happen to tasteless?! (and danielman) I suppose if people end up enjoying watching foreigners play enough, he could be fine Also I suppose with sc2 on the horizon this is the least of his worries. Still, wtf @ killing the only league with consistently good english commentary. | ||
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Mullet_Power
Canada64 Posts
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Chill
Calgary25963 Posts
On September 15 2009 02:39 Mullet_Power wrote: I don't see how this move benefits Kespa at all. They may take their ball and go home, but if this annoys Blizzard enough, they can take the court and go home. They control the only leagues in Korea. How does that not benefit them? | ||
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Adeeler
United Kingdom764 Posts
Kespa is hopefully in its death throws before SC2. When SC2 comes out we can hope a more international Starcraft Community that isn't just centered around S.Korea comes about which is 10x larger then the current community outside of S.Korea. Its in Blizzards interest to make things fair for everyone and more accessible and stuff. I mean we have to rely on recorded streams and stuff just to see the pro-games atm. Blizzard wants to change this and i'm sure it will be for the best as they've got the muscle to make SC2 popular globablly on a scale never seen before. So, feel the rage against the evil that is Kespa and wait for SC2 for things to settle. I suspect Kespa & Blizzard will come to an arrangement simply because Kespa is the dominant force in S.Korea atm. | ||
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Arangarx
United States2 Posts
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justdweezil
United States186 Posts
Stupid, stupid. Who knows what is going to happen with SC2... they may delay the growth of Korean eSports and ruin SC. | ||
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omnigol
United States166 Posts
On September 15 2009 01:49 chas wrote: Please tell me how much you enjoy foreigner/amateur games after getting used to the level Korean progamers play on. For me, I can barely watch it, which means a season 4 without progamers won't be very exciting. There are plenty of great non koreans if you ask me, if they all played more regularly. If they got more attention/money, (and thus took less breaks from starcraft) I could be more than happy with the foreigner scene. I just hope GOMtv and tasteless get something going that we can support until SC2 is out. | ||
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Afasia
Finland70 Posts
this is why we cant have nice things. What will Tasteless do now? | ||
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Logikz
United States65 Posts
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andrewlt
United States7702 Posts
On September 15 2009 02:52 Chill wrote: They control the only leagues in Korea. How does that not benefit them? Mike Morhaime might decide he has enough profits with WoW that he's willing to lose some Starcraft licensing profits to teach somebody a lesson. | ||
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Pyrrhuloxia
United States6700 Posts
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Arangarx
United States2 Posts
On September 15 2009 03:22 Pyrrhuloxia wrote: KeSPA now has a monopoly on SC1, but GOM will likely have a monopoly on SC2. Hopefully nobody will have a "monopoly" per say, but if someone has to have it, I hope they don't do with it what Kespa has. | ||
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0neder
United States3733 Posts
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thopol
Japan4560 Posts
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Duke
United States1106 Posts
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