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United States33542 Posts
Avid readers of our site may have noticed a post from POS_Legion a few weeks ago regarding the movements of progamers between teams. Legion quickly requested the deletion of his post, fearing he had revealed information that still wasn't supposed to be open to the public. Well, it turns out that what he said was pretty much correct, as a Koreans newspaper has confirmed some interesting things.
Source: An article from the Korean newspapper GoodDay, found on pgr21.com. It's not the most reliable newspaper in the world, and they're known to twist words very severely. But hey, it's still the closest there is to official confirmation.
First off, Dong Yang Orion has decided to stop sponsoring their team. Orion is one of the top teams, featuring Boxer, ILoveoov, and Kingdom.
Their initial contract ended last month, and they went into negotiations. Boxer's team requested a total of 420,000,000 (1200 won/1 dollar) won for their team (it doesn't mention over what period of time). Orion could only offer 350,000,000 won, so the negotiations failed.
Apparently, it won't be a big problem for Boxer's team. The article states that 3~4 companies that have been interested in making a progame team have already started to contact Boxer's team.
Second up, Nada and Yellow are leaving KTF. They receive huge amounts of money from KTF at the moment, Nada at 50,000,000 won for 6 months, and Yellow at a similar level. However, it looked like they are going to move to Toona SG. I doubt they would have left unless the money was right, so it will be interesting to see exactly how much Toona SG offered.
Asides from the money, we can speculate about the conditions in the KTF team. It is well known that they are forced to practice for long periods of time, and Oddysay was previously kicked out because he couldn't agree with those rules. Also, the recent incident involving the Jang brothers and the KTF manager indicates that the KTF manager may not be the nicest of men to work for.
So what is KTF's solution to losing their two top players (frankly speaking, yellow/nada were 95% of KTF)? Why, they will throw money at the problem -_-! Reach and Sync of the Hanbitsoft team will be moving to the KTF team. The article says that they have already joined the KTF team at their quarters to practice.
Such huge news! Even more rumors are going around in the back involving other players, and there are some very big names included. But until more proof comes up, that's only speculating.
Toona SG has just become the no.1 team in all of BW. They were already a fairly good team, GoodFriend in particular. With Nada and Yellow, they will dominate -_-!
KTF will still be a decent team, Hanbitsoft is now officially f*cked. If Junwi left Hanbit, it would leave them slightly below Samsung Khan.
Interesting!
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4492 Posts
Wow Toona, what a mean mean, smart move -.-
-Mynock
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KTF has Nada and Yellow but they are 1-4
Toona Sg is 4-2 now and Nada, Yellow Toona will be great
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can anyone write there complet member list of each team? thx
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it's so curved
Their initial contract ended last month, and they went into negotiations. Boxer's team requested a total of 420,000,000 (1200 won/1 dollar) -- I think it should be (1 won / 1200 dollars) ?
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my guess is ToonaSG will sell nada and yellow to a different team
toona definitly doesn't have enough money to pay nada and yellow
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On December 22 2003 10:43 inax wrote:
it's so curved
Their initial contract ended last month, and they went into negotiations. Boxer's team requested a total of 420,000,000 (1200 won/1 dollar) -- I think it should be (1 won / 1200 dollars) ?
um,no
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On December 22 2003 10:43 inax wrote:
it's so curved
Their initial contract ended last month, and they went into negotiations. Boxer's team requested a total of 420,000,000 (1200 won/1 dollar) -- I think it should be (1 won / 1200 dollars) ?
if that were so id drop out of school and devote the rest of my life to try and get into boxer's team
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Ah so that's what happened to that thread, I recall using search to find it again and coming up with nothing:p
Seems progaming is growing at greater rates, with teams offering more and more money to the best players
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China3334 Posts
i'm concerning who will be Junwi's next practise partner
Reach & Sync gone...
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Hanbit's situation isn't so bad because they still have Silent_Control.
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what about chojja going to KTF? is it true?
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Their initial contract ended last month, and they went into negotiations. Boxer's team requested a total of 420,000,000 (1200 won/1 dollar) won for their team (it doesn't mention over what period of time). Orion could only offer 350,000,000 won, so the negotiations failed.
420,000,000 is 350,000 USD. When divided by eight (the number of people on Orion) this equals 43,750 USD per year per member. This does not include any additional expenses that they might have to pay for. So 420,000,000 won seems perfectly reasonable. Shame Dong yang wouldn't pay.
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On December 22 2003 12:03 Emlary wrote:
i'm concerning who will be Junwi's next practise partner
Reach & Sync gone...
hanbit still have [oops]autumn(P), silent_control(T), and crystal[inca](z)
from all those wgt reps of crystal's zvz, i bet that's how junwi became so good at ZvZ ATM.
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On December 22 2003 11:28 mindspike wrote: Show nested quote +On December 22 2003 10:43 inax wrote:
it's so curved
Their initial contract ended last month, and they went into negotiations. Boxer's team requested a total of 420,000,000 (1200 won/1 dollar) -- I think it should be (1 won / 1200 dollars) ? um,no
what inax meant should be 1 dollar / 1200 won ^^
wax meant 1 dollar =^ 1200 won
but damn, they get nice amounts of money, i mean 100k a year, not including prize money.. nada soon first pro gamer millionaire 
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<3 Leg for giving us the inside scoop :D
man, hanbit used to be the like the best too.. since they were the ones who sold starcraft(I think)
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Wax + Legion gossip combo
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Damn, what a sad day for KTF~
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Can't wait to see how much YellOw will be paid in Toona
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So now Hanbit has left Junwi, HOT, Silent_Control, and Crystal[Inca]
That's a very small team 
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Australia4514 Posts
hanbit also has their amateurs
stay[hyo] (zerg) and
reach (protoss) (no not oops)Reach)
they actually got them to play in the itv league while they tried to sort out their team mess recently. POS won 3-0 should be showing sometime early in 2004. i think.
poor hanbit
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On December 22 2003 19:22 Legionnaire wrote:
hanbit also has their amateurs
stay[hyo] (zerg) and
reach (protoss) (no not oops)Reach)
they actually got them to play in the itv league while they tried to sort out their team mess recently. POS won 3-0 should be showing sometime early in 2004. i think.
poor hanbit
stay[hyo]? lol...hes certainly above average...but hes really not so good.
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I think toona will just find co-sponsors or something. It's going to become very popular, and there shouldn't be any problem with that.
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could somebody post a list of Toona and KTF with their new players plzzzzz
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Norway10161 Posts
On December 22 2003 13:48 x[ReaPeR]x wrote:
Their initial contract ended last month, and they went into negotiations. Boxer's team requested a total of 420,000,000 (1200 won/1 dollar) won for their team (it doesn't mention over what period of time). Orion could only offer 350,000,000 won, so the negotiations failed.
420,000,000 is 350,000 USD. When divided by eight (the number of people on Orion) this equals 43,750 USD per year per member. This does not include any additional expenses that they might have to pay for. So 420,000,000 won seems perfectly reasonable. Shame Dong yang wouldn't pay.
Wax, you know how korean pro teams pay their players? As far as i know players get a place to stay and food along with practice but no real money. Which would give boxer a bunch of moneys. Kingdom probably have a bonus for OGN victory, also iloveoov. I doubt it will be splitted evenly;)
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i am sure boxer will take the biggest share of the 350,000, after all he IS the team leader, kingdom will get a bonus, but since he elliminated boxer in the top 8, he should be punished for high treason and have his bonus reduced to 1200 won... for oov, owning yellow means in whatever final is too common, so 2400 won should be enough... rainbow won the kbk, but still nothing TOO special, so 3600 won shut him up... as of zerglee and that new guy, since they did almost nothing in recent boxer memory, he will simply provide the 2 poor zerg players with enough food to keep them alive while having enough strength to move their hands to play bw... the rest boxer will keep for himself...
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shit now I see why KTF manager is a mean guy. He probably get paid less than half of the players he manages like Nada and Yellow so he forces them to train hard thinking it will torture them -_-;;
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On December 22 2003 19:22 Legionnaire wrote:
hanbit also has their amateurs
stay[hyo] (zerg) and
reach (protoss) (no not oops)Reach)
they actually got them to play in the itv league while they tried to sort out their team mess recently. POS won 3-0 should be showing sometime early in 2004. i think.
poor hanbit
That reach dude should be forced to change his name... it's confusing. How about a little creativity here? heh
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Wow, thanks to Leg for the inside scoop~ and good luck to NaDa and YellOw in their new team Toona with GooDFrienD now rocks :D
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50,000,000.....
Jesus Christ.
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Australia4514 Posts
uhhhh i was chobo i forgot the name and asked bejjang and he said reach, but later on i remembered it wasn't reach i was thinking about but it was really [oops]autumn (not normal autumn)
i'd also like to point out i have a 6-0 winning ratio for team league matches!!!! woot!~~ *begins to dance the macarana*
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gw legioN!! anyway i think the amounts requested are certainly reasonable considering how big SC seems to be in korea.
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i just watched mbc game and it showed Orion named 4u, is this their new name and sponsor??
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What/who is "Dong yang orion"? Is it a company producing sth? It sounds like a korean name for me -_- (no offence).
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