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TSL to become first SC2 team with player salaries

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nokz88
Profile Joined October 2010
Brazil1253 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-25 07:37:19
March 14 2011 05:41 GMT
#1
The original article at thisisgame.com: here
Another article covering the same subject: here

Well, I won't bother translating the whole article but here are the main topics:

1) TSL (Team SCV Life) will become the first StarCraft 2 Team to give salary to it's players. The first payday will be on April 10th.

2) This was possible because TSL was the first team to draw major sponsors for the team, mainly hardware manufacturers. They were satisfied with the positive effect the team gave them through advertisement and such, and decided to raise the sponsorship value. According to coach Lee "There was an increase of 60%"

3) There are currently 9 players playing for the TSL as of now. The two highest paid players will be Kim Won Ki AKA TSL.FruitDealer and Seo Ki Soo AKA TSL.Trickster, with 35,000,000 KRW (around 31,000 US$) and 30,000,000 KRW (around 27,000 US$) a year respectively.


I am not sure, but aren't there some foreign teams that give salary to their players too? Anyway, great news to TSL players and e-sports in general. Here's hoping that other teams get more sponsorship and follow TSL's example.
in a state of trance
daffodil
Profile Joined October 2010
Australia109 Posts
March 14 2011 05:42 GMT
#2
pretty good news. shows that at least the sponsors don't envision the sc2 korean scene dying anytime soon
littlechava
Profile Blog Joined March 2004
United States7218 Posts
March 14 2011 05:43 GMT
#3
It's kind of amazing that this is news - I thought that most of the sponsored Korean teams had salaries, however meager, at this point. Even some foreign sponsors give their players small salaries.
Entusman #12
Nuri
Profile Joined May 2010
New Zealand280 Posts
March 14 2011 05:43 GMT
#4
wow not bad getting 31k usd just to play sc2 per year
The biggest risk in life is not taking any risks at all
Gomas
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Poland311 Posts
March 14 2011 05:43 GMT
#5
All top teams pay their players afaik
Sanguinarius
Profile Joined January 2010
United States3427 Posts
March 14 2011 05:45 GMT
#6
Thats excellent news. 31k is a very respectable sum.
Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others -Heart of Darkness
aike
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States1629 Posts
March 14 2011 05:45 GMT
#7
On March 14 2011 14:43 Nuri wrote:
wow not bad getting 31k usd just to play sc2 per year


But considering it's like a 80+ hour a week job... is it really worth it?

And yea I do believe a lot of the major foreigner teams pay salaries.
Wahaha
ROOTFayth
Profile Joined January 2004
Canada3351 Posts
March 14 2011 05:46 GMT
#8
On March 14 2011 14:43 Nuri wrote:
wow not bad getting 31k usd just to play sc2 per year

pretty mediocre when its 80 hours a week though, hopefully it rises in a year or 2
Elefanto
Profile Joined May 2010
Switzerland3584 Posts
March 14 2011 05:46 GMT
#9
thats definitely a good development

i really hope we get something like proleague, GSL-Team league proofed already to be fantastic.
The more stable the scene gets, and the less teams / players are dependent on winning the gsl /placing good to get money, the better.
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red4ce
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States7313 Posts
March 14 2011 05:47 GMT
#10
Nice. 31k for FD is higher than the average salary in South Korea and definitely more than whatever he was getting on the estro b team.
oncearunner
Profile Joined October 2010
190 Posts
March 14 2011 05:48 GMT
#11
^^heh its "80" hours a week but its palyng a video game. time flies when ur having fun

imagine being the assistant manager at my restaurant working 70 hours a week on salary
majestouch
Profile Joined December 2010
United States395 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-14 05:49:40
March 14 2011 05:48 GMT
#12
first sc2 team to have salaried players?

I know for a fact that EG players get paid a salary. as to how much, I'm not sure.

I'm sure complexity sc2 players do as well seeing that they were/are a big competitor in cs 1.6

note, cs 1.6 players on EG make about $80k/yr remember that sc2 has more prize money to made [solo wise]
Sentient
Profile Joined April 2010
United States437 Posts
March 14 2011 05:48 GMT
#13
This is awesome. It takes away the volatility of making a living from progaming. This will let the players focus on their long-term game rather than winning every single tournament just to survive.
bkrow
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Australia8532 Posts
March 14 2011 05:49 GMT
#14
This is pretty awesome news.. Heading down the BW path i guess.. Hopefully the other teams will follow suit!
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eviltomahawk
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States11135 Posts
March 14 2011 05:49 GMT
#15
At first I confused this with the other TSL, TeamLiquid Starcraft League lol.

Interesting to see TSL be the first team to take such an important step towards the SC2 pro-gaming infrastructure becoming more and more like the BW infrastructure. I wonder when large corporations will start to host their own teams, like Hite, CJ, or WeMade.

Incredible Miracle and oGs better step up their game now, especially with TSL macroing up their team.
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MangoTango
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States3670 Posts
March 14 2011 05:50 GMT
#16
I can't believe it took this long to make this happen.
"One fish, two fish, red fish, BLUE TANK!" - Artosis
netherDrake
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Singapore1831 Posts
March 14 2011 05:52 GMT
#17
Hopefully this will make FD/Tester play better and start dominating like in the beta phase again.

And Clide finally fulfill his potential as the best player ever.
SC2 player for Flash eSports. twitch.tv/nether_drake, https://twitter.com/bryan_sum, http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bryan-Drake-Sum/468389706519567
CurLy[]
Profile Joined August 2010
United States759 Posts
March 14 2011 05:52 GMT
#18
On March 14 2011 14:46 Fayth wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 14 2011 14:43 Nuri wrote:
wow not bad getting 31k usd just to play sc2 per year

pretty mediocre when its 80 hours a week though, hopefully it rises in a year or 2


They also win tourneys though so that money too
Great pasta mom, very Korean. Even my crown leans to the side. Gangsta. --------->
Momildo
Profile Joined October 2010
Brazil93 Posts
March 14 2011 05:53 GMT
#19
It is a nice step on the right direction, hopefully awareness will increase and the sponsorships with it.
FXOpen
Profile Joined November 2010
Australia1844 Posts
March 14 2011 05:55 GMT
#20
I've been paying my players a salary since December..... Gotta love media
www.twitter.com/FXOpenESports
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