EPTTSL to become first SC2 team with player salaries - Page 8
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Morale
Sweden1010 Posts
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Buddhist
United States658 Posts
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DivineSC
United States128 Posts
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Jetaap
France4814 Posts
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D.Devil
Germany227 Posts
On March 14 2011 19:26 DivineSC wrote: I thought several Foreign teams payed their players, like Liquid? Maybe it's the sponsors that do so? There are dozens of teams that pay their players, this headline relates to South Korea only. | ||
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Broodwich
United States393 Posts
I guess this means before this the Liquid guys were probably the only pros in Korea getting a salary (except for the random foreigners in the GOM house on teams). Says a lot about the high level of support TLAF provides for Team Liquid and the foreigner scene. | ||
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hmunkey
United Kingdom1973 Posts
On March 14 2011 18:10 thesideshow wrote: Except most of us would put the hours in for no money at all. True, but their practice regimen is nothing like any of our play schedules are. We play the game to derive entertainment; they don't. Plus, team house living conditions aren't exactly the greatest so when it's all said and done, I still don't think top pro-gamers are compensated that well. Yes, there's the occasional outlier like Fruitdealer, but the vast majority of players can't win tournaments like that. | ||
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Marou
Germany1371 Posts
On March 14 2011 15:16 L3g3nd_ wrote: wow this is awesome! i think moman gets a salary? he said in his NASL vod application that he lives off sc2 Yes he gets a salary and can play SC2 all day but on the other hand he has to stay at the PCBang sponsoring him and work here so he might have to pause his ladder games here and then to deliver a ticket to a highschooler missing school in order to play WOW all day long ^^ | ||
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Bobster
Germany3075 Posts
On March 14 2011 14:55 FXOpen wrote: I've been paying my players a salary since December..... Gotta love media  MyM and Cyber Nation as well. TSL is definitely not the first team, but they might have the highest salaries. | ||
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oopsPD
Korea (South)4 Posts
http://sc2tsl.com/bbs/board.php?bo_table=61&wr_id=1978 | ||
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mprs
Canada2933 Posts
They are tied for 1 champion each | ||
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Klamity
United States994 Posts
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da_head
Canada3350 Posts
On March 14 2011 14:45 aike wrote: 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. iirc the average salery of starcraft players is higher than the average of a korean citizen (though this is probably referring to starcraft 1). so i'd say it's not too shabby/ | ||
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Tomken
Norway1144 Posts
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KaveX
Germany59 Posts
I'm puzzled how little people on TeamLiquid actually know about esports. First, all the hype about the NASL as if it was something revolutionary for the development of esports, nowyou guys seem to think that Western pro-gamers don't get paid by their clans. I assume that it's because of most users' SC1 background where the foreign scene wasn't professional. Anyway: Many players get salaries (probably, there are more paid SC2 players in Europe than in the US, because Europe has more sponsored clans). All the succesful teams pay their players, without exception (I'm only unsure about teams like ROOT). Liquid, mouz, MYM, Alternate, Dignitas, fnatic, Millenium, Praetoriani, ESC, RoX, virus, aAa, Empire, and many more. It's usually only a few hundred dollars a month, though. | ||
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HudsonK
China172 Posts
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kidleader
Korea (South)233 Posts
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flodeskum
Iceland1267 Posts
On March 14 2011 19:23 Buddhist wrote: I don't understand this thread at all. SC BW players have been paid salary for years, and even someone who has posted in this thread is paying SC2 players a salary already. [FXOpen, page 1] Presumably it should have said that TSL is the first korean team to play SC2 players salaries. | ||
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D.Devil
Germany227 Posts
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brentsen
1252 Posts
On March 14 2011 21:40 Tomken wrote: Didn't many people said that sc2 teams already did get salaries..? I don't know for sure but I think most teams give their players some money but maybe not in the form of salary. Also living in the team house basically for free can be considered salary. | ||
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