I am glad MC and Nada now have reliable support for foreign events. I just wonder how much though know about SK's shady past. Maybe they have changed...
SK has sponsored hundreds of players and dozens of teams, it isn't too surprising that ONE of the teams was "shady".
I think the acquisition of NaDa and MC is great and I hope to see them participating in many foreign tournies!
You should go read up on their HoN team from last month. I am not just calling them out because of one team. They have a reputation for picking up shady players, I just picked the most extreme example. Its the sad truth, and I hope Nada and MC won't end up regretting their decision.
They are also known to have a beast cs team for close to a decade
They have not really had a 'beast' CS-team since 2005-ish. Sure, their teams have been decent, but never really any superstar teams, until 2011.
I am glad MC and Nada now have reliable support for foreign events. I just wonder how much though know about SK's shady past. Maybe they have changed...
SK has sponsored hundreds of players and dozens of teams, it isn't too surprising that ONE of the teams was "shady".
I think the acquisition of NaDa and MC is great and I hope to see them participating in many foreign tournies!
You should go read up on their HoN team from last month. I am not just calling them out because of one team. They have a reputation for picking up shady players, I just picked the most extreme example. Its the sad truth, and I hope Nada and MC won't end up regretting their decision.
They are also known to have a beast cs team for close to a decade
They have not really had a 'beast' CS-team since 2005-ish. Sure, their teams have been decent, but never really any superstar teams, until 2011.
Are you serious, while talking this shit? SK had one of the best CS Teams ever and actually they have one of the best. SK had many Superstars in their teams. Fifa Twins hero and styla. Tod, Insomnia, Deadman, Lyn, Remind, many CS stars and more...basically you are talking just sh.t
There are two things i'd like to comment on ... i doubt that Nada and MC approached SK asking "if you are paying us travelling costs we will play for you" i guess it was more the other way around. MC already is at most foreigner events and i heared he said that he wants to concentrate more on korea for the next few months (and practice there alot) while Nada said in an interview that he is quiet busy with his study which by itself is mindblowing. I doubt we will see Nada at many Foreign Lan Events and MC ... well he will still be there just wearing an SK shirt that no-one really cares about other then SK so they can publish his results on their website besides not having anything to do with it. Might be attractive for sponsors but i doubt the scene therefore will suddenly turn into SK fans ...
second, though i don't think that this hurts eSports, it hurts the foreigner competition. They buy korean mercenaries who give a shit about whats going on outside of korea but just learned that there's a lot of money to take so they come here and rape faces, while the neccesary infrastructure teams like SK COULD provide is still not there for foreigners. If this move by SK turns out to be somehow successful atleast in a short term i think we will see alot of bigger teams doing the same ... we will see less and less foreigners in NA/European tournaments ... many people wont watch them anymore (i don't count myself in because i personally give a shit about foreigners vs. koreans but i KNOW from THIS forums that MANY do) .... sponsors will lose interest, prices will decrease ... koreans lose interest again since its not worth the effort anymore ... and then the scene is pretty much fucked ...
in the long term this move by SK though might be giving them some short term success but also alot of Anti-Fans will be considered a big failure in the future (just my oppinion) ...
It just shows that SK has no clue about SC2 ... they've failed to establish a own team which they put only minimal effort into and instead of establishing a korean based team in korea similar to other teams there to compete in the GSL/GTSL they just "buy" some well known players (because well its NADA and MC is at alot of foreigner events already) to rape some faces outside of korea. They seem to think that no one outside of korea cares about korea and no one will recognize MC and NADA as oGs players, which shows me that they have no clue about the scene ... there are alot of other players and teams that are just waiting to get active outside of korea i guess ... imo they could get alot of success by establishing a SK.Korea team from talented players inside of korea and afterwards bringing them to foreigner events ... but this would require knowledge, effort and time. Something SK obviously is not willing to put into SC2, which to me is a big indicator that SK doesn't really care about the game
wow sk is really desperate, they dont care about player strenght, they just want famous faces to make $$$ of sponsoring deals. I was in SK 10 years ago playing quake, and everyone was like a family, super friendly and caring about esports. Then the management changed and they dropped quake 3 for FIFA and shit. SK should have died a long time ago.
Now that MC and NaDa have funding to go to foreign events should we expect to see them at more of them? Now that GSL has a much more managable schedule I think its possible. I was hoping to see oGs become a international team.
On July 17 2011 00:04 Stiluz wrote: Meh, this seems kinda boring, they're not really in SK so not impressed.
I feel the same, I don't understand the people who are jumping up and down all excited.
more nada and mc at more events is pretty exciting, and i bet you will be first in line to watch them compete with an sk shirt on. oooo a shirt big deal, lol
On July 17 2011 00:04 Stiluz wrote: Meh, this seems kinda boring, they're not really in SK so not impressed.
I feel the same, I don't understand the people who are jumping up and down all excited.
more nada and mc at more events is pretty exciting, and i bet you will be first in line to watch them compete with an sk shirt on. oooo a shirt big deal, lol
I doubt we will see more MC on events, he has been to so many foreign tournaments already in the past months, any more would completely kill his practice.. As for Nada, the reason he didn't travel to foreign events so far surely not a monetary one but just time constraints. If SK were to sponsor Zenex then maybe you would have a point
MC Making more Cash hahaha... Well, in my case I only liked SK when they had Loda on their DotA team, but that was a looong time ago.
I don't really care, I don't thing nada and MC are gonna be showing up at too many foreign events. They need to practice in korea it's better for their improvement.
On July 16 2011 23:51 Roaches wrote: So SK is like, the Real Madrid of SC2. Uncool man...
If you go by football, id say more the Manchester City
nah, say what you will about Man City and Real madrid, they are quality teams. The real money team with no quality is Anzhi Makhachkala, a mid tier russian league team with billions. Tried to sign Neymar (lol) but failed, then tried to sign ganso for 50 million, failed again, then tried to sign Pavlyuchenko and failed again.
On July 17 2011 00:04 Stiluz wrote: Meh, this seems kinda boring, they're not really in SK so not impressed.
I feel the same, I don't understand the people who are jumping up and down all excited.
more nada and mc at more events is pretty exciting, and i bet you will be first in line to watch them compete with an sk shirt on. oooo a shirt big deal, lol
MC has already been to a great number of non-Korean based events and has stated that he intends to refocus on training in Korea for the time being, to make up for lost training time and associated loss of form/skill for being out of his practice environment. NaDa intended to visit Dreamhack, but withdrew in favour of his studies.
They were not absent from the scene without SK at all, and neither NaDa's studies nor MC's practice will suddenly disappear just because of SK.
Why are you talking such nonsense? (rhetorical question; don't answer, it's quite obvious)
On July 17 2011 00:04 Stiluz wrote: Meh, this seems kinda boring, they're not really in SK so not impressed.
I feel the same, I don't understand the people who are jumping up and down all excited.
more nada and mc at more events is pretty exciting, and i bet you will be first in line to watch them compete with an sk shirt on. oooo a shirt big deal, lol
MC has already been to a great number of non-Korean based events and has stated that he intends to refocus on training in Korea for the time being, to make up for lost training time and associated loss of form/skill for being out of his practice environment. NaDa intended to visit Dreamhack, but withdrew in favour of his studies.
They were not absent from the scene without SK at all, and neither NaDa's studies nor MC's practice will suddenly disappear just because of SK.
Why are you talking such nonsense? (rhetorical question; don't answer, it's quite obvious)
Maybe, but hopefully they will have better accommodations when they attend foreign events, thanks to SK. We'll just have to wait and see I guess.
I like it cause it means we'll see Nada at foreign events! Plus if Sk tries to keep Nada's prize money from him, he will just rip off his shirt and intimidate them until they're pissing his prize money.