EPTafter reading through the press release, they're basically being sponsored to go to foreign tournaments and representing SK
good deal for Nada & MC
SK represented by MC and NaDa in foreign tourneys - Page 7
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udgnim
United States8024 Posts
after reading through the press release, they're basically being sponsored to go to foreign tournaments and representing SK good deal for Nada & MC | ||
Beyonder
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FarbrorAbavna
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Jiddra
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EchoZ
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Beyonder
Netherlands15103 Posts
On July 15 2011 19:39 FarbrorAbavna wrote: feels just weird having them represent SK, the team, outside south korea. I cant think of anything bad for MC or Nada, prolly they will get more money but as someone else said: why cant they just go as OGS? Yeah agree, this makes no sense at all to me either hahha, they have 0 affiliation with SK-gaming this way. They just pay their tickets.. Im confused man. | ||
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FliedLice
Germany7494 Posts
On July 15 2011 19:39 FarbrorAbavna wrote: feels just weird having them represent SK, the team, outside south korea. I cant think of anything bad for MC or Nada, prolly they will get more money but as someone else said: why cant they just go as OGS? Because then they'd get LESS money? | ||
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Serashin
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Slasher
United States1095 Posts
What is with this 'oh they're just paying their plane tickets, it's not actually associated or anything' nonsense. Do you understand what the main obligations of a team ARE? Plane and hotel tickets from Korea to the rest of the world are expensive and costly. Additionally, so is having someone with you (specifically SK.Reis, who's translated for Korean players for many many years now for SK) to take care of you. You make it seem like nothing when it's much more. For those not knowing who SK is, that's your fault. They should be able to buy whatever the hell they want. This is the open market. There's no salary cap. If someone wanted to come in and pay NesTea 500k, or 700k to Flash to move to sc2, that'd be the best thing to happen so far. | ||
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SiDX
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enzym
Germany1034 Posts
SK used to be a team to look up to. Now they can't even afford, or put in the effort to find their own players. Instead they are pushing this practice of players being part of multiple professional teams. Would've been more acceptable (still bad) if it were still BW days, where the communities were segregated a lot more, but that's not the case anymore and I think this hurts honest competition between teams and waters down the concept of teams a lot, to rely on mercenaries like that. Don't see how an inability to find & fund their own players can be perceived as a good investment in the image of SK by anyone who spends 2 seconds thinking over it & doesn't get carried away by the chance this provides for the players. I'd like to see more NaDa, too, but not in such a two-faced way. I'm afraid I'm more inclined to root against the players as well as SK and ignore them more actively now than I was before. Let's hope that SK recovers and returns to what they once were. This is just pathetic though, at least from the perspective of a fan of esports as a team endeavor instead of a business. It makes SK look weaker, not stronger, imo. On July 15 2011 18:57 m0ck wrote: Okay, but doesn't that make SK a sponsor, and not a team? It should. But they explicitly mentioned Thorin wrote: At domestic events, in South Korea, MC and NaDa will play as oGs players, but with an SK Gaming patch on their uniforms. TheSlaSH wrote: Adding those two names to the SK roster and entering this partnership with oGs is one of the most exciting steps SK has taken in the past few years. Ever since we signed Korean players for our RTS section, it has been a blast. We are more than happy to present those two to our community and we are hungry for StarCraft II titles! | ||
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Pekkz
Norway1505 Posts
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Nuri
New Zealand280 Posts
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Logros
Netherlands9913 Posts
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nekuodah
England2409 Posts
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tdt
United States3179 Posts
I'm surprised liquid didnt make a move on them considering close relationship already. | ||
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Beyonder
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Arryn
Germany95 Posts
And I'm happy for Mc & Nada , guess they'll get a good amount of extra money! | ||
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Gaga
Germany433 Posts
form their site: "SK Gaming is an international multi-gaming organisation, gathering together not only the top players of each gaming discipline but also nurturing upcoming talent and making them the stars of today. SK Gaming was founded in 1997 under the name 'Schroet Kommando' in Oberhausen, Germany. Today, with offices in Cologne, Germany and Stockholm, Sweden and a professional and innovative employee structure, SK Gaming has become a medium-sized business. Business areas include the management of professional esports players, online community, sales of fan merchandise, and promotional events all over the world. More than 50 of today's top professional eSports gamers are with SK Gaming and the basis of the clan's success. SK has grown from esport clan into a professional business. The people behind the SK Gaming brand have all one thing in common: they share a huge passion for esports, the desire to be the best at all times and the will and ambition to work at it every day. " | ||
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NIIINO
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