EPTSK represented by MC and NaDa in foreign tourneys - Page 8
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setzer
United States3284 Posts
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red4ce
United States7313 Posts
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Applecakes
Australia319 Posts
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Krosta
Norway437 Posts
On July 15 2011 18:56 shinyA wrote: Seems kind of pointless TBH~ What a negativity. | ||
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Shana
Indonesia1814 Posts
Title should be 'sk gaming' | ||
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Veclada
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dubRa
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Woony
Germany6657 Posts
On July 15 2011 19:00 SmoKim wrote: no it's the (Swedish?) E-sport team SK, mostly famous for their CS team, and some other stuff It's from germany | ||
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HolydaKing
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jellyjello
Korea (South)664 Posts
On July 15 2011 19:40 Beyonder wrote: 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. Need to see the details but it looks on the surface that oGs is getting the short end of the stick unless SK is now one of their official sponsors (meaning more cash flow into oGs team) | ||
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W2
United States1177 Posts
But in this case, they took a step forward from their douchbaggery ways and actually allowed the team they are stealing from to remain intact. With this "partnership", SK finds a way to have their own sc2 team without knowing anything about the scene, simply by riding the coattails of an organization that has shown to be talented/solid/stable. What does oGs do? Scout talent, train talent, schedule practice/matches, feed/shelter/clean up after the players. So what does SK do? Pay. If that's all they're doing, how is SK different from another regular sponsor? Why call SK their "team" rather than their "sponsor"? SK better be paying shitloads of cash. By shitloads I mean more than that Mom's Touch $180,000 deal oGs snagged a while ago, if MC and NaDa are going to be running around wearing SK tag and uniform while all Mom's Touch gets is a little badge patched onto their sleeves. | ||
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Herculix
United States946 Posts
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Yiska
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On July 15 2011 19:40 Serashin wrote: SK made the move that people who know know actualy what is going on just laugh about SK and how much it has fallen. Quite true. The thing is, TheSlash's policy hasn't been to actually promote their sponsors, but to sugar coat the exposure his players get by going: "We have the most successful players. Now look at the viewer numbers of those events they won." There is no doubt in my mind that a community centered organisation with character would be way more benefitial to their sponsors, but there is no way to prove that. SK is just feeding of the long year reputation (which people created who have long since left the organisation) and it is a mere shade of its former self. Infuriating. | ||
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speedphlux
Bulgaria962 Posts
On July 15 2011 19:32 mprs wrote: They are an extremely successful organization. They earned the right to buy their way into markets. Its like saying why are the Miami heat buying their way into a successful team. They should just draft more Dwayne Wades. Complexity and SK were both very successful organizations but were late to the party. They are going to have to fly these guys around which is more expensive than just having grown their own local team. This is a price they are willing (and more importantly, can) pay. They get a huge advantage of being able to select any Korean player they want from the scene. Look, Complexity fought their way into the community. They had the huge background, but they didn't immediately jumped shopping around the community. They had a decent starting line-up in their team and only after that squad showed up enough good performances, they started adding players and finally ended up "taking over" ROOT Gaming. In SK's case, it's just plain "corporate thinking" and I don't like that approach. They could've added a couple of free agents, just like coL, made themselves known around the community as a team that performs well and then went on to do stuff like this. That's not a case of "Miami Heat drafting more Dwayne Wades" (I got no clue who Dwayne Wades is, but I know that Miami Heat is a basketball team). That's more a case of "Miami Heat drafting Sebastian Vettel". I don't argue that SK are a great team and deserve success in any area they try their hands into it ... I just don't think they should be allowed to buy themselves insta-success in SC2. Specially when you consider that their SC:BW past has been nothing but a bunch of walkovers, minus the temporary additions of good players. It's just not cool man. Would much rather see LiquidMC and LiquidNaDa over at non-Asian tournaments then SK.MC or SK.NaDa. | ||
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SmoKim
Denmark10304 Posts
i knew putting a question mark in, would safe my ass  | ||
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Samhax
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DwD
Sweden8621 Posts
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Jiddra
Sweden2685 Posts
On July 15 2011 19:46 jellyjello wrote: Need to see the details but it looks on the surface that oGs is getting the short end of the stick unless SK is now one of their official sponsors (meaning more cash flow into oGs team) I don't think that this deal was made without any money involved  On July 15 2011 19:47 DwD wrote: I can imagine they had to pay a lot of money for this to happend and I'm afraid they wont pay up. Remember lots of old SK players still havent received money they earned (heaton potti etc) this is like 5 years back >< Yea, SK-gamings reputation isn't the best, with the money fighting with players and childish contract fights with FnaticMSI. More team drama in SC2 will come with this i guess. | ||
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Novalisk
Israel1818 Posts
On July 15 2011 19:41 Logros wrote: SK has never done anything in SC/SC2 as far as I know so I don't really know what the point of this is. The only good point is that we'll probably see MC and Nada in more foreign events. Let's hope SK doesn't push them into lesser events for extra publicity, that would be bad for their GSL runs. | ||
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skyR
Canada13817 Posts
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