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Global Press Release
Houston, TX and Seoul, South Korea
August 18, 2011
compLexity Gaming and Team MVP expand partnership; Creative Sound Blaster sponsors MVP
compLexity Gaming and Team MVP are thrilled to announce the expansion of our exclusive joint partnership and the sponsorship of Team MVP by Creative Sound Blaster. Effective immediately the original partnership, announced in July of this year, will see coL.MVP include all of Team MVP's players. They will all be available for global travel and will all wear coL.MVP jerseys during Korean play. Additionally, we are very excited to announce that compLexity's title sponsor, Creative Sound Blaster, is now sponsoring Team MVP and supporting all of their endeavors in Korea.
"We are very pleased to expand our deep relationship with Team MVP," stated Jason Bass, Chief Operating Officer of compLexity Gaming. "The original intent of this agreement was always to build upon it and expand the mutually beneficial arrangement for both teams. Our goal has been, and will continue to be, to support Team MVP on many levels and support Korean gaming whenever possible."
"I am very excited our partnership has grown so quickly," said Choi Yoon Sang, manager of Team MVP. "I am grateful for the support of compLexity's management and very thankful to everyone at Creative Sound Blaster for showing such strong support for our team and for Korean gaming. I encourage our fans to support Sound Blaster to show them investing in Korean StarCraft 2 is a wise decision."
"As the global leader in gaming audio Creative is excited to sponsor Team MVP, further establishing Sound Blaster as the audio standard for professional gamers on an international level," said Ryan Schlieper, Product Marketing Manager for Gaming Audio at Creative / Sound Blaster.
You can watch coL.MVP in action at MLG Raleigh 2011 where coL.MVP.DRG and coL.MVP.Noblesse will be battling to bring home top placements. You can follow SoundBlaster on Facebook and Twitter.
About compLexity Gaming
Complexity Gaming® is the premier competitive gaming brand in the Americas. Owned and operated by some of the finest minds in the industry, Complexity has a long heritage of championship caliber teams, superstar players, news reporting and gaming entertainment ventures. Complexity's gamers have been featured by numerous mainstream media outlets like Sports Illustrated, New York Post, Los Angeles Times and the Wall Street Journal. They have also appeared on live television programs such as CBS' 60 Minutes and the Championship Gaming Series, have been featured in film documentaries and were a focus of the book "Game Boys." The company's online properties Noobflicks.com and MyGamerFeed.com have ensured that Complexity remains a premier destination for media content in the gaming sector.
About Team MVP
MVP is a top Korean StarCraft 2 team that is officially recognized by the Korea StarCraft 2 association. Lead by manager Choi Yoon Sang and coach Lee Kang Beum, the team has experienced much success in the first year of StarCraft 2.
About Creative
Creative is a worldwide leader in digital entertainment products. Famous for its Sound Blaster® sound cards and for launching the multimedia revolution, Creative is now driving digital entertainment on the PC platform with products like its highly acclaimed ZEN® MP3 and portable media players. Creative’s innovative hardware, proprietary technology, applications and services leverage the Internet, enabling consumers to experience high-quality digital entertainment – anytime, anywhere.
http://www.complexitygaming.com/news/3055/#
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Good for MVP. 
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MVP is a great up&coming team. Love to see ♥Keen♥ and Noblesse in future events.
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Here's to Cruncher in Korea...
(what, he's cool ok, don't shoot me)
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Good for the korean scene, looking forward to see more mvp players to international tournaments ( I have a feeling Keen would like MLG  . )
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Keen to MLG! Make it happen Creative Sound Blaster.
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Sounds great. They do deserve this.
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That's a cool news! Gratz to both teams and hopefully, we'll see more MVP in foreign events and more coL in Korea!
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On August 24 2011 01:18 Grettin wrote:Good for MVP.
Good for everyone. Including us.
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Really nice. MVP guys really deserve a sponsorship and this will also help the Complexity guys to practice or go to Korea
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If you rank Koreans according to how awesome their ceremony is, Keen comes right after MC!
Though MC's Pepsi-drinking, can-crushing ceremony is only so good because the next guy... I forgot who... tried to ex the can as well and choked on it. ^^
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One more reason I'm glad I have a Sound Blaster card.
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Wow this is awesome. It's great to see more companies jumping into the scene
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Pretty cool, both teams benefit a lot.
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Guineapig to Dreamhack/MLG make it happen!! gogo
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the only thing i dont like bout this stuff is the long clantag but maybe i am just retarded
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On August 24 2011 01:45 {ToT}ColmA wrote:
the only thing i dont like bout this stuff is the long clantag but maybe i am just retarded
6 Characters? That's less than Slayers
I'm thrilled by all this partnership of Koreans and foreigners, maybe you can get them fully integrated to close the cap.
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Send the entire roster to MLG.
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Can someone make a list of all the korean-foreign partnerships?
Let's see, there's col - MVP
Liquid - ogs
fxopen - fOu
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Go Go Col.
Interesting to see how Drew does after practicing with the MVP crew.
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Nice to see the partnership expand so quickly. Good luck to both coL and MVP!
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woo great news ;D
genius and keen to MLG gogogo
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Great news Jason, keep it up!
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Hmmm... it's been a while since I've even considered acquiring a Sound Blaster product. Considering that they are now helping some of my favorite players, is Sound Blaster worth it?
I fear that by the end of this year, I will be up to my knees in Monster, Pepsi, CJ food products, Prime clothing, Intel stuff, Sound Blaster stuff, Hot Pockets, and Dr Pepper if I ever try to go all out on supporting ESPORTS.
Nevertheless, I'm quite excited to see more MVP players abroad. Keen and Guineapig are looking quite impressive as of late, and it would be a real treat to see them in non-Korean events.
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Good news for MVP, should help them do even better.
On August 24 2011 01:52 julianto wrote:
Can someone make a list of all the korean-foreign partnerships?
Let's see, there's col - MVP
Liquid - ogs
fxopen - fOu
Prime.WE
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foreigners better get their shit together quick. or MLG will become GSL2.0
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United Kingdom38166 Posts
Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet.
Very nice, hopefully Col can get a few more players visiting Korea if they are interested too ^^
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On August 24 2011 01:52 julianto wrote:
Can someone make a list of all the korean-foreign partnerships?
Let's see, there's col - MVP
Liquid - ogs
fxopen - fOu
fOu isn't in a partnership with FXO I believe, fxopen absorbed fou and fou is now fxopen
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On August 24 2011 01:52 julianto wrote:
Can someone make a list of all the korean-foreign partnerships?
Let's see, there's col - MVP
Liquid - ogs
fxopen - fOu
FXO - fOu is no partnership. The players in fOu is playing for FXO and nothing else. fOu is no more.
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On August 24 2011 01:52 julianto wrote:
Can someone make a list of all the korean-foreign partnerships?
Let's see, there's col - MVP
Liquid - ogs
fxopen - fOu
SK - oGs
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Grats coL.MVP and ty Creative Sound Blaster for your support of eSports!
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On August 24 2011 01:52 julianto wrote:
Can someone make a list of all the korean-foreign partnerships?
Let's see, there's col - MVP
Liquid - ogs
fxopen - fOu
SK - MC/Nada
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On August 24 2011 01:52 julianto wrote:
Can someone make a list of all the korean-foreign partnerships?
Let's see, there's col - MVP
Liquid - ogs
fxopen - fOu
FXOpen bought fOu so just FXOpen.
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On August 24 2011 01:58 fire_brand wrote:Good news for MVP, should help them do even better. Show nested quote +On August 24 2011 01:52 julianto wrote:
Can someone make a list of all the korean-foreign partnerships?
Let's see, there's col - MVP
Liquid - ogs
fxopen - fOu Prime.WE
WE as in WeMadeFox? They're disbanding, so I don't think that'll really hold up for much longer.
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WE as in World Elite, a Chinese organization.
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I'm really glad this Complexity/MVP partnership is blossoming, it's really the first of it's kind in terms of commitment and shared resources. It's cool to see that it hasn't been one sided either, particularly now with Drewbie going to train in Korea.
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On August 24 2011 01:39 Choboo wrote:
Guineapig to Dreamhack/MLG make it happen!! gogo
Damn yeah, I'd root for him.
I mean a awesome nic and he plays random
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I feel happy for team MVP, they haven't had as much spotlight as an overall team, and their players deserve the support
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Good news for everyone involved.
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On August 24 2011 01:52 julianto wrote:
Can someone make a list of all the korean-foreign partnerships?
fxopen - fOu
No! fOu = FXO ...FXO bought fOu completly!
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Gotta respect Complexity. I seriously gotta check out Soundblaster lol
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Good for both!
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Col's CEO doing a good job
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This is actually huge. Could mean a TON of complexity koreans at international events. I likey. Complexity fighting!
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On August 24 2011 02:18 HelixDnB wrote:Show nested quote +On August 24 2011 01:58 fire_brand wrote:Good news for MVP, should help them do even better. On August 24 2011 01:52 julianto wrote:
Can someone make a list of all the korean-foreign partnerships?
Let's see, there's col - MVP
Liquid - ogs
fxopen - fOu Prime.WE WE as in WeMadeFox? They're disbanding, so I don't think that'll really hold up for much longer.
WE is for World Elite.
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this is actually awesome...who says korean teams can't get sponsors???????
It's just ethnocentricity, if they approach foreign companies theres a chance they could get a decent sponsor as sponsors in the pc gaming industy should know how big these teams are
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On August 24 2011 01:57 eviltomahawk wrote:
Hmmm... it's been a while since I've even considered acquiring a Sound Blaster product. Considering that they are now helping some of my favorite players, is Sound Blaster worth it?
I fear that by the end of this year, I will be up to my knees in Monster, Pepsi, CJ food products, Prime clothing, Intel stuff, Sound Blaster stuff, Hot Pockets, and Dr Pepper if I ever try to go all out on supporting ESPORTS.
Nevertheless, I'm quite excited to see more MVP players abroad. Keen and Guineapig are looking quite impressive as of late, and it would be a real treat to see them in non-Korean events.
Although I'm a complexity fanboy, I'm going to answer this question completely honestly. On-board sound is more than enough for most people and most uses. Sound Blaster's cards are an improvement over on-board audio for music, movies, etc, but the effect is fairly small (true for all sound card brands) compared to sound boards. Many people who do care about super-high-quality music & whatnot say that one or two other sound card brands are better than Sound Blaster (onboard<SoundBlaster<"A" cards - but each step is fairly small).
The main reason to get a sound blaster card is that they have a particular focus on a gaming mode (EAX) and their cards carry the most up-to-date version of the EAX standard. However, EAX is starting to be phased out. So basically, if you play games that use EAX (especially EAX 5.0) then Sound Blaster is probably the best card for you for that reason. As it turns out I do: many of the Total War series games employ EAX. But you'd want to check the list of games you play and expect newer games not to use EAX.
Because of EAX, Sound Blaster is generally considered the "gamer alternative" for high-end cards.
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On August 24 2011 01:49 FinnGamer wrote:Show nested quote +On August 24 2011 01:45 {ToT}ColmA wrote:
the only thing i dont like bout this stuff is the long clantag but maybe i am just retarded 6 Characters? That's less than Slayers I'm thrilled by all this partnership of Koreans and foreigners, maybe you can get them fully integrated to close the cap.
hehe, wait for Liquid'SlayerS  now thats a long clantag ^^
Cool stuff, and I'm hoping they made a deal for their own players to train in mvps house if they want to. Also those koreans really deserve some sponsors, they all train much harder but probably make less money than the foreign pros.
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loving complexity right now
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On August 24 2011 02:18 HelixDnB wrote:Show nested quote +On August 24 2011 01:58 fire_brand wrote:Good news for MVP, should help them do even better. On August 24 2011 01:52 julianto wrote:
Can someone make a list of all the korean-foreign partnerships?
Let's see, there's col - MVP
Liquid - ogs
fxopen - fOu Prime.WE WE as in WeMadeFox? They're disbanding, so I don't think that'll really hold up for much longer.
WE is a chinese clan that are/were partnering with prime since the beginning of sc2 as far as i know
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CoL --> Korea, Keenemonies --> USA!
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I love to see all of these things take place for the sake of E-Sports.
I just want to be able to walk into a bar on any given day and just see SC up on one of the TV's. Not a special event just a random day with games streaming.
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This is awesome news, congratulations MVP and coL for making an awesome partnership and now that creative sound blaster is taking it the next step sponsoring MVP as well, just awesome. More money into eSports, more people at events. coL.MVP fighting!
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Wow, this is great for Complexity and MVP. Kudos to Creative Sound Blasters for supporting both of the teams.
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With WE. disbanding I could totally see dignitas-prime coming up
Edit: NVM, I see that WE. is a different team from posts above.  Dignitas-Prime sounds cool though
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Complexity Gaming® is the premier competitive gaming brand in the Americas. Owned and operated by some of the finest minds in the industry, Complexity has a long heritage of championship caliber teams, superstar players, news reporting and gaming entertainment ventures. Complexity's gamers have been featured by numerous mainstream media outlets like Sports Illustrated, New York Post, Los Angeles Times and the Wall Street Journal. They have also appeared on live television programs such as CBS' 60 Minutes and the Championship Gaming Series, have been featured in film documentaries and were a focus of the book "Game Boys." The company's online properties Noobflicks.com and MyGamerFeed.com have ensured that Complexity remains a premier destination for media content in the gaming sector.
They probably dont think very much of themselves.
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Nice for MVP as the koreans teams are not that financially strong!
Hopefully this will help the players to get to more international events!
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On August 24 2011 03:36 magnaflow wrote:With WE. disbanding I could totally see dignitas-prime coming up Edit: NVM, I see that WE. is a different team from posts above. Dignitas-Prime sounds cool though
Since nani already lives at startale, that sounds much more likely
although STD.Naniwa doesnt sound right ^^
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Cruncher reminds me a lot of the MVP players in korea.
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On August 24 2011 04:04 ninjakingcola wrote:
Minigun to Korea plz XD
If you find a way to bring Minigun to Korea without taking a flight, maybe it could work
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On August 24 2011 03:54 StoRm_res wrote:Show nested quote +On August 24 2011 03:36 magnaflow wrote:With WE. disbanding I could totally see dignitas-prime coming up Edit: NVM, I see that WE. is a different team from posts above. Dignitas-Prime sounds cool though Since nani already lives at startale, that sounds much more likely although STD.Naniwa doesnt sound right ^^
I think he moved out and is going to another team house now. Personally I hope IM or NSHoSeo
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great news! grats to both, I hope that more of CoL's players train with mvp
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Lol, it was Nada who choked on a can of Pepsi, it was one of the GSTL game.
MC is the boss. who finished a can of Pepsi in one shot and crushed the can.
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This is a cool move, insofar as it expands the sort of korean-foreigner hybrid which seems to be the near future of SC2, but I hope it doesn't make complexity lose sight of its foreigner players.
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I got temp banned for saying that the first agreement was doing any good to the NA scene. But this new one is WAY better. Congratulations. Partnerships are the way to go.
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Nice to see complexity going strong again. There was a while there where they just seemed like a shell of what they once were.
Jason Lake is such a boss.
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Is this the same Complexity that was involved in quake 3 back in the day? All started by that one guy that had a lot of money?
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On August 24 2011 04:46 OPL3SA2 wrote:
Is this the same Complexity that was involved in quake 3 back in the day? All started by that one guy that had a lot of money?
Yes, that would be us.
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I was hoping this would happen eventually.
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United States33241 Posts
holy shit, KEEN TO ALL THE TOURNAMENTS PLEASE ^^
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coL should do what sixjax did, hire an Artosis to find actually promising players.
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just yesterday i watched the mvp house tour again and while seen all these great players in such a small place i thought they could really use a good sponsor =) but it also boosts the reputation of coL a lot, especially outside na, i believe.
though i feel CSB doesnt get enough attention
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Poland1811 Posts
Holy shit. coL is getting big, thats great !
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On August 24 2011 05:13 Thrill wrote:
coL should do what sixjax did, hire an Artosis to find actually promising players.
No offense to Artosis or anything, but who did he find?
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On August 24 2011 05:25 StutteR wrote:Show nested quote +On August 24 2011 05:13 Thrill wrote:
coL should do what sixjax did, hire an Artosis to find actually promising players. No offense to Artosis or anything, but who did he find?
Major?
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On August 24 2011 05:25 StutteR wrote:Show nested quote +On August 24 2011 05:13 Thrill wrote:
coL should do what sixjax did, hire an Artosis to find actually promising players. No offense to Artosis or anything, but who did he find?
he found skew, and he stole major from ROOT :D pretty good finds
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Ehhh wouldn't say he found Skew/Major as much as they were his BW buddies whom he purloined for his own evil world domineering purposes. :D edit: I guess he did "find" them back in BW tho.
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coL needs to have DRG participate in their clan wars occasionally so he can allkill even more often
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I don't know why MVP bothers teaming up with coL. CompLexity gaming doesn't have any players who are any good. Even when they acquired ROOT, all of the decent players moved to RGN or don't play for a team atm.
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On August 24 2011 05:51 HeliosFlame wrote:
I don't know why MVP bothers teaming up with coL. CompLexity gaming doesn't have any players who are any good. Even when they acquired ROOT, all of the decent players moved to RGN or don't play for a team atm.
MVP gains a good sponsorship and complexity gains the opportunity to train with Koreans
It's a win win situation
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So how are MVP not coL now? Seems like a similar partnership that FXO have with fOu without the loss of name.
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On August 24 2011 05:57 Kuhva wrote:
So how are MVP not coL now? Seems like a similar partnership that FXO have with fOu without the loss of name.
I don't think coL is buying out the team quite the way that FXO bought out fOu, but who knows, they might just want to keep the MVP brand name
I'm excited to see more of MVP in international events and hopefully more coL players in Korea, great news.
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I really don't think there is any problem with this -.- More DRG is always a good thing XD except for our foriegn favoirtes
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I love how Complexity is taking an extra step in their relationship with a Korean team, but I think it may be a step in the wrong direction.
Personally, I think it would be much better for coL, and MVP to an extent, if Complexity players started going to Korea in order to better their play, much like is being done with Drewbie. I'm not trying to be a downer here, but coL is far from a stellar line-up even as far as foreigners go.
Fnatic seems to be weeding out their SC2 division in hopes of acquiring new players who show the drive and initiative necessary to keep up with the intense training regimen of Korean Pro-Houses. I think it might be worth looking into for coL as well.
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Good for MVP, they need the sponsors.
This is still pretty much an "all win" deal for MVP, complexity isn't getting that most out of this. They need more than just Drewbie to head to Korea to train.
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Looking forward to DongRaeGu sound blasting nerds in the future!
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This is a great thing for both NA esports and Korean esports. I am excited to see this!
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FXopen acquired fOu, its not really a partnership like oGs-TL and coL.MVP.
Can't wait to speak with Minigun about this
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cruncher to korea we would have foreign rivalry on gsl !!! awesome !!! aeuaheuhaeuhaueha
btw awesome move buy mvp and col. 1 talked on some i-view after last mlg that we would see some surprises on col.mvp deal. didnt expected that tough.
i still hope for a team game where`s 1 can stand behind they and yell the shiet out their ears !! ahueauehuaheuh
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On August 24 2011 05:26 coL.drewbie wrote:Show nested quote +On August 24 2011 05:25 StutteR wrote:On August 24 2011 05:13 Thrill wrote:
coL should do what sixjax did, hire an Artosis to find actually promising players. No offense to Artosis or anything, but who did he find? he found skew, and he stole major from ROOT :D pretty good finds
Didn't major leave root because you guys didn't have money to get him to events? -_-
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Sounds like awesome news for MVP and coL!
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As we've been hearing about financial problems amongst both brands of Starcraft, it's good to see mergers like these where the west can spread some of the money around and try to bring together the west and the east. Very excited for Complexity and MVP.
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Great to see! I've been following keen a lot this GSL, particularly enjoyed his tvt last night.
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I love these Korean-Foreign partnerships
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How is CoL keep stepping into these big deals involving other teams >.>
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Why do they need to wear a Col shirt? It's not like ogs makes team liquid wear an oGs shirt at GSTL and GSL. They have a patch on the shirt.
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On August 24 2011 07:48 skrzmark wrote:
Why do they need to wear a Col shirt? It's not like ogs makes team liquid wear an oGs shirt at GSTL and GSL. They have a patch on the shirt.
Because they have a different deal/contract? Why does it bother you anyway
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the shirt is symbolic for the team obviously
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the actual complexity team without the root guys consists of only cruncher LOL
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This is awesome for MVP. Definitely a suprisingly strong team and value for money with one of the zerg heroes.
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On August 24 2011 08:07 koolaid1990 wrote:
the actual complexity team without the root guys consists of only cruncher LOL
col.rspv col.firezerg theres others...
col.Trimaster... idk NA players too well.
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On August 24 2011 05:36 duk3 wrote:
coL needs to have DRG participate in their clan wars occasionally so he can allkill even more often
That will be happening soon! 
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Great news for both teams!
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Nice! Hopefully this eventually leads to complexity players being able to practice in Korea. Bummer they couldn't reach an agreement with Destiny, I dig both his play style and honestness.
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On August 24 2011 01:20 AXygnus wrote:
Here's to Cruncher in Korea...
(what, he's cool ok, don't shoot me)
I would love to see crunchers style in Korea. Most of the Koreans play very aggressive and the styles will clash would like to see how he responds.
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Fantastic news to hear!!! More sponsors please!!
And WOW! People really thought that the We in Prime.We stood for WeMadeFox. C'mon people, the game just turned 1 year old.
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Catz will become as good as DongRaeGu.
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Really glad to see Korean teams getting more sponsers, sounds like they need it.
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Nice to see creative soundblaster getting out there and supporting more players! I would definately consider getting an x-fi if i was ever in the market for a new soundcard (:
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VERY interesting. Creative Labs - the makers of Sound Blaster. I haven't heard from that company in a long time...but hey they're sponsors! Interesting to see.
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On August 24 2011 01:50 EchoZ wrote:
Send the entire roster to MLG.
Think thats a great idea!
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On August 24 2011 17:32 Fralse wrote:Think thats a great idea!
Any sponsor who would agree to that must either be stupid or insanely wealthy.
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On August 24 2011 17:35 moltenlead wrote:Show nested quote +On August 24 2011 17:32 Fralse wrote:On August 24 2011 01:50 EchoZ wrote:
Send the entire roster to MLG. Think thats a great idea! Any sponsor who would agree to that must either be stupid or insanely wealthy.
probably both ^^
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On August 24 2011 01:20 nougdp wrote:
MVP is a great up&coming team. Love to see ♥Keen♥ and Noblesse in future events.
I think they have already proven themself. GL to both teams in the future!
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On August 24 2011 01:50 EchoZ wrote:
Send the entire roster to MLG.
not worth it
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lucky motherfuckers, they deserve it but dang could there be a better sponsor? id love some sound-blaster cans.
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This is cool news. I hope to see more MVP players around our side of the world.
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Now I think there is a bit of pressure on EG to get a korean team partnership now.
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good to know we will see more MVP players around the world playing. DRG especially!!!
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On August 25 2011 20:26 RaNdOmOwNaGe wrote:
Now I think there is a bit of pressure on EG to get a korean team partnership now.
I don't see it happening anytime soon, but maybe I'll put my foot in my own mouth and EG will partner up with a Korean team. They added a Korean player, but the response from some Koreans seemed like they didn't like how Puma was recruited.
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On August 24 2011 01:21 red4ce wrote:
Keen to MLG! Make it happen Creative Sound Blaster.
No thank you, I'm not interested in watching more rushes and cheese by someone who really should be in Code A.
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coL about to start a DJ line up?
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Yayy, hopefully we can see some coL. players head out to Korea soon enough
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makes me want to go out and buy some creative speakers. but i already own 2 sets ) ;
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