SteelSeries Sponsors IMNestea and IMMVP

On October 21 2011 22:35 ETisME wrote:
dislike steel series mouse and KB in general.
but won't complain if they are sponsoring my fav players :D

On October 21 2011 22:41 WaSa wrote:
Which two Starcraft 2 legends are we talking about? Jesus they are the best atm but calling them legends is tad too much??

On October 21 2011 22:48 Avan wrote:
Incredible Miracle has the two best players in the whole world, plus Losira. When are they going to produce the best Protoss player? >.>

On October 21 2011 22:39 Nimic wrote:
Steelseries just got their name on the two best SC2 players in the world.

Decent deal.

On October 21 2011 23:08 -Archangel- wrote:
Why isn't Nestle sponsoring Nestea? :D

On October 21 2011 22:41 WaSa wrote:
Which two Starcraft 2 legends are we talking about? Jesus they are the best atm but calling them legends is tad too much??

On October 21 2011 23:15 FrostedMiniWheats wrote:


When artosis stops cursing Yonghwa with his hype? >.>

On October 21 2011 22:40 1800STFU wrote:
Uh oh.

EGMVP and EGNestea

ITS HAPPENING :p

On October 21 2011 23:37 namste wrote:


Nah MVP looks like he's unable to grow facial hair, so he can't join EG.

On October 21 2011 23:48 ETisME wrote:

as we can see from puma, korean no need facial hair to join eg

On October 21 2011 23:54 windsupernova wrote:
I´d rather have them sponsor the whole team.

but good news for MVP and Nestea

On October 21 2011 23:17 zYwi3c wrote:


Exactly

I feel war between SteelSeries and Razer in the Future for players ;]

On October 21 2011 22:41 WaSa wrote:
Which two Starcraft 2 legends are we talking about? Jesus they are the best atm but calling them legends is tad too much??

On October 21 2011 22:41 WaSa wrote:
Which two Starcraft 2 legends are we talking about? Jesus they are the best atm but calling them legends is tad too much??

On October 21 2011 22:35 Utinni wrote:
They are two of the biggest (if not biggest) names in competitive sc2...

On October 22 2011 00:09 sjschmidt93 wrote:
Why don't they just sponsor the whole team? I'd love to see happy, Youngwha, seed, losira
etc, at foreign events

On October 22 2011 00:01 Toppp wrote:



The term 'legend' for these two players seems awfully appropriate... these two players have pretty much been the best SC2 players, or atleast on the top, dominating ever since their debut, plus both are 3x GSL winners. Which is pretty huge considering how long the game has been out.

On October 22 2011 00:15 BritWrangler wrote:

No. They've been dominating the game for like 5-6 months. Legends such as NaDa, Flash and Jaedong have been amazing for many years. Flash won his first title when he was 15, for God's sake.

On October 22 2011 00:27 Toppp wrote:


No. NesTea has been dominating for a entire year, since the GSL Open 2, which he handily won.

MVP has been pretty much hands down the best Terran in the world ever since he destroyed GSL Jan, 10 months ago.

There are 6 GSL wins between these two players, and there has only been 10 GSL's (including Open seasons).

These have been hands down, the most dominant players of their respective races since the competitive scene in Korean SC2 started up last October.

You don't have to win every major championship to be a legend.

On October 22 2011 00:15 BritWrangler wrote:

No. They've been dominating the game for like 5-6 months. Legends such as NaDa, Flash and Jaedong have been amazing for many years. Flash won his first title when he was 15, for God's sake.

On October 22 2011 00:35 Tyrant0 wrote:


Not really, they've been dominating for almost a year. If they didn't win the GSL its because they weren't in the finals. Excluding the few early knock outs that don't seem to happen anymore. Also, you don't have to win your first title at 15 to be a legend.

MVP/Nestea are dominating just as hard as BW legends did if not harder, and they're humans with slumps too.

On October 22 2011 00:12 Toppp wrote:


It's not a wise business decision to sponsor a entire team immediately. Sponsoring the two best players on the team seems like a much better idea.

If the deal goes well, and co-operation between IM and SteelSeries is good, I would bet that they will extend to include most, if not all of the team.

On October 22 2011 00:37 BritWrangler wrote:

If I won an olympic gold medal at the age of 15, I'd probably become a legend. And I'd shit all over your comparison of them with BW legend but I really don't want to start a flame war so I'm gunna shut up now.

On October 22 2011 00:39 Tyrant0 wrote:


You're delusional to think otherwise.

On October 22 2011 00:28 Mohdoo wrote:
Glad to see Steelseries trying to recover their image after trying to sell keyboards with programmed macros. I'll slowly begin forgiving you..




I think his point is that "legend" carries a different meaning for anyone who has played an RTS game besides SC2. The game hasn't even been out long enough for someone to be called a legend by conventional definitions.

On October 22 2011 00:35 Tyrant0 wrote:


Not really, they've been dominating for almost a year. If they didn't win the GSL its because they weren't in the finals. Excluding the few early knock outs that don't seem to happen anymore. Also, you don't have to win your first title at 15 to be a legend.

MVP/Nestea are dominating just as hard as BW legends did if not harder, and they too were humans with slumps.

On October 22 2011 01:12 oneofthem wrote:

in sc2 there are a large number of players with 70% win rate in their matchups, whereas in bw there is only 1 guy literally.

this shows that bw talent pool is much larger and more regular. sc2 has mostly lemmings and a few outlier good players.

On October 22 2011 01:41 Canucklehead wrote:
Sick if this means they will play in more foreign tourneys now because of this. Hope they both come to providence and wreck faces.

On October 21 2011 22:35 SpiZe wrote:
Pliz steelseries send them both to Providence

On October 21 2011 22:40 Gackt_ wrote:
too bad their mices sucks balls.

On November 20 2011 05:06 poopman wrote:
too bad steelseries products just break or have built in accel

On October 21 2011 22:40 Gackt_ wrote:
too bad their mices sucks balls.

On November 20 2011 05:22 DPK wrote:
Now steelseries just need to make decent gaming gear and stop screwing gamers. I hate seeing so many people buying their shitty products just for the sake of good players being sponsors by them or just because their products are popular and look cool.

On November 20 2011 05:22 DPK wrote:
Now steelseries just need to make decent gaming gear and stop screwing gamers. I hate seeing so many people buying their shitty products just for the sake of good players being sponsors by them or just because their products are popular and look cool.

On November 20 2011 06:33 DeekZ wrote:


What the hell are you even talking about lol... Steelseries products are good, the quality of their stuff is amazing. I don't buy products because the company that makes them sponsor good players I buy products that are efficient, high quality and long-lasting and Steelseries fits all of that. If you wanna look at shitty products that are only bought because they "look cool" look at Razer, not Steelseries.

Personally I've been using Steelseries headsets for ages and more recently one of their keyboards and I absolutely love them, this is coming from someone who has wasted many a dollar on cheap and plastic-y Razer keyboards and mice only to have them fail/break a couple weeks/months later. Congrats to Steelseries and Mvp/Nestea, hopefully both sides benefit equally from the partnership.

On November 20 2011 06:42 Phayze wrote:

Their Mice have acceleration. They have now started marketing acceleration as a feature because they dont want to take the hit to their current sensor distribution and upgrade to pricier avago optical sensors (like the sensor in the deathadder or the new sensor in the CM storm spawn). This is why SS gear is overall crap. They make a mech keyboard with blacks, every mouse they have except perhaps the ikari optical has acceleration that absolutely cannot be disabled (sensor sided). Then they slap competitive gamers in the face and rip off casuals by marketing their dastardly mice' shortcomings as features. I'd love to say that putting the money they're putting into these players would more than pay for a better quality mouse, but the probably is people see MVP or Nestea on the box and buy it. They are fine with acceleration it seems.

On November 20 2011 06:45 yomi wrote:
Steelseries makes their players use their gear. Will be interesting to see if it affects their results. I don't know of any gamer on the tournament scene that voluntarily uses Steelseries gear. I think almost all of them use razer or logitech when they are free to choose.

On November 20 2011 06:42 Phayze wrote:
Their Mice have acceleration. They have now started marketing acceleration as a feature because they dont want to take the hit to their current sensor distribution and upgrade to pricier avago optical sensors (like the sensor in the deathadder or the new sensor in the CM storm spawn). This is why SS gear is overall crap. They make a mech keyboard with blacks, every mouse they have except perhaps the ikari optical has acceleration that absolutely cannot be disabled (sensor sided). Then they slap competitive gamers in the face and rip off casuals by marketing their dastardly mice' shortcomings as features. I'd love to say that putting the money they're putting into these players would more than pay for a better quality mouse, but the probably is people see MVP or Nestea on the box and buy it. They are fine with acceleration it seems.

On November 20 2011 06:35 MaestrO_ wrote:
scumbag steelseries sponsors 2 players on same team, doesnt sponsor team.

On November 20 2011 06:33 DeekZ wrote:


What the hell are you even talking about lol... Steelseries products are good, the quality of their stuff is amazing. I don't buy products because the company that makes them sponsor good players I buy products that are efficient, high quality and long-lasting and Steelseries fits all of that. If you wanna look at shitty products that are only bought because they "look cool" look at Razer, not Steelseries.

Personally I've been using Steelseries headsets for ages and more recently one of their keyboards and I absolutely love them, this is coming from someone who has wasted many a dollar on cheap and plastic-y Razer keyboards and mice only to have them fail/break a couple weeks/months later. Congrats to Steelseries and Mvp/Nestea, hopefully both sides benefit equally from the partnership.

On December 24 2011 16:24 DPK wrote:


Maybe you don't buy products of a company because they sponsors good players, but some do. A lot more than you think. Do you really think Steelseries is popular because they products are high quality? Hell no. Just open a pair of siberia and you will understand. Truth is that Razer is as cheap as Steelseries, their products are cheap quality and are sold at high prices and because of all the marketing around it, they are popular. Only Razer mice tend to be more popular because some don't use crappy sensors.

After buying their crappy 1st version of siberia that broke after a year and a half (btw they broke because of the crappy quality of the headset itself and the design), seeing so many friends buying some siberia's that didn't last more than 2 years, buying their 5hv2 that also broke after about 1 year (had some wires problems and my friend couldn't even fix it because the wires didn't want to be welded), trying their mousepad that was pretty good at first but worn out in a matter of months of intense gaming and finally tried some of their mice, I personally can say that Steelseries products are everything but good. The quality of their stuff is as amazing as Razer, and that means really cheap for the price you pay. Only the mech boards from Steelseries are worth buying.