EPTOn December 16 2011 10:07 SnoLys wrote:
Guess the main sponsor of GSL, Sony Ericsson!
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Guess the main sponsor of GSL, Sony Ericsson!
Nicely done! Yet another twist on the story.
MLG statement on Providence Code S spot - Page 33
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m0ck
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Nicely done! Yet another twist on the story. | ||
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Tortious_Tortoise
United States944 Posts
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PraetorianX
Sweden780 Posts
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wei2coolman
United States60033 Posts
On December 16 2011 10:22 m0ck wrote: Nicely done! Yet another twist on the story. And the plot grows thicker.... Watch 10 years from now, there is gunna be a movie based on this shitstorm! | ||
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Piledriver
United States1697 Posts
On December 16 2011 10:24 PraetorianX wrote: The only hero in this story is Naniwa. Lol, really? The root cause of all the problems somehow becomes the hero. | ||
Falling
Canada11398 Posts
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dacimvrl
Vatican City State582 Posts
On December 16 2011 10:24 PraetorianX wrote: The only hero in this story is Naniwa. Not a fan of his and i would not gonna go so far as to calling him a hero, but what GOM has done is morally wrong. There's no other way to put it. Thing is, if the involved parties don't care enough to take any legal/proper action, there isn't much the crowd can do besides pointing fingers and denouncing the party at fault and boycotting further subscription..etc. Realistically, I never paid to watch GSL and never will after this scandal. The supposed HD quality is just less than stellar compared to others. | ||
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masakenji
Australia415 Posts
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MrCon
France29748 Posts
On December 16 2011 10:09 xxgeffxx wrote: So naniwa is wrong but technically didn't violate any rules and gom is wrong but technically didn't violate any rules either? More like naniwa is wrong but technically didn't violate any rules and gom is right but technically did violate some rules :D | ||
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SomeRandomPerson
2 Posts
On December 16 2011 10:22 m0ck wrote: Nicely done! Yet another twist on the story. As a first post on TL. I doubt that Sony Ericsson will have any kind of impact on this story for the simple reason that they will be fully owned by the Sony Corporation from the first of Januray 2012. Now they might distance themselves from Gom (Though I highly doubt it, especially w.r.t. this mess), but the only reason from a Sweden-centric p.o.v. to do so is that they are a popular brand in Sweden and there is a backlash - if there even would be a backlash, that is. Officially they will not be "Swedish" at all from said date. Well that's not entirely true since they have a large part of their product development in Sweden, Lund. Also to make an important distinction: The sponsors are Sony Ericsson, not Ericsson. While Ericsson owns (owned*) half of them. | ||
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Krymming
Sweden38 Posts
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Mycl
Australia1370 Posts
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PraetorianX
Sweden780 Posts
On December 16 2011 10:07 SnoLys wrote: Guess the main sponsor of GSL, Sony Ericsson! Yes, I have already E-mailed Sony Ericsson expressing my outrage as a customer that they sponsor GSL after this disrespectful scandal and I know more people are doing the same. In this video you can see how badly the Koreans treat Naniwa. At 3:00, John the Translator gets pretty confrontive and during the rest of the clip the Koreans can be seen laughing behind Naniwa's back. The korean players seem to get very abusive and angry when Naniwa says this is just another tournament. The actual questions are very poorly formulated and John the translator is talking very queitly. Also John doesn't even bother to translate 90% of the Korean stuff being said, so the foreigners have no idea what's going on. Clearly this is what provoked this whole episode. | ||
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Catatonic
United States699 Posts
On December 16 2011 08:16 Deimos0 wrote: It all is simple - Naniwa, Sen and Idra were considered for the Code S invite. None of them could be sure of their spot until GOM actually gave them the seed. So Naniwa was just an option for GOM. Game with Nestea just eliminated Naniwa from Code S invite consideration - that's all. EDIT: kind of ninja'd by the guy above me Except that when the league exchange program was set up it was known as fact that the winner would get a code S spot. But now for some reason only known to GOM an never spoken of to ta MLG Nani dosnt have a code s seed anymore an the structure of the program has been completely changed all without a word being even mentioned to MLG. GOM as an organization changed the rules without any talk to it's business partners which is extreamly unprofessional which is actually what they blamed Nani of being. Which not only makes them untrustworthy business partners but also extream hypocrites. Also the sheer fact that Coca (I believe it was Coca) called Nani a bastard an such makes him far more a hypocrite cause who was it that was match fixing? Oh right fucking Coca so he needs to just shut the fuck up. | ||
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Dazer
239 Posts
Willing to compromise the partnership between MLG and GOM for truth and transparency. Yo Sunny, you're the baws | ||
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Jellikit
Sweden258 Posts
On December 16 2011 10:22 m0ck wrote: Actually Sony Ericsson is owned by SonyNicely done! Yet another twist on the story. http://www.swedishwire.com/business/11757-ericsson-sells-stake-in-sony-ericsson-to-sony | ||
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Kiyo.
United States2284 Posts
On December 16 2011 10:35 Dazer wrote: Only thing I'd like to add is how awesome Sundance is. Willing to compromise the partnership between MLG and GOM for truth and transparency. Yo Sunny, you're the baws Not enough people are actually noting this. I really expected MLG to just ignore this and hope for it to go away because they'd rather not get in the middle of it. But thankfully Sundance and MLG are awesome and made a statement when asked for one. | ||
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jinorazi
Korea (South)4948 Posts
On December 16 2011 10:12 rotegirte wrote: And what people like you don't understand is that tournaments are not only a matter between organizing parties, being MLG and GOM. There is a third party called players. GOM is well within their rights to choose whoever they want for Code S, and how the process goes. MLG and GOM are well within their right to negotiate whatever agreement, allowing any side any degree of freedom they seem fit for their business relationship. However, when you are changing tournament prizes, you do that before the event, not after. I always thought that to be a simple rule. lets say naniwa was indeed selected (probably was 1st choice anyways) but after the fiasco, it was revoked. what gom did still makes no difference. if naniwa situation didn't happen, he would be playing in jan. gsl most likely. gom changing it would have made no impact on their jan. gsl invitation. it seems like people are nitpicking on gom's change in rules with the new format change. perhaps they should have worded it better, as in "naniwa's invation was revoked" instead of "naniwa's actions removed him from consideration list". whatever the case, naniwa made this change happen. his invitation was revoked, he can still play like any other competitor without an invitation. good luck to him so he can compete in code s in feb. | ||
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wklbishop
United States1286 Posts
On December 16 2011 10:34 PraetorianX wrote: Yes, I have already E-mailed Sony Ericsson expressing my outrage as a customer that they sponsor GSL after this disrespectful scandal and I know more people are doing the same. In this video you can see how badly the Koreans treat Naniwa. At 3:00, John the Translator gets pretty confrontive and during the rest of the clip the Koreans can be seen laughing behind Naniwa's back and insulting him in Korean. The actual questions are very poorly formulated and John the translator is talking very queitly. Also John doesn't even bother to translate 90% of the Korean stuff being said, so the foreigners have no idea what's going on. Clearly this is what provoked this whole episode Do you actually speak Korean? EDIT: This isn't meant to be a retort, I'm seriously asking. | ||
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narkissos
198 Posts
On December 16 2011 10:03 narkissos wrote: Wow great statement by MLG really clears things up. Although as a law student I have to say that I´m a bit surprised that they had entered a contract which could unilaterally be changed by one party. As I think most have guessed this is not exactly the norm and can in some places even be grounds for declaring a contract null and void. On the other hand there are of course situations were it can be perfectly reasonable with this types of contracts. And luckily for MLG this time it worked out very well for them. If GOM hadn´t had the right to change the contract unilaterally people might have thought that they had a responsibility to pursue legal actions against a valued business partner that has helped them provide the most competitive SC2 tournament in the west on behalf of a player they probably don´t like very much. Would have put them in kind of an iffy spot. It of course also makes it clear why they was under the impression that Naniwa had received a code S spot just a miscommunicationf rom GOM:s part. Funny how things can work out Sundance the boss | ||
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