MLG Arena and the TL Calendar - Page 52

Here's my opinion with this entire situation:

Let's first start with an example. Lets say I owned a jewelry manufacturing company, the only one in the world. I was a very successful company due to various reasons. In my company I produced three different types of jewelry: bronze, silver, and gold. In the whole world there was also only three mines that gathered/mined these minerals. The mines were named as follows, Bronzonian (mined the bronze minerals), Silverado (mined the silver minerals), and Goldtopia (mined the gold minerals). These were the only mines in the entire world and I was the only jewelry manufacturer in the whole world. The only reason they were in business was because I bought minerals from them and the only reason I was in business was because I had a supplier of these minerals. Our companies could only be prosperous if both of us were in business, without either the jewelry manufacturer or the mines the other companies would fail. With that being said, during our lifetime of business we would want to make sure that both the mines and the jewelry manufacturer were prosperous, because without each other cannot exist.

Now lets say the gold mine has a series natural disasters causing them to have more expenses than expected. Because of these expenses they will now probably have to charge more per carrot of gold. Now there's a fine line between what is acceptable and what isn't acceptable. As long as it's reasonably close to acceptable the jewelry manufacturer shouldn't have any problem with paying the extra cost to buy the gold. Because remember, if the gold mine goes out of business there is no other gold mines in the whole world and we would not be able to make gold jewelry ever again. So we can take the risk and not pay the gold miner more money, but if they go out of business because we were stingy and stupid then in turn we hurt our own business.

In business there are other businesses that play a key role in why you are in business. There are some businesses that are only around because other businesses are there and if one business were to fail then a whole series of businesses would then suffer. So in the business world it is important to plan for the future and to always remember that there are other businesses that you are counting on and there are businesses that are counting on you.

Now to my main point. Yes, I know that teamliquid has been around for a long time, but at the start of Starcraft 2 teamliquid changed itself from a hobby to a business. They now have headquarters and have actual paid employees. I feel like there are a few major factors that have put Team Liquid on the next level and made them a sustainable business including GomTV (GSL), Major League Gaming (MLG), Dreamhack, NASL, IPL, and of course the most important Blizzard, because without blizzard there wouldn't even be Starcraft 2. Now I feel like Team Liquid is hurting (not intentionally) MLG by not putting up the MLG Winter Arena event on the calendar and on the countdown timer. Now you might say who cares, we don't agree with MLG charging $20 per person to watch their event, but by hurting MLG Team Liquid is in turn hurting itself. Without MLG the North American Starcraft 2 scene is way different and many people would lose a tremendous amount of interest in the game (yes i know IPL is also in NA). MLG is like one of the mines in my example and Team Liquid is like the jewelry manufacturer. By not putting the MLG Winter Arena on the calendar and countdown Team Liquid is hurting MLG and is also indirectly hurting itself.

**I apologize for any grammar or spelling mistakes, I wrote this very fast and it's 2 am. I didn't reread this because I'm too tired so hopefully I made sense.