EPTTaeja Leaving Slayers? - Page 23
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Forgottenfrog
United States1268 Posts
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fox77
Canada95 Posts
On March 13 2012 12:04 FabledIntegral wrote: I would highly doubt Puma gets even half that amount. Why in the world do you think EG pays Puma a lot? Huk and Idra make over 100k can't see Puma making less. | ||
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holy_war
United States3590 Posts
On March 13 2012 13:46 fox77 wrote: Huk and Idra make over 100k can't see Puma making less. IdrA's salary isn't rumored to be that high. I think 50-60k was the estimate that someone in the know threw out. HuK probably does make close to 100k though. | ||
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canikizu
4860 Posts
On March 13 2012 13:46 fox77 wrote: Huk and Idra make over 100k can't see Puma making less. That's the beauty of picking up exotic players, you have better players for less. It happens in other sports too. | ||
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hnim
United States86 Posts
On March 13 2012 13:52 holy_war wrote: IdrA's salary isn't rumored to be that high. I think 50-60k was the estimate that someone in the know threw out. HuK probably does make close to 100k though. I'm not sure if this is for their Starcraft team, but EG has mentioned that "in 2012, Evil Geniuses is both the world’s premier professional gaming team – with more than 25 salaried players, some of whose base salaries eclipse six figures" | ||
Fionn
United States23455 Posts
Could be different for Taeja, though. He's young, very talented, a Code S player, and is pretty damn marketable with a good personality. Also his keyboard looks delicious. | ||
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naggerNZ
New Zealand708 Posts
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Diamond
United States10796 Posts
On March 13 2012 14:04 Fionn wrote: I don't think it's fair to say that foreign teams pay their players that much better than the Korean teams. Yes, at the very top, if you're a Huk, Idra, or Naniwa, yeah, but look at Check. He joined eSahara, leaving Prime to go join a foreign team and he just retired. Could be different for Taeja, though. He's young, very talented, a Code S player, and is pretty damn marketable with a good personality. Also his keyboard looks delicious. You then highly overestimate how much non-Nestea's, MvP's, etc's get paid. Just the travel benefits alone are massive, let alone the salaries (which most Koreans don't get or is insignificant). | ||
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hnim
United States86 Posts
On March 13 2012 14:08 Diamond wrote: You then highly overestimate how much non-Nestea's, MvP's, etc's get paid. Just the travel benefits alone are massive, let alone the salaries (which most Koreans don't get or is insignificant). Speaking of which I wonder how much Nestea and Mvp make. I mean I've heard IM is not one of the richest teams. | ||
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FiNTer
Finland153 Posts
On March 13 2012 14:10 hnim wrote: Speaking of which I wonder how much Nestea and Mvp make. I mean I've heard IM is not one of the richest teams. IM is the one of the richest teams, lol. | ||
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snatcch
United States133 Posts
On March 13 2012 07:35 Seraphone wrote: They almost all have major international sponsors. Slayers are sponsored by Intel and Razer IM are sponsored by Steelseries, Burn and CocaCola (although there's a lot of confusion about what they get from it) Startale are sponsored by BenQ, Zowie and Red Bull oGs are sponsored by Razer, MSI and Corsair MVP are sponsored by Razer, Creative and Sound Blaster Prime are sponsored by Thermaltake But what with the cost of running and maintaining their houses and allowing 10-20 player to live their free of charge they're unable to pay salaries in addition to that. Foreign teams tend to skip the housing entirely have a quarter of the players and thus can pay salaries. PRIME is also sponsored by OCZ | ||
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crazyweasel
607 Posts
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naux
Canada738 Posts
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Fionn
United States23455 Posts
On March 13 2012 14:08 Diamond wrote: You then highly overestimate how much non-Nestea's, MvP's, etc's get paid. Just the travel benefits alone are massive, let alone the salaries (which most Koreans don't get or is insignificant). I know, but I'm saying the non-Huk's, Idra's, and Naniwa's don't make gigantic bank. It's like the Koreans think that all the foreigners are making tons of cash when that probably isn't a case. For Taeja, this could be a good move. He is a Code S player who is marketable enough to probably get a lot more money on a top foreign team. But not every Korean who has tried to do this has worked out. | ||
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bokchoi
Korea (South)9498 Posts
SlayerS as a team was never sponsored by Intel (only BoxeR) and also recently lost their Razer sponsorship (whether Razer dropped them in favor of MVP or SlayerS didn't want to re-contract, I don't know) EDIT: MVP is no longer sponsored by Creative/Soundblaster assuming conflict with Razer. Startale is also not sponsored by Red Bull, only Bomber. | ||
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Sejanus
Lithuania550 Posts
Best luck in the future, Taeja. | ||
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Headnoob
Australia2108 Posts
ah well, guess slayers will have to make do with the rest of their excellent players. | ||
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justsayinbro
307 Posts
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jkc
United States83 Posts
On March 13 2012 14:35 Headnoob wrote: Taeja is definitely not someone i see staying at a high level once he leaves slayers. ah well, guess slayers will have to make do with the rest of their excellent players. Many Korean pros practice with their friends or clan-mates (who aren't always part of their teams). Just because he isn't a SlayerS member anymore doesn't mean he won't be able to practice with his friends on the team. Given how key the SlayerS coaches have been with the team's success there's obvious advantages to being on SlayerS team. However there's no evidence that supports the argument that leaving SlayerS will mean Taeja won't be able to continue practicing and playing at a high level. I'm not too thrilled that Taeja is leaving SlayerS either, but I think Taeja will do just fine wherever he goes. | ||
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Promethelax
Canada7089 Posts
On March 13 2012 13:18 vthree wrote: Puma has made $130,000+ in the past year. Sure, not all koreans joining foreign teams will have his level of success at foreign events (especially with more koreans attending those events now). But there is no way he would even be attending those events if he was still with oGs. Unless you are MVP, Nestea, MC, MMA, Boxer, DRG, there just aren't too many invites coming your way from foreign tournaments. Sure, there are qualifiers but with almost the entire Code S trying for some tournaments (MLG arena, etc), it is so tough just to get a spot. He was on TSL actually, rather different. Just to clarify. | ||
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