Today compLexity Gaming and Team MvP are announcing the abatement of our nearly year long partnership. This is due solely to competing sponsor products.
coL.MVP will no longer compete as a joint squad nor attend events under that name. Moving forward both organizations will continue to be informally affiliated and will work together on different initiatives when possible. Team MvP will continue to offer housing for compLexity players who desire to train in Korea.
Its not hugely surprising, sponsors are the sole lifeblood of teams, and conflicting sponsors is counter productive for both. That being said, it seems like there will be very little change in the practical relationship, bar them no longer competing together in team leagues. MVP will still host coL players, and will still "work together on different initiatives". It seems that foreign-korean partnerships were all the rage, but are becoming less relevant, as long as foreigners can find somewhere in Korea to stay, and as Korean teams are finding their own sponsors.
Edit: I feel like I should have put a more dramatic, Artosis-esque hype title, to get dem drama views, "Revised" isn't nearly scary enough.
More surprised they're staying affiliated at all then at this announcement. Although it isn't too farfetched since complexity would want to try and keep a home base in korea if they send players.
On April 18 2012 09:10 Starion wrote: Does anyone know who the competing sponsors were? Minus the shared sponsors, I see on their respective TLPD pages:
MVP Center Point - Clothing Razer - Computer/gaming hardware
Saw this coming, DRG hasn't been tagged up for months now, no coverage on the compLexity website of MVP players, etc. Glad to see it's finally out there.
On April 18 2012 09:10 Starion wrote: Does anyone know who the competing sponsors were? Minus the shared sponsors, I see on their respective TLPD pages:
MVP Center Point - Clothing Razer - Computer/gaming hardware
its funny because in most of the cw's complexity players lose 0-2 and mvp players win their 2 games , theyre finally gonna have to pick up the slack if they want to continue to win without the help of mvp
On April 18 2012 09:10 Starion wrote: Does anyone know who the competing sponsors were? Minus the shared sponsors, I see on their respective TLPD pages:
MVP Center Point - Clothing Razer - Computer/gaming hardware
Saw this coming since last MLG where drg wasn't introduced as colmvpdrg, but just as mvpdrg. His bnet name was also just mvpdrg and not colmvpdrg and also he didn't wear the split col/mvp jersey either. Complexity has a lot of their own koreans now so they most likely can't afford to fly out their own koreans plus mvp koreans to foreign events.
Too bad :/ Really like the partnership, it seemed to be working well with good interaction between the teams, unfortunate that the sponsorships conflicted. At least the relationship will continue informally, which is important.
On April 18 2012 09:10 Starion wrote: Does anyone know who the competing sponsors were? Minus the shared sponsors, I see on their respective TLPD pages:
MVP Center Point - Clothing Razer - Computer/gaming hardware
On April 18 2012 08:55 MCDayC wrote: Edit: I feel like I should have put a more dramatic, Artosis-esque hype title, to get dem drama views, "Revised" isn't nearly scary enough.
I think it's okay that you didn't put it more dramatic.
On April 18 2012 08:55 MCDayC wrote: Edit: I feel like I should have put a more dramatic, Artosis-esque hype title, to get dem drama views, "Revised" isn't nearly scary enough.
I think it's okay that you didn't put it more dramatic.
No body seems to care! It's kinda big news, I though that this thread would be shut cause someone else had already posted it and that it would be in the community news section, but apparently not.
On April 18 2012 08:55 MCDayC wrote: Edit: I feel like I should have put a more dramatic, Artosis-esque hype title, to get dem drama views, "Revised" isn't nearly scary enough.
I think it's okay that you didn't put it more dramatic.
No body seems to care! It's kinda big news, I though that this thread would be shut cause someone else had already posted it and that it would be in the community news section, but apparently not.
I think it would be bigger news is it was a messy seperation or one of the teams couldnt support themselves. But complexity has been financially stable since it began(except for right after cgs) and mvp has picled up enough sponsors not to need help flying out their guys anymore
On April 18 2012 08:55 MCDayC wrote: Edit: I feel like I should have put a more dramatic, Artosis-esque hype title, to get dem drama views, "Revised" isn't nearly scary enough.
"CoL-MVP-geddon: How lovers became mortal enemies!
So guys, it looks like even though CoL and MVP are still working together in nearly every way, it looks like they won't officially be the same group. WILL DRG AND CATZ HAVE A FIGHT TO THE DEATH BECAUSE OF THIS????"
On April 18 2012 08:55 MCDayC wrote: Edit: I feel like I should have put a more dramatic, Artosis-esque hype title, to get dem drama views, "Revised" isn't nearly scary enough.
"CoL-MVP-geddon: How lovers became mortal enemies!
So guys, it looks like even though CoL and MVP are still working together in nearly every way, it looks like they won't officially be the same group. WILL DRG AND CATZ HAVE A FIGHT TO THE DEATH BECAUSE OF THIS????"
On April 18 2012 09:10 Starion wrote: Does anyone know who the competing sponsors were? Minus the shared sponsors, I see on their respective TLPD pages:
MVP Center Point - Clothing Razer - Computer/gaming hardware
Ah well, everything is on good terms, they still cooperate and we don't have lengthy double-team names in colmvp. All for the better if you ask me. Thanks for the info @op!
On one hand, it's a shame to see the partnership end. Glad it seems to have ended amiacably. On the other hand, I've always found the partnership teams playing together in team leagues a bit... odd. I guess I just prefer mvp to play as mvp and complexity to play as complexity.
On April 19 2012 05:30 ddrddrddrddr wrote: Errr, what's the big deal with competing sponsor products? You can't have PC on one shoulder and Mac on the other with uniforms?
On April 18 2012 08:55 MCDayC wrote: Edit: I feel like I should have put a more dramatic, Artosis-esque hype title, to get dem drama views, "Revised" isn't nearly scary enough.
I think it's okay that you didn't put it more dramatic.
No body seems to care! It's kinda big news, I though that this thread would be shut cause someone else had already posted it and that it would be in the community news section, but apparently not.
I would consider this more or less a side-note because I would consider it important if the teams have a practical cooperation or not. Leaving the shared name "coL-MVP" aside because of sponsors isn't such a big deal I think.
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