EPTKespa basically pays the salaries of its stars and they need to protect that investment, not promote a competitor to the detriment of quality of play and reputations.
No Kespa Players in Upcoming GSL - Page 13
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Scarecrow
Korea (South)9172 Posts
Kespa basically pays the salaries of its stars and they need to protect that investment, not promote a competitor to the detriment of quality of play and reputations. | ||
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Fragile51
Netherlands15767 Posts
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JustPassingBy
10776 Posts
On August 23 2012 19:02 Kommander wrote: Yeah but the thing is, it would be like MLB vs some local community league. That's how bigger KeSPA is than GOM. No, the thing is that Kespa has absolute control over the teams under it, while Gom has none and wants none. | ||
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inn5013orecl
United States227 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + Could also be part of (powerful) Kespa's secret plan to tough arm (comparatively tiny) GOM out of the picture so they're the only ones running the show again long run. Lol...god i hope that's as unlikely as it sounded in my head when i decided to spoiler it... edit: although that does make me question OSL's inclusion of "GOM" pros | ||
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Yorbon
Netherlands4272 Posts
I can understand it from their point of view though. Gsl is in my eyes still the highest level tournament, so it doesn't really change anything atm. The joining of kespa players is just another moment to wait (and hype) for. Hope it comes soon. | ||
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achan1058
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tylerf
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graNite
Germany4434 Posts
On August 23 2012 19:03 Kommander wrote: Oh right, forgot about Violet. Goddammit, bad news happening one after the other. Deference. How can you seriously put these two news together as "bad"? Do you want to call this kespa thing as bad as a person's death? | ||
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SenorChang
Australia4730 Posts
no kespa players in gsl pretty disappointing political bullshit | ||
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Nostalgia.NA
32 Posts
+ Show Spoiler + Could also be part of (powerful) Kespa's secret plan to tough arm (comparatively tiny) GOM out of the picture so they're the only ones running the show again long run. Lol...god i hope that's as unlikely as it sounded in my head when i decided to spoiler it... I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case. A lot of the Korean sc2 fans are upset because of this very possibility. Back in BW, Gomtv had their own league called Gomtv Classics or something, and Kespa didn't allow their players to take part at Gomtv and they had to close after a short 4-season run. Things ARE different, in that Gomtv is much more established than they were back then. But the thing is, Kespa gets their own players AND the non-Kespa players in the OSL while the GSL will be stuck with the non-Kespas that would want to take part in GSL after they weigh out their schedule with the OSL and the foreign leagues. In the long run, Gom will be left with very little attraction and Kespa would be reaping the benefits with drawing of the viewers from the non-Kespa players that Gomtv helped create with their hard pioneering work for the sc2 scene in Korea, on top of their carrying over Kespa players in the OSL :/ | ||
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Mouzone
3937 Posts
On August 23 2012 19:13 graNite wrote: Deference. How can you seriously put these two news together as "bad"? Do you want to call this kespa thing as bad as a person's death? The long term causal effects of this could actually be worse than one person's death when added up. But that's just speculation of course. | ||
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Ribbon
United States5278 Posts
A staff from Blizzard Korea also said “We are disconcerted by KeSPA’s sudden announcement. We will look over it and make an announcement by tomorrow”. Oh, that's interesting. Blizzard's getting involved. They've normally stayed out of this kind of drama. | ||
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MythZero
Korea (South)102 Posts
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Dirtysocks
Czech Republic68 Posts
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pmp10
3374 Posts
On August 23 2012 19:20 Ribbon wrote: http://www.thisisgame.com/en/2012/08/23/kespa-rejected-to-join-gsl-starcraft2-league Oh, that's interesting. Blizzard's getting involved. They've normally stayed out of this kind of drama. They'll likely try to explain what happened to the 'unified scene' they were promising on their press conference. I can already see all the regret and complete lack of actions they are going to announce. | ||
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MartinN
Spain307 Posts
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TheAmazombie
United States3714 Posts
On August 23 2012 19:20 Ribbon wrote: http://www.thisisgame.com/en/2012/08/23/kespa-rejected-to-join-gsl-starcraft2-league Oh, that's interesting. Blizzard's getting involved. They've normally stayed out of this kind of drama. This is a bit uplifting. I know that Blizz is supposed to support GOM and the unified ideal, so let's hope that something comes from this. | ||
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Nostalgia.NA
32 Posts
On August 23 2012 19:20 Ribbon wrote: http://www.thisisgame.com/en/2012/08/23/kespa-rejected-to-join-gsl-starcraft2-league Oh, that's interesting. Blizzard's getting involved. They've normally stayed out of this kind of drama. That's awesome. Gomtv had the sole right to sc2 production in Korea and they backed up a bit and let Blizzard strike a deal with Kespa to be able to do stuff with sc2 as well. After all the commotion that Blizzard, Kespa and Gom caused with their 'ceremony' promising togetherness and working together for the betterment of E-Sports in Korea...this douche move by Kespa definitely calls for some action. | ||
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Ammanas
Slovakia2166 Posts
That's probably also the reason why they don't send anybody to MLG - only thing worse than losing in Code A qualifiers would have to be losing to foreigners ;-) Also, don't forget this is not BW, if KESPA doesn't play nice, Blizz has something to say this time - they can even shut them down completely if it would come to worst case scenario... | ||
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FidoDido
United States1292 Posts
On August 23 2012 17:16 ridethecatbus wrote: Why don't they just ban each other from OSL/GSL and get it over with already. Save us from the next few months of public shit-slinging and dick measuring. Yea except GOM had exclusive rights to broadcast sc2 for another year and they decided to give that up in order for the players on both sides to play with each other to make the fans happy and grow sc2 scene bigger. A lot of people seem to be missing the point. Now after GOM gave that up, KeSPA basically says, "LOL, u c what we did dere?" and only lets their players attend OSL, Proleague and MLG-partnership events so GOM's GSL gets less viewers. | ||
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