eSports federation players defer OSL participation - Page 17

On August 24 2012 18:32 gh0stsquall wrote:
so, wait...MLG is parntered with kespa correct? and IPL is partnered with GOM?

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do not want rival foreign leagues like this. or korean leagues. why the fuck can't everyone just be happy and work together, it's really not that hard....

On August 24 2012 18:39 wwowz wrote:
Here is the translation. Hope I'm not too late It was pretty hard to translate as the response from ESF was really formal and serious.

From ESF//

First of all, on behalf of E-sports federation, we are truly sad about what happened to KT's Woo Jeong Ho. We are truly sad to deliver this news around this time.

Yesterday, we received a statement from Kespa that the players will not participate in GSL season. This was a shocking and disappointing news to us.

We want to express our apology on the breach in partnership between Kespa and Esports Federation and on Kespa's decisions.

GOMTV devoted great amount of effort to succesfully globalize Korean E-sports ever since the release of Starcraft II 2 years ago.

Thanks to this, "E-sports Federation" was assembled to work side-by-side with GOMTV in the hope to carry Korean E-sports a step forward.

Considering the days of "GOMTV Classic", the decision by Kespa to not participate in GSL is not a simple issue and we are afraid that it might recur in the future considering the situation.

GOMTV provided Kespa players with various accommodations regarding the schedule and application process and yet the decision by Kespa seems to spoil the partnership between E-sports Federation and Kespa.

One of the reasons that Kespa will not participate in GSL was that there is a conflict in scheduling of the players. This is pretty hard to accept as GOMTV was able to accommodate many schedule conflicts without any problem for the past 2 years and this was also the case for Kespa players who participated in WCS and WCG.

E-Sports Federation does not want GSL to be removed from Korean E-sports and if it does, the effect of E-sports Federation players to the global E-sports will decrease for certain.

We think that it is mandatory for Kespa to work with us and show great games to our viewers. As such, we have contacted teams of E-sports Federation (Startale, LG-IM, Prime, MVP, NSH, TSL, FXO) regarding the players who are participating in OSL (Nestea, MVP, DRG, MKP, Parting, San) to make the following decision:

For the better future of Korean E-sports, we politely ask Kespa players to participate in GSL and until Kespa decides to allow their players to join GSL without any problem, we have decided to pull our players from OSL.

It is also difficult for us to make such harsh decisions but we think it is necessary to appeal the dignity of GOMTV and E-sports Federation.

Once again, we are truly apologetic regarding such news and we hope that Kespa would cooperate so that we can show amazing games to all of you.

Thanks

E-sports Federation Player representative Jae Deok "Nestea" IM
E-sports Federation President Won Jong Wook

source
http://www.thisisgame.com/board/view.php?category=13438&id=1273735

On August 24 2012 18:39 mrtomjones wrote:

Specifically China. China is LoL now. China also has 80billion people. The Foreign SC2 audience is quite big and will grow much bigger when HOTS comes out.

On August 24 2012 18:38 lichter wrote:
In the middle of my twitter feed filled with ESF vs Kespa updates I get this gem:

Dalai Lama ‏@DalaiLama
The best way of fulfilling your own interest is to take care of others.

If only.

On August 24 2012 18:40 EnE wrote:
For fuck sake, I DONT WANT TO SEE FLASH GET OWNED BY A RANDOM CODE B PLAYER! LET THEM FUCKING PRACTICE FIRST!

On August 24 2012 18:27 bgx wrote:

That does not mean they "deserve it", if you dont understand.

OGN is television, OGN is simply a product, its like saying Microsoft deserves to be burned down because, their sales/resources affected their competitors.

1) OGN and KESPA are pretty much the same thing. Their interests are extremely common and 1 company is the common party.

On August 24 2012 18:39 lost_artz wrote:


Considering a large portion of MLG players come from ESF/GOM I don't think MLG is stupid enough to follow through where Kespa won't, nor do they have to legally unless they have some sort of binding contract. People forget that KeSPA was founded in 2000 after the approval of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism thus making it a government organization by definition.

Even if MLG does have a contract with KeSPA I still doubt that they would alienate GSL players because they make up the majority of the scene.

On August 24 2012 18:40 nonsequitur wrote:
Can someone enlighten me as to why the Kespa teams can't just leave the organization? Aren't the players contracted to their teams instead of Kespa? If the teams decided to pull out of Kespa, is that possible or are they somehow bound to Kespa?

On August 24 2012 18:40 rauk wrote:


moba and rts players don't necessarily overlap

plus i fail to see how hots is going to be any more popular than wol

On August 24 2012 18:40 mrtomjones wrote:

The creator of the universe has spoken.

On August 24 2012 17:50 X3GoldDot wrote:
lol what.... this is turning to kill e-sports -.-