I hope this doesn't end up happening. Woongjin Stars is probably my favourite team. They were always the ones who "could surprise you" and I was looking forward to them surprising in the future.

Luisa_2

Germany200 Posts

September 29 2012 00:24 GMT

#144

Seems like the tides are turning with Broodwar goin down to it's end now...
I'm really curious what whill happen with Proleague if there will be only 6 teams or less...

Still sad if it turns out the way it looks like

Fyodor

Canada971 Posts

September 29 2012 00:46 GMT

#145

Elite League

LG-IM
StarTale Redbull
KT Rolster
SKT1
Samsung Khan
STX Soul
FXO
Intel Team 8 (hopefully lol)

Division II:

MVP
NSHoSeo
Prime
Fnatic
Slayers
Stars

mouz.Wake

Sweden136 Posts

September 29 2012 00:56 GMT

#146

On September 29 2012 01:46 Black[CAT] wrote:
Not even Team 8 got a sponsorship, so looks like Team 8 gonna disband soon as well.

Team 8 is KeSPA's own team, they don't have any sponsors simply because KeSPA pays the bills.

NobledBlood

United States125 Posts

September 29 2012 00:58 GMT

#147

Aww that sucks... Hopefully they won't have to cut the team.

mikkmagro

Malta1513 Posts

September 29 2012 01:02 GMT

#148

On September 29 2012 03:53 Fischbacher wrote:

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Brood Wars, at it's peek, could get over 100k people in the live audience. A 4k attendance isn't really impressive.

SC2 isn't as popular as Brood Wars was at it's apex, and that's a fact. Before the match fixing scandal and SCII happened KeSPA ran as good a ship as anyone has ever ran in eSports history.

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What about MVP?

Right now, LG-IM, FXO and StarTale look like the three healthiest ESF teams financially. From the outside MVP, Prime, TSL and Slayers (not ESF, I know) seem to be doing okay. Fnatic (also not ESF) also seems to be doing okay. NSH looks about to die.

Pretty sure Fnatic is more financially stable than most (non-Kespa) Korean teams. They have the largest eSports fanbase in the world, they have offices in the UK, the Netherlands, Australia and a team house in Korea, apparently the company even started generating some profit last year (which is pretty rare for eSports teams), with a turnover of over $1m...that's what I had read somewhere anyway.

TommyP

United States6231 Posts

September 29 2012 01:21 GMT

#149

On September 29 2012 02:04 Epoxide wrote:
TT, never any good news in the KeSPA community anymore

This man begs to differ + Show Spoiler +

RiceAgainst

United States1849 Posts

September 29 2012 01:33 GMT

#150

Ouch. Looks like GOM teams might have a chance in proleague then.

bokchoi

Korea (South)9498 Posts

September 29 2012 01:34 GMT

#151

NOOO NOT WOONGJIN

((.. if Woongjin collapses...

kawaiiryuko

United States368 Posts

September 29 2012 01:36 GMT

#152

On September 29 2012 03:59 ffrozenfish wrote:

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and Samsung being sued left and right , hard times

Samsung will be fine. See: http://articles.marketwatch.com/2012-08-27/industries/33405345_1_apple-patents-samsung-electronics-patent-infringement-claims

Samsung has a market cap of approximately $193b, so even if they paid out the $1b verdict (which is highly unlikely), it would be a tiny part of their general market cap.