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Fenrax
United States5018 Posts
On November 16 2012 16:18 Brett wrote:Show nested quote +On November 16 2012 16:06 Fenrax wrote:I like how they call it a "vision" and "ultimately aiming" for it... "Vision" like it was something complicated like a superconductor and not just putting one and one together. "Ultimately aiming for a unified League" like there were any real drawbacks to it ("we don't like each other" doesn't count) and not the obviously best next step for both sides. Does negativity ooze out of your pores too? Geez lol! What exactly would you expect?
If something good happens like the MLG-DH-ESL alliance I am not negative at all. But this just feels like empty words to me, like a politician's speech in which he promises to do better than his predecessor. The Visions sound nice but they are just words. It is good that they stated them so we know what they want.
But nothing is happening between Gom and Kespa and it should have happened one or two months ago. So what I expected is that the unified Proleague was already announced and hyped at this time.
Their progress is far too slow and both sides are losing money, time, potential new fans and sponsorship opportunies each day.
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Seeker
Where dat snitch at?37058 Posts
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ok now u can truly call it GOM vs Kespa now.
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This seems really cool. GOMtv seems like a very reasonable organization, and hopefully they'll be more level-headed than KeSPA or the old eSF.
8. Initiating cooperation with KeSPA
Initiate cross matches, year-end king of kings matches, all-star matches, and ultimately trying for unified team leagues in Korea
This seems really cool as well. With GOMtv on board, perhaps we will get nice official streams for this.
7. Developing and supporting various games
Expanding eSports scene through new tournaments and leagues with new games
New games? This is an intriguing line. Does that mean that the LoL divisions of eSF teams will be covered by eSF? A lot of KeSPA teams now have LoL divisions, so perhaps we will see the KeSPA/eSF relationship expand beyond SC2.
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On November 16 2012 15:39 stew_ wrote:
not sure if i should be worried or be cheerful
The worse thing that comes out of this situation is GOM won't be "neutral" anymore.
When the ESF players boycotted OSL, it was them and not GOM (yeah, people can be cynical but I'd say it's fairly reasonable that the ESF Players would do it for GOM out of their gratitude rather than GOM forcing them).
Also it was Nestea leading them to do it too. A player defending a tournament that made them famous is reasonable (you don't need the tournament organizer to coerce the players or anything).
Now, GOM isn't neutral anymore.
Of course, on the upside - the above is the only real downside (and it's not much of a downside actually considering regardless, KeSPA doesn't like GOM whether they're the head of ESF or not).
Also this means KeSPA will be much likely less able to do anything drastic against GOM, as long as ESF has star players that bring in viewers.
Personally, I like the clash of ESF and KeSPA.
It doesn't matter if KeSPA end up making a ton of stars, I want to see stars of both clash. Plus, any exclusivity (any KeSPA shenanigans) will leave a negative atmosphere that may turn people off from their leagues.
So, go GOM and hopefully KeSPA learns to cooperate. I actually defended KeSPA a lot. I hope I don't need to anymore.
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Cool, I like GOM, they've tried hard to keep things moving forward the last few years. That said, really hope this doesn't turn into a GOM vs KeSPA rematch (their visions seem nice but it takes 2 to tango), they're both additions to the scene in.. their own ways.
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Good news! I hope this means that Prime won't have as many monetary issues. <3 MKP
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I hope this ends with an EQUITABLE end to the situation rather than an unfortunately complicated GSL and KeSPA relationship.
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At least they are concrete with reasonable goals. All the other stuff before this was basically just fluff, I still don't freaking understand what the first meeting with Blizzard Kespa and GOM was suppose to achieve, lol.
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On November 16 2012 15:47 WindWolf wrote:
GOMTV and eSF Fighting!
This is a really good move!
As for "Support for other eSports titles", one can dream of Dota2...
Highly likely it'll be LoL since they've already hosted a LoL tournament for the IPL
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Should be interesting to see how this turns out. I agree with their goals, and would love to see a team league with both eSF and KeSPA teams. And hopefully they succeed in finding sponsors for their teams, would hate to see another team disband or get absorbed. :/
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East Gorteau22261 Posts
On November 16 2012 16:49 Integra wrote:
At least they are concrete with reasonable goals. All the other stuff before this was basically just fluff, I still don't freaking understand what the first meeting with Blizzard Kespa and GOM was suppose to achieve, lol.
In Swedish, we call it something like a "PR jippo" - basically, it wasn't supposed to achieve anything other than making them look good for talking to each other. At least, that's my take on it.
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On November 16 2012 15:49 jinorazi wrote:
NBL + BAA = NBA
esf + kespa = ???
maybe it'll happen sometime in the future
KeSF: Korean eSports Federation, good ring to it
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Mr. Chae and David Ting are the most positive forces in eSports. I trust them far more than anyone. Time and again, they've showed us that that they are passionately interested in the advancement of eSports and StarCraft II and not just profit margins.
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Goddamn I want a unified team league. Especially if it's Proleague format with one round of winner's league.
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yay! This will be perfect for hte korean scene.
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United Kingdom16710 Posts
At least they'll be more professional than the last guy..... I hope.
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good news all around this week. man sc2 is stepping it up!!! HYPE HYPE HYPE
btw the new eg logo is sick <3
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It's now officially Gom vs Kespa... I hope they don't try to kill each other again anytime soon.
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