TSL Disbands - Page 18

On January 03 2013 21:58 Mirror0423 wrote:
If SC2 was big enough in Korea idt this would be that big of a problem.
Maybe the scene IS over saturated, and too many people want a piece of the pie. Well instead of knocking people out, you can grow the pie bigger?
Look at WemadeFox from BW. For a long time they didn't really have any decent results, and yet they survived for years with minimal results (maybe a shine here from Mind, or a shine there from Midas but never for more than 1 tournament), just solely on the fact that they were the team with Nada on it. I remember on 뒷담화, the program where the casters for OGN get together and talk about everything SC:BW related, when WemadeFox lost part of their sponsorship one of the times, and after discussing it for a while one of 'em saying "well they're gonna be fine, they still have at least Nada" If enough people are a fan of Nada then SOME company will sponsor them. But look at the Korean SC2 scene. MKP, life, any Korean SC2 player, do they have anywhere NEAR the Korean fanbase of any BW legends? I wouldn't be surprised if Nada alone back then(even "back then" was well past his prime I'll see if I can remember when it was exactly) had more Korean fans than TSL(even including Polt, Parting, and Revival's numbers), or Prime.
Similar stuff happened with the Woongjin Stars. If enough people watch it, then someone WILL sponsor them for brand exposure/image. When Korean Air Starleague happened, against on 뒷담화 Kim Carrier talked about how basically sponsors were almost lining up to sponsor OSL. While it's probably true that the Managers could've done more to find sponsors, also A TON of other people could've done more to make a better product. I mean honestly, do you think google has a hard time getting Android on phone manufacturing company's phones? If we have a good enough product it'll make everything easier for everyone involved.
Idk who exactly this is to blame. I'm sure everyone who's a fan of SC2, whether they liked TSL or not, is not a fan of this happening. I agree with a lot of people who already posted on here that something like this had to happen sooner or later, but that's only assuming that the game didn't succeed in Korea. If Blizzard/ESF did something to grow the scene I feel like this couldn't been prevented. Also I kinda don't like that defeatist attitude of "ehh it had to happen, nothing we could do". On the other side of that, I don't know if this can be stopped anymore. I mean even if blizzard did something radical for HOTS, I don't think it's going to bring the numbers of SC2 up to BW level.
GL to all ex-TSL players, and GL to all the ESF teams.