On January 04 2013 05:34 Fionn wrote: Also I feel like Azubu fucked up.
They sign a bunch of middle of the road players.
A week later and they could have talked to Polt, Parting, Supernova, Symbol, Hyun, and BboongBboong.
Oops.
But you can sign a barrel of middle of the road players and pay next to nothing in terms of salary whereas if you want the top talent they actually expect to make money.
On January 03 2013 17:26 Insoleet wrote: wtf is happening nowadays... tsl.... parting.... strange beginning of the year....
Not really strange. Hyun and Polt if they weren't getting any salary from TSL should jump ship ASAP. That means getting anyyyyyyyyyyyyy money a money even 100 dollars a month is better then staying on TSL with their notoriety at this point. A team will def pick up those 2
It's not like they weren't getting paid as of this week. You're basically saying almost every korean team should not exist.
Players of Polts and Hyun's caliber 100% deserve a contract for a year long salary. Not all korean teams have players of their caliber that aren't being paid is all.
mvp has 2 LoL teams that are fairly successful; they may be playing without a salary the way Startale's league of legends team did (and they disbanded) but it seems as an organisation they are stable for now.
On January 04 2013 03:53 SupLilSon wrote: It's really sad to see teams go like this but people can't be expected to continue supporting SC2 purely for the sake of Esports. Interest in SC2 surely peaked and stagnated long ago and HOTS is not doing much to revitalize it. People are expecting HOTS to be a huge game changer for SC2 but it's simply not going to be. Blizzard will be lucky as hell to sell more HOTS copies than WoL with the way things are shaping up and the scene simply hasn't been growing in a looooooooong time.
Minor nitpick: it is nearly impossible for blizzard to sell more copies of hots than wol, since wol is needed to play hots. The only situation when this would occur is if people just bought hots for no reason.
I think this is the impact of kespa. The fringe esf teams functioned fine in their enviroment, but with sponsors having much more to look at teamwise the smaller esf teams will have to go unless something drastic occurs. I think im/startale/fxo are stable and possibly could get into kespa leagues, while mvp and prime need to work it up in early hots to keep alive.
Basically, i predict the korean scene will slowly consolidate itself naturally.
And I'm not feeling too bad about coach lee now having no power in the sc2 scene
Also if Fnatic actually wants to remain apart of korean esports (and sc2 in particular) they should jump on this right away, not often damn good players and a damn good coach (all from the same team) become available on the same day.
Maybe this man isn't far off. Should have made a better game blizzard.
Really, brining that **** up again?
Tsl has been in trouble forever, this isn't as much of a surprise as i wish it was. Talk to me when IM or eg or a kespa team with a steady sponsor shuts down, not when a troubled team finally goes over the edge.
On January 04 2013 05:34 Fionn wrote: Also I feel like Azubu fucked up.
They sign a bunch of middle of the road players.
A week later and they could have talked to Polt, Parting, Supernova, Symbol, Hyun, and BboongBboong.
Oops.
Well yah... But it's not like you could predict something like that ^^
Everyone knew that they were in trouble, when they have bleed players for as long as they have you know they aren't in good shape. And Azubu may very well have more money to spend, so don't count them out on these guys yet. Symbol, and Hyun from tsl will get multiple offers, and the other guys aren't relevant to this thread, but should draw interest.
EPT
