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malady
Profile Joined November 2010
United States600 Posts
August 08 2013 14:29 GMT
#221
kespa doing its job. I thought after reading this they would announce IM in proleague >_<

dumchu
sunshinehero
Profile Joined April 2012
Norway89 Posts
August 08 2013 14:30 GMT
#222
Kespa kissing IM's ass.. I think this shows that Kespa wants the big teams under their protection to gain monopoly on the market. If the same thing was happening to some other team like NSH, FXO or Prime they wouldnt give a shit though
Valikyr
Profile Joined June 2010
Sweden2653 Posts
August 08 2013 14:30 GMT
#223
On August 08 2013 23:27 Fischbacher wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 08 2013 23:11 Penev wrote:
KeSPA was founded in 2000 after the approval of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. Its official goal is to make e-Sports an official sporting event, and to solidify the commercial position of e-Sports in all sectors.

KeSPA mediating between LG and IM is what they're supposed to do. Good to see that the current leadership at least is aware of this.

Well, LG isn't a KeSPA member, so really this is them working overtime.

They would probably love it if LGIM went to join PL though since they need a replacing team if EGTL won't play another season.
Big-t
Profile Joined January 2011
Austria1350 Posts
August 08 2013 14:31 GMT
#224
On August 08 2013 23:04 dreamseller wrote:
here we have a clear indicator that results mean very little for sponsorship viability in sc2. teams and players should take note, you need to bring more than results to the table for marketability.


This! I hope more people read this!
monchi | IdrA | Flash
Spriki
Profile Joined April 2012
216 Posts
August 08 2013 14:34 GMT
#225
maybe IM keeping the LG tag was just them aiming for some brownie points with LG and trying to prove a strong case that they're willing to take the partnership further

seems though LG had different plans
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NEEDZMOAR
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
Sweden1277 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-08 14:38:53
August 08 2013 14:36 GMT
#226
thats bullshit... Hopefully they'll get compensated or pick up another mainline sponsor.


as other have pointed out, bringing in results and printing tags on clothes doesnt seem to be enough, teams definitely need to work on promoting sponsors much more than what korean teams are currently doing, in fact the only team that does it enough (based on the fact that its the only team I can instantly connect sponsors to) is EG.
Penev
Profile Joined October 2012
28524 Posts
August 08 2013 14:36 GMT
#227
On August 08 2013 23:27 Fischbacher wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 08 2013 23:11 Penev wrote:
KeSPA was founded in 2000 after the approval of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. Its official goal is to make e-Sports an official sporting event, and to solidify the commercial position of e-Sports in all sectors.

KeSPA mediating between LG and IM is what they're supposed to do. Good to see that the current leadership at least is aware of this.

Well, LG isn't a KeSPA member, so really this is them working overtime.

Obviously, but the KeSPA we now love and/ or hate isn't necessarily what originally was intended.
I Protoss winner, could it be?
Shinespark
Profile Joined June 2011
Chile843 Posts
August 08 2013 14:37 GMT
#228
We need LGIM please!!
"I, for one, welcome our new Korean overlords."
Nuclease
Profile Joined August 2011
United States1049 Posts
August 08 2013 14:46 GMT
#229
As much as I love KeSPA for doing this, I chuckled at the irony many would find in the President's statement:

President Jeon: "We won't just watch if they become a company exploits young players."
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Tabashi
Profile Joined June 2011
Belgium129 Posts
August 08 2013 14:49 GMT
#230
On August 08 2013 18:57 Ammanas wrote:
Think it says something about the skills of eSF when one of their teams has to ask Kespa to investigate something like this...

Completely off topic. This could also happen to a KeSPA team.
---------------------------------

Much love and respect to KeSPA for trying to help IM out on this.

Sorry LG, but if you fail to be fair in the business you run, I'm never going to buy anything from your company again! Sending them a mail about it as well. This situation is just ridiculous. LG abused IM's respect for them.
"I'll be the hero you deserve." - HerO, aKa the Batman Protoss
Hodgyy
Profile Joined January 2012
138 Posts
August 08 2013 14:52 GMT
#231
Kespa is ruthless they will get there money.
Syntechi!
Azurues
Profile Joined March 2011
Malaysia5612 Posts
August 08 2013 14:55 GMT
#232
So much fail by LG.

You would think reputable company like them would probably do anything to make themselves even better but seems the opposite of what e-sports are
canikizu
Profile Joined September 2010
4860 Posts
August 08 2013 14:59 GMT
#233
This basically confirms that IM is the new team in Proleague.
Nimic
Profile Joined September 2010
Norway1360 Posts
August 08 2013 15:02 GMT
#234
Well that sucks. I just called my LG monitor a whore.
FeyFey
Profile Joined September 2010
Germany10114 Posts
August 08 2013 15:03 GMT
#235
On August 08 2013 23:59 canikizu wrote:
This basically confirms that IM is the new team in Proleague.


I would say this basically confirms that IM has not enough money to join the Sc2 Proleague even if they wanted to.
geokilla
Profile Joined May 2011
Canada8246 Posts
August 08 2013 15:04 GMT
#236
Lots of biased posting here. IM could have removed LG from the team name but they didn't because they thought the contract was getting extended. "Free" advertising for a while is fine but it is all almost august 2013 now. What did they expect after all this time? Contract appearing out of the blue?
Cracy
Profile Joined October 2011
Poland221 Posts
August 08 2013 15:06 GMT
#237
Reading this thread is painful for me. Much more that qq'ing about OP, nerfs and so on.

From an objective point of view all we have here are claims of some people, who have a position allowing them to use public for their support.

Regardless the truth in their statements.

If what they are saying is true, the person responsible for sponsorships in the IM team should lose job immediately for allowing the team to were the LG tags for almost a year without contract. In most cases people do sth like this you are looking for a fraud.




Also, deciding not to buy a company's merchendise because of what PR people did or did not is plain stupid. That a group of people in a company made (if...) a mistake, doesn't mean their products got worse.

And honestly this actions may only backfire your beloved teams in the long term.
Oderint dum probent
Akaann
Profile Joined May 2011
Switzerland82 Posts
August 08 2013 15:08 GMT
#238
Well that really sucks! Now i won't ever buy an LG product :D

Will IM soon be on KeSpa? I guess it would make sence for them, since they are the only eSF team on the same level as the Kespa teams... Also the fact that Kespa helps them out is a sign imho.
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Account252508
Profile Joined February 2012
3454 Posts
August 08 2013 15:10 GMT
#239
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Coolhwip
Profile Joined March 2011
Sweden1381 Posts
August 08 2013 15:13 GMT
#240
Sounds like it's IM's own fault tbh. Ofc we might not have all the information.
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