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On November 02 2013 17:06 chaos021 wrote:Show nested quote +On November 02 2013 06:45 FXOBoSs wrote:
I hate reading threads like this. Mostly because of the insane speculation that goes on. For as long as ESFXTV.com exists they are still in e-sports but in a different way. I think the ultimate reason why FXOpen stopped sponsorship is because the players either 1) refused to stream or 2) couldn't draw viewers to esfxtv.com which in my opinion is a silly platform based on a silly idea.
If viewers had followed the twitter accounts or whatever and clicked on the esfxtv stream links and produced good numbers they would have stayed in the sponsorships or trimmed teams to the ones who drew traffic.
I think unstable touched on this in his leaving video. But there isn't really much else to say about it. If this is the case, then a lot of teams in general do a spectacularly crappy job of advertising, getting the word or whatever you want to call it. I didn't know anyone on any FXO teams had a twitter that they cared about. EG players, most notably iNcontroL, asks viewers to do things for them, and guess what.... they do it. People will do things to keep teams and/or players going, but they don't read minds. Tons of sheeple to herd out there!
have to agree with this. it's clear that if your only marketing of the team consists of your players streaming their ladder practice on twitch, you're going to fail.
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On November 02 2013 17:06 chaos021 wrote:Show nested quote +On November 02 2013 06:45 FXOBoSs wrote:
I hate reading threads like this. Mostly because of the insane speculation that goes on. For as long as ESFXTV.com exists they are still in e-sports but in a different way. I think the ultimate reason why FXOpen stopped sponsorship is because the players either 1) refused to stream or 2) couldn't draw viewers to esfxtv.com which in my opinion is a silly platform based on a silly idea.
If viewers had followed the twitter accounts or whatever and clicked on the esfxtv stream links and produced good numbers they would have stayed in the sponsorships or trimmed teams to the ones who drew traffic.
I think unstable touched on this in his leaving video. But there isn't really much else to say about it. If this is the case, then a lot of teams in general do a spectacularly crappy job of advertising, getting the word or whatever you want to call it. I didn't know anyone on any FXO teams had a twitter that they cared about. EG players, most notably iNcontroL, asks viewers to do things for them, and guess what.... they do it. People will do things to keep teams and/or players going, but they don't read minds. Tons of sheeple to herd out there!
To be fair, they are russian/ukrainian, you are not. They have their own SC2 scene, sc2tv.ru and so on.
If they are active in their scene, publishing news, streaming, we won't hear about that on TL.
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that's sad. really looking forward to this blog. good luck to everyone !
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I'M so sad. My loved LoWeLy Has inactive ╦_╦
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On November 02 2013 04:58 HighArT wrote:Show nested quote +On November 01 2013 23:46 TheBloodyDwarf wrote:
What was NaVi's part of this team? FXO was sponsoring, what NaVi was doing? I wonder that too 
nothing
just a tag (fanbase)
because na'vi.cs are almost legendary in Ukraine and na'vi dota also
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I've asked Lowely about this and he told me that this is not his final desicion.
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On November 02 2013 18:41 dreamseller wrote:Show nested quote +On November 02 2013 17:06 chaos021 wrote:On November 02 2013 06:45 FXOBoSs wrote:
I hate reading threads like this. Mostly because of the insane speculation that goes on. For as long as ESFXTV.com exists they are still in e-sports but in a different way. I think the ultimate reason why FXOpen stopped sponsorship is because the players either 1) refused to stream or 2) couldn't draw viewers to esfxtv.com which in my opinion is a silly platform based on a silly idea.
If viewers had followed the twitter accounts or whatever and clicked on the esfxtv stream links and produced good numbers they would have stayed in the sponsorships or trimmed teams to the ones who drew traffic.
I think unstable touched on this in his leaving video. But there isn't really much else to say about it. If this is the case, then a lot of teams in general do a spectacularly crappy job of advertising, getting the word or whatever you want to call it. I didn't know anyone on any FXO teams had a twitter that they cared about. EG players, most notably iNcontroL, asks viewers to do things for them, and guess what.... they do it. People will do things to keep teams and/or players going, but they don't read minds. Tons of sheeple to herd out there! have to agree with this. it's clear that if your only marketing of the team consists of your players streaming their ladder practice on twitch, you're going to fail.
They weren't even doing that to begin with like Josh said. I'm one of the guys vehemently against using streaming as your platform as well because it isn't good practice. Still there are a lot of things you can be doing when it comes to generating content, which a lot of teams fail to recognize.
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On November 02 2013 05:37 marcesr wrote:
Another blow for the all aspiring, low and mid tier foreign progamers. SC2 at the very top might be doing fine but below that level we have huge problems.
To be honest, there are way too many subpar people who want to earn money playing this game. There's no reason anyone should earn money if they're not part of one of the top-tier teams. Starcraft is first and foremost a video game, not a profession.
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Darn. It breaks my heart that another SC2 has disbanded... I wish the best for the players and that they can continue their passion for SC2 in other manners.
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im confused here... so this means Navi will no longer carry the FXO.eu team as well? Dafuq... BabyKnight was doing so well too... 
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On November 05 2013 03:10 Advantageous wrote:im confused here... so this means Navi will no longer carry the FXO.eu team as well? Dafuq... BabyKnight was doing so well too...
BabyKnight left for Millenium two months ago 
Na'Vi/FXO.EU no longer exists. Minato has joined another Ukrainian team called Cascade (which was Beastyqt's team). HappyZerg has a personal sponsorship from ESFXtv, which is somehow related to FXO; Strelok is teamless, and LoWeLy is contemplating going inactive.
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On November 02 2013 20:37 00Visor wrote:Show nested quote +On November 02 2013 17:06 chaos021 wrote:On November 02 2013 06:45 FXOBoSs wrote:
I hate reading threads like this. Mostly because of the insane speculation that goes on. For as long as ESFXTV.com exists they are still in e-sports but in a different way. I think the ultimate reason why FXOpen stopped sponsorship is because the players either 1) refused to stream or 2) couldn't draw viewers to esfxtv.com which in my opinion is a silly platform based on a silly idea.
If viewers had followed the twitter accounts or whatever and clicked on the esfxtv stream links and produced good numbers they would have stayed in the sponsorships or trimmed teams to the ones who drew traffic.
I think unstable touched on this in his leaving video. But there isn't really much else to say about it. If this is the case, then a lot of teams in general do a spectacularly crappy job of advertising, getting the word or whatever you want to call it. I didn't know anyone on any FXO teams had a twitter that they cared about. EG players, most notably iNcontroL, asks viewers to do things for them, and guess what.... they do it. People will do things to keep teams and/or players going, but they don't read minds. Tons of sheeple to herd out there! To be fair, they are russian/ukrainian, you are not. They have their own SC2 scene, sc2tv.ru and so on. If they are active in their scene, publishing news, streaming, we won't hear about that on TL.
So what? I follow White-Ra, DiMaGa, BratOk (when he was streaming). If you play solid Starcraft, I'm looking for you, your stream and anything you give a flying crap about. So why not throw out commercials? Plug your sponsors? Tell the tons of sheeple out there what to click if they like you??? For all of SC2's failing, it has truly become a global game so being Russian or Ukrainian has nothing to do with it in my opinion unless that player has decided to make themselves insular.
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