EPTSuper and KeeN join GEM Korea - Page 2
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WombaT
Northern Ireland27464 Posts
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Lonyo
United Kingdom3884 Posts
Many people in "real" sports have managers or are under a management company. If you take Formula 1 (well, motorsports), a driver will usually have a manager. That manager will help them get sponsorship so they can drive for a team (a lot of teams employ drivers who bring sponsorship to the team, for obvious reasons, rather than paying them), or they might arrange for individual sponsorship/promotion deals for products, or they will talk to various teams to get their driver a drive (e.g. talking to F1 teams to see if the team has a space for their driver). Same for football players, they have managers who handle contract negotiations, and will often get them individual endorsement deals. https://www.google.co.uk/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=_XIIVMz1CvKq8wfh64DwBQ&gws_rd=ssl#q=football management agency Lots of companies. Of course, in eSports being on a team is less of a requirement than motorsports or football, but the rest of the work still needs to be done such as arranging sponsorship contracts etc. Basically GEM does what any management company does for a sports player, deals with the non-sporting side of things so that the player can earn more money or find the most suitable team etc. | ||
Darkhorse
United States23455 Posts
On September 04 2014 22:49 Wombat_NI wrote: If it gets me some more Keen and Super I am totally down with this move. I dunno. Apparently all the MVP guys left because they didn't want to play SPL so we probably won't see them there. Plus we don't see Mvp and Nestea much and they are on GEM Korea no? | ||
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fenrysk
United States364 Posts
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Liliputin
Czech Republic458 Posts
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ZAiNs
United Kingdom6525 Posts
On September 04 2014 23:39 Liliputin wrote: I was so sure about DRG and Super coming to Prime, now I really dont know who will come to that team... Im starting to get a little worried if they can get atleast 2 decent players... Super must have really really not wanted to play on Prime for him to pass up an ID as badass as SuperPrime. | ||
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Penev
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AWalker9
United Kingdom7229 Posts
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Twine
France246 Posts
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KingofdaHipHop
United States25602 Posts
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vult
United States9400 Posts
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teddyoojo
Germany22369 Posts
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Phredxor
New Zealand15076 Posts
Would be strange having so many in Korea on no proper team, as the only big things around are GSL and SPL now. | ||
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Dodgin
Canada39254 Posts
On September 05 2014 08:27 teddyoojo wrote: GEM was totally not EMG and which was totally not azubu or clauf or i dont even know anymore right? eh who cares, they're taking care of players who would otherwise be teamless and probably retire. yay dirty esports money. | ||
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Clonester
Germany2808 Posts
And the EU and AM Regions dont have enough money either for all the strong players who leave Korea / Korean teams. I hope this wount backfire, so that many player quit SC II and less player will invest their live into SC II and we got a lack of talents and strong players in one or two years. | ||
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usethis2
2164 Posts
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Dodgin
Canada39254 Posts
On September 06 2014 06:46 usethis2 wrote: What the heck does GEM stand for, anyway? Gay European Male? Global Esports Management, I think? | ||
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AWalker9
United Kingdom7229 Posts
 Dream,  Billowy,  Sniper, Shine, hyvaa , aLive, TAiLS and Swagger are doing alright | ||
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Yorkie
United States12612 Posts
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creamyturtle
United States487 Posts
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