Naver now officially sponsors SSL. This is a big deal as Naver is basically the google of Korea.
From wikipedia:
Naver (Hangul: 네이버) is a popular search portal in South Korea, owned by the Naver Corporation. Naver was launched in June 1999 by ex-Samsung employees, and it debuted as the first Web portal in South Korea that used its own proprietary search engine. Among Naver's features is "Comprehensive Search", launched in 2000, which provides results from multiple categories on a single page. It has since added new services such as "Knowledge Search", launched in 2002. It also provides Internet services including a news service, an e-mail service, an academic thesis search service, and a children's portal. In 2005, Naver launched Happybean, the world's first online donation portal, which allows users to find information and make donations to over 20,000 civil society and social welfare organizations.
According to comScore, Naver received 2 billion queries in August 2007, accounting for over 70% of all search queries in Korea,[1] and making it the fifth most used search engine in the world, following Google search, Yahoo!, Baidu and Bing.[2] More than 25 million Koreans have Naver as the default browser start page.[3] Naver launched its service in Japan in 2009, marking their first expansion out of Korea.[citation needed]
In 2013, Lee Hae-jin, the chairman and chief strategy of Naver, saw his stake value hover above 1 trillion won (US$939.4 million) on the back of its messenger service LINE.[4]
Not sure if this is the best place to post this, but it feels pretty relevant! I just want to know how a sponsorship/deal like this ended up happening, haha
On January 15 2015 14:25 Blargh wrote: CJ using beats is a sign that SC2 is not in a good place...
But Naver sponsoring SSL is pretty damn huge. I definitely see SSL becoming the bigger league now.
Beats definitely got too much hype, but also receives way too much bashing. Good sponsorship for CJ.
On January 15 2015 14:34 lichter wrote: i think i'll start using naver translate instead of google translate from now on
I started about 2 weeks before this news. It's worth it :D
It's also funny how LINE first got huge in Japan, and Naver is commonly used in Japan (not neatly as much as Google), but japanese people didn't even know that Naver was Korean XD (this was a while ago btw).
Really cool. I don't think Naver has prior eSport sponsorships? At least nothing of this magnitude. Its always nice to see new faces on the sponsorship side.
To be honest I am not surprised that the tournaments produced by SpoTV are generating more interest lately. Their production is very good, they have made a great job in hyping their tournaments, last year's PL was an indisputable success, and now very few people would say Code S/WCS KR is a better tournament (quality issues, etc.). I'd like to think this is a sign that while SC2 will never be as mainstream as other competitive games it is definitely a healthy game and has a bright future ahead just because of the hardcore niche it exploits (which is basically us).
Man, this is what it feels like when a company actually listens to it's demographics. This is the first proleague individual league and its done so well from what i can only imagine was from all the feed back they've gotten since the first hybrid league. It's hard to believe in what GSL is doing when they've come only so far, which is barely anything if we compare it to other leagues throughout e-sports. SpoTV is doing a great job in listening to its consumers! Please give me more zoom in's on pros faces after bad micro mistakes!
Awesome news! I think SSL will be huge for sc2 in Korea .
On January 15 2015 14:17 Adept wrote: https://twitter.com/HeadCoachPark/status/555589942592536578 Not sure if this is the best place to post this, but it feels pretty relevant! I just want to know how a sponsorship/deal like this ended up happening, haha
On January 15 2015 23:30 Veriol wrote: When i see how fast Kespa turned things around I wonder where SC2 would be if they were here from start
well they probably wouldn't have tried to kill Sc2 in the beginning if they would have switched right away. So I guess Sc2 in Korea would be better off. It is good to see them make up for what they did around WoL, even though they only do it for their own benefit.
But judging from what they tried when they did come over to Sc2. They would have shut down Gom hard and we would have no english streams and no Koreans coming over to international events.
I am pretty egoistic though so I dislike this Korea centric development greatly that they enforce. So my bias is easily explained.
On January 15 2015 22:02 rotta wrote: Very nice, that settles the acronym farce quite efficiently too.
No it doesn't, what happens if naver doesn't sponsor it in a few seasons? (or maybe even sooner)
Then it becomes unsettled again and something else will be figured out, probably. But for now, everyone gets to chill out over acronym rage, and that's neat.
On January 15 2015 23:30 Veriol wrote: When i see how fast Kespa turned things around I wonder where SC2 would be if they were here from start
well they probably wouldn't have tried to kill Sc2 in the beginning if they would have switched right away. So I guess Sc2 in Korea would be better off. It is good to see them make up for what they did around WoL, even though they only do it for their own benefit.
But judging from what they tried when they did come over to Sc2. They would have shut down Gom hard and we would have no english streams and no Koreans coming over to international events.
I am pretty egoistic though so I dislike this Korea centric development greatly that they enforce. So my bias is easily explained.
I understand where you're coming from, but what exactly have the German eSports Association done for eSports in Asia?
On January 15 2015 23:30 Veriol wrote: When i see how fast Kespa turned things around I wonder where SC2 would be if they were here from start
well they probably wouldn't have tried to kill Sc2 in the beginning if they would have switched right away. So I guess Sc2 in Korea would be better off. It is good to see them make up for what they did around WoL, even though they only do it for their own benefit.
But judging from what they tried when they did come over to Sc2. They would have shut down Gom hard and we would have no english streams and no Koreans coming over to international events.
I am pretty egoistic though so I dislike this Korea centric development greatly that they enforce. So my bias is easily explained.
I understand where you're coming from, but what exactly have the German eSports Association done for eSports in Asia?
GeSPA allowed inferior Korean players like Patience to come and get wrecked by true EPS heroes like HasuObs, whose skill is ten times higher than any silly GSL champion.
On January 15 2015 23:30 Veriol wrote: When i see how fast Kespa turned things around I wonder where SC2 would be if they were here from start
well they probably wouldn't have tried to kill Sc2 in the beginning if they would have switched right away. So I guess Sc2 in Korea would be better off. It is good to see them make up for what they did around WoL, even though they only do it for their own benefit.
But judging from what they tried when they did come over to Sc2. They would have shut down Gom hard and we would have no english streams and no Koreans coming over to international events.
I am pretty egoistic though so I dislike this Korea centric development greatly that they enforce. So my bias is easily explained.
I understand where you're coming from, but what exactly have the German eSports Association done for eSports in Asia?
GeSPA allowed inferior Korean players like Patience to come and get wrecked by true EPS heroes like HasuObs, whose skill is ten times higher than any silly GSL champion.
On January 16 2015 02:39 SetGuitarsToKill wrote: So is it officially NSSL now? Or are we gonna try 3 or 4 more acronyms until something finally sticks?
On January 15 2015 23:30 Veriol wrote: When i see how fast Kespa turned things around I wonder where SC2 would be if they were here from start
well they probably wouldn't have tried to kill Sc2 in the beginning if they would have switched right away. So I guess Sc2 in Korea would be better off. It is good to see them make up for what they did around WoL, even though they only do it for their own benefit.
But judging from what they tried when they did come over to Sc2. They would have shut down Gom hard and we would have no english streams and no Koreans coming over to international events.
I am pretty egoistic though so I dislike this Korea centric development greatly that they enforce. So my bias is easily explained.
I understand where you're coming from, but what exactly have the German eSports Association done for eSports in Asia?
GeSPA allowed inferior Korean players like Patience to come and get wrecked by true EPS heroes like HasuObs, whose skill is ten times higher than any silly GSL champion.
All praise our gods, the champions, the legends, the only real "Manschaft": In the captain position, the Macro king, the undisputed king of EPS, with his ear for gossip and his eyes set on more EPS titles, it isssssss : DDdddDDDDennis "HasuObs" SchneiderRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrRR
As the last standing wall for any inferior foreign entity, the rocking enforcerer, the Messi of the german defense, it isssssss; Giacomooooooooooooooooooooo "Socke" ThüsSSSSsssssssssssssss
And last but not least. it is the latest addition to the EPS legends, He is the german version of any hero/HERO/HerO/herO, he doesn't care how many hero's there are from korea, since they're all zergs or protosses anywayss, he is the king of marines, the king of hero's it issssss : Gabriellllllll "HeRoMaRinE" SeeeeeGaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaTTTTTTTT
On January 15 2015 23:30 Veriol wrote: When i see how fast Kespa turned things around I wonder where SC2 would be if they were here from start
well they probably wouldn't have tried to kill Sc2 in the beginning if they would have switched right away. So I guess Sc2 in Korea would be better off. It is good to see them make up for what they did around WoL, even though they only do it for their own benefit.
But judging from what they tried when they did come over to Sc2. They would have shut down Gom hard and we would have no english streams and no Koreans coming over to international events.
I am pretty egoistic though so I dislike this Korea centric development greatly that they enforce. So my bias is easily explained.
I understand where you're coming from, but what exactly have the German eSports Association done for eSports in Asia?
GeSPA allowed inferior Korean players like Patience to come and get wrecked by true EPS heroes like HasuObs, whose skill is ten times higher than any silly GSL champion.
So you're saying that KeSPA should let foreign teams like EG and TL come participate in ProLeague so that KESPA teams can demolish their inferiority? Or that, rather than leaving NSL open for foreigners to come participate at their own free will, they should instead invite them so they can make a silly example of their inferiority? Kind of like how players were invited by GOM and not a single foreigner ever qualified for Code S, ever? I guess shots were fired, but I should save myself by saying <3 TL and unless it herO we're talking about, I always root for the foreigners. Edit: I actually already forgot how the heroes of the foreign scene were already invited to NSL and all lost in the first round.... I was really hoping they'd win too, but that kinda smashes your post beyond repair.
On January 15 2015 23:30 Veriol wrote: When i see how fast Kespa turned things around I wonder where SC2 would be if they were here from start
well they probably wouldn't have tried to kill Sc2 in the beginning if they would have switched right away. So I guess Sc2 in Korea would be better off. It is good to see them make up for what they did around WoL, even though they only do it for their own benefit.
But judging from what they tried when they did come over to Sc2. They would have shut down Gom hard and we would have no english streams and no Koreans coming over to international events.
I am pretty egoistic though so I dislike this Korea centric development greatly that they enforce. So my bias is easily explained.
I understand where you're coming from, but what exactly have the German eSports Association done for eSports in Asia?
GeSPA allowed inferior Korean players like Patience to come and get wrecked by true EPS heroes like HasuObs, whose skill is ten times higher than any silly GSL champion.
So you're saying that KeSPA should let foreign teams like EG and TL come participate in ProLeague so that KESPA teams can demolish their inferiority? Or that, rather than leaving NSL open for foreigners to come participate at their own free will, they should instead invite them so they can make a silly example of their inferiority? Kind of like how players were invited by GOM and not a single foreigner ever qualified for Code S, ever? I guess shots were fired, but I should save myself by saying <3 TL and unless it herO we're talking about, I always root for the foreigners. Edit: I actually already forgot how the heroes of the foreign scene were already invited to NSL and all lost in the first round.... I was really hoping they'd win too, but that kinda smashes your post beyond repair.
Err, someone didn't watch HSC. On a side note though, Stephano did qualify for Code S.
On January 15 2015 23:30 Veriol wrote: When i see how fast Kespa turned things around I wonder where SC2 would be if they were here from start
well they probably wouldn't have tried to kill Sc2 in the beginning if they would have switched right away. So I guess Sc2 in Korea would be better off. It is good to see them make up for what they did around WoL, even though they only do it for their own benefit.
But judging from what they tried when they did come over to Sc2. They would have shut down Gom hard and we would have no english streams and no Koreans coming over to international events.
I am pretty egoistic though so I dislike this Korea centric development greatly that they enforce. So my bias is easily explained.
I understand where you're coming from, but what exactly have the German eSports Association done for eSports in Asia?
GeSPA allowed inferior Korean players like Patience to come and get wrecked by true EPS heroes like HasuObs, whose skill is ten times higher than any silly GSL champion.
So you're saying that KeSPA should let foreign teams like EG and TL come participate in ProLeague so that KESPA teams can demolish their inferiority? Or that, rather than leaving NSL open for foreigners to come participate at their own free will, they should instead invite them so they can make a silly example of their inferiority? Kind of like how players were invited by GOM and not a single foreigner ever qualified for Code S, ever? I guess shots were fired, but I should save myself by saying <3 TL and unless it herO we're talking about, I always root for the foreigners. Edit: I actually already forgot how the heroes of the foreign scene were already invited to NSL and all lost in the first round.... I was really hoping they'd win too, but that kinda smashes your post beyond repair.
EPT
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