The Swedish Brood War Initiative - Page 25

On July 28 2013 02:02 Mewka wrote:
yo anything is comming from SBWI ?

On July 28 2013 04:28 dRaW wrote:


Death

On July 28 2013 09:45 mjuuy wrote:

Summertime yo

Could you explain how the funding works? It sounds a bit hard to understand for aliens, especially for me as German. German press, media and politics consider video games more of a threat than actually a contribution to culture…

First of all Sweden is all into the national economic theory on social capital. Since organizations are a great way to improve social capital in a country the Swedish government funds some of them.What they fund mostly is 2 types of organizations: Either youth organizations or so called study circles. Study circles are a group of people who just meet up and study something together, such as let’s say knitting. They meet up, teach eachother how to knit etc. and just hang out. Then the gov will support this so they have money to buy coffe, fabrics or whatever, some cookies etc, but in my case it is that we study BW and use the money to support tours to study from. We meet up and watch BW, play BW. This, although we in practice are a youth organization still. The youth organization part derives from the fact that sweden had a lot of alcoholism back in the day and anything the will keep the kids away from the streets and “occupied” is good. However restrictions on non-drinking etc. doesn’t exist anymore. Nowadays it is mostly about young people learning how to organize things and have something to do, meet friends etc and the Swedish government funds this. [...]

On August 30 2013 01:32 Jaevlaterran wrote:
Meeting 31st of August Stockholm Gärdets subway @ 14:00.
It will be possible to be on skype for the meeting, just add jaevlaterran on skype unless you already have.

We will mainly discuss
if we want to go in as Main sponsor of the ICCUP main event.
How we are going to run our clanleague to take the place of Gambits cup (organizing group etc.)
Review of how the SBWI Summer Tour went and how we could've made it better.
Other small tours to host within this year.
Checking out the progress of the website with report from our senior web designer.


Another note: Sonic is now aware we exist! He posted the picture of us during the last Brood Bar event on his facebook page (after snipealot told him about us). He also wrote in korean:

"A foreigner from the famous website team liquid sent me this picture. During the SSL8 final in Stockholm Sweden, starcraft1 loving fans watching (the broadcast) on a projector. They also made a poster, I will upload that next"

followed by tons of hilarious korean comments from his fans ofc.

On August 30 2013 04:05 thezanursic wrote:
I personally can't wait for the teamleague! I'm also hoping for a couple of Koth style events if possible.

On August 30 2013 08:01 Jaevlaterran wrote:


depends on what the donors say

On September 02 2013 07:50 Jaevlaterran wrote:
On the meeting we decided to do the following:

Go in as main sponsor for the ICCUP Main Event ($250 already transfered)
Organize a team league to take the place of Gambit's cup (with the help from additional sponsors and team fees: $1000)
Organize 2 smaller tours ($50 winner takes it all style)
Organize a LAN in Gothenburg to promote SBWI ($25+)

On September 02 2013 08:12 2Pacalypse- wrote:
Awesome!

Team league is in dire need to keep the foreign scene alive.

On September 02 2013 09:09 thezanursic wrote:

Keep it up! I just hope that you don't run out of budget.

Go in as main sponsor for the ICCUP Main Event ($250 already transfered)

Soo are you planning to transfer more or was that just worder wierdly? Ohh and when would we be seeing the aforementioned teamleague?