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Hanbit Stars Has Found A New Sponsor

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LosingID8
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
CA10835 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-07-31 08:23:40
July 31 2008 08:17 GMT
#1
For reference: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=72427

Many people were concerned about the future of Hanbit Stars, as Hanbit decided to pull out of sponsorship. Well, it looks like there is finally some good news.

ItemMania, a 6 year old gaming-related company has decided to be their new sponsor! They deal with online gaming item transactions for MMORPGs.

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So basically, the Hanbit team is safe, and will probably have a new name to be announced sometime soon.

ItemMania_Free?

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knyttym
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States5797 Posts
July 31 2008 08:22 GMT
#2
omg Yay!!!!
I was worrying so much about Free
Texas
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
Germany2388 Posts
July 31 2008 08:24 GMT
#3
ItemMania hosted tournaments/leagues for sc already some while ago iirc. draco participated in one of those
HaXxorIzed
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
Australia8434 Posts
July 31 2008 08:24 GMT
#4
Good news for the team. Hopefully they'll be able to put together something like Daezang/GGplay/Free of yore.
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OneOther
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
United States10774 Posts
July 31 2008 08:26 GMT
#5
IteamMania loool
Mikilatov
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States3897 Posts
July 31 2008 08:27 GMT
#6
I wonder if what sort of changes (if any) are going to come about other than the name and sponsor. Hopefully something to make them a bit more competitive.
♥ I used to lasso the shit out of your tournaments =( ♥ | Much is my hero. | zizi yO~ | Be Nice, TL.
Tinithor
Profile Joined February 2008
United States1552 Posts
July 31 2008 08:28 GMT
#7
Sounds good to me.
"Oh-My-GOD" ... "Is many mutas, Yes?"
cujo2k
Profile Joined October 2007
Canada1044 Posts
July 31 2008 08:57 GMT
#8
well at least item mania doesn't sound much weirder than we made fox..they got that going for them
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Nitrogen
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States5345 Posts
July 31 2008 08:57 GMT
#9
yay
UNFUCK YOURSELF
St3MoR
Profile Joined November 2002
Spain3256 Posts
July 31 2008 08:59 GMT
#10
YAY i cheer for this!!! so oldschool team must prevail!
Prophet in TL of the Makoto0124 ways
roadrunner_sc
Profile Blog Joined April 2006
United States1220 Posts
July 31 2008 09:02 GMT
#11
What was the issue with Hanbit? Company not doing well and cutting back?


ItemMania, a 6 year old gaming-related company has decided to be their new sponsor! They deal with online gaming item transactions for MMORPGs.


Never realized there's market big enough for a company specializing in virtual trade to be viable, amazing how influential all these MMORGs have become.

Anyway pretty happy for these guys, sc scene still going strong, hopefully : )
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iloveHieu
Profile Joined November 2007
United States1919 Posts
July 31 2008 09:04 GMT
#12
great news indeed! there're still a lot of interests in ProLeague <3
Xellos <3
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Profile Blog Joined July 2007
New Zealand6138 Posts
July 31 2008 09:07 GMT
#13
LOL
I can already see them wearing "WoW gold 24 hour delivery!" ads on their uniforms.
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Late
Profile Joined August 2007
Latvia418 Posts
July 31 2008 09:16 GMT
#14
Hopefully their team will have a better life now, watching Real Story Progamer about their head coach, it seemed pretty sad.

''IM_Free'' doesn't sand too bad to me or ''IM_Pretty'' lol.
clazziquai
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
6685 Posts
July 31 2008 09:33 GMT
#15
ItemMania Stars?
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Ro[]t
Profile Joined July 2008
Sweden147 Posts
July 31 2008 09:36 GMT
#16
Great news
clazziquai
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
6685 Posts
July 31 2008 09:42 GMT
#17
Oh wait......wasn't there an ItemMania tournament? Haha the names were confusing, so I didn't know who was who ^^;;
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Texas
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
Germany2388 Posts
July 31 2008 09:50 GMT
#18
On July 31 2008 18:42 clazziquai wrote:
Oh wait......wasn't there an ItemMania tournament? Haha the names were confusing, so I didn't know who was who ^^;;

ye; they had pick id's like ItemMania_1, ItemMania_2, etc.
RamenStyle
Profile Joined September 2004
United States1929 Posts
July 31 2008 10:03 GMT
#19
Well, it's a start. I don't think the investment will be huge, but for sure there will be changes in drafting/recruiting policies, training regime, etc. If they could pull a nice move and bring some good player to support Free while breeding their most promising rookies(they have a couple of them), they could grow big in a few months as STX did.

Dunno, they could recall Daezang back once he is done with the army. He is not playing that well lately, but he is not that bad of a lineup filler for PL. At least better than what they've got right now.

Or aim for one of those players who have misteriously vanished, like Casy or UpMagic. Ok, UpMagic will never leave eStro, and maybe Casy has too big of a contract for the new sponsor to take on, but I'm sure there are some underused talented gamers who could use a change of team.

Anyways, this makes my day a little bit happier. Thanks for the news.
meegrean
Profile Joined May 2008
Thailand7699 Posts
July 31 2008 10:10 GMT
#20
This is good news. I think Ganzi has some potential too, other than Free.
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