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NOTE: This is my first translation to English from Korean and is no way reflects my opinion on this. Please don't eat me alive like last time. 
It has been reported that Kespa is planning to abandon its 10-year old eSports game, Brood War, and adopt SC2 as part of their approved games.
On July 7th, according to related correspondence, Kespa representatives and its sponsors' representatives (SKTelecom, Samsung, etc.) were invited by Blizzard Entertainment in Irvine, California.
For now, both sides are denying this rumor. However, detailed visiting dates and names of the people involved were in the rumor, so this rumor may actually be credible.
the significance of this event shows that Blizzard is genuinely willing to cooperate with Kespa despite their past conflicts. Not exactly making Kespa to completely switch over to SC2, but more likely asking their input on the HOTS expansion with pro-gaming perspective.
Anyways, this shows that the relationship between the two has improved dramatically. On July 6th's press conference, Kim Joon Ho, the current Kespa president spoke, "Blizzard's goal is to expand their Asian market, and we believe that we can help Blizzard with our experiences with running BW leagues."
The problem is if Kespa switches to pro-SC2, GomTV may be in trouble when Blizzard endorses a Kespa-owned SC2 league. As it turns out, GomTV did not know about this secret meeting. A GomTV representative said, "We found out about this later, No comment."
Source: http://www.clubcity.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=82629
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Oh my! I sure hope this does not affect GOM nor Broodwar much....
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Sucks if it is true but it was going to happen eventually.
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Woah, what! Holy moly! O_O
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NOTE: This is my first translation to English from Korean and is no way reflects my opinion on this. Please don't eat me alive like last time.
lol,its ok.
KeSPA is not switching to SC2,its adding it under it its belt.they have enough money and power to run both scenes.
this is assuming the rumor is true.
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if this happens... that means foreigners cannot participate in the GSL anymore?
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Interesting, the idea of more StarCraft II leagues in Korea is good!
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I'm telling you guys, something big is on the horizon! :D
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Interesting to see how this will turn out.
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this could be really good or really bad. tons of old bw players hate kespa and hope it dies in hell. Some love the games it allowed us to watch because of it
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GomTV has been far too useful of a partner in Korea to be abandoned. It's likely some sort of reintegration will occur.
AWESOME NEWS HOWEVER.
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i see nothing wrong with having 2 proSC2 leagues in Korea, assuming Blizzard allows it. That just means more competition, higher prizes from both leagues to lure players over, and lots of fun(twice as much, actually!)
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Why would they have to abandon BW? How could their relationship have improved dramatically when that was the main sticking point?
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What about the 2 year exclusive agreement Blizzard and Gretech hold?
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On July 08 2011 14:40 HydraLF wrote:
What about the 2 year exclusive agreement Blizzard and Gretech hold?
The article is talking about the scenario when the exclusive agreement expires.
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is the abandon comment part of the source or is that your words?
Edit: Oh, I see. You should probably make that more clear or people probably will jump on you. Just add like "When Brood War's license expires, Kespa plans to" X - if that's true.
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On July 08 2011 14:41 dcemuser wrote:
is the abandon comment part of the source or is that your words?
It's the source. I double checked. ;_;
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Huge news. Is this good or bad? Abandoning Broodwar sounds pretty silly imo. I would be very disappointed.
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I highly doubt Kespa would abandon BW, thats just sensationalist nonsense. They might be interesting in starting an sc2 tournament series however. Anyway Gom has exclusive broadcast rights for a while still, I doubt blizzard would break its own contract without goms approval. If they could get kespa to broadcast the GSL on their TV network in exchange for a cut or something it could work well for all parties.
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On July 08 2011 14:41 dcemuser wrote:
is the abandon comment part of the source or is that your words?
The source says "change vehicles" (implied)/transition. So yes it can mean abandon.
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