StarTale is one of the most famous Korean eSport organizations which features a StarCraft 2 team and also featured a League of Legends team. Today they announced that they disbanded the team. It seems like the team asked for a salary and the organization didn't agree on that and said that they need more sponsors for that. Also Choi "Locodoco" Yoon-Sub's parents didn't want him to play League of Legends professional.
Lineup of StarTale
Ryu "Ryu" Sang-ook Go "Joker" Dong-bin Won "Mafa" Sang-yeon "5ocean" Sin-hyeok Choi "Locodoco" Yoon-sub
국내 최초의 리그오브레전드(이하 LOL) 프로팀이었던 스타테일 LOL팀이 해체를 결정했다.
스타테일 LOL팀은 연봉 협상 과정에서 의견차를 좁히지 못하고 결국 해체한 것으로 밝혀졌다. 스타테일 선수들은 섬머 리그 8강 탈락 후 팀에 급여를 요청했다.
이에 대해 스타테일은 LOL팀이 뚜렷한 후원사를 찾기 힘든 상황에서 현재 급여를 지급할 여건이 되지 않기 때문에 선수들에게 다른 팀으로 옮기거나 후원사를 찾을 때까지 기다려 달라고 통보했다. 스타테일 선수들은 모두 연습실을 떠난 상태이며 이적할 팀을 물색하고 있는 것으로 알려졌다.
스타테일 원종욱 총감독은 "처음 LOL팀을 꾸릴 때를 생각하면 선수들에게 충분한 급여를 지급하고 싶지만 현재로서는 현실적으로 무리가 있다"며 "LOL 팀이 해체되어 안타깝지만 선수들이 보다 나은 환경의 팀으로 이적해 좋은 활동을 하길 바란다"고 말했다. 원 감독은 선수들의 이적을 돕기 위해 이들을 원하는 팀들을 찾고 있다고 덧붙였다.
한편 스타테일은 새로운 멤버를 영입해 LOL팀을 꾸릴 계획은 없으며 스타크래프트2:자유의날개 종목에 집중할 것으로 알려졌다.
[데일리e스포츠 강성길 기자 gillnim@dailyesports.com]
Translation:
The first professional LOL team in Korea, StarTale, decided to disband their LOL team.
The team announced that they were unable to come to an agreement in the salary negotiation process. After failing to advance to the round of 8 in the Summer League, the LOL players asked for the appropriate salary payment up-to-date.
In response, StarTale team management told the players to consider transferring to another team or to wait indefinitely until the team finds additional sponsors to make up for the financial shortfalls. As of today, StarTale LOL players have all left the practice house and are looking for new teams.
StarTale's head coach Mr. Won said "thinking back to our humble beginnings, it would be nice to pay all our players right now but the reality doesn't allow us to do that." He added with much regret that he wishes the players well as they look for teams with better finances. He is personally helping each and every player in their team search efforts.
StarTale also announced that they do not plan on making a new LOL team, and that they will focus on managing their SC2 team.
- article by Reporter Kang, DES
+ additional information from the mirror article on Fomos
- ST seems to be in pretty bad financial situation, some of their SC2 players haven't been paid fully either - Loco also has conflicts with his parents over his career (they don't want him to be a progamer)
*edit: ALSO BENSON why you no hang in our channel more often?
The irony is that people were confident in the ESF/Kespa fight that Startale was one of the stronger teams financially just because of Red Bull's name being attached to them.
On August 28 2012 01:13 GARO wrote: The irony is that people were confident in the ESF/Kespa fight that Startale was one of the stronger teams financially just because of Red Bull's name being attached to them.
Did the LoL team have the same sponsors as the SC2 team? Pretty sure the LoL team didn't have the Red Bull sponsorship.
On August 28 2012 01:13 GARO wrote: The irony is that people were confident in the ESF/Kespa fight that Startale was one of the stronger teams financially just because of Red Bull's name being attached to them.
Did the LoL team have the same sponsors as the SC2 team? Pretty sure the LoL team didn't have the Red Bull sponsorship.
It is very possible the redbull sponsorship was not teamwide but rather only for specific players.
On August 28 2012 01:13 GARO wrote: The irony is that people were confident in the ESF/Kespa fight that Startale was one of the stronger teams financially just because of Red Bull's name being attached to them.
Did the LoL team have the same sponsors as the SC2 team? Pretty sure the LoL team didn't have the Red Bull sponsorship.
It is very possible the redbull sponsorship was not teamwide but rather only for specific players.
I am sure that Parting/Bomber (and maybe Squirtle) get extra perks from Red Bull, but the whole team wears the Red Bull jerseys. So they must be getting something from Red Bull if the entire team has a gigantic Red Bull logo on their jerseys. The sponsorship must be pretty huge if the SC2 team has gone from the black/orange jerseys with sponsor patches on the side to the Red Bulls.
On August 28 2012 01:13 GARO wrote: The irony is that people were confident in the ESF/Kespa fight that Startale was one of the stronger teams financially just because of Red Bull's name being attached to them.
Did the LoL team have the same sponsors as the SC2 team? Pretty sure the LoL team didn't have the Red Bull sponsorship.
It is very possible the redbull sponsorship was not teamwide but rather only for specific players.
I am sure that Parting/Bomber (and maybe Squirtle) get extra perks from Red Bull, but the whole team wears the Red Bull jerseys. So they must be getting something from Red Bull if the entire team has a gigantic Red Bull logo on their jerseys. The sponsorship must be pretty huge if the SC2 team has gone from the black/orange jerseys with sponsor patches on the side to the Red Bulls.
Pretty sure Squirtle was on the list. There was an thread a while back with the picture of the 3 of them.
ST seems to be in pretty bad financial situation, some of their SC2 players haven't been paid fully either
I cant believe it. I mean Redbull is a huge sponsor who is sponsoring sport teams all over the world.
On August 28 2012 01:13 GARO wrote: The irony is that people were confident in the ESF/Kespa fight that Startale was one of the stronger teams financially just because of Red Bull's name being attached to them.
The Red Bull sponsorship is exclusive to the SC2 team and some players (PartinG, Bomber) receive additional perks on top.
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