BM or not, who started the ISL? Who revived the foreign scene to a point where people started following Sayle's stream?

Game put everything into the foreign BW scene, hoping that it will become something much larger. Sure, there was the replay thing, but he was trying to pay those who did hard work, plus putting the money towards other leagues, such as ISL2 (was hinted by him and few others few times).

For ISL2, we have Kaal as our sponsor. However, from what I've heard and seen, he tried many times to get big corporations to sponsor ISL. I'm not even joking; I have a copy of his draft letter to a business (Will not release this or the company's name since I'm not sure if Game wants the information to go out). It didn't work out, but it showed me once again how much Game wanted this to be popular, and become one of the biggest leagues around the world.

Despite your BMs, Game, I salute you for many things that you have done in past few months. Hopefully, it doesn't go to waste, as I hope that upcoming ISL2 will be amazing. And for that secret thing that we talked about: I'll try to make it more awesome than it already is.

Mid[N]ight-

United States155 Posts

June 30 2011 09:20 GMT

#44

Bye bye

Mango

Belgium522 Posts

June 30 2011 09:26 GMT

#45

Very sad to see the way iCCup reacts in this matter. Game was the best organizer left in the BW scene. Sad to see you leave for a matter like this, I hope you will return someday.

EchelonTee

United States5198 Posts

June 30 2011 09:33 GMT

#46

Someone once compared this whole iCCup vs. Game debacle to the Blizzard vs. Kespa shenanigans... pretty much both parties did some sort of a fck up, and the fans suffered as a result. Props to game for not having a hate fueled, biased post, though he easily could have given the nature of iCCup's actions, though from what I understand iCCup has had reason to hate game... I guess the community would have been better off without all the fighting, too bad.

Boblion

France8043 Posts

June 30 2011 09:48 GMT

#47

I think you did a great job with the ISL, i wish you good luck for the future.

Boundz(DarKo)

5311 Posts

June 30 2011 10:01 GMT

#48

I need to check out this Fish server.

bb!

Eywa-

Canada4876 Posts

June 30 2011 10:22 GMT

#49

No comment, I think everyone already knows what I think about this.

Anyways... :'( goodbye, I'll try my best to complete stuff we've worked together on.

hehe

United States132 Posts

June 30 2011 10:25 GMT

#50

why did you charge money for replays?

juuust

Finland43 Posts

June 30 2011 10:27 GMT

#51

Why does someone charge for coaching?

To make some money ofc! And tbh I dont see how iccup should get something from that, enlighten me if Im wrong :o

Eywa-

Canada4876 Posts

June 30 2011 10:30 GMT

#52

On June 30 2011 19:27 juuust wrote:
Why does someone charge for coaching?

To make some money ofc! And tbh I dont see how iccup should get something from that, enlighten me if Im wrong :o

He wasn't even getting money for himself, it was a small % to his admins and the rest for the next tournament he made for the community.

juuust

Finland43 Posts

June 30 2011 10:32 GMT

#53

On June 30 2011 19:30 Eywa- wrote:

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He wasn't even getting money for himself, it was a small % to his admins and the rest for the next tournament he made for the community.

Ah! Well it's still making money and nothing wrong with that as far as I can see.

Good luck whatever you decide to do next Game!

Glioburd

France1910 Posts

June 30 2011 10:36 GMT

#54

Good bye Game, "gl hf" in your life

JediGamer

United States656 Posts

June 30 2011 10:37 GMT

#55

On June 30 2011 19:32 juuust wrote:

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Ah! Well it's still making money and nothing wrong with that as far as I can see.

Good luck whatever you decide to do next Game!

I'm almost 100% sure some of that went into his own pocket ><.

DorF

Sweden961 Posts

June 30 2011 10:43 GMT

#56

Well... this sucks, I hope game succeds in real life and knows that he will be missed

Also, ICCup...wtf people ? This whole situation is retarded and it is obvious who came out the better man.

Romantic

United States1844 Posts

June 30 2011 10:45 GMT

#57

On June 30 2011 19:37 JediGamer wrote:

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I'm almost 100% sure some of that went into his own pocket ><.

I hope foreign Brood War continues on without Game, who did so much. Sayle & Co. (Tesla etc) are good casters. The others have done a lot too. Must keep BW alive!

ArivO

United States35 Posts

June 30 2011 10:47 GMT

#58

Game... Come to the evil side... .. 2 LOL

sashkata

Bulgaria3241 Posts

June 30 2011 11:01 GMT

#59

Such a drama queen. Every post I've seen from you is basically shitting on iccup and trying to get people to shit on iccup. And people are actually buying it. Sad to see the community in such a pitiful state.

User was warned for this post

Eywa-

Canada4876 Posts

June 30 2011 11:03 GMT

#60

On June 30 2011 20:01 sashkata wrote:
Such a drama queen. Every post I've seen from you is basically shitting on iccup and trying to get people to shit on iccup. And people are actually buying it. Sad to see the community in such a pitiful state.

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=236263
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=234923
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=232699
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=190866
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=213890

You're clearly well informed. All of these are great examples of him doing nothing but shit on iccup