Honestly though, LG is already one of the most recognized companies on Korea so it would not benefit them in a business sense to sponsor a Korean BW team than an international SC2 team. Having said that, they aren't mutually exclusive and I hope that they or another company do pick up at least some of the remaining MBC/FOX/Oz players and make a new team, although it certainly doesn't have to be LG of course. In fact, LG hasn't show any interest in BW recently and their recent forays into esports have consisted of a couple meagre attempts to popularize their 3D displays and even these attempts have been relative failures or so it seems.

supernovamaniac

United States3046 Posts

September 05 2011 17:18 GMT

#62

I hate to say things before they're confirmed.

But rumors (complete rumors) among some fomos users: Cho Hyun Min, who works at Korean Air/Jin Air (and helped sponsoring the Korean Air Season 1/2), is looking into merging 3 teams, don't know which company will actually sponsor it.

kainzero

United States5211 Posts

September 05 2011 21:58 GMT

#63

On September 05 2011 23:42 tyCe wrote:
Honestly though, LG is already one of the most recognized companies on Korea so it would not benefit them in a business sense to sponsor a Korean BW team than an international SC2 team.

i dunno about that...
companies pay millions of dollars to put their name on a stadium in the US, and we already know their names.

samsung is practically royalty in korea also.

e_i_pi_1_0

933 Posts

September 05 2011 22:07 GMT

#64

On September 06 2011 02:18 supernovamaniac wrote:
I hate to say things before they're confirmed.

But rumors (complete rumors) among some fomos users: Cho Hyun Min, who works at Korean Air/Jin Air (and helped sponsoring the Korean Air Season 1/2), is looking into merging 3 teams, don't know which company will actually sponsor it.

So there's no official news yet on whether there are sponsorship negotiations going on?

Nazza

Australia1654 Posts

September 05 2011 23:41 GMT

#65

On August 31 2011 18:31 Bosu wrote:
There is a reason TV channels are shutting down and teams are disbanding. Sponsors probably don't want to invest in something that is clearly losing steam.

It's not that BW is losing steam, it's that they see Music/K-pop as more popular than ESPORTs

Also, on progamers switching....
You may want to see JD/Flash/Bisu whoever switch.

But I don't want to see JD lose his double pronged mutalisk assault to some lucky thor shots.
I don't want to see Flash lose half his bio ball to some lucky burrowed banelings.
I don't want to see Bisu's army evaporate in 5 seconds due to some lucky EMPs.
I don't want to see Stork's brilliance be stuffed into a box known as a colossus.
I don't want to see Effort conjure up a brilliant economic mind game, only to have it melted away by some lucky hellion drop.
I don't want to see Violet 4 gate every game.
I don't want to see ForGG.... do whatever the hell ForGG does...

I could go on, but the thing is, I don't believe SC2 actually gives progamers a fair chance to explicitly show their skills.

koreasilver

9109 Posts

September 06 2011 00:46 GMT

#66

Eh? Mutas dying to thor shots isn't much different to them dying to irradiate. Burrowed banelings are worse than stop lurkers, etc. etc. etc.

babylon

8765 Posts

September 06 2011 01:02 GMT

#67

On September 06 2011 08:41 Nazza wrote:

Show nested quote +

A lot of these are actually being fixed in the next patch. (I hope.)

Also, this assumes that they'd all be playing the same race. Hahaha.

vek

Australia936 Posts

September 06 2011 04:22 GMT

#68

On September 06 2011 06:58 kainzero wrote:

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i dunno about that...
companies pay millions of dollars to put their name on a stadium in the US, and we already know their names.

samsung is practically royalty in korea also.

Both LG and Samsung (삼성 or Samseong) are Korean companies so yes it makes perfect sense for LG to sponsor a Korean BW team if they choose to.

I guess I'm pretty much proof that it works too. When choosing a new monitor years ago I paid extra for Samsung just because:
- They make good products.
- They sponsor a BW team.

And I'm not even Korean!

I also have a Samsung TV and DVD player.

Honestly, if Samsung didn't have Samsung Khan I would have most likely bought some random brand Taiwanese monitor that was just as good and probably cheaper. I like to think that buying Samsung supports BW though

GTR

51280 Posts

September 06 2011 05:29 GMT

#69

lg have had the opportunity in the past 6 years to buy a progaming team (plus, toona, soul, kor, go, pos were all available back then). if they didn't do it back then, there's a reason why they're not going to do it now.