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GreyKnight
United States4720 Posts
On January 23 2012 17:51 Wolf wrote: This is embarrassing. How so? | ||
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jellyjello
Korea (South)664 Posts
On January 23 2012 17:18 Subversive wrote: I don't know what this is supposed to mean. It means that GOMTV doesn't care who is in their league. Actually I'm sure they want BW teams in their league. It will boost their business. Remember that their contract with Blizzard runs until next year. | ||
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Frankon
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On January 23 2012 17:42 Fionn wrote: If they're saying April, then it's probably what a lot of people suspected. That the first season of Proleague will be Brood War and then they will have that Grand Final as a send-off before the second season is entirely Starcraft 2 starting in April. I think this could be fun. Maybe have the GSTL champions face the Proleague champions in a Super Bowl-like event. Would probably make a lot of cash. That would actually be cool. The problem would be who would produce it? GOM or the BW side (since im not into BW scene i dont know which station is doing it) | ||
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lightrise
United States1355 Posts
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Subversive
Australia2229 Posts
On January 23 2012 17:44 Nayl wrote: I doubt Slayers would come anywhere close to any of the BW team (except for ACE) financially. Quick searching around shows that Intel provided Boxer personally with around $200,000 and another $300,000 to run the team. Source That's like maybe half of salary budget for an average BW team. Iirc running a BW team costs around 2-3 million a year. | ||
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Balgrog
United States1221 Posts
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jellyjello
Korea (South)664 Posts
On January 23 2012 17:37 lbmaian wrote: Out of all the Korean SC2 teams, I'd expect Slayers to be the most financially stable. Just look at how often they poach players from other teams and have two very prominent sponsors (Intel and Razer). I wonder how Slayers finances compare with the BW teams, even the lowest-paid ones. Slayers is doing not bad because of the name "Boxer" and Jessica has some connections. Also I heard Prime isn't too bad either | ||
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MrCon
France29748 Posts
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XThunderyX
United States367 Posts
I can easily see two easily dissolved teams, Ace and Team 8. And looking at the current SC2 teams: IM, MVP, HoSeo, Startale, OGS, TSL, Prime, Zenex, FXO, Slayers Zenex and TSL come to mind when thinking of merging with other teams. So this leaves us with 14 teams. Maybe merge two more teams and boom, 12 easily stable teams to make a proleague with. Of course the issue is getting everybody happy to agree with this >.> But just my 2 cents. | ||
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DreamOen
Spain1400 Posts
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Asha
United Kingdom38136 Posts
On January 23 2012 17:13 Bleak wrote: I don't think the top BW folk will switch as long as there is demand for BW in Korea, and there still is. The last proleague finals were quite a success, though I remember from some other articles that things were much bigger in 2007 or so. Stork also had an interview and he said as long as there is demand for BW competition, he'll play BW. I don't think demand for BW is the be all end all. It's no secret that BW is backed by significantly more influential sponsors than SC2 in Korea, but if those sponsors feel that supporting a player switch and promoting it will be enough to also bring over significant amounts of BW viewers to SC2 then they can retain a good amount of their target viewership in Korea while tapping into the now significantly bigger global market. At the end of the day if the powers that be think it'll be more profitable and sustainable to make the switch it'll probably happen. On January 23 2012 17:18 Subversive wrote: I don't know what this is supposed to mean. As long as SC2 players are better than most BW players for a while after any switch (though we've heard for a while now there's a lot of them practicing, and NesTea's comments suggests as much) there's no real issue because the established sc2 scene will still have the better players and as such shouldn't be able to get cut out of any transition. ==== Really interesting read tbh, great selection of interviewees too, I thought they all offered some different but equally interesting perspectives on the topics at hand. Would love if someone wanted to translate the whole thing? *hint hint* On January 23 2012 17:59 jellyjello wrote: Slayers is doing not bad because of the name "Boxer" and Jessica has some connections. Also I heard Prime isn't too bad either Prime did the whole PrimeZzang thing right? I thought that was bizarre at first but it really seems to have given them some serious self-sustainability which is cool. Of course part of that is dependant on them remaining relevant to market it. | ||
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jellyjello
Korea (South)664 Posts
On January 23 2012 17:56 Balgrog wrote: Great translation and thank you! I think the most interesting part of this article that hasnt been brought up before is if BW teams will just exclude the current SC2 team because of there money and influence. When they do finally make the switch, we had better be prepared for the shit storm of drama that's incoming. I think it's almost given that kespa will have their own tourney / league. That's why the TIG reporter kept going after GOM in that article because it's going to be GOM who will have to negotiate the deal | ||
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vanhio
Niue1017 Posts
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Psi-Kick
Australia182 Posts
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Coal
Sweden1535 Posts
On January 23 2012 17:54 Frankon wrote: That would actually be cool. The problem would be who would produce it? GOM or the BW side (since im not into BW scene i dont know which station is doing it) I second this :O Would be amazing! | ||
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Angelbelow
United States3728 Posts
He probably won't answer. Which is a bummer because he probably knows some inside information and his remark is based on what he knows and how that compares to the article (which makes it even more interesting). Which begs the question why even post something so ambiguous in the first place? | ||
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naux
Canada738 Posts
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FlamingTurd
United States1059 Posts
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Wrathsc2
United States2025 Posts
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