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For reference: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=72427
Many people were concerned about the future of Hanbit Stars, as Hanbit decided to pull out of sponsorship. Well, it looks like there is finally some good news.
ItemMania, a 6 year old gaming-related company has decided to be their new sponsor! They deal with online gaming item transactions for MMORPGs.
So basically, the Hanbit team is safe, and will probably have a new name to be announced sometime soon.
ItemMania_Free?
Credits: Shim Hyun @ fomos.co.kr
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omg Yay!!!! I was worrying so much about Free
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ItemMania hosted tournaments/leagues for sc already some while ago iirc. draco participated in one of those
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Good news for the team. Hopefully they'll be able to put together something like Daezang/GGplay/Free of yore.
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I wonder if what sort of changes (if any) are going to come about other than the name and sponsor. Hopefully something to make them a bit more competitive.
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well at least item mania doesn't sound much weirder than we made fox..they got that going for them
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YAY i cheer for this!!! so oldschool team must prevail!
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What was the issue with Hanbit? Company not doing well and cutting back?
ItemMania, a 6 year old gaming-related company has decided to be their new sponsor! They deal with online gaming item transactions for MMORPGs.
Never realized there's market big enough for a company specializing in virtual trade to be viable, amazing how influential all these MMORGs have become.
Anyway pretty happy for these guys, sc scene still going strong, hopefully : )
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great news indeed! there're still a lot of interests in ProLeague <3
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LOL I can already see them wearing "WoW gold 24 hour delivery!" ads on their uniforms.
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Hopefully their team will have a better life now, watching Real Story Progamer about their head coach, it seemed pretty sad.
''IM_Free'' doesn't sand too bad to me or ''IM_Pretty'' lol.
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Great news
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Oh wait......wasn't there an ItemMania tournament? Haha the names were confusing, so I didn't know who was who ^^;;
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On July 31 2008 18:42 clazziquai wrote: Oh wait......wasn't there an ItemMania tournament? Haha the names were confusing, so I didn't know who was who ^^;; ye; they had pick id's like ItemMania_1, ItemMania_2, etc.
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Well, it's a start. I don't think the investment will be huge, but for sure there will be changes in drafting/recruiting policies, training regime, etc. If they could pull a nice move and bring some good player to support Free while breeding their most promising rookies(they have a couple of them), they could grow big in a few months as STX did.
Dunno, they could recall Daezang back once he is done with the army. He is not playing that well lately, but he is not that bad of a lineup filler for PL. At least better than what they've got right now.
Or aim for one of those players who have misteriously vanished, like Casy or UpMagic. Ok, UpMagic will never leave eStro, and maybe Casy has too big of a contract for the new sponsor to take on, but I'm sure there are some underused talented gamers who could use a change of team.
Anyways, this makes my day a little bit happier. Thanks for the news.
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This is good news. I think Ganzi has some potential too, other than Free.
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