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 Arcanne   United States. July 16 2011 08:09. Posts 1505
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SK is probably using this to acquire sponsors. They will present MC and Nada as SK players with a long list of accomplishments. Sponsors will then go to SK's player profile and and get the impression that both players are exclusively playing for SK. Smart.
 
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 Kavdragon   United States. July 16 2011 08:10. Posts 1222
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That...seems questionable, imo.
I'm currently on an indefinite hiatus from TL =(
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 CosmicSpiral   United States. July 16 2011 08:11. Posts 7566
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On July 16 2011 08:09 Arcanne wrote:
SK is probably using this to acquire sponsors. They will present MC and Nada as SK players with a long list of accomplishments. Sponsors will then go to SK's player profile and and get the impression that both players are exclusively playing for SK. Smart.


LOL if these sponsors don't check the backgrounds of two of the most famous SC2 players in the world they deserved to get duped. But I don't think SK is stupid enough to try a stunt like that. A Google search would disprove it.
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 Wheelyman   Canada. July 16 2011 08:11. Posts 48
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I dont know if the question has been answered yet but what about the TLAF partnership? Will MC and Nada have a TLAF patch alongside with the SK patch? That sounds a bit overdoing it imo. I'm a bit confused.
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 DPK   Canada. July 16 2011 08:13. Posts 129
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Such a sad news. I will dislike SK even more after this. Buying their way into sc2 is just plain awful and make them look like just bad. I don't wanna see MC and NaDa wear the SK tag seriously... Wearing a SK badge on their shirt is OK because SK will act as a "sponsor" for them but wearing the tag in their names just NO.
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 Novalisk   Israel. July 16 2011 08:13. Posts 1769
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On July 16 2011 08:11 CosmicSpiral wrote:

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LOL if these sponsors don't check the backgrounds of two of the most famous SC2 players in the world they deserved to get duped. But I don't think SK is stupid enough to try a stunt like that. A Google search would disprove it.


They will get sponsors though, that's the whole reason for this deal. The question is how much of that sponsorship money will go to oGs.
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 Novalisk   Israel. July 16 2011 08:14. Posts 1769
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On July 16 2011 08:13 DPK wrote:
Such a sad news. I will dislike SK even more after this. Buying their way into sc2 is just plain awful and make them look like just bad. I don't wanna see MC and NaDa wear the SK tag seriously... Wearing a SK badge on their shirt is OK because SK will act as a "sponsor" for them but wearing the tag in their names just NO.


They'll wear an SK shirt and a tag.
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 CosmicSpiral   United States. July 16 2011 08:17. Posts 7566
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On July 16 2011 08:13 Novalisk wrote:

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They will get sponsors though, that's the whole reason for this deal. The question is how much of that sponsorship money will go to oGs.


I imagine they will but SK won't pull out a baldfaced (and easily disprovable) lie to do so.

If they do get the sponsors I've concerned how SK will be using the money. Like I said before they haven't exactly laid out a long-term plan to establish themselves in the SC2 scene.
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 Ocedic   United States. July 16 2011 08:21. Posts 1800
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This is good news because presumably SK will be flying these guys out to more events. MC is already quite prominent in the foreign scene, but this pretty much makes it guaranteed to see him at the vast majority of foreign events.

And honestly, I think whether you love or hate him, he brings a lot of excitement to every event he's at.
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 MaestrO_   United States. July 16 2011 08:26. Posts 591
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oGs-TL-SK fighting?

As long as NaDa and MC continue going to foreign events, i don't really care what team they're representing. Just want to see some quality games out of top class players.
 
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 Brad   July 16 2011 08:34. Posts 2660
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SK looking real weak these days. Such a shame.
Lee Jae Dong proved that a focus on mechanics and execution could solve problems in the StarCraft game strategy.
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 DEN1ED   United States. July 16 2011 08:39. Posts 761
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On July 16 2011 07:09 iNz wrote:
Reading some of the comments people are suggesting that oGs are doing SK the favour, but lets be honest SK holds a tighter grip on the E-sports scene.


SK has a tighter grip on the esports scene? Really? What with their CS team, quake players, and WoW team? Real esports powerhouse there. In the two largest esports scenes, SC and fighting games, they have shit. I would say they have a very weak grip on the esports scene and are grasping at straws here.
 
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 Brad   July 16 2011 08:41. Posts 2660
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HeatoN says it all in the Fragbite interview. Really makes SK look bad.
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 dreamsmasher   July 16 2011 08:41. Posts 736
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On July 16 2011 04:53 SiNoCiDe wrote:

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Pretty trashy response for a player who did a lot for SK in WC3 and took best gamer of the year in '04. It's clear that SK are parasites just want to make money and market their brand. They don't give a shit about e-sports or the players that represent them.


? what do you mean. i wouldn't even put him in top 50 for sc2 players.
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 Ocedic   United States. July 16 2011 08:45. Posts 1800
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On July 16 2011 04:53 SiNoCiDe wrote:

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Pretty trashy response for a player who did a lot for SK in WC3 and took best gamer of the year in '04. It's clear that SK are parasites just want to make money and market their brand. They don't give a shit about e-sports or the players that represent them.


Sponsors have always been and always will be about making money, expanding their brand recognition, etc. I didn't even know sk HAD an SC2 team at all. You can't blame them for wanting good representation. If anything, that's BETTER for Esports, because Sponsorships SHOULD be difficult to obtain and require you to be one of the best, rather than a joke.

EDIT: No idea why I capitalized Sponsorships, including in this edit.
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 Sufroner   Spain. July 16 2011 09:09. Posts 15
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I think that MaDFroG was a bit too much greedy for his results and that SK can't be flamed for that move.

I really like that SK is going to sponsorship MC and NaDa and I think that it's a great way to position theirselves at the scene (because their former team was too much unknown), but it'll be a bit strange seeing them with different tags.
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 kiy0   Portugal. July 16 2011 09:16. Posts 529
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SKMC and SKNaDa... can't say I saw this comming. Great news though.
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 Colonial   United States. July 16 2011 09:33. Posts 81
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SK Gaming has been doing poorly these days. It will actually make MC and Nada look bad. SK Gaming has been holding onto CS 1.6 too tightly these days and with such controversies surrounding the stealing of players from other teams and not paying their players which caused some to leave gives SK a bad name...Been following the CS scene since it came out and SK was the driving force of E-Sports but since they didn't approach SC2 with seriousness now they are lagging behind...and nobody wants to sponsor them...probably why they are making nada and MC represent them for SC2...

tl;dr

SK WAS a good organization but these days its full of people that don't know how to run their business.

"All your parties are our pre-parties cause you ain't from IV!"
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 TooN   July 16 2011 09:35. Posts 1046
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wait so is this ruining esports? cause It seems like everything is ruining esports.
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 NotSorry   United States. July 16 2011 09:35. Posts 5329
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One thing I always liked about SK they never attempt to make a team by getting the hot new up and comers it's always just "buy the best"
We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. - Orwell
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