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Samsung, one of the oldest sponsors in Korean e-sports has made a huge splash by buying and absorbing MVP's League of legends teams.
With the League of Legends Season 3 World Finals only a week away. Samsung had to hurry to acquire the MVP Ozone League of Legends squad which qualified for the World Finals from the Korean region. MVP Ozone -- now Samsung Galaxy Ozone -- are regarded as one of the best teams in the League of Legends scene, making the World Finals and winning the spring season of Korea's premiere League of Legends tournament, OGN Champions.
MVP Blue, the sister team of MVP Ozone, has also been picked up by Samsung, but they have not been given an official name as of yet. Both League of Legends team have contracts with Samsung Galaxy until the end of the OGN Champions Winter season. After that, they will need to renegotiate to see if they want to continue the relationship.
Finally, the MVP SC2 division has been absorbed into the Samsung Khan SC2 squad. The new team will be known as Sasmung Galaxy Khan. The various teams Samsung now owns in multiple games will be under the banner of the Samsung Galaxy.
UNCONFIRMED
DENIED BY DONGRAEGU HIMSELF
The Dota2 team was NOT picked up by Samsung Galaxy.
Edit: Looks like MVP SC2 stays the same. MVP Dota2 stays the same. League teams bought. Everything else stays the same in SC2 world.
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Mo' money Mo' problems
+ Show Spoiler +Great news for MVP all around. Actually getting a salary now is sweet.
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That name seems too long.
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So does this mean that we can expect them in proleague? Or will they still play in GSTL?
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1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22271 Posts
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i wonder if they will be cutting any of the sc2 MVP players at all. hopefully nott
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Great news for MVP!
Another really strong team for Proleague ^_^
Dota not being picked I guess means we won't be seeing Kespa teams pick up dota teams for a while
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Can some helpful person now assemble the likely roster of the "Samsung Galaxy Khan"?
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holy shit. I guess Samsung really wants to market their Galaxy right now if they even changed their name to include Galaxy. At least this means more stability to the ex-MVP team members so that's one positive thing!
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Whelp, I'm changing my team to samsung now How could I not with drg back in his ultimate form?
In other news I didn't realise that the trade embargo was already over. Meh, drg in proleague is good enough for me :p
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1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22271 Posts
I have a Galaxy, that means my phone is maximum esports
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Samsung Galaxy KHAN DongRaeGu. Gotta admit, has a nice ring to it. Not to mention, we'll also get to see him play in Proleague.
Oh and this makes me want to get a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 as well. :p
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Samsung Galaxy Ozone... SGO... Hmm, I guess that will take some time getting used to but nonetheless: should be beneficial to the players so best of luck to them
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The poor DotA team Great news overall though :D
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Stuff like this makes me feel better about all the Samsung products I own.
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On September 07 2013 11:13 lichter wrote: I have a Galaxy, that means my phone is maximum esports Too bad your shoes aren't.
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samsung galaxy...sounds familiar
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They should rename the LoL teams to Samsung Galaxy S3, and Samsung Galaxy S4
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Fionn, you can read Korean? Because in the LoL section the discussion is saying the SC2 team is NOT being picked up by Samsung.
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1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22271 Posts
On September 07 2013 11:14 bo1b wrote:Show nested quote +On September 07 2013 11:13 lichter wrote: I have a Galaxy, that means my phone is maximum esports Too bad your shoes aren't.
I could put their logo on my shoes ez
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need to see pic of DRG in samsung uniform
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I like the new name. Adding "Galaxy" to anything obviously makes things more epic.
+ Show Spoiler +
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On September 07 2013 11:15 Dodgin wrote: Fionn, you can read Korean? Because in the LoL section the discussion is saying the SC2 team is NOT being picked up by Samsung.
For real? That's a shame if that is true
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Not a single team disbanded. Korea is doing fine.
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Great news for Samsung, I can only assume that MVP is no longer a thing as they lost basically all of their assets.
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I'm hearing conflicting reports.
League teams being acquired is 100% confirmed.
MVP/Khan SC2 teams being fused is still unconfirmed.
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If they really got the sc2 team, coach swagger should visit Nakseo and tell him to come back.
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On September 07 2013 11:19 Fionn wrote: I'm hearing conflicting reports.
League teams being acquired is 100% confirmed.
MVP/Khan SC2 teams being fused is still unconfirmed.
...I should be so excited this early.
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Great news for MVP and Khan both.
Imagine this PL line-up:
Roro Reality DongRaeGu Super duckdeok Keen
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Also those are ugly ass uniforms.
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Nice ! Viva Samsung
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On September 07 2013 11:22 bertu wrote: Great news for MVP and Khan both.
Imagine this PL line-up:
Roro Reality DongRaeGu Super duckdeok Keen
Dream is better than Reality in TvP and TvZ. And Reality is better than duckdeok. And they still have Grand Chinese Emperor Billowy and Kespa killer Bang in the back.
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On September 07 2013 11:22 stuchiu wrote: Also those are ugly ass uniforms.
IM McDonald's uniforms still worst ever
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Former MVP player Galaxy to return to the team for ultimate marketing potential?
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On September 07 2013 11:23 lichter wrote:IM McDonald's uniforms still worst ever
You must mean the greatest. Imagine losing to someone wearing that jersey. No wonder MKP cried so much.
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Might as well just call the team "Ninja Baseball Batman."
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sangho
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Frost seems pretty sure MVP SC2 has fused with Khan SC2.
All MVP coaches got cut except this guy:
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I like that quite a lot
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i feel that the LoL team insighted this absorbtion, i dont see the sc2 players lasting long except for the big names like DRG duck, maybe shine and sniper but yea. :\ welp see how it goes, gl hf!
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On September 07 2013 11:30 Fionn wrote:Frost seems pretty sure MVP SC2 has fused with Khan SC2. All MVP coaches got cut except this guy:
WHAT ABOUT SWAGGER?
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I just talked to DRG
[7:33:03 PM] Jasper Lam: you team is now Samsung Galaxy Khan? [7:33:20 PM] DRG: no just LOL
So either Fionn is wrong or DRG is wrong...
Although I like Fionn... But what is Fionn compared to DRG? nothing!! <3 ok maybe something little...very tiny.
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Wonder if they are downsizing the SC2 team, considering the rumor Kespa is reducing SC2 teams to 5-6 players.
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Looks like Frost was wrong.
Let us all blame vague articles.
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So Choi is moving over to Samsung with the LoL teams and leaving the other players behind?
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Lol.. esports journalism at its finest!
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On September 07 2013 11:36 Fionn wrote: Looks like Frost was wrong.
Let us all blame vague articles.
Blame Fionn and canadia
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Maybe DRG wasn't notified of merge yet?
Would be sad if that's not the case. Also would have been a cool name too .
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On September 07 2013 11:36 Fionn wrote: Looks like Frost was wrong.
Let us all blame vague articles.
Dumb article made it sound like they were fused... Sorry guys. I have failed you all.
On September 07 2013 11:37 neoghaleon55 wrote:Show nested quote +On September 07 2013 11:36 Fionn wrote: Looks like Frost was wrong.
Let us all blame vague articles. Blame Fionn and canadia
Could you ask him if SC2 team stays as MVP?
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On September 07 2013 11:35 neoghaleon55 wrote: I just talked to DRG
[7:33:03 PM] Jasper Lam: you team is now Samsung Galaxy Khan? [7:33:20 PM] DRG: no just LOL
So either Fionn is wrong or DRG is wrong...
Although I like Fionn... But what is Fionn compared to DRG? nothing!! <3 ok maybe something little...very tiny.
SWAGGER LIVES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Wasn't the coach who is moving over the guy who ran everything, would be a pretty big blow if he left.
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1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22271 Posts
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wait so I thought Choi was the one managing MVP so is the MVP.sc2 gonna disband or continue to operate on its own ?
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On the other hand mvp now has 500k or whatever the trade fee was to spend on there team. Should make them last for a couple of years at least.
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On September 07 2013 11:39 bo1b wrote: On the other hand mvp now has 500k or whatever the trade fee was to spend on there team. Should make them last for a couple of years at least.
Zenex and NSHS could have lasted to the end of time off of that money.
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On September 07 2013 11:39 Laryleprakon wrote: Wasn't the coach who is moving over the guy who ran everything, would be a pretty big blow if he left.
Yeah, and I wonder if he's the sole receiver of the 300-500k payment for the team or if he's going to give some of it to the rest of the MVP org? Wouldn't be surprised if he pocketed it as sad as that would be for what remains of the MVP staff.
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Fionn got me to close this.
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