Wemade Fox threatens to quit Kespa

A strong request or an ultimatum if you will was issued earlier by the famous progaming team Wemade Fox to OGN (Ongamenet Broadcasting Company). The issue was caused by OGN’s sponsorship ties with a beer company. Considering that almost half of E-Sports viewing audience are minors, it was deemed unethical by team Wemade Fox, therefore initiating an ultimatum and a motion to quit the Association altogether.

This step also means serious consequences for team’s players, especially top ones like Nada and Mind, as their progaming acknowledgement will be revoked and replaced with semi-progaming, which is an automatic ban from participating in any Kespa events, such as MSL, OSL and SPL, leaving only WCG, Gom and private tournaments available to compete in.

The only option for Wemade players who may be interested in continuing their professional Starcraft careers is to move to the other team or switch the profile game. In this context more than interesting sounds the rumor that Wemade FOX may be adding a team branch for Avalon Online, an MMORPG with Warcraft III RTS elements, developed by Wemade, a Korean game developer who happens to be team’s owner and main supporter.

At this very moment Avalon is being heavily advertised and promoted in Korea. The dedicated league for Avalon is already in the preliminaries stage; it’s sponsored by Coca Cola’s Powerade and has a prize pool of over $17.500. In addition Avalon is named to be the sponsor of 17th MSL season.

Update:

As it turns out the ultimatum was issued not by the team itself, but by it's parent company Wemade. Although the basis for the protest is presented as ethical, it may have something to do with Wemade's current financial troubles. If their new game Avalon doesn't catch up, it may as well be the company's swan song. Rumor has it that Wemade Fox, if financial troubles are to come, may sell one of it's top Starcraft players to any other team in order to make the ends meet and keep the team afloat.

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