2009-07-27 05:42, lipslidemyrail wrote:
Lol I registered on this website JUST to post on this thread!

Honestly, I have to agree a little bit with what supercreck had said earlier about how the SC scene wouldn't be the same without Kespa. Although this development with KESPA over the exhibition match between MOON and NADA is unfortunate, we can all understand where this is coming from. Blizzard may have made the game initially, and hold the rights the their own game. but KESPA and the E-sports community in Korea MADE it a cash-cow and an international success. And the comment from Lord_of_chaos about his unselfish contributions to this website is retold with even more vigor when considering KESPA and south-korean associations have put in 9 years of work who put together the E-sports scene and never asked a penny from BLIZZARD.

Additionally, it's apparent that KESPA has been shaken to say the least. With the recent declaration by the tongue of BLizzard itself, SC2 will not offer LAN support. Everyone knows that this means the Korean E-sports scene, which runs primarily off of LAN based tournaments, will ultimately fade away, and have no leverage inside the SC2 platform. Now, you have to ask yourself the fairness in BLIZZARDS decision on this matter for a change. Clearly we see why KESPA can't go un-heard.
Take for example NADA, a HUGE success, a legend, THE GENIUS TERRAN. Did Blizzard Galvonize this internationally popular E-sports HERO into the Hall of Fame for SC? The story is the same for each Progamer, but the point being that BLIZZARD's involvment and their role ultimately inside the E-sports community and KESPA itself (who created the colossal Computergame industry when it went corporate in the late 90's) had been a "blind eye" to say the least.
And now Blizzard, who NEVER helped to construct or offer a hand in the success of KESPA or SC at large, and in fact left it for dead along with its WC3 counter-part when WOW hit the market, suddenly sees the opportunity to strip away many years of hard work by corporations and groups of individuals by not allowing LAN support. In my humble opinion, KESPA is simply reinstating their prominence over the FACT that MOON and NADA, who's success is largely due to KESPA and it's corporate muscle, still fall under rules and the jurisdiction of their association. And that if Blizzard wants to hold a surprise exhibition match, its gonna have to recognize KESPA and respect them. Blizzard can't simply act like a deserting father, who left behind his 1 y/o son to fend for himself, and then com back 9 years later seeing dollar signs and say "oh, I'll take this over now even though i've been absent all this time."

2009-07-27 21:32, XATMO8G wrote:
Now the next thing is that, Kespa has done nothing for international fans. Hell they pretty much did their best to keep international fans out of the scene for as long as possible. We get alot free?

Exactly what did we get from them? True they made things like the starleagues and proleague popular, but have they made any effort at all to broadcast it to the international fans without us having to go through all the trouble of trying to figure out the korean sites? And again when Gom broadcasted their tournament in English, Kespa banned certain teams from participating in it.

We need to stand up against them when they are wrong and we should not just keep quiet and and say "oh well". And thats exactly where Im going with this, I see something wrong and Im gonna complain about it because thats the right thing to do.

2009-07-28 00:34, Lord_of_Chaos wrote:
The GOM league is an excellent example of a very high level non-kespa sanctioned league.

I'm not saying the world without kespa would be a better place for esports, but it would definetly be if kespa loosened up.