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The most highly anticipated pc game in the history of e-sports is about to unveil, time has come for SC2!

Which brings up the ultimate question of: What influence will it have on e-sports?

As someone who has been working in the field for the past 10 years, this is the one and only concern I have.

 

Korea managed to build the greatest e-sports infrastructure in the world, and because of it we have the best leagues, players, and teams which means we have the b…  More

Oh boy, writing this brings back some good/bad memories, the good old days of the AMD Dream team. I guess I should start from the year 2000 right after when Hangame’s sponsorship was terminated.

It was our decision to leave Hangame team because of their pay reduction. Giom’s winning rate wasn’t as good as before, so I don’t blame them for wanting to pay him a little bit less, but we didn’t like that very much at the time so I started to look for a new sponsor.  Actually the new sponsor came to u…  More

Part2(read Part 1 here)

Things got off to a great start, just landed a great sponsorship deal with AMD and Giom was fairly doing well in the leagues so I couldn't have been more content.    

The name Dreamteam came about when I met 'Elky' at the WCG event in the 2002. Elky certainly caught my eyes and many others with his orange hair and a pair of sunglasses he constantly wore.



What mostly impressed me was of course how good he was at the game. Foreigners were not taken seriously by the Korean Pro…  More

The journey that took place in the course of 5 months was concluded as the 21thousand fans tuned in for the finals in the live broadcast. There were successions of games that were ‘finals before the finals’, and in the finale of season1 the dream match of , Hwaseung’s Jaedong vs KTF’s, Flash and in the season2 SKT’s bisu vs Samsung Khan’s Jangbi took place.

The Averatec-Intel Classic that produced so many new records and sensational matches, will have season3’s opening on March 29th, PDT(pst+1) 0…  More

I am speaking in general terms so please understand and I would appreciate it if you don't take some of the things I write out of context.

For the most part, outside of Korea you are 'gamers' and here in Korea you are 'athletes', they are cyber athletes if you will, because of the 12 professional teams and pro leagues we have, it legitimizes them.

Why are they legitimized? Well for obvious reason, but to point out a few, you can be financially viable by being a ProGamer, and 2nd you become, in a…  More

Main theme of these blogs is for me to help you understand the Korean e-sports scene a little better so I guess anything pertaining to e-sports is appropriate. 

All right, let me begin by starting off where I left off last time, and if I do get off track I will get back on it whether in this blog or next so please understand, I am just going to write these down as it comes to me.

Guillaume (XD’s~grrr) was immensely popular with the fans so naturally he was the most sought after ProGamer by the TV…  More

Hello, my name is Daniel Lee, but you can call me Super Daniel Man. Former professional Starcraft team coach and now e-sports commentator with Tasteless for GOMTV, and this is my first blog on Starfeeder.

The year 1999 in October, I can't remember the exact date or the day, but that is when I met up with Guillaume Patry(XDs~grrrr) and Victor Martyn(Everlast), oh yeah our girlfriends were all there too. We had met previously on Battle.net first, and the original intention for the follow up g…  More