eSports

UPDATE - MYM drop Moon & Grubby

by TosspoT • 29 Jan 2009, 13:54 • News
MeetYourMakers, one of the biggest organisations in eSports who had several million dollars of private investment behind them have shocked the eSports community by announcing the release of its Warcraft 3 team including the two WCG Finalists, Moon & Grubby.

QuoteThe two Warcraft 3 and Starcraft MYM teams have achieved almost everything there was to achieve, the awards and achievement lists are almost endless, but the most memorable ones where “the double” as Warcraft 3 champions in WC3L and NGL, Olympic champion (Grubby at WCG) in Warcraft 3 and the first Danish CPL gold medal back in 2002 (Won by Bjarke in WC3).


Interestingly though, MYM do state that they're taking a change in direction with regards to team recruitment as the reason behind this decision, so maybe they'll pickup an ET team afterall? :P

Source - http://www.mymym.com/en/news/15720.html

Update - Rakaka reports that Moon could fall straight into the hands of Korean organisation WeMade Fox for a whopping €16,000 a month!

Source - http://www.rakaka.se/?news_id=8825
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Kiewan 29 Jan 2009, 13:58
should have added the reason behinds this here:[

so they kicked all of them to make a new fresh start with a different strategy and players? am i reading this correct?
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Nemesis- 29 Jan 2009, 15:08
economic situation of the world. Look at how much money Grubby and Moon alone made for the company; their salary is not small at all.
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chronos_ 29 Jan 2009, 15:20
How much were their salary ?
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Arachon 29 Jan 2009, 15:33
The rumour I heard is that Grubby got around 6.700 Euros each month in salary.
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Krosan 29 Jan 2009, 20:20
10.000€ a month and 1000€ a month for his girlfriend is what i heard
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TosspoT 29 Jan 2009, 16:44
look at update!
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Kiewan 29 Jan 2009, 17:52
translate the source!
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goldfarmer 29 Jan 2009, 14:00
again the money story, come with something new!

They won't pick an ET team since there are no good teams left? What about impact-gaming or some secret team from United Kingdom Sjip ?


But what is the reason for this ?
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TosspoT 29 Jan 2009, 14:02
they wont pick an et team because its et...it was a sarcastic comment.
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goldfarmer 29 Jan 2009, 14:04
Do i have to read the mym article for the reason behind this or can you just tell me?:P
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SpeaKeR 29 Jan 2009, 15:16
after h2k it cant be read as sarcasm anymore ;)
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goldfarmer 29 Jan 2009, 15:17
mymym is 10x bigger :p
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SpeaKeR 29 Jan 2009, 17:46
yeh true but it has sewn the seeds of hope :p
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Nellie 29 Jan 2009, 14:10
Moon & Grubby meettheirmakers!

The credit crunch hit esports [sic]?:r
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Deactivated6371 29 Jan 2009, 14:33
no way:< mym dismissed one of the best warcraft teams.. hell no:( what about korean professional starcraft teams? Will they survive test of time?
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CS4f1 29 Jan 2009, 14:33
So, their strategy is the inverse of others'?
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miAMii 29 Jan 2009, 14:40
QuoteMeetYourMakers, one of the biggest organisations in eSports who had several million dollars of private investment behind them

explain lol , how can you invest that much in a team and expect a decent amount of return ?? advertising cant be the only reason ?
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goldfarmer 29 Jan 2009, 15:16
I would like to give you a link with the answers since i had an discussion with urtier & tosspot about it in an column but someone deleted his comment so all replys got deleteddddddd

damn engrish
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Krosan 29 Jan 2009, 20:24
Advertisement is big business man, e.g. Apple spent a whopping $486 million on advertisement in 2008.
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chronos_ 29 Jan 2009, 15:04
What the fuck, GG, now MYM, farewell w3 :D
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v3rmin 29 Jan 2009, 15:23
would it have been better to sell the players off particularly Moon, Grubby, Strelok and White-Rabbit ?
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TosspoT 29 Jan 2009, 15:45
Most players sign 12 month contracts, its pretty difficult to sell those as they're so short.
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v3rmin 29 Jan 2009, 16:03
they didn't resign at the start of the year?
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TosspoT 29 Jan 2009, 16:04
no, it would have been due for renewal now
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overdrive 29 Jan 2009, 16:32
If MYM takes an ET team i'll come to cc6 dressed up as Santa Clause.
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TosspoT 29 Jan 2009, 16:43
mmm, this could be worth an email :P
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urtier 29 Jan 2009, 18:29
I'll be Rudolph!
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xcon 29 Jan 2009, 16:59
€16,000 a month! ?!
omfg :D

edit GO GO BJARKE :DDDddDDDDDdddD
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beggin 29 Jan 2009, 17:06
€16,000 a month? Holy fuck that's some serious buissness right there.

image: internet-serious-business
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toxicccc 29 Jan 2009, 17:19
brb, gna go prac w3 and sc
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TosspoT 29 Jan 2009, 17:53
theres still lag in those games too! :P
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toxicccc 29 Jan 2009, 18:11
have faith
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Nemesis- 30 Jan 2009, 04:35
at least the Polaks are hitable in SC!
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hex4 29 Jan 2009, 17:28
wtf @ update ;X
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florian 29 Jan 2009, 17:33
good move
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k1pa 29 Jan 2009, 18:09
OMG 16K... IM GOING TO PLAY WARCRAFT 3 24/7 ALL MY LIFE.. THATS EASY MONEY:d
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MerlinatoR 29 Jan 2009, 19:43
they will still own you :(
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k1pa 29 Jan 2009, 20:38
they will be dead by then, then i will earn 16 k a month by gaming :D
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M 29 Jan 2009, 18:19
16k a month is nice:)) gl
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MerlinatoR 29 Jan 2009, 19:43
that guys face below the article is a classic - captures the moment epically :D
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OVER9000BPM 29 Jan 2009, 19:53
€16,000 a month!
serious business idd
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Owzo 29 Jan 2009, 19:56
jesus christ
thats a lot of money a month :'(
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zOMBie 29 Jan 2009, 19:57
who knew there was so much money to be made wasting your life 8|

Seems ridiculous seeings how the game involves no skill & is all based on time invested.
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TosspoT 29 Jan 2009, 20:10
you just wasted a minute of your life writing such a stupid comment :) (re: 2nd line)
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zOMBie 29 Jan 2009, 20:27
if thats the case theres a lot of life being wasted around here :p
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SlimShady 29 Jan 2009, 20:23
u dont know shit.
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im a tree 29 Jan 2009, 21:07
QuoteSeems ridiculous seeings how the game involves no skill & is all based on time invested.


YEAH UNLIKE FPS GAMES :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDdddddddd or any game/sport ever for that matter...

New talents are beating the experienced oldschoolers all the time in Starcraft. Flash won GOM when he was 15... beating players of the calibre of BoXeR, bisu, etc...

Your argument isn't even an argument, it's just wrong.
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zOMBie 29 Jan 2009, 21:13
you're rewarded for time invested. how is that skill?
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loazis 29 Jan 2009, 21:29
Makes no sense :\

You can only gain skill by investing time in the game.
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SsAP 30 Jan 2009, 18:35
or money *cough*^^
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im a tree 29 Jan 2009, 22:00
EHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH?????

What the fuck are you talking about?

Name ONE sport or game where time invested doesn't influence it...

edit: I've come to to the conclusion that you don't even know what Warcraft 3 and Starcraft are.

They are not MMORPGs (even still, not all MMORPGs have PvP where time influenced can reward you, eg, Guild Wars) but they are real time strategy games. Look up the genre. It's a 1v1 game in the same way Quake is. You start a round in the exact same situation as your opponent.
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unizo 29 Jan 2009, 22:00
It would only NOT be skill if you were just copying everybody elses Strategies, and if you were doing that you wouldn't be anywhere near the top level of either SC or WC3. The reason the best players in the world are wearers of that title is because they are amazing strategists and good at improvising when things go wrong, not necessarily because they have UBER M1CRO!!1
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zOMBie 29 Jan 2009, 22:28
Quoteedit: I've come to to the conclusion that you don't even know what Warcraft 3


You're right, I saw Warcraft & read WOW...nuff said. My bad

seems Toss was right but now I've wasted several minutes :(
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_doNka 29 Jan 2009, 22:37
n1 blaming misreading after realizing your arguments were shit to start with.
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zOMBie 29 Jan 2009, 22:45
I admitted I was wrong. I'm already over here chewing on my shoe wtf more do you want jackass
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_doNka 30 Jan 2009, 11:01
prune this place of idiots. drop you to rock bottom so hard you'll think before you comment.

nah, not really.
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M 30 Jan 2009, 16:16
well even wow PvP isn't that time based anymore... but PvE still is...
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Kaide 29 Jan 2009, 23:29
Afterall, isnt every game based on the time invested? And in fact, FPS games require alot more time invested than games like world of warcraft
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SlimShady 29 Jan 2009, 20:21
WeMade_Fox just takes the player who achieved most, like they bought NaDa (starcraft)
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de4 29 Jan 2009, 22:08
imo who earns most by winning.
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SlimShady 29 Jan 2009, 22:41
if you had followed starcraft in korea u woul know that nada didn't win any big titles since 2007.

His status in South Korea can be compared to the superstar status that David Becham has in the UK.
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STICKER 29 Jan 2009, 22:46
the no-life version of beckham?
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de4 30 Jan 2009, 16:40
sorry have no clue at all about starcraft but I know moon has won alot of $
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SlimShady 31 Jan 2009, 11:41
yea, but what he wins are HIS winnings, his paycheck comes from the teams sponsors (and in Korea, teams are sponsored by the biggest phone, clothing, even food companies)
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Kaide 29 Jan 2009, 23:19
16,000£ on a game per month are you shitting me? The head of the management obviously need a kick on the head or something to wake him up
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Yossarian 29 Jan 2009, 23:22
Why?
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Kaide 29 Jan 2009, 23:23
No man with sense pay 16,000€ for some guys to go smash few buttons
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Yossarian 29 Jan 2009, 23:26
go buy a glue
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Kaide 29 Jan 2009, 23:26
Have you been smoking weed?
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fredd 30 Jan 2009, 13:31
yeah, smashing a few buttons... haha. they practice 12 hours a day, although wc3 doesnt need as much skill as starcraft, you still need immense talent, dedication and sacrifice to become a top progamer in korea.
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Kaide 30 Jan 2009, 13:42
I know but still, it doesn't make any sense to invest such money into a damn game, no matter how skilled he is
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fredd 30 Jan 2009, 13:45
you really think the progaming team isn't making a profit off him? he's a celebrity with millions of fans.
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chelmianin 31 Jan 2009, 22:35
as perfo said, in Korea or Japan top gamer is as popular as some top footballer in Europe, thats why Asia > all in e-gaming (ofc in games which they like - wc3, sc etc.)
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sean 30 Jan 2009, 00:30
yeah, it's a seriously high ammount of money for a player..

16k per month, + sponsored stuff, + Competition winnings.. He's fucking rolling in the money..
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_doNka 30 Jan 2009, 11:02
dont think he will get the comp. winnings, just a hunch though.
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Matias 30 Jan 2009, 12:09
he will, the mgc will only take like 20-40% of it
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_doNka 30 Jan 2009, 13:41
good thing the mgc doesnt include eVo.
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riCo 30 Jan 2009, 03:42
management would be making much more than that a month, of which a large portion would come from marketing Moon, who is near celebrity status in S. Korea
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_doNka 30 Jan 2009, 11:08
it's nothing if you make a million/y.
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Steen 30 Jan 2009, 01:48
expect to see manuel join up with dutch power team Team MP40 anyday soon.
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vlek 30 Jan 2009, 12:07
I gues this is a sign that financialy it is not that great anymore over at MYM. WC3 team costs to much?
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oldvid 30 Jan 2009, 17:52
yep whopping
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ScaTmaN 30 Jan 2009, 19:11
16.000 ... wow .. if you get even 10 € per month for playing ET you would be lucky :D
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dexter 30 Jan 2009, 22:31
10€ / month? u are lucky if u get money for playing ET nowadays.. : D
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d4m4g3 30 Jan 2009, 21:44
gamers can earn more money than some "real life" works workers, where have we came to :s
who says that gaming isnt a serious career and way of life now.
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