AMD to pull out of esports

12-2-2009 15:31

With the world in a deep recession, a financial crisis still in effect, massive layoffs at most big companies, and red numbers on the bottomlines at most companies focused on high tech consumer products esports is bound to have a rough year in 2009.

Today the German website spiegel.de reports that AMD will be withdrawing all their major esports sponsorships, this includes SK-Gaming and the World Cyber Games. AMD dropped their sponsorship of mTw earlier this year, and now look to be completely getting out of esports.

SK manager Alexander Müller told spiegel that SK knew for a long time and are looking for new partners. Hopefully this means SK will not have to undertake drastic team cuts like we saw MYM do earlier this year with their WC3 and Starcraft teams.

Also Intel has hinted that they might be changing their commitment to esports, saying they will re-asses their situation after CeBIT, this could hurt Turtle Entertainment, the company behind ESL, who has Intel as their main sponsor. Turtle say they will clarify exactly what is going on soon.

Source: spiegel.de

bad!

2009-02-12 15:32

2009-02-12 15:37

well not a surprise... seems everyone is havin a hard time in this crisis... reckon they will be back again, they just need to get back on track...

2009-02-12 15:38

fuck amd...amd wont get my money anymore :)

2009-02-12 15:39

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Hahahahaha same

2009-02-12 16:12

If they won't get your money they wont be able to sponsor eSports.

2009-02-12 18:17

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no they dont get my money if they dont sponsor esport...

2009-02-12 18:34

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U see the logic? They have no money to put into esports -> U don't give them money -> they won't be able to put money into esports much longer.

2009-02-12 19:46

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So they borrow money, put them in esports, and get the money back with a premium.. That is how advertising works you know.. :)

2009-02-12 19:47

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Yeah yeah, the question was not about that =) The idea of Sillen just doesn't follow logic =) If he wants AMD to stay in the cybersports, he needs to support them.

2009-02-12 20:17

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i dont care about what you think....i think they are cheap bastards...they can afford to sponsor eSports but just dont think it is smart...so im not gonna buy anything from them...if they get back to eSport i will buy.... i just want them to realize how important it is to sponsor eSport for them selfs and for eSports..

2009-02-12 20:55

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Sry but if I wud be in crisis as they are I wud stop sponsoring lazy grown-ups, i.e. gamers immidiately.

2009-02-12 20:58

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Okey....do you know how much they earn from gamers every year??? it is very much so i wouldnt do that...but ur kinda stupid so it doesnt suprise me.

2009-02-13 14:24

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OK so if I have a different opinion I'm automatically stupid? U'r just weird. They get millions from gamers even if there won't be their logo on the wall at events or their company name in the nicks of players. They are so big, they've got almost a monopoly with Intel. They'll get the money anyways.

2009-02-13 18:35

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ye exactly...they ahve alot of money and im not going to give them more if they wont sponsor esport

2009-02-15 17:13

That's just dumb.

2009-02-13 01:40

you're kidding right? :/ and so the prize money for EPS decrease?

2009-02-12 15:51

McDonald for Sponsor!

2009-02-12 15:56

yeah McDonalds :D

2009-02-12 16:04

Pizza hut and i'm there.

2009-02-12 16:18

McDonalds is Wardens personal sponsor.

2009-02-12 16:48

Yeah :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

warden looks actually like cartman xDD

2009-02-12 22:01

bad news

this is extremely bad news :|

2009-02-12 16:42

eSport is gonna need Pepsi, Red Bull and that kind of companies soon... But still I don't see how Intel could have financial problems :o

2009-02-12 16:44

Hmmm. What do you think? Ofc a company tries to get some surplus. Even Nokia etc big companies go down, so why Intel wouldn't?

its easy show how many earned intel in the last year. intel overrolled amd. its the same in the automobil industry some companies have really big problems(bilions) the others only small(few milions). and intel is one of them that haven't really big problems with their system. see the computer Industry is still grow up.

2009-02-12 20:10

They have a lot of capital, but if they are doing minus for every chapter what's the point to keep spending so much? That's the logic they follow.

2009-02-12 20:18

1million to sponsor it is not much for them look how many they earn last year and you will see what much is :-) and its not spending: they pushing the gaming szene and why? many gamers spend much money on their PC(CPUs from intel) to be famous. it could be a huge chance for intel to get their respect from real gamers. AMD is broke and dying in the stock market. but we will see :-)

2009-02-12 21:57

I see your point, I just mean those fancy bosses won't understand that, they just think where to cut some money off. The idea of a business is to make money. If the idea is lost, they will find a way to succeed again.

2009-02-12 22:00

hmm right i cant say more about it. but we can only hope that INTEL makes not the same mistakes like AMD

2009-02-12 22:03

Yeah :P

2009-02-13 09:54

:( :( :(

no no first mtw no sk no

2009-02-12 17:03

nice

2009-02-12 17:13

and we see esports die a little bit more... what a sad year

2009-02-12 17:24

good thing i dont have an AMD processor then :D

2009-02-12 17:27

may be a silly question, but this mean that x6tence looses also his sponsor no? :S wtf... really what doesnt need the spanish gaming...

2009-02-12 17:40

SUre, if AMD is their sponsor

2009-02-12 18:20

no good can come of this

2009-02-12 18:14

Saw this all coming and wrote about it several times in 2008

2009-02-12 18:19

This is not really surprising, but still too sad :(

2009-02-12 18:36

lol spiegel about e-sport xDDD LOL and next we will see bild xD and the koreans earn now more money LOL 16k USD in a month.

2009-02-12 20:03

and what's up with doubletake or Frag Dominant?

2009-02-12 20:37

AMD withdraws from eSports in general, this affects all teams that are in any way affiliated with AMD.

2009-02-13 01:42

not really FD has a contract with AMD to the end of 2009 when they broke it AMD must pay it out

2009-02-13 22:58

FD.AMD is still alive

2009-02-13 23:00

bad (((

2009-02-12 20:49

very bad for whole eSport

2009-02-13 01:32

this sux!

2009-02-13 02:23

sux

2009-02-13 09:55

2009-02-13 13:53

ESL is going to die.

2009-02-13 16:20

a guy with no plan. i see you have no infomation about the ESL mangement

2009-02-13 23:49

LOL! ESL ONLY has money. If they have no money they better close the orga, cuz they picked up some admins from CB, and as far as I know, they only picked up 1 good (sputnik), and others are shit, so they better close their orga, cuz withour money ESL is REEEEEEEEEALY SHIT. People only play ESL cuz of money. Other than that, thay are realy SHIT.

2009-02-14 03:46

1. they have enough money read the SK gaming www.sk-gaming.com/content/22173-Turtle_Entertainment_CEO_discusses_finance_situation news or when you are german the news from fragster.they are talking with the HEAD of Turtle Entertaiment(ESL)! and 2. what are you talking about the clanbase? and the admins?=MONEY? 3. people play ESL only because money? LOL they have over a half million players they are actually playing and only 1% earning a little bit money. the 99% playing it its because their hobby.

2009-02-14 04:18

Man, I meant for the top players, not regular noob players. Ah, whatever, guess you are too young, I cant explain what I meant to you.

2009-02-14 12:01

yeah yeah xD EPIC FAIL ESL STILL ALIVE SPONSORED BY INTEL with MUCH MONEY :D

2009-02-14 18:13

thats terrible news to the community, i hope big franchises like pepsi, coca cola see some potential in the gaming market and invest in it, like Dr.Pepper has done with MLG but at this time itll be hard to find any sponsors tbh

2009-02-13 18:01