mibr lose SteelSeries sponsorship

22-1-2010 00:20

HLTV.org understands that Made in Brazil have lost the support of one of their main partners, SteelSeries.

The Brazilian organisation have been without a Counter-Strike team since releasing their squad in late November following a string of disappointing results.

Made in Brazil have persistently been linked with a move for FireGamers, who, however, are believed to have rejected the offer to switch organisations after mibr owner Paulo Velloso decided against funding the team's trip to Canada, where they were due to compete in the Extreme Masters American Continental Finals.

SteelSeries' logo has been removed from mibr's website, which indicates that their longtime partnership has come to an end. It is believed that the Danish-based company had no interest in providing support to an organisation that have not had a team in three months and appear to have nothing lined up.

Things appear to be going from bad to worse for the 2006 ESWC champions, who currently have just two sponsors, Salvaterra Organica and VCs1.

2010-01-22 01:23

sad

was expected, realy sad

2010-01-22 01:24

bad

1 reply

gl in 2010 +++

2010-01-22 23:58

2010-01-22 01:27

*SalvaTerra, no Savaterra

2010-01-22 01:28

Waiting for CNB and FG :)

2010-01-22 01:30

ul bros!

2010-01-22 01:44

wat happened to samsung? didnt they just partner up with them?

2010-01-22 01:48

sponsored by the samsumg was temporary, for the launch of a monitor.

2010-01-22 16:43

mishandled organisation for sure. defo the right decision by SS. anyway, didnt most of the "mibr money" come from the paulos own pockets?

2010-01-22 02:11

bad :T

2010-01-22 02:12

gogogo brazil :D

2010-01-22 02:14

No more MIBR custom steelseries mousepad? O.o

2010-01-22 02:22

the second chataum, manager of mibr, when the new line is announced, the sponsorship with the SS back.

2010-01-22 16:46

mibr are suffering the fate of NiP, wonder how long before they're removed from G7

2010-01-22 02:29

i think the mibr org will be finished soon and all the sponsors goes to FG. it was de 1st idea by creating FG reading what nakano saids in the begining.

2010-01-22 02:41

i feel bad for brazil they always have something bad with their management like i heard in FG they forced some of their players to play a tourny instead of doing their exam and failing etc...

2010-01-22 02:59

well i mean if they are under contract and are getting a significant amount of money they can do whatever they want. im not saying it's right but the players could have backed out of the contract.

2010-01-22 03:28

they better get their act together ASAP if they still want to shine, that is if they are still motivated(hopefully)

2010-01-22 03:22

Bad. I think when the MiBR announce the new line-up, the SteelSeries back to sponsor the team. Soon we will have news about the future of Made in Brazil.

2010-01-22 03:52

good move by SS... Mibr is a dead organization

2010-01-22 04:26

D: :( nothing nOT!

2010-01-22 06:19

pickup fnx nak bit fallen btt/bruno?

2010-01-22 06:30

2010-01-22 07:52

ibviosly

2010-01-22 09:05

sad hope mibr will come back some day

2010-01-22 10:27

sad :( SteelSeries FTW

2010-01-22 10:48

2010-01-22 10:55

very good, no results = no support :)

2010-01-22 11:02

they haven't done anything the last 2 years for them to deserve ss sponsorship

2010-01-22 11:31

sad news

2010-01-22 12:04

sad? lol

2010-01-22 12:06

very bad .. mibr is down

2010-01-22 12:39

this is so BAD

2010-01-22 13:12

nice. ;D

2010-01-22 13:30

sad... :(

2010-01-22 13:44

bad for mibr :|

2010-01-22 13:45

Now they have to give their siberias back ? ahaha

2010-01-22 14:08

2010-01-22 14:35

Proves right here that latinos cant run a country, nonetheless a cs organization

2010-01-22 14:41

2 replies

lol... yeah thats exactly what it is... sure! ¬¬

2010-01-23 18:15

Jeez, those Big Bad Latinos doing it again... ::)

2010-01-23 23:12

badbadbad

2010-01-22 14:43

nice 4 stellseries

2010-01-22 16:13

huge blow to see a huge organization like mibr without a team. hopefully they can bounce back and find a team soon! :)

2010-01-22 16:18

That's the reason the big teams dont show they best!

2010-01-22 18:06

Go Gamewise, Go Firegamers :)

2010-01-22 19:14

no cogu no mibr

2010-01-22 19:28

I do not understand why do you people say "bad", "oh so bad", etc regarding to teams losing their sponsorship. Sorry it's what is happened/happening in HAITI.

2010-01-22 20:08

Honestly speaking, you should not compare this with Haiti. In terms of esports it is bad to loose an important sponsor.

2010-01-22 21:03

Not comparing, i just said that sad it's the situation in Haiti. I don't care about some team losing their sponsor :x

2010-01-22 21:42

gl in 2010 mibr :(

2010-01-23 00:38

Failed

2010-01-23 15:37

OH FUCK :/

2010-01-23 16:34

#43 ??

2010-01-23 17:01

If you use the 'Reply' button the user will/would know you replied to him/her ;)

2010-01-23 23:11

Damn.....well that is shitty for them! I guess that's because they haven't been steppin it up.

2010-01-23 19:23

i thought samsung is a sponsor of mibr too/

2010-01-24 19:07

Mibr are old news now really... Can always hope they regain their former glory.

2010-01-24 23:11

In all honesty I think it's good that mibr lost this sponsorship. They weren't producing any results, nor running their organization professionaly recently. It's a good message sent by SteelSeries. Makes organizations work harder to get a sponsorship, meaning higher quality organizations. Nothing wrong with stronger competition. This will actually help move e-sports forward :D

2010-01-24 23:55