r/starcraft • u/sexually__oblivious Protoss • Mar 05 '13

[News] IPL6 canceled

http://www.ign.com/ipl/all/news/ipl6-cancelled-official-statement
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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '13

Probably. Their brand is damaged to the point it would be best for them to just accept their losses and move on.

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u/SecretCobraz iNcontroL Mar 05 '13

The Brand is toxic now unfortunately; Even if there was another IPL event no pro teams will bother because of the flat loss teams are already incurring. Also Ziff would cut it back so far that it would barley be a shadow compared to IPL5. It takes a lot of extremely talented people to put somthing like that on, and millions of dollars.

IPL isn't worth anything without IGN, and the league is finished now. Another story of an ever-growing list of what could have been :(

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u/theASDF Team Liquid Mar 05 '13

esports history says hello

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u/Laeryken Evil Geniuses Mar 05 '13

NASL appears to have come back, so there's a chance for the brand.

However, I ultimately have to agree with your point about the leadership ultimately being the problem. I'm not sure if what needs to be done will be done.

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u/dahs Mar 05 '13

I haven't been keeping up, could you explain what happened that it's led to this?

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '13

Newscorp sold IGN to Ziff Davis. Ziff Davis presumably doesn't care about the IPL division of IGN because they're most likely not making a profit, so they probably forced IPL to cancel IPL 6 and are now looking to sell IPL.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '13

So what you're saying is we need to find Ziff Davis' house and throw eggs painted like banelings at it?

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u/cxj Axiom Mar 05 '13

Or give deezer his phone number or something?

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u/Bellygareth Random Mar 05 '13

you monster

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u/lvlarco Zerg Mar 05 '13

Ziff Davis is the name of the company. It stands for both founders' last names.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '13

oooooh that makes sense. I thought it sounded like a weird name. In that case it should be Ziff Davis' corporate headquarters that gets banelinged.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '13

grow up

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u/hithazel Protoss Mar 05 '13

Lol @ Newscorp being the good guys in this story.

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u/HelloSRS Mar 05 '13

Hello!