Except I was quoting you because you made the false assertion that they financially supported it. I said nothing about associations.
They have ZERO basis for arguing it from a financial standpoint as they NEVER OWNED NOR SUPPORTED NOR ACKNOWLEDGED the mark. Blizzard sat on their ass, Valve...
Has 0 bearing on a trademark case. You can sue someone 25 million years later if you can legitimately prove they stole your trademark or that their trademark could be confused with yours.
They have supported Warcraft, but they never in any capacity supported Dota to the best of my knowledge...
35kg is excessive, I refuse to believe your troops (especially since you guys are generally smaller) carry that much in real deployment. Maybe they were just overloading you for conditioning.
Protip: they've used this unofficially for years.
Protip: the sole reason higher ups told them not display it anymore was because of the potential for media backlash like this.
It's pretty kneejerk imo. I had French teachers get in a rage if I said "Ess ess" when spelling out words in grade...
Martin is more careful with his words than you might think.
Read only if you want it ruined:
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If after all these little clues it's a red herring... my god that's one leviathan herring we've got on our hands.