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As I've made clear, if somewhat indirectly, I'm a pretty big fan of Vintage and Standard Super League. In their early seasons the broadcasts were funded by WotC, which seemed like a good thing for the company to do to generate more exposure to the game. For whatever reason, WotC has ceased this sponsorship, but as they say, the show must go on.
Randy Buehler launched a Patreon campaign to secure some funding to pay the players and to increase the production quality of the various Super Leagues this week, and I really hope to see these shows continue. If you're interested in funding these projects, you can find the Patreon here.
The “reason” was that WotC hadn’t planned for another season of VSL in 2015. It’s just a budgeting thing.
But, Randy and the team want to run another VSL (and the fans want it as well) … so he’s going to the fans to try to fund another season.
This also doesn’t mean VSL won’t be sponsored by WotC in the future (they haven’t announced/decided what they’ll be supporting in 2016 yet) — just that they’re done for 2015.