BW For Life! or Helping BW Thrive - Page 6

On April 30 2012 00:29 CakeOrI)eath wrote:


Haha, I could see a global proleague where the foreigner team is the "Air Force Ace" of the league. Lose almost every game but still participate to promote involvement.

On April 30 2012 04:16 maltey wrote:
Obviously votes are only just coming in but if people think this isn't worthwhile should we consider dropping it? As there's no point if the majority of the community isn't behind it?

EDIT: if we can get 200 people to average 5$/mo we could hold an individual league tourney with a 2000$ prize pool every two months. Or we could go every three months and hire some professional work done with the extra 1000$.

On April 30 2012 06:33 Jaevlaterran wrote:
Well, funding is always the toughest nut. My system of paying in Sweden is based on the investment style idea that somewhere the donation grows to make the whole thing more worth it.

A Swede pays $7:50 a year to donate $7:50 + $9 + a part of the $600 that the organization gets as a whole = with the current ammount of members around $102. So each person is by paying $7:50 while donating $102. That is much more fun than paying and donating 50$. Unfortunately one can't just start 50 of those organizations and get the standard $600 from them all, but there are other ways to gather money.

I have some ideas on how to get some more structure to this, but I just want to get my little swedish group up and running first. That would at least guarantee a constant small, but at least efficient inflow of capital. It is fairly obvious that we need to realize that our role as a gaming community did change the day we all read the thread about the switch here in forum. Now we need to get some sort of foundation, not just discussing on a forum. There needs to be something more stable.

On April 30 2012 07:38 CaucasianAsian wrote:
just to make sure,

Make sure you have downloaded and installed the korean language pack
change all your regional, date, and time settings to Korea.
add Korean keyboard
Install microsoft office (somehow this fixed it for me)

This thread helped me.

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=282341

On April 30 2012 07:38 Chef wrote:

A system that relies on regular, mass donations is really dumb....

What is the point of a $2000 prize pool? Like, to the viewer and the participants, what is the difference between 2000, and 1500? 1500 and 750? You could go to 500 before it starts feelings small.

Who is going to manage the money? I've seen at least 20 blogs about iCCup corruption lol, and they pretty much all work for free!

I don't know, this seems weird, and even weirder that you want prize pools to be donated money. Was TSL1 and 2 awesome just because they had big prize pools? Not at all. They were awesome because they were well produced and had entertaining casters. Being able to have a large prize pool because of Razer taking them seriously was dandy, but that is a side affect of being well produced, not what made TSL well produced.

~~ just my thoughts. Not trying to be arrogant but it's worth doing a double take on your donations idea ;p

On April 30 2012 07:45 maltey wrote:

Thanks man, what you're doing is awesome. So are you thinking along the same lines as I am with a community run org?

On April 30 2012 08:30 Jaevlaterran wrote:


Yeah. There needs to be a fanbased organization to coordinate our efforts. Like this we are still just a few forumites talking really. I'm thinking along the(tv series) Firefly fan organization. A few years ago they raised $100 000 to make a movie IIRC even tho the TV series probably died 10 years ago.

I've seen L_Masters ideas too from the BW initiative thread. They seem to have a lot in common with this thread. There's a website and stuff on the way there and it seems to me like these threads are very much alike, even tho his thread is older.

On April 30 2012 09:01 ImbaTosS wrote:
As far as I can tell, trying to get foreigners involved in Korean stuff is the best factor which has come out of this thread. For example, if we knew of Korean amateur tournaments, could access the Fish website more easily, that could really make a start. Along with playing with them- I don't mean necessarily with the best amateurs. I mean the ones with whom we could go more toe-to-toe, and start to build bridges.

CaucasianAsian, are there Korean team/individual leagues for players more of a skilled foreigner's level, which you know of? That would be the place to start.

On April 30 2012 09:27 maltey wrote:

Yeah I agree with you which is why I have switched focus here recently.

Actually the best thing to come out of this thread IMHO is the other threads that have started recently. I'm probably taking too much credit, ie it's probably a coincidence, but right after my thread all these other awesome threads suddenly popped up like jaevlaterran's, ninazerg's etc. If nothing else, hopefully the conversation has changed from the fatalist ones that had been in BW general before.

BTW your casting was brilliant yesterday. (and hacklebeast's of course) You must have the best vocabulary of any caster I've ever heard. Maybe its just your accent makes you seem really smart.