This is putting NA SC2 on the GLOBAL map.
Halo-schmaylo.
For the people putting up the money (corperate sponsers) they want 1 thing and 1 thing only.
If they can push their product to 200,000 people in a 1v1 format, compared to 200,000 people in a 4v4 format, why wouldn't the prize money be equal?

Remember - no prize pool, no compititon. Let the sponsers do what they want with the money - its theirs to give away.

Stil

United Kingdom206 Posts

February 04 2011 02:17 GMT

#302

Nice prize pools

I like the travel stipend aswel. hope this grows esports

JWD

United States12607 Posts

February 04 2011 02:55 GMT

#303

Way to go MLG. So huge.

beat farm

United States478 Posts

February 04 2011 03:23 GMT

#304

my question

are there booths?

it would be cool if the regular season was like 10k-15k that way they could draw koreans for the regular season. i only see a few if any showing up for regular season.

Sanguinarius

United States3427 Posts

February 04 2011 03:51 GMT

#305

Thats an awesome prize pool. Very cool.

Goibon

New Zealand8185 Posts

February 04 2011 04:03 GMT

#306

I am in shock and awe. However i shouldn't really be shocked, per se, since MLG said last year that big changes were coming.

But I did not expect this.

Huge!

DoomsVille

Canada4885 Posts

February 04 2011 04:26 GMT

#307

Wow. That is ridiculously.

Honestly though, I think it would be better to move a little bit of the prize money to each individual tournament. This will entice teams to send more players to each of them. But I guess most teams will go anyways, so this isn't that big a deal.

DropMonkey

Australia2 Posts

February 04 2011 04:34 GMT

#308

$50,000 wow. that rivals GSL now wouldn't be surprised to see some korean's come over!

Meteora.GB

Canada2479 Posts

February 04 2011 04:43 GMT

#309

$50,000 is insane. Sure, its for only one tournament, but considering how its decided in a weekend, that is hugeeee. I'm sure there will be some Korean players who will fly over to the MLG and give it a shot, especially the Code A players. Looking forward to seeing how this develops.

Hashbaz

United States340 Posts

February 04 2011 04:48 GMT

#310

Bay Area please

Cr3scent

43 Posts

February 04 2011 05:06 GMT

#311

Glad to see MLG stepping it up. HuK was talking about the day halo players will say "dont worry its only sc2". It seems like that will be soon. Although MLG isn't as prestigious as the GSL, it's certainly cool to see this level of competition in NA.

ThaZenith

Canada3116 Posts

February 04 2011 05:29 GMT

#312

Holy crap.

Now that is an epic prize pool.

Jonoman92

United States9104 Posts

February 04 2011 05:30 GMT

#313

Insanely huge prize pool. I am amazed. Really looking forward to this MLG season.

Columbus, OH on June 3-5. I could potentially go to that one, omg!!

blade55555

United States17423 Posts

February 04 2011 06:04 GMT

#314

The nationals I think will have some koreans showing up. Looking forward to the nationals already haha

ControlMonkey

Australia3109 Posts

February 04 2011 06:47 GMT

#315

The cool thing is that MLG put on a great show for Halo. If the production values for SC2 end up being the same as what they do for halo, that can only be a good thing for the viewers.

Ansinjunger

United States2451 Posts

February 04 2011 07:49 GMT

#316

This will be really exciting. I hope there are multiple casters + a stable caster core Day9 and DJWheat.

Let's hope there is good control over the crowd's ability to give away secrets (sound booths or whatever), unlike MLG last year, "MO-THER-SHIP!" etc.

zaii

Guam2611 Posts

February 04 2011 07:59 GMT

#317

All MLG needs to do now is invite TotalBiscuit as a Caster, Djwheat, Day 9 & TotalBiscuit > The world!

DND_Enkil

Sweden598 Posts

February 04 2011 08:20 GMT

#318

This is huge!

Great job MLG, cant wait for it to start!

zaii

Guam2611 Posts

February 04 2011 08:34 GMT

#319

On February 04 2011 12:23 beat farm wrote:
my question

are there booths?

it would be cool if the regular season was like 10k-15k that way they could draw koreans for the regular season. i only see a few if any showing up for regular season.

No booths

NexaS

United States202 Posts

February 04 2011 10:30 GMT

#320

On February 04 2011 15:47 ControlMonkey wrote:
The cool thing is that MLG put on a great show for Halo. If the production values for SC2 end up being the same as what they do for halo, that can only be a good thing for the viewers.

Well they have already said each game is getting it's own main stage. Let's hope.