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delo
United States333 Posts
On March 23 2011 08:44 ptbl wrote: GSL has a total prize pool of 1.3-1.5 million for the year. How is NA still bigger? Rhetorical_question_answer_man says: It's not! So we have MLG Dallas April 1st-3rd, the IPL announcement on the 4th, and the first NASL broadcast on the 5th. Jesus christ. There goes all my time, free or not. | ||
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intergalactic
Canada428 Posts
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Kennigit
Canada19447 Posts
On March 23 2011 08:47 Kazang wrote: It won't get over saturated as long as they all do it a different way. If they all have the same players, in the same online format as NASL for example, then they are directly competing with each other and there is going to be a lot of overlap. Personally I would like to see more offline, or at the very least region specific leagues and tournaments. Like the GSTL is determining the best team in Korea, a big league for Teams in NA would be awesome. The GCPL was awesome for example, a bigger version with more prize money and thus a more competitive environment would be very welcome. Not oversaturated but certainly overinflated (pay out/salary wise). I'll hold out until i see what they produce and their business model, but really big organizations have tried this before and have not been able to make returns (CPL, CGS, GGL etc). Making IPL profitable is much much more important than 150k prize purse but im sure they have lots of smart business savy people behind it. Let's see what happens! | ||
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drcatellino
Canada346 Posts
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WArped
United Kingdom4845 Posts
Thats some great news though! | ||
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Wolf
Korea (South)3290 Posts
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ZUR1CH
United States108 Posts
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Jochan
Poland1730 Posts
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Sabu113
United States11046 Posts
At the same time I almost wonder of slight over saturation. It's hard keeping up with all of the tournaments  Considering they had incontrol over there there must be some coordination between the leagues, but yeah I do wonder about over saturation.  efinitely too early to make any substantive judgements about any of the leagues. | ||
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DirtYLOu
575 Posts
Thats my dream tho. | ||
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Enervate
United States1769 Posts
Also, IGN is huge! Can't think of a better organization to have done this. | ||
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Omigawa
United States1556 Posts
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JosephAM
Canada131 Posts
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lac29
United States1485 Posts
1) Can they sustain this ... past a one-off kind of tournament/league? 2) Do they have enough community ties/connections to make it successful? HD seems to be the only one connected from what I've heard ... and if he's the only tie to the SC2 community, well that seems to be a bit weak. | ||
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majestouch
United States395 Posts
Over the past couple of days, major American video game site IGN (owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, one of the largest in the world) has made known their intention to become heavily involved in competitive StarCraft 2. the funiest/best part about this is that from what i've come to understand is the teamliquid/video-gaming scene in general is very liberal, yet, one of the few media outlets (that are conservative) are funding it. moreover, how i'm reading this is that they are going to drop 100-150k/season, which would make it the biggest in the USA (assuming its greater than 100k) and more than most of the GSL (2011) season tournys. anywho, great news the bigger e-sports gets, the better. Hopefully news corp shares this throughout all of it's branches and gets coverage on e-sports. | ||
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hitman133
United States1425 Posts
On March 23 2011 08:53 drcatellino wrote: Seems like HD will be one of the official casters for this, based on the pictures from the other thread and IGN sponsoring HD's own tournament. Yea I think so too, that's great, I like him and his voice. | ||
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Gcubed
United States131 Posts
I honestly can't believe how much interest SC2 is getting in america, its a splendid surprise. Maybe E-sports are bigger than i thought? :D | ||
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airety
United States63 Posts
On March 23 2011 08:53 Kennigit wrote: Not oversaturated but certainly overinflated (pay out/salary wise). I'll hold out until i see what they produce and their business model, but really big organizations have tried this before and have not been able to make returns (CPL, CGS, GGL etc). Making IPL profitable is much much more important than 150k prize purse but im sure they have lots of smart business savy people behind it. Let's see what happens! I think we can both agree the advertising climate is a little different now than it was then. There are players pulling in $3,500 or more in ad revenue splits with JTV through their streams. And ultimately, there is more money in VoDs than streaming (see Usky, H.) and I expect NASL, IGN, and MLG will embrace VoDs a lot more in 2011. Just because of the embrace of video advertising by both major companies and smaller ones, the revenue streams are bigger. This is even before sponsors - one of the reasons TSL3 can compete with these other tourneys in prize pool is the title sponsor, PokerStrategy.com. | ||
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ffadicted
United States3545 Posts
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SirRobin
United States269 Posts
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