EPTIt's basically 10$ per player, plus 10k for SF4 and 20k for MK9.
SSF4 1520 players
UMvC3 1248 players
KOF 960 players
SFxT 448 teams or 896 players
SCV 416 players
MK 304 players
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Pwere
Canada1557 Posts
It's basically 10$ per player, plus 10k for SF4 and 20k for MK9. SSF4 1520 players UMvC3 1248 players KOF 960 players SFxT 448 teams or 896 players SCV 416 players MK 304 players | ||
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Quenchiest
Canada286 Posts
On July 10 2012 04:53 Excalibur_Z wrote: Were those just the top prizes or the overall prize pool per event? Pretty sure it's the overall pool for each event. I don't know if there's an actual breakdown anywhere (most fighting game tournaments don't tend to post these) but top 8 get paid. | ||
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Wangsta
United States776 Posts
On July 10 2012 03:47 ShoKakuUtena wrote: Yeah, he was but I wanted to know if you felt he should've just stayed with Sakura. I wouldn't think Uryo would counter pick as most of the Japanese (outside of Kindevu anyway) do not switch characters. Uryo's Viper (still got the whole 60% damage combos) is great, but Dieminion is way too familiar with Viper in general, just from seeing how Dieminion blocked nearly most of Uryo's burn kick cross up attempts. Guile isn't a good matchup for sakura. Sak can't really get in except with a random air tatsu or preemptive ground tatsu. Viper usually does fine vs guile, it just looked bad because dieminion was playing out of his mind | ||
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udgnim
United States8024 Posts
On July 10 2012 04:54 adeezy wrote: not bad numbers. pretty sure this tournament is the largest pay off of any tournaments. must be tough being a fighting game pro gamer most have some kind of day job and it's more of a super serious hobby to them than career choice the highest paid NA FG pro is probably Justin Wong and he has a day job | ||
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Fatmatt2000
United States159 Posts
On July 10 2012 05:12 udgnim wrote: most have some kind of day job and it's more of a super serious hobby to them than career choice the highest paid NA FG pro is probably Justin Wong and he has a day job I know he had a day job a few years ago as a community manager for like dungeon fighter online or something, but I doubt he does currently. I mean he went to almost every road to evo event over the past 2-3 months which entails Flying to some random city in the country on Weds or Thurs, playing videogames all weekend and then flying home Monday, and doing this pretty much every weekend or every other weekend. That being said, almost every pro fighting game player needs other sources of income rather than tourney winnings, since if you dont get 1st or 2nd you're probably not even covering your travel costs to most (non evo) tournaments. | ||
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Pooshlmer
United States1001 Posts
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shawster
Canada2485 Posts
On July 10 2012 06:07 Pooshlmer wrote: Justin Wong can legitimately expect to win one or more games per event. It's kind of scary, and the only way to currently support yourself in the FGC. that's why i legitimately think the fgc is the best and most passionate community there is. there's all these obstacles you have to pass to play the game, shitty online play(imagine sc2 with 2 second delay) small prizepools yet they still manage to get it done. i mean you gotta love what you do in order to keep going, and you see their love of the game when you hear the fans get hype or the player's expressions after winning. there are players who drive 2-3 hours every wednesday or thursday to compete in their local weekly fighting game tournament. | ||
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Groog
127 Posts
On July 10 2012 06:07 Pooshlmer wrote: Justin Wong can legitimately expect to win one or more games per event. It's kind of scary, and the only way to currently support yourself in the FGC. Fun part being that he doesn't even practice that much. On July 10 2012 04:54 Pwere wrote: Total prizepool. It's basically 10$ per player, plus 10k for SF4 and 20k for MK9. SSF4 1520 players UMvC3 1248 players KOF 960 players SFxT 448 teams or 896 players SCV 416 players MK 304 players Well, Capcom did chip in aswell. I don't know how much exactly, interpret this article as you can http://www.capcom-europe.com/blog/2012/06/evo-touts-record-attendance-capcom-ensures-25k-total-prize-for-street-fighter-iv/ | ||
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Quenchiest
Canada286 Posts
On July 10 2012 06:13 shawster wrote: that's why i legitimately think the fgc is the best and most passionate community there is. there's all these obstacles you have to pass to play the game, shitty online play(imagine sc2 with 2 second delay) small prizepools yet they still manage to get it done. i mean you gotta love what you do in order to keep going, and you see their love of the game when you hear the fans get hype or the player's expressions after winning. there are players who drive 2-3 hours every wednesday or thursday to compete in their local weekly fighting game tournament. It's also worth noting a lot of these players, when it comes to EVO anyway, are playing for prestige and competition more than anything. The grand prize at EVO could have been a free happy meal from McDonalds and you'd have similar numbers. Bigger prize pots are just icing. | ||
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pyro19
6575 Posts
On July 10 2012 04:51 Fatmatt2000 wrote: Infiltration - $25,000 Super Street Fighter IV, Arcade Edition 2012 Perfect Legend - $23,000 Mortal Kombat 9 Filipino Champ - $15,000 Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Fuudo - $15,000 for Sega’s Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown Mad KOF - $11,000 King of Fighters XIII Infiltration x Laugh - $9,000 Street Fighter X Tekken Shining Decopon - $5,000 Soul Calibur V Pretty sure thats correct. I thought those were the prize pools not just the First Place payout? | ||
Excalibur_Z
United States12248 Posts
On July 10 2012 05:48 Fatmatt2000 wrote: I know he had a day job a few years ago as a community manager for like dungeon fighter online or something, but I doubt he does currently. I mean he went to almost every road to evo event over the past 2-3 months which entails Flying to some random city in the country on Weds or Thurs, playing videogames all weekend and then flying home Monday, and doing this pretty much every weekend or every other weekend. That being said, almost every pro fighting game player needs other sources of income rather than tourney winnings, since if you dont get 1st or 2nd you're probably not even covering your travel costs to most (non evo) tournaments. Ricky Ortiz used to work at my company and he went to events allllll the time which meant he was out every other Friday or so, sometimes Thursday too. I'm pretty sure he went into vacation time debt haha. | ||
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shindigs
United States4795 Posts
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Excalibur_Z
United States12248 Posts
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c0ldfusion
United States8293 Posts
On July 10 2012 06:36 Excalibur_Z wrote: Ricky Ortiz used to work at my company and he went to events allllll the time which meant he was out every other Friday or so, sometimes Thursday too. I'm pretty sure he went into vacation time debt haha. Wow that's so cool, you were colleagues with Ricky Ortiz. What did he do for you guys? And I'm guessing he's a full-time pro-gamer now? | ||
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Excalibur_Z
United States12248 Posts
On July 10 2012 06:48 c0ldfusion wrote: Wow that's so cool, you were colleagues with Ricky Ortiz. What did he do for you guys? And I'm guessing he's a full-time pro-gamer now? He was a contract QA tester. I don't watch FGTV very often so I don't know what he's doing besides that, if anything. It's probably no surprise that he was a pretty good tester though =] | ||
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error1
United States1 Post
On July 09 2012 14:30 wongfeihung wrote: That's the obvious reason. It was a double entendre, meant as a shoutout to the E-sports community (to those unfamiliar with the Fighting Game scene), as well as a joke for the FGC. Felt like commenting on this, it didn't have anything to do with esports. We where originally making the vid for UCSD and trying to represent all the games they had, but we decided to do it for evo instead. It just ended up at the end of the video beacuse it's was really slow paced and didn't fit in well with the rest of the clips. It's unfortunate, but I can't say I was suprised by the stream chat's reaction | ||
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Excalibur_Z
United States12248 Posts
On July 10 2012 08:36 error1 wrote: Felt like commenting on this, it didn't have anything to do with esports. We where originally making the vid for UCSD and trying to represent all the games they had, but we decided to do it for evo instead. It just ended up at the end of the video beacuse it's was really slow paced and didn't fit in well with the rest of the clips. It's unfortunate, but I can't say I was suprised by the stream chat's reaction Hey shoutouts to error1, veteran FGC contributor, welcome to Teamliquid =) I thought the SC2 clip at the end was just funny because it still fits in the context of an air throw. Stream monsters are who they are, and it's very easy to rile them up. There were already a bunch of FGC/esports comparisons all Evo weekend, this just provided more fodder for the stream monsters. You can argue back and forth internally about whether it was worth including this clip, but this isn't what sparked the FGC/esports debate in the stream chat initially by any means. It had been going on long before that. | ||
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julianto
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Excalibur_Z
United States12248 Posts
On July 10 2012 11:06 julianto wrote: Has anyone created a GIF of that Mexican horse cheering during the KoF finals yet? I want to be able to use that in a SC lr thread :3 Oh yes, within minutes. ![[image loading]](http://i.minus.com/i6KFWnapcCjuP.gif) Just don't spam the LR threads with it and I won't ban you. =] | ||
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Arnstein
Norway3381 Posts
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