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WCS GrandFinal Prizepool - Page 3

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Defrag
Profile Joined February 2010
Poland414 Posts
September 14 2012 14:09 GMT
#41
Wow, this is really impressive.

Will be even more interesting to watch with that much money on the line. I wonder how much impact it will have on the players.

opterown *
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
Australia54784 Posts
September 14 2012 14:10 GMT
#42
On September 14 2012 23:05 Hiea wrote:
North America: 120.000
South America: 44.600
Europe: 189.000
Oceania: 30.000
Asia: 125.980
Global Finals: 250.000
Total: 759.580


There was some missing or no price pool at all for some South American countries.

Now if you think about the 1,6 mill valve put into DotA 2, this is just under half, but keep in mind that Blizz pays for the travel to all of their events, they flew Tastosis across the world to try and get more attention to countries like the UK and Australia.

I think if we knew the prices of all the plane tickets it probably wouldn't be much different in total prize money than what valve did.

plus dota2 is a 5-man sport ;D
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Doodsmack
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States7224 Posts
September 14 2012 14:19 GMT
#43
Blizzard has done an awesome job with WCS, because of their emphasis on sustainability and support of existing tournament organizers. This prize pool is just another example. Can't wait to watch.
opterown *
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
Australia54784 Posts
September 14 2012 14:22 GMT
#44
this is one of the largest prize pools :p
http://www.esportsearnings.com/tournaments

only painkiller for some reason paid out more, haha
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Yoshi Kirishima
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States10366 Posts
September 14 2012 14:24 GMT
#45
$250,000, nice!

Would be awesome to see $1 million dollar prizepools though, or better yet $1 million for first place :D
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ragnorr
Profile Joined April 2011
Denmark6097 Posts
September 14 2012 14:25 GMT
#46
On September 14 2012 23:10 opterown wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 14 2012 23:05 Hiea wrote:
North America: 120.000
South America: 44.600
Europe: 189.000
Oceania: 30.000
Asia: 125.980
Global Finals: 250.000
Total: 759.580


There was some missing or no price pool at all for some South American countries.

Now if you think about the 1,6 mill valve put into DotA 2, this is just under half, but keep in mind that Blizz pays for the travel to all of their events, they flew Tastosis across the world to try and get more attention to countries like the UK and Australia.

I think if we knew the prices of all the plane tickets it probably wouldn't be much different in total prize money than what valve did.

plus dota2 is a 5-man sport ;D

Not mention it is horrible spread, WCS have spread money over many differend players which i find far better
opterown *
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
Australia54784 Posts
September 14 2012 14:28 GMT
#47
On September 14 2012 23:24 Yoshi Kirishima wrote:
$250,000, nice!

Would be awesome to see $1 million dollar prizepools though, or better yet $1 million for first place :D

before that happens though, GSL and the other premiers need to step it up too so that the WCS doesn't outlcass them by 20x :p $1M is unreasonable imo, i would much rather see that $1M spread worldwide rather than to a 1st place for more player support :p
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Darneck
Profile Joined September 2010
Sweden1394 Posts
September 14 2012 14:33 GMT
#48
Going to be so sick.
nimdil
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Poland3759 Posts
September 14 2012 14:42 GMT
#49
1. Why they used flag of the Olympic team of Chinese Taipei rather than that of Republic of China? That blows.

2. How did they choose direct qualifications for national champions into WC? I kind of understand United States and Canada in NA region or People's Republic of China/South Korea/Republic of China but why France, Germany and Russia in EU? Because of the population? Seems like Sweden and Ukraine is more legitimate choice.
MrMercuG
Profile Joined March 2011
Netherlands2389 Posts
September 14 2012 14:45 GMT
#50
On September 14 2012 22:34 opterown wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 14 2012 22:33 TeeTS wrote:
On September 14 2012 22:22 CoR wrote:
250.... 100.... they give stephano 100.000 $ ?


Haha! The spot is reserved for Creator

that's right!


Hell yeah! Creator to stronk
Shellshock
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States97276 Posts
September 14 2012 14:47 GMT
#51
Go Creator! Instant access to the 100k club. Polt will finally lose the distinction of owning the highest prize money title in sc2
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Noispaxen
Profile Joined March 2011
Poland150 Posts
September 14 2012 14:49 GMT
#52
Awesome! Just what I expected, good job Blizzard!

nimdil: USA sadly doesn't recognize Taiwan as country, and thus a big company like Blizzard could probably experience some problems if they used the RoC flag.
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Vanadiel
Profile Joined April 2012
France961 Posts
September 14 2012 14:51 GMT
#53
Why does everyone seems to believe creator is the favorite for this tournament?
Wildmoon
Profile Joined December 2011
Thailand4189 Posts
September 14 2012 14:51 GMT
#54
WCS is the right way to do huge tournament like this. Prizepool is spreaded all over the world to encourage players from everywhere. If WCS is one huge tournament with 1mil prize pool then it would have been much worse for SC2 esport scene. As much as I love korean players but offering the chance for everyone to win something is better.
kommunalka
Profile Joined February 2011
United States550 Posts
September 14 2012 14:56 GMT
#55
This is a good prize pool.... cant wait to see how things begin to shake up for the Global Final..... its been a sick tourney so far
rG
Jakkerr
Profile Joined December 2010
Netherlands2549 Posts
September 14 2012 15:04 GMT
#56
On September 14 2012 23:05 Hiea wrote:
North America: 120.000
South America: 44.600
Europe: 189.000
Oceania: 30.000
Asia: 125.980
Global Finals: 250.000
Total: 759.580


There was some missing or no price pool at all for some South American countries.

Now if you think about the 1,6 mill valve put into DotA 2, this is just under half, but keep in mind that Blizz pays for the travel to all of their events, they flew Tastosis across the world to try and get more attention to countries like the UK and Australia.

I think if we knew the prices of all the plane tickets it probably wouldn't be much different in total prize money than what valve did.


Valve flew every1 in aswell iirc.
But that doesn't really matter, why would we bother comparing pricepools.
Dota is a bigger game and it's played in a 5vs5 format.
Can't we just be happy with this sick tournament?
Killmouse
Profile Joined August 2010
Austria5700 Posts
September 14 2012 15:05 GMT
#57
its gonna be a PvZ fest, there gonna be almost no terrans at wcs grandfinal ((
yo
Alryk
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
United States2718 Posts
September 14 2012 15:11 GMT
#58
On September 14 2012 22:32 Jetaap wrote:
I think almost everyone expected something like that, good prizepool for an awesome tournament. I wonder what was the prizepool of WCS overally, it should be around 750K no? If you add all the travel cost that were paid by blizzard, they really invested a lot to make this tournament a real world championship.


Yeah WCS totals out at around 750,000$, + unknown travel costs.
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scypio
Profile Joined December 2011
Poland2127 Posts
September 14 2012 15:14 GMT
#59
I've done some stats from here: http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Premier_Tournaments

Total premier tournaments prize pool for 2011 was 2260k $...

Right now Liquipadia lists 2154k $ for 2012 without the WCS finals and 2012 Blizzard Cup and 5 other listed tournaments.

This means the total prize pool for premier tournaments will go up this year. And this will happen thanks to blizzard, who went up from 143k in 2011 to over 800k in 2012 (safe to assume Blizzard Cup will have at least 40k $ prize pool I think).
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Ucs
Profile Joined October 2010
264 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-09-14 15:17:11
September 14 2012 15:16 GMT
#60
Why isen't WCS Europe showcased in the top right part on TL? I think its preatty shitty they don't do it for WCS. Higher numbers @ WCS is good for everyone.
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