EPT[GSL] Tour 2011 - Page 5
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KevinIX
United States2472 Posts
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Jiddra
Sweden2685 Posts
And I'm not afraid about them not making it. The names of the sponsors this year have been very big global companys. Intel sponsored the first season and Sony Ericsson sponsored season two and three. Not to mention smaller sponsors like pepsi. Sony Ericsson alone had sales in Q3 2010 worth almost 2 billion dollars. The money is behind this tournament, when strong names stands behind it. 2011 is going to be a great year for Starcraft 2 if names like this will still be in the picture as sponsors. | ||
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pms
Poland611 Posts
1. The Code A tournament needs higher prizes. Clearly winning a whole Class A tournament is not equal to just showing up to Ro32 Class S match (and for now the prize money are the same for those...). But more importantly there just should be more stimulants there for the newcomers. Especially in next months, with all those sc1 players switching to sc2, and sc2 getting major pro league! The money in Class A tournament are ridiculously low right now! 2. World cup is not really a world cup, too many Koreans, and why the heck so many Chinese and Taiwanese players? Because Korea is close to China?... That's funny, but very serious. In Europe and North America there are just so much more good sc2 players than in China/Taiwan, with two major events there IEM and MLG. So why 4 spots for China? Why 8 for Korea, if it's called 'World Cup'??? I would reduce 4 to 2, 8 to 6, gave 1 more spot to NA, 2 more spots to Europe and 1 more spot to SA. | ||
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dahornnn
United Kingdom395 Posts
On December 17 2010 00:57 pms wrote: There are two things which need changes: 1. The Code A tournament needs higher prizes. Clearly winning a whole Class A tournament is not equal to just showing up to Ro32 Class S match (and for now the prize money are the same for those...). But more importantly there just should be more stimulants there for the newcomers. Especially in next months, with all those sc1 players switching to sc2, and sc2 getting major pro league! The money in Class A tournament are ridiculously low right now! 2. World cup is not really a world cup, too many Koreans, and why the heck so many Chinese and Taiwanese players? Because Korea is close to China?... That's funny, but very serious. In Europe and North America there are just so much more good sc2 players than in China/Taiwan, with two major events there IEM and MLG. So why 4 spots for China? Why 8 for Korea, if it's called 'World Cup'??? I would reduce 4 to 2, 8 to 6, gave 1 more spot to NA, 2 more spots to Europe and 1 more spot to SA. With a lot of koreans being able to make good money by being top 32 in korea....... the skillgap is most likely going to increase from kr->row :O? | ||
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Lamphead
Canada241 Posts
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TaKemE
Denmark1045 Posts
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PartyBiscuit
Canada4525 Posts
On December 17 2010 01:44 TaKemE wrote: The GSL's in 2011 got alot less prize money then those in 2010 and those were qualifiers for 2011 (50%).... THe gsl's in 2010 should have been those with less prize money imo. The Super is still the 87k US. Also, they have a huge number of tourneys in 2011 compared to 3 in 2010, the prize pool here is over 1 million compared maybe 250k in 2010. They used the bigger pots in the open seasons to ensure that people would be interested in the first place and would be able to get a decent group of people for Code S. | ||
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Arun
United States56 Posts
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TaKemE
Denmark1045 Posts
On December 17 2010 01:48 PartyBiscuit wrote: The Super is still the 87k US. Also, they have a huge number of tourneys in 2011 compared to 3 in 2010, the prize pool here is over 1 million compared maybe 250k in 2010. They used the bigger pots in the open seasons to ensure that people would be interested in the first place and would be able to get a decent group of people for Code S. Its more like 530k (177k each) in 2010 and thats only for 3-4 months. Dont get me wrong in 2011 there is alot of money and alot of awesome tournaments, I just think its stupid to have higher prize money for the 2010 qualifiers then the real 2011 tournaments. | ||
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TheBanana
Norway2183 Posts
I get that compared to SC1, this is probably amazing for foreigners and what not. But come on, this is really just a national competition with the occasional guest. If this was in fact supposed to be a global competition(as it obvioulsy never was) koreans would stand on equal ground with every other country in the world. Koreans get basically every advantage possible, foreigners that possibly could be amazing players will probably not even get to compete. I know I'm negative, mostly because I know that if the biggest SC2-competition unfairly consists of 95% koreans my interest for the esport will wither up and die. If they gained their 95% due to fair competition my interest would still fade away and die, but at least it would be fair. I guess my global utopian SC2 dream never will happen. Unless FXOpen or someone else steps up to the plate. For now I guess I'll keep rooting for the handicapped foreigners and hope that they have huge success against all odds. That might change something. I don't see it happening due to the location and the stacked odds, but it would be nice. | ||
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Liquid`Nazgul
22427 Posts
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Liquid`Nazgul
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debasers
737 Posts
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HollowLord
United States3862 Posts
Don't get me wrong, I'm excited but jesus who's sponsering all of this. | ||
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shannn
Netherlands2891 Posts
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bkrow
Australia8532 Posts
On December 18 2010 20:47 debasers wrote: Why was it closed, Nazgul? Closed due to the quote in the OP.. So much starcraft and so much money | ||
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Kiyo.
United States2284 Posts
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shannn
Netherlands2891 Posts
On December 18 2010 21:38 Kiyo. wrote: Have they set a date on when the Code A and Code S tourneys start? In the commercials during the GSL finals I saw a 2nd of January date but I don't know what it means if it's the start of the GSL S and A league or something else. | ||
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BeMannerDuPenner
Germany5638 Posts
On December 17 2010 02:05 TheBanana wrote: "Global" is the most misleading name ever and the world championship is a joke. I get that compared to SC1, this is probably amazing for foreigners and what not. But come on, this is really just a national competition with the occasional guest. If this was in fact supposed to be a global competition(as it obvioulsy never was) koreans would stand on equal ground with every other country in the world. Koreans get basically every advantage possible, foreigners that possibly could be amazing players will probably not even get to compete. I know I'm negative, mostly because I know that if the biggest SC2-competition unfairly consists of 95% koreans my interest for the esport will wither up and die. If they gained their 95% due to fair competition my interest would still fade away and die, but at least it would be fair. I guess my global utopian SC2 dream never will happen. Unless FXOpen or someone else steps up to the plate. For now I guess I'll keep rooting for the handicapped foreigners and hope that they have huge success against all odds. That might change something. I don't see it happening due to the location and the stacked odds, but it would be nice. explain reason for the raging? the biggest and for many the only reason to not compete in gsl is that they have to move to korea for it. which is a HUGE commitment and something very few can do. thats not GSLs fault. and what is that handicap you speak of? really your rant makes like zero sense. what do you expect them to do? pay for evryones flight/stay? move their whole business away from korea? | ||
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Liquid`Nazgul
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