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On August 14 2012 03:49 Dodgin wrote:
I can't imagine the prize money for the grand finals is going to be huge considering how much they are already giving out with the nationals and continentals, but I see your point.

On August 14 2012 03:47 Fionn wrote:


Mvp plays and then jumps right onto a plane.

I don't know why he would forfeit. No one knows what the WCS World Championship prize pool is. How mad would Mvp be if it turns out the winner of the WCS gets $500,000 or something insane?

On August 14 2012 01:01 MegaFonzie wrote:


Yep, but its a slumping HerO versus Creator who has been a PvP maestro of late. I guess people are tipping with their heads rather than their hearts for this one, a rare occurrence in the polls!

Another great night of games, hoping for an EffOrt upset

On August 14 2012 01:21 NrGmonk wrote:

Creator is above average at PvP, Hero is really bad at PvP. Last time they faced each other at IPL Tournament of Aces, the score was 6-0.

On August 14 2012 01:17 bokchoi wrote:


IPL Ace Arena (or whatever) is really their only existing H2H record, where Creator completely dominated HerO, in a time where he had much stronger PvP. Nowadays, PvP seems to be his weakest match-up, whereas Creator has remained strong in it. H2H advantage, check. Match-up advantage, check.

On August 14 2012 03:17 Shellshock1122 wrote:
Creator has a very strong head to head vs Hero so I think I'm going to take him here, especially since he seems to be doing well lately. I don't think DRG will be upset by Effort but I'd like to see one of the Kespa players win. I think I'm going to go with Jaedong because even though I like sC, I think Jaedong has the best chance of pulling this off

On August 14 2012 03:53 Fionn wrote:



The Blizzcon Invitational was a two day thing and Mvp won $50,000 from that.

I just can't see them building up this huge final and it not having some insane ground-breaking prize pool. If they come out and the winner only gets $50,000 (I KNOW IT'S A LOT), it will be looked at as an anti-climax compared to other e-sports prize pools.

On August 14 2012 07:51 mordk wrote:
Jaedong hwaiting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Particularly compared to Valve's massive $1.000.000 for 1st place at the international. Even with the huge loads of money Blizz is giving away with all the qualifying stages, they need a large number to compete.

I remember when Valve announced TI11's prize pool, I couldn't believe it.

On August 14 2012 06:45 opterown wrote:







hmmm i dnooo... creator's weakest matchup is probably his pvp (he claims so himself) and he has been knocked out of tournaments by pvp more than any other (e.g. out of IEM quals by inori and ace, gsl by nani, ipl5 by yonghwa etc). he probably is above average but it's still not easy to be confident in it like i am for his pvz :D [well i guess with creator derp moments too, hard to be confident all the time, but i guess being more confident in him than mkp is some small consolation ahaha]

On August 14 2012 08:45 Yorbon wrote:
Actually, i couldn't resist voting/predicting liquibets in favor of jaedong.. :s

On August 14 2012 09:26 opterown wrote:

yea i voted for JD too haha

On August 14 2012 03:53 Fionn wrote:



The Blizzcon Invitational was a two day thing and Mvp won $50,000 from that.

I just can't see them building up this huge final and it not having some insane ground-breaking prize pool. If they come out and the winner only gets $50,000 (I KNOW IT'S A LOT), it will be looked at as an anti-climax compared to other e-sports prize pools.

On August 14 2012 09:39 jmbthirteen wrote:

I completely agree. I actually went through liquipedia last week and was adding up the totals from WCS so far. This is what i found:

Of the individual country qualifiers, Blizzard has given out $273,980.

For the continental qualifiers, Blizzard is paying out $135,600 not including Asia as I couldn't find their total. With Europe getting $60k, I expect it to be around there. I believe I did all my math correctly on these numbers, but its possible i did not.

So without the Asia numbers and the actual WCS Championship numbers, Blizzard will give out $409,580. Pretty decent chunk of change. But I think it will sky rocket after the Championship numbers are announced. We have seen $100,000 prize pools multiple times. It would be really underwhelming to see WCS just do that. Especially when the Europe finals are getting $60,000. Hell Europe and NA together are $90,000. WCS finals has to give more than Europe, NA, Asia and Oceania imo.

I think the winner would have to get at least $100,000. Thats what the early seasons of GSL were pretty much. Another thing to think of is Riot and Valve. Valve has their $1 million dollar Dota 2 tournament. Riot is giving out like $25 million next year. Blizzard is certainly keeping their eyes on that. I don't know if Blizzard will match what Valve is doing, but I dont think it will be far off.

On August 14 2012 08:06 WigglingSquid wrote:

For what is worth, Valve has embarked on Dota 2 with a much stronger esports mindset than Blizzard ever displayed, despite their decade of advantage...