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[WESG] World E-Sports Games - $200,000 1st place - Page 2
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Inflicted
Australia18228 Posts
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SetGuitarsToKill
Canada28396 Posts
On May 17 2016 02:55 Nerchio wrote: Somebody said this is pretty shady though, right? It's put on by one of China's largest companies. It's pretty safe, this is a small drop in the bucket for them. | ||
Shellshock
United States97276 Posts
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Nakajin
Canada8990 Posts
On May 17 2016 03:36 Inflicted wrote: Not a Global Event Well it is kind of normal, Alibaba is dumping a huge amount of money into esport they don't want anybody else to get exposure or to impose rules on them. I wonder if they will try to expend outside of china in the next years or if they just want to take control of esport in China. I can't see them just financing this one thing. (Assuming all their tournaments don't bomb and they just decide to stop right there) | ||
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Dingodile
4139 Posts
On May 17 2016 03:36 Inflicted wrote: Not a Global Event As usual between Blizzcon and new Year there were always tournaments without WCS stuff. | ||
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Clonester
Germany2808 Posts
Alibaba is one of the largest companies in the world, often refered as the amazon of china. They are trying to get a foothold in the west, made one of the largest stock listening ever at New Yorks Stock Exchange a short while ago (2-3 years I think) and a generally extremly far away from being shady. The risk that you will not see your money should be really small. But the risk when it comes to production and accomodation... they are there, as always. Depends with whom they will work togeather. There are strong production crews like the people arround the golden champions league and there are lesser ones who put you in unfinished 5 star hotels and have a event full of lags and so on. Depends all on their partners. If they can grab netease and the guys arround the golden leagues, they should be a strong event without large problems. The event will not be a WCS event because it cant be one at the moment. It is after Blizzcon and would count for WCS 2017... but there is no WCS 2017 at the moment. From the first time of the WCS; Blizzard changed it every year. How shall this event be related to WCS when even Blizzard doesnt know the rules for the WCS 2017 at the moment? | ||
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Wrath
3175 Posts
Global Finals Total : $400,000 1. Place : $200,000 2. Place : $100,000 3. Place : $50,000 4-. Place : TBD Asian Finals 1. Place : $10,000 2. Place : $5,000 3. Place : $2500 wtf...? | ||
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Elentos
55593 Posts
Alibaba got so much money they can casually burn that much on eSports. | ||
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Magnifico
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rednusa
651 Posts
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bearhug
United States999 Posts
On May 16 2016 23:51 Hughgrant wrote: Woot! 200K! $$$$$ Here is the story: Upon planning the event, Alibaba asked a popular Chinese SC2 commentator XiaoSe, "what's is the largest prize money so far for SC2 in the world ?" Xiaose replied "ahh, $200k... ( total prize pool ) ." Alibaba "Got it. Let's match that. $200k for 1st place. " | ||
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Swisslink
2956 Posts
... but... it'd be ridiculous if Koreans weren't allowed to participate :/ | ||
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Musicus
Germany23579 Posts
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etsharry
20 Posts
Edit: not a global event? does that mean there will be no Koreans? or does it just mean no wcs points? I want to see more of koreans for fucks sake. | ||
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seemsgood
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Blargh
United States2103 Posts
Also that prizepool is ridiculous. They better have some really fucking legit qualifiers, if the 3rd place is already one of the highest prizepools for FIRST place. | ||
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Adept
United States472 Posts
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InsidiA
Canada1169 Posts
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada17791 Posts
EA took 2 years to pay the money owed to the final C&C Ladder season winner. It took so long some thought it might never happen and they'd come up with some elaborate legal reason why they did not have to pay. Remember all of IPL's big plans. Then it all got cancelled. Just because there is some big company involved doesn't mean you'll get paid or the event will even take place. That final IPL event just got outright cancelled. | ||
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Incognoto
France10239 Posts
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