8000 games with 50% winrate.
If someone plays Zerg and 6 pooling then the games will take about 5 minutes.
The total will be about 666 hours.
If that someone plays 6h/day then it will take 111 days.

That someone will be known as Mr.Cheese and have gotten $3/hour to SC2 using the same strategy for 4 months...that is if someone else don't get there first. :D

Aqueous

United States13 Posts

July 29 2010 02:24 GMT

#42

On July 29 2010 11:09 OminouS wrote:
6 months, 4000 wins? I really doubt that is possible.

If you start off playing random, assuming you get perfectly even wins with each race, then you'll have 1000 random wins and 333 as each race. Then youd have to get 667 wins as each race individually, which rounds to total out to around 3000 total games you would actually have to win if you did it right.

ROOTFayth

Canada3351 Posts

July 29 2010 02:26 GMT

#43

hmm I don't think it works like that, it's only 1000 wins when you pick random records as wins with random, not with protoss/zerg/terran

Hollow

Canada2180 Posts

July 29 2010 02:29 GMT

#44

hmmm is there anything that could prevent people from account sharing? looking at hotkeys and apm might not work since they can use the same... and if they are smart they won't be playing 24/7 on it...

holy_war

United States3590 Posts

July 29 2010 02:30 GMT

#45

On July 29 2010 11:26 Fayth wrote:
hmm I don't think it works like that, it's only 1000 wins when you pick random records as wins with random, not with protoss/zerg/terran

You're right about that.

v3chr0

United States856 Posts

July 29 2010 02:30 GMT

#46

Fayth, props for throwing this money up, but IMO it'd be better spent on a tournament. Right now, 2,000 USD will get you the best players there is to compete and itd be more... timely and a lot more visual. :D

Just my thoughts.

Edit: You also have the chance of being hunted and murdered by someone who loses to someone else moments, maybe even days before. lol

shawster

Canada2485 Posts

July 29 2010 02:32 GMT

#47

no koreans haha

goswser

United States3548 Posts

July 29 2010 02:34 GMT

#48

How does anyone know Fayth will go through with this? Not to raise doubt on his integrity, but no one really knows him, he has a fairly small number of posts, and it would suck to grind hardcore and get that first, and then find that your not getting the prize. If this is actually going to be taken seriously, Nazgul or someone should be holding the money, that way everyone knows its legit.

theSAiNT

United States726 Posts

July 29 2010 02:34 GMT

#49

Nobody's said the obvious thing. With a bit of account sharing, this is possible. Not easy. But possible. I don't see any other way. (Afaik, account sharing is against Battlenet ToS and technically could get you banned.)

Saracen

United States5139 Posts

July 29 2010 02:35 GMT

#50

Have you considered people switching off on a shared account?

ROOTFayth

Canada3351 Posts

July 29 2010 02:37 GMT

#51

On July 29 2010 11:34 Newguy wrote:
How does anyone know Fayth will go through with this? Not to raise doubt on his integrity, but no one really knows him, he has a fairly small number of posts, and it would suck to grind hardcore and get that first, and then find that your not getting the prize. If this is actually going to be taken seriously, Nazgul or someone should be holding the money, that way everyone knows its legit.

many people know me, just not the new schoolers

ROOTFayth

Canada3351 Posts

July 29 2010 02:38 GMT

#52

On July 29 2010 11:35 Saracen wrote:
Have you considered people switching off on a shared account?

yeah it's prohibited, so if there's any evidence of someone account sharing then he's just out of the course

KiWiKaKi

Canada691 Posts

July 29 2010 02:38 GMT

#53

fayth is a man of honor

JohannesH

Finland1364 Posts

July 29 2010 02:41 GMT

#54

On July 29 2010 11:30 v3chr0 wrote:
Fayth, props for throwing this money up, but IMO it'd be better spent on a tournament. Right now, 2,000 USD will get you the best players there is to compete and itd be more... timely and a lot more visual. :D

Just my thoughts.

Edit: You also have the chance of being hunted and murdered by someone who loses to someone else moments, maybe even days before. lol

Well he could give it to feed poor african children or help cancer research or to pay my rent, but it's his money so its kinda useless for others to complain that he's using it wrong :/

Roffles

Pitcairn19291 Posts

July 29 2010 02:42 GMT

#55

On July 29 2010 11:38 Fayth wrote:

Show nested quote +

yeah it's prohibited, so if there's any evidence of someone account sharing then he's just out of the course

My question would be how you'd find out about whether or not they've been sharing accounts.

IntoTheWow

is awesome32281 Posts

July 29 2010 02:47 GMT

#56

dont do it, if you ever make it to 4k wins in time, he will double or nothing you!

Azalie

New Zealand117 Posts

July 29 2010 02:51 GMT

#57

On July 29 2010 11:47 IntoTheWow wrote:
dont do it, if you ever make it to 4k wins in time, he will double or nothing you!

hah! would be interesting to see someone try do it twice tho

just to see if there is someone out there that would.

v3chr0

United States856 Posts

July 29 2010 02:51 GMT

#58

On July 29 2010 11:41 JohannesH wrote:

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Well he could give it to feed poor african children or help cancer research or to pay my rent, but it's his money so its kinda useless for others to complain that he's using it wrong :/

I can't find the part where I was complaining or saying he is "wrong", I guess "props for throwing money up", "IMO" and "just my thoughts" weren't enough to stop you from writing what you wrote. While poor African children or cancer are a greater cause, they don't involve Starcraft 2.

harky

98 Posts

July 29 2010 02:56 GMT

#59

Heh. Well, if this is legit that could bite you in the ass. It's only ~23 wins per day. A game takes ~10-20 minutes normally, so anyone playing 7+ hours who is good with all three races could do this. It's a pretty crappy payoff for that amount of work, but those people would be playing that much with or without the bet.

Nikhedoniac

Australia20 Posts

July 29 2010 02:59 GMT

#60

I wouldn't do this even if I had a 100% win rate and he was paying 10x as much... I can't believe some of you are considering the challenge! It's such a huge RL sacrifice...