EPTBut damn, this is pretty boring O.o
This sundance guy is like a piece of teflon.. has he said anything interesting, or like midly inconventional?
I guess I'm being naive just hoping to be entertained ^^
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Euronyme
Sweden3804 Posts
But damn, this is pretty boring O.o This sundance guy is like a piece of teflon.. has he said anything interesting, or like midly inconventional? I guess I'm being naive just hoping to be entertained ^^ | ||
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zizou21
United States3683 Posts
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Euronyme
Sweden3804 Posts
On February 09 2011 14:26 zizou21 wrote: Yea i think the whole idea of the 50,000$ prize is the attention it will garner. Players like Nony would prefer it having more spread out, so overall the better players will end up earning more. But ya, I think the problem is that some people in America really think they can make a living from playing Starcraft. Well they can if they get sponsors lol. | ||
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Biigfoot
United States159 Posts
On February 09 2011 14:24 raf3776 wrote: Seems like sundance doesnt really want to hear other peoples opinions/ideas and just kinda swerves around the comment or questions. Not quite, I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that the decisions are irreversible at this point and debating it is pretty much a time waster and won't be able to affect any decisions for a very very long time. | ||
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godemperor
Belgium2043 Posts
On February 09 2011 14:25 DystopiaX wrote: I think the top heavy thing is because they have a set amount of money for roused and one huge tourney is more profitable and attention getting than several middle sized ones. I could see Koreans going to the championships or something, but they wouldn't bother if it was like 5 15k tourneys. I think its mainly MLG want to show everyone "Look at our prize pool! Its as big as GSL!". But in truth, the prize pool for the whole year is less than 1/7 of GSL. I dont think many top koreans will go considering you need to go to a lot of qualifier which will conflict with there gsl commitments. | ||
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Aquafresh
United States824 Posts
On February 09 2011 14:24 raf3776 wrote: Seems like sundance doesnt really want to hear other peoples opinions/ideas and just kinda swerves around the comment or questions. Thats not what I was implying at all. He could just not want to get into the specifics of it. "The sponsors want it" is about as good a justification as your going to get in that situation. | ||
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Al Bundy
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On February 09 2011 14:26 zizou21 wrote: Yea i think the whole idea of the 50,000$ prize is the attention it will garner. Players like Nony would prefer it having more spread out, so overall the better players will end up earning more. But ya, I think the problem is that some people in America really think they can make a living from playing Starcraft. Yeah this is basically what a progamer does. But on topic I don't hate Octoshape! Actually I love it because it works flawlessly on my end. As for the Sundance, I have a bad feeling about him. I may be wrong but in my opinion this guy is just trying to reap what the Starcraft community sowed. | ||
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Euronyme
Sweden3804 Posts
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yamato77
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On February 09 2011 14:26 zizou21 wrote: Yea i think the whole idea of the 50,000$ prize is the attention it will garner. Players like Nony would prefer it having more spread out, so overall the better players will end up earning more. But ya, I think the problem is that some people in America really think they can make a living from playing Starcraft. The whole point of this cast is trying to make it to where someone can make a living playing SC. I want to live in a world where passions like these are rewarded. Don't you? | ||
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GenoZStriker
United States2914 Posts
On February 09 2011 14:27 godemperor wrote: I think its mainly MLG want to show everyone "Look at our prize pool! Its as big as GSL!" Ummmmm no. | ||
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Defacer
Canada5052 Posts
Sounds heavy. | ||
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dtz
5834 Posts
On February 09 2011 14:29 yamato77 wrote: The whole point of this cast is trying to make it to where someone can make a living playing SC. I want to live in a world where passions like these are rewarded. Don't you? Yea and according to Sundance , this is not achieved primarily via prize money. He said that there will be sponsors who want to pay players to promote their products. Like they will sponsor players to go around saying how they like Dr pepper or doritos. That makes total sense because thats how it works in most sports. Players earn from their contracts not by winning the prize money. | ||
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DystopiaX
United States16236 Posts
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senor_gomez
United States162 Posts
Get those shirts! | ||
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Oreo7
United States1647 Posts
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Euronyme
Sweden3804 Posts
On February 09 2011 14:31 Defacer wrote: Based on the comments already, I can't wait to hear this cast. Sounds heavy. It's basically JP asking a 3 word question, and sundance avoiding to answere it for 15 minutes, and none else is talking.. let's see if it gets hot and heavy soon. Then again it's 06:32 here, so really late for me, and I need something interesting not to zone out. Preshow was nice though  | ||
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Killerkrack
664 Posts
On February 09 2011 14:28 AlBundy wrote: Yeah this is basically what a progamer does. But on topic I don't hate Octoshape! Actually I love it because it works flawlessly on my end. As for the Sundance, I have a bad feeling about him. I may be wrong but in my opinion this guy is just trying to reap what the Starcraft community sowed. False, I've met him multiple times at countless events over the past 7 years and he is definitely not like that. MLG is trying to pick Starcraft 2 up and promote it because the community at MLG was in an uproar for MLG to pick it up and support it. If you can raise enough support for any game MLG will pick it up and try their hardest to help the game grow. They don't just pick whatever popular game (such as SC2) there is at any given time and suck all the money out of it. | ||
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DystopiaX
United States16236 Posts
On February 09 2011 14:32 senor_gomez wrote: http://store.majorleaguegaming.com/t/categories/mlg-merchandise Get those shirts! No, because if I do that people will associate me with the xbox players who want to be "pro". (not the halo pros, I couldnt care less, the people on XML who buy mlg icons and shit and smacktalk like crazy and think they're really good. | ||
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United States419 Posts
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