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On December 21 2010 05:14 Logo wrote:
That entire 10 million is going into the prize pool for a single SC2 tournament!
Ok maybe not, but it's going to be really exciting either way. I wonder if this is part of the big MLG stuff JP has been hyping or if it's just how it's going to be funded.
lol that would b awesome
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On December 21 2010 05:18 Chronald wrote:
I'd love to see some seating, maybe a stage for the finals? And a faster stream for the love of gawd
qft. The stream at all three events were downright awful this year.
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On December 21 2010 05:57 emythrel wrote:Show nested quote +On December 21 2010 05:56 Stoids wrote:
Good for MLG, glad to see some proper funding. I enjoyed my time at MLG Dallas and most of my complaints (seating, etc) could be solved with a few more dollars. Hope that they ration out some for SC2 instead of Halo. they already had over 40million to work with over the years, this is just another 10million..... ;p
I know the dollar has dropped significantly in value over the last few years... but $10 million should still buy you a couple of chairs right? :D
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cant wait for 2011 season preview!
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I sure hope the prize pool for MLG will be bigger than 10k or 25k this season, but I doubt it quite seriously. Not that those prize pools are bad by any means.
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On December 21 2010 05:14 TrainFX wrote:
Looks like financing for operating activities to me...
nothing to get excited about.
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Sad thing is, they could do shit-all with this money and I'd still watch, even knowing that the game makes little sense, since both players are hearing random facts from the casters. Had quite a bit of fun with MLG last year, here's hoping for some reasonable improvements for 2011.
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When I was at Dallas I talked to a few guys that worked for MLG, higher up representatives, and they said they were looking to go to more cities than just east coast and midwest. They were looking to come back to the west coast, and to do a few more places. If so, I'm sure the 10 million is nothing special, and simply more funds to support these other events.
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using 1% of that would give them a 100-200% increase in views for SC2 related stuff >_>
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They should invest in sound proof booths for Sc2!
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They should buy a shit tonne of bleachers.
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Best laser light show you'll see in 2011 
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i like MLG - as a major tour even better then IEM or EPS in europe - NA needs some more more weekly stuff like EU has and everything would be gerat over there
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im tripping balls here guys
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I know Halo's really important to MLG but hopefully SC2 can at least go halfsies with them this time around, with close to equal attention. I'd be really happy with that.
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On December 21 2010 05:16 Thorantham wrote:
With $52MM invested a decent valued exit has to be in the $150MM+ range. How will MLG generate revenues that are worthy of a $150MM valuation? I suppose it might be plausible at say $25MM in revenue and a 6 multiple or something like that. Anyone know what kind of revenue MLG has?
MLG actually has a pretty big holdings in Agora, who is a contract developer for the multi-player interface for many mainstream franchise games, and gamebattles which is apparently a pretty successful community site for console gaming(its call of duty sub-forum alone has 800k threads). I would guess a large portion of the expected return would be found in these holdings.
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Really? Wow, I'm impressed. Of course it's for many games not only SC2 but still I didn't know that MLG was this huge. 52 million is a fucking lot, you could almost fund a major sports club with that.
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On December 21 2010 08:01 InvalidID wrote:Show nested quote +On December 21 2010 05:16 Thorantham wrote:
With $52MM invested a decent valued exit has to be in the $150MM+ range. How will MLG generate revenues that are worthy of a $150MM valuation? I suppose it might be plausible at say $25MM in revenue and a 6 multiple or something like that. Anyone know what kind of revenue MLG has?
MLG actually has a pretty big holdings in Agora, who is a contract developer for the multi-player interface for many mainstream franchise games, and gamebattles which is apparently a pretty successful community site for console gaming(its call of duty sub-forum alone has 800k threads). I would guess a large portion of the expected return would be found in these holdings.
Not only that but their merchandising contracts are probably insane. They were selling out of merchandise at MLG of many of the products, Gunnars was there selling quite of bit of their gimmicky glasses. I bought a hat, a shirt, and a pair Astro Headsets, and I know they made money like that off of most of the people there. Also there were quite a bit of spectators not just players. Not only that, but imagine that for many events, and for gamebattles, and for all the merchandise sold on the site. They are quite popular amongst many groups of people, just not completely mainstream yet.
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On December 21 2010 06:11 tetracycloide wrote:Show nested quote +On December 21 2010 05:14 TrainFX wrote:
Looks like financing for operating activities to me...
nothing to get excited about. Aren't building new stands and prize pools operating activities for a gaming league? Why wouldn't Americans be excited about 10 million more dollars being invested in the operating activities of our local Starcraft league?
New investment and operating activities aren't the same thing broski.
In lamens terms the 10 mil is probably going to pay for the activities that they already operate, not so sc2 can have a 1mil prize pool or anything, and that sir is nothing to be excited about.
Please don't take this as me saying that sc2 won't be a bigger part of MLG next year, because that's not what I'm saying.
Also I was just making a guess and your stating it as a fact how the money will be spent, none of us know so please don't come at me like you know something.
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