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On February 22 2011 09:59 darmousseh wrote:
$100,000 prize pool at $20 each.
5000 subscribers needed to break even on the prize pool.
3 months of casting for incontrol and gretorp is like another $30,000.
Developer cost for 3 months is another $15,000.
Studio cost $10,000 for 3 months.
Looking like they need like 7-8k subscribers to make it barely profitable.
Meh, I'll be one of them. I don't care if it fails, what the hell is 20$ to me (as a poor student who has to loan money to afford rent) in the big scheme of things?
If people arn't ready to pay for watching this then don't. I am cause I love eSports and want it to succeed.
If this nosedives into oblivion then yeah g.g. we'll have to wait another 10 years before big shot companies are ready to risk petty sums on a medium (esports) that has huge godamn potentiall.
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The only question I have is: when does it start?!?! :D
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So basicaly it's Popularity over Talent?
It's a bit sad, only downside I see to the whole thing.
EDIT: Nevermind.
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Any korean team would stomp over any American team. I would put like $5 on it.
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On February 22 2011 10:07 Boblhead wrote:
Any korean team would stomp over any American team. I would put like $5 on it.
That would be cool if this was a team league, but it's not.
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when we do the league matches will be played and casted LIVE
the issues of tonight will not be repeated for those reasons among others.
Please just be happy.. this is awesome
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On February 22 2011 10:07 Brad wrote:Show nested quote +On February 22 2011 10:07 Boblhead wrote:
Any korean team would stomp over any American team. I would put like $5 on it. That would be cool if this was a team league, but it's not.
I'm saying if a korean team came over to play they would dominate the whole thing.....
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I think it will be difficult for them to pick out truly good players among those who just have good name recognition. There are a lot of players who are well known since they've been in the tournament scene since beta and may not really be top 50 caliber anymore but still get an invite.
If I were a top tier player, I would start trying to market myself and get my name out there as much as possible to get an invite.
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Has InControl made an 'official' announcement yet? Something that can go under community news so that there aren't 5 threads talking about NASL. All there was after the show match was a video.
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On February 22 2011 10:05 SlapMySalami wrote:Show nested quote +On February 22 2011 09:57 UpHeaVaL wrote:
400K? It's really not that much. Thats like 10 people of lower middle class pooling a 1 year salary...Its sad that so many players have to fight for that. I love how all these 14 year old kids can be wowed by a big number though LOL. To top it all off there's about 6 people who will win this thing...Show me salaries for fulltime players, then we can preach about revolution. who's 14 years old? Poll: [P] How old are you TLer?21-25 (1124) 39% 19-20 (599) 21% 16-18 (520) 18% 26-30 (BW 1st generation) (419) 14% 11-15 (110) 4% 31-40 (adult already during BW 1.0) (102) 4% > 41 (ageless baby!) (16) 1% < 10 (14) 0% 2904 total votes Your vote: [P] How old are you TLer? (Vote): < 10
(Vote): 11-15
(Vote): 16-18
(Vote): 19-20
(Vote): 21-25
(Vote): 26-30 (BW 1st generation)
(Vote): 31-40 (adult already during BW 1.0)
(Vote): > 41 (ageless baby!)
Your own example says it would take man 10 years to make that much money. You aren't forced to watch, but when you watch despite your shitty point of view you can at least be grateful
EY! im only 18 but i played it when it was new (1 gen) mind you
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This is some really great news. I have faith its gonna be awesome to watch and will for sure be buying the premium ticket to support!
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On February 22 2011 10:07 iNcontroL wrote:
when we do the league matches will be played and casted LIVE
the issues of tonight will not be repeated for those reasons among others.
Please just be happy.. this is awesome
What about Europeans? How can they play that late?
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On February 22 2011 10:07 iNcontroL wrote:
when we do the league matches will be played and casted LIVE
the issues of tonight will not be repeated for those reasons among others.
Please just be happy.. this is awesome
Good to hear! I'm sure you guys can resolve the technical difficulties from tonight. Thanks for all the work!
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On February 22 2011 09:58 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
Incontorp Casting Archon
You saw it here first guys! 
And I can't believe all the people who are actually negative and complaining about this stuff. It always surprises how idiotic some people act as long as they can hide behind their pale screen in their sad little homes. This is fucking great news for everyone loving esports in general and SC2 in particular. So stop whining for a second and apreciate the second biggest SC2 league ever just being announced.
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On February 22 2011 10:07 iNcontroL wrote:
when we do the league matches will be played and casted LIVE
the issues of tonight will not be repeated for those reasons among others.
Please just be happy.. this is awesome
What he said. This is f*kin awesome indeed! I'll be sure to drop in those 20$ for this epic win of life, the universe and everything!
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On February 22 2011 10:07 iNcontroL wrote:
when we do the league matches will be played and casted LIVE
the issues of tonight will not be repeated for those reasons among others.
Please just be happy.. this is awesome
Good to hear!
It always takes some time to work out the kinks, live or not, but by July I'm sure NASL will be a well oiled machine and I'm stoked.
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good thing NASL is apopularity contest.....
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On February 22 2011 09:57 UpHeaVaL wrote:
400K? It's really not that much. Thats like 10 people of lower middle class pooling a 1 year salary...Its sad that so many players have to fight for that. I love how all these 14 year old kids can be wowed by a big number though LOL. To top it all off there's about 6 people who will win this thing...Show me salaries for fulltime players, then we can preach about revolution.
Dude... It takes 9 weeks just to finish playing your group stage. That's like a game a week. Players are NOT going to be focusing on NASL full time. They will still be playing other tournaments.
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It all sounds great, I just hope that the guest commentators are frequent, I'm going be honest in saying I didn't really like Gretorp's casting, but we'll have to see when season 1 comes around I guess.
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