EPTNASL Prize Distribution + Maps - Page 8
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Sensator
Australia377 Posts
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sixfour
England11062 Posts
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Workforce
Sweden70 Posts
individual players complaining about prize pools and poor scheduling etc is not going to change anything. | ||
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Grezzz
United Kingdom78 Posts
The map pool is generally pretty good, it has most of the good maps, I'm surprised to see no shakuras but it's not a huge deal. Backwater gulch has had the natural expansions fixed and isn't half as bad now as people like to make out to be. The prize pool is exactly what I expected to see. For publicity reasons the prize pool is always going to have a huge first prize. It sucks for the players, but it's nothing new. | ||
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godemperor
Belgium2043 Posts
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Grumbels
Netherlands7032 Posts
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Jampackedeon
United States2053 Posts
I hope this won't be straining players to the point where a lot of effort is made at the possible expense of other tournaments and to the point where players get a poor return on their investment. Looking forward to the NASL format! | ||
NonY
8751 Posts
On April 07 2011 23:28 Hammurabio wrote: Your tourney, your prize distribution. Yet you are wrong about tennis. Here's the tournament winnings for the first three months of 2011. #100 on the list has already earned $74,554 from 3 wins and 8 losses. oh god #11 is on pace to make 1.8 million dollars this year. no good! :D | ||
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monitor
United States2409 Posts
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Angelbelow
United States3728 Posts
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coolcor
520 Posts
Should have let the people know earlier what the candidate map pool was if they were going to make non standard decisions. Then they'd have time to change. | ||
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Alizee-
United States845 Posts
The problem I see is Koreans tend to be more successful in winning..so if they end up winning the top 4 places..that essentially means all t he North Americans are still going to have to maintain jobs to keep practicing and participating in events..which in effect does absolutely nothing to help promote North America. Maybe nothing will change, but that's the issue really, it just stays the same. This game became semi professional with people trying to live and practice together, but if its not any easier to get a decent wage, its not really doing much good. I feel like it wasn't very prudent to try and match GSL then 1 up them with even more prize money. My appeal to GSL isn't from how much they make, but the games. It would be my hope they can all take in enough to continue to make enough to keep doing so, not for some guy to make an exorbitant amount of money while the rest are eating at McDonalds. When we all watch professional sports, other than big contract signings in the news, we don't watch the playoffs because X team is gonna make more money or the superbowl because they're competing for so many dollars. We're watching it because they're the best teams of the season duking it out, I don't care how much they make. The only relevance to how much money is on the line really should be to potential sponsors and teams/players. Spectators should be concerned with the game, not the money. Money has and always will be nothing more than an enabler, you're taking away that enabling feature when you have a foolishly top heavy prize pool structure. Hindsight will be 20/20 when all the money dries up. | ||
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Tomfour
United States173 Posts
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ptbl
United States6074 Posts
Finally, the map pool isn't too great. You should use more of MLG and GSL maps. Backwater Gulch is basically a steppes of war. | ||
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gulden
Germany205 Posts
I'm optimistic! | ||
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Kennigit
Canada19447 Posts
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Redox
Germany24794 Posts
On April 07 2011 16:13 Xeris wrote: As a gamer you're not supposed to really live off prize money. You're supposed to live off the salary and such you get from your team. No professional athlete lives off prize winning in major sports like basketball, soccer, tennis, etc. The winner of Grand Slams get like $1 million, but for all but the top 10 or so tennis players, tournament winnings alone can't give you a good living. Lol at this, seriously. The prize money is what the lower tier tennis pros live off. Its exactly the other way around, the winners make much more with sponsorship deals. The low ranked players make in compariosn nothing in sponsorships. Its the same in other individual sports like golf or poker. It is not possible for hundreds of players to live off sponsorships, they have to get money over prizes. In team sports its different of course, you get a salary there. But that cant be compared to sc. | ||
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happyness
United States2400 Posts
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Mairu
United States222 Posts
On April 08 2011 07:30 Kennigit wrote: Really top heavy considering the length of the league imo. I also agree that due to the length of the league you'd expect a more distributed prize pool. It's nice to spout FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS TO THE WINNER but when you're considering the time commitment required for all 50 players I'd kind of expect those who make it to the top16 tournament to get a pretty significant reward. | ||
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Zolid
United States228 Posts
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