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On September 07 2011 02:34 kOre wrote:
WCG Canada SC II 2011
The main reason we can't have someone win a qualifier and have their team pay for the funding is because it isn't fair to those who don't have that kind of funding and it discourages non-progamers to try out. I don't see what else can be done since even if they ran a 64 man $20 dollar tournament they still need around 3000 in funding and that isn't just going to pop up out of nowhere.
WCG Canada SC II 2012
Working on the structure right now. Will be contacting city representatives by the end of this week or early next.
So Thierry has given up, definitely no SC2 this year? He could get 128, a lot of people don't use facebook/don't know about the qualifier because nobody's making the effort to promote it in SC2 communities.
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i am sure there are 200 canadians that are willing to give 20 $ to send a canadian player to WCG. Guess time is running out tough.
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Even with 128, that still wouldn't be enough to pay for the 1st place finisher to go to Korea.
On September 07 2011 10:25 monx wrote:
i am sure there are 200 canadians that are willing to give 20 $ to send a canadian player to WCG. Guess time is running out tough.
Technically I guess it would be possible to run a donation where it goes toward sending a player to Korea and then once that amount is met we could host an online qualifier to see who actually gets to go to Korea.
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On September 07 2011 08:24 monx wrote:Show nested quote +On September 04 2011 11:32 Torte de Lini wrote:
Didn't WCG organize that one? :B
I could get Concordia on-board, but their internet is atrocious. nope i did. and it went well extremely well. Not like ETS this year.
That's true. The tournament actually finished on time! I prefer JF vs Kiwikaki finals than ... all the finals and quarterfinals being skipped because of time contraints.
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I liked the part of last year's ETS where they gave us so much internet late at night as compensation.
GOOD TIMES!
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It's a good thing I know people who are capable of running a proper LAN in pretty much every city in Canada that has a large SC2 scene. I don't see how something like this isn't realistic and I've been around the SC community long enough to know how things work.
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k0re, I am not saying that it is impossible, what I am saying is that I have met so many people throughout the years who said they would do exactly what you suggest and failed miserably at it.
What Canada needs right now is for people with ideas to meet and collaborate in order to bring ideas like those to life. CyberActiv does not do gaming exclusively, it has other customers and revenue streams. I mean to say that even though I know the way, it is physically impossible for one team to pull off something like a cross Canadian championship.
The second thing you must realize is that we need to unite all forces of gaming. Not just preach for our own favorite game but embrace and promote other games too. Strength in number! The more people we will attract to events, the better our chances to generate sponsorship revenues.
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It's true about the strength in numbers as well as embracing every game, but that's part of the problem. Too many games means less focus on each game. It's the "do one thing properly instead of doing everything half assed" kind of thought that I have.
On a side note, when was the last time WCG Canada was actually WCG Canada and not WCG East Coast?
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On September 11 2011 05:26 kOre wrote:
It's true about the strength in numbers as well as embracing every game, but that's part of the problem. Too many games means less focus on each game. It's the "do one thing properly instead of doing everything half assed" kind of thought that I have.
On a side note, when was the last time WCG Canada was actually WCG Canada and not WCG East Coast?
Exactly. For the WCG part, i think it's been WCG East Coast for at least the past 5 years if not more.
If you need any help kOre, don't hesitate to contact me.
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WCG Canada was Canadian until early 2011.
We had WCG Canada in 2010 at LAN ETS in Montreal.
I agree with not putting too much effort into too many games, but we still need to service the most people as well.
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Don't think you understand what I meant when I asked if it was actually WCG Canada ... lol
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Yeah, I understand now what you meant!
WCG Canada never hated the West, it was just easier and cheaper to do Finals in the East.
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Canada1637 Posts
I also remember WCG Canada trying to throw the final in Halifax. The City of Halifax was very excited, they provided us with the best venue in town for FREE and tons of services! Getting tons of local sponsors was also a done deal... But... "Someone" above WCG Canada hated the idea and killed the project overnight! They claimed that Halifax was too small of a market.
The bottom line is that eSports are more about economics than about the gamers. That's a huge difference with the gaming culture where a LAN party is more about the players than anything else. I guess that the magic will happen when someone will find a way to accommodate economics with the needs of the players.
Economics will always trump anything else. Despite the fact that Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver are big enough markets, remember that most head offices are still in Toronto and Montreal... It seems to me that some people working for some sponsors hate to travel outside of their beloved Toronto. As soon as we accept their sponsorship money, we become their slaves....
Sounds like random bullshit trumps economics.
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I guess the message in the above post was: No, WCG Canada was not a "West hating" company.
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ok lets just shaft the west coast and have an ontario/quebec WCG. Would get most of the good players and that way we can send kiwikaki to korea and he can pay for his trip with his boatload of wsop money.
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I think we should all just nominate kiwikaki and tell everyone we held qualifiers when we didn't.
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