Sundance DiGiovanni (MLGSundance) CEO of MLG tweeted that if the prize pools of MLG will be increased significantly if they sold 100,000 memberships before the national championships.
No. No it is not. Yes, MLG needs to increase their prize pools to be considered a genuine major in the line up of SC2 tournaments. No, more memberships are not going to give them the desperately needed cash to do that. Prize pools are probably less than 1% of their budget. Miniscule.
That tweet is the kind of cynical shit that makes me NOT want to throw money MLG's way. I'd buy a second NASL pass before I'd pay for their stream upgrade.
Edit: what InControl said. I'll go further and address Sundance myself: dick move.
It says before the national championship, some months away? Since we don't know how many unique people actually watch it is hard to guess. Based on other LANs like Dreamhack, NASL, TSL there can be 50-80K concurrent viewers, can probably find unique by searching through information release about it. So my guess is that 100k people buying something seems like quite a lot and won't happen.
No. No it is not. Yes, MLG needs to increase their prize pools to be considered a genuine major in the line up of SC2 tournaments. No, more memberships are not going to give them the desperately needed cash to do that. Prize pools are probably less than 1% of their budget. Miniscule.
That tweet is the kind of cynical shit that makes me NOT want to throw money MLG's way. I'd buy a second NASL pass before I'd pay for their stream upgrade.
Edit: what InControl said. I'll go further and address Sundance myself: dick move.
No. No it is not. Yes, MLG needs to increase their prize pools to be considered a genuine major in the line up of SC2 tournaments. No, more memberships are not going to give them the desperately needed cash to do that. Prize pools are probably less than 1% of their budget. Miniscule.
That tweet is the kind of cynical shit that makes me NOT want to throw money MLG's way. I'd buy a second NASL pass before I'd pay for their stream upgrade.
Edit: what InControl said. I'll go further and address Sundance myself: dick move.
I think you are grossly underestimated how much prize pools are in their budget.
No. No it is not. Yes, MLG needs to increase their prize pools to be considered a genuine major in the line up of SC2 tournaments. No, more memberships are not going to give them the desperately needed cash to do that. Prize pools are probably less than 1% of their budget. Miniscule.
That tweet is the kind of cynical shit that makes me NOT want to throw money MLG's way. I'd buy a second NASL pass before I'd pay for their stream upgrade.
Edit: what InControl said. I'll go further and address Sundance myself: dick move.
I think you are grossly underestimated how much prize pools are in their budget.
I think people are grossly misinformed on how much profit MLG actually makes from these events.
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