Prize money in Starcraft 2 - Page 8

On November 01 2011 01:37 FabledIntegral wrote:


Well you already had to pay the 30% regardless, no?

On November 01 2011 01:40 DoomsVille wrote:

Anyone that doesn't realize this is a bubble is idiotic. You have a bajillion tournaments springing up everywhere, small cups/dailies/weeklies.

The small cups realized hosting events is cheap. It costs almost nothing to host a GO4SC2. The investment is time/money. The payoff a few months ago was great. You would have thousands watching for less than $500 an investment. And so everyone started copying their model. And this was fine. Everything was working great.

But then one day the big companies realized content is cheap to produce. IPL, NASL, EGMC, and even MLG recently found out online tournaments are cheap. They do talk shows, interviews, news programs etc. etc. etc. They cost peanuts compared to large events and they pay off in spades. They broadcast on a very regular basis now and they dwarf over all the small cups/tournaments. You can have big names playing in a playhem/z33k tournament but no one will watch because they'll see some random IPL/NASL/EGMC/MLG broadcast on or some rebroadcast or some talk show.

The bubble is starting to collapse. The small events are realizing the viewers aren't there anymore. The Craftcup has already shut down. Most streamers can't get anywhere near the numbers they used to get. And hosting large events is almost as futile because every single weekend there is a major event.

TL;DR - There are too many events now. Some of them are going to collapse. It is just a matter of time.

On November 01 2011 01:37 AllHailTheDead wrote:




im sorry but I completely disagree with the first part(i like your 2nd idea tho)


If someone has to wait a year to get 2000 then it is completely not worth it and the tournament deserves to be shut down

and If you disagree then you must not pay any bills or have a job because anyone old enough would know that 2000 over a year is nothing when you can make twice that in a month

On November 01 2011 01:36 BoomNasty wrote:



Can we all agree that MLG is the best tournament there is?

On November 01 2011 01:40 ToguRo wrote:
this is awful .... but it does make me appreciate GSL,MLG,IEM, etc. that are professionally run and not screwing people over

On November 01 2011 01:44 0ne wrote:

To be fair MLG has one of the smallest prize pools but still it's really that you don't have to wait to get the money.

On November 01 2011 01:40 ToguRo wrote:
this is awful .... but it does make me appreciate GSL,MLG,IEM, etc. that are professionally run and not screwing people over

On November 01 2011 01:43 Bonkarooni wrote:


Craftcup was always going to collapse, cause they didn't have a decent model/dedicated streamers to show their content Playhem runs daily tournaments, and their viewership is growing slowly but surely. Yeah, there are only so many people who are going to be able to watch a tournament every day, but...there's still enough to make everyone happy. Yeah, a few lesser known tournaments may die, but just because a company goes under doesn't mean "The bubble has collapsed"