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daemir
Finland8662 Posts
The pro streamers also gather big crowds, 10-20k for hotshott is common and when he is not online someone else will get that 10k and a few will get 5-7k viewers. at this moment of writing, TSM and SK are scrimming and streamer from TSM's got 20k viewers and streamer from SK 10k. Add in the other streamers from both teams and there's over 40k people watching these teams just practice. | ||
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Trevor.PGT
Canada53 Posts
On January 06 2012 08:10 Severus_ wrote: Where is League of Legends and Counter-Strike ? Counter Strike 1.6 is a very steady game, it has about $500,000 in prizes over 2011. This is about the same as in 2010. | ||
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Lonyo
United Kingdom3884 Posts
I did a rough estimate from the Liquipedia list of major competitions, came out at at least $3m USD. http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Premier_Tournaments This list, with 3 missing, comes to $2.43m, then there are thousands from the less major events, and then there are the minor events, and then there are the events not listed, like possibly some Taiwanese and Chinese stuff for starters. | ||
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Goldbullet
United States88 Posts
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Incite
36 Posts
I don't think starcraft has much to worry about in that category. | ||
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sicajung
United Kingdom297 Posts
On January 06 2012 08:17 firehand101 wrote: 1,000,000 out of the 1.6 of dota was from that 1 mil tournament, so not much from others when you think about it. Although they did start much later than starcraft, so i dont know.... well. its actually a 1.6mill prizepool tourney. 1mil for 1st place. balance for 2nd 3rd and 4th. | ||
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Diamond
United States10796 Posts
On January 06 2012 08:23 Goldbullet wrote: Not to hate on DOTA but I just don't see it competing with starcraft because it takes less skill to play and is basically a mirror of LoL. You are aware of which order DoTA and LoL came out in right? | ||
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Soloturtle
Canada333 Posts
On January 06 2012 08:23 Goldbullet wrote: Not to hate on DOTA but I just don't see it competing with starcraft because it takes less skill to play and is basically a mirror of LoL. Lol, someone doesn't know anything about MOBA's | ||
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Itsmedudeman
United States19229 Posts
On January 06 2012 08:23 Goldbullet wrote: Not to hate on DOTA but I just don't see it competing with starcraft because it takes less skill to play and is basically a mirror of LoL. LOL Anyways, just wait till the chinese start picking up dota 2. I bet it'll become huge. I like LoL, but dota is a better esport in terms of mobas. | ||
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ZisforZerg
United States224 Posts
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Arterial
Australia1039 Posts
On January 06 2012 08:23 Goldbullet wrote: Not to hate on DOTA but I just don't see it competing with starcraft because it takes less skill to play and is basically a mirror of LoL. You realize taht LoL is a DOTA clone right?.... | ||
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floor exercise
Canada5847 Posts
On January 06 2012 08:23 Goldbullet wrote: Not to hate on DOTA but I just don't see it competing with starcraft because it takes less skill to play and is basically a mirror of LoL. Fascinating, do continue | ||
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LlamaNamedOsama
United States1900 Posts
 , I'd be fine with just a 1,000,000 sc2 tournament - after all, the other games play as teams so that huge sum is a lot less meaningful for the individual players. | ||
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Leviance
Germany4079 Posts
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DrGreen
Poland708 Posts
And no, Blizzard wont host any tournament with 10M price pool. They dont need to do that in order to be successful. | ||
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Trevor.PGT
Canada53 Posts
On January 06 2012 08:22 Lonyo wrote: That $2.5m number is actually wrong. I did a rough estimate from the Liquipedia list of major competitions, came out at at least $3m USD. http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Premier_Tournaments This list, with 3 missing, comes to $2.43m, then there are thousands from the less major events, and then there are the minor events, and then there are the events not listed, like possibly some Taiwanese and Chinese stuff for starters. The number provided is the number we (PGT) can prove with individually researched tournaments. We focus on tournaments with $1,000 and more in prize pool. These tournaments cover the majority of the prizes with daily/weekly/monthly StarCraft 2 tournaments paying from our rough estimations $60,000 over the year 2011. Our number is what we can prove and a minimum amount of prizes for StarCraft 2 over 2011. This minimum proved amount is still much larger than other eSports for 2011. One feature we are adding to the site over 2012 is to allow anyone to add tournaments to our database that will then be manually approved. This will allow us to keep track of much smaller prize pool tournaments ranging $100-1,000. But again, the vast majority of prizes are paid out with $1,000 or more prize pool events. | ||
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Yaki
France4234 Posts
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jinixxx123
543 Posts
But honestly if it was not for a huge amount of spoon feeding by the producers of LOL and DOTA 2 they would not be anywhere close, they are basically cheating . Blizzard has the most money of them all, if blizzard decided to announce 7 million in prize money for the uppcoming years in sc2 expansions, That would dwarf LOL and DOTA 2, But they dont believe that its the right way, because its a "fake" esport scene. | ||
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Mafs
Canada458 Posts
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Zona
40426 Posts
Ancilliary income? | ||
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