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Hey everyone,
MLG has released more details about the 2012 season. In addition to the previously announced details around the Winter Season, Online Qualifiers and the Winter Arena (here: http://www.majorleaguegaming.com/news/2012-pro-circuit-dates-and-starcraft-2-winter-championship-prize-money/ ), we've released much more information about the coming 2012 year and all 4 seasons.
The highlights:
2012 Season Championship Dates
Winter Championship: March 23-25 (Columbus)
Spring Championship: June 8-10
Summer Championship: August 24-26
Fall Championship: November 2-4
StarCraft 2 Winter Championship Prize Money
$76,000 in total
1st Place: $25,000
2nd Place: $15,000
3rd Place: $9,000
4th Place: $5,500
5th/6th Place: $3,500 each
7th/8th Place: $2,250 each
9th- 12th Place: $1,500 each
13th-16th Place: $1,000 each
Full StarCraft 2 Winter Season Schedule
Regional Online Qualfiers: First two weeks of February
Winter Arena: Feb 24-26, New York, NY
Winter Championship: March 23-25, Columbus, OH
Note also that for the Winter Arena, and for the top 16 at the Columbus Winter Championships, full travel is being paid for all of these players.
Full details are available on our site: http://www.majorleaguegaming.com/news/2012-pro-circuit-dates-and-starcraft-2-winter-championship-prize-money/
Don't forget that the Winter Season Championship at Columbus will have an Open Bracket. Competitor Passes for the Columbus Championship will go on sale February 14th at 7PM ET. Spectator passes will be announced shortly.
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Yay another MLG Columbus! :D
When do tickets go on sale? 
EDIT: Thank you for the edited information
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Nice to see MLG have a payout for more players and a nice prize pool that is not as top heavy! Cannot wait for this MLG season to unfold.
taking my support post from the other thread.
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Niiiiiiice!
Even if the prize pool stays consistent that's over 300k in prize money for just the 4 main championships. Shaping up to be a huge year for MLG.
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So if I am to understand this right, the four " championships " are replacing the MLG *insert city here * events?
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On January 27 2012 01:39 Dodgin wrote:
So if I am to understand this right, the four " championships " are replacing the MLG *insert city here * events?
That or they are aren't sure of locations yet 
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United States994 Posts
On January 27 2012 01:39 Charger wrote:
Niiiiiiice!
Even if the prize pool stays consistent that's over 300k in prize money for just the 4 main championships. Shaping up to be a huge year for MLG.
Doesn't include the fully paid trips for the players nor the arena prizes either.
Remember the top 32 from online qualifiers get trips to the arena.
The top 16 from the arena get trips to the championship.
Look for more arenas per quarter in coming seasons (spoiler?).
Also, we have heard you loud and clear about more open online qualifiers for the arena. We agree. It will happen.
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United States994 Posts
On January 27 2012 01:39 Dodgin wrote:
So if I am to understand this right, the four " championships " are replacing the MLG *insert city here * events?
Yes. The 4 championships will be in different US cities. Columbus is the first one.
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Canada1637 Posts
On January 27 2012 01:43 MLG_Adam wrote:Show nested quote +On January 27 2012 01:39 Dodgin wrote:
So if I am to understand this right, the four " championships " are replacing the MLG *insert city here * events? Yes. The 4 championships will be in different US cities. Columbus is the first one.
US cities? 
Looks great though, top 16 getting paid is goood 
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A good balanced prize structure!
When can we expect the detailed schedules for Winter Arena?
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MLG Toronto PLEASE!!!! Summer or Spring championship?
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United States994 Posts
International Cities for other endeavors is definitely in play. Working on a lot of cool stuff right now
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On January 27 2012 01:43 MLG_Adam wrote:Show nested quote +On January 27 2012 01:39 Dodgin wrote:
So if I am to understand this right, the four " championships " are replacing the MLG *insert city here * events? Yes. The 4 championships will be in different US cities. Columbus is the first one.
Thanks for the quick response. Four big events per year sounds good to me, especially with this massive prize pool increase!
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online qualifiers... are invite only? : )
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On January 27 2012 01:42 MLG_Adam wrote:
Also, we have heard you loud and clear about more open online qualifiers for the arena. We agree. It will happen.
Nice to hear--I think this is extremely important for the long term integrity of the competition and a complete merit-based competitor list.
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This looks great. Only weird thing is that they aren't evenly distributed at all. I guess November, December, and January will be the off season still? Not a huge deal, though, just thought from the titles that the plan was to switch to a year-round schedule.
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So adding in the Arena prize pools, the total for each cycle of the season is $100,100, which isn't insignificant at all.
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MLG Orlando!!! This looks pretty cool and glad to see more $$ being spent on SC2 ^__^
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MLG Boston! I would LOVE that!!!
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EPT
