The trolls of eSports will have MLGs head for the 1st place prize not being $1000000. >_>

Can't wait for Cbus though, gonna be so sick. Always the best event around, hands down.

Special Endrey

Germany1929 Posts

January 27 2012 00:49 GMT

#210

once again, does this mean that there are a total of 4 MLGs in 2012 ?

aristarchus

United States652 Posts

January 27 2012 00:51 GMT

#211

On January 27 2012 09:49 Special Endrey wrote:
once again, does this mean that there are a total of 4 MLGs in 2012 ?

Yes, four big traditional MLG-style events, plus the smaller arena competitions.

Saig0n

United States100 Posts

January 27 2012 00:51 GMT

#212

On January 27 2012 09:49 Special Endrey wrote:
once again, does this mean that there are a total of 4 MLGs in 2012 ?

Yes, this does mean that there are four MLG's similar to the tournamaments last year. (i.e. open bracket, 3 day, live spectator etc.) But while this first arena is invite qualification only and no spectators, the ones later in the year may be open to everybody and may have spectators. So you could almost count those as mini MLGs in the future.

y0su

Finland7871 Posts

January 27 2012 01:18 GMT

#213

On January 27 2012 07:06 Sumahi wrote:
Gotta wrote down these dates and see if there's anything that I can travel to the states for to coincide with an MLG.

oh wow... I just noticed I'll be stateside over summer...

TemplarCo.

Mexico2870 Posts

January 27 2012 01:35 GMT

#214

Looks very nice, though I wonder if the format will be the same as last year's? Apart from that I think MLG 2012 can be a lot better than MLG 2011.

RaiKageRyu

Canada4773 Posts

January 27 2012 01:52 GMT

#215

The prize pool exceeded my expectations by a little bit. So that's cool.

Also sounds like you may host events not part of the standard league outside of the US.

Mr Showtime

United States1353 Posts

January 27 2012 03:04 GMT

#216

On January 27 2012 03:08 MLG_Adam wrote:

Show nested quote +

Chicago, the general North East, Pennsylvania, and the big houses in LA are all bad.

Elaborate more. Providence is in the "general North East" as you put it.

nGBeast

United States914 Posts

January 27 2012 03:09 GMT

#217

Still hoping for MLG Chicago

coverpunch

United States2093 Posts

January 27 2012 03:17 GMT

#218

When will MLG announce the other venues? I'd like to travel to one but it'd be nice to have more than two months' notice if I have to travel a significant distance (I live on the West Coast).

red4ce

United States7313 Posts

January 27 2012 03:21 GMT

#219

Not liking the prize distribution. It's good that the top 16 get paid now instead of just the top 8, but a $19,500 difference between 1st and 4th place? Ratio wise the distribution is pretty much the same as last season's MLG's, which wasn't a problem when the prizepool was only $14k but now that it's 76k the difference is pretty big.

That being said I'm impressed by how much money MLG is spending on the players this year. With the recent cost cutting moves of eliminating shows and firing writers I had assumed MLG wasn't doing too well financially. I mean, MLG was already the most watched SC2 tournament even with the paltry $14k prizepool so it wasn't imperative that MLG increase the prizemoney so drastically. I'm really glad MLG did so anyways and it shows MLG aren't just a bunch of cold hearted businessmen.

FLuE

United States1012 Posts

January 27 2012 03:29 GMT

#220

Not sure if this has been asked yet, but will there be a final "year end" championship event?

Perhaps all the winners from each season championship, plus all the winners from the arena/highest point getters something along those lines?

I love how things are broken up into "4 mini-season," really a cool setup. But would also be cool if there was some way to tie it all together at the end for a grand champion.