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On January 27 2012 03:20 Xivsa wrote:Show nested quote +On January 27 2012 01:36 MLG_Lee wrote:
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
Maybe I'm horrible at maths, but $62750 does not equal $76k in prize money. Add up the amounts yourself. Even if places 17-24 get $1k each, that still totals less than $72k. Does your total include prize money for other games? If not, where's the rest of the money?
5/6th is $3,500 EACH
7/8 is $2250 EACH
9-12 IS $1500 each
13-16 is $1000 EACH
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Excited about the MLG season! When do you think the other 3 locations will be announced?
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C'monnn just announce Toronto already...!
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On January 27 2012 03:22 MLG_Adam wrote:Show nested quote +On January 27 2012 03:20 Xivsa wrote:On January 27 2012 01:36 MLG_Lee wrote:
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
Maybe I'm horrible at maths, but $62750 does not equal $76k in prize money. Add up the amounts yourself. Even if places 17-24 get $1k each, that still totals less than $72k. Does your total include prize money for other games? If not, where's the rest of the money? 5/6th is $3,500 EACH 7/8 is $2250 EACH 9-12 IS $1500 each 13-16 is $1000 EACH
Yep, I'm just horrible at maths. Sorry about that.
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On January 27 2012 03:20 Xivsa wrote:Show nested quote +On January 27 2012 01:36 MLG_Lee wrote:
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
Maybe I'm horrible at maths, but $62750 does not equal $76k in prize money. Add up the amounts yourself. Even if places 17-24 get $1k each, that still totals less than $72k. Does your total include prize money for other games? If not, where's the rest of the money?
The Math checks out fine.
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Go MLG! I love the prize pool (especially the balance). I like it more even. The boast should be mostly the 'I'm the champion' rather than 'I won 75% of the prize pool'.
And oye that is a LOT of expenses x__X.
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This is going to be such an epic season! I can almost, ALMOST, over look the extended series continuation because of how awesome the rest of this is.
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Any info about qualifiers out?
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On January 27 2012 03:14 vardsun wrote:
so much money though for you guys. you'll still be making profit after all the hotel rooms, travel and food + prize money?
even so, must be a huge investment so thank you
MLG has reserved Hall D, which, according to this, looks to be the biggest. And, according to this, each hall seats a maximum of 120,000. With all the gear MLG is bringing, though, they can probably only use about 1/6th* of the space for seating, so about 20,000. 20,000*25 (assuming price is constant from last year) is $500,000 which will cover almost the whole year's prize pool :D -- dat eSports economics
I'm sorry if I'm misrepresenting data, a lot of it is pretty fuzzy, and I'm, by no means, an expert on this sort of thing.
*totally made up-- no foundation for this claim
EDIT: clarified that by "whole year" I meant "whole year's prize pool"
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On January 27 2012 03:08 MLG_Adam wrote:Show nested quote +On January 27 2012 03:06 mdvoltage.rosko wrote:On January 27 2012 03:02 MLG_Adam wrote:On January 27 2012 02:59 chasmofcrisis wrote:
I'm still holding out hope for an MLG in Philly, but it might make too much sense. Amazing, central convention center with oodles of restaurants in the surrounding area, within a reasonably short drive of every major Northeastern city, incredibly cheap compared to NYC and Boston (and probably DC but I haven't been there in ages) and highly populated with young people.
On a related note, I really hope we get the other cities announced in a timely manner so those of us with travel restrictions can make plans with our jobs, school, etc. In your list of items that make a ton of sense, you forgot to mention that PA (and more specifically Philly) is the poster child of Union labor rates for shows like ours. Getting shadowed by union workers to run your show drives up cost exponentially. I love Philly too  I wish Chicago fixed their shit with their unions too and bring an event to Chicago! Unions are pretty expensive here too. I've got a feeling MLG has wanted to come here for a while. Chicago, the general North East, Pennsylvania, and the big houses in LA are all bad.
How about the Twin cities then? 
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I really like the new format. Seems much better than last years.
It will be even better when the Areas get spectors though. Having just the casters and players there kind of makes it less exciting. As much as I love the charsima and excitement that casters like Day 9 and Husky bring, it's even better when a live audience is into the game and cheering and what not.
Makes things even more intense.
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I just want to mention that it sounds awesome. Thank you!
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When will the other cities that MLG will be going to get announced?
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I just want to say.... MLG Toronto PLEASE ^^
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Awesome stuff from MLG. 2012 is looking to be a great year.
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Dat fully-refunded expenses.
Really nice to see, keep it up and thanks for the awesome work.
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On January 27 2012 03:19 starslayer wrote:
MLG needs to come to DC PLEASE
THIS.
I'll probably still make it out with my buddies to Columbus tho, since it's right on my birthday.
However I must have missed where they announced the venue. Nice hotels in walking distance? I wanna party it up. Maybe bring strippers... not sure MLG's policy on strippers. I'll share with the sc2 finalists and casters tho ^_^
Speaking of casters, have we any idea? I haven't seen Day[9] in a while, I'd love to see Day[J]Wheat and Tastosis again, but some of the traditionally tier 2 casters have made huge improvements in the last couple months.
For example, I'd really love to see CatsPajamas and Husky (probably the two most underrated casters) together - tho I suspect CatsPJs probably can't do MLG if he's employed by IGN. Or Apollo and Mr.Bitter would be sweet.
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On January 27 2012 03:25 mbr2321 wrote:Show nested quote +On January 27 2012 03:14 vardsun wrote:
so much money though for you guys. you'll still be making profit after all the hotel rooms, travel and food + prize money?
even so, must be a huge investment so thank you MLG has reserved Hall D, which, according to this, looks to be the biggest. And, according to this, each hall seats a maximum of 120,000. With all the gear MLG is bringing, though, they can probably only use about 1/6th* of the space for seating, so about 20,000. 20,000*25 (assuming price is constant from last year) is $500,000 which will cover almost the whole year :D -- dat eSports economics I'm sorry if I'm misrepresenting data, a lot of it is pretty fuzzy, and I'm, by no means, an expert on this sort of thing. *totally made up-- no foundation for this claim
$500,000 definitely would not cover the whole year lol. I'm pretty sure the cost of a satellite truck for just one event is around that amount. Not that $500,000 is a meaningful number since you made it up...
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I'm praying for MLG to come to Northern California. That would be amazing.
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On January 27 2012 03:25 mbr2321 wrote:Show nested quote +On January 27 2012 03:14 vardsun wrote:
so much money though for you guys. you'll still be making profit after all the hotel rooms, travel and food + prize money?
even so, must be a huge investment so thank you MLG has reserved Hall D, which, according to this, looks to be the biggest. And, according to this, each hall seats a maximum of 120,000. With all the gear MLG is bringing, though, they can probably only use about 1/6th* of the space for seating, so about 20,000. 20,000*25 (assuming price is constant from last year) is $500,000 which will cover almost the whole year :D -- dat eSports economics I'm sorry if I'm misrepresenting data, a lot of it is pretty fuzzy, and I'm, by no means, an expert on this sort of thing. *totally made up-- no foundation for this claim
Yea, but this does not take into consideration cost of casters, streaming equipment and a slew of other factors. But your right I hope they make a profit, so that events like this can new sustainable.
I trust they have extremely smart people working at mlg and have run the numbers. This setup is amazing and will only become better when arenas are spectstor and qualifiers are open. Go mlg!
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