EPTSC2 earnings: EUvsNA - Page 9
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Nihilnovi
Sweden696 Posts
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Leeoku
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nastyyy
United States262 Posts
Wonder if those stats are influenced more by EU players being better or by EU having more tournaments? | ||
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blade55555
United States17423 Posts
On February 02 2012 17:45 Nihilnovi wrote: Well, NA does have MLG, but then again, MLG is incredibly cheap with their prizepools. Probably due to the fact that Blizz takes 50% ad revenue if the cash prize is more than 5k, so in EU you got all of these small tours hovering around that figure, it really does add up. Well MLG's cheap prize pool went over 5k in total. First place was 5k but you have to remember 1-8 were getting paid so it was like 11k a tournament or something. | ||
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Agathon
France1505 Posts
On February 02 2012 17:57 nastyyy wrote: Didn't realize there has been over $2 million in prize money in SC2. Kinda awesome. Wonder if those stats are influenced more by EU players being better or by EU having more tournaments? Both i guess. In addition, the fact there are more tournaments with cash prize helps that players train more to win and give the opportunites to some hidden gems (Like it was the case with Nerchio, Stephano or Beastyqt for instence) to coming out of shadow. I'm sure there are players in NA who are very good, but maybe don't have enough opportunities to show what they can do. | ||
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tdt
United States3179 Posts
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fox77
Canada95 Posts
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Brosy
United States254 Posts
On February 13 2012 14:40 fox77 wrote: I'd like to she what the numbers would be like with salary. Both Huk, Idra make 100k salary each. No. They. Don't. This has been discussed numerous times on TL, these players do not have contracts with EG for that much. Both players have said that they don't as well. | ||
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Mobius_1
United Kingdom2763 Posts
Whereas EU has Stephano at 5, Happy at 7, Thorzain, Mana, Bly, Nani, Kas and Ret all above Sheth. Oh, and like half of the list (at least at the top) are Koreans, whether on Korean or Foreign teams. | ||
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ChuCky.Ca
Canada2497 Posts
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RuMCaKe
United States559 Posts
Both servers have great players, as a matter of fact, there is quite a few NA players that practice with EU players etc. NA teams compete with EU teams and vice versa. The only non NA server I have laddered on personally is Korea, which most players play on if they can anyways. To say EU IS BETTER THEN NA or vice versa is just silly imo. Both regions will have a foreigner on top at different given points in time. The players would rather be competing at the top level of Koreans, and compared to them rather then then another foreign region. <3 all foreigners. I just like seeing them win in general, no matter where they might be from! | ||
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KimJongChill
United States6429 Posts
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DannyJ
United States5110 Posts
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PrimeTimey
Canada369 Posts
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Utinni
Canada1196 Posts
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raser
Norway301 Posts
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OrangeApples
137 Posts
On February 13 2012 15:26 RuMCaKe wrote: To say EU IS BETTER THEN NA or vice versa is just silly imo. Both regions will have a foreigner on top at different given points in time. The players would rather be competing at the top level of Koreans, and compared to them rather then then another foreign region. I agree with this. Also, its better to factor in the fact that there are many more EU professional players compared to NA. | ||
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Kyles92
England183 Posts
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Mazer
Canada1086 Posts
Sure, NA has some huge events. But the fact that they are so big attracts a fair number of non-NA players. EU on the other hand also has some big events but they have loads of smaller events that are wicked for anyone living in the EU since they aren't so large that NA/KR will participate. | ||
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Seraphone
United Kingdom1219 Posts
If Koreans could play on the EU server without latency (or with NA latency) then the EU scene would have won a lot less money. I'm not saying EU isn't overall better than NA it clearly is but the lack of Korean players is just another important factor to consider. The major EU Lan's like Assembly and Dreamhack also tend to invite less Koreans (and generally worse Koreans) than MLG and IPL so while EU players don't actually generally win Dreamhack (although they do win Assembly at it has no/almost no Koreans) they do take up a lot more of the top spots. Where as MLG and IPL invite many more Koreans who then take up a massive chunk of the overall prize pool. | ||
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