[CSL] First Ever eSports Scholarship! - Page 6

On April 19 2012 04:44 sambo400 wrote:
HEY, all you high schoolers out there! Come to Miami University (OH)! Great Starcraft team and hot girls!

On April 19 2012 05:10 tetrismaan wrote:
Exactly how is 2,000$ a year going to help someone playing Starcraft while studying?

On April 19 2012 05:10 tetrismaan wrote:
Exactly how is 2,000$ a year going to help someone playing Starcraft while studying?

On April 19 2012 05:29 Hamdemon wrote:


Think about it this way, that scholarship money can go towards living expenses you'd otherwise have to work minimum wage to earn (or close to it) while going to school. Time not spent working some dead end retail job = more practice hours.

On April 19 2012 05:10 tetrismaan wrote:
Exactly how is 2,000$ a year going to help someone playing Starcraft while studying?

On April 19 2012 05:42 tetrismaan wrote:


All right. Well. I guess stuff is cheaper in the US, because 2,000$ here in Denmark, if you're a student living alone, is something which you can barely live for in one month, if you work 6-7-8 hours a week, so.. if this was in Denmark, it really wouldn't make such a big difference, but I guess you can live longer/better for 2,000$ in USA.

On April 19 2012 05:10 tetrismaan wrote:
Exactly how is 2,000$ a year going to help someone playing Starcraft while studying?

On April 19 2012 05:43 stokes17 wrote:

How wouldn't two thousand dollars a year help someone fund their education? You'd have to work basically 300 hours at minimum wage to earn that money. That's 15 weeks at 20 hours a week, which is an entire semester.

I think its wonderful that Xeris is allowing 2 lucky academics the opportunity to use the game they love as a source of income over a useless minimum wage job making sandwiches or something.

On April 19 2012 05:45 stokes17 wrote:

What is a semesters tuition at a public university in denmark? I go to one of the most expensive universities in the US and it would still cover like 10% of my tuition. Which is basically what I would get covered if I worked a minimum wage job for 20 hours a week.

On April 19 2012 05:46 tetrismaan wrote:


Wow what the..? 300 hours? In Denmark you would have to work (if you didn't study) 140 hours a month (and that is after 40% tax cut from your paycheck). But since you are studying, you'll get 1,100 dollars for free, and you even have the opportunity to loan 500 dollars at 1% interest from our government while studying. And then you have 1,600 dollars to live for, so to reach the 2000 dollars you have to work like 40 hours a month at minimum wage - that was why I was curious to it.

But as stated above, it seems like stuff is way different in USA than here. Thank god I live in Denmark.

On April 19 2012 05:54 stokes17 wrote:

yea minimum wage you basically take home $100 for every 15 hours you work. Idn dude, sounds like you get a lot more government hand outs than a non financial aid qualifying US student. $1100 dollars a month getting paid to you for being a student is quite a lot of money.

I get 0 federal dollars towards my 25k a semester tuition. Then you figure in my $720 in rent a month and my ~$50 a week on groceries. My part time job gives me like $600 a month, and thankfully my parents can support me while i study, but there are plenty of people less fortunate.

Either way, What Xeris is doing is nothing but commendable!

On April 19 2012 05:48 tetrismaan wrote:


All education in Denmark is free, from the best Universities to the "baddest".

On April 19 2012 05:56 stokes17 wrote:

So you literally just get paid $1100 a month for going to school? And your only expenses are housing and food? That's pretty wild man, absolutely not similar to the experience of a typical American University student.

On April 19 2012 05:58 tetrismaan wrote:


Yes. Well.. yea, I also have expenses like internet, cellphone, tv and such. But yes, if I would, I could live for only the governmental support which I get from studying.

EDIT: We have to pay for our own books, which is really the only thing which isn't free at danish university educations.