WCS 2013 Format, Players, Prizes and Point Details - Page 20

On April 18 2013 00:00 Plansix wrote:


Well you can't add in the entire season finals to Korea, because the other two regions will have players in the other slots. Those may be Korean players, they money is not going to go to the players competing the Korea. The rest of the math looks fine.

People are freaking out over nothing. The players who win the Season finals will make bank. The players that win the regional finals will also make reasonable money.

On April 18 2013 00:07 Branman wrote:
If the Koreans are truly the best in the world, then they shouldn't worry about winning the seasonal finals. The only conclusion I can reach based on these player comments is that they are actually worried about losing to Americans and Europeans in the seasonal finals.

EDIT: Soccer example. I don't think Barcelona or a Brazilian club is worried about the LA Galaxy showing up to the club world cup and taking down large prize money.

On April 18 2013 00:14 mikkmagro wrote:


They will still be competing FROM Korea from the most part, since unfortunately only a couple of weekends will be offline. You cannot deny that even though Blizzard reduced the number of events in Korea, they made up for it by giving the Korean players a lot of flexibility, particularly the sizable lot employed by foreign teams, and if it weren't for foreign teams and events employing and inviting over Koreans, Korean SC2 would probably be in a significantly worse position now. People like Choya who are whining want the cake, and they want to eat it too. Appreciate the fact that upon hearing complaints, Blizzard decided to invest a lot more in Code A, and to evenly distribute the prizes in the regional league to the ultimate benefit of the many pro gamers in Korea. Why is $20k not sufficient as a first place? It might not be $45k as it was before, but this way, it is much more constructive, and anyway, the winners have a very good chance of multiplying that figure by three or four times in the seasonal finals.

On April 18 2013 00:17 Plansix wrote:


I assume that all the comments are based on them seeing the prize money for GSL and not even taking into account the season finals or the minimum amount they would win. They all seem to be "Oh crap, I got this on my phone and then responded via twitter after reading the amounts listen in my twitter feed. Let me respond instantly, because twitter is already open and its easy."

On April 18 2013 00:30 EleanorRIgby wrote:


watch the NA qualifier barely make 128, becauseits gonna cost 18$ per person per qualifier... Should just let esl run the NA qualifier instead of money hungry mlg!!

On April 18 2013 00:20 Branman wrote:


I'd say that's a bad assumption because these are professional players and coaches. We should give them the benefit of the doubt that they actually took the time to research the announcements and tournament structure.

On April 17 2013 23:48 geokilla wrote:

Well they have the World of Tanks. http://www.gomtv.net/event/wotCommingSoon.gom

3 seasons, 300 million won per year. I'm pretty sure they're not taking SC2 winnings and putting it into World of Tanks.

On April 18 2013 00:30 EleanorRIgby wrote:


watch the NA qualifier barely make 128, becauseits gonna cost 18$ per person per qualifier... Should just let esl run the NA qualifier instead of money hungry mlg!!

On April 18 2013 00:43 Plansix wrote:


I don't really give complaining on the internet the benefit of the doubt. Whining to your followers on twitter is pretty unprofessional in general and I don't really take a lot of the complaints seriously. A lot of these folks are very young and do dumb stuff in interviews. Look at Teaja's interview where he stated he hated Blizzard. Kennigit was talking openly talking about how that was bad PR that Liquid shouldn't have on twitter.

There is the potential for the best player in the GSL to win a lot of money per season, even if the GSL finals are not where that happens. And even if they don't win everything they still take home a large amount of money. The complaining seems silly or based on first glance.

On April 18 2013 00:47 blackone wrote:

There are lots of people, like me, who love the GSL and are bummed that their favorite tournament has less events per year now, with way less prize money each. It used to be the greatest tournament in the world, and now it's not much more than a WCS qualifier, whereas all other qualifiers are added to their regions tournaments without replacing them. It's not the end of the world but it's certainly not "nothing".

On April 18 2013 00:53 Shiori wrote:

What do you not get about this? Probability of two events happening together is always less than one event happening, ergo probability of winning GSL and season finals is less than probability of winning GSL alone, which means that the chances of getting 50k are now lower than they were before, even if you're a championship contender. What is so hard to understand about this? This is 100% bad news for Koreans interested in prize money. Period.