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Outside of 1st place, WCS KR actually has a smaller prize pool.
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Cheren
United States2911 Posts
http://i.imgur.com/xVE8xoS.png Outside of 1st place, WCS KR actually has a smaller prize pool. | ||
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Pokebunny
United States10654 Posts
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Pokebunny
United States10654 Posts
On November 21 2013 10:14 Boucot wrote: I really hope they do RO32 offline. Players have to commit in the regions they chose. Except then it still fucking sucks for Americans (won't speak for Europeans because idk) too, because it's a lot harder for an American to be a full-time professional gamer and simply move their life somewhere to play. In Korea everything is centered in Seoul and there are a lot of team houses. | ||
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superpanda27
111 Posts
On November 21 2013 10:27 Bowzar wrote: Thats what I thought. Didnt Riot fix the visas issues with their players. I remember reading about it. They lobbied the US government to get LoL recognized as an official sports league or something like that. Probably had to spend a lot of time and money to get the US to okay League. | ||
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Yorkie
United States12612 Posts
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Killmouse
Austria5700 Posts
On November 21 2013 10:52 Cheren wrote: http://i.imgur.com/xVE8xoS.png Outside of 1st place, WCS KR actually has a smaller prize pool. bro always find something to nitpick right? its GOMs decision to have a top heavy Prize distribution, mayb koreans like that and by your logic outside of 2-32 place korea has almost triple the pricepool of WCS AM / Eu | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
On November 21 2013 10:57 superpanda27 wrote: They lobbied the US government to get LoL recognized as an official sports league or something like that. Probably had to spend a lot of time and money to get the US to okay League. The visa Riot got has a bunch of requirements, including that the players have a contract with the hosting league. WCS would not work under that visa, since the players not not employees of Blizzard. Also, getting a work/residence visa is super hard. | ||
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GulpyBlinkeyes
United States1449 Posts
I really hope more big 3rd party tournaments start moving back into the space in the schedule that they've created. Would be especially excited if OGN they restarted the OSL (and would cream my jeans if they also revived BW OSL). | ||
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Cheren
United States2911 Posts
On November 21 2013 11:00 Killmouse wrote: bro always find something to nitpick right? its GOMs decision to have a top heavy Prize distribution, mayb koreans like that and by your logic outside of 2-32 place korea has almost triple the pricepool of WCS AM / Eu that doesn't contradict anything i said. and i doubt players like having less money when most of them don't make salaries. Only at most 3 players will win GSL next year, the rest of the Koreans will not be making much... | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
On November 21 2013 11:05 Cheren wrote: that doesn't contradict anything i said. and i doubt players like having less money when most of them don't make salaries. Only at most 3 players will win GSL next year, the rest of the Koreans will not be making much... They should talk to GOM about that, since they are the ones that likely set the prize money. | ||
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theMagus
578 Posts
On November 21 2013 10:46 pretensile wrote: The total prize pool is only 4.2 million won ($4,000 USD) more than previous non-WCS GSLs. However, the champion makes 20 million won more ($19k) than previous Code S winners, and everyone outside of the top 16 makes less, especially if they are in Code A. Also bear in mind that there are only 3 GSLs a year now, which means plenty of vacation time for Tastosis. that's true, but this also gives ogn an equal opportunity to hold wcs-accredited osl tournaments. all the talk about whether or not osl will continue to be held are pretty much speculative at this point. the point is, blizzard has done their part in this, and it's up to ogn to make those tournaments happen. if ogn decides to let go of the osl altogether this year, blizzard can always increase the frequency of gsl next year. we will see  | ||
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Cheren
United States2911 Posts
On November 21 2013 11:06 Plansix wrote: They should talk to GOM about that, since they are the ones that likely set the prize money. Yeah pretty much all to take away from this is that it's bad for Koreans (especially if there end up being 0 OSLs) and pretty good for foreigners. | ||
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VisonKai
United States2203 Posts
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
On November 21 2013 11:09 Cheren wrote: Yeah pretty much all to take away from this is that it's bad for Koreans (especially if there end up being 0 OSLs) and pretty good for foreigners. Well Blizzard can't make OSL cover SC2(or anyone else for that matter). There are more slots in code A, so there are more room for players to move up and stay in the league. I am not worried about the Korea scene, since they have been doing this for a while and can take care of themselves. | ||
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vthree
Hong Kong8039 Posts
On November 21 2013 11:06 Plansix wrote: They should talk to GOM about that, since they are the ones that likely set the prize money. I don't think there is much to talk about. The players/teams probably prefer a more balanced distribution. However, GOM wants a higher first prize to draw hype. It is what it is. And since KR players generally did better in the season finals, taking those away probably hurt the KR players more. But AM/EU players are earning less overall as well unless the other events increase in prize pool or frequency. If you add up all the WCS prize pools for 2013 vs 2014. The 2014 pool is actually smaller due to removal of season finals ($150,000 per season finals vs about $122,000 more in KR/EU/AM) | ||
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lost_artz
United States366 Posts
On November 21 2013 10:52 Cheren wrote: http://i.imgur.com/xVE8xoS.png Outside of 1st place, WCS KR actually has a smaller prize pool. And overall has a larger prize pool. As stated by Blizz GSL features a more top-heavy distribution to reflect Korea's regional preference, while America and Europe have a more even distribution of prize money between top and bottom. KR vs. NA/EU Prize pools - 1st place makes an extra 41K vs NA/EU - Win 2 seasons of NA/EU and you'd come up 16k short compared to 1 KR win - 2nd earns $807 less in KR - 3rd-4th earn $70 more in KR - 5th-8th earn $1226 less than NA/EU - 9th-16th earn $730 less than NA/EU -17th-32nd earn $581 less than NA/EU | ||
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ssxsilver
United States4409 Posts
Thumbs up on the changes, hope everything works for the best. | ||
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HelpMeGetBetter
United States763 Posts
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xuanzue
Colombia1747 Posts
I'm foreseeing more korean retirements, mostly from soul, azubu, prime, fou. there will be less tournaments in 2014 for those who can't afford be traveling around the world. | ||
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GolemMadness
Canada11044 Posts
OGN has rights to run both StarCraft and StarCraft II tournaments COME ON. | ||
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