EPTIEM World Championship to be Winner Takes All for $100,000…
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Beyonder
Netherlands15103 Posts
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JustPassingBy
10776 Posts
On January 28 2014 05:22 sWs wrote: Why not have 1st: 40k 2nd: 20k 3/4th:10k Ro8: 2.5k This would be pretty top heavy and the finals would still be epic as all hell.... T.T love IEM, but this doesn't make any sense I see it as a one-in-a-lifetime (or year, which is also a long time in the competitive gaming scene) experiment with players who have nothing to lose since they are already very stable financially. | ||
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imre
France9263 Posts
On January 28 2014 05:23 Beyonder wrote: Well this is certainly interesting :D Id watch these finals! actually the ro4 might be where the real tension is if they split the prize. | ||
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Dodgin
Canada39254 Posts
On January 28 2014 05:11 Fusilero wrote: While I sit firmly in the "this is stupid camp" demuslim is in favour of this Who cares what a streamer thinks? This is a tournament for pro players. User was warned for this post | ||
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Musicus
Germany23579 Posts
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The_Red_Viper
19533 Posts
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Fusilero
United Kingdom50293 Posts
On January 28 2014 05:24 Dodgin wrote: Who cares what a streamer thinks? This is a tournament for pro players. OH SNAP IS IT A WARZONE IN HERE AS THESE SHOTS ARE FLYING ALL OVER | ||
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imre
France9263 Posts
Lets make it so only best caster/host gets money from all as well,very intresting!! im sure everyone would give their best @Kaelaris @IEM | ||
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MasterOfPuppets
Romania6942 Posts
On January 28 2014 05:23 mikkmagro wrote: People forget that ESL was for a long time a big advocate for not having a top heavy prizepool for their regular circuit events. It is still that way for all their global championships, just not for the World Championship, which is one event. As for helping progamers make money, ESL is the organiser with the largest span of countries in which they organise events in as many continents and for as many scenes as possible. Singapore, Brazil, Ukraine...they go EVERYWHERE, and they always invite the 'local champion' directly into the tournament to give people a hometown favourite. They provide qualifiers for all the regions, including Taiwan, Oceania, etc to make sure everyone has a shot. Apart from that, they organise hundreds of smaller regional and local tournaments such as the ESL Euro Series, the EPS in Germany and Spain, weekly and monthly cups etc. So really, they deserve no criticism at all from that front. They're just doing one event differently. Yeah it seems a lot of people in this community are quite bad at such things as "perspective" and "remembering the past" (except when it's some massively stupid drama incident)... Who would've thunk it?  Fuck that, pitchforks at the ready. | ||
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Goto_
France8 Posts
Losers deserve nothing ! | ||
Jono7272
United Kingdom6330 Posts
On January 28 2014 05:21 Carmac wrote: If you like flat prize distributions, you should send your best players to events that have them. Boom. Good retort. | ||
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Yorbon
Netherlands4272 Posts
On January 28 2014 05:19 Plansix wrote: Sure.And those are decisions players can make for themselves. We know some of them are going to say"fuck it, I want 100K" Let me quote myself: 'i wouldn't even want to attend, i wouldn't have any motivation, at all'. You know, first person. | ||
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shinobi112
19 Posts
The idea of top players splitting the money or "match fixing" even is a very bad mentality for e-sports and should be frowned upon greatly, people should not accept this. We must rely on the players to maintain the integrity of the game. | ||
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MasterOfPuppets
Romania6942 Posts
On January 28 2014 05:26 Yorbon wrote: Sure. Let me quote myself: 'i wouldn't even want to attend, i wouldn't have any motivation, at all'. You know, first person. It's easy to say that when the only perspective you're familiar with is that of someone who can't compete on that level (or anywhere near it) to begin with, but I'm sure someone like MC would disagree. (I mention him because he's generally more ballsy than other pros) | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
On January 28 2014 05:22 sAsImre wrote: trolling on this subject isn't the best thing you'll ever do... I think it's great. Enough polite nonsense. If you don't like it, don't send your players. Problem solved. | ||
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Xoronius
Germany6362 Posts
On January 28 2014 05:25 MasterOfPuppets wrote: Yeah it seems a lot of people in this community are quite bad at such things as "perspective" and "remembering the past" (except when it's some massively stupid drama incident)... Who would've thunk it? Fuck that, pitchforks at the ready. We remember the past. We know, what ESL is capable of as a tournament organizer and we know, that they do very much for the scene. Doing good things in the past does´nt make doing bad things in the future right though. If you talk about "perspective", you should be able to differentiate between different time-zones and view them in different perspectives. | ||
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oneill12
Romania1222 Posts
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RogerChillingworth
Chad3132 Posts
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imre
France9263 Posts
On January 28 2014 05:28 Plansix wrote: I think it's great. Enough polite nonsense. If you don't like it, don't send your players. Problem solved. yeah sure, Nazgul says that he doesn't like the winner takes it all approach and replying with a troll about flat prize money distribution is great ? | ||
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lamprey1
Canada919 Posts
otherwise, the winner of this event could be the real loser. | ||
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