EPTWar Chest details revealed - Coming July 19 - Page 13
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rfv14
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Fango
United Kingdom8987 Posts
We're looking at a nearly $280K 1st place prize, if they reach $700K goal? Seeing how it's always been 40% of the total pool If any of the top 8 win, other than soO or gumi, they would become the highest earning StarCraft pro | ||
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada16704 Posts
Say Blizz sold 4,000 Warchests... it gives Blizzard an excellent PR-style "reason" for lowering support of WCS 2018. | ||
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Dingodile
4133 Posts
On July 23 2017 05:38 JimmyJRaynor wrote: $200,000 represents 32,000 3-race Warchests sold. i wonder if $200,000 added to the BlizzCon prize pool is Blizzard's "tipping point" on a decision to back WCS in 2018 at the same levels as 2017. Say Blizz sold 4,000 Warchests... it gives Blizzard an excellent PR-style "reason" for lowering support of WCS 2018. Prizepool is already at 609k. This means they sold 17,400 Warchest within 3 days. | ||
NonY
8748 Posts
On July 23 2017 05:51 Dingodile wrote: Prizepool is already at 609k. This means they sold 17,400 Warchest within 3 days. You did your calculation with the bundle of 3 war chests. You can't calculate exactly how many because you don't know how many people bought the bundle (and therefore paid less per chest). But it should be somewhere around a bit less than triple your number. | ||
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Dingodile
4133 Posts
On July 23 2017 08:10 NonY wrote: You did your calculation with the bundle of 3 war chests. You can't calculate exactly how many because you don't know how many people bought the bundle (and therefore paid less per chest). But it should be somewhere around a bit less than triple your number. I know, if everyone bought only for one race, they sold 43,600 warchest. Also between 17,400 and 43,600 within 3 days. | ||
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[PkF] Wire
France24202 Posts
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NonY
8748 Posts
On July 23 2017 17:15 Dingodile wrote: I know, if everyone bought only for one race, they sold 43,600 warchest. Also between 17,400 and 43,600 within 3 days. It can't possibly be as low as 17,400. That'd mean the prize pool is receiving over six dollars per war chest when the most it can receive per chest is $2.50. The least they can get is $2.08 per chest, if everyone bought the bundle of three. So the +$109k prize pool indicates somewhere between 43,600 and 52,400 sold. | ||
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Elentos
55550 Posts
On July 24 2017 02:59 NonY wrote: It can't possibly be as low as 17,400. That'd mean they're getting over six dollars per war chest when the most they can get is $2.50. The least they can get is $2.08 per chest, if everyone bought the bundle of three. The whole thing costs 24,99$ and a quarter goes into the Blizzcon pool. That sounds like 6 per chest to me. | ||
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NonY
8748 Posts
On July 24 2017 03:01 Elentos wrote: The whole thing costs 24,99$ and a quarter goes into the Blizzcon pool. That sounds like 6 per chest to me. That's for a bundle of three war chests... That was my whole point in commenting. He did the calculation with the bundle, so accounting for the bundle and accounting for the discount of the bundle, we can get the range, but we can't know exactly how many are sold. But in calculating the range he still forgot to account for the bundle. | ||
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Musicus
Germany23576 Posts
On July 24 2017 03:02 NonY wrote: That's for a bundle of three war chests... That was my whole point in commenting. He did the calculation with the bundle, so accounting for the bundle and accounting for the discount of the bundle, we can get the range, but we can't know exactly how many are sold. But in calculating the range he still forgot to account for the bundle. Basically you are calculating the number of warchests sold, by counting the sale of a whole bundle as 3 warchests sold, while Dingodile was counting the number of possible buyers. | ||
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NonY
8748 Posts
On July 24 2017 03:12 Musicus wrote: Dingodile was counting the number of possible buyers. I don't know where you're getting that from. Just scroll up you can read the conversation yourself. It was never about number of buyers. Where did anyone say anything about possible buyers? :o | ||
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Ansibled
United Kingdom9872 Posts
On July 23 2017 05:38 JimmyJRaynor wrote: $200,000 represents 32,000 3-race Warchests sold. i wonder if $200,000 added to the BlizzCon prize pool is Blizzard's "tipping point" on a decision to back WCS2018 at the same levels as 2017. Say Blizz sold 4,000 Warchests... it gives Blizzard an excellent PR-style "reason" for lowering support of WCS 2018. I'm pretty sure Blizzard commited to funding 2018 to the same amount when they announced 2017 anyway. | ||
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Dingodile
4133 Posts
On July 24 2017 03:19 NonY wrote: I don't know where you're getting that from. Just scroll up you can read the conversation yourself. It was never about number of buyers. Where did anyone say anything about possible buyers? :o Your words: You did your calculation with the bundle of 3 war chests. You can't calculate exactly how many because you don't know how many people bought the bundle (and therefore paid less per chest). But it should be somewhere around a bit less than triple your number. English is not my first language. I did calculate about buyers after your post. My math shows that there are between 17,400 and 43,600 buyers. | ||
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lestye
United States4163 Posts
On July 23 2017 05:38 JimmyJRaynor wrote: $200,000 represents 32,000 3-race Warchests sold. i wonder if $200,000 added to the BlizzCon prize pool is Blizzard's "tipping point" on a decision to back WCS2018 at the same levels as 2017. Say Blizz sold 4,000 Warchests... it gives Blizzard an excellent PR-style "reason" for lowering support of WCS 2018. I don't think that's their goal. Even pessimistically, worst case scenario they just use the money to dampen the burden of WCS. They announced WCS 2018 is pretty much going to be the same as 2017. Hopefully better since they have War Chest income, but maybe not. | ||
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PolarisSpark
60 Posts
$687k now! | ||
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Brutaxilos
United States2629 Posts
This is actually a lot more successful than I anticipated. I'm going to guess that Warchests in total is going to add around $300K to WCS in total ($200K for Blizzcon, $100K for 2018). Insanely good news for Starcraft's Proscene. I'd guess that Blizzard will probably release 2-3 Warchests next year, which will probably in total add about a million to 2018's prize pool. Great news! | ||
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Ansibled
United Kingdom9872 Posts
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XSpektor
2 Posts
On July 25 2017 21:58 Ansibled wrote: Hitting the cap so quickly, while good (I guess? It was low anyway) kind of takes some of the hype away from the buildup to Blizzcan warchest has going I think. With the speed of reaching the cap, I'm hoping Blizzard changes their minds and adds it to the prize pool. | ||
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Brutaxilos
United States2629 Posts
On July 25 2017 22:12 XSpektor wrote: With the speed of reaching the cap, I'm hoping Blizzard changes their minds and adds it to the prize pool. It's still going to WCS, just not Blizzcon. It'll go towards 2018 WCS and other perks for players (like flights and hotels). | ||
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