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China5858 Posts
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So, you probably have heard of the fact that WTL Winter did a league merch run, and sold out 1000 in 40 minutes.
Here is the content of the merch drop (~$47).
Certificate signed by scboy;
Themed poker set featuring top league players;
Invictus Gaming player badges;
WTL mousemat;
WTL winner's trophy theme medal set;
WTL mug;
All proceedings of the merch drop (300K CNY, ~$47K) will be added to the WTL Winter prize pool:
250K CNY (~$39K) will be added to the league prize pool, spread proportionally among all teams;
10K CNY ($1.6K) each for seasonal MVP, best Terran, best Zerg and best Protoss player award winners;
10K CNY ($1.6K) for best on stream celebrations (exact amount of winners pending)
More merch will be available for subsequent seasons for extra funding for the league, with the ultimate goal being increasing the total prize pool to 1M CNY ($160K) per season.
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Germany3334 Posts
Good stuff and good news! 
This is one of those measures they had planned for a long time to support the league, right? Super cool the see it become reality.
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Bro I would kill for that playing card set. Those look so sick.
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Good news! Glad to hear that!
Gogo WTL!
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Wait, where can we buy these merch?
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I wish they made those merch available through international shipping, would certainly double the sale.
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Great stuff! WTL is like the chinese HSC, glad the comunity get involved behind it
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I bet Harstem will win that $1600 for best celebration XD
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On January 01 2022 22:55 buzz_bender wrote:
Wait, where can we buy these merch?
SCboy says he will open sales again and wants to make them available to the world as well, nothing set in stone quite yet though.
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If I am reading this right, the proceeds of each merchandise sale, $47 USD, has been put back into the prize pool.
But those items cost money, and there is also the cost of shipping, right? Or is $47 the net profit made from the merchandise sales, and the profit is being put back into the prize pool? If $47 is the cost of the items and shipping, SCBoy is actually losing money to do this (not to mention the time and labor invested to do this, which in itself costs money).
Either way, the World Team League is a great way to support the pro players and give them extra money to support their livelihood as pro SC2 players. So a big thanks for SCBoy for supporting the SC2 pro scene with the World Team League
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On January 02 2022 19:52 xelnaga_empire wrote:If I am reading this right, the proceeds of each merchandise sale, $47 USD, has been put back into the prize pool. But those items cost money, and there is also the cost of shipping, right? Or is $47 the net profit made from the merchandise sales, and the profit is being put back into the prize pool? If $47 is the cost of the items and shipping, SCBoy is actually losing money to do this (not to mention the time and labor invested to do this, which in itself costs money). Either way, the World Team League is a great way to support the pro players and give them extra money to support their livelihood as pro SC2 players. So a big thanks for SCBoy for supporting the SC2 pro scene with the World Team League
You are right.SCBoy is losing money.They said that each merch cost about $24 USD,and they paid for it.
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On January 02 2022 19:52 xelnaga_empire wrote:If I am reading this right, the proceeds of each merchandise sale, $47 USD, has been put back into the prize pool. But those items cost money, and there is also the cost of shipping, right? Or is $47 the net profit made from the merchandise sales, and the profit is being put back into the prize pool? If $47 is the cost of the items and shipping, SCBoy is actually losing money to do this (not to mention the time and labor invested to do this, which in itself costs money). Either way, the World Team League is a great way to support the pro players and give them extra money to support their livelihood as pro SC2 players. So a big thanks for SCBoy for supporting the SC2 pro scene with the World Team League
It's not net profit but sale price. The organizer absorbs the material costs themselves and put all the money they gathered back into the prize pool in order to support teams. I'd say it's kinda like a way of donating, while supporters could get some souvenirs either.
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China5858 Posts
On January 02 2022 19:52 xelnaga_empire wrote:If I am reading this right, the proceeds of each merchandise sale, $47 USD, has been put back into the prize pool. But those items cost money, and there is also the cost of shipping, right? Or is $47 the net profit made from the merchandise sales, and the profit is being put back into the prize pool? If $47 is the cost of the items and shipping, SCBoy is actually losing money to do this (not to mention the time and labor invested to do this, which in itself costs money). Either way, the World Team League is a great way to support the pro players and give them extra money to support their livelihood as pro SC2 players. So a big thanks for SCBoy for supporting the SC2 pro scene with the World Team League
Correct. SCboy is basically losing $28K doing this. Alternatively, you can see this as the community contributing half of the additional prize pool, the other half scboy added themselves.
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I will definitely buy that set if it goes live again and is available for international shipping.
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That is awesome to hear!
Also this is a sick set. Like I'm sure a bunch of people, I would be super excited to purchase future iterations of that set at much highest prices than $47 (assuming it can be shipped outside of China).
Go scboy!!
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