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United States33399 Posts
Gamers8, a multi-game esports festival held in Riyadh by the Saudi Esports Federation, announced that it is adding StarCraft II and Brood War to its games line-up.
While there are few details at the moment, the total prize pool has been announced at $500,000 combined for both games. According to a preview video, the SC2/BW main events are set to be held during August 3-6 (Gamers8 is held for around two months, starting in July).
ESL's StarCraft II product manager Alex007 has clarified that there will be no EPT points awarded by this event.
Qualifiers for the StarCraft II portion of the event will be held online during April 14-23 through the Gamers Without Borders tournament, another affiliated event of the Saudi Esports Federation. The qualifiers will be split into Korea/EPT, with 12 players competing per region. Of the 12 players, 8 will qualify for the main event at Gamers8 (16 total).
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They *might* have $400k for Starcraft 2, and $100k for Broodwar
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Canada8989 Posts
Between this and SCBoy, 2023's gonna end up with the biggest prize pool in years.
Give me that sweet sweet Saudi Prince PR money.
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Alright which Saudi Prince is a secret TL user?
Also:
On March 28 2023 03:17 argonautdice wrote:
The year is 2023. Starcraft 2 is literally only running on Saudi oil money and Chinese gacha games.
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Glad about SC2 getting some love, but really don't like where the money for this is coming from.
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First it was China's turn to bankroll everything and now it's MBS' turn but with equal or a whole lot more "look at us we're not evil" intentions behind it
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Does MBS's visit to China recently has to do with the announcement? Oliveria/TIME's winning picture above somehow made me think that he managed to convince XJP cough***
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Saudi Arabia is the world's largest arms importer ( ~11% of all global arms imports ), the United States is their top supplier (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute).
22% of the Saudi population lives below the poverty line ( Saudi Journal of Medicine, 2017 ).
~233,000 people have been killed due the Saudi "intervention" in Yemen ( Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project ).
The United Nations has described the situation in Yemen as the world's worst humanitarian crisis, with millions of people suffering from hunger, disease, and displacement.
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Good ol' sportswashing, now with more esports.
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with this type of dough, esl really should reward ept points for this, this tournament arguably going to be bigger than katowice/world championship this year.
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France12886 Posts
Bad location, nice prizepool though
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Wow absolutely amazing news. With the EPT decrease this is now the most important event of the year.
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Ehhhh, great for the players but feeling rather conflicted about this one. The world is a complicated place.
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Dang, that looks like an incredible tournament. All we could have dreamed of, but then in Saudi. Still, I'm excited for the pros that there is some future for them yet!
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Canada8989 Posts
On March 30 2023 04:24 JJH777 wrote:
Wow absolutely amazing news. With the EPT decrease this is now the most important event of the year.
It is kind of hilarious that the Saudi State investment fund reduced the EPT prize pool while at the same time putting money somewhere else to make the biggest event of the year, and somehow this tournament won't have any EPT points awarded to it.
I know these decision are not linked, but still, you gotta welcome the obsurdity.
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UNEXPECTED!! Good news.
On March 30 2023 01:27 lepricon1992 wrote:
They *might* have $400k for Starcraft 2, and $100k for Broodwar
It's other way around! That prince who funded is for sure FlaSh or Bisu fanboy.
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