EPTHoping a lot of pros can take some money so help sustain them, though I guess for many it might only just cover their travel costs. I hope the prize distribution won't be super top heavy, 1st place shouldn't make more than 2x 2nd place.
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Yoshi Kirishima
United States10366 Posts
Hoping a lot of pros can take some money so help sustain them, though I guess for many it might only just cover their travel costs. I hope the prize distribution won't be super top heavy, 1st place shouldn't make more than 2x 2nd place. | ||
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Akio
Finland1838 Posts
Also lol at the ad having zero resemblance of Brood War, maybe the prize pool will be split 10:1 in favor of SC2. | ||
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Blargh
United States2103 Posts
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zelevin
United States304 Posts
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada17178 Posts
On March 30 2023 02:38 cesmin wrote: 22% of the Saudi population lives below the poverty line ( Saudi Journal of Medicine, 2017 ). 25% of children in Toronto, Ontario, Canada lives below the poverty line. https://www.moorelands.ca/about-us/what-we-do/facts-about-poverty-in-toronto/ 45% of people in Cleveland, Ohio lives below the poverty line. | ||
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Xamo
Spain881 Posts
Don't take me wrong, I am happy to see SC2 & BW joining a big tournament, but I am confused. | ||
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Telephone
United States143 Posts
On March 30 2023 02:38 cesmin wrote: www.youtube.com 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. So we should feel the same way about any tournaments in the USA, right? We should be posting things like everyone has posted in this thread every time the USA has a tournament, right? Let's just appreciate that Starcraft is alive and well in 2023 and leave the politics somewhere else, okay? | ||
Waxangel
United States33506 Posts
When normal people realize many entities (countries, companies, etc.) in the world are bad, they choose which ones not to support as best as they reasonably can. It's actually an INSANE take to say that if you accept one bad entity, you must accept all the others. | ||
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Telephone
United States143 Posts
Can we still leave politics out of SC? It might shock some people but I actually want to watch and play starcraft without engaging in geopolitics. Is that so much to ask? That we can just shut up about politics for two seconds? | ||
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NyxNax
United States227 Posts
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antiheromarine
11 Posts
On March 30 2023 08:47 NyxNax wrote: Yiikes. Well thats awesome yet... Difficult to maintain blissful ignorance over the giant elephant players/spectators who did not take vaccine being barred from competition? | ||
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Crocolisk Dundee
870 Posts
On March 30 2023 08:25 Waxangel wrote: Whataboutism is so comical. It's the standard response when people experience cognitive dissonance (i.e. "I am a good person, yet I support an organisation with an atrocious human rights record"). | ||
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CicadaSC
United States1849 Posts
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luxon
United States114 Posts
On March 30 2023 08:25 Waxangel wrote: Whataboutism is so comical. When normal people realize many entities (countries, companies, etc.) in the world are bad, they choose which ones not to support as best as they reasonably can. It's actually an INSANE take to say that if you accept one bad entity, you must accept all the others. Actually I think selective outrage is the far more comical thing (if you're in the US you'll know what I mean since the culture war seems to center around it). People choose to virtue signal on some issues while turning a blind eye to far worse things. It is absolutely fair game to call out hypocrites that don't realize their own cognitive dissonance (as long as they're actually equivalent, I hate these out of touch comparisons eg between anything the US has done which isn't remotely close to China/Russia's human rights abuses). | ||
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Waxangel
United States33506 Posts
On March 30 2023 09:40 luxon wrote: Actually I think selective outrage is the far more comical thing (if you're in the US you'll know what I mean since the culture war seems to center around it). People choose to virtue signal on some issues while turning a blind eye to far worse things. It is absolutely fair game to call out hypocrites that don't realize their own cognitive dissonance (as long as they're actually equivalent, I hate these out of touch comparisons eg between anything the US has done which isn't remotely close to China/Russia's human rights abuses). Sure, call stuff out all you want (I also find this amusing at times but have come to care less if stuff is "performative" or "cringe" or whatever). Just as long as you're doing it to point people toward what you think is more effective action, not dissuading people into doing nothing at all  | ||
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dysenterymd
1250 Posts
On March 30 2023 08:25 Waxangel wrote: Whataboutism is so comical. When normal people realize many entities (countries, companies, etc.) in the world are bad, they choose which ones not to support as best as they reasonably can. It's actually an INSANE take to say that if you accept one bad entity, you must accept all the others. Ethical consumption is basically impossible and you can't exist without some hypocrisy. That being said, where people decide to draw the line says a lot about their priorities/biases. | ||
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tigera6
3448 Posts
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CicadaSC
United States1849 Posts
On March 30 2023 10:07 tigera6 wrote: Now we all just need North Korea to announce an 300k usd event to complete the world tour. you joke but i can almost guarantee north koreans play/played starcraft and something like this happening wouldn't even surprise me. | ||
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yht9657
1810 Posts
Also, ranting politics on a videogame forum doesn't make the world a better place for anyone, but I guess certain people just have to showcase their smug sense of moral superiority somewhere.  | ||
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Fanatic-Templar
Canada5819 Posts
On March 30 2023 08:14 Telephone wrote: So we should feel the same way about any tournaments in the USA, right? We should be posting things like everyone has posted in this thread every time the USA has a tournament, right? Let's just appreciate that Starcraft is alive and well in 2023 and leave the politics somewhere else, okay? It's funny that you think politics aren't involved until someone notices. | ||
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