GSL Global Championship is a tier 3 WCS Global event held for 3 days from April 17th, with champions and runner-ups from 3(KR/EU/AM) Regions +2 Open qualifier Winners

The initial Prize Pool is at $10,000
$25,000 upgrades to "Tier 2 Event"

9-BiT

United States1089 Posts

January 15 2014 03:22 GMT

Interesting experiment. GLHF

Dodgin

Canada39254 Posts

January 15 2014 03:24 GMT

I bought my ticket yesterday and apparently it doesn't count towards this? lol

Pandain

United States12989 Posts

January 15 2014 03:27 GMT

Yay I support esports!

MCXD

Australia2738 Posts

January 15 2014 03:27 GMT

It's a shame the ticket I bought during the Hot6 cup won't count. I wouldn't be surprised if many of the people who were planning to buy yearly tickets already had.

Karis Vas Ryaar

United States4396 Posts

January 15 2014 03:28 GMT

cool idea. wonder if the price cut will be offset by the increased amount of ticket purchases. I'd guess not fully since I'm not sure if anyone would buy a ticket because of this who wouldn't otherwise. like the idea of it though

On January 15 2014 12:27 MCXD wrote:
It's a shame the ticket I bought during the Hot6 cup won't count. I wouldn't be surprised if many of the people who were planning to buy yearly tickets already had.

my guess is there trying to increase ticket sales so they probably waited until most of the usual buyers would have bought one. .

Yakikorosu

1203 Posts

January 15 2014 03:31 GMT

Yeah, I bought my ticket during Hot6ix Cup also. But I don't see anywhere where it says that previously purchased tickets don't count for this (though maybe the fact that it's still at 10,000 means they don't).

wozzot

United States1227 Posts

January 15 2014 03:34 GMT

So is this the closest that GOM has ever done to publicly releasing a subscriber count? Should be interesting to see whether they can really manage to garner $150,000 in ticket sales

xuanzue

Colombia1747 Posts

January 15 2014 03:39 GMT

interesting...

I still believe a dotatv model is the way to go.

-RusH

United States240 Posts

January 15 2014 03:40 GMT

#10

Where does it say that previous subscription purchases wont count towards the super tournament? Either way I've yet to buy one since I was hoping to buy 1 season at a time but I guess they removed that option?

Dodgin

Canada39254 Posts

January 15 2014 03:47 GMT

#11

On January 15 2014 12:40 -RusH wrote:
Where does it say that previous subscription purchases wont count towards the super tournament? Either way I've yet to buy one since I was hoping to buy 1 season at a time but I guess they removed that option?

Do you really think they've only sold $2000 worth of tickets so far? They've been available for over a month if not more. The season starts in 13 minutes and if they've only sold that many tickets, well that's bad news.

caznitch

Canada645 Posts

January 15 2014 04:05 GMT

#12

I will buy two (additional) tickets if GOM stops using twitch. The HOT6ix cup was torture.

Fission

Canada1184 Posts

January 15 2014 04:07 GMT

#13

Bought a premium.

On January 15 2014 12:47 Dodgin wrote:

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Honestly if they had only sold 2000 dollars worth of tickets, I wouldn't think they would want to give some of it away to the players :S

Havik_

United States5585 Posts

January 15 2014 04:09 GMT

#14

Given how many times Gom has burned people who have bought tickets for other events only to make them free down the line, I'm not sure how many people will buy into this. I will give them credit on the price though. A yearly ticket now is cheaper than I remember it being.

Rgn

United States11 Posts

January 15 2014 05:05 GMT

#15

On January 15 2014 13:05 caznitch wrote:
I will buy two (additional) tickets if GOM stops using twitch. The HOT6ix cup was torture.

I actually really miss the GOM Player, but twitch works ok for me most of the time.

RaiKageRyu

Canada4773 Posts

January 15 2014 05:15 GMT

#16

Yeah... until GOM fixes their VOD mess...

DaveSprite

United States79 Posts

January 15 2014 05:21 GMT

#17

I think it's dumb that GOM didn't announce this a week earlier. I bought my yearly ticket today, and reading the fine print for the event says that the purchase has to be from January 15th to April 15th. I'm not going to cancel my subscription just to remake it one day later, and it sucks that my contribution won't count towards the prize pool.

Edit: On the other hand, I guess it depends on who's date their using. The Korean date is the 15th so maybe my ticket will count? This is actually probably the case now that I think about it.

Mysticesper

United States1183 Posts

January 15 2014 05:22 GMT

#18

On January 15 2014 14:05 Rgn wrote:

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I actually really miss the GOM Player, but twitch works ok for me most of the time.

Making people install software on their computer is usually a bad idea.

Their in-house web streaming was fine though, since it was the same thing, but without the software.

MCXD

Australia2738 Posts

January 15 2014 05:47 GMT

#19

I prefer twitch of the two just because their in-house one lagged even more than twitch does, for me.

Shellshock

United States97276 Posts

January 15 2014 05:52 GMT

#20

This will be interesting to see how much it contributes. has anyone else done this besides the SC2L? MLG did something similar for Dota 2 right?