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So WCG just announced their Prize Pool.
For Starcraft 2 it will be 20K for first, 5K for second and 2K for third, all in $, which is not bad...untill you see Asphalt 6, a phone game, has 40 freaking thousand dollars for first place...
is this normal for wcg? this is the first I will watch closely but it really seems rather stupid to me to give double the prize for SC 2 to a phone game, wtf?
Are all the PC games above Sc2 a team game? dont know about CrossFire and Special Force... if they are team based Sc2 is at least the higher price per player in Pc.
Here you have all the prizes:
source:
WCG
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Low sc2 prize especially if they are charging players =/
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Well its really generous to have a 20.000 dollar prize for starcraft when you consider its going to only 1 person and not a team of 5! Twice that for a phone game seems wierd but remember its all up to the sponsors and what games they want to promote.
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United States23455 Posts
The maker of the Asphalt 6 game probably put up the cash prize. Just like how Riot usually does for all the League of Legends tournaments.
Not a bad chunk of change for MVP.
Also remember SC2 is a one man game. Most of the WCG games are 4 to 5 people who have to split the prize.
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Lol its sad to see sc2 with a smaller pooler than some of them other games. that's how wcg works i guess, get developers to supply prize pool, i understand its one guy but i would of thought for a 'world finals' it would be bigger.
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Prize are so top heavy .
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United Kingdom16710 Posts
That really is strange to have a mobile game with such a big prize pool. Maybe the developers/publishers chipped in?
20k for first place is not bad, but the prize for 2nd & 3rd is way too low. Reminds me of the GSL opens.
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On November 25 2011 21:36 leveller wrote: Well its really generous to have a 20.000 dollar prize for starcraft when you consider its going to only 1 person and not a team of 5! Twice that for a phone game seems wierd but remember its all up to the sponsors and what games they want to promote.
Ehh I guess that's a reasonable point.
However Asphalt....
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What the fuck is Asphalt 6? Somebody remind me why I should support this tournament.
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Mobile game for 40k. I don't know what to say lol.
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Asphalt >.<...
Hopefully WCG next year becomes that huge WCG everyone anticipated, because this one is looking weak so far (in terms of hype)
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On November 25 2011 21:37 nekuodah wrote: Lol its sad to see sc2 with a smaller pooler than some of them other games. that's how wcg works i guess, get developers to supply prize pool, i understand its one guy but i would of thought for a 'world finals' it would be bigger. Then again LoL and CS 1.6 are team games.
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Hopefully they don't take a year to pay the winners.
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i thought i will never live to see times where cellphone games are played at world championships well... whateva
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20k is better than the 7k they offered Flash last year. But still pales compared to the glory days of ~25k when Select and Grubby won in 2006 I think?
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On November 25 2011 21:48 bgx wrote: i thought i will never live to see times where cellphone games are played at world championships well... whateva It's probably sponsored by cellphone manufacturer or something, otherwise it's just BS
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That prize structure is fucking appalling. Almost 75% of the money going to first place? I wish players would boycott events for shit like this because it hurts the scene as a whole (unless big, big sponsors start stepping up for teams).
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Its good to be an Asphalt 6 pro gamer I suppose!
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wtf that dropoff is pretty shite.
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LOL wut ?! Too top heavy and Asphalt ?! WTF ?
Don't get me wrong, I'm mainly racing game fanatic with RTS as my second choice, but that's just a joke. Some silly arcade thingy that's not even a proper game having such a high prize pool ?! Titles such as iRacing or rFactor or Live for Speed are far more deserving to be in the WCG if they were looking to please the racing fans. But Asphalt ?? LOL ?
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