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I did not see this news on tl so I might just add it.So apparently Netease(the chinesse company that operates sc2 in china) is organizing a 3 million dollar(18 million yuan) tournament in china that includes the following titles:sc2,heroes of kingdom,defense of the ancients and frozen throne.
Here is the even better news.For every click you will give onto the golden button on their website they will add 100 yuan to the prizepool.You can give one click every ten minutes and you can give as many clicks as you want(maximum 1 per ten minutes).
Here is the website.You need to click on the golden thingy and it updates the money in real time
http://dj.163.com/
A lot of people will probably ask if this is a scam and the answer is definetly NO.Netease is one of the biggest technology company in china who operated games such as wow and sc2 on the chinesse market.
Here is their wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netease
I have already given many clicks.I would ask you give as many clicks a spossible to support the sc2 scene in CHina.
I have done a small calculation and if google is right and the rate of exchange is 1yuan=0,16 dollar every ten minutes we can add 16 dollars to the prizepool.So in a day each of us can add 6*10*24=1440 dollars for the prizepool at max.Considering there are 4 games if we divide that by 4 each of us can contribute to the sc2 prizepool by 360 dollars dayly by just clicking!!!!!!Come on guys jim and macseed need a brand new ferrari.
P.S:Somebody who speaks chinesse can they please find out if this is a chinesse only tournament(most likely) or if foreigners are allowed to participate so I can update the Op.Thanks in advance.
The user Monv18hao found this article confirming the prize pool surged form 15 million yunn to 18 million in 1 day.Also the offer is available until august the 20th so better start clicking.
http://game.163.com/13/0813/10/965C5QP500314J6K.html
From the google translate of the page:
"Huge prize pool has surpassed the international league
Up to now NetEase eSports total prize pool has nearly 18 million, if all the money into events, Netease gaming will become and TI3, S3 the same level of the world's top eSports League, even beyond the 2013 Snooker World Championship. And until now, the number is rising rapidly. Prize pool will eventually freeze how much? Everything needs to be on August 20 revealed mystery."
Update 1
According to this article the big prizepool is for a series of small tournaments to help the bottom of the chinesse proscene make a living and support the local scene:
http://game.donews.com/201308/1575628.shtm
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big news, exciting! hope it attracts interest outside china and maybe picks up more games from the west contributing to it. I don't know! sounds great
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Cool.
edit: Um... they're going to have to put a cap on the click thing. (If this is legit.)
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Sounds very cool! I wonder how big SC2 will be in the tournament.
Btw, isn't it the Chinese Yuan? Yen is Japanese.
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I have a really hard time believing Blizzard would give the OK for them to run a tournament with a prize pool x2 as large as the entire year's WCS, for the sole reason of them not wanting to be upstaged. If It's only for Chinese players that's even worse.
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On August 13 2013 16:43 BlackPanther wrote: Sounds very cool! I wonder how big SC2 will be in the tournament.
Btw, isn't it the Chinese Yuan? Yen is Japanese. done.thnx
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On August 13 2013 16:44 Dodgin wrote: I have a really hard time believing Blizzard would give the OK for them to run a tournament with a prize pool x2 as large as the entire year's WCS, for the sole reason of them not wanting to be upstaged. If It's only for Chinese players that's even worse.
To be fair; the money would be split (evenly?) among 4 games instead of 1.
(Still not sure if this is legit.)
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On August 13 2013 16:44 Dodgin wrote: I have a really hard time believing Blizzard would give the OK for them to run a tournament with a prize pool x2 as large as the entire year's WCS, for the sole reason of them not wanting to be upstaged. If It's only for Chinese players that's even worse. Actually i think that this is total prize pool for ALL games.
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On August 13 2013 16:49 MrSexington wrote:Show nested quote +On August 13 2013 16:44 Dodgin wrote: I have a really hard time believing Blizzard would give the OK for them to run a tournament with a prize pool x2 as large as the entire year's WCS, for the sole reason of them not wanting to be upstaged. If It's only for Chinese players that's even worse. To be fair; the money would be split (evenly?) among 4 games instead of 1. (Still not sure if this is legit.)
check the wikipedia page of netease.that thing had a 1 billion dollar profit last year.3 mil is nothing.
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On August 13 2013 16:50 theking1 wrote:Show nested quote +On August 13 2013 16:49 MrSexington wrote:On August 13 2013 16:44 Dodgin wrote: I have a really hard time believing Blizzard would give the OK for them to run a tournament with a prize pool x2 as large as the entire year's WCS, for the sole reason of them not wanting to be upstaged. If It's only for Chinese players that's even worse. To be fair; the money would be split (evenly?) among 4 games instead of 1. (Still not sure if this is legit.) check the wikipedia page of netease.that thing had a 1 billion dollar profit last year.3 mil is nothing.
On the other hand, the source you're citing is wikipedia. ^_^
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On August 13 2013 16:51 MrSexington wrote:Show nested quote +On August 13 2013 16:50 theking1 wrote:On August 13 2013 16:49 MrSexington wrote:On August 13 2013 16:44 Dodgin wrote: I have a really hard time believing Blizzard would give the OK for them to run a tournament with a prize pool x2 as large as the entire year's WCS, for the sole reason of them not wanting to be upstaged. If It's only for Chinese players that's even worse. To be fair; the money would be split (evenly?) among 4 games instead of 1. (Still not sure if this is legit.) check the wikipedia page of netease.that thing had a 1 billion dollar profit last year.3 mil is nothing. On the other hand, the source you're citing is wikipedia. ^_^
they operate both sc2 and wow in china.Doubt they will put a scam.Blizzard would not allow it.Come on man.Be a good human being.Jim and macssed might become the first sc2 millionaires.After all the visa stuff they deserve to have their own version of the international 3 in china.
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Someone who can read Chinese check the prize pool split between the games. Is it really dota and not Dota 2 that they are going to play?
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On August 13 2013 16:53 theking1 wrote:Show nested quote +On August 13 2013 16:51 MrSexington wrote:On August 13 2013 16:50 theking1 wrote:On August 13 2013 16:49 MrSexington wrote:On August 13 2013 16:44 Dodgin wrote: I have a really hard time believing Blizzard would give the OK for them to run a tournament with a prize pool x2 as large as the entire year's WCS, for the sole reason of them not wanting to be upstaged. If It's only for Chinese players that's even worse. To be fair; the money would be split (evenly?) among 4 games instead of 1. (Still not sure if this is legit.) check the wikipedia page of netease.that thing had a 1 billion dollar profit last year.3 mil is nothing. On the other hand, the source you're citing is wikipedia. ^_^ they operate both sc2 and wow in china.Doubt they will put a scam.Blizzard would not allow it.Come on man.Be a good human being.Jim and macssed might become the first sc2 millionaires.After all the visa stuff they deserve to have their own version of the international 3 in china.
Oh, I hope it's true.
I'm just skeptical of anything involving huge sums of money. >_>
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I really don't care how big the company is, I'm going to go ahead and say that this is never going to actually happen. I swear I've seen similar things coming out of china before and nothing ever came of it. If this tournament actually happens and prizes of millions actually get paid it will be the most shocking thing I've ever seen in sc2. We can't even get big tournaments like IPL to pay out a small sum of a few tens of thousands of dollars 9 months later.
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On August 13 2013 16:53 MaxViktory wrote: Someone who can read Chinese check the prize pool split between the games. Is it really dota and not Dota 2 that they are going to play? Not unlikely considering they also still play War3.
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On August 13 2013 16:53 MaxViktory wrote: Someone who can read Chinese check the prize pool split between the games. Is it really dota and not Dota 2 that they are going to play?
Yes.
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On August 13 2013 16:54 Dodgin wrote: I really don't care how big the company is, I'm going to go ahead and say that this is never going to actually happen. I swear I've seen similar things coming out of china before and nothing ever came of it. If this tournament actually happens and prizes of millions actually get paid it will be the most shocking thing I've ever seen in sc2. We can't even get big tournaments like IPL to pay out a small sum of a few tens of thousands of dollars 9 months later.
Why would the company that operates wow and sc2 in china pull a scam on their own games?Does not make sense.And this a billion dollar company who runs search engines and gets money out of adverts so they really need clicks.
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On August 13 2013 17:02 theking1 wrote:Show nested quote +On August 13 2013 16:54 Dodgin wrote: I really don't care how big the company is, I'm going to go ahead and say that this is never going to actually happen. I swear I've seen similar things coming out of china before and nothing ever came of it. If this tournament actually happens and prizes of millions actually get paid it will be the most shocking thing I've ever seen in sc2. We can't even get big tournaments like IPL to pay out a small sum of a few tens of thousands of dollars 9 months later. Why would the company that operates wow and sc2 in china pull a scam on their own games?Does not make sense.And this a billion dollar company who runs search engines and gets money out of adverts so they really need clicks.
I don't see it as a scam, I see it ending up not happening. This wouldn't be the first time a large company said they're going to do something and then they didn't do it.
I just don't see how this could possibly increase sales of sc2, why else hold a tournament for it? And what is up with all the old titles? It just seems so...off.
The thing that makes me the most suspicious is this " click the page to increase the prize pool " yeah...ok
Someone will find a way to abuse it and the prize pool will end up at something ridiculous like 50 million.
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So far the only information on this in the chinese news is the page itself and that's it no one knows what it's specifically about.
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On August 13 2013 17:05 Dodgin wrote:Show nested quote +On August 13 2013 17:02 theking1 wrote:On August 13 2013 16:54 Dodgin wrote: I really don't care how big the company is, I'm going to go ahead and say that this is never going to actually happen. I swear I've seen similar things coming out of china before and nothing ever came of it. If this tournament actually happens and prizes of millions actually get paid it will be the most shocking thing I've ever seen in sc2. We can't even get big tournaments like IPL to pay out a small sum of a few tens of thousands of dollars 9 months later. Why would the company that operates wow and sc2 in china pull a scam on their own games?Does not make sense.And this a billion dollar company who runs search engines and gets money out of adverts so they really need clicks. The thing that makes me the most suspicious is this " click the page to increase the prize pool " yeah...ok Someone will find a way to abuse it and the prize pool will end up at something ridiculous like 50 million.
Very suspicious. Especially since the OP reported that it had already gone up 1 billion Yuan in 30 minutes.
edit: billion, not million
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