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Originally Posted by nGenLight

Your concern for LAN starcraft in Australia is genuine. But I have to disagree with your statement regarding top players wanting more money. I suggested what I suggested purely because I can forsee the incoming abuse and motivating mediocre players that you don't need to work hard to get big prizes.

Coming 1st in your school Athletics carnival should not equal to getting a Silver medal in the Olympics - The marketing scheme to get lesser-skilled players to be awarded is fine, to award them ALMOST the same as the top players makes me want to compete in the Silver division.

Exactly, the kind of players who would qualify for silver (assuming groups are accurately seeded) would be guys who don't really win any prized online tournaments so they are going to be happy with whatever they get, even if it's a $50 mouse or headset. It seems weird that the "best of the worst" is rewarded more than a "mediocre good player".

Originally Posted by avanar

you said that if you start making the prizes for div1 too good only the top 8 players will go, thats not true because i know for one im not a top 8 player and if i could i would go just for the fun of it and the fact that it is a lan and lans are so unbelievably fun, im just curious have u ever been to a lan?

I think you have to consider that not everyone has a large, tight-knit social clan like TA that you have, and that could influence how likely you are to attend LAN events.