[Benji]

So something thats starting to happen alot are these small prize money tournaments, we're talking the $0-$99 range and whilst these are fun and seem productive, I believe we can organize these better to attract a larger audience.

First thing to note, Team Liquid requires a $100 prize to get your event listed, and doing so grants you 10x the viewers that you'd get without said listing.

Take the GPD and the Masters cup for example, the GPD got around 40-50 viewers at one time, with an overall unique viewercount of 250-300 ish. The prize for this tourney was $10

Masters cup will be similar, with a $70 prize I imagine viewers will be around 60 ish (more if the lovely Zie is casting ) with an overall count around 300-400.

Dogsi's that I did the other day WAS listed, and I had around 450 average views with around 5000 unique hits. I guarantee a majority of that was simply through listing the event on TL.

So something like the GPD/Masters cup, instead of splitting $10/$10/$10/$70, simply have the Masters cup worth $100, the viewers from the $10 tourney will hardly diminish, yet the extra viewers for the Masters cup will be quite significant, which is nothing but good for the scene.

Any tourney can do this, perhaps merge the CO with another tourney and hold it fourtnightly to break this $100 mark, and thus generate the extra viewers. The result will be:

- More exposure to people not in SEA (and thus our players become more recognized)
- More high level players turning up to tourneys ($20 tourneys don't attact good players, but $100 for a single tourney does)
- Less tourneys, forcing players that want to win to train harder.

Having a tourney every day of the week seems good in theory, but you dilute the prize pool and the players. Noone is watching/playing in every tourney and as a result the signups/popularity of each one is dimishing even though the scene is growing.

Just my 2c