[Crucius]

I've had an idea pondering on the back of my mind for the past few days, and I figured I should throw it out there and get the opinions of the community.

Basically the idea revolves around conducting SC2 activities in order to generate donations for charities. It would mainly revolve around friendly (yet structured and organised) tournaments, be it 1v1, 2v2, etc. Most likely it will be of a buy-in format, and a percentage of the money obtained from the buy in, will be set aside for a prize pool (assuming no sponsors are involved), where as the rest will be donated to a recognized charity (all evidence of the transaction will be supplied, of course). And as a rough idea of how it would work if there was a sponsor involved would be that they would "match" the buy-in sum, or donate more than the generated amount.

The buy-in amount wouldn't be too large, approximately around AU$5. The reasoning for $5 is because, if we have the amount too low, most of it is lost to paypal fees; where as having it too large would result in people not wanting to participate (in general).

So the maths on that would be; assuming we have a 64 starting pool. $5 buy in would translate into $4.80 or so after paypal fees. 64x$4.80=$307. We could set $50-$100 aside for the prize pool, and the remainder would be donated to the charity. On a larger scale, it's not much, but every bit counts, right?

Other "activities" would have to be relatively small compared to the tournament work, and in all honesty I can't really think of any other ones at this moment in time that would be all that effective, except for viewing parties, but even then, most wouldn't really pay too much to join in on that.

So basically, I want to hear what you guys think about the idea; be it whether you would have interest in joining in on the tournament, the fact there is a buy-in, the cost of the buy-in, and/or other activities that could be run.

As, just to throw it out there in advanced, due to the licensing terms with Blizzard, people under the age of 13 are not allowed to participate in our tournaments, so if you're not over 13, please share your thoughts anyway, but keep the fact that we can't allow you to participate without written parental consent, etc.