[deL]

Agreed. I'd rather see the $20 replaced with something like a mouse, t-shirt, game, DVD, etc. and people look to sponsors or other sustainable methods rather than making it sustainable by having worthless prizes. Even if you make the tourneys weekly and the top 8 qualify for a pooled event at the end of the month with $100 or whatever would be better.

[divinesage]

Originally Posted by deL

Agreed. I'd rather see the $20 replaced with something like a mouse, t-shirt, game, DVD, etc. and people look to sponsors or other sustainable methods rather than making it sustainable by having worthless prizes. Even if you make the tourneys weekly and the top 8 qualify for a pooled event at the end of the month with $100 or whatever would be better.

How about giving winners of weekly tournaments a token sum to at least make them feel that they have won something "real"? I mean it certainly takes effort to win a 64 man tournament, and players would definitely like to have earned something from that win.

[deL]

Originally Posted by divinesage

How about giving winners of weekly tournaments a token sum to at least make them feel that they have won something "real"? I mean it certainly takes effort to win a 64 man tournament, and players would definitely like to have earned something from that win.

Either you are doing it for the money and it's a large prizepool or you are doing it for fun or bragging rights. You don't really need to cater to both - if someone is playing small events that take 3-4 hours to win $10 when they could work for an hour at McDonalds and earn more than that they are idiots.

[Eddie]

Sc2sea are adding $30 to make the Masters a $100 tourney, which is great.

As for the GPD, can't see it getting up to the $100 range, especially since a weekly event. Shall keep the $10 prize as there are still a lot of very good players competing in this event, and its 64 players. Deserves something.

Originally Posted by deL

Agreed. I'd rather see the $20 replaced with something like a mouse, t-shirt, game, DVD, etc. and people look to sponsors or other sustainable methods rather than making it sustainable by having worthless prizes. Even if you make the tourneys weekly and the top 8 qualify for a pooled event at the end of the month with $100 or whatever would be better.

mouse, t-shirt, game, DVD, even hardware if we were somehow able to get sponsors would be too tricky imo. It's not like a lan event where we have the stuff on hand, and can give out in person, we have players from several countries. Some suppliers might not be in certain countries, would cost more for mail. Cash is simple, works best for online tournaments.