[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.