[Pandan]

Originally Posted by ACL VaNzR

service bigger and better gaming events

Yeah, but if you add up your minimum entry fees that = $7100 (not incl extra $25-30 p.p for finals series, nor does it includes any spectators), then count in a ballpark sponsor contribution of $6000-8000 and only $9000 being given out in prizes, means you're still spending substantial quantities on overheads/venue fees etc, and the SC2 part of the prize pool has barely gone up (which basically ran 2012's growth) and the other 2 games that are getting a HUGE boost;

ACL Gold Coast 2012 Prizes
SC2: $1750 [$2500] +750
COD: $2000 [$3500] +1500
HALO: $2000 [$3000] +1000

So out of a total $3250 in prize growth (YoY), 23% went to SC2 (the main game in 2012), 31% went to HALO (the dead game from 2012) and a whopping 46% went to COD, which is looking about the same size as last year.

EDIT:

When will ACL ever earn the SC2 community's respect?

Maybe when you respect them back for growing your company?

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deL:

Tasty post

[Dingobloo]

Originally Posted by Pandan

Yeah, but if you add up your minimum entry fees that = $7100 (not incl extra $25-30 p.p for finals series, nor does it includes any spectators), then count in a ballpark sponsor contribution of $6000-8000 and only $9000 being given out in prizes, means you're still spending substantial quantities on overheads/venue fees etc, and the SC2 part of the prize pool has barely gone up (which basically ran 2012's growth) and the other 2 games that are getting a HUGE boost;



So out of a total $3250 in prize growth (YoY), 23% went to SC2 (the main game in 2012), 31% went to HALO (the dead game from 2012) and a whopping 46% went to COD, which is looking about the same size as last year.

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Maybe when you respect them back for growing your company?

Growth doesn't necessarily mean increased profitability especially when it's combined with significant costs and no dramatic increase in revenue, the increased prize per player in SC2 is lower presumably because it's not BYOC and on top of that SC2 has a smaller minimum player count to reach it's max prize pool, and even if the prize pool isn't increasing dramatically, it's still increasing. Not even mentioning the improvements to production that ACL made over the last year and the improvement of venues that we've started to see this year.

Now I don't know what beef you have ACL but I'm pretty sure even the people bitching about price increases aren't doing it because they don't respect the events ACL ran or continues to run, and your post is really disrespectful to someone who had been reasonably level headed in the face of a wall of negativity.

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nirvAnA:

yay dingobloo to the rescue! <3