Deeper prize pool seems better, encourages more players and at least 3rd/4th will be worth playing.
who can forget how glade lol'd and instant logged out after he lost to redarchon in last months semis. well u cant balme him he was playing for nothing and it was late etc
I think 500 is pretty big for SEA standards, and it would give more incentive for people to play better if it's a double elim knockout on the lower brackets. I think up to 4th would be good, or even down to 8th? 500, 300, 200, 100, 50, 50, 50, 50 or something. I think a 500 prize would attract the best SEA players who have stopped playing on SEA. 800 is huge! (Enough that some US guy would probably smurf his way in with an SEA account..)
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