On one hand it means more SC2 and more prizemoney, but with this new plan the actual EPT Finals will be so late, they basically cramped two years into one Tour. However, it is an odd choice (atleast for now) to split the Word Championships from Katowice again.

WoW Cosmetic $25 Horse made more money than SC2:WoL.įirst of all: Great news and even better to have more clearance about the World Championships! He was the only thing stopping Activision from turning Blizzard into a WoW expansion factory.ĮDIT: stumbled across this. SC2 was created on the whims of Mike Morhaime. It's all on the whims of the uber rich billionaire saudi prince or whoever deciding when to shut off the faucet or if humanity can find a way to make use of salt water as a perfect alternative to biofuels such as oil to put them out of business. On the one hand I am glad that at least SC2 will survive a bit longer thanks to oil money going to the players, on the other hand we all know that that won't last forever either. Now Saudi's tourney is 5x bigger in terms of money. In 2015-2022 The International had 20-40m prize pool and no other tournament had more than 3m, mostly 1m or less even for the biggest non-TI tourneys. TI still has its prestige earned by being the biggest tournament by a huge margin in all e-sports for 10 years in a row - but for how long will it last? It's all on the whims of the uber rich billionaire saudi prince or whoever deciding when to shut off the faucet or if humanity can find a way to make use of salt water as a perfect alternative to biofuels such as oil to put them out of business.In Dota 2, this year The International (official world championship) had 3m prize pool and Riyadh Masters (no DPC tour points at all) had 15m prize pool.

That and we know ESL is basically owned by oil money at this point anyway. Other sports including MMA, boxing, and even portions of soccer are getting huge funding from oil money it seems. Hate to add to the derail train of how the oil money is basically going to take over and be the world championships it seems, but it's not just esports after all.

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