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Carthac United States. Dec 27 2010 16:45. Posts 1343 | | |
Hello LP! As an avid SC2 fan/poker player, I want to create a SC2 invitational tournament. I am an extremely organized/driven person, so I feel I will be able to handle the responsibilities that comes with organizing such a tournament. However, I feel the responsibilities may be a little too much for me solely to handle, so I do have potential help lined up if I find it necessary.
For those of you that are avid SC1 players but have not yet gotten into SC2, I urge you to do so. The game has progressed so far in the short amount of time since tournaments first started, and there is a true meta game that is looking to be very balanced and skill based in almost all aspects of the game. There are still the common cheeses we remember from the old SC1, but there are so many styles that have emerged so far that I find truly astonishing, as this took a far greater amount of time to develop in SC1.
This is still the planning phase, and nothing has been set in motion yet. As I know many LP readers are SC players, I am looking to you guys for help. I will list off a few questions:
1. I was planning on making this an invitational, if I am able to receive the appropriate prize pool to attract the better players. However, how do you guys feel about an open tournament with a certain ladder ranking required to sign up? Perhaps add that well known players will be excluded from this application/qualification process?
2. Would LP be interested in sponsoring such a tournament? I understand that LP is fairly small, and could use more traffic indeed, but in what ways would the site be willing to help?
3. How many players should the tournament be made up of? I find this part will have to do with whether this becomes an invitational/open tournament, but requests are always appreciated. I personally feel if it is any bigger than 32 or 64, interest will plummet as I am certain player quality will greatly diminish
Now for the part I truly hate. I am going to need donations (bleh I feel so dirty asking) to get this tournament running. I am going to be donating some of my own money, but I will not be able to fund this tournament enough to make it recognizable to good players, as there is already a decent number of tournaments per week that are running off of small prize pools.
I understand, especially with how most people have been running this month, that people may not have the money to do so, but I feel it is worth a shot as I feel this can be a really fun tournament and get some decent exposure for LP. I feel I have garnished a decent reputation on this site, but if you don't trust me, that is totally okay as well. Perhaps someone with a little larger bankroll than myself that is trustworthy would be willing to accept donations as well to ease peoples concerns than sending it to me.
If this tournament does not come to fruition, I PROMISE you, every donation made will be returned 100% in the amount that was received. I am not looking to take any cut from this at all; I am simply looking to organize a tournament that will help the SC2/LP community grow.
Any support would be helpful. Feel free to PM me about this, and I hope this project can get off the ground. Happy upcoming new year to everyone, and good luck with trying to stay near your EV line 
-Carthac
Donations can be made to:
ImGoodz on FTP
ThatsTheTnyG on Stars
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Zalfor United States. Dec 27 2010 19:57. Posts 2236 | | |
poker strategy hosted a TSL.
i think LP is less community than it was before tho... |
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Carthac United States. Dec 27 2010 20:25. Posts 1343 | | |
| | On December 27 2010 18:57 Zalfor wrote:
poker strategy hosted a TSL.
i think LP is less community than it was before tho... |
no harm in trying tho |
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Funktion Australia. Dec 28 2010 09:23. Posts 1638 | | |
Like you said I would try to get a green star person here or someone who is high up on the LP food chain to be associated with this.
To promote donations I would have some sort of incentive such as exclusive replays or some such thing that donors might value. TSL seemed pretty awesome to me so maybe copy the basic model then adjust anything that doesn't fit/work.
You could also compromise and not aim to get the biggest names. Or only one big name as the main draw who auto qualifies to some round. By putting on a smaller show and generating interest/respect etc you could then build up to a bigger and better product.
Also it just might not be a viable idea to get off the ground if there are already many tournaments with a limited market. |
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