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You can't "watch" these players cast with an in game ticket. All that "good" stuff takes place on the stream.
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Zaphid
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Because flying 6 teams from around the world is cheap ? Yes, they offered the best value for money when it came to items, but they also had qualifiers with great hype, as opposed to a Dreamleague and the player casts made otherwise boring group stages much more interesting experience. Nobody can say "so smart" without twitch chat going crazy.
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Missed the last 3 hours of BTS because of work dinner, back just in time to see EG and C9.
Missed the last 3 hours of BTS because of work dinner, back just in time to see EG and C9.
Valve takes 62.5% of the profit, 25% towards the prize pool, and 12.5% towards the organizer. Valve matches any money put towards the prize pool, so the usual split is 75% towards valve and 25% towards the organizer. 860k in ticket sales is 107k towards the organizers. Pretty good for an online tournament, but not that good when you look at a tournament with a LAN. It's so ridiculous how much money Valve takes from ticket sales.
Zaphid
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Are there any educated guesses whether TI4 ended up in black numbers or not, due to the ridiculous sales of the compendium and everything associated with it ?
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Louis
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I'm guessing he meant in the positive like in golf scoring terms. My guess is they made huge profits with how much money was contributed from the community on compendiums. Weren't the profits $7.50 for each compendium purchased?
Louis
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I'm a fucking idiot when it comes to math, but if I calculated it right they made $27,992,094 on compedium sales alone without factoring in taxes. While the things you listed are probably a huge chunk of change I think they still came out positive with that figure. I'm sure they don't have an issue with making money, but the real reason behind the international to begin with was marketing anyways.
Edit - Math is a little off. Didn't take into account the initial 1.6 million.
Edit - Math is a little off. Didn't take into account the initial 1.6 million.
Julian The Apostate
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I talked some shit on Zyori awhile back about his ass nasty looking dreads. Motherfucker got dat hair cut now and is looking good now.
I'm sure it helps, however the ticket has never been cheap on the market which is the indicator for people buying for the cosmetics. I think I paid 10-cents for the i-League ticket back in Aug/Sept and $1-2 for the XMG Captain's Draft ticket while the Summit 2 ticket w/o cosmetics is ~$8-9.
I thought it might help but it didn't make a difference though he's still just as irritating as before while casting or the way he sits on the couch with his legs crossed and his hands clasped.
What a tournament. Every game seems to be good, both bo5 semifinals have gone the distance, and an amazing all star match.
Del
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Secret got raped by VG at ESL One as well. I think they just don't match up very well vs. VG. And I think EG played exceptionally poor today.