| That's sad indeed. I'm not blaming staff, but I think there's something they could have done indeed. Esport[1] is doing quite well nowadays, especially around blizzard games. Blizzard has a lot of money to invest in this, seeing a big return value in turning a game into a sport, but it may not be possible without sponsors. If you want to organize tournaments with prizes, you have to have sponsors. In big esl events, those are intel, acer, nvidia, etc. Esport events are extremely well targeted events for them, the only better option would be to add ads directly in games. Crowdfunding prizes is also an option. This week-end, a bitcoin starcraft challenge[2] was organized, mainly funded (to the words of organizer during stream) by reddit users giving bitcoins, and a few other sponsor - mainly bitcoin trading websites. Don't try to hide this into some kind of premium account. People don't want that, they want to see events. You can't just rely on a company you seem to have no contact with to just give away big money (even if they are indeed the ones to blame, if that's article is true, because they were no right to their word). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_sports [2] http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Bitcoin_StarCraft_Chal... (edited links formatting) |