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5 GBP is not a lot of money. And in terms of people wanting to play ETF2L over ESA is not a concern either. If ESA’s model works out then winning an ESA will have more recognition than winning ETF2L, Cause after all we are competing for something more motivational than pixel trophies.

I like what ESA are doing. Its something that’s been missing in EU scene for a long time. And if you are not willing to risk 5 pounds into supporting this then I think you’re stupid.

Sure you might have concerns about their business model, but thats on the large scale, if this go bonkers you still have only invested 5 pounds.

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Surely in the sense of people trying to snipe prize money playing at the lower end would mean lower prize money. In which the amount probably is only enough to cover a teams next seasons in ESA, Lets say we have three tiers of skill. LOW, MID and HIGH.

Now LOW has low prize money, because its the easiest to get(ie. prize money sniping or just a team getting better) lets say the prize money snipers win this. and they keep fake-nicking and remaking teams. and suddenly there’s a big LOW tournament coming up. with increased prize pool, but with increased prize pool comes restrictions, your team must have played x seasons/cups. which would remove the possibility for some prize money snipers (considering they get promoted after winning, and have to make a new team), Now if the team that actually progressed and got better won this, it would mean they funded their premium for x seasons, in which time they might be good enough to win MID, and earn more money, to fund them even further in their adventure to HIGH. Now HIGH has some advantages, sponsorship, increased prize pool, fame, glory the whole circus, Surely the team who just progressed trough LOW and MID wants a piece of this cake as well.

They have extra incentive into getting better, People would spend more hours into improving their game. Teams will pop up from nowhere, teams who have somewhat unknown players, and they will challenge the favorites to win. This scenario happens more frequent in CS then it does in TF2.

And if the prize money snipers keep sniping then they will get caught. I cant see anything like that working in the long term.
If it becomes too frequent make a stupid no prize money brackets for teams who haven’t played previous leagues making it more effort then what the prize money gives you.

Didge has already mentioned this, but it was probably skimmed;

Use of Clickandbuy the service that will pay you, your money, any time you want it. Which will drastically hinder your opportunities to make smurf accounts, reasons why are documented here: https://esagamer.com/prizepool under ‘Things you should know’.

Quoted from Russian Guyovich

I’ve just subscribed with Premium for a year because I want to help make this work and don’t expect an ROI at all.

This!

Edit: There a special offer £25 for the year btw

Is this gonna be another one that starts at like 10AM again?

Quoted from Enef

Is this gonna be another one that starts at like 10AM again?

Great practice for LAN

Quoted from Sideshow

10AM wut? Why not have it run over a few days instead? Who has a whole day free…

true that…

I don’t know which is worse then, you’re guaranteed to lose signups either way tbh. The problem with using ranking from scratch!

a lot of tournaments (e.g. LoL, dota etc) are run over a whole day. accept that it’s happening.