Money helps reduce the attendance of the tournaments to those people who are serious about competing.
How exactly is this a beneficial thing? I'm sure everyone has varying levels of how serious they are about this game. That shouldn't determine whether or not a person can enter a tournament or not.
A free tournament every once in a while could be fun, but it could also end up being jam packed with a bunch of new people, and personally I wouldn't want to be in the midst of that ;|
Seems like a great way to expand our community to me. New people are no longer intimidated at the prospect of losing money over and over at tournaments.
All games are going to have a competitive scene, and you're going to find them at the cash prize tournaments, cause when you start making money from playing a game that's when you know you're good at it.
I believe you can tell you're good at a game when you place top 3 in tournament. You don't need money to tell you that.
You're just not going to find the same level of play at a free tournament that you would at one with a cash prize.
We don't know that since a free tournament has never been held.
I see what you're saying... but think of it this way:
Have you ever played poker without money or anything on the line? It's ridiculous and a bit boring. Takes away a lot from it.
That may be the case for some players, but there's also the players that play for the sake of having fun playing the game and the ones who play just to be known as the best.
hey mango come out to some random place in new york with absolutely no intent except for the possibility that you might have a good time
or mew2king come on down to good ol' cali forn -eye -aye to play smash brothers with no real prize
not having a prize kills competition and makes it just boring.
Yes, money is the reason for both of those players to play the game. Mind naming the reasons for the hundreds of other players who entered the tournaments.
Thank you for your opinion.
1) Without money, competition gets much less serious. Grand finals, and really any match, could end up as nonserious Falcon dittos where people just joke around. Without money, there's no real urge to actually do well. While most people at tourneys know they probably won't get top 3 and earn money, there's still that drive and hope to do so. People wouldn't care about losing as much. Losing wouldn't mean anything, because in essence you'd just be playing friendlies with everyone there.
Please re-read paragraphs 3, 4, and 5 in my opening post.
2) What superryan said. There's no point in anyone traveling for a tournament if no money is involved. Even driving like 2 hours is near pointless. Pros who would be earning like 600-2000 dollars when they traveled to the other coast would earn absolutely nothing, and they'd just be paying out of pocket for plane rides. If people who are really good at the game can't play other people who are really good at the game, there's no point to get really good at the game in the first place.
It doesn't take 600-2000 dollars to get from one coast to the other. And besides, I honestly don't believe a person deserves 2000 dollars just because they beat a group of people at a video game. Especially if that money came from players who share my same thoughts, but are "forced" to enter that tournament since they don't have another choice in a tournament experience.
If you don't have money, then you need some other incentive for people to do well, and ranking just won't cut it on a more national scale (or even statewide scale).
Why can't ranking cut it? I'm not trying to make a point, I'm just curious to hear your reasons for believing that.
Do athletes feel bad that their salaries are payed for by spectators with ridiculously overpriced tickets and food (i'm thinking of yankee stadium in particular).
I don't know the answer to this, do you?
If you want my opinion of professional sports, I highly enjoy watching them. I'm a huge fan of the Rockets, Astros, and Cowboys. Do I believe athletes are HIGHLY overpayed? Yes.
If you want free competition, that's what you can do with your friends around town or something. I know i do that sometimes when i'm smashing with some friends. Then you can brag to them about beating them because you see them so often, thus making it worth it. If you beat some random kid from half way across the country, who cares? You prolly won't even care. But if you beat him and get yourself into the money, you'd care more, and so would he, because now one of you just got costs of coming covered.
I would care if I beat someone across the country, especially if they were a top ranked player. I can understand money being your main motivation for playing, I just believe there's more players who have different reasons for playing.
Basically, just suck it up and deal with it.
This is the same mindset that prevents change in society. What if the people who influenced MLK told him this about racial segregation?
Good luck trying to convince anyone over 30 minutes away to go to your tournaments then. What the hell are you talking about, most people who run tournaments aren't top players or are barely ranked rofl, alot of tournament organizers are TERRIBLE players LOLLLLLL.
I like your generalizations too, "I bet if they want money they are terrible people to play with." It's a good thing the world doesn't revolve around money or something like that, well maybe in candyland it doesn't. I guess PC Chris is a terrible person because it took him the chance of getting a return to fly across the country to play a video game. Well he is according to your logic despite the fact that I'm willing to bet you've never met the guy.
Please don't harass other people in this thread. This is a discussion. Everyone is entitled to share their opinion.
