Common now be serious. It may have been a troll but the merits are still worth paying lip service to. No one is shitting on the prize or the effort put forth by the individuals organizing these events month in and month out. When things don’t add up, people want to know what’s up. You can ask every single person who has attended one of these tournaments and I can guarantee you they would be more than willing to offer up a portion of the purse without a fuss. Curiosity needs not be shat on, regardless of the eloquence of the phrasing.
NOW FOR WRATH. NOW FOR RUIN, AND A RED DAWN!!! I love you Vince (no homo). And yeah, we need to spport people like Drekken who go all the way to support this community.
We need to give teh Cannon Award to Drekken and DarkDragon (god knows how much money he is losing for TX)
i will win this tournament with cammy
No one cares where the 40% went pownz can keep it I insist with such a beast prize, y all the kymah hate.
O my Mosh !!!. … Mosh vs Spiral guy finals is too epic !
Dice you’re the best. I love you no homo!
darkdragon works for dr dre so he is rich enough to support T10
Shotgun, Ian’s car.
VInce I love you more… (pure homo !)
Oh shit Croyd is coming. Someone get this guy some 3S!
uh, the TV was donated by Toshiba, wasn’t it? plus pownz is already charging their regular venue on top. i don’t really buy the whole “marketing costs” argument. It doesn’t cost anything to make a few posts on various forums. at the very least, they better supply some real DAROS.
Yes the TV is donated by Toshiba, but you have to understand the business aspect of it.
You have to look at what POWNZ and Toshiba are taking away from this.
Toshiba gets to promote their product and company at the expense of POWNZ Staff and myself taking the time out of their day to make the event happen.
POWNZ supplies the venue in which it’s patrons will pay the venue fee to cover POWNZ costs (ie. electricity, cost of equipment, cost of paying employee’s). Basically POWNZ makes very little after covering the baseline costs and breaking even.
Now you guys are saying, that we should GIVE you the entire pot.
I would like to suggest it to you this way. POWNZ staff has spent countless hours in negotiation with Toshiba to set up this event for you. I can’t even count the number of trips/hours i have made to POWNZ to get this thing in line. Not to even mention the amount of work and Time Drekken has put in to make this happen. Time is money, we all know that. So for POWNZ to take a way a little and make some money off it. I don’t think that should be an issue as it will cover for the cost of time that was required to set up this event.
So in summary
Venue fee = cost of employees, electricity, equipment
Toshiba TV = free
Remainder of Pot = covers time and effort spent to secure Toshiba sponsorship and to setup/organize the event
I am posting this so that hopefully you guys can understand the business side of things and appreciate what is being done. If you have questions please feel free to ask but I ask only of you guys to be courteous about it.
RXS
P.S. for those who might get the idea that I am doing this because i’m a POWNZ employee. I don’t work for POWNZ, they don’t employ me. I run the tournaments out of charity and because I love the SF scene. However I do understand how POWNZ works and the their perspective in regards to business.
haha yea ur even more stupid than u look
RXS: why bother explaining to those scrubs? no one (ppl of any importance) cares about the venue taking a reasonable cut.
lol because there are more scrubs than JS masters out there. LOL
why so sensative … ?
Who’s driving down from the east end?
so who wants to drive me.
K, guys, the only reason that traditionally players get pissed if venue people take money out of the pot is because they’ve never given anything back in return.
Of course they would say shit like, it’s my venue/arcade w/e but we all know that’s bullshit cuz we’re putting coins into THEIR cabs.
The idea for running a tourney is, players pay the director pot money while putting coins into owners cabs. Everyone wins.
If the venue guy/arcade manager take money from the pot that’s scummy.
In this case however, the venue people in question have secured a fucking awesome prize. Why anyone would suspiciously question this is astonishing to me. Who cares if they’re taking money out of the pot. In fact I’m happy they’re taking a cut.
Trust SRK to shit on a good thing and make it a silly argument.
fixed.