Where does this idea that people who would stop playing without prize pools don't love the game? If there were no prizes a shitton of top teams would fold, and it doesn't mean the people on those teams don't enjoy the game, it just means that committing every single weeknight to videogames is a big committment, especially for people with jobs or in college. You would still see a bunch of the top level players around in pugs but as far as making the time to play in a league they just wouldn't do it. you would lose like half of current invite, most of them from evl froyo and botmode's team.
so if raping the shit out of all current high skilled competition is worth a free league that could be mismanaged in any number of ways is worth it to u go ahead i guess