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PlatinumMerchantPlatinum#367 - all I'm saying is that if there is nothing to compete for, an incentive (money, fame, recognition, in-game unique items, WHATEVER) then what is the motivation to try and tackle the task of becoming the best? The first season might go off fine because of the sheer spite everyone has for esea right now, but I'm telling you without an adequate replacement for what we already have, it will stifle the growth and competition of this game
Lack of prizes won't stifle competition for all. Just the higher divisions (maybe). I think that smaka really explained it well in the post game interview that he gave about how when you are at the lower levels you really want to make it to the next division but once you make it to invite you can't play for that really so prizes help. That being said CEVO HAS money prizes. For this season there were only 7 teams and there is still a $600 prize pot. The CS:GO division has 117 teams from what I can see but the prizes are:

MAIN DIVISION - $1,750
1st - $1000
2nd - $500
3rd - $250 + 5x Zowiegear PTF Mousepads

INTERMEDIATE DIVISION - $750
1st - $500
2nd - $250
3rd - 5x Zowiegear Hammer Headsets

OPEN DIVISION - $50 St - $250
2nd - $150
3rd - $100
4th - 5x Zowiegear GRF Mousepads

I'm not saying these are what the prize pot will be but let's say it came down to the finals where you were fighting b4nnys team for either $167 each or $83 each (And you wouldn't have to pay for a LAN). Is that enough to make it competitive for you?
Well see there are two types of players in this game. There are the players like banny and his team who play the game nonstop all day long because they love it and have no other responsibilities. Then there are players like me and my team that love the game but cannot invest nearly as much time as we would perhaps like to into playing tf2. Now currently there exists one reason for players like me to invest as much time as I can spare to try and challenge players like banny, and that is the competition that exists at esea lan. The money is secondary benefit but it's really about the competition. Taking time out of your life to go compete in Dallas and winning is much more rewarding than winning an online game. I literally don't care about regular season matches anymore because they don't mean anything. If the prize was 60 per person online, I wouldn't care if players like banny won it or whatever. I would continue to play the game for fun as I always have, but there's no end trophy, prize, whatever worth trying to compete for. I believe this sentiment to be shared by a lot of the players at the highest level, hence my argument for an adequate replacement for esea being necessary to fuel the desire for u up and coming competitors that have the same mindset as me.

While I agree with most of what you said, you come off so incredibly bitter.