I'm still a bit confused on the prizes thing. You guys are asking for prizes averagely ranging between 3k and 10k (even more, a 3k-ish worth item is sometimes considered a "bad" prize as far as I've heard from the participants).
Supposing the tourney has 22 participants, that means the winner plays 5 matches (give or take 1). Do you guys really think 5 matches are worth a high value item? That's just putting it in a very simple way.
Even though you do get high value items in some occasions, that doesn't mean you should be expecting that prize every single tourney.
I'd be more than pleased to give out a high value item/TC amount to winners from my own pocket, hell even to participants who lost if that pleases them, but sadly that's not always possible (and yeah, we've actually done that before).
When I was a normal member playing in GMtourneys, I used to get the exact same valued prizes, and they were more than enough.
GMtourneys' goal is not to enrich the winner, it's to actually get a wide number of players in one server and let them have fun, isn't that what the whole point of the game is about?
If you don't go out of a tourney saying "well, that was fun" then let us know, at least we'll know that we should improve our hosting methods.
Last edited by EJM; Jan 14, 2013 at 06:52 PM.