After buying exclusive rights to StarCraft 2 in Korea, GomTV announced recently that they would host monthly tournaments, in which players have a chance to win $85,000 dollars as first prize, all the way down to a $260 prize for being in the round of 64. The total prize pool per monthly tournament is projected to be around $170,000 USD. And here I was, thinking that putting the StarCraft 2 logo on the side of an Air Korea plane was outrageous.
This is the kind of breakthrough StarCraft 2 has been waiting for. Many have criticized the game for taking such a long time to release (Development started 2003, put on hold for a year in 2005, announced in 2007, and finally released in 2010), as well as theorized that the sequel would not, in the long run, achieve as much as the original StarCraft had (as indicated by my previous post). This announcement would prove that completely wrong. In fact, this GomTV initiative is far greater than much of what StarCraft had originally achieved (SC2 games would be broadcast 5 times a week, as compared to SC's one to two times). Once again, the Koreans have shown their love for Blizzard's latest achievement, and for that, I thank them.
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