Entry-fee tournaments

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Are entry-fee tournaments a good idea?
Yes	5 (83.3%)
No	1 (16.7%)
Total Votes: 6

Entry-fee tournaments
Topic Started: Mar 1 2009, 05:47 PM (226 Views)
Memento Mori	Mar 1 2009, 05:47 PM Post #1
Founder Posts: 3,014 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: November 23, 2007 Friend Code 4639-8629-6796 Wii Code 2445-2692-1285-0965 Blog Captain's Log: http://forums.globalsmashfederation.com/blog/main/62672/ (Updated March 14)	Since no one seems to be offering any comments on the blog itself, I'll ask here: are tournaments with entry fees a good idea? There are obviously some cons: I hope you members trust us, but guests will probably be worried about being... conned. Also, considering how shaky online can be, how many people would be willing to put money on it? The poll question says it all, really.



KFox	Mar 1 2009, 06:01 PM Post #2
It's the Pii to the Oh-Kay-Ee-Em-Oh-En! Posts: 763 Group: Brawler Member #25 Joined: February 22, 2008 Friend Code 0430-8044-5243	Uh, well I probably wouldn't enter any considering... I suck and I'd have no chance of winning it back. So I'd want you to keep your promise of holding non entry fee required tournaments as well. :B But you have given out a lot of cash prizes before, so I'd say you have enough credibility to ask for entry fees.



Silver Dragoon	Mar 1 2009, 11:40 PM Post #3
King Deist Posts: 1,930 Group: Referee Member #23 Joined: February 11, 2008 Friend Code 0989-1411-2845 Wii Code 2016-2510-7004-0713	Well, I wouldn't say no to something like that. If people want to pay money in order to win big, they have that right. If they don't they don't want to, they don't have to.



J.P.	Mar 2 2009, 01:52 AM Post #4
Member Posts: 11 Group: Brawler Member #173 Joined: February 15, 2009	I agree with K Fox. Some tourneys with fees would be a good thing. You could use the fees to have larger prizes. Larger prizes=more publicity. But also, if they all had fees I would never come out (assuming I ever got around to buying a WII).



Memento Mori	Mar 2 2009, 03:10 AM Post #5
Founder Posts: 3,014 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: November 23, 2007 Friend Code 4639-8629-6796 Wii Code 2445-2692-1285-0965 Blog Captain's Log: http://forums.globalsmashfederation.com/blog/main/62672/ (Updated March 14)	Well, in the blog entry, I promised that the free tournaments would always be there -- entry-fee tournaments would always run simultaneously with our usual tournaments, and you're not barred from entering one if you enter the other.



Ezekiel	Mar 2 2009, 12:27 PM Post #6
Founder Posts: 1,142 Group: League Master Member #2 Joined: November 23, 2007 Friend Code 5026 4766 6737 Wii Code 3150 9554 2494 8182	I think this would be a... good...? No, really there's no good time for this, but any point after this will probably be worse. Budget's getting tight, you see. We're working on a solution (for instance, I'm trying to get an actual job) but if we can't do something about it soon... free prize tournaments might get put on hold for a while. Of course, we'll still have free tournaments, just... not for monetary prizes... temporarily. And we don't know if that'll happen yet, either.



Memento Mori	Mar 2 2009, 02:02 PM Post #7
Founder Posts: 3,014 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: November 23, 2007 Friend Code 4639-8629-6796 Wii Code 2445-2692-1285-0965 Blog Captain's Log: http://forums.globalsmashfederation.com/blog/main/62672/ (Updated March 14)	I'm looking for a job, too, every day, but pickings are slim.



KFox	Mar 2 2009, 04:08 PM Post #8
It's the Pii to the Oh-Kay-Ee-Em-Oh-En! Posts: 763 Group: Brawler Member #25 Joined: February 22, 2008 Friend Code 0430-8044-5243	Yeah, that's totally understandable. Just keep the for-fun tournies around too. =D



Doob Zurz	Mar 31 2009, 06:30 PM Post #9
Super Special Awesome GSF Designer Posts: 888 Group: Referee Member #20 Joined: January 28, 2008	Personally, I like the free tournies just as much as the prize tournies. I'm just a little more disappointed to lose the prize ones. And yea, online is...really shakey. I'm not sure I'd be totally thrilled to put up money on such an unstable thing. That's sort of like putting money on race horses and come to find out all the horses are blind; sure, one'll win eventually and it'd be hella interesting to watch, but it's not something you want money riding on. But hey, go for. Worst that could happen is no one enters. In which case nothing earned, nothing lost eh?



Berserker Swordsman	Mar 31 2009, 07:13 PM Post #10
AMAZINGJOBSQUIRTLE Posts: 2,129 Group: Forum Leader Member #9 Joined: December 5, 2007 Friend Code 4983 4600 7715	M3ment0 Mori (2:02:31 PM): How many people do you think would pay an entry fee? >_> KiteKirby (2:02:52 PM): for an online tourney, I would say not many M3ment0 Mori (2:03:07 PM): I guess they'd be worried about getting scammed. KiteKirby (2:04:10 PM): that, and I would guess that people wouldn't want to pay for a tourney where something like Wifi is an unknown variable in matches


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