Avenging5@sh.itjust.works to Aged Like Milk@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoA StarCraft gaming tournament took place 10 years ago and these were the prizes teams could winsh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down10
arrow-up12arrow-down1imageA StarCraft gaming tournament took place 10 years ago and these were the prizes teams could winsh.itjust.worksAvenging5@sh.itjust.works to Aged Like Milk@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square21fedilink
minus-squareEheran@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoMore like 25 years ago. here a list of prize pools, the earliest is 2006 with well over 100’000 $.
minus-squareAlexstarfire@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoI mean, it doesn’t say it was any kind of sponsored/mainstream tournament. Coulda just been a local one somewhere.
minus-squareEheran@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoBitcoin is from 2009, so it has to be after that. But it does not make a lot of sense if there are already competitions in the >100’000 range.
minus-squareAlexstarfire@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoWhy? Local tournaments will never have those kind of prize pools.
minus-squareEheran@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoBut who cares about a random event nobody except 100 people knew about, which happened 10+ years ago? Why not take something that was (near) the beginning of these tournaments or one of the big ones?
More like 25 years ago. here a list of prize pools, the earliest is 2006 with well over 100’000 $.
I mean, it doesn’t say it was any kind of sponsored/mainstream tournament. Coulda just been a local one somewhere.
Bitcoin is from 2009, so it has to be after that. But it does not make a lot of sense if there are already competitions in the >100’000 range.
Why? Local tournaments will never have those kind of prize pools.
But who cares about a random event nobody except 100 people knew about, which happened 10+ years ago? Why not take something that was (near) the beginning of these tournaments or one of the big ones?