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The three instalments of the DH Masters tour (Summer, Fall, Winter) will each see its prize pool increased by $41,000 both this year and next year. This added prize money will be allocated to the regional qualification tournaments (Europe, NA, etc) and thus not to the main Season Finals tournaments.
The DH Masters Last Chance tournaments will also see a minor increase in prize pool: the first place finisher will receive an additional $2,000, taking the first prize to a total of $10,000.
The prize money taken from the global tournament IEM Katowice will thus not be added to other global tournaments, meaning players’ opportunity to compete for this prize pool will be determined by which region they belong to, and Korean players will not be able to compete for any, save the relatively tiny amount added to the DH Masters Last Chance first prize.
ESL also confirmed that the tournaments at IEM Katowice in 2022 as well as 2023 will each have a total prize pool of $500,000.
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The three instalments of the DH Masters tour (Summer, Fall, Winter) will each see its prize pool increased by $41,000 both this year and next year. This added prize money will be allocated to the regional qualification tournaments (Europe, NA, etc) and thus not to the main Season Finals tournaments.
Could someone confirm this? I thought the additional prize is added into the Global Season Final, not the Regional.
Czech Republic10841 Posts
The three instalments of the DH Masters tour (Summer, Fall, Winter) will each see its prize pool increased by $41,000 both this year and next year. This added prize money will be allocated to the regional qualification tournaments (Europe, NA, etc) and thus not to the main Season Finals tournaments.
Could someone confirm this? I thought the additional prize is added into the Global Season Final, not the Regional.
Dude, you literally quoted it with the source link, can you check yourself?
Considering I don’t know what the previous prizes were for the regional finals, but it appears so.
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The three instalments of the DH Masters tour (Summer, Fall, Winter) will each see its prize pool increased by $41,000 both this year and next year. This added prize money will be allocated to the regional qualification tournaments (Europe, NA, etc) and thus not to the main Season Finals tournaments.
Could someone confirm this? I thought the additional prize is added into the Global Season Final, not the Regional.
I compared the updated prize pools with the ones from a couple of months ago, using archive.org. There were no changes for season finals, only for regional tournaments.
United States3594 Posts
lly considering that where it was pulled from a sizable portion if not the majority would have gone to Korean players.
United States29994 Posts
On April 02 2021 02:25 JJH777 wrote:
It’s pretty messed up for Koreans that it is going to the regional finals only especially considering that where it was pulled from a sizable portion if not the majority would have gone to Korean players.
Yah this is insanely unfair
Czech Republic10841 Posts
Community – yay for ESL
ESL – guys, do you remember how removed 250k USD from the international Katowice? Now we moved the money internationally everywhere EXCEPT Korea!
Community – this can’t be true, say again?
Well played, ESL, well played.
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The three instalments of the DH Masters tour (Summer, Fall, Winter) will each see its prize pool increased by $41,000 both this year and next year. This added prize money will be allocated to the regional qualification tournaments (Europe, NA, etc) and thus not to the main Season Finals tournaments.
Could someone confirm this? I thought the additional prize is added into the Global Season Final, not the Regional.
Dude, you literally quoted it with the source link, can you check yourself?
Considering I don’t know what the previous prizes were for the regional finals, but it appears so.
Sorry for not elaborating, but I already checked and find that the prize pool showed in the link is about the same with the prize pool of the DH Tournament in 2020, both for Global and Regional tournament. That means the additional 41k hasnt been added into those prize pool yet. Thats why I said if someone can confirm this because it seems the information is still lacking
United States29994 Posts
The three instalments of the DH Masters tour (Summer, Fall, Winter) will each see its prize pool increased by $41,000 both this year and next year. This added prize money will be allocated to the regional qualification tournaments (Europe, NA, etc) and thus not to the main Season Finals tournaments.
Could someone
confirm this? I thought the additional prize is added into the Global Season Final, not the Regional.
Dude, you literally quoted it with the source link, can you check yourself?
Considering I don’t know what the previous prizes were for the regional finals, but it appears so.
Sorry for not elaborating, but I already checked and find that the prize pool showed in the link is about the same with the prize pool of the DH Tournament in 2020, both for Global and Regional tournament. That means the additional 41k hasnt been added into those prize pool yet. Thats why I said if someone can confirm this because it seems the information is still lacking
you can find the old prize distros in the “history” section of any of the relevant liquipedia pages: 
index.php?title=ESL Pro Tour/2021/22/Masters/Summer/EU&oldid=1876747
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On April 02 2021 02:25 JJH777 wrote:
It’s pretty messed up for Koreans that it is going to the regional finals only especially considering that where it was pulled from a sizable portion if not the majority would have gone to Korean players.
Yah this is insanely unfair
And since it would have been very easy to just add (at least part of) the prize money to the Season Finals tournaments, this has to be completely intentional by ESL. Why do they want it this way??
Czech Republic10841 Posts
On April 02 2021 02:25 JJH777 wrote:
It’s pretty messed up for Koreans that it is going to the regional finals only especially considering that where it was pulled from a sizable portion if not the majority would have gone to Korean players.
Yah this is insanely unfair
And since it would have been very easy to just add (at least part of) the prize money to the Season Finals tournaments, this has to be completely intentional by ESL. Why do they want it this way??
1) Koreans are silent on social media. (e.g. region lock)
2) Korean support is frormed by a small but dedicated group
3) Most of their followers support foreigners
In combination of these points they just simply bet that the uproar will be small and plenty of people will defend them, because foreigner fan base on the social media appears to be bigger.
Simple math, really.
I would love to be wrong though.
Edit> Also why invest into the Korean scene when there are good players, but the scene is on a life support and will implode once Blizz takes away the money. Foreign audience is bigger. So they simply decided to take away the Korean money and support foreigners.
So, what new title we have for Apollo now? 
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GSL & EPT INTEGRATION
Starting from the 2021/2022 season, players competing within the GSL will also be able to compete within the ESL Pro Tour. The best performing 6 players from the GSL will earn qualification to compete at the subsequent DreamHack SC2 Masters competition & upon the return of DreamHack festivals will also be able to travel & compete within the respective tournament open brackets.
Doesn’t this mean that at least some Koreans will benefit from this:
GSL & EPT INTEGRATION
Starting from the 2021/2022 season, players competing within the GSL will also be able to compete within the ESL Pro Tour. The best performing 6 players from the GSL will earn qualification t
o compete at the subsequent DreamHack SC2 Masters competition & upon the return of DreamHack festivals will also be able to travel & compete within the respective tournament open brackets.
No, the events mentioned in that paragraph receive 0 % of what was cut from Katowice and are basically the DH Masters we already had. So they were already open to Koreans to begin with.
Czech Republic10841 Posts
Doesn’t this mean that at least some Koreans will benefit from this:
GSL & EPT INTEGRATION
Starting from the 2021/2022 season, players competing within the GSL will also be able to compete within the ESL Pro Tour. The best performing 6 players from the GSL will earn qualification to compete at the subsequent DreamHack SC2 Masters competition & upon the return of DreamHack festivals will also be able to travel & compete within the respective tournament open brackets.
No, the events mentioned in that paragraph receive 0 % of what was cut from Katowice and are basically the DH Masters we already had. So they were already open to Koreans to begin with.
Didn’t the OP write they increased the prize pool of some of the international tourneys by 2k? That’s 0,8 % going there!
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I mean can Blizzard’s intern not manage a war chest for the GSL? I’d be happy to directly support those tournaments which are really low-paying for the calibre of player there, screw getting a skin or anything.
Just some mechanism where we could put our collective money where our mouths are, I’d happily chip in.
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Source: https://tl.net/forum/starcraft-2/571424-new-ept-prize-pool-announced-for-2021-and-2022
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