Some people really don't get the point. The sponsors (Intel/SMM/Razer/WD/etc, in this case here) don't spend all that effort organizing, paying out prizes, paying marshals, renting the venue, etc for nothing. They do it their way by supporting the SC2 community as a whole while promoting their products along the way, which is why there's something called a marketing budget, and be grateful that they would spend it on SC2.

Why the customize casing contest and bring your CPU along? Because Intel wants to bring out their brand, connect the Intel community together by merging PC customizing and gaming (SC2) together, which further helps them promote their brand name. The same goes with Razer and others.

Why would you, a Starcraft 2 gamer care? Because if there are no marketing opportunities, no company would care enough to give out a big prize pool for a Starcraft 2 tournament. Maybe we should just play in all those online tournaments without any prize money then. Either that or learn to appreciate.

That being said, the execution of the event itself is another different story and we shall see. A Penang tournament though, is organized for Penang SC2 gamers to participate in the first place. If anyone has trouble coming from KL I really don't think it's the organizer's problem.

Cheers

This post has been edited by chiam_ace: Aug 27 2010, 03:57 AM