Donations are up to date as of now. I did not want to be the guy begging for donations. I know no one is rich. But I do think we can do better as a community. Even if you just throw in 5 bucks or 3 bucks if we get the community to do so on a large scale we can help make things right for players.
It was also nice to see Plank post and have a willness to try to find a way to make good.
JV, should the people that won money send their paypal emails to you?
Sure, they can. I was just gonna draft a pm to send to all the winners once I got percentages down, figured out how much money was in, and ready to send it out requesting their paypals. But if anyone wants to send it to me ahead of time feel free.
Can you post the full percentages of everyone? That way we know how much of each player got which pot?
Yea, hope to have it up within a couple days here. Just need to coordinate with the TOs some to make sure everything and all the numbers are accurate.
BTW, as a prize winner was really cool to see you donate. Sets a really good example for the community
I'd be willing to donate, but I agree with Eggm in that I only want to donate to the Melee prize winners. No offense to the Brawl players, I just don't see why part of my money should go to a community that I frankly don't care very much about.
While I understand you guys are part of the Melee community and want to take care of the Melee community at the end of the day we are all part of the smash community. Everyone spent their time playing, practicing, traveling and is just as deserving of getting their prize money as the next person. This isnt about what game, but about trying to make good on what happened. I am not going to take donations for a single game or player. I do not think that is fair to everyone else. Would be unfortunate if that stops anyone from donating.
It's not being split equally, factoring in the exact percentage of the TOTAL pot that each player won, whether brawl or melee, takes care of the "splitting issue".
For instance, Dr. PP won 45% of the melee pot, which would factor out to be somewhere like, I dunno, 29 or 30% of the TOTAL pot.
Everyone still gets what they deserve, but I understand that certain people want only to donate to a certain game...
Right. I will try to do it exactly how it would have happened at the event itself (just percentage of amounts assuming donations dont get to be enough to cover the full amounts). So given that Melee had more people the 1st place % for Melee (Dr PP) will be larger than the 1st place % the winner Brawl will receive (Ally)
JV, you really did an awesome thing organizing this thread! I seriously think you should make an exception for Armada in your call for players to turn over money that's already been donated to them on an individual basis, though. His attendance at the tournament was--and will be, at future tournaments--contingent upon him being able to afford the cost of his flights, which were undoubtedly much costlier than any other prizewinner's. Also, he is in actual debt now because, not knowing any better, he banked on that prize money when he had a friend pay for the cost of his travel to his next major U.S. tournament.
Thanks. And yea I know he came over from Europe and had expenses over and above other players. Having him at tournaments here is exciting, helps get both Europe and US something extra to cheer about and follow. I think everyone digs having Armada at tournaments here and it would be really unfortunate if something like this could prevent that from happening. I know he even borrowed money to get over to Pound. But at the end of the day I still do not think he is anymore deserving of prize money than any other player. They all are just as deserving as each other.
But yea, like I said I think it would be a great gesture if they wanted to put in to the global pound donation pool if anyone has received individual donations. If they wanted to explain their situation or anything and give other players the option to accept on not that would be fine. But at least everyone who was left out would receive their fair percentage of the communities donations based on what they earned at Pound. But like I said I cant force anyone to do so. The decision is ultimately theirs. Just want them or the people that donated to let me know how much they did receive or send so I can make sure we I do hand out money I can account for this.