Guild Wars 2

the pvp playerbase is so small and the people that would watch these events are even smaller. Throwing money at a tourney isn’t gonna help your playerbase grow at all which is what you want if you are hosting these tournaments in the first place.

People like watch things that they enjoy doing. For instance a person who plays soccer and loves the sport will most likely watch one of the tournaments associated with. The same goes for anything, It doesn’t matter if your next tournament has a prize pool of 10 million dollars if hardly anyone plays the game and have little to no interest in watching the show.

true, but this is more than a game, sponsors need event for publicity, pvp managers needs activities to justify their meaning of existence is such a small company, and the only thing you can do to raise awareness for pvp without overload the production capacity in anet is simply by starting a event, at least there will be something to put up in the blog post, looks good in the marketing.
the importance is that something has been done, it is not a scientific procedure where you will measure the result to pre-set standard to check for failure. if there has been one which I highly doubt it’s existence, it is probably never publicized internal figures.

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i mean, it works for very very very flawed games as well, why should’t it work for gw2?

I totally Agree OP , why push E sports ? how bout get a decent size population first , this is done by fixing the ladders and 4v5 matchs . then sure go e sports after this is fixed