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CGS announces $1,000,000 Finals
The Championship Gaming Series has released details of the world finals scheduled to take place at Los Angeles in December.
By Richard '_evan' Armstrong
Sep 9, 2007 19:30
The Championship Gaming Series has released details of the world finals scheduled to take place at Los Angeles in December.
The initial schedule had the finals pinned for a late November start but due to the rescheduling of the Region 3 (Europe and UK) Combine, due to the clash with the Leizpeg Games Convention, the event looks likely to take place in early December.
The CGS also released details of the prize money for the world finals and the prize money for the European and United Kingdom combine. The top eight finishers in both the UK and European drafts scheduled for the 19th-23rd of this month will share a prize pot of $75,000.
The prize pot will be shared throughout all the competing games which include Counter Strike Source (5v5), Project Gotham Racing 3 (1v1), Dead or Alive 4 (1v1) and FIFA07 (1v1).The move is thought to be an extra incentive towards European players who may have been dismayed by the earlier and abrupt cancellation.
The World finals will commence with some of the best gamers in the world, with the top two finishers from the North American season taking on the best from around the globe. The two Latin American (Region 2) teams who will also be participating in the World Finals have yet to have cities chosen, although the dates for the qualifiers/combine are the same as the European draft (20th-23rd September) and will take place in Mexico City.
Chicago Chimera - Brian Flander
Carolina Core - Mark Dolven
Shanghai
Seoul - Sung Eun Kim
Dubai
Singapore
Stockholm - Emil Christensen
Berlin
London - Sujoy Roy
Birmingham - Michael O'Dell
They will fight over the biggest prize pot in gaming history. With $1,000,000 already put aside for the World finals, of which $500,000 will go to the winning team. A gamer from the winning team will walk away with $50,000 (1 team = 10 players) from this single event on top of their basic $30,000 salary and the extra money they won from finishing top in their region.
For more information about the Region 3 qualifiers and an exclusive interview with the CGS boss Andy Reif, click here.
The CGS also released details of the prize money for the world finals and the prize money for the European and United Kingdom combine. The top eight finishers in both the UK and European drafts scheduled for the 19th-23rd of this month will share a prize pot of $75,000.
The prize pot will be shared throughout all the competing games which include Counter Strike Source (5v5), Project Gotham Racing 3 (1v1), Dead or Alive 4 (1v1) and FIFA07 (1v1).The move is thought to be an extra incentive towards European players who may have been dismayed by the earlier and abrupt cancellation.
The World finals will commence with some of the best gamers in the world, with the top two finishers from the North American season taking on the best from around the globe. The two Latin American (Region 2) teams who will also be participating in the World Finals have yet to have cities chosen, although the dates for the qualifiers/combine are the same as the European draft (20th-23rd September) and will take place in Mexico City.
Chicago Chimera - Brian Flander
Carolina Core - Mark Dolven
Shanghai
Seoul - Sung Eun Kim
Dubai
Singapore
Stockholm - Emil Christensen
Berlin
London - Sujoy Roy
Birmingham - Michael O'Dell
They will fight over the biggest prize pot in gaming history. With $1,000,000 already put aside for the World finals, of which $500,000 will go to the winning team. A gamer from the winning team will walk away with $50,000 (1 team = 10 players) from this single event on top of their basic $30,000 salary and the extra money they won from finishing top in their region.
For more information about the Region 3 qualifiers and an exclusive interview with the CGS boss Andy Reif, click here.
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gr8 choices ... not
#7
Second largest city in the UK (Birmingham), the largest city in Europe and capital of England (London), and some of the most advanced and richest cities in Asia (Dubai / Singapore). How are they not good choices?
Btw: why don't EA patch FIFA? Reading rules I wonder how many bugs it has :/
CGS players are not allowed to compete in any other tournament (like CPL for exemple).
Yeah great step, but not forward.
#16
These organizations have annual turnovers in the billions and billions of dollars, CGS has massive financial backing behind it.
These companies are rivals here. If any other competition could ensure a teams attendance to it's event, and its event only they would in a heartbeat. To quote The Apprentice:
"It's not personal, it's just business."
And if you note, players from the American franchises have been allowed to Play DoA4 at WCG, CGS is allowing teams to play at other events.
Not really. They play in a regional league and then a international cup if there good enough. Same system as football. Each region has governing bodies but ultimately they still are governed by FIFA. The only difference with the CGS is they cut the red tape and govern everything.
I can't really see peoples justification for whine to be honest. I mean stermy has been allowed to play at Quakecon, the CSS teams are allowed to play in CEVO-P.
I've not heard of one instance where any player hasn't been allowed to participate in another tournament. I guess you will just have to wait until the CPL extreme winter event and see if the source teams turn out again.
shame it isnt quake4
go birmingham!!
"These organizations have annual turnovers in the billions and billions of dollars, CGS has massive financial backing behind it.
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That does not explain where the money comes from.
From what I can see here almost nobody follows CGS and indeed I watch a few games and I must say I was really disappointed, it's really boring compared to ESWC, WCG or even CPL. The only thing interesting was to see girls playing (no offense).
Thus I can't really understand how they manage to get all this money.
Furthermore, I agree with #30, the franchise system is stupid (for gaming and for sports).
I think you're wrong. FIFA does not govern the regional leagues. CGS pays its player, FIFA does not, soccer teams can are free to compete in other smaller leagues, CGS teams are not. The aim of the FIFA is to make soccer's rules the same for everyone on the planet, they also organise the World Cup, but they don't control smaller leagues : exemple Euro or Champions Leagues is controlled by UEFA which has no link with FIFA.
It was a vague comparison of the structures, the fact that the CGS pays the players is a minor detail since it's an excepted practice in a good majority of sports.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=o3OSSuL4M7k
i hate it when ppl generalize everything... this vid shows some uneducated americans, but i dont say every american is uneducated like that.
and one thing... go back in time a few centuries... the biggest part of the people living in the us have ancestors which immigrated from europe, so dont act as if ur something better...
@18 i think sway knows what ur saying... but his point is still right... its not good for the esport...
and the gamechoice too...
but as long the only sponsors are hardware-companies this wont change... and we wont have real esports..
in korea it works... but will it ever work in the us or europe, maybe in 10 years...