After X Factor Tournament and The CPL unveiled the respectable $1,000,000 dollars Halo 3 tournament, a behind the scene story however exposes things that affected to the final decision. The $1,000,000 Halo 3 tournament will still take place, but at the CPL Summer event.
A group of posters from the same general IP addresses have been continuously spamming the CPL news comments and our emails with fabricated negative posts about the Halo 3 competition.
Tournament organizations have prevented their signed players from participating in the competition and in some cases have contacted registered players and asked them to cancel.
After ten years of business, the CPL was suddenly accused in the online media of not paying their cash prizes, when in fact the reports clearly show that only about 1% of their payments were delayed when there was some error in the cross-check process or participants did not send the proper documentation.
A tournament organization contacted Microsoft last week to complain about our Halo 3 competition. This initiated an inquiry from Microsoft's legal counsel.
Also one of the key factors was the amount of participating players which is jumping around 200 at this moment. The organization hoped more. "We expected at least 1,000 people to register for the tournament, and only about 200 are currently registered. A respectable number, but still much less than we expected," says Chris Comer, X Factor Tournament's VP of Operations.
"We now fully understand why some organizations have recently retired as event organizers. The competition is a lot more underhanded than we anticipated, but we will not simply go away. We want to hold the largest competitions in the industry and continue to expand our relationship with the gaming community at large."
The players who participate to the Winter episode's Halo 3 tournament, will automatically get a free admission as well as special seeding to Summer event, where the $1,000,000 Halo 3 tournament is about to take place.
The complete statement can be found here.