The Antwerp eSports Festival has revealed details of both the expansion of its prize money and details of the specific distribution.

Call of Duty 4 Prize distribution
1st €10,000 + €4,000 hardware
2nd €6,000 + €1,000 hardware
3rd €3,000 + €1,000 hardware
4th €1,000 + €1,000 hardware
5-8th €1,000 worth of hardware each

The event is run by Belgian company Gamevibes BVBA, newly founded by Steven Leurens. The company has a portfolio of eSports brands such as TEK-9 Networks, a successful gaming team and community, as well as the Antwerp eSports Festival itself, which is an extension of an older (LAN) project, Outpost on Fire. The intention was to place all the brands under one name and extend professionalism through accountability and the use of new resources.

The event takes place at the Hilton hotel (Gamevibes has negotiated reduced rates for all attending the event) in Antwerp (Belgium) from the 25-27th of July and overlaps one of the other big European LAN events, the-eXperience held in Denmark.

The AEF has with its new prize structure exceeded that of the-eXperience, who're running an almost identical event with both competitive Call of Duty 4 and FIFA 08 featuring at both, as well as sharing similar dates. AEF boasts €30,000 worth of prizes whereas the-eXperience has €27,500 (for CoD).

The aggressive but slim margins pushed by the AEF may tempt some of the more moderately sized teams away from attending the-eXperience, as the AEF runs both a larger competition (48 teams in comparison to 32) and cheaper (AEF entrance is €350 for a team of five plus one staff member compared to €500 charged by the-eXperience for a team of five plus two staff members).