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SK and five others threaten ESWC boycott
The SK, mouz, fnatic, EG, Na`Vi and mTw organisations will boycott ESWC's October event unless the $200 per player registration fee is removed.
By Duncan 'Thorin' Shields
Aug 30, 2011 22:38
The SK, mouz, fnatic, EG, Na`Vi and mTw organisations will boycott ESWC's October event unless the $200 per player registration fee is removed.The SK Gaming, mousesports, fnatic, Evil Geniuses, Natus Vincere and mortal Teamwork organisations have all agreed to stage a boycott of the Esports World Cup (ESWC) for 2011 unless the French-based organisation decides to revert its decision to charge a $200 per player registration fee for its October event.
The teams are unhappy about the fee both in terms of the change it stands for in the way esports tournaments are run and the fact the prize purse for Counter-Strike 1.6 has been reduced from last year's.
The six teams potentially boycotting ESWC:
SK Gaming
mousesports
fnatic
Evil Geniuses
Natus Vincere
mortal Teamwork
The teams are unhappy about the fee both in terms of the change it stands for in the way esports tournaments are run and the fact the prize purse for Counter-Strike 1.6 has been reduced from last year's.
The six teams potentially boycotting ESWC:
SK Gaming mousesports fnatic Evil Geniuses Natus Vincere mortal TeamworkRELATED NEWS
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SK was founded by Ralf „Griff“ Reichert (today Founder/CEO of Turtle-Entertainment (ESL / IEM etc. )) http://www.esport.de/wiki/Datei:Ralf_Reichert.jpg,
Tim „Burke“ Reichert (former football pro Rot-Weiß Oberhausen (Second Bundesliga)) http://eslgfx.net/media/de/news/2008/eps/season_13/ifng/oberhausen/423_detail.jpg,
Benjamin „Kane“ Reichert (today football pro Rot-Weiß Oberhausen (Second Bundesliga)) http://eslgfx.net/media/de/news/2008/eps/season_13/ifng/oberhausen/574_detail.jpg
and their friends Musa „Kila“ Celik (former??? football pro Rot-Weiß Oberhausen (Second Bundesliga)) http://eslgfx.net/media/de/news/2008/eps/season_13/ifng/oberhausen/614_detail.jpg, Kristof „Speed“ Salwiczek, Carsten „Storch“ Kramer and Sven „Ramses“ Tümmers.
mTw was founded by Rene "zu1u" Korte (Founder/CEO Roccat) http://images.mediabiz.de/flbilder/max08/mbiz08/mbiz09/z0809405/w186.jpg, Maik "Byter" Vöge und Steffen "Hellwoofer" Arndt.
fnatic was founded by Sam „zr0“ Mathews.
Drop the CSS and CS female tourney and put that money into 1.6, it's where the bulk of CS viewership will come from and it's the only tournament that anyone will remember. No offense ladies, but in a world where MOBA games are becoming dominant titles drastic measures have to be taken to ensure the survival of the competitive FPS. We already lost Quake this year, goddamnit I can't stand to lose CS as well.
You should send out one player, if all of these teams are boycotting then you won't have any competition so you can easily take 1st place.
fnatic still carn, dsn, pita, xizt and gux ??
at their site theres no line up.
i think what they doing is right cause eswc never pay the prizes, so they wont pay for playing it.
they shoud not pay for playing it.
when you win: are Swedes
when there are problems: are Germans