ESWC abandons open registration fee

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By Duncan 'Thorin' Shields

Sep 17, 2011 01:38

ESWC has announced it is abandoning its open registration fee for this year's event.

ESWC has announced it is abandoning its open registration fee for this year's event. Last month's announcement of the fee, which meant a cost of $1,000 for each CS team, led to six of the most high profile CS organisations threatening a boycott of the Paris event if the fee remained.

ESWC will take place from October 21st-25th in Paris, France.

Jean-Marie Coutant, president of the ESWC organising committee, wrote on the ESWC website:

"The ESWC 2011 will see the renewal of the project. We would like to organise a genuine festival of electronic sports, bringing people together, where everyone has a place: both the major professional teams and their challengers from every country in the world.

To this end, I have decided to cancel the registration fees of the open registration process for players and teams, that lasts until the end of September.

Today we acknowledge that we have quickly assessed the ability of players, teams and their sponsors to support the required fees to participate to such major world-class tournament.

Organising an event such as the ESWC is very costly. The production costs are still, today, an investment for the upcoming years, as we believe in the future of on-line games and video game competitions. We will now focus our efforts on attracting new partners to the project and we are counting on your support to succeed."

Source: ESWC via HLTV.org